The dissident People’s Mujahedin of Iran is responsible for the assassination of the nephew of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, officials said…The PMOI is under fire to leave its base in Iraq’s Diyala province. The group earned a terrorist designation for its violent action against the clerical regime in Iran. It now claims it is acting peacefully to advocate regime change in Tehran.
…”The rioters are encouraged and supported by Britain, the US and the Zionist regime [Israel],”Mohammad-Najjar told reporters.”The involvement of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), enemies and those who seek to take revenge on the Islamic establishment during the past 30 years is quite clear.”…
The Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday’s violent anti-government protests in Iran. MKO followers cooperated with the demonstrators and coordinated the protests, the organization’s leader Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris on Tuesday..Her comments came after protests in Iran during Sunday’s Shia Muslim ceremonies of Ashura — the anniversary of the martyrdom of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Imam Hussein (PBUH)..
The recent terrorist attacks against Iranian nationals and pilgrims in Iraq have been funded by the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), Iraqi media reported.”A hireling Iraqi group paid by the MKO is responsible for the recent attacks on Iranian pilgrims,”Alla al-Khatib, a prominent Iraqi writer and journalist said, Habilian website reported. The journalist underlined that available documents and evidence display that the crime had been committed by MKO affiliates.
Nasser Abdul-Hosseini, alias Behrouz, who was detained for his major role in post-election unrests made the confessions to a court hearing in Tehran ..”I went there (the MKO’s Ashraf camp) after crossing Iran-Iraq border at Qashr-e Shirin illegally and I was trained by a person named Siyavash in a bid to stage operations in Tehran,”Hosseini said during the court hearing.. he learned how to make Cocktail Molotov and received trainings from a woman named Zohreh, a London-based MKO member
Some of the rioters arrested during Iran’s post-election unrests confessed to their links with the anti-Iran terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and said that they had received trainings in MKO’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq.”According to the confessions made by those MKO members arrested in recent riots, these people had received trainings in Camp Ashraf to conduct sabotage and terror operations and organized activities (inside Iran),”Deputy Prosecutor-General of Tehran’s public and revolutionary courts
A number of saboteurs, who were arrested for creating post-vote mayhem in Iran, have exposed their links with the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI)…Iranian security officials, in the days that followed the unrest, identified and arrested a large number of MKO members, who later confessed that they had been trained and equipped in Iraq to create post-election mayhem in the country.
The MEK or MKO is a Marxist organisation with a long history of attempts to overthrow various Iranian governments. They helped Saddam Hussein in the war against Iraq. After the US invasion they were disarmed and confined to camps in Iraq. They are on a US list of terrorist organisations even though Europe recently delisted them. .The CIA provides material support to the actions of the MEK inside Iran. The recent spate of explosions in Iran … appears to be linked to an MEK operation.In a July 29 article,wrote Ritter.
An Iraqi security official says the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK) triggered the recent post-election unrests in Iran. National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said in an interview with al-Hayat that certain members of the terrorist group had instigated and fomented the recent political unrest in Iran..The MKO is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries, including the US.
the People’s Mujahedin, otherwise known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, called monafeqin (hypocrites) by their detractors and either PMOI, MKO or MeK for short, have been around for nearly half a century..Iranians who live in Iran regard the PMOI as totally marginal to contemporary politics. At best it’s seen an embittered faction whose main constituency is gullible western politicians. At worst, its members are regarded as lunatics who sided with the enemy..