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In Geneva,Iran slammed west for lecturer assassination by MKO

Today in Geneva,Iran slammed west for lecturer assassination by backed Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) Terrorists
 

The secretary of IRI’s Supreme National Security Council has condemned the West and G5+1 for the terrorist attack which led to martyrdom of an Iranian lecturer.

"Last week on the same day terrorists targeted two Iranian scientists and one of them was martyred," Jalili said.

"Iranian nation has been the biggest victim of terrorism," Jalili said.

"Iran has lost 1,300 of its citizens because of the terrorist attacks of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who are supported by the west," he added.

"Now the same trend is being repeated," the secretary of the SNSC said.

Jalili and EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton opened the talks between Iran and the G5+1 — Britain, China, France, Russia, and America plus Germany — in Geneva on Monday.

Dialogue between Iran and the G5+1 has been stalled since October 1, 2009, when the two sides met in Geneva.

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West; safe haven for terrorist Mojahedin Khalq

They kill women and children in the name of war on terror but their capitals are safe havens for terrorist Mojhedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)

‘UN rights papers ignores cultures’
UN documents on human rights have been written with complete disregard for cultures other than the West, Iran’s human rights Chief Mohammad-Javad Larijani says.
“The United Nations is supposed to be home to all the nations, not just the home of the United States and England,” Larijani was quoted by IRIB News as saying on Sunday.
“Human rights documents largely overlook other cultures particularly the Islamic culture, we have to fully compensate [for this],” the top adviser to the leader of the Islamic Revolution added.

“Today those [countries] that have gone to war to thwart terrorism, have risen against nations, killing women, men and innocent children in the name of their war on terrorism,” Larijani continued.

“Their capitals have turned into safe havens for terrorists,” he said.

Larijani was referring to the European Parliament playing host to the notorious leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), Maryam Rajavi, on the first day of December and only two days after the assassination of a nuclear scientist in Iran.

The MKO terrorists were voted off the EU list of terror organizations, following a European court ruling in favor of the group.

The “Rajavi cult” as they have become to be known, has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks against Iranian and Iraqi civilians and cooperated actively with the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

In one of their deadliest attacks, the MKO carried out a 1981 bombing that killed Iranian Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti and 71 other senior officials.

Among their most recent terror activities is the 1999 assassination of the chief-of-staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Ali Sayad Shirazi, just outside his house in the early hours of April 10th, as he was preparing to leave for work.

MKO is notorious for the cult like tactics it uses against its members, and the murder and torture of its defectors.

Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts on its own members and the luring recruitment methods it employs.

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Iranian Families urged the Iraqi government to expel MKO

The blind assassination of Iranian professors and scientists can never hinder Iran’s progress and development, family members and relatives of Iran’s assassinated martyrs underlined in a statement on Saturday.

In their statement, the relatives and family members of the Iranian victims of terrorism condemned the assassination of two Iranian university professors, namely Fereydoon Abbasi Davani and Majid Shahriari, in Tehran on Monday, and urged the country’s officials to arrest and punish all those in charge of the recent terrorist attacks.

"Despite all barriers and inefficient sanctions and failed resolutions, the path of progress paved by the honorable Iranian nation towards its exalted goals and scientific triumphs is witnessing growing success everyday.

"After all enemies’ plans and plots against the Iranian nation failed, the world arrogant powers started assassinating Iran’s nuclear scientists as a new objective and tactic to harm the Iranian nation’s success, but they ignored the fact that it is now several years that these worn-out and extinct methods failed to push back the will of the Iranian nation," the statement added.

Elsewhere, the statement stressed that Iran has been a flag-bearer in the campaign against terrorism as it has been the target of numerous terrorist attacks since the onset of the Islamic Revolution, reminding that 16,000 Iranian people and officials have been assassinated in the post-revolution Iran.

"Only 12,000 of these martyrs have been assassinated by the terrorist Hypocrites (the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization)," the statement said, reminding the terrorist nature of the MKO.
It further lambasted the western countries for supporting the terrorist group, but meantime stated that all political figures and researchers are informed that the MKO is not a self-centered organization with an independent will, and it rather is supported by the western countries.

The statement reminded the role of the MKO in the recent assassinations, and urged the Iraqi government to immediately expel the group from its soil.
The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the main training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) North of Baghdad – last year and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

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).

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.

Leaders of the group have been fighting to shed its terrorist tag after a series of bloody anti-western attacks in the 1970s, and nearly 30 years of violent struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In recent months, high-ranking MKO members have been lobbying governments around the world in the hope of acknowledgement as a legitimate opposition group.
The UK initiative, however, prompted the European Union to establish relations with the exiled organization now based in Paris. The European Court of First Instance threw its weight behind the MKO last December and annulled its previous decision to freeze its funds.

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 also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

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Iran Arrests Mojahedin Khalq Terror team

Assassins of Nuclear scientists will be brought to justice

A number of people involved in the recent attacks on two nuclear scientists in Tehran have been arrested, Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi announced in Qom on Friday.

On Monday, two prominent physicists were targeted by terrorists in two separate bombings. Professor Majid Shahriari was killed and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi Davani was injured in the attacks. The two academics were both on their way to work at Shahid Beheshti University in northern Tehran when they were attacked. The police say that in both incidents, terrorists riding motorcycles attached magnetic bombs to the physicists’ cars.

The attacks came ahead of the talks between Iran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany), which will be held in Geneva from December 6 to 7.

Moslehi stated that the Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 were involved in the terrorist incidents.

“Those who were cooperating with these agencies… had more plans, but they were stopped,” he added.

“Through the arrest of these people, we have found new clues to arrest the others behind the incidents,” Moslehi stated, but did not mention the number of people taken into custody.

“The enemy should be aware that they will get nowhere with these actions,” he noted.
80 anti-Iran organizations based in U.S.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Moslehi said that 80 organizations that are seeking to overthrow the Islamic establishment of Iran are based in the United States.
It is estimated that $2 billion is allocated to these organizations annually, he stated.

The intelligence minister added, “The enemy has a long-term plan in the area of soft war and has spent over $17.7 billion in order to topple the sacred establishment of the Islamic Republic over the past 19 years.”

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Iran families censure EU for MKO support

The families of the victims of the latest terrorist incidents in Iran have strongly criticized the European Parliament for its support for an anti-Iranian terrorist group, according to a recent report.

A scene of one of the terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on November 29

In a letter to the European Parliament, relatives of the victims of two terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on Monday criticized some European governments and international organizations for their stances on terrorism, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.

The families say the double standard applied by certain European countries toward terrorist groups like the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is a major cause of such inhumane activities.

Last week, the European Parliament issued a declaration urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Terrorists detonated bombs attached to the vehicles of Dr. Majid Shahriari and Professor Fereydoun Abbasi at separate locations on Monday morning between 7 and 8 a.m. local time as they were headed to work at Shahid Beheshti University.

Shahriari was martyred immediately, but professor Abbasi and his wife only sustained injuries and were transferred to a hospital.

Tehran Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said a motorcycle approached Shahriari’s car and attached a bomb to the vehicle that exploded a few seconds later.

In a separate incident, terrorists attached another bomb to Abbasi’s car and escaped, he added.
He explained that the professor and his wife were injured in the attack but are not in critical condition.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has also condemned the terrorist attack, saying the culprits are linked to Israel.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.

Apparently emboldened by the EU, MKO members openly boast about the deadly acts of violence they have committed against Iranian civilians and government officials.

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EU support for MKO terrorists backfires across the world

Following the EU call for the US to remove the MKO from its terror list, an Iranian lawmaker says the West is taking political advantage of the terrorist group.

The European Parliament issued a declaration on Thursday, urging Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization from its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

The European Union took the MKO off its blacklist in 2009.

"The people of the world have been once again faced with Europe’s double standards on terrorism and have realized the reality of the West’s approach towards terrorism," member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh said on Saturday.

The MKO has no place among the Iranian people, who will never forget the terrorist group’s cooperation with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the Iranian lawmaker added.

"The US and the European Union seek to use the tools that increase pressure on the Islamic Republic… but they do not know that such pressure has a reverse effect and the country’s establishment will become more united," Mehr News Agency quoted Falahatpisheh as saying.

Falahatpisheh said such actions increased Iran’s bargaining capability in the international arena, adding that removing the MKO from the list of global terrorist organizations reveals the double standards adopted by the US and EU to the world.

The MKO terrorist group, which has been on the US terror list since 1997, filed a petition against the blacklisting in 2008.

The administration of former US president George W. Bush rejected the request in its final days in 2009, after examining material submitted by the group and US intelligence agencies, including classified information.

In July, a US federal appeals court ordered the US State Department to reconsider its decision.
The State Department said it would study the decision but added that the US government continues to view the group as a terrorist organization.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

The organization is also known to have cooperated with Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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Iranian MPs criticize EU’s call for US to remove MKO from terrorist list

A number of Iranian MPs have criticized the European Union’s request that the United States remove the Mojahedin Khalq Organization from its list of terrorist groups.

On Thursday, the European Parliament issued a declaration urging Washington to remove the MKO from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

The European Union took the MKO off its black list in 2009.

The MKO is a terrorist group
Talking to reporters on Saturday, MP Kazem Jalali said, “The MKO is a terrorist organization and the Europeans themselves acknowledge this.”

“The MKO itself has admitted that it has killed 4800 people, including ordinary people as well as officials of the Islamic Republic. This organization has planted bombs in several areas. If this group is not a terrorist one, what else can it be labeled as?”

“The West is facing a paradox about the issue of terrorism and the reason is that certain Western countries define everything according to their national interests,” stated Jalali, who is also the rapporteur of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.

West using MKO as a tool
Majlis Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told the Mehr News Agency on Saturday that Europe and the U.S. are using the MKO as a tool.

