TEHRAN – Iraqi National Security advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie said on Friday that Baghdad plans to close down the Ashaf military camp where the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members are held under house arrest.
Iraq is also seeking to extradite the Mojahedin Khalq members who have taken refuge in Iraq since early 1980s, Rubaie told reporters in a joint news conference with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili in Tehran.
The Mojahedin Khalq launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings in Iran immediately after the Islamic Revolution.
The group was supported by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war but was disarmed after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Saddam also used the terror group in suppressing Shiite and Kurdish dissidents in southern and northern Iraq.
Rubaie said, “Among the members of this group, some have the blood of Iraqi innocents on their hands and we will hand them over to Iraqi justice, and some who have Iranian blood on their hands we can hand over to Iran.”
“The only choices open to members of this group are to return to Iran or to choose another country,” he stated.
The Iraqi envoy said “Some of the MKO members have expressed interest to return to Iran and we are making the arrangements for this.”
“We are acting under international humanitarian regulations and international laws. These people will themselves choose where they want to go.”
Rubaie said that 914 MKO members have a passport or residence of a third country and could leave Iraq for these countries.
He said on his return to Iraq he would discuss with the ambassadors of the United States and a dozen European countries to see if they would accept MKO members.
The top Iraqi security official stated that hundreds of MKO members have already returned to their families with the help of the Red Cross organization.
The Iraqi government announced on December 21 it planned to close the Ashraf camp north of Baghdad and close to the Iranian border.
On January 1, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki went further and said he would expel the MKO from the country.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Rubaie said Iraq is ready to take control of its domestic affairs even sooner than the 16-months deadline set by U.S. President Barak Obama.
Iraq and the United States have signed a security deal that calls for the U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011. However, Obama, during his campaign for presidency vowed to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months from taking office.
Iraqi people and security forces are more than ever ready to take care of the country’s affairs and currently 95 percent of domestic issues are controlled by Iraqis, Rubaie said.
Jalili also stated that Iraq’s repeated announcements that it is ready to take control of the situation inside the county leaves no excuse for the continuation of occupation by foreign forces.
Turning to diplomatic relations with Iran, Rubaie said Iraq has signed a highly important agreement with the Islamic Republic after receiving “positive responses” from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“We are leaving Tehran by achieving a very important deal because we raised important issues in our negotiations and received positive, strong and documented responses,” he explained.
Rubaie, however, did not elaborate on the content of the agreement
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Mujahedin Khalq
The Iraqi government this week accused an Iranian opposition group of planning a suicide attack against Iraqi troops, a possible prelude to decisive government action to close the group’s camp in Iraq and expel its members.
The Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK, on Tuesday denied Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie’s allegation that it was planning an attack. Rubaie, who made the charge Monday during a visit to Tehran, offered no evidence to back up his assertion.
The fate of the MEK has long been an irritant in relations between the government of Iraq, which has built close ties with Iran, and the U.S. government. The MEK received support from Saddam Hussein’s government and has been designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, but the U.S. military has protected the group’s base in Iraq, known as Camp Ashraf, since the 2003 invasion. U.S. officials credit the MEK with providing information about Iran’s nuclear program.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki wants to expel the MEK. Iraqi officials have said the group’s continued presence has a destabilizing effect and hinders relations between Iran and Iraq.
The United States handed nominal control of the outer perimeter of the camp to the Iraqi government Jan. 1, when a new security agreement between the United States and Iraq came into effect. The agreement gives Iraq greater say in security matters, but U.S. officials said they intend to keep a military contingent at the camp to help the Iraqi government honor its commitments to treat the group’s members humanely.
In 2003, the U.S. military reached an agreement with the group that offered its members protection in exchange for their disarmament.
Rubaie told reporters Monday in the Iranian capital that”the Iraqi government has made a serious decision to expel”the 3,500 MEK members who remain at Camp Ashraf, according to a report on the Tehran Times Web site.
Rubaie’s statement said a member of the organization had turned himself in to Iraqi security forces and told them that group leaders had instructed him to detonate explosives at the headquarters of the Iraqi security forces. The goal of the reported attack was to embarrass the Iraqi government, the statement said.
