Mujahedin Khalq as a Destructive Cult

MKO Buying Lands to Set up Terrorist Camp in France

Ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who have been sheltered in France for the last few years have reportedly started buying lands and houses adjacent to their camp in France to transfer their members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq to the European country.

According to a report published by the website of the Habilian association – a human rights group formed of the family members and relatives of the Iranian victims of terrorism – the MKO ringleaders have offer to buy the real states adjacent to the Camp Maryam in France much more than their real price.

"They said they are ready to buy my house several times more than the real price, and I, thus, sold them my residence," one of the neighbors of the terrorist camp in France said.
Yet, he acknowledged that he has long been aware of the terrorist nature of the MKO, saying, "MKO members claim that they are fighting for human rights and the Iranian people, but because they have been our neighbor for a long time I was encouraged to have vast studies about them, the result of which showed the opposite. That is, I have realized that they are a terrorist group which has massacred many innocent people."

An earlier report by the Habilian indicated that those members of the MKO who are residing in France are suffering drastic psychological disorders and debauchery due to the different pressures exerted on them by the ringleaders of the terrorist group.

The members of the terrorist group residing in the camp are under full control of Maryam Rajavi, one of the main ringleaders of the MKO, and are deprived of many rights like leaving the camp individually, access to the mass media, marriage and contacting their families.

The report also noted that since the members of the MKO in the camp are deprived of marriage they are involved in unusual sexual affairs with their inmates.
The MKO members are suffering acute psychological disorders and are in dire need of rapid medical and psychological care. The situation of the MKO members in Camp Ashraf in Iraq is no better than their fellows in France.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s. The Baghdad government has assured Iranian officials and people that it is determined to expel the MKO from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group. The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country. The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

July 25, 2011 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Memoirs of Ms. Zahra Mirbaqeri; MKO ex-member

I am Zahra Sadat Mirbaqeri. I was supposed to be a member of MKO leadership Council [she was a member of Experimental Leadership Council] before my I left the MKO’s Camp Ashraf. During the few past years, I had been practicing to leave the organization and finally my last plan worked. I could manage to hide in the new Iraqi hospital on the western gate of the Camp Ashraf and then I succeeded to release myself.

I can’t include my whole story in this interview because I am not able to sit down or stand up for a long time due to long-term, terrible physical torture I endured in Camp Ashraf. My medical documents confirmed by Iraqi specialists and doctors, based on my poor health condition are available.

I briefly notice a few issues:

1. Firstly I’d like to notify an important issue to public opinion. Camp Ashraf leaders have taken my brother Alireza and my two sisters as hostages. They don’t allow them to leave the camp and come to see me and my mother who is suffering heart disease and waiting to see her children. I seriously ask all human right bodies, UN, ICRC, European Parliament and particularly Iraqi government for help.

Naturally, after the release of my testimony, Ashraf leaders will force my siblings to make TV interviews against me by threatening and torturing them. So I already warn about it.

2. The second issue is about torture of patients in Camp Ashraf. I personally received my death sentence that was handed over to me by Zohreh Qaemi (because they were informed of my decision to leave the group) I am one of those tortured patients in the organization. I shortly describe the medieval tortures I suffered personally.

It’s not possible to describe or even number the tortures I bore in here. It requires me to write a book in the future in order to tell the story of my grieves:

After three meetings that were held as my trials _ in which a hundred people attended_ they took me to my forth trial while I was sick in bed. They pulled me all the way on the floor beating me off to the meeting where other members were ready to insult me, impose peer pressure on me under the command of Faeze Mohabatkar. They verbally and physically abused me for seven hours.

They pulled my hands towards floor, forcing me to sit down while I could hardly ever sit down because of my painful waist and neck. They took off my neck pain necklace so that I suffered a worse condition. I exclude an other maltreatment they practiced to recall because it even caused e other women participating the meeting to complaint against their act.
They violently shouted in my left ear that was badly infectious due to previous tortures. They said: “what sort of patient are you who can resist so much?”

…in another occasion they attacked me while I was in bed in Ashraf’s internal hospital. They beat my neck, right shoulder and arm. The pain lasted for months but they didn’t take me to doctors [outside the Camp] because it was a scandal for them.

3. They refused to give me urgent medications so that I would die soon.

4. They refused to inject medications for infections like anti-biotic for my ear. They refused to give me medications to stop my dizziness.

5. Despite I felt terribly dizzy due to my infectious ear; they forced me to attend their long organizational meetings in order to make me die sooner.

6. They refused to let me have x-ray test that was prescribed for me by a doctor. My knees were painful because of long-time standing on feet during ideological meetings.
At the end, once more I appeal public opinion and human right activists to help hostages held in Camp Ashraf release and aid them to take refuge in European countries.
I myself have to travel to European country to get treatment and surgery. I appreciate all friends who help me with my problems, in advance.

Thank you
Translated by Nejat Society

July 25, 2011 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Prayer is unacceptable without pictures of MKO gang leader!

According to an inter-sectarian directive, which has been executed in the Rajavi’s cult for 25 years, the cult members should pray in a place where several pictures of the cult leader are mounted.

As reported by Habilian Association (families of Iranian victims of terror) database, according to Hussein Robubi, a member of the Executive Board of MKO, after he was appointed as an official for a terrorist base of MKO in Pakistan, immediately he was assigned to mount pictures of MKO leader (Masoud Rajavi) wherein the cult members say prayers.

According to news received, Hussein Robubi explains his action to implement the order of Rajavi in such states: “When I came to Pakistan, I saw only two or three pictures of Rajavi was mounted in the database. This showed that how Mahmood was preventing from shining of the light of leadership. So, I demanded to send us the pictures, as much as possible.”

Reported by Habilian Association database, also two former members of the cult say: “Robubi recommended personnel to mount Rajavi’s photo in every room; also he rose at the meetings that, According to Rajavi, if a Mujahed say prayer in a room, where there are not leadership’s photos, so his prayer would be unacceptable.”

July 16, 2011 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MKO shooting defecting members

The terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is reportedly opening fire on defecting members to prevent them from leaving their camp in Iraq’s Diyala province.

Over the last few weeks, some MKO members have managed to escape from the notorious Camp Ashraf, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Baghdad, while others have been injured and captured, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Three of the detainees ventured a getaway through the camp’s northern gate when they were seized by MKO guards and one of them was shot in the leg.

The reports come in contrast with MKO’s US and European sympathizers claim that members of the outlawed group are not armed.

Efforts by the Iraqi government, following the fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, to shut down the military camp have failed under pressure from the US military and Western media outlets.

During his Tehran visit to Iran on Tuesday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reiterated Baghdad’s stance on the terror cell. “Camp Ashraf is to be shut down, and members of the [MKO] group have been given until the end of the current year (2011) to leave Iraqi soil,” he said.

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization is listed as a terrorist organization by Tehran and much of the international community, and is held responsible for numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The notorious group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime and set up Camp Ashraf, about 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) west of the Iranian border.

The organization is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

June 25, 2011 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

A British MP who presumes to know better than most Iranians what is best for Iran

Sheda Vasseghi of World Tribune criticizes an MKO supporter, British MP for Northampton South

Brian Binley and Mojahedin Khalq

for his passionate support for the Terrorist destructive cult of Mujahedin Khalq and his impudence to choose for Iranians’ future:

It is curious when non-Iranian politicians such as a British Member of Parliament, who are naturally working for the interests of their own country, suggest that those of Iranian descent and experts in Iranian history are wrong about Iran’s affairs.
It is unclear whether Mr. Brian Binley is actually ignorant of the facts, in denial, or simply trapped in the British colonial mentality in rejecting that times have changed!

Recently, Mr. Binley wrote an article entitled “Binley: Obama must support Iranian democracy movement,” published in the Washington Times in support of the Islamo-Marxist cult the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI) as a viable alternative for the Iranian people.
The PMOI is a cult that is still listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department. It has been enjoying the millions of dollars that Saddam Hussein poured into their bank accounts during the 1980’s as he planned his bloody invasion of Iran. My recent article entitled “The People’s Mojahedin of Iran is not who the Iranian people have been waiting for” included documentation for the assessment PMOI is a terrorist organization and reasons why the majority of Iranians reject PMOI’s attempts to portray itself as a legitimate opposition to the Islamic Republic.

In response to my subsequent objections to Mr. Binley’s Washington Times article sent by email to his office, Mr. Binley stated that the PMOI has “vowed to work for a democratic and free Iran.” Mr. Binley rejects the “claim that the group is anti-democratic,” and further does not think that my exposing the PMOI as terrorists is “helping the situation in Iran by perpetuating lies.”

Here, I will offer an official response to Mr. Binley and thereby attempt to further awaken my fellow Iranians and Americans as to the very dangerous situation to which some of the Western politicians are subjecting the global community:
The 21st century Iran is no longer the backwards country of the early 1900’s under the incompetent and ignorant Qajar dynasty readily influenced by the British and Russian powers.

Vasseghi asserts that as a terrorist designated cult-like group, MKO is never considered democratic:
Further, in the Age of Information and Internet, regular folks from around the world have access to facts, information, and documents, and are very well-versed in technology and literacy. They are perfectly capable of identifying a rotten egg as a rotten egg!

In your email response in defense of the terrorist PMOI group, you wrote: “First of all, I recognise that the PMOI does have a history of terrorist activity, but I equally recognise that the British High Court has stated that they ceased to be a terrorist organisation in 2002 when they vowed to work for a democratic and free Iran.”

As fully discussed in my earlier article regarding PMOI mentioned above, the U.S. still lists PMOI as a terrorist group based on its militant culture, past terrorist activities and political mission statement. Further, a cult based on theocracy (Islamic, in this case) is the complete opposite of a “democracy” as they categorically and by name exclude those who do not believe in their core values. A cult that has already elected from among its members a future ”president” for the Iranian people has clearly excluded the concept of democracy and freedom.

The author also disputes Binely’s comparing MKO with Irish Republican army that could reach a peaceful agreement with Britain. Ms. Vasseghi asserts:

In your second point in defense of promoting a terrorist group, you wrote: “I would point out that we in this country have a record of terrorism in Northern Ireland but we actually talk to those people and came to a more peaceful conclusion than what would otherwise have been the case had we not done so.”

Mr. Binley, please, you are comparing apples and oranges. Your comment only proves that some British politicians are willing to work with terrorists at the expense of the general public to further short-term political agenda and interests.
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To respond Binely’s claim based on Vasseghi’s being “a liar and a danger to Iran’s struggle for freedom and democracy”, she writes:

Iranians are not concerned with terrorist activities of other governments in other countries. It is irrelevant to their current struggle and national interest. Overall, in response to my objection to your Washington Times article which included documentation on my part, you provided no evidence for calling me a liar and a danger to Iran’s struggle for freedom and democracy.

Mr. Binley, your baseless and ridiculous comments for standing by the PMOI as a democratic-loving group only proves that either you do not know the definition of a democracy and the conditions needed for providing it, or assume that the general public is ignorant of such matters. ..

In your concluding remarks, Mr. Binley, you state, “I personally don’t think you are helping the situation in Iran by perpetuating lies, many of which have been promoted by the [Islamic Republic] regime themselves.”

Given that your response contains no evidence countering my objections to PMOI’s terrorist status, it only highlights the terrifying situation the people of the Free World are facing. Either politicians such as you are ignorant of the facts…

Your attempts to legitimize PMOI and your personal reasons for doing so are irrelevant to Iranians at this time. … Regardless of some non-Iranian politicians’ unwillingness to accept reality or believing they could continue their misguided and manipulative ways, times have changed!

June 23, 2011 0 comments

USA

U.S. saw leftist Iran opposition group Mujahadeen Khalq as a ‘cult’

WASHINGTON — The United States has assessed that a leading Iranian opposition organization that in the 1970s was aligned with leftist and Marxist causes was a cult that deals brutally with members who want to leave.

American Lobbyists: US State Department foundings has no effect on our efforts to legalize Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) terrorists

The State Department has concluded that the Mujahadeen Khalq, or MEK, was holding Iranian exiles against their will in Iraq’s Camp Ashraf. The department, in cables sent to Washington over the last 20 years, asserted that Mujahadeen set a policy of killing suspected defectors from the movement supported by the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq.

Wikipedia said the group which played a major role with the leftist Tudeh Party in the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, was more "religious, radical, anti-American" than the earlier generation of Iranian leftists.

"Many of the defectors alleged psychological and psychical harm at the hands of the MEK, including solitary confinement in MEK jails in Ashraf," a State Department cable read.
The cables were released by the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act in May. U.S. lobbyists for Mujahadeen dismissed the cables as inaccurate and biased to fit the State Department’s conception that MEK was a terrorist group.

"The question is why, when every single Camp Ashraf resident was taken outside, and interviewed by the U.S. military in American-controlled facilities in 2003 and 2004, and each were given the choice to leave, none of those individuals had done so?" Allan Gerson, an attorney for MEK in Washington, asked.

