Former top inspector of the Iraqi ministry of agriculture said the current troubles which oppressing powers like the Zionist regime are creating for the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a new thing and they have tried this since the beginning of the revolution.
Mohsen Mousavi made the remarks during a meeting of a delegation of Iraqi officials, scholars and university professors with Seyyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad Secretary General of Habilian Association in Mashhad.
Seyyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad started the meeting with a brief on the recent developments in the region and awakening of the Islamic nations.
Referring to the colonial role of western governments during the past decades, he said: “Whenever the front opposing oppressive powers has been comprised of governments that enjoy little or no support from their people, the result has been nothing but a total failure for them. But, where the nations have confronted the colonizers, success has been achieved and the enemy heavily defeated.”
Mr.Hasheminejad pointed out the close and historic relationship between the two Iranian and Iraqi nations and expressed: “The two nations have long been in contact so the enemies have tried to separate them. But we can see although the ties between them had been practically cut for 40 years, the two nations welcomed each other after the fall of Saddam’s Ba’ath regime.”
Habilian SG also pointed out the western governments’ aim, specifically the U.S. government’s, to create separations between the nations in the region including Iran and Iraq and said: “The U.S. needs mercenary terrorist groups such as the Mujahedin e-Khaql organization. When the U.S Army occupied Iraq, it lacked the knowledge on Iraqi tribes and groups, so the MEK which had long stayed in Iraq, was used by the U.S Army for terrorist operations and training other terrorist groups.
Appreciating Habilian Secretary General for his beneficial details on terrorist MEK and U.S. colonial plans in the region, Seyyed Saber al-Hosseini, the head of Iraqi center for strategic studies, highlighted some activities of his center and said: “The center for Strategic Studies of Iraq has executed very good plans to reveal MEK’s crimes inside and outside Iraq. These activities include Satellite TV programs and brochures in Iraqi universities. Mobilizing people and rallying towards MEK camps has been another activity we have done several times during the past recent years.
He reiterated: “The terrorist MEK had a major role in suppression of the honorable Iranian nation and also the Iraqi nation at the Sha’abanieh Intifada as the Saddam’s striking arm. “
The Iraqi scholar referred to the problems on the way to expel the MEK and said: “You are aware the Iraqi administration is not all united and this is the reason of some problems created. Some people are after returning Iraq to the Saddam era.”
In another part of his speech, Saber al-Hosseini said: “We hope Habilian Association has a good connection to the institutes working in Iraq on terrorism. The two nations’ martyrs have had common goals which could be the interface between the nations. About 250 thousand of the Iraqi people were martyred by Saddam regime because they didn’t take part in the war against Iran. This shows Iraqi people were not willing for this war to take place.”
Mohsen Mousavi, former top investigator of Iraqi ministry of agriculture, pointed out the victory of Iranian Islamic revolution led by Imam Khomeini and the struggles in the beginning of the revolution which shed light on the nature of different groups and also the efforts from oppressing powers including the Zionist regime against Islamic Republic and said: “The current troubles these powers are creating for the Islamic Republic of Iran is not a new thing and they have tried this since the beginning of the revolution. What has changed, is the direct presence of U.S. and Israel in the region. The result of this presence is that we can see numerous terrorist groups supported by western powers.
Referring to MEK’s status in Iraq he said: “The MEK is all surrounded and its activities are watched. They can’t do anything in Iraq, but unfortunately there are other political movements and parties in Iraq which are after destabilizing the country with the support of the U.S. and Israel. Financial support of these groups is continuous and not limited. Unfortunately, this is harmful for some popular political groups that are seeking new fields of activity. These terrorist acts hinder their activities.”
Former top investigator of Iraqi ministry of agriculture described the ties between the two nations as inseparable and said: “Naturally, these terrorist groups’ activities are an effort to cut the ties between the Islamic republic of Iran and government of Iraq. The U.S. failure in Iraq has been one of the reasons for harsh economic blockade against the Islamic Republic. “
At the end, Mousavi said: “Number of people killed after Saddam’s fall in Iraq is way more than number of the people killed before and even during the Saddam era. We hope a certain framework is created between us. Not only for the MEK threat, but also for opposing any common threats the both nations are facing in the region.”