Maj. Neal Fisher, a spokesman for the U.S. command that has soldiers stationed at Ashraf, referred questions about the alleged plot to the Iraqi government.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the MEK’s political wing, called the allegation a”blatant fabrication”that was part of a”conspiracy”between the Iranian and Iraqi governments to build a stronger case for the expulsion of the group.
Maliki reiterated his intension to shut down Camp Ashraf during a speech Jan. 1, saying the group’s continued presence is a violation of the Iraqi constitution and troubles Iraq’s neighbors.
The MEK was formed in the 1960s to oppose Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the autocratic ruler who fled a 1979 revolution led by Shiite clerics. In the 1980s, many MEK leaders moved to Iraq, where they were welcomed by Hussein, who mobilized them in his war with Iran.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, three Iraqis were killed and two U.S. soldiers wounded in an explosion in Mansour, a district in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. An Iraqi police official said the explosion was caused by a car bomb that was detonated as U.S. soldiers were leaving a meeting at a government building. The U.S. military, citing”intelligence sources,”accused the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq of carrying out the attack.
Earlier in the day, two Iraqis were killed in Karrada, in southern Baghdad, after a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy transporting officials from the Education Ministry.
By Ernesto Londoño
Iraqi security forces are in charge of the MKO training center at Camp Ashraf.
Details of an attempted attack on the Iraqi security center have been brought to light after the would-be perpetrator surrendered himself.
A member of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO), who was to carry out the attack, turned himself in to Iraqi security forces and disclosed the details of the suicide attack, Mehr news agency reported.
The would-be suicide bomber is one of the residents of Camp Ashraf, the MKO training center and headquarters in Iraq.
The main objectives of the attack were targeting Iraqi security forces who took over the camp’s security on January 1, 2009 and dissuading the members of the terrorist group from leaving the compound or surrendering to Iraqi forces.
The Iraqi government has been seeking the expulsion or relocation of MKO, as it believes the group to be responsible for attempting to destabilize the country by carrying out terror attacks.
Earlier in January, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed to expel the members of the terrorist cell from Iraqi soil.
The MKO "is a terrorist organization and thus cannot operate in Iraq because it will create a political crisis in contradiction with the (Iraqi) constitution," Maliki said, adding that the group will be dealt with "based on the international laws".
The MKO has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries including the United States.
The terrorist group targeted Iranian government officials and civilians in Iran and abroad in the early 1980s. The group also attempted an unsuccessful invasion of Iran in the last days of the Iraq-Iran war in 1988.
The MKO was also involved in the massacre of Iraqis under the Ba’athist regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
PressTV – Tue, 20 Jan 2009
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The non-Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), since the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, is seeking another alternative in the west. The MKO strove under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein to become the Iraqi MKO and now is striving to become the Israeli MKO.
Since 1985 when the Internal Ideological Revolution and the Divine Leadership of the Rajavis were introduced within the MKO, and the cultic characteristics reached their full development, and since 1986 when the leadership of the MKO moved to Iraq under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and participated in the war against Iran and as well as suppressing the people of Iraq as Saddam’s private army, the organization not only had no presence inside Iran but it was also much hated as far as the Iranian people were concerned.
Since then until the fall of Saddam Hussein, the activities of the MKO against the Iranian regime included border assaults and sabotage activities and sending terror teams from Iraq inside Iran with the aid of the security forces of Saddam Hussein as well as political propaganda in the west. The assaults and terrorist activities were of course ceased when the dictator was toppled in Iraq and the organization was disarmed by the American forces in 2003, and therefore the activities of the MKO were limited to political propaganda in the west; the sort of propaganda of course which would pave the way for terrorism in the future.
Hence since that point up to now the MKO and its leadership have relied not on the Iranian people but on foreign powers to gain rule in Iran and at the present time they are seeking an alternative for Saddam Hussein (this time in the west of course) and have based their strategy on gaining support from potential enemies such as the US, Israel and the UK in place of the previous toppled enemy.
Therefore the presence of the MKO now is merely in the form of the Ashraf garrison (the MKO base in Iraq) and the Maryam garrison (the European base of the MKO in France) which initially is the problem of the newly formed government of Iraq and then the western countries, and is by no means the concern of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
As far as the Iraqi government is concerned, this government knows the MKO as a terrorist group and one of the many miseries left from the era of Saddam Hussein for the people of Iraq and a threat for Iraq’s internal security; and therefore the Iraqi government is demanding that the Ashraf garrison be closed forever, and righteously expects the western governments who have had their use of the organization against Iran to accept them in their countries for their retirement stage.