Over the last two years, MEK has been recruiting former senior U.S. officials to remove the group from the State Department’s terror list. Many former officials, including those from the State Department, assert that Mujahadeen was deemed a terrorist group in 1994 as part of a U.S. reconciliation effort with Iran.

The State Department cables quoted defectors as describing MEK as a cult that punishes former members. The cables said the MEK leadership ordered the execution of all attempted defectors.
"They reaffirmed existing perceptions of the MEK as a cult-like organization that thrives on maintaining control of its members and those lured to Ashraf under false pretenses," one cable read.

The State Department traced MEK from the Iranian revolution in 1979. The cables said MEK supported the Islamic takeover of the U.S. embassy in Teheran in which diplomats were held hostage for more than a year.

Several years after the revolution, MEK was outlawed by the regime in Iran. The group fled to neighboring Iraq and was supported by the Saddam regime, which used MEK to attack civilian targets in Iran.

"They are hated among Iranians, since their hands are stained with the blood of their fellow countrymen," the State Department, quoting an exiled Iranian, said.

Lobbyists said the State Department cables would have little affect on the effort to legalize MEK in the United States. Members of Congress as well as potential presidential candidates, arguing that MEK has eschewed violence, have called for the removal of the group from the State Department terror list.

World Tribune

June 6, 2011 0 comments

USA

Retired US Officer: No Country Willing to Shelter MKO Members

No country in the world is ready to shelter the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization

Colonel Steve Hasty warned about severe sexual misconduct, abuse and deviation in Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) Camp Ashraf

(MKO) members and their only left option is a return to Iran, a retired US intelligence officer said.

"We have talked with several countries via the US State Department but no one is willing to accept them in his country, "Steve Hasty said, addressing the audience at the ‘International Policy Institute’.

"And the only way left for them might be a return to Iran," he added.

Hasty also warned about the MKO members’ severe sexual misconducts, abuse and deviations and cultic tendencies, and said they have committed many crimes against the Iranian and Iraqi nations and the people of these two countries hate them all.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A defected member of the MKO recently unveiled that the ringleaders of the group are using every means within their reach to control their dissident members, including life threats, to keep members in the group’s main stronghold in Northern Iraq.

"Massoud Rajavi has announced many times that if anybody wants to escape from (the camp) Ashraf (in Iraq), he/she will be killed or executed," Abdollatif Chahardari said.

He reiterated that the ringleaders of the MKO also prevent the members who are residing in Camp Ashraf from taking refuge in other countries, saying, "Ashraf is the only place you have."
Also in March, another defected member of the MKO revealed that the female members of the group have been living under captivity for more than 25 years and are not even allowed to appear in public places alone.

"It can be firmly said that 95% of the women in Ashraf Camp (the terrorist group’s resort in Iraq) have not even been allowed to step in Iraq’s public and recreational places alone all throughout the last 25 years," the defected member said.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

May 29, 2011 0 comments

France

Ms. Batoul Maleki Open Letter to president of France On MKO

The honorable president of France, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy

Respectfully,

I am utterly confident that you are completely familiar with the name of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran which is a destructive Iranian organization based in your country, France .
Mrs. Batoul Maleki Open Letter to president of France On MKO
I am the former member of this notorious organization who separated from them during the Persian Gulf War (August 2, 1990 – February 28, 1991 also known as Operation Dessert Storm).

In the authenticated news , it has been mentioned that the Judicial court of France has exonerated 24 members of pmoi who were detained as a result of the money laundering as well as terrorist activities in 2003 in France .

Among those exonerated members there is also the name of Maryam Rajavi the ringleader of pmoi , the wife of Massoud Rajavi the fugitive spiritual leader of pmoi.

Mr. President

Pmoi was constituted to fight against the monarchy regime of Iran who was ruled by the Iranian king, Mohammad reza shah .All its founders and leaders were captured and finally executed by the Shah’s regime except Massoud Rajavi the second rank member of pmoi who his fully cooperation with SAVAK , The Shah’s Intelligence Service Agency ,and revealing the name of his comrades to the SAVAK rescued him from being executed by the shah’s firing squad so he was sentenced to life in prison.

After the revolution 1979 in Iran, Massoud Rajavi in the absence of the pmoi founders ,took over the leadership of the organization. As a result of his mismanagement and making lots of mistakes in his decision making little by little he diverted the organization from its main path .As a result of his huge mistakes thousands of Iranian people paid the price of his mistakes by incarceration , torture and execution. He and some of his close colleagues and friends escaped from Iran and they took refuge in your country, France. During the war between Iran and Iraq he left France to Iraq and according to the documentary films and authenticated documents at hand he began cooperating with the late dictator of Iraq , Saddam Hussein and he sold lots of Iran’s substantial military and civil information to Saddam Hussein government and in return he received lots of military equipments and arms.

Mr. President

The pmoi leaders , Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam , not only betrayed Iranian people during the war between Iran and Iraq by giving vital information to Saddam Hussien government and fully cooperating with the Iraqi government then, but also they incarcerated and tortured their dissident members inside their organization and they instructed and ordered the killing of many of them in different ways.

They ordered the compulsory divorce inside their organization and they forced 700 to 800 children to be separated from their mothers forcibly by the pretext of the war and its dangerous consequences. Those children dispersed around the world. Some of those children were returned to Iraq again while they were very young. some of those children were killed in different occasions . pmoi incarcerated many of my comrades and I who had a baby in 3 prisons in Iraq for 4 months and also I had been sent in exile for one year and half . Finally I could go to Switzerland by I’ONU.

Pmoi has incarcerated and tortured many of my comrades even they killed some of them. Some of my comrades had been sent to the Iraqi notorious prison , Abu ghorib, and later those comrades were exchanged with the Iraqi soldiers who were prisoner of war in Iran in a transaction with Iranian regime , meaning , the PMOI dissident members who were incarcerated in Abu ghorib were exchanged with the Iraqi soldiers who were prisoners of war in Iran .PMOI by the direct order of Saddam Hussein also participated in killing of many Iraqi Shea and Kurds who were participating in popular uprising against Saddam Hussein government.

During invasion of Iraq led by USA, Mujahedin gave up and surrendered themselves to the United states army and Massoud Rajavi himself ran away. Maryam Rajavi and some of her close friends and colleagues entered to your country , France.

Since one year ago many Iranian families who have loved ones inside Ashraf Garrison have come from different locations to see their loved ones whom they have not seen them more than twenty years but so far the PMOI leaders and operatives have not allowed those families to meet their loved ones PMOI has incarcerated its members and do not allow them to go and meet their families . Recently the members of PMOI skirmished with Iraqi solders that as a result of that a number of PMOI members got killed .Until now that I am writing this letter to you it has passed one month from the skirmish between PMOI and Iraqi soldiers but so far the PMOI has not allowed their deceased members to be buried just because they want to put pressure on Iraqi government by keeping the dead bodies as hostages to force Iraqi government to allow them to stay in Iraq, like Saddam Hussein who took his own people as hostages to put pressure on United states to leave Iraq.

PMOI and the national council of resistance ,the PMOI political wing, has ordered the beating or even killing the separated members in the European countries , the PMOI operatives and mercenaries attacked the separated members in FIAP in Paris and they injured some of the separated members in there and when they saw that police was coming some of them began hitting themselves by sharp items such as knife to pretend that the separated people injured them.

The PMOI operatives attacked the separated members who were participating in a peaceful and lawful picketing and demonstration in the town of Cergy and they injured some of the separated members. The PMOI operatives in different occasions attacked the separated members in different countries and injured them.

Dear Mr. President

The PMOI operatives and their mercenaries not only they did not have any mercy upon the Iranian people but also they had no mercy upon their separated members even in free countries such as France and they attack their separated members .

The PMOI has gathered lots of money from money laundering and etc and unfortunately they spent lots of those money to attract the lawyers and different people to support pmoi for their actions.

Mr. President

If all those facts which I mentioned above are not terrorist and violent acts so how can we describe a terrorist entity ?

Why did your court of law and your judges make such a decision to exonerate pmoi operatives and their leader Maryam Rajavi from the charges?

Were the separated members and the victims of pmoi present In this decision making in your court of law?

While in 2003 Maryam Rajavi and her colleagues got arrested , by the direct order of Maryam Rajavi the members of PMOI set themselves on fire in different countries while the PMOI operatives were present at the scene . As a result of that 2 members of PMOI were burned to death and some got burned badly.

Are not these violent actions unlawful in your country while someone for her release ask her followers to set themselves on fire and commit suicide?

I would like to draw your attention to this concrete fact that PMOI has 2 faces , one is its external face which tries to show itself as a political organization and the other face which is hidden purposely is their internal relations which represent completely a dangerous religious cult .

Mr. President

I as a victim of PMOI , urge you to intervene in this decision making . I urge you not to allow such a terrorist organization plays with your rules of law which represent democracy and freedom in your country just because your country has political problems with Iranian regime.

Do not allow your country become ashamed of itself in front of Iranian people and their history like United states which with its support of the shah and coup d’état against national and lawful prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh has become ashamed of itself in front of Iranian people.

Respectfully ,

Batoul Maleki

May 21, 2011 0 comments

European Union

European lawmakers: Try MKO members for crimes against humanity

In a statement, legislators from various factions in the European Parliament have called for the trial of approximately fifty MKO terrorists in camp Ashraf in Iraq for “crimes against humanity.”

The statement was issued in response to comments made by MKO sympathiser and Vice-President of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who accused Barbara Lochbihler, the Chair of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Iran, of making “unfounded accusations against” Ashraf residents and the MKO, referring to her comments as “a disgraceful attempt to attack this democratic opposition movement at a crucial time”.

The PMOI is known by a number of different names including Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organisation (MEK) or (MKO), The National Liberation Army of Iran (the group’s armed wing) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a front group for the PMOI.

In April 2011, the Iraqi military raided terrorist group’s headquarters at Camp Ashraf, sixty kilometers north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The United Nations says 34 people were killed during the raid on the camp at which some 3,500 cult members are stationed.

Shortly after this raid, German MEP Barbara Lochbihler wrote a letter to fellow MEPs and maintaining “the claim by Ashraf residents to be cut off from water supplies was incorrect.” She stated that the “inhabitants of the camp [were] themselves victims of this totalitarian cult”.

In their most recent statement, the MEPs called for a fair trial for the fifty people in the camp wanted by the Iraqi authorities for alleged “crimes against humanity.” “Instead of boosting the PMOI, with all its criminal activities, we should urge the High Representative and the member states to help to find a humanitarian solution for the remaining camp residents (screening by the UNHCR and individual resettlement) and a fair trial for the approximately 50 persons in the camp wanted by the Iraqi authorities for alleged crimes against humanity.”

The letter was signed by members from the parliament’s European People’s Party (EPP); Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats (S&D); Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE); the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) and European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL).

The statement added: “The PMOI was protected by Saddam Hussein who hosted them from the mid-1980s until his demise. They collaborated in his internal repression against the Kurds and Shiites and have since that time had a military camp known as Camp Ashraf. When the US disarmed the camp in 2003 it housed over 3000 PMOI fighters.”

The MEPs also cautioned fellow legslators that the terrorist group had “developed a very strong lobby in the European Parliament over the last couple of years claiming to be the only serious Iranian opposition group.”

They said the recent bloodshed at Camp Ashraf “should not … distract us from an objective and level-headed analysis of the PMOI’s track record,” urging “all members [of parliament] to seriously consider the history, actions and behaviour of the PMOI before signing any declarations or letters of support in favour of this group in the future.”

“Their method is very simple: they mobilise MEPs’ justified outrage at the nuclear issue, the human rights violations and they very character of the Iranian regime, but instrumentalised such opinion for a different purpose – the political legitimation of the Mudjahedin organisation itself.”

In their letter, the lawmakers criticise the lack of attention to the “massive human rights violations inside” the terrorist group. “According to overwhelming evidence the former militant group has turned into a repressive sect far removed from the respectable image the representatives of this group display when visiting the European Parliament.”

“The human rights violations the leaders are committing against the group’s members are amply documented, starting with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and many witness reports of ex-members who were able to flee (including testimonies in the European Parliament).”

In a serious blow to the European Union’s credibility and standing in the eyes of Iranians, in 2009, the union removed the death cult from its list of terrorist groups and lifted restrictions on the group’s funds.

However, according the statement by MEPs, the European Court of Justice’s decision to remove the PMOI from the EU terrorist list in 2009 was based “on a formality,” taking note of the fact that “Member States who asked them to be included on the list refused to transmit the evidence on which their request was based to the court.”

“This ruling does not make any statement as to the group’s practice of internal repression.”

The MEPs voiced their concern over how PMOI sympathisers within the parliament had developed an “infatuation” with the cult, arguing, “The support the PMOI receives from members of Parliament allows its leadership to perpetuate their absolute power over the rank and file, of which most are believed to want to desperately leave the group. The hundreds of members who have managed to escape from Ashraf and have been screened by the UNHCR bear witness of their plight.”

