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Protests in Tehran against EU

Nejat SocietyJanuary 27, 2009072 views

Hundreds of Iranian students, pupils and families of veterans of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) staged a protest gathering in Tehran Sunday against the decision by European Union foreign ministers to remove the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) from their list of terrorist organizations. The crowd first gathered in front of the French embassy in Tehran and shouted slogans against France and the EU for their intention to approve the decision in favour of the PMOI at a meeting Monday in Brussels.

A Different Definition of Human Rights

Nejat SocietyJanuary 27, 2009083 views

… They have to explain for the public opinion that how is that some of their allies sent forces to Iraq to confront terrorism but discuss to exonerate a terrorist group settled there of the charges for which the Iraqi government is determined to expel them. Whose rights are really being violated; the victims or the victimizers? Who knows, maybe they have developed a different version of defining human rights! …

Envoy Underlines MKO’s Terrorist Nature

Nejat SocietyJanuary 27, 2009052 views

Referring to the Iraqi government’s decision to expel MKO/PMOI/MEK members from the country, he stressed,”As the Iraqi government officially stated, misled and repentant members of the group could return to Iran or go to another country.”Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq Al-Rubaie said here in Tehran on Wednesday that the MKO will be expelled from Iraq in the near future. Rubaie had also earlier said that his country is determined to implement its decision for closing the MKO headquarters in Diyala province.

Iran devising plan to try Mojahedin Khalq members

Nejat SocietyJanuary 27, 2009076 views

Iran is mulling over a plan to take terrorist MKO/ PMOI members to court following the European Union’s decision to lift a ban on the group. Iranian lawmakers are devising a plan to try the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK) members who have taken an active part in terrorist activities against the country.

PMOI terror cult a much bigger threat to Eu than al-Qaeda

Nejat SocietyJanuary 25, 2009095 views

The MKO cult is notorious for committing countless atrocities in Iran and Iraq. In Iran alone, their terrorist attacks have claimed over 12,000 deaths and in Iraq, as well as committing war crimes against the Kurds under the Saddam Hussein regime,..This is why America, Canada and the EU have previously refused to remove the MKO from their terror lists, and as recently as the 12 of this month, Condoleezza Rice announced that the MKO group would remain on the US terror list. So why the change in the EU position now?

MKO with blood on their hands to be tried

Nejat SocietyJanuary 25, 2009081 views

Iraq plans to extradite members of an anti-Iran terrorist group who have “Iranian blood on their hands,” Iraq’s national security adviser said Friday..“Some 914 of them have dual nationalities and others who want to return to Iran will be allowed to do so,” Rubaie said, adding he would discuss the issue with officials from 12 countries to see if they would accept MKO members.“They will leave Iraq in a non-forcible way,” he said. “Terrorist groups have no place in Iraq.”

Iraq to close MKO camp in two months

Nejat SocietyJanuary 24, 2009063 views

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/PMOI) 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.

MKO’s expired role for the West

Nejat SocietyJanuary 17, 20090114 views

Ms. McNaught has based her documented report on evidences made by Iraqi Kurds who were victims of MKO’s atrocities while their cooperation with regime of Saddam Hussein to suppress Kurdish uprisings. Although, as McNaught reports “MKO denies involvement in the repression”, she cites the testimonies of Kurds including a Kurd military commander of Pishmerga who lost many forces of his battalion that was attacked by MKO, and a Kurdish researcher assured her that he has handed many secret documents of Baath Intelligence Service to Human Rights Watch; the documents show that MKO helped the Ba’ath forces to occupy Kirkuk province to resist Kurdish forces.

Removal from EU Terrorism List

Nejat SocietyJanuary 15, 20090116 views

The State Department has again decided to keep the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO/PMOI/MEK) with all its aliases on the US terrorism list. There are a growing number of people who are calling for the US to have done with the group once and for all. Commentators on several blogs and articles suggest the leaders be ‘tried in internationally approved courts and let the membership go home.’ But this ignores the heavy price that has been paid for the group both politically (Iran has constantly accused the US and Europe of double standards on terrorism for their palpable support for the MKO) and financially

Who cares about the MKO?

Nejat SocietyJanuary 15, 2009057 views

The non-Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK), 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. ..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.