But such measures will improve Iran’s ability to negotiate in the international arena since they illustrate the double standards the United States and Europe apply toward terrorism, he added.

West is main source of terrorism
MP Karim Quddusi told MNA that the EU’s move shows that the West is the main source of terrorism.

MP Hamid-Reza Taraqqi of the Islamic Coalition Party called on the Iranian government to make serious efforts to convince the Iraqi government to extradite the MKO members before the group is delisted, MNA reported on Saturday.

The MKO, listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, began a campaign of assassinations and bombings in Iran shortly after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

The group moved to Iraq in the early 1980s and fought Iran from there until the United States invaded the country in March 2003

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Washington hypocritical attitude in promoting MKO and other terrorists

Speaker: US Seeking to Dominate Region under Pretext of War on Terrorism

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani strongly criticized the United States’ double-standard approach towards terrorism, and reiterated that Washington is using the so-called war on terrorism as an excuse to dominate the region.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has frequently announced that based on information the US pursues a hypocritical attitude towards the issue of terrorism and views it as a pretext for dominating the region," Larijani said on Sunday.

He further referred to the recent remarks made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the terrorist groups active in the region have been formed through Washington’s collaboration with certain regional countries to confront the former Soviet Union, and asked Clinton, "Why should the regional nations pay for your filthy desires?"
Larijani pointed to the massacre of more than one million people in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last 9 years by the US and its allies under the pretext of the war against terrorism, and said Washington and its agents and proxies should be blamed for the damages they have inflicted on the region.

Iranian officials have on many occasions blasted the West’s double-standard approach towards terrorism, and condemned the intelligence agencies of certain western countries, specially the US, for supporting terrorist groups and organizations against Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in a statement in August that while the Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to its cooperation with the international community in anti-terrorism campaign, the western countries and the US in particular followed a double-standard policy towards the issue.

He said the example of such a policy was the extensive activities of the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in these countries and their close relationship with the political figures there.

He also pointed to the role of some western countries and their intelligence services, specially those belonging to the US, in supporting the terrorist organizations working against Iran like the grouplet led by Rigi and the PJAK as among other cases of such a double-standard behavior.

Mehman-Parast also reiterated that the US tried to cover up its own terrorist nature by raising claims against other countries and accusing them.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year 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).

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.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.

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US Seeking to Dominate Region under Pretext of War on Terrorism

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani strongly criticized the United States’ double-standard approach towards terrorism, and reiterated that Washington is using the so-called war on terrorism as an excuse to dominate the region.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has frequently announced that based on information the US pursues a hypocritical attitude towards the issue of terrorism and views it as a pretext for dominating the region," Larijani said on Sunday.

He further referred to the recent remarks made by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the terrorist groups active in the region have been formed through Washington’s collaboration with certain regional countries to confront the former Soviet Union, and asked Clinton, "Why should the regional nations pay for your filthy desires?"

Larijani pointed to the massacre of more than one million people in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last 9 years by the US and its allies under the pretext of the war against terrorism, and said Washington and its agents and proxies should be blamed for the damages they have inflicted on the region.

Iranian officials have on many occasions blasted the West’s double-standard approach towards terrorism, and condemned the intelligence agencies of certain western countries, especially the US, for supporting terrorist groups and organizations against Iran.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said in a statement in August that while the Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to its cooperation with the international community in anti-terrorism campaign, the western countries and the US in particular followed a double-standard policy towards the issue.

He said the example of such a policy was the extensive activities of the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in these countries and their close relationship with the political figures there.

He also pointed to the role of some western countries and their intelligence services, specially those belonging to the US, in supporting the terrorist organizations working against Iran like the grouplet led by Rigi and the PJAK as among other cases of such a double-standard behavior.
Mehman-Parast also reiterated that the US tried to cover up its own terrorist nature by raising claims against other countries and accusing them.

The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a letter last year 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).

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.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.

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MKO rallies in New York were puppet shows

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Washington has refused to comment on the fate of the eight Iranian prisoners held in the United States.

Mottaki said on Tuesday that he had given UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a list of eight Iranian prisoners to ask US officials about their release.

"When I asked him (Ban) about the list of eight Iranian prisoners… he said he had passed the list to US officials but unfortunately has not received an answer yet," Fars News Agency quoted the Iranian minister as saying.

Mottaki also touched upon Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks on the 9/11 incident during his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York and said the ambiguity mentioned by the president has surrounded the terrorist act since the day it occurred.
He underlined the 9/11 dispute has so far targeted three Muslim nations, namely Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

"How many more Muslim nations are to become the targets of this incident (9/11) and fall prey to military, political and propaganda moves across the world?"

Mottaki further dismissed the rallies held by the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) during President Ahmadinejad’s stay in New York as ‘puppet shows.’

He further urged the P5+1 — Russia, China, France, the US, the UK and Germany — to attend talks over Tehran’s nuclear issue with ‘serious determination.’

Mottaki said in any future negotiations Tehran’s entitlement to civilian nuclear knowhow should be recognized.

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