The political process to de-proscribe the MKO in the EU was begun some time ago. As the UK initiated the proscription of the organization (for any reasons), now the UK is again stepping forward to remove their name from the EU list of terrorist groups, and most likely this will be done in the very near future.
What consequences will arise if the MKO is kept in or removed from the EU list of terrorist groups?
As far as Iran is concerned, the MKO is a matter for the past and whether they are designated as a terrorist group or not would not have the smallest effect. Neither when they moved into the list were any facilities created for the Iranians and nor when they move out will any problem arise in their way. The opposite of course applies for the MKO.
As far as the European countries are concerned they know best how to deal with a terrorist cult in their own territory regarding their national security. If the EU is convinced that the organization is no longer a terrorist group so be it, and we do hope that their judgment is right and the MKO and its leader have truly put aside terrorism; although we do not have any indications for such assumptions.
From the Iraqis’ point of view, who demands that the MKO (who have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in killing innocent people) leave Iraq, de-proscribing the MKO in Europe is good news since the west has no excuses for not accepting them in their countries any more. In the last meeting we had with the Iraqi ministry of foreign affairs they explained that the ministry had invited all European ambassadors in Baghdad to a meeting and urged them to accept the members of the MKO in their countries as political refugees, but they all rejected the request and their excuse was that the group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the EU. But now the Iraqis can of course put their demands forward again.
But the only side who would really suffer from de-proscribing the MKO in Europe is of course the prime victims of such a destructive cult, meaning the members who will be more mentally manipulated when this is shown to them as a victory of the cult and will ensue their continued mental captivity; and therefore their families must pay the price by being away from them and have no news from their beloved ones.
On the issue of closing the Ashraf garrison in Iraq, the MKO is trying hard to make it an entirely Iranian concern. The west is also following the same pattern and demanding an increase in the price of the MKO supposedly for a deal with the Islamic Republic, and perhaps the policy of de-proscribing them in Europe which has started sometime ago is in this line. The MKO is pretending in its propaganda that it is a major issue for Iran and they claim to the world that Iran is striving to get hold of the inhabitants of the Ashraf garrison to take them to Iran and put them on trial and torture them and eventually kill them. Anyone who has the least of knowledge of the MKO surely knows that the claim made by the MKO is somehow ‘escaping forward’ [farar be jelow]. The MKO is merely trying to create such an atmosphere in order to falsify the main issue. Certainly the Islamic Republic is not seeking to get back dead bodies which the owners don’t want anymore. On the contrary Iran logically is trying to smartly use the dissidents of the MKO against it (refer to the quotations made from a western diplomat in Iran in an article written by Geroges Malbrunot in Le Figaro dated December 23) and it is obvious that the Iranian regime is more eager that they are moved to Europe in order to send back the products of a terrorist cult in the shape of human robots to their original place. It is also worth mentioning that in the time of Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq, Massoud Rajavi the leader of the MKO did not send the group’s defectors to Europe and instead handed them over to the Iranian regime. He said clearly on many occasions that the Iranian regime would not do anything to the members of the MKO who have no arms in their hands.
The leaders of the MKO claim that if the US forces move from the Ashraf garrison and leave the posts for the Iraqis, they would not have security in Iraq. This could be true since many Kurdish and Shiites groups in Iraq know this organization as their ruthless enemy who cooperated with Saddam Hussein to suppress them and would wish to take revenge. The solution of course is not for the US to keep their forces there for their security forever. The answer to this problem is that the western governments take them back to their own countries in order to preserve their security. It is worth pointing out that most of these people were political refugees in the west and have been recruited and sent to Iraq from there to join in the National Liberation Army.
Whether the MKO is designated as a terrorist entity or not and whether the US forces stay outside the Ashraf garrison or not makes no big difference to anyone and we are not much concerned about it. As far as the Sahar Family Foundation in Iraq is concerned and we have focused our attention on it, the inhabitants of the Ashraf garrison must enjoy free meetings with their families in some place outside the garrison and without the presence of the MKO authorities and they must have the benefit of having contacts with the outside world and also to have the mental pressures and thought controls lifted from them; and we will stay firm in Iraq and continue our activities until we reach this very important humanitarian goal.
An Iranian resistance group that has been living in exile in Iraq for decades is no longer a welcome guest in the country and may have no choice but to return to Iran, where some of its members fear they could be tortured and possibly executed as traitors.
Some 3,400 members of the militant group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq — the People’s Mujahadeen of Iran, or MeK — have lived at Camp Ashraf, a 14-square-mile base north of Baghdad, since Saddam Hussein invited them there in 1986.
But the current Iraqi government, which took control of national security on New Year’s Day, has made it clear that it wants the MeK out. The government is unmoved by a sustained international campaign by the group that has included demonstrations and sit-ins in Washington and Geneva, Switzerland.
The MeK was founded in Iran in the 1960s, when it organized as a group opposed to the rule of the Shah. For more than two decades, it carried out a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the Iranian government, including the killing of U.S. citizens working in Iran in the 1970s, which led it to be designated an international terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
The MeK cooperated briefly with the clerical regime that overthrew the Shah in the Islamic Revolution, but then it turned against the nation’s new religious leadership, as well.
Despite its history of violence and its official designation as a terrorist group, some U.S. officials have been sympathetic toward the MeK because of the potential that it could be used as a card against Iran. But now that the Iraqi government wants the MeK to leave Iraq, the group’s designation as a terrorist organization is preventing other countries from offering its members a new home, and they fear they may have no choice but to return to Iran.
On Jan. 1, during a visit to Iran, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki re-stated his government’s position:
"Iraq is determined to put an end to this organization because it is affecting relations between Iran and Iraq. This organization participated in many operations that harmed Iranian and Iraqi civilians under the Saddam regime."
Al-Maliki was referring to evidence that the MeK collaborated with the government of Saddam Hussein, particularly during the Kurdish uprising in 1991 when thousands of Kurds were massacred. The MeK denies involvement in the repression and cites supporting statements from, among others, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
Hopes had risen among MeK members and their overseas supporters that they had found a means of remaining in Iraq when the U.S. Embassy said on Dec. 27 that American forces would "maintain a presence at Camp Ashraf … to assist the government of Iraq in carrying out its assurances of humane treatment of the residents."
"It means the United States has recognized its responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our people in Ashraf," said Ali Safavi, an official of NCRI, political wing of the MeK.
But the U.S. government no longer considers MeK members in Iraq to have the protected-persons status the U.S. gave them in 2003, and is privately supportive of Iraqi government efforts to encourage the residents to leave.
The U.S. also doesn’t have the final say, as the Iraqi government assumed responsibility for all detainees on Jan. 1 under the terms of the Security Agreement.
The MeK once had the finest tank division in Iraq and harbored hopes of leading a resistance army back into Iran to topple the Tehran government. But it was disarmed in 2003 by Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, then of the 4th Infantry Division, who put U.S. guards on the gate.
By then, the MeK had many enemies in Iraq as well as in Iran.
Nabaz Rasheed Ahmed, 61, a commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in 1991, said MeK forces attacked his battalion in Chiman, Kirkuk province, in 1991.
"Mujahideen fighters who were backed by Iraqi army helicopters and tanks attacked my battalion in March 29, 1991. They killed many of my Peshmergas and wounded a lot, including me," he said.
The military architect of that uprising was Neywshirwan Mustafa, 64, who now is chairman of the powerful Kurdish media group Wusha Corporation. When told that the MeK denied helping Saddam in his crackdown on the Kurds, Mustafa said:
"That is not true. They were working in cooperation with the Iraqi Army…. They attacked many bases belonging to the PUK.
"They occupied the road from Kanar to Kirkuk. They occupied a hospital in Kanar. They killed a doctor and many other civilian people. Saddam Hussein was protecting them in Iraq".
Abdullah Safir, 59, a Kurdish English teacher who lives in Kifri, in Kirkuk Province, says he was there when the MeK mobilized against his town in 1991.
"I knew they were opponents of the Iranian regime at the time. I did not expect them to intimidate people in a country in which they were guests, and to interfere in internal issues."
Safir recalled how the MeK shelled Kurdish towns "at random," took locals hostage, and in one incident attacked a busload of young people from Kifri, killing all 20. He remembers seeing some of the bodies when they were brought home and said that one or two had been run over by MeK tanks.
Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group, which analyzes the causes of conflict, has also investigated the MeK’s role in Iraq.
"The MEK has yet to own up to its intimate relationship with the Saddam regime, which protected it and deployed it against its enemies when this served its purpose," Hiltermann said. "It thus acquired its reputation as the ruthless tool of a thuggish regime."
Shorsh Haji, a researcher on Kurdish issues who lives in the United Kingdom, escaped from Iraq after the 1991 uprising with many Iraqi secret police documents and worked with New York-based Human Rights Watch to analyze the content. He said the mukhabarat — a branch of Saddam’s intelligence service — wrote in their reports that the MeK "heroically resisted the rebels and traitors who wanted to occupy Kirkuk."
The intelligence the MeK had on Iran made them most useful to Saddam — and later, to the United States, Haji said. And that, he said, accounts for the protection the U.S. gave them at Camp Ashraf.
One MeK member told FOX News that the group gave the U.S. the names of "32,000 Iranian agents working inside Iraq." She also mentioned MeK’s purported role in revealing the extent of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, though subsequent reports support the view that Israel actually provided the information for the MeK to release.
Iraq has told the residents of Camp Ashraf that they must be gone by March of this year. It has promised they will not be forcibly repatriated to Iran, but it is not clear where else they could go.
Sources told FOX News that the Iranian government has a list of 50 "most wanted" MeK members, around 20 of whom are believed to live at the camp.
In recent years Iran has made much of a new policy of humanely "readmitting" former MeK members into Iranian society, with the help of a group of ex-members called the Nejat Society, which means "Rescue."
Behzad Saffari, legal adviser for the MeK, told FOX News: "Anyone who repents or remorses the past are welcomed by the Iranian regime and can be used against the MeK. They are a useful commodity. But anyone who goes back to Iran and still keeps the ideas of the MeK — they will be executed."
Approximately half of the residents of Camp Ashraf are under 30 years old, too young to have been part of the MeK’s fighting past.
But this may partly explain why the MeK has outlived its usefulness. A Western diplomat told FOX News: "There’s nothing we lose from Camp Ashraf except a huge headache and taxpayer dollars."
Qassim Khidhir Hamad contributed to this report
By Anita McNaught
MKO is an exiled cult-like organization that resorts to armed attacks to destabilize the government in Tehran.
The US State Department has declared that the official designation of Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group is appropriate.
In a notice published Monday in the Federal Register, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the MKO group should remain in its list of terrorist organizations.
The US announcement comes amid Iraqi government efforts to expel members of the terrorist group. Baghdad assumed control of the security of Camp Ashraf, the main MKO military base in Iraq’s Diyala province, on January 1, 2009.
The Mujahedin Khalq Organization is blacklisted by many countries, including EU member states and the United States as a terrorist organization. It relocated to Camp Ashraf from Iran after the Islamic Revolution.
Prior to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the MKO enjoyed the support of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain, who provided the group with arms and military equipment to launch attacks against the Islamic Republic during the Iraqi war against Iran (1980-88).
The Iraqi government says the MKO has played a significant role in destabilizing the war-torn country, blaming the group for terrorist attacks within Iraq.
The recent move provoked the group to file a petition in order to take the case to the court.”We will take the case to the court and we will win,” a Paris-based spokesman for the group, Shahin Gobadi, proclaimed.
The MKO has sought to have the group removed from the list of terrorist organizations, lobbying the European parliament and officials.
Baghdad urges the expulsion or relocation of the terrorist group, saying the MKO presence at Camp Ashraf may strain its diplomatic relations with Tehran.
In addition to terrorist attacks within Iran, which claimed the lives of 12,000 civilians, the MKO helped Saddam in suppressing Iraqi Kurds.
Naturally, for those who consider public opinion as the criterion for their legality or those who pretend as so in their propaganda, the legality of their struggle is due to the people’s support either direct or indirect.
It’s obvious that in societies where people can freely declare their idea the legality comes out of vote boxes but they don’t stop declaring their idea when the situation is not provided. The historical experience during all eras and in all nations has proved that if the people trust you, they declare their sympathy and support in any possible way. And, about this issue Lenin (if I’m not wrong) says:”while choking condition people vote with their feet.”
Therefore, if you are popular and if there is no way for declaration of public support, at least they whisper about you.
But there have been individuals and movements whose struggle against current regime has had no link to people’s opinion and their supposed legality came from their ideology and belief. Whenever the methodology of the ruling regime opposes their principals, that individual or movement needs to fight. Again if I’m not wrong ,Hassan Sabbah [the leader of Assassin cult who struggled against Arabic and Turkish occupiers of Iran] says:” the majority does not prove the legality”. here I want to protest against some of my dear friends who defected from Rajavi’s cult. Perhaps because of some apparent similarities between Hassan Sabbah’s group and a mercenary of Saddam or a low-ranking agent of foreigners [MKO], they compare them together. Even according to the confessions of the enemies of Hassan Sabbah, he was doubtlessly a great person looking for the independence of Iran from under the York of bondage of Caliphs of Bagdad and Turkish Seljukian.
At what I’m protesting is the proper “comparison”, since this comparison without regarding what its conclusion is, credits a servant whose serving role in two recent decades has been proven. So I have to say that: Hassan Sabbah whether rightly or wrongly ,”castrated” his followers in order to expel the foreigners but the servant “castrated “ in order to bring the foreigners and this is the substantial difference that no similarity can remove it.
Mujahedin does not fit any of the two parties (which both were in Iranian history) not the party that views legality as a fruit of majority and not the party of which the struggle is resulted by some principals based on an ideology and a doctrine.
MKO is neither Stalin nor Che guevara.
MKO is MKO. They are hypocrites since their main characteristic is working for foreigners so hard that they can’t seem to live without foreign support. Thus the main reason or factor that has made a hypocrite movement of them is their services to foreigners not for example their power seeking ambitions.
As I mentioned before, their propaganda claims that they have great support among people to deceive public thought and as they have always claimed “returning the right of governing to people is their main cause for struggle”.
The last time, one of the she-mercenaries of cult’s supreme leader, noted this case was yesterday.
The servant’s wife, as a deputy of him, declaring her satisfaction and appreciated the authorities for the ruling of British court based on removal of MKO from terror list, and also appreciating some parliamentarians (Lords or Commons) said that the terror label is an “injustice” against Iranian “people” and their ‘’resistance’’.
From the other side, she claimed that the principal solution for the West and Israel to achieve their strategic goals in the region and Iran is the removal of terrorist label from MKO.
The words of that low-ranking servant, makes this question in our minds that how it is possible that MKO is in terror list and this act is an “ injustice “ against Iranians but that nation not only protested this “injustice” but also they (about 70 million) didn’t say a word about it.
Can the Iranian Regime prevent people from whispering? if it is so , as the servant’s wife pretends, today that the court ruled that MKO is not terrorist ,we should witness the Iranians’ cheers of happiness because of the removal of the only obstacle in the way to freedom…not 70 millions people, should 7 million of them do that? How about 120 thousands people of 1.2 million Iranians living in the United States, I mean about 10 percent? How about 1 pecent, 12 thousand Iranians? Although the number is too small to show the attention of 70 million Iranians population for the destiny of “their” resistance, if even this small number in reality didn’t witnessed Aunt Maryam’s words we should ask that what kind of legal, just resistance it is that even a very tiny part of Iranian population pays no attention to its being or not being in terror list. The truth is that the majority of Iranians don’t know any thing about it.
Did the same nation remain un- informed when Mosadeq [the Iranian prime minister who nationalized Iranian Oil Industry during Pahlavi ‘s period] won the judgment in Den Haag Court?
Aren’t they the same people who declare their ideas and discuss President Bush or President Ahmadinejad’s speeches or Iranian Nuclear programs in their parties inside or outside Iran?
Why don’t the people discuss the denunciation made by MKO (spies!) as an “honorable” position taken by the ‘’righteous’’ resistance?
The Iranians talk about everything such as mark or type of toilet paper but not even a word about MKO and even if a person starts talking of MKO they will just insult it. So what kind of link is between a nation and an organized resistance with a forty-three year old history? It is a link that can only be seen by Rajavi.
