The Mojahedin fundraise in shopping malls, airports, train stations, and other busy places. They would stop people and show them pictures and ask the people to help those children. In reality, the money raised would be spent on many terrorist activities in Iran.
“National Council of Resistance is a branch of Mujahedin-e-Khalq which is listed as a terrorist group in US and EU. Mujahedin were Saddam’s mercenary during the 1980s when they launched cross border attacks against Iran. NCR is proud of having denounced Iