Rear Adm Gregory Smith, Communication Division Chief for the Multi-National Force-Iraq, claimed that the US military does not support any terrorist group including the MKO. He admitted: The American government considers the MKO group to be a terrorist group and once again claimed that the US military was not supporting them.
Interesting first in his capacity as a professor at Georgetown University in the USA and as a former member of the National Security Council at the White House. But also because it is a striking example of an ambiguous relationship between a part of American political circles and certain terrorist groups.
..covert action to undermine the Tehran regime has already been under way intermittently for the past decade. Until now, however, the CIA has operated without a by using proxies. Pakistan and Israel, for example, provide weapons and money to insurgent groups in southeast and northwest Iran. ..
Iraqi interior minister, said:”Iraq cooperates with neighboring countries on the issue of fighting terrorism. We pursue terrorist elements in our soil.”He stressed that a country alone wouldn’t be able to succeed in the fight against terrorism, adding:”There are a number of terrorist groups in Iraq, including PKK, MKO, Ansar al-Sunnah, Ansar al-Islam and others, whose presence is a threat to Iraqi people ..
Jordan on Monday rejected as”utterly baseless”news reports that it has granted asylum to members of an Iranian opposition group.The Kingdom did not receive any leader or member of Mujahedin-e Khalq, and does not allow the organisation to operate on Jordanian soil
Nasser Jodat, spokesman for Jordanian government, denied reports by some Iranian news sources that Jordan had given refugee status to MKO members.”Jordan has not accepted any of MKO leaders and will never allow them to act in its soil,”he said.
Massoud Rajavi assisted Saddam Hussein in massacre of innocent Iraqis. Interpol is hunting for the leaders of the terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) known in Iran as Monafqeen or hypocrites.
In an interview with the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (ISCT), Jaafar al-Mousavi, said there is evidence to suggest that the MKO had a hand in murdering Iraqi citizens. Al-Mousavi stated that an arrest warrant has been issued against 150 MKO members including ringleaders Maryam Rajavi and Mas?oud Rajavi.
Mousawi further commented that the terrorist group had supported Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime, aiding in the suppression of the Iraqi people’s uprising in 1991 and the torture and massacre of innocent people in the northern and southern regions of the country.
“We have made probes into crimes that the former regime committed with cooperation of various groups, and during the investigations we have collected documents that prove the complicity of Mojahedin-e-Khalq in inhumane actions in southern and northern Iraq in 1991, the so-called Sha baniyyah Revolution,” he noted.