Ms. Batoul Soltani former member of the leadership Council of People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI, MKO, MEK) was released after two decades of being captive in the cult of Rajavi …during those years she lost her kids and her warm family center. The life of Ms. Batoul Soltani is mostly like a tragic drama that seems like an incredible fate. She is now stepping in a way to rejoin her missing husband and children.
The Third View On MKO – The First Four Month of 2009
Charges filed against Iranian dissidents for supporting a terrorist group based in Iraq are complicated by alleged U.S. military cooperation with that group. The U.S. Justice Department accepted guilty pleas Wednesday from six men and one woman for collecting funds for the People’s Mujahedin of Iran[PMOI/MKO/MEK], a group listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization.
Members of a group that for the last few years has sought donations from travelers at LAX on behalf of what they said was an Iraqi-based charity pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization[PMOI/MKO/MEK/NCR]. In a plea agreement that came just as a jury was being selected for trial, the seven defendants each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and one count of actually providing material support to the group.
UK Parliament:Residents of the camp are free to leave at any time if they demonstrate they have the appropriate travel documentation and finance to leave the camp and take up residence either in Iran or in a third country. Voluntary repatriations to Iran have previously taken place and, we understand, without the returnees concerned being ill treated. Such reparations will continue for those who wish to do this. There is no evidence to suggest forced relocation of the residents in Iraq or elsewhere will take place.
..The Mojahedin-e Khalq (also known as MEK inside Iran) means People’s Advocates, yet more than 90% of their intended targets and almost 95% of their casualties have been Iranian civilians. ..Once the NCR started campaigning for money and influence in Washington for assistance against the Iranian Islamic government, the U.S. politicians and the Israeli lobbyist ignored their origins and their past activities against American civilians…
The Iraqi government is stepping up efforts to pressure Iranian exiles into leaving the country, pushing an obscure group to the forefront of Baghdad’s relations with Washington and the Obama administration’s overtures to Iran..The Iraqi government says 261 residents were returned to Iran over the last two years and reported no persecution..To outsiders, the MEK/PMOI/MKO may seem a strange cult-like group that bans sex and family life. But both the U.S. and Iran consider it a terrorist organization.
Most of the time there’s nobody outside Camp Ashraf to hear the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), ..the Iraqi government has made it clear it’s withdrawing the welcome mat extended to the MEK/PMOI/MKO by Saddam Hussein,.. in recent years the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has helped more than 250 members enter Iran from across the Iranian border..former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information.
Informed sources familiar with the Gulf, said that about 100 of the elements of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization, working in the UAE to spy on the Iranian community, including members of the Iranian embassy, merchants, workers and tourists. .the MKO/PMOI/MEK members’ presence in UAE has been coordinated by the cooperation of the UAE security forces and American forces.
Jane Arraf reported her visit including interviews with some Ashraf Residents. In her report she describes the isolated brainwashed members of Rajavi’s cult who allegedly “have left family life behind”. . Marriage here is forbidden. There have been no children for years..”They have to understand that the party is over for them,”Mr. Rubaie told journalists recently, ..”They need to understand that they have to leave. This is not [the era of] Saddam Hussein using them against Iran. We will never use them against Iran.”…