“The Istekhbarat (security) service of Iraq always considered the MKO as one of its subordinate units and a subdivision of Istekhbarat and was present in all high-level meetings of the MKO/MEK/PMOI as the dominating side,”Hosseinnejad said.
Iraq’s Ambassador to Algeria said that his country is no longer willing to tolerate MKO aka MEK/PMOI on its soil, adding that the main reason of that is “their cooperation with Baathist forces to repress 1991 Iraqi Intifada.”The 1991 revolts in the Kurdish north and the Shia south were a series of anti-Saddam rebellions in southern and northern Iraq crushed by Saddam’s private army (MKO) and Baathist forces.
There are many misconceptions about the MEK/MKO/PMOI so I checked in with several Iranian born experts on Iran. All of them are distressed that American politicians are advocating for the MEK. They also doubt that the money paid to the politicos comes from the Iranian Diaspora because most expatriate Iranians do no support the MEK.. a Washington political consultant, said,”The MEK is a terrorist group. It is a cult of religious automatons. ..
In a recent statement, Iraqi tribes in the southern city of Basra called on Baghdad to bring to justice those MKO /MEK/PMOI members that aided and abetted former dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime to ruthlessly crush the anti-government uprising in southern and northern Iraq in 1991 during the aftermath of the so-called Persian Gulf war I, when US troops occupied Kuwait and Iraq in efforts to fight off Iraq’s attempt
One important issue that should be noticed is about the organizations funds and expenses of which I obtained some films and documents of former Baath intelligence service…One of the most important financial resources of the organization was “information selling”. This is done by a large spying network which is working under the supervision of the MKO. It sells the extensive intelligence it gains from all over the world to countries willing to have them.
“This cult accompanied the executed Iraqi criminal (Saddam) in all his policies and did everything to put Saddam’s orders in action,”Chalabi said..He said Saddam and his regime extended all-out support to the MKO/MEK/PMOI.”For instance, they were bribed with $60mln payments that they received from Saddam each month.”He noted that he has already cautioned Iraq’s political and religious leaders…
Iraq’s Finance Minister Baqir al-Zubaidi says the ‘criminal leaders’ of the Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) terrorist group must be put on trial before being expelled from the country.Iraqi people would never forget “the bitter memory of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, especially a large number of Kurds from north, during the 1991 uprising (Intifada),” al-Zubaidi said on Tuesday.
According to a report published by the Kuwaiti Al-Dar daily, the MKO/MEK/PMOI members had all-out cooperation with Saddam forces and were in massive intelligence coordination with former Iraqi regimes’ military and security authorities during the occupation of Kuwait.The MKO members had also participated in checkpoint operations and interrogated Kuwaiti citizens..The daily said that MKO’s main elements were stationed at a hotel near Hawalli square ..
… Mr Nafee-Issa said that”the Committee is working to collect a large number of facts that show the crimes of this organization and what caused the killings of civilians in Iraq since 1986 till 2003.”He added that”organized crime continued after 2003 as a result of political interference in the affairs of Iraq by creating sectarian strife.. Camp Ashraf, or as it is now known camp New Iraq, houses thousands of Iranian fighters of the MKO/MEK/PMOI …
In a conference in Tikrit in northwest of Baghdad, attended by a number of local officials, tribal leaders, the Iraqis called on the government to put pressure on the organization to leave the country as early as possible. The participants called the presence of the MKO aka MEK/PMOI camp on Iraq soil unconstitutional stressing that the crimes against the Iraqi people by the MKO members are unforgettable.Many here in this conference are of the opinion that Iraq will never see stability as long as MKO members are in the country.