But what is viewed by the others is that the resistance takes the signature of Western citizens using any kind of deceit and lie in order to solve Iranian problems!
If there was such a link, was it hard for the Iranians to show the world their support for their resistance?
Of course if there was really such a link and support, MKO wouldn’t need to lobby British court and parliaments and Iraqi cafés to look for support. The same nation could fund MKO thousands times as much as the money given to it by Western and Iraqi Intelligence Services. They could also dedicate their lives to MKO and Maryam.
Given, according to what MKO says there is a choking situation in Iran, how about abroad? Where are the people, who came to the streets in America and Europe while students’ uprisings in Iran in 1998, where are the people who called the TV and Radio stations and cried or shouted cheerfully …
Why don’t they come out for MKO?
Why don’t they show any sympathy for the disappearance of resistance leader?
But they actually have a feeling towards MKO and those who are like MKO, The feeling of hatred to a mercenary.
The Tude Party which was perhaps the biggest political socialist establishment in Iran during an especial period of time lost its base among people, because it didn’t engage to people. It is dead and it’s not important how late its dead body is wondering. MKO is the same as Tude. Their historical flight to Iraq graved a significant date on their tomb. Now, if not only 35 members of British parliament but also all members and all western countries including Israel (for whom the MKO is doing its best) gather together to shout hooray for MKO, the Iranians have no sympathy for them. If not only Fox News but also all American Israelis, Bengali… Medias publish propaganda for MKO, the Iranian people hate them. They can make no change in the hearts of Iranians who once gave their beloved children to MKO.
The people may forgive crime but they won’t forgive treason and betrayal.
Therefore whenever we witness that Iranians (at least a part of Iranians) have sympathy for MKO, then they can link their words to them…
But there is no more sympathy for MKO since wherever a nation had sadness Mujahedin cheered happily and wherever a nation had happiness they were sad. [After September 11th tragedy ,the mko terrorists shouted cheerfully in camp Ashraf! ]
While Saddam Hussein was killing and bombing Iraqi and Iranian people, MKO was cheering hooray and gathering intelligence for him.
Whenever they came to the streets cheering and dancing for their soccer team, MKO did its best writing letters for the removal of the team and prayed for the enemies of the team.
When the poor Iranians worry about financial sanctions MKO sends congratulations to those suffering people. When the people hear that the relations with western government are becoming normal and no war is on the way, they become happy while the MKO goes to a deep depression.
MKO is now polishing the boots of westerners instead of ruling over Iranians. They are so poor that if a retired sanitation worker from the west supports them, they put the news in three locations on their websites. None of these Lords, commons and courts equals the support of an Iranian Sanitation worker and if it was so the Mujahedin were not trying in vain.
Thus, when not only one person; only one person is ready to gather signatures for MKO or to come to the streets. Does MKO think that even after a war against Iran and after supposedly the removal of Islamic Regime, Iranians will welcome them?
Hamid Zartoshtnya
Translation: Nejat Society
“National Council of Resistance is a branch of Mujahedin-e-Khalq which is listed as a terrorist group in US and EU. Mujahedin were Saddam’s mercenary during the 1980s when they launched cross border attacks against Iran. NCR is proud of having denounced Iran clandestine nuclear facilities in Natans. Though, according to a report by the expertise journal Nuclear Fuel in December 2002, IAEA has already been completely aware of those facilities.”
Extracted from the report published in the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse” on 10/24/08, relating the press conference held by MKO, meanwhile the seasonal meetings of IAEA council.
Mujahedin-e-Khalq must believe that the world has achieved a unified description of them, having recorded them as terrorist, cultist, mercenary and spy. The MEK should pay the price of this changed description by their own nature and it is definitely obvious that the cults don’t shoot their own nature and the world has basically accepted that spying, warmongering and terrorism are rooted from the cult-like nature of MEK.
All treasons committed by Mujahedin take their roots from their cult-like practices. Which Iranian is willing to tie his fate with a criminal dictator like Saddam Hussein? Or is proud of submitting the nuclear information of his own country to foreigners? And shouts proudly that “we have denounced Iran!” all those are justified by a manipulated mind. This is a matter that is responded by psychology: the cults have no will.
