Mujahedin Khalq Declining

The Gang of Rajavi is Collapsing

In an unprecedented way, the MKO’s stupid propaganda system is reflecting how its supporters and members in gatherings have decreased.

The gang of Rajavi could gather only 35 supporters in Geneva, 12 in Munich and 17 in London to show the support for its policies; this indicates that the gang of Rajavi is bankrupt.

Decrease in the number of forces and those who used to take part in MKO gatherings can have 3 reasons:

1. After Maryam Rajavi escaped and Massoud surrendered himself, and when the members were left alone and Saddam was toppled, many of MKO members are discourage and disappointed of MKO’s policies.

2. MKO’s shortage of budget, formerly provided in large amounts by Saddam Hussein, has deprived the motivation from many of their supporters. That’s why the MKO insists on execution of the ruling of the First Instance Court (to compensate the shortage of money).

3. It seems that there have been some measures taken to limit MKO’s access to refugee camps. Formerly, they could easily get to the camps and get supporting forces.

Anyway, what the MKO is now boasting as "assemblies and gatherings" can be interpreted as a political scandal, showing that the group is collapsing and dismantling.

Irandidban – 2007/02/28

March 1, 2007 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq 's Function

MKO’s So-Called Legal Claims Futile

Terrorist group of Mojahedin has published a letter of its lawyers, written in protest to the comments of Iraqi government’s spokesman on group’s expulsion from Iraq.

First, this letter should be considered in the framework of a psychological war by the gang of Rajavi against the Iraqi government and also as an effort to frighten the Iraqi officials.

However, it contains some points that reveal MKO’s efforts to prevent the process of expulsion from Iraq; indeed, it shows the MKO efforts against the government that is determined to expel the group are all futile.

Since the stances of MKO spokespersons are illegal, MKO leaders use expensive lawyers to threaten Iraqi officials. This time also, their lawyer has stressed that there should be no force, but he has also resorted to other leverages that expose the illegality of MKO’s claims. Francois Serres writes:

"Deputy Commander of Coalition forces in Iraq wrote in his letter to MKO General Secretary, on Feb. 16, 2006, that "Coalition Forces in Iraq are aware of their responsibilities with civilians with respect to Geneva Convention 1949. Particularly, we are bound to the Article 45, according to which transferring a protected person to another country in which he may be bothered because of his political or religious opinions."

MKO lawyers try to hide themselves behind US forces and prevent the Iraqi government from doing their decisions by deception and fraud.

MKO and their lawyers know well that their claims are all worthless and therefore, they resort to the occupiers. However, they don’t know that despite the statements, US forces have given the last word to the MKO leaders in Camp Ashraf and have announced that they won’t be able to stop the Iraqi government.

What’s clear and has been stressed by Iraqi government spokesman Mr. Al-Dabbagh is that the Iraqi government considers international rules in its decision-making processes and by relying on these very rules, it’s emphasizing on the expulsion of Rajavi’s gang from Iraq.

Irandidban – 2007/02/22

February 26, 2007 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Voices from Everywhere, Calling for MKO’s Expulsion

The differences between Iraqi officials and the armed Iranian opposition group, Mojahedin-e Khalq, based mainly in Iraq, have heightened and many Iraqi officials are asking for its expulsion.

Some 4000 Iranians, mostly women, are now living in Camp Ashraf in Al-Azim region in Dyalah Province.

Fazel Al-Shovaili, adviser of Iraq’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Shirvan Vaeli, said: “MKO is a terrorist group with long history of killing Iraqis and enjoying privileges from Saddam government.”

During a conference called “Iraq Without Terrorist Organization, sponsored by Iraq’s National Security Ministry in Baghdad, he added: “the presence of this organization is a tragic consequence left from former regime. It has had much impact on neighboring countries.”

Dr. Aziz Jabr Shial, professor of Political Sciences in Baghdad University, also said: “The MKO should leave our country because its presence here has a negative message for Iranian officials and it may be interpreted that Iraqi is not firm in establishing goodwill ties with neighbors. It also gives the green light to Iran’s interferences in Iraq. Allowing this organization to act in Iraq was a wrong policy by the former regime.”

He also suggested that Iraq and Iran cooperate to guarantee the safety of MKO members and return them to their country.

Dr. Abdulamir Al-Asadi, researcher at the center of Dialog, said in the conference: “The most threatening issue in criminal acts is that they are acting covertly and it’s not easy to get to their ideas. I ask the security ministry of Iraq to form an independent committee to fight terrorism and make serious decision on stopping terrorism in Iraq.”

Hussein Al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric, said: “It’s right to try to expel the MKO from Iraq and we should do so because these people had criminal roles in the former regime. They took part in suppressing the uprising of Iraqis in the south in 1991. the people who make alliance with terrorist groups show how bankrupt they’re politically and internationally.”

Ittihad newspaper/UAE

February 19, 2007 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

MKO Presence Illegal: Iraqi Interior Minister

In a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Iraqi interior minister Javad Bulani pointed to the terrorist records of the MKO and said that it’s presence in Iraq was illegal.

According to IRNA, Javad Bulani stressed that, "The continuation of MKO’s presence in Iraq can create, besides security problems, obstacles in the way of expanding ties with the Islamic Republic."

According to him, Iraqi government seeks the expulsion of the group and doesn’t like the ties between two sides be influenced by the presence of this group in Iraq.

"In the new Iraq, there’s no place for groups that can have negative impacts on relations with neighboring countries," he said.

"The two countries should be careful in preserving the security of their borders and to achieve that the two sides have already taken good steps," he added.

In the meeting, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iranian ambassador to Iraq invited his Iraqi counterpart to visit his country.

According to IRNA, quoting an Iraqi security officer, the conference of "Discussing the Role of Terrorist Groups in Destabilizing Operations against Iraqis" was held last weekend in Iraq.

IRNA – 2007/02/13

February 15, 2007 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Time to Expel MKO From Iraq

Following the downfall of former regime, new Iraqi officials should expel the MKO from Iraq.

During Saddam’s rule, this group acted as its army and he used them to pressurize Tehran. Following the ouster of former regime, the group is playing the same role for the Bush administration. The US government also wants to use this group as a political leverage against Iran as well as in bloody clashes inside Iraq.

Danger is not limited to this. It has become more dangerous. This organization has returned to its previous status and there is coordination between the members of MKO and remnants of former regime so that with the lobby of MKO in Europe, orphans of former regime have gone to the EU.

Now the question is "why the MKO members, who have good ties with some MPs and are able to link terrorist Baathists to the EU, can’t get permanent refugee status for the members in Iraq? Since their presence in Iraq is illegal and unacceptable, and with respect to the fact that the presence of the group causes many political problems, their stay in Iraq is no longer bearable.

The sympathy of former regime supporters for the group and asking for their presence in Iraq, makes their presence in Iraq more suspicious and dangerous, particularly when Baathists and Wahabis relentlessly talk about the dangers of Iranians and Iraqi Safawis, with MKO blaming Iran for the deaths of Sunnis as if the members of the MKO are neither Iranians nor Safawis!

Isn’t it true that Baathists’ sympathy for the MKO and their requests for the group’s presence in Iraq are enough evidences on the old cooperation and coordination between the group and extremist Baathists and other terrorists?

Therefore, Iraqi government should take necessary measures to expel the MKO from Iraq so that they could freely go to the countries they like.

Mehdi Ghassem/Sautaliraq – 2007/02/08

February 13, 2007 0 comments

Europe

Europe Slaps MKO in the Face

After two months of futile noises by the gang of Rajavi on a ruling by Europe’s Court of First Instance, eventually the Economic and Financial Affairs Council announced its decision, that it holds the decision of 2006 of the EU to freeze the properties and assets of terrorist MKO.

This Council announced on January 31 that according to the ruling of the court it would provide the MKO with reasons of freezing its assets.

The Council also stated that it would give a month to the MKO to present documents to defend itself before the Council announces the final decision.*

By this weak ruling, for which the group had spend 4 years and thousands of dollars, the stupid propaganda system of MKO wanted to boost the morale of its desparate members. However, it has been seriously challenged by being asked to present documents. Without referring to its terrorist history, the group was from the beginning trying to present unreal political reasons and accuse the EU and Clinton Administration in order to save itself.