At the end of the meeting, Seyyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad referred to the various aspects of MEK’s presence in the region and their destructive role and said: “Two issues must be addressed about the MEK. First of all they are still in the region and surrounded. But this is not all the problem. According to our Iraqi friends, there are several people in the Iraqi administration and Parliament who support them. Several Iraqi newspapers have taken money from them, so they also support the MEK. This is their destructive role. Unarmed MEK is far more dangerous than armed MEK.”
Hasheminejad continued: “The MEK is now seeking to destroy nations by highlighting their differences instead of just assassinating people. Anything leading to increment of tensions between the two countries is welcomed by them and this is the very destructive role of the MEK and one of the reasons why the U.S. is trying hard to keep them in Iraq. Another reason for the U.S. to try to keep the terrorist group in Iraq is to stop the MEK members from entering the United States. They are also well aware how dangerous these people can be.”
The MEK and the Iranian People
MEK and other anti-Revolutionary groups has launched attempts to wield their impact on the upcoming Presidential Elections in Iran, to be held in June 2013. Other groups inside Iran have shown their interest in elections, though.
According to this report, members of MEK, a terrorist group, entered Iran illegally and were doing sabotage and terrorists acts during the street uprisings in Iranian 2009 presidential elections. They launched an attempt to extend the riots.
Mujahedin-e-Khalq, also known as Monafeqin, have committed more than 19,157 murders of Iranian citizens since 1979. They also have killed 5 US militaries.
Iran Khabar Agency is one of the news agencies of the MEK terrorist group, which, during 2009 Iranian presidential elections, reported false stories about the elections with the objective of spoiling image of Iran in international scene.
This website has been active since recent few months and published reports about 2009 presidential elections provocative stuff about upcoming elections. In one such act, the terrorist group has contacted citizens in Tehran as polling institutes and made proactive questions as ‘ was 2009 presidential elections a fraud?’, or ‘ do you think that, if your favorite candidate is not elected, will you go to the streets and protest?’.
U.S. and Canada delisted the terrorist organization from their terrorist list despite their red pages of crime against more than 19,000 Iranians. This provides opportunity for MEK to act freely against Iranian government and people.
MEK is such a hated entity in the view of Iranians, that even Iranian opposition groups deny their relationship with MEK.
Another dimension of Rajavi’s anti- national relations
Muajhedin-e-Khalq Organization’s history is replete with treasonous acts.
Regarding various reports on the MKO’s relationship with Western intelligence bodies including CIA and Mossad, it is not surprising to figure out about the group’s deals with KGB almost at the same time it was harbored in Iraq where Saddam Hussein granted it logistical and financial support.
According to the archives of the Soviet State microfilm collection, the MKO leader hadn’t found Saddam Hussein’s support sufficient so he sought support from Russian Committee for State Security (KGB):
Reel 1.993, File 24
Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a response to a letter from M. Rajavi, leader of the Mujahedin [Holy Warriors] Organization of the Iranian People, to M. Gorbachev, and to a request submitted by the organization; two copies of instructions to the Soviet Embassy in Bulgaria to be delivered in ciphered form by the Committee for State Security (KGB); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; letter to Gorbachev from Rajavi (translated into Russian) and the original letter in Persian; statement with information about the collection of documents attached to the letter from Rajavi; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from F. Olfat, member of the Politburo of the Mujahedin Organization, and the original letter in Persian requesting that the TsK KPSS lend any amount of money (up to US$300,000,000) to the Mujahedin Organization; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Olfat, (translated into Russian) and the original letter in Persian requesting that the supporters of the Mujahedin Organization be allowed to cross the Soviet-Iranian border and be granted a temporary asylum in the Soviet Union 1985 December – 1986 February
Source : oac.cdlib.org
The only reason the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCR) is still on the planet is that the US needs them, a prominent Russian journalist said.
"I think they (MKO) took part in the events after election in 2009," Nadezhda Kevorkova said during a meeting with Habilian Association Secretary General Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad in Tehran.
According to the confessions made by those arrested in the 2009 post-presidential election protests in Iran, the MKO played a key role in those unrests.
Denying the MKO’s claim for bringing democracy to Iran, Kevorkova said her country considers the MKO members as nonexistent.
Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the group 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.
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 argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.
The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.
In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty which lies Northeast of the Baghdad International Airport.
Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.
“Some 1000 kilometers of shared borders between the two countries as well as deep rooted religious and historical ties are very important in the relations between the two sides,” Dr. Hassan Salman said in a meeting with Habilian Association Secretary-General.
Referring to the close ties between Iran and Iraq, he added that no group can affect the social relations between the two countries.
This group was supported by Iran’s enemies such as France and England after the Islamic Revolution,” Hasan Salman said, adding, “and a significant number of this group’s members in Iraq hold citizenship of the two countries.
“Saddam Hussein, without a shadow of a doubt, got the green light to support them militarily to keep Iran busy during the Iraqi-imposed war on Iran.”
Chairman of the board of trustees of the Iraq media network went on to accuse the United Nations of backing MKO, saying “the UN’s activities were at the behest of the US and for supporting the MKO.”
Salman underestimated the US delisting of MKO from its blacklist and said, “United States and some western countries decided to took this group off their terrorist lists, but we say this group is a terrorist group even if the US, France, and west think otherwise.”
“We do have problems with this group; hence they must be expelled from Iraq.” “If the Western countries believe these are not terrorists, take them in their lands, especially because most of them hold western citizenship.”
“The western countries will probably use MKO in both security and political aspects in the upcoming presidential election in Iran, just like the last election,” underscored the Iraqi political analyst.
Finally, Hasan Salman said the incentive behind some Iraqi politicians’ support for MKO is not the group itself, but they support this group because of their anti-Iranian intentions.
The US and its European allies are responsible for MKO’s current state of living in limbo
In his briefing of November 29 to the Security Council, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Mr. Martin Kobler, stated: “I should like to take this opportunity to reiterate the Secretary-General’s appeal to Member States to offer resettlement opportunities to former residents of Camp Ashraf. Without such an undertaking, there can be no sustainable solution for the residents.”
The statement is clearly taken to imply that, despite unconfirmed rumors, no country has so far announced readiness to accept the members of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR) as refugees. The unanimous reluctance to receive MKO is in fact a negative response to the call for a durable and workable solution to the issue of residents’ resettlement. Although it has led the process to a standstill, at the first look it seems it is MKO that benefits the situation most of all as it never intended to leave Iraq and is doing its best, through a widespread propaganda, to grab at a chance of turning the transitory camp into a permanent camp of refugees. The consequence, however, might lead to a serious crisis hard to handle since the Iraqi government is decisive to banish the group. But the basic question that goes unanswered is why countries resist letting MKO on their soil?
For sure, there are sound reasons behind this universal unwillingness. A first group of these countries, including the US and European countries, make sure to keep in with MKO while withdraw to offer any refugee opportunities to have them on their soil. It is simplistic to think that their refusal is just for considering MKO a security threat, a fact that they never deny. But for a number of political justifications, these countries prefer to convince, and if possible force, the Iraqi government prolong group’s stay there. Having the military option still on the table, the US and its allies look at the group as a multi-purpose tool against Iran as used in Saddam’s era. However, MKO has already proved to be a working instrument where other imposed political solutions fail to work; MKO may play the role of one of many sticks for these countries’ resort to the policy of carrot-and-stick when engaging in talks to resolve Iran nuclear issue. The removal of MKO from the terrorist list by these countries has been in line with the same policy; for the designation of foreign terrorist organizations and their removal have become a highly politicized exercise in which some groups are just designated to be used as political approaches. In fact, there is really no change in the nature of the relations between MKO and these Western countries before and after its designation.
A second group of countries are concerned about the political consequences of letting MKO on their soil. Before allowing MKO as refugees, these countries should consider the advantages and disadvantages as there would possibly be a darkened and even a suspended diplomatic relation with the Islamic Republic. Of course, for a country like Israel it makes no difference but no doubt, it has to pay big prices for a direct and open alliance with the notorious group it has long tried to deny any collaboration. However, these countries political prescription for MKO is not different from the first group; MKO continue its living-in-limbo style residence in Iraq for the present.