“MEK has long been considered as the most important spying network in Iran but today they seem to have a very weak operational power. “
Figaro 10/26/2008
It is not an accident that everyone believes in MKO as spies and implicitly states that they are an ended movement. This is a reality that was proved following the fall of Saddam Hussein. But the MEK are trying to survive as long as possible by their false propaganda.
The armed struggle is not able to survive except by having the military equipments and support and especially the support and accompaniment of the public opinion. When an armed opposition loses such a support in the country, it has to look for it abroad.
As MKO was so eager to achieve the power in the political scene of Iran, it could not stay in Europe like the other Iranian dissident groups who are politically or socially fighting the Islamic Republic. The MEK stopped all its social and political activities in Europe in 1980s and sent the forces to Iraq to enjoy the Iran-Iraq war to expand its military power.
At the beginning the only common point of MKO and Saddam Hussein was their common enemy: Islamic Republic.
Iraq provided MEK with land, equipments and funds for their so-called National Liberation Army and in exchange the MEK were spying the Iranian forces’ intelligence for the Iraqi intelligence service.
Therefore the Iraqi government was using the MKO’s facilities to serve its own front.
The civil armed struggle was replaced by the front armed struggle because the civil struggles had been defeated in Iran and now MKO needed to depend on Saddam Hussein who was fighting Iran. If MKO had led its political struggles from Europe, France it would have not needed the support of a dictator and violator of Human Rights like Saddam Hussein.
The MEK had accepted the armed struggle by the side of Saddam Hussein, so they had to accept the presence of Iraqi specialists, military relationships, intelligence exchanged and cooperation in military operations …
To accept the war in the fronts where the invader enemy had started the war and bombarded and killed the innocent people, is more illegal and more anti-national than the civil war.
However after a while the Iraqi Intelligence Service suggested that MKO launch mortar attacks in the cities of Iran. Thus MKO mixed its armed struggle in the fronts with the partisan attacks in the cities and expanded the war in to the whole Iranian territory where a lot of innocent people were killed.
In the operations, the MKO members were under heavy pressure and stress because they knew that they were shooting their compatriots who were service-men or even civilians.
The people in the region also hated the MKO showing their hatred by not giving them any facility. In 1986, Masud Rajavi declared the end of civil partisan struggle officially announcing that:
” The macro-border war is replaced by the micro –civil war.”
Therefore they began to pay their debt to Saddam Hussein. They were so devoted to Saddam that sometimes the Iraqi Authorities assigned the terror objectives for MEK.
The important question, here is: How the anti-human dictator, Saddam Hussein, was so adopted with some pro-human freedom fighters?
The answer is their common ideology and idea and also activity. But how could the both side share the same ideology?
The answer should be analyzed psychologically: The idealist Iranian youth who were brainwashed, manipulated through a long indoctrination process, held the arms as their most excellent mean, camping among the anti-Iranian Baathists. How can they meet the demands of their own nation?
As soon as they picked up the arms, they got distanced from their own nation.
When they entered Iraq, they were completely separated from Iranians who viewed them as traitors since then.
When they attacked Iran, they were considered as the hostile mercenaries of Saddam Hussein.
Now that, their God father is overthrown, they are looking for another one, to hang on. This is the main characteristic of all opportunists who are hungry for the power.
Shiite leader takes up Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO), mass graves with human rights minister
BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (VOI) – The deputy head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), Ammar al-Hakeem, on Saturday discussed with Iraqi Human Rights Minister Wejdan Mikhaeel measures taken to deal with the issues of Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) and mass graves.
"Sayyid Ammar al-Hakeem on Saturday morning received Wejdan Mekhaeel, the human rights minister, at his office in Baghdad," according to a release issued by the SIIC as received by Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
"The two sides conferred on human rights issues, especially those related to the government measures taken to deal with the MKO file, in addition to the mass graves left by the former regime," it added.
The MKO, a group opposing the Iranian regime, has taken the Ashraf camp, (57 km) northeast of Baghdad, as a base since the 1980s, as the former Iraq regime cooperated with that organization during the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988).
The SIIC, itself formed in Iran in the 1980s under its older name the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), had a military wing (Badr Brigade) that fought side by side with the Iranian army against the Iraqi troops during that war.