An Iranian parliamentarian said Friday that the European Union (EU) delisted the terrorist Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) only to exploit it in line with its own interests. Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Javad Jahangirzadeh said the members of the terrorist MKO will continue to serve their new European masters just the way they did for the toppled Saddam Hussein in Iraq for a long time.
He said the MKO members will certainly try to stir unrest and make anti-revolutionary moves inside Iran but to no avail.
He predicted that soon the EU will brand the grouplet as a freedom-fighter and try to increase its support for it.
The parliamentarian termed the EU move in removing the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations as an explicit gesture of animosity with Iran.
Noting that the Europeans, too, like Iranian nation, detested the terrorist grouplet, Jahangirzadeh said delisting MKO stands in strong contrast with Europe’s claims of supporting human rights.
He opined that the EU made the decision under influence of the US and Zionist lobbies.
Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force
The MKO, which seeks to destabilize the government in Tehran, is currently headed by Maryam Rajavi — who considers herself the president-elect of a supposed Iranian government-in-exile.
France has offered to take in members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) who are being forced to leave Iraq, sources claim.
The French government has volunteered to transport MKO members onboard its passenger aircraft to France as soon as possible, Iraqi sources told Tabnak on condition of anonymity.
The Iraqi officials also told the news agency that Israel has offered to recruit MKO members for its military.
The revelation comes after the European Union removed the exiled anti-Iran group from its list of terror organizations on Monday.
The MKO is notorious for having staged many attacks against Iranian and Iraqi civilians.
The 1981 murder of Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti along with 71 other senior Iranian officials is also attributed to the group.
Under the leadership of Massoud Rajavi, the MKO helped the Baath regime of Saddam Hussain in the suppression of the Iraqi Kurds in ‘Operation Morvarid’. Thousands of Iraqi civilians were brutally massacred in the operation.
After the 2003 regime change in Iraq and the 2009 interim security agreement between Baghdad and Washington, the responsibility for the security of Camp Ashraf — an MKO military training ground –, was transferred to Iraqi forces.
The Iraqi government has recently given MKO members a tight deadline to leave the camp, situated in Diyala province, and the country altogether.
Western countries claim that the lives of MKO members will be threatened if they return to Iran. Tehran, however, has promised to welcome the return of any member who has not taken part in any serious anti-Iran activity and is ready to leave the group.
"During the past few years, various MKO members have requested permission to return. Of course, if serious cases have not been filed against them, they can return to the country by handing themselves over," Iranian security official Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Thursday.
The French proposal to take in the MKO members comes as a surprise, because Paris consistently opposed the motion to remove the group from the European list of terror organizations. France is, already, home to a large number of MKO activities.
MKO is known for the cult-like tactics it uses within the group and for the torture and murder of its defectors.
"There are many [MKO members] who have tried to flee the camp. They have contacted Iran and introduced themselves. But in the end the complicated system has entrapped them," said Boroujerdi.
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 alluring recruitment methods it uses.
The most shocking of such stories include accounts given by former British MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi — the father of an Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment campaign in Canada.
Mohammadi gives an account of his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who disappeared several years ago — a result of what the MKO called a ‘two-month tour’ of Camp Ashraf as a teenager.
He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take part in MKO demonstrations in Western countries by threatening to kill their relatives.
Reports indicate that the banned terrorist group, which lacks a foothold in Iran, recruits ill-informed teens from the immigrant population of Western states, not allowing them to leave afterwards.
Unlike Europe, the US has not removed the group from its terror list.
The European Union has agreed to remove the notorious Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from its list of banned terrorist groups.
EU foreign ministers approved a decision to remove the outlawed terrorist group from a list that includes Palestinian Hamas and Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, an unnamed European official was quoted by Reuters as saying.
The group also known as the”Rajavi cult”named after its leader Maryam Rajavi stepped up efforts to be excluded from the list in 2008.
In November Rajavi met with members of the German Parliament in a bid to rally support for the removal of the group from the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations.
The European Court in Luxembourg ruled in December that the EU was wrong to keep the group’s assets frozen.
“What we are doing today is abiding by the resolution of the European court,”EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters just before the ministers finalize the decision in a meeting in Brussels.
The MKO, which has been listed as a terrorist organization in Iran and the United States, has a long and bloody history of targeting Iranian civilians and government officials.
Incidents linked with the group include the June 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party in which 72 high-ranking Iranian officials including judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mohmmad Beheshti, and tens of Majlis deputies were killed.
In the following August the group assassinated President Mohmmad Ali Rajae’i, Prime Minister Javad Bahonar and National Police Chief Ali Dastgerdi at the Prime Ministry building.