Following the publication of recent statement by the ECOFIN Council, the MKO was confused and called it a puzzle. The group is now facing a wave of desperation among members, who had been influenced by the psychological situation on the ruling of the Court of First Instance.

Bringing Rajavi to the scene and continuous congratulations from Auver to Ashraf and from Ashraf to Auver was part of psychological war (of MKO’s Gestapo) against the captive members in Camp Ashraf.

Now, for a thousandth time, it has been proved that the noises made by the cult of Rajavi were all void and were meaningful only in the framework of their psychological war.

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* http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/newsWord/en/ecofin/92591.doc

Irandidban – 2007/02/03

February 5, 2007 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iranian Mujahideen group must leave the country

Baghdad: The Iraqi government wants members of an Iranian opposition group to leave the country because it is a "terrorist organisation" and the Iraqi constitution bans hosting such movements, chief spokesman Ali Al Dabbagh said yesterday.

Al Dabbagh said members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, or Mujahideen-e-Khalq, have been told they must go to Iran "or any other country" and should "arrange their residence in a country other than Iraq."

"The Cabinet affirms that the legal character of this organisation is a terrorist organisation," Al Dabbagh said during a news conference.

"We in Iraq have enough problems and we are passing through difficult circumstances. The constitution affirms that terrorist organisations should not be hosted."

He said a joint committee including representatives of the US, Iraq and the Mujahideen had been established to arrange for the group’s departure. He gave no deadline for them to leave.

Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said in July he would ban the organisation, which opposes the cleric-dominated government in Tehran, from distributing statements and would restrict its fighters from leaving their camp in eastern Iraq, which was established during the rule of Saddam Hussain.

At the time, Al Maliki said the group’s legal status would be reviewed. The US also considers the People’s Mujahideen a terrorist organisation.

Al Dabbagh’s comments came amid rising tension between the United States and Iran and weeks after the Iraqi government told the two countries to solve their problems away from Iraq’s territories.

The United States has accused Iran of aiding extremist groups that attack US forces in Iraq.

In the past two months US troops have detained eight Iranians in Baghdad and the northern city of Irbil. Five of them are still in US custody.

The People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran has thousands of members in Iraq, most of them in Camp Ashraf in the eastern Diyala province that borders Iran.

Dozens of others have been stranded on the Iraq-Jordan border for years. The organisation was founded in the late 1960s and fled to Iraq in the early 1980s after it fell out with the clerical regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

During Saddam Hussain’s rule, the movement used Iraq as a base for operations against Iran’s government.

AP, February 2, 2007

February 5, 2007 0 comments

The MEK Expulsion from Iraq

Iraq Set To Expel the MKO

Iraq Thursday announced it would expel members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said, "We have our own problems and are going through a trying period that prevents us from offering refuge. Our Constitution forbids us from hosting an organization considered to be terrorist."

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s cabinet had demanded that the MKO members be rapidly transferred to other countries, AFP quoted the spokesman as saying.

"The presence of this organization is illegal and the cabinet has decided to put an end to it, said Dabbagh, adding, "We have given it time to prepare to leave Iraq for another country. We have left it to them to go to the country of their choice.

"This organization has broken the law and interfered in Iraq’s internal affairs."

During the regime of now executed dictator Saddam Hussein, the MKO was welcome in Iraq and fought with Iraqi forces against Iran.

The organization was behind terrorist acts in Iran, assassinating prominent figures and officials in the country.

Iraq’s Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Shirvan Vaeli had already announced that the MKO which had hatched numerous plots against the Iraqi nation would be expelled from the country.

"We are now preparing a comprehensive plan which requires approval of the government to expel the MKO from the country," he said.

"We strongly follow up the case because the MKO seeks to hatch plots against the Iraqi people," vowed Vaeli.

Officials at International Committee of the Red Cross and the United States had been informed of the need to take action to drive MKO out of Iraq, he added.

UNLAWFUL PRESENCE

An eminent Iraqi lawyer had also announced that the existence of Mujahedin Khalq Organization in Iraq was unlawful.

Tariq Harb, head of the Population of Disseminating Law Culture in Iraq, told the Baghdad-based weekly Al-Shahed, "According to the domestic, international, and foreign nongovernmental laws, the existence of MKO in Iraq is illegal.

