Two MKO/PMOI/MEK members with a long history of terrorist activities have reportedly been apprehended by the Interpol police in Finland. Two men were taken into custody upon entering Finland on Sunday, according to Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat. Hadi Roshanravani and Mohammad-Ali Jaberzadeh Ansari are said to be the two who were arrested.
Meetings between the members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization aka PMOI/MEK and their families should take place without the supervision of the leaders who are fearful of their separation from the group; the Iraqi Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Mikhail Salim said on Tuesday..After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the MKO members showed an increasing willingness to leave the group, prompting the leaders to impose limitations on the family visits which they believed played a major role in its members’ leaving Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
“The Iranian exile organization of the People’s Mojahedin Organization[PMOI/MKO/MEK] which acts under the cover of the National Council of Resistance of Iran is not a suitable partner in dialogue for a responsible policy towards Iran,”a spokesperson for the Green Party, Claudia Roth said late Thursday .Roth told reporters that the group’s position on the EU terror list should be carefully evaluated, as the Rajavi organization has a ‘past of terror’ and assisted the ‘crimes’ of the deposed dictator, Saddam Hussein, in Iraq.
Italian newly-appointed ambassador to Iran Alberto Bradanini referred to Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and assured that Italy considers the group as a terrorist one and will not shift its stance regarding the band…The ambassador also underlined the influential role of Iran-Italy parliamentary friendship group on promoting bilateral cooperation and called for setting up the group.
A government spokesman in the House of Lords confirmed that the Americans will hand control of the Mojahedin-e Khalq’s military base in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, Iraqi authorities before the end of the year.Lord Malloch-Brown, minister of state for the foreign office, was responding to a question about the situation of people in the camp following signing of the status of forces agreement between the US and Iraq.
Deputy Iraqi Interior Minister Gen. Hussein Kamal said the country would cut off the hands of the terrorist group of Mujahedin-e Khalq if it wants to intervene in the affairs of the Iraqi elections. General Hussein expressed his hope for the upcoming elections to be held in a safe heaven adding that his country will not allow the MKO/PMOI/MEK or any other terrorist group to interfere in electoral matters.
Iran strongly condemned the United States for double standards in its treatment of terrorist groups such as the MKO.”The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many countries. The US State Department has also identified the group as a foreign terrorist organization,”Iran’s mission to the UN said in a letter to The Chicago Tribune published on Tuesday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has dismissed a BBC report that he has sent a letter on the situation of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization /MKO/PMOI/MEK. ..The BBC had reported that Ban had voiced concern about the situation of some 3,500 MKO members, who live in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The report said the UN chief has sent the letter to Iraq’s Foreign Minister on 15 October 2008.
Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran, Mohammad Majid Al-Shaikh, has said that no country is ready to accept the terrorist Mojahadin Khalq Organization (MKO). “We believe that the presence of Mojahadin group in Iraq is illegal, but no country is ready to accept the members of this group,” Al-Shaikh told the Mehr News Agency
Mottaki noted that Iran’s envoy to Jordan was invited to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to be informed that the Amman government considered the MKO as a terrorist group and did not support it. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry also announced that Jordanian MPs’ move was personal and is not confirmed by the government of Jordan, added Mottaki.”The Jordanian parliament speaker announced that Jordan does not confirm such a move,”said Mottaki. Mottaki said that as a result of Iran’s reaction, independent Jordanian dailies called the move”wrong”.