The statement maintains the cult “lost all its credibility with the Iranian people when they formed an alliance with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.”

“The only actor inside Iran who nowadays accords any importance to the group,” the MEPs say, “is the Iranian government.[..]

In the 80s, the group joined forces with the invading army of Saddam Hussein and developed an intimate relationship with the Iraqi dictator during Iran’s eight-year war with Iraq. The MKO’s grisly crimes against the Kurds and Marsh Arabs in Iraq, as well as their traitorous alliance with one of Iran’s greatest enemies, have turned them into one of the most despised groups in the country.

by Cyrus Green – oyetimes.com

May 19, 2011 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

MKO Barring Family Meetings to Choke Flow of Info

Ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization continue to bar meetings between families and MKO members in the terrorist group’s main training camp in Northern Iraq in a move to keep the confined group separated from the real world to keep a leash on the flow of information into and out of the camp.

The MKO ringleaders continue to insist on their inhuman policy while family members have camped out of the training base for over 16 months now to see their relatives.

MKO ringleaders have also cut all communication means and contacts between the camp residents and the outside world.

Families have, thus far, staged several protest outside the camp and called for the freedom of their relatives and children who are under various types of torture and pressure by their ringleaders inside the camp.

The MKO ringleaders are reported to be using torture and pressure on their own dissident members, barring the dissident members from leaving the organization and joining their families.

Earlier this month, an Iraq-based right group unveiled that ringleaders of the MKO have resorted to various forms of mass killing in a bid to exercise control over the group members and also to bring the group out of the current impasse in Iraq.

According to a report by Iraqi daily Motamar, also published by Edalat (Justice) Society web site – an organ of the families of the Iranian victims of terrorism – the Iraqi right group has sent serious warnings to civil society and human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi government about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the MKO’s main training camp in Northern Iraq.

The Sahar Family Foundation also said that the MKO ringleaders are forcing the dissident members of the group to commit suicide, and if they refuse to do so, the leaders massacre defectors themselves.

The right group called on the Iraqi judiciary system, international court of justice and all international human rights bodies as well as the Iraqi and international media to take urgent action to stop the human catastrophe in the camp which, they said, now looks more like a slaughterhouse.

A November report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, said that under the direct order of MKO’s Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) allow their members to receive medical aids, healthcare and other services in return for given levels of cooperation.
Based on the order, dissident members are deprived of medicine and other medical services or, at least, face much hardship and difficulty in procuring their necessary medicines.
The right group added that the new measure came after protests remarkably increased inside the group, specially in the camp. Right groups are gravely concerned that a large number of MKO members may lose their lives soon if UN, human rights and Iraqi officials do not force the group leaders to end their tortures and pressures against the dissident members.
In relevant development, a report revealed in November that Ahmad Razzani, a veteran member of the MKO, had been killed inside the Camp.
According to an August report by the Habilian Association, the MKO leaders have increased their pressures and control over the members of the terrorist group to prevent possible defection and escape by unsatisfied members.
Reports also said that all exit and entry doors have been locked and none of the members, even those suffering from acute diseases and illnesses, are allowed to leave the camp.
MKO ringleaders have ordered the camp guards to stage snap inspections of the group’s members and their personal belongings under the pretext of finding the lost weapons.
Such behaviors have sparked discontent among a number of MKO members and made them escape the camp and return to their anguished families.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).

Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts on its own members and the alluring recruitment methods it uses.

The most shocking of such stories includes accounts given by former British MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi — the father of an Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment campaign in Canada.
Mohammadi recounts his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who disappeared several years ago – a result of what the MKO called a ‘two-month tour’ of Camp Ashraf for teenagers.

He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take part in pro-MKO demonstrations in Western countries by threatening to kill their loved ones.
Lacking a foothold in Iran, the terrorist group recruits ill-informed teens from Iranian immigrant communities in Western states and blocks their departure afterwards.
The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-Western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In recent months, high-ranking MKO members have been lobbying governments around the world in the hope of acknowledgement as a legitimate opposition group.
The UK initiative, however, prompted the European Union to establish relations with the exiled organization now based in Paris. The European Court of First Instance threw its weight behind the MKO in December 2009 and annulled its previous decision to freeze its funds.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

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