… The organisers of this picket say that there are a large number of their children inside the camp but the leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation do not let them meet their families. The families emphasised that they have no choice except to sit in front of the gates of the camp until they are given access to their loved ones …
The MEK has a long record of carrying out violent attacks inside Iran. During the period leading up to the 1979 revolution, the group proudly murdered U.S. military officers and civilians working in Iran…More recently, MEK operatives inside Iran have carried out hit-and-run terrorist attacks on regime officials and have planted bombs in urban areas that have randomly killed civilians. The MEK and its supporters call these attacks acts of”resistance”against the regime…
…The conference, attended by people from Europe and North America, produced a statement stressing that more must be done to challenge the stalemate at the camp where 3400 people are imprisoned by cult leaders. The statement also forms the basis of a cooperative working document for the next year between the Camp Ashraf families and the conference delegates …
The British Foreign Office Thursday denied any links with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist organisation despite removing the anti-Iran group from its proscribed list two years ago. “The British Government has no form of contact with this organization, as a point of principle,” Foreign Office spokesman Barry Marston said
Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested members of an exiled opposition group who had planned terrorist attacks in Tehran on the first anniversary of a disputed presidential election, state television reported. The report said members of the Mujahideen Khalq Organisation (MKO/MEK/PMOI) were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry before they could detonate bombs in”a few squares in Tehran”.
… The United States of America… asked for American citizens to visit their children who were arrested inside Iran on charges of illegal entry, and Iran allowed them to do so. The U.S. is called upon today to take a humanistic counterpart to the situation of Iran and to get the Mojahedin organization to lift the injustice against those who are detained inside the garrison and let their families and meet with them. But, how far is the one situation from the other? …
… Iraqi officials could not immediately be reached for comment. In the past, the government has said the exiles will not be forcibly returned to Iran, where the Islamic leadership considers the People’s Mujahedeen, or MEK/PMOI/MKO, an enemy of the state…The U.S. military will relinquish control of a base near a compound housing an Iranian opposition group next month
… The National Security Adviser said that the organization”has, in the recent parliamentary elections, provided a European Member of Parliament with misrepresentations on the issue of fraud in the elections in Iraq..Al-Sheik said,”The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] working in Iraq under the guise of a number of organizations is deceptive,…
… this is not the first time the organization releases such declarations. Any attempt by this organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] to thaw relations with Kurds will be overlooked for they do not enjoy the blessing of Kurds”, Asasard argued, explaining “Because in suppressing the Kurdish uprising, this organization supported the fallen Baathists regime. This statement cannot wash away their stained vision in the memory of the Kurdish people” …
Sadrist movement in the Iraqi province Diyala called the MKO terrorist group and al-Qaeda responsible for the for the last two months insecurity in the town of Khalis and urged citizens to cooperate with Iraqi security forces for the establishment of security and peace in the region. ..The Sadrist movement representative in Diyala province also said: “A security conference was recently held in Diyali ..