A top Interior Ministry official has dismissed reports that Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI/NCRI/NCR members have been stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.“Iraqi officials do not allow such transfer,” Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Ali Abdollahi stated on Monday.
Mehman-Parast blasted the double-standard policy adopted by certain western countries, specially the US, on terrorism, and said while these states accuse others of sponsoring terrorism, they provide support for the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and the terrorist Jundollah group…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
… Washington has called on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants to allow members of the anti-Iran terrorist group [MKO/MEK/PMOI]access to the Qandil mountain rage along Iran’s northwestern border, Fars quoted an informed source close to PKK Leadership Council on Tuesday. The remarks came hours after an explosion damaged a gas pipeline near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit, close to the Iranian border…
… In an interview with Radio Courtoisie of France, Iran’s Ambassador to Paris Mehdi Mir-Aboutalebi questioned the French government’s claim of support for human rights.”.. The Iranian ambassador called on France to provide an explanation as to why it allowed members of the MKO to celebrate on the 29th anniversary of a bombing attack in Iran, in which over 70 people were killed …
The gathering of Mojahedin Khalq aka MKO/MEK/PMOI terrorists and their advocates at Taverney, near Paris, on 26 June, just on the anniversary of one the group’s bloodiest terrorist operations inside Iran, has raised suspicions that the group has the support of the West who endorses its violent atrocities perpetrated against the Iranian people and the current regime.
A member of the Iranian parliament on Monday strongly criticized France’s support for the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, saying that such support will harm the interests of Paris.
…”The leaders of the MKO/MEK/PMOI terrorist group held a costly protest in Paris and used huge propaganda, asking some (infamous) politicians, who have no place among their own people, to join the crowd as their supporters, in order to declare that they want to continue their presence inside Iraq,”Hassan Kazemi Qomi told Fars News Agency on Monday.”MKO’s recent vain efforts indicated that the group does not hold out much hope,”the Iranian envoy noted …
A member of the Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission has said that officials must seriously pursue extradition of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) members to the country.MP Mostafa Tabatabaei Nejad insisted on Monday that an atmosphere should be created in which “pro-terrorists” stop supporting terrorist groups.
“Shame on (President Nicolas) Sarkozy! Death to France! Shame on you, France, let go of the hypocrites!”chanted the crowd as police set up barricades outside the embassy in central Tehran, an AFP photographer said.,,Iranians call exiled opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI)”hypocrites,”and Monday’s demonstration was organised to protest against a PMOI rally outside Paris on Saturday
… The decision by Paris to allow the MKO to hold the gathering comes while the Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community. Founded in the 1960s, the MKO has masterminded a slew of terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq, killing thousands of people and wounding many more. The group is particularly notorious for taking sides with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein…