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Iran FM: Backing MEK Reveals American Use of Terrorism against Iran

The Iranian foreign minister slammed a resolution that the US House of Representatives has passed in support of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) as an indication of Washington’s insatiable appetite for employing terrorism for the purpose of destroying Iran.

“The US Congress’ worthless resolution in support of Monafeghin (MKO) terror cult demonstrates, just once more, their insatiable appetite for instrumentalizing terrorism and DAESH modeled scenarios -that wrecked Syria and Iraq- for destroying Iran,” Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a post on his Twitter account on Saturday.

The Iranian foreign minister; Hossein Amirabdollahian

His comments came after the US House introduced a resolution on February 7, expressing support for what it called the Iranian people’s desire for a democratic and secular country.

The head of the MKO terrorist group also joined a congressional press briefing at the US House after the announcement of the resolution.

More than 17,000 Iranians, many of them civilians, have been killed at the hands of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO or MEK) in different acts of terrorism including bombings in public places, and targeted killings.

The MKO – listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community – fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq and was given a camp by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

They fought on the side of Saddam during the Iraqi-imposed war on Iran (1980-88). They were also involved in the bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq in 1991 and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

February 12, 2023 0 comment

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Iran’s interior Minister on the terrorist act in Shah Cheragh Shrine

Shiraz, IRNA – Interior minister said combination war plot of enemies against Iran will lead nowhere, and terrorist act in Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine by shooting at innocent people and their children was a sign of enemies’ desperateness.

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi who is visiting Shiraz after Wednesday terrorist attack in Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine, said, “The October 26 terrorist attack in Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine was a phased in the enemies’ project, whose objective is intriguing insecurity and instability in the country.”

He emphasized that in that terrorist act the United States, Israel, the monarchist groups, the MKO, the ISIS and some western countries were involved, and this event is a complete file of the intriguers of corruption, darkness, and terror.”

The interior minister said that martyring a number of defenseless women, men and children was the last scene of a scenario of the enemies of the system and the revolution, and the criminal act showed that they are not committed to any rule of humanity.

Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi is accompanying the First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber in this visit to Shiraz, and their host is the Governor of Fars Province Mohammad-Hadi Imaniyeh.

On Wednesday (Oct 26) a terrorist armed with a machinegun opened fire on the pilgrims and evening prayer worshippers at Shah Cheragh holy shrine, martyring 15 innocent people, including some women, children and elderly folks, and seriously wounding 26 others.

October 30, 2022 0 comment

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Iran’s Families of Victims of Terrorism Write to President Raisi

Thousands of Iranian families who have lost their loved ones in acts of terrorism waged by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and other terrorists have urged President Ebrahim Raisi to relay their message to the world.
The families made the demand in a letter addressed to President Raisi ahead of his address to the 77th annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We seize the opportunity to request Your Excellency to be the voice of the large family of the country’s terror victims to the world,” the letter said.

The signatories condemned the MKO for martyring more than 17,000 Iranians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In 1986, Iran asked France to expel the group from its base in Paris, following which it moved its base to Iraq.
The group’s members spent many years in Iraq, where they were armed by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The group sided with Saddam during the 1980-88 war against Iran and then helped him quell uprisings in various parts of the Arab country.

The European country of Albania started hosting the terrorists after the cult was shunned by the government of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The European Union, Canada, the United States, and Japan had previously listed the MKO as a “terrorist organization.” In 2012, though, the group was taken off U.S and Europe lists of terrorist groups.
The MKO throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American, Western, and Saudi Arabian officials in attendance. These include former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton, former U.S. president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal.

The letter denounced the MKO for its acts of “blind killings, border attacks, kidnapping and torture.”
It noted how the group, which had become “disappointed in achieving their goals” following Iran’s Islamic Revolution, went to the United States and some other Western countries to continue planning to overthrow Iran’s political system and target authorities and citizens.
“What bothers our people and victims and survivors of terrorist attacks is that the perpetrators of these

operations are fully supported by the United States and some European countries, instead of being punished,” the survivors wrote.
“Such acts indicate nothing but division of terrorism into good and bad and also double standards of the West regarding dealing with terrorism,” the families said.
They said the very Western countries, which were allowing the group to “operate freely” on their soils, lay claim to be fighting terrorism at the same time.

The letter urged President Raisi “to seriously assert the rights of the families of the terror victims through international organizations and institutions for prosecution, extradition, and trial of leaders of the MKO terrorist group.”

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September 26, 2022 0 comment

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Iran strongly condemns US sanctions over Albania hacking

Iran has condemned new US sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s intelligence ministry for an alleged cyberattack on Albania earlier this year

Iran on Saturday strongly condemned a US decision to impose sanctions on its intelligence ministry, blamed for a major cyber-attack on NATO ally Albania. Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran on Wednesday after accusing it of the July 15 cyber-attack that sought, but failed, to paralyse public services and access data and government communications systems.

In response on Friday, the United States slapped sanctions on Iran’s intelligence ministry and its minister Esmail Khatib, saying the attack “disregards norms of responsible peacetime state behaviour in cyberspace”.
On Saturday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said: “The ministry of foreign affairs strongly condemns the action of the US treasury department in repeatedly sanctioning the ministry of intelligence of the Islamic republic.

US-Delisted MEK Terrorists Still Openly Committed to Violence

“America’s immediate support for the false accusation of the Albanian government… shows that the designer of this scenario is not the latter, but the American government,” he added in a statement.

Kanani accused the US of “giving full support to a terrorist sect”, referring to the opposition People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), members of which are hosted by Albania.
Albania agreed in 2013 to take in members of the MEK from Iraq at the request of Washington and the United Nations, with thousands settling in the Balkan country over the years. “This criminal organisation continues to play a role as one of America’s tools in perpetrating terrorist acts, cyber-attacks” against Iran, the statement added.

The MEK backed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1979 revolution that ousted the shah but rapidly fell out with the new Islamic authorities and embarked on a campaign to overthrow the regime.
The MEK then sided with Iraq under Saddam Hussein in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

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September 13, 2022 0 comment

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Iran: MKO must be branded as terrorist organization by European countries

Iran Embassy in Italy issued a statement on the anniversary of martyrdom of former Iranian president and former prime minister by MKO terrorists, and stressed that the EU must refrain from adopting double-standards and regard the MKO as a terrorist organization.

The embassy warned the EU officials that adopting such double standards and defending the MKO terrorists has seriously harmed the EU credibility as a continent that is opposed to terrorism.

In the statement which was published in a number of Italian publications, it is said that on August 30, 1981, in a shameful terrorist act against the Iranian nation and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, president Mohammad-Ali Rajaie and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Baonar were both martyred at the Presidential Office in a terrorist explosion by the MKO group, that had also earlier in a similar terrorist act on June 28 of the same year at the Office of the Islamic Republic Party tens of judiciary and party officials and lots of other innocent people were martyred.

The late president Mohammad-Ali Rajaie and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Baonar

The embassy has noted that the MKO terrorist organization had also for a while been allied with the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain, that had earlier launched an 8-year aggressive war against Iran, and fought against their own country relying on his logistical and military support.

“The human rights and democratic value should not serve as instruments at the service of shutting a blind eye on horrendous terrorist acts, and whitewashing the terrorists by free world governments, as democracy is not equal with the freedom of terrorists in the western countries,” added the statement in part.

It says that there is no such thing as good terrorism and bad terrorism, and if the EU notices that its reputation is harmed in the world, it is because of the contradiction is its defense of the terrorists and supporting them, which is contrary with democracy and the articles of the human rights.

The embassy ends its statement wishing long life for the historical Iran-Italy strong relations.

August 31, 2022 0 comment

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Families of martyrs of terrorist attacks call on Europe not to support the MEK

Some members of families of martyrs of terrorist attacks in Iran called Monday on Europe to stop supporting the terrorist group of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) that has assassinated 17,000 Iranians.

Zohreh Elahian, chairman of Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) human right committee, recalled the martyrs families’ demand at a conference held in Tehran to mark the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism on August 21.

Director of the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Inger Marie, and some other Iranian parliamentarians were present in the conference.

a conference held in Tehran to mark the International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism on August 21

Elahian said at the conference that the Majlis human rights committee is after supporting those families and helping their voice of oppression be heard worldwide.

Unfortunately, the so-called advocates of the human rights are also the main supporters of the terrorist groups, Elahian added.

She further highlighted the special role the parliaments play in supporting the families of the martyrs of assassinations.

Then, she censured certain European countries which support the MKO and let them hold their meetings in the European states.

Referring to the January 2020 assassination of Lt General Qassem Soleimani by the US forces in Iraq, Elahian said that the Majlis has been following up the case in the international communities.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force commander Lieutenant General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, the acting commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) – known as the Hashd al-Shaabi – were assassinated in Baghdad by the US attack on January 3, 2020.

As Elahian underlined, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has the great capacity to help weaken bases of terrorists and defend victims of terrorism.

August 21 is designated as International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, the move is an initiative made by Iran and accepted by the UN.

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Iran Pursuing Trial of Terrorist Groups

An Iranian Judiciary official made clear the country’s seriousness about putting terrorist groups on trial.
In a meeting with the families of a number of Iranian victims of assassination attacks, Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy Judiciary chief for international affairs and secretary of the country’s High Council for Human Rights, emphasized that the Judiciary is very serious about taking action against terrorist groups and their activities.

He said the High Council for Human Rights’ top priorities in the international arena are to counter the sanctions, safeguard the rights of victims of sanctions, and bring terrorist groups to justice.

The MKO – listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community – fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq and was given a camp by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

They fought on the side of Saddam during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-88). They were also involved in the bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq in 1991 and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

August 22, 2022 0 comment

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Iran Condemns Western Support For Mojahedin-e Khalq Terrorists

Secretary of Iran Judiciary’s Human Rights Council condemned Western countries for granting immunity to the terrorist group of MKO, despite the group’s long-drawn-out history of bloodshed and atrocity against the Iranians.

Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks in a letter addressed to the United Nations secretary-general, the UN high commissioner for human rights, and the UN Human Rights Council as well as the heads of the European Council, Commission, and Parliament.

The Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO also known as MEK), he wrote, is responsible for carrying out most of the assassinations that have targeted the Iranian people since the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

Secretary of Iran Judiciary’s Human Rights Council; Kazem Gharibabadi

“In order to introduce the MKO, it suffices to say that their top priority and the main basis of performance [relies on] assassination and murdering the individuals, who do not adhere to the same ideas as they [themselves],” the letter read.

The MKO has a dark history of assassinations and bombings against the Iranian government and nation. It notoriously sided with Saddam Hussein in the former Iraqi dictator’s 1980-88 war against the Islamic Republic.

Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Revolution’s victory, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO’s acts of terror.

Western countries, topped by the United States, have, however, taken the group out of their terror blacklists.

The group throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American, Western, and Saudi Arabian officials as its guests of honor. These have included former US national security advisor John Bolton, former US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal.

Gharibabadi reprimanded some European countries for providing “safe havens” for the group, allowing it to set up its offices there, and even letting its members address their government and parliament sessions.

The support, he regretted, had emboldened “the murderous and dangerous organization’s ringleaders to [even] introduce themselves as human rights supporters.”

“This dual perspective of the issue of human rights” and support for a group, which has the blood of thousands of Iranians on its hands “is not acceptable under any circumstances,” the letter said.

It finally urged the United Nations and the European Union to prevent the free movement of the MKO’s members across the European countries and elsewhere and hold them accountable for their atrocities.

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12000 Iranian people killed at the hands of the MEK terrorists

out of the 17,000-plus people who have lost their lives in terror attacks, 12,000 of them were killed at the hands of the MKO terrorist group.

US violating every norm of international law, must be condemned by intl. community: Iran’s top rights official

Iran’s top human rights official says the United States is practically violating all norms of international law and its practices must be condemned by the entirety of the international community.

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs, made the remarks while addressing the 49th regular session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs

He said sanctions against Iran have prevented the country’s access to essential medicines and medical supplies and blocked the transfer of humanitarian aid to Tehran in times of natural disasters and the coronavirus pandemic.

“The United States, which acts as a global self-appointed police force, is violating all international rights and norms,” he added.

He emphasized that the international community should not accept such an illegal, unlawful and illegitimate approach.

“Given the predictable and costly consequences of sanctions, they should be viewed as a weapon and a means of aggression. Unilateral economic and commercial coercive measures are contrary to the aims and objectives of human rights and are in fact the collective punishment of ordinary people and should be considered a crime against humanity,” Gharibabadi emphasized.

The US unilaterally left the 2015 agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in 2018 and re-stored the sanctions that had been lifted under the accord. Washington’s European allies in the deal—France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—have been toeing the sanctions line closely by ending their trade activities with Iran.

The Vienna talks began last April between Iran and the remaining parties to the JCPOA on the assumption that the US, under the Joe Biden administration, is willing to repeal the so-called maximum pressure policy pursued by former president, Donald Trump, against Tehran.

Iran has repeatedly denounced the sanctions as an act of “economic war,” “economic terrorism,” and “medical terrorism,”

Iran one of biggest victims of terrorism

The Iranian human rights official said the Islamic Republic is one of the biggest victims of terrorism and thousands of innocent Iranian people have been killed or wounded by terrorist groups over the past 43 years.

He added that the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) terrorist group has carried out the most acts of terror against the Iranian people which amount to crimes against humanity and noted that out of the 17,000-plus people who have lost their lives in terror attacks, 12,000 of them were killed at the hands of the MKO terrorist group.

Gharibabadi said that this terrorist group, with its dark history, has had administrative organizations in some European countries from the very beginning and their agents have traveled freely across European countries and the US without any restrictions or legal prosecution while some of these countries have become a safe haven for the terrorists.