The MKO also assisted Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, in the massacre of thousands of innocent Iraqis and is responsible for several acts of terror in Iran including the 1994 bombing of a revered Shia shrine in Mashhad, eastern Iran.
In 2003, French anti-terrorist police arrested 165 members in Paris, including Maryam Rajavi, for ‘associating with wrongdoers in relation with a terrorist undertaking.’
More recently, around 10 members of the notorious organization were arrested in France and Switzerland on charges of money laundering on September 29, 2008.
Folco Raymonde
David Gilmour
Canadian politician Grinches
There are a few Canadian politician such as Mrs. Folco, Quebec MP, and David Gilmour , former MPs who consistently are supporting Mojahedin Khalgh, MKO an undemocratic cult and warmongers who are in alignment with neo cons . While the Neo cons policy has failed in at cost of hundred thousands of Innocent Iraqis it is a shame theses two Canadian politician supporting such a group.
Mrs. Folco and David Kilgour looks are getting paid by the banned organization in return for the support of the Mojahedin dictator<< Maryam rajavi leader who was illegally appointed by her husband as the president of Iran in 1994 . since we had requested from those to present the facts proving Mojaheidn are pro democracy which they failed to provide that makes it more strong the support is political not humanitarian as they claim.
We suggested them If you have any doubt on the popularity and legitimacy of MKO you can make an inquiry from Canadian Intelligent services and Canadian embassy in Teheran.
Mrs. Folco
Mr. Kilgour
It is Christmas time .
If you care about humanity and human rights then why you do not try to transfer some of the younger Mojahedin who are willing to leave Ashraf , to Canada instead of demanding a legitimate government such as Iraq to keep the Mojahedin who were part of Sadam Hussein ‘s brutal security services.
If you are telling the truth then you can bring some of those young victims who are not engaged in terrorist or military operation such as Somaye Mohammadi who was taken away from to US and while she had Immigrants status.
When the parliament will resume we will take legal action against Mrs. Folco who are violating ethical code of parliament .
Also, we request The minister of Security to shed light on any funding may have been contributed to Folco and David Kigour campaign and offices in exchange for their support and lobbying the fascist organization in which is violation of Canadian criminal code.
Folco and Kilgour can not sell Canadian soldiers to a fascist group because MKO claiming they are freedom fighters . Mojahedin and Iranian Government are both two sides of a coin while Mojahedin are loathed by so many Iranian . Also, Mko are isolated among of the new Iranian generation inside and .
However , to us you look as Grinches who want to deter peace in the Middle East by supporting a brutal and undemocratic organization such as Mojahedin.
You could not make this stuff up even if you tried. Under the direction of new owner Rupert Murdoch, the Wall Street Journal is becoming the paper version of Faux News. Here is their latest nonsense on the Iran NIE: "The Iranian opposition group that first exposed Iran’s nuclear-fuel program said a U.S. intelligence analysis is correct that Tehran shut down its weaponization program in 2003, but claims that the program was relocated and restarted in 2004.
The claim, to be made public today by the National Council for Resistance in Iran, joins a broad pushback by conservative hawks who say the U.S. analysis has wrongly given the impression that Iran’s nuclear-fuel program doesn’t present an urgent threat." Since when is a terrorist group a credible source for anything, let alone one to be used in a mainstream article? The National Council for Resistance in Iran is the MEK lobby in DC. They call themselves the true government of Iran in exile and their president is Maryam Rajavi. Let’s do a MEK/MKO basics crash course:
• During the 1970s, the MeK was accused of conducting several assassinations of US military personnel and civilians working in Iran, and of actively supporting the takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. That same year, the MeK helped to overthrow the Shah and install the new Shiite regime led by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
• The Secretary of State has amended the designation, under Executive Order 13224 on terrorist financing, of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, known as the MEK, to add its aliases National Council of Resistance (NCR) and National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). That Executive Order blocks the assets of organizations and individuals linked to terrorism. The decision also clarifies that the designation includes the U.S. representative office of NCRI and all its other offices worldwide, and that the designation of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (‘PMOI’) as an alias of the MEK includes the PMOI’s U.S. representative office and all other offices worldwide.
• Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion. Offers, including making its nuclear programme more transparent, were conditional on the US ending hostility. But Vice-President Dick Cheney’s office rejected the plan, the official said. The offers came in a letter, seen by Newsnight, which was unsigned but which the US state department apparently believed to have been approved by the highest authorities. In return for its concessions, Tehran asked Washington to end its hostility, to end sanctions, and to disband the Iranian rebel group the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and repatriate its members.
So basically, what the Wall Street Journal is saying is that a terrorist group on the US State Department’s list of terrorist organization – who has also killed US citizens and was close to Saddam Hussein – is unhappy with the Iran NIE.
Moreover this same group is close to the Vice President, who chose to protect his friends rather than hand them over to Iran in exchange for…Iran giving up all enrichment activities – the thing that Cheney has claimed is the problem. Do you follow this logic? Does the WSJ not have a fact-checking crew? Is the Wall Street Journal now aiding a terrorist organization by giving them a say in US foreign policy? This is good to know. So next time there is a Saudi Arabia NIE, perhaps the Wall Street Journal can feature al Qaeda as supporting the conservative position. Like I said, you could not make this crap up if you tried. Propaganda news at its finest folks… and the war on terror at its most laughable.
at-Largely
Neoconservative (Neo-Trotskyite) Use of Communist Terrorists
“Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians.”
–“A Decade of Deception and Defiance”, the White House’s background paper for President George W. Bush’s September 12, 2002 remarks to the United Nations General Assembly
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/book.html
A major pretext for the Iraq War was Saddam Hussein’s support of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists at Camp Ashraf and at other camps in Iraq. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked Camp Ashraf, Iraq and killed some of the terrorists. However, neoconservatives (neo-Trotskyites) in the American government arranged for the protection in Iraq and for the use of these communist terrorists inside Iran.
Fox News Channel Viewers Duped by Neo-Trotskyites
After the Federal government raided the home of Alireza Jafarzadeh, confiscated boxes of his documents, and closed the NCRI office in the National Press Building, Jafarzade became a Foreign Affairs Analyst with the Fox News Channel. On television and in postings, Jafarzadeh claimed that he was revealing secrets about Iranian terrorist networks and front organizations. See, for example:
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,307452,00.html
Of course, he did not reveal to the dupes who watch the Fox News Channel that he had worked for an Iranian communist terrorist organization responsible for murdering American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranian and Iraqi civilians.
For books by former MEK members, read:
By Anne Singleton
– Masoud: Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel
By Masoud Banisadr
Covert American Military Operations Inside Iran
Some of the guests on the Fox News Channel have bragged about American military forces conducting “boots on the ground” covert operations inside Iran. There are some others in the American media providing vague details of these operations. For example, Seymour Hersh’s articles in the New Yorker, such as:
Annals of National Security
The Iran Plans
Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
by Seymour M. Hersh April 17, 2006
“The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups.”
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/17/060417fa_fact
Using Communist Terrorists Inside Iran
Americans with international satellite television dishes or who research foreign news sources will discover that the American military has been using Iranian communist terrorists from Camp Ashraf, Iraq on covert missions of gathering information or of committing acts of terrorism in Iran.
On December 21, 2008, former MEK member Arash Sametipoor appeared in London, England on George Galloway’s “The Real Deal” (Press TV and Sky TV). For the next few days, you can watch this television program online or download it to your computer at:
http://www.presstv.com
You can find other interviews and details posted at Web sites, such as:
– Iran-Interlink
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=5551
– Nejat Society
Arash Sametipoor reported that he had been captured in Iran during a covert mission. He attempted to kill himself using an old cyanide pill provided for him. While he was sentenced to serve eight years in prison in Iran, he was released after four years. He knows firsthand about life inside a terrorist cult. While America’s neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) claim that Iraq has its own government now, the truth is that Iraqi political leaders continue to demand that the MEK surrender their weapons or leave Iraq. Not only has the American military been protecting these communist terrorists, but also the American military has prevented parents of these terrorists from seeing their children at or near Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
Unpardonable Neoconservative Treason
During the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold was a revolutionary war hero until he betrayed the American Revolution.
http://www.americanrevolution.com/TreasonofBenedictArnold.htm
Now, America’s neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites) have replaced Benedict Arnold as the worst traitors in American history. There should be no presidential pardons for any of these traitors.
Iran’s letters to the UN Chief and Head of the UN Security Council in protest to London’s deproscribing the terrorist Mojahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the British list of terrorist groups have become the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly documents.
Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Mohammad Khazaei in separate letters to the UN Chief and the UN Security Council Head recently voiced strong protest at the UK government’s recent gesture of clearing the MKO’s name from the list of terrorist groups.
Khazaei said in the letters that the terrorist and criminal group had, relying on its strategy of resort to terrorism and gun battle and also its wrong ideology, been engaged for long years in wide-scale terrorist activities against Iranian nationals and officials as well as nationals of other countries
The letters read that the MKO had through its terrorist actions martyred thousands of Iranian nationals, including political personalities and Majlis members, and injured thousands of others, inflicting abundant financial and non-financial damage.
U.S. promises to elements of the MKO to secure the survival of them in Iraq through the issuance of their certificates of Iraqi nationality.
Sources close to the MKO activists declared in Paris that the leadership of the Organization received promises from the United States to secure their protection in Iraq, especially in Camp Ashraf, despite its decision to hand over the security file of the Status of the Ashraf camp to government forces recently.
The sources revealed that the U.S. is supposed to prevent any attempts the Iraqi authorities might make to crack down on the movement and activity of MKO in Iran, and prevent any attempt to arrest or extradite any of the elements of this terrorist organization to the Iranian authorities.
The sources said that leaders of the organization had told their forces in Ashraf camp that U.S. personnel said they promised to work to ensure the issuance of certificates of nationality and the nationality of an Iraqi organization’s members who are in Iraq, particularly those who master the language of Iraq, in order to keep them in Iraq and In the "components” of security, military and intelligence officers working under the supervision of U.S. military officers in Iraq.
It is worth mentioning that the U.S. occupying forces have kept MKO under protection in Iraq for the last five years in an attempt to benefit from these MKO members to put pressure on the Islamic republic and to launch spying activities and even military action against Iran. Washington’s trying to destabilize Iran’s internal security.
It is unclear how the U.S. will issue certificates of Iraqi nationality for the elements of this terrorist organization.
Claiming to be the dissident movement seeking democratic reform in Iran, Mojahedin Khalq Organization (aka MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI, NLA) is listed by several nations as a terrorist organization for its atrocities against Iranian people and activities under the former Iraqi regime. Being the first of countries to put the group on the terror list, the US is commonly known to have established ambiguous relationship with MKO due to its anti-Iranian stance. However, nobody denies that the US was again the first, among other forces invading Iraq under the pretext of war on terrorism, to grant the group the protected status and to take it under its own protection.
But to grant citizenship to a number of leading terrorist members of MKO, 16 members as reported, might be a truth that hurts. Some may say that it is hard to believe even as gossip. But, as people say, where there is smoke there is fire. It is not an issue concerning the US government to deal with and let the recognized terrorists freely in and out of the country. It is an issue of national security and no American citizen ever fancies being again eyewitness to another national tragedy even more appalling than that of 9/11.
Being trained under the most sophisticated methods of terrorism as well as enigmatic, destructive cult techniques in the safe haven of Camp Ashraf heavily protected by American themselves, MKO leading members are like time bombs that start ticking in any corner of the world where they opt to detonate. As the media have reported lately, several members of MKO were arrested in France and Switzerland on terrorist charges. Justifying the arrests for no clear reason, some officials familiar with the group’s activities claim that the arrested were sympathizers, not official members. Does it really make any difference to be a sympathizer or an official member when the instilled ideology induces to detonate a bomb, disturb the social order, or commit self-destruction? It is hard to believe that the US is giving assent to bombs ticking rampant on its soil!
The US has granted citizenship to 16 leading members of the blacklisted Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), Iraqi security officials say.
An Iraqi deputy told Fars news agency that the MKO members who were given US citizenship were directly engaged in acts of terror against Iranians and the Iraqi people.
According to the lawmaker, the terrorists, who had earlier exited Camp Ashraf, were reportedly transferred to a former Iraqi air force base near the capital, Baghdad.
The US had earlier relocated selected members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization after Iraqi authorities took control of their camp in Diyala province in August. The act was aimed at preventing MKO members from falling into the hands of the Iraqi government.
The deputy said, however, that the US had denied support for a certain number of MKO members in the Camp after accessing their records.
He added that documents, including tapes of MKO espionage acts against the Iranian government, have been delivered from the camp to US military forces in Iraq.
His remarks come as Ali al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi security official, told Fars that there were documents available on the group’s cooperation with al-Qaeda and Baath regime in their acts of violence.
He added the US was studying the records of certain MKO members willing to join American troops to select those useful to American forces in their anti-Iran goals.
The MKO, blacklisted by many international bodies, is responsible for many acts of terrorism against Iranian civilians and government officials.
The MKO terrorist group moved to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. He provided the group with arms and military equipment to launch attacks against the Islamic Republic during the Iraq- war with Iran (1980-88).
The group launched operations against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war from Camp Ashraf, their headquarters and training site, and later assisted Saddam in violently suppressing the Iraqi Kurds during the 1991 uprising.
After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the fall of Saddam Hussein, the group is now directly supported by the United States.