"Given the law of Iraqi nongovernmental organizations and the organization’s nature, the MKO has never been enlisted as a foreign nongovernmental organization in the country."

He added the MKO had no lawful credibility and was not allowed to operate in Iraq.

In accordance with articles 7 and 8 of the Iraqi Constitution, the country had ordered a ban on terrorist groups and those who conduct hostile actions against neighboring countries, he noted.

International bodies had listed the MKO as a terrorist organization, recalled the lawyer, adding Iraq with respect to its Constitution was abiding by commitments in cooperation with the United Nations and the Security Council in this respect.

Pointing to Article 8 of the Constitution, the Iraqi lawyer stated that Iraq had vowed to abide by international resolutions issued by the UN Security Council.

"Article 8 reads that Iraq observes the principle of good neighborliness, and it should reject organizations that carry out military or political operations against adjacent countries," he added.

According to the lawyer, Article 7 underlines a ban on provocative operations from every foundation which is either committed to or paves the way or promotes terrorist activities against neighboring countries.

Harb added that the MKO had massacred Iraqi people in 1991 in collaboration with Baathist regime, recalling that nobody had forgotten the organization’s role in suppressing the people of Khaneqein and Jalula.

He called the MKO a terrorist group which was linked to Saddam Hussein’s regime, stressing that their operations should be cut down in Iraq.

IRNA – 2007/02/03

February 5, 2007 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Iraq Dismantles the MKO

Iraq’s Vice President Adel Abd-al-Mahdi said Iraqi authorities have been assured of the release of Iranian diplomats recently abducted by the US.

"We have been assured that Iranian diplomats would be released in the near future," said Abd-al-Mahdi in a joint press conference with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani Wednesday.

He said Baghdad has had done a lot and has good cooperation with Tehran in connection with freedom of the Iranian diplomats.

He added, "We give the assurance that Iraqi government is much sensitive and cares for Iranian citizens; in that connection too it will do its best."

He added that Iraq has been trying to secure the release of Iranian nationals soon after their capture by US forces.

Asked on pullout of the US forces from Iraq, the Iraqi vice president said Iraqi government has always been trying to train Iraqi forces to speed up the restoration of security in the country so that the ground would be prepared for exit of foreign forces.

As for Iran’s interest to train Iraqi forces, he said such proposals are made due to close and good ties between Iranian and Iraqi interior ministries and security establishments and ‘today there are very good ties between the ministries’.

He said there are a series of issues which are connected with security in Iraq and Iran, one of which being the presence of the outlawed terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization in Iraq.

He added that Baghdad tries to settle the case as a matter of responsibility.

He stressed that Tehran has always, including after fall of Saddam, been supportive to Iraqi people, including during the formation of the transitional government and governing council, compilation of constitution and parliamentary elections.

He said Baghdad tries to restore security in Iraq with the cooperation of neighboring states and the US.

He described his talks with Larijani as good.

IRNA, February 1, 2007

February 5, 2007 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

Defections Intensify in MKO

Intensifying critical situation for the MKO in Iraq, including Iraqi government’s order for the expulsion of group from Iraq, has caused the increasing growth of defections by captive MKO members in Camp Ashraf.

Reports coming to Irandidban indicate that despite efforts by Camp Ashraf’s Gestapo to keep the news on defections as secret, the wave of defection from the MKO has increased considerably so that each week a number of members (finding themselves) escape from the cult’s camp and try to reach the gates of free world.

Family of a former MKO member, based in TIPF, reported that in the latest wave of defection, 5 repentant members of the group escaped the cult and joined the TIPF.

"Two women are among these people, one of whom is Ms. Batoul Soltani, 40, from the city of Isfahan. Her daughter, Setareh, was forcefully separated from her mother and taken to Europe in 1991. Setareh is now living with a pro-MKO family in Sweden and, in fact, she is captive of MKO," the report adds.

In the end, pointing to the observations and experiences of those who have recently escaped the cult of Rajavi, report adds that, "the current situation in Camp Ashraf indicates of a silence before storm. The energy accumulated in suppressed members is ready to be released and exploded."

Irandidban – 2007/02/04

February 5, 2007 0 comments

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