The temporary accommodation is typically secure, suitable and affordable for MKO under the supervision and monitoring of the UN both for the relocation and the situation in the temporary camp around the clock. The UNHCR has a team at the camp to carry out the verifications for refugee status, a futile attempt so far since no third country has offered a suggestion. Within its set framework of responsibility, UN can do nothing beyond urging the Iraqi government to tolerate the current situation to find the “sustainable solution for the residents”.
The fact is that neither the UN nor its Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Iraq anticipated such a stalemate in the issue of MKO and Ashraf residents. At first presumed to be a decisive solution to resettlement of residents in third countries, the relocation remains a difficult challenge itself. No effort will be productive to tackle with the challenge unless the US and its European allies make a small change in their political perspective for humanitarian causes.
A defected member of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) disclosed the cult-like group’s horrendous crimes against the Iranian nation, and said Iranians will never forgive the MKO.
"Rajavi (the ringleader of the MKO) killed a large number of Iranian people as well as the MKO members through deception and temptation," Ghorbanabli Hosseinnejad, a highly trusted veteran member of the MKO and the confided interpreter of MKO ringleader Massoud Rajavi in talks with Iraqi government officials during Saddam’s era, told FNA on Monday.
Asked if he thinks that the Iranian people will forgive the MKO ringleaders and members, he said, "I never think so. Rajavi’s blow at the Iranian people after the (Islamic) Revolution (1979) is not forgivable."
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 grouplet 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.
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 argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.
The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.
In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty which lies Northeast of the Baghdad International Airport.
Camp Liberty is a transient settlement facility and a last station for the MKO in Iraq.
In the new P.R. show of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization(the MKO), the self- appointed president of the National Council of Resistance ,Maryam Rajavi on Wednesday 5 December, launched a campaign to have France and the European Union grant it the same recognition they have accord to the Syrian coalition battling to overthrow Bashar al-Asad, AFP reported.[1]
AFP quotes from Rajavi as saying that “The West’s biggest error has been to ignore the key movement for change in Iran,” referring to her so-called “resistance” which is the political arm of the cult-like Mujahedin khalq group.
The wife of the disappeared leader of the MKO, addressed a group of 10 French deputies at France’s National Assembly. France government has no official contact with the group, although the MKO’s propaganda base is located in the suburb of Paris.
Rajavi claim that “only solution in Iran is a change of regime by the Iranian people”. She asked France and the European countries to “remove obstacles on the path of the resistance" and to support ”a democratic change in Iran.” This way, she introduces her cult as the alternative of the Iranian government. During the meeting, former US congressman, Patrick Kennedy –definitely well funded by the MKO’s propaganda – told the conference that Maryam Rajavi “seeks to bring democracy and human rights to her country,” reported Reuters.[2]
Maryam Rajavi to bring democracy and human rights?!
Actually, the "cult of Rajavi" is described by the State Department as “fundamentally undemocratic “and “not a viable alternative to the current government of Iran”.[3]
“Internally the Mujahedin run their organization autocratically, suppressing dissent and eschewing tolerance of differing viewpoints,” the DOS report said.
Massoud Rajavi, the disappeared ideological leader of the MKO ” has fostered a cult of personality around himself,” according to the DOS report.[4]
As AFP reports, the MKO seeks Syrian style recognition. France as the Western power to recognize Syria’s opposition coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people. [5]
One thing is sure! The MKO does not represent the Iranian people. Rajavi suggests “a change of regime by the Iranian people “. What does she mean by the “Iranian people” who would support her “resistance”?
Jeremiah Goulka, is an American expert on the MKO. He is one of the authors of the famous RAND report on the group. Goulka explains how the MKO lost its support among Iranian public: "Once upon a time, the MEK did enjoy some measure of popular support in Iran. But after getting shoved aside by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s party after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the MEK spent the next two decades launching terrorist attacks against the new regime and its military, harming bystanders in several instances. The MEK joined sides with Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), moving to camps in Iraq in 1986 and fighting against Iranian conscripts. Frustrated that Saddam failed to install it in power in Tehran by the end of the war, the MEK attempted its own invasion of Iran (using more of Saddam Hussein’s military munificence), resulting in the death of thousands of its members. These acts destroyed the MEK’s credibility among Iranians. Trapped in the Iraqi desert, the group’s leaders transformed the MEK into a cult after the failed invasion—engaging in such practices as mandated divorce and celibacy, sleep deprivation, public shaming, separation of families, and information control—and continued its terrorist attacks in Iran. “[6]
Jason Rezaian a Foreign Policy correspondent who has a ten- year experience of traveling to Iran and writing about it for a mostly American audience points out how the MKO leaders are detached from the reality of the Iranian society,” for many people in Iran, though, especially those who remember the early years after the 1979 revolution, the MEK has come to represent an evil much more toxic that the American view of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda”, he writes.[7]
The deep antipathy among the Iranian population against the MKO has even led many of previous sympathizers of the group to hide or deny their past links with it. Being extremely unpopular in Iran, the MKO’s dream for regime change in Iran can never be peaceful as its leaders claim. “The MEK may deny wanting violent regime change, but the only conceivable way it would become the next government in Tehran would be at the head of a US invasion force,” Jeremia Goulka suggests.[8]
The words of Maryam Rajavi addressing French deputies are helpful to testify how much the MKO leaders are mastered in their puffed-up propaganda campaign. The world community should know that they are never “representatives” of Iranian people but definitely enemies of them.
By Mazda Parsi
References:
[1] AFP, Iranian opposition seeks Syria-Style recognition, December 5, 2012
[2] Reuters, Iranian dissidents and French lawmakers urge new policy on Iran, December 5, 2012
[3] Engel, Richard Windrom, Robert, Israel trams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, US officials tell NBC News, NBC News, February 9, 2012
[4]ibid
[5] AFP, Iranian opposition seeks Syria-style recognition, December 5, 2012
[6]Goulka, Jeremiah, The cult of MEK, The American Prospect, July18, 2012
[7]Rezaian, Jason, Washington’s dangerous (and deluded) support for the MEK, Foreign Policy, March1, 2011
[8]Goulka, Jeremia, The cult of MEK, The American Prospect, July18, 2012
A renowned political analyst and a former U.S. Marine veteran during Vietnam War describes the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI) as an “Israeli front organization.”
“It is my belief that they cannot be rehabilitated to the point of being an honest player in the region as they are directly supplied, paid and motivated by intelligence agencies,” said Gordon Duff on Saturday in an interview with Habilian Association, adding that he is very familiar with MEK ops against Iran and their “long partnership with the Mossad, MI-6 and the CIA.”
Earlier in February, two anonymous “senior U.S. officials” confirmed to NBC news that Israel’s Mossad armed, funded and trained MEK terrorists.
In a parallel report in April, The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh published a piece titled “Our Men In Iran?” suggesting that the U.S. military forces “conducted training, beginning in 2005, for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq” at a secret government site in Nevada.
Hersh noted that the MEK’s ties with Western intelligence agencies “deepened after the fall of the Iraqi regime in 2003.”
The terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has no popular base inside Iran even among the opponents of the Islamic Republic, which try to keep their distance with it, a new report says.
According to the report published by the Italian website www.diruz.it, the group is responsible for terrorist operations inside Iran during 1980s.
Members of the MKO, who had murdered over 17,000 Iranians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, fled to the neighboring Iraq in 1980s, where they received military training from the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala near the Iranian border.
During Iran’s eight years of Holy Defense against Iraq’s invasion of the country, the MKO terrorists sided with Saddam, who was armed by Western states especially the United States, with chemical and other weapons of mass destruction, against the Iranian people.
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Camp Ashraf was demilitarized and nearly 3,500 MKO members became unwanted guests of the new Iraqi government.
There is also substantial evidence that the terror group was involved in the suppression of Iraqi Kurds and assisted Saddam Hussein in Halabja massacre on March 16, 1988, when at least 5,000 Kurds were killed by the former dictator with chemical weapons, the report added.
Another 7,000 were injured, crippled, or suffered long-term health problems due to Halabja poison gas attack.
This is while on September 21, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the Congress a classified communication about delisting the MKO from US terror watch list.
The group, which was described by the US State Department as a "foreign terrorist organization” for the past 15 years, was formally removed from Washington’s list of terror organizations one week after Clinton’s communication.