He asked, “How can some countries that claim to advocate human rights and fight terrorism, call a group that has on its hand the blood of thousands of innocent women and children in Iran, Syria and Iraq … as defenders of human rights?! How can this contradiction be justified?!”

The Iranian human rights official called on the officials of European countries, the European Union, the United Nations and the Human Rights Council to address widespread crimes committed by the MKO and take serious action to prevent the terrorist group from operating freely in Europe and bring its criminal perpetrators and ringleaders to justice.

The anti-Iran cult was on the US government’s list of terrorist organizations until 2012. Major European countries, including France, have also removed it from their blacklists.

A few years ago, the MKO elements were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and later sent to Albania.

The MKO terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe and even hold regular meetings in which European and American officials make speeches.

March 3, 2022 0 comment

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Don’t be duped by false reports of Mujahedin Khalq terrorists

Iran’s nuclear chief has advised the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) not to be duped by false reports concocted by a Europe-based terrorist group against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

“The Agency should not play into the hands of terrorist groups,” head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said in an interview with Sputnik News published on Thursday.

Eslami made the remarks when asked to comment on the IAEA chief’s call on Iran to explain the presence of uranium particles at several undeclared sites.

“This is once again one of the stories of the counterrevolutionary and terrorist group that is living in a safe haven in Europe and is financed by them and constantly influences the Agency by producing fake news,” he said, making a veiled reference to the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), an Albania-based terrorist outfit.

He explained that the terrorist group hoodwinks the IAEA by showing fabricated papers, fake satellite images and false evidence as part of its threadbare tactics which have proved invalid.

Earlier this month, Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN atomic watchdog, called on Iran to provide explanations for the presence of uranium particles at several undeclared sites.

“I remain deeply concerned that nuclear material has been present at undeclared locations in Iran and that the current locations of this nuclear material are not known to the agency,” Grossi told the IAEA board of governors in Vienna on September 13.

Iran hit back at the time, voicing concerns over the “aggrandizing of few insignificant old issues” by the IAEA chief.

‘All countries entitled to peaceful nuclear energy’

Eslami said all countries are entitled to use up-to-date technology, especially in the field of nuclear energy.

He said under its Statute, the IAEA is obliged to encourage all countries to develop their nuclear energy projects and to assist them in using peaceful nuclear energy.

“Iran believes that all countries have the right [to use] nuclear energy and nuclear weapons must be banned for all countries,” the top nuclear official stressed.

In a veiled reference to Israel, which has questioned the peaceful nature of Iran’s program and threatened to target its nuclear facilities, Eslami said it is shocking that an entity that owns nuclear weapons and is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) raises such claims against Iran.

“The Iranian people do not welcome the language of force,” he said, “We have acted honestly and these hostilities will not affect the Iranian people and they have to realize that they must abandon this wrong approach and stop harming the interests of the Iranian people.”

The remarks came days after Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett claimed that Iran had crossed “all red lines” in its nuclear program and threatened to act alone if the world did not take action.

‘IAEA silence encourages terrorism’

Elsewhere during his interview, Eslami said due to mischievous and hostile acts against Iran by its enemies, the country’s nuclear program has been treated with a “political”, “selective”, and “discriminatory” approach.

He pointed out that the IAEA continues to have access to its surveillance cameras under the Safeguards Agreement, but added that Iran has decided to stop its “voluntary” implementation of the Additional Protocol by halting the Agency’s access to some of its cameras as a response to a gross non-compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement by the other parties.

“Iran had voluntarily accepted additional surveillance and the Additional [Protocol] in order to build trust and lift the sanctions,” he said, arguing that it would not make sense for Tehran to continue the implementation of the Additional Protocol after the US reimposition of sanctions on Tehran in 2018.

He made the remakes in response to a Sunday IAEA report that while Iran had granted access to its nuclear sites as agreed on September 12, it had prevented IAEA inspectors from visiting a workshop at the TESA Karaj complex, after it was targeted in a sabotage act in June in which one of four IAEA cameras was destroyed.

Iran has censured the IAEA for not condemning the “terrorist attack” at the complex, which Tehran has blamed on Israel. Iran has also blamed the Tel Aviv regime for another attack at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility in April.

“The Karaj site was attacked in a terrorist incident … and the Agency has not condemned the action. The site is being rebuilt and judicial and security authorities have opened a case on this site,” Eslami noted.

If they are truly law-abiding and sincere, the nuclear chief went on, “they have to acknowledge that the Agency’s failure to condemn a terrorist attack on an official [nuclear] site is a form of encouraging terrorism, which is regrettable.”

Eslami arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to meet with Russia’s senior officials and discuss a new framework for accelerating the implementation of nuclear projects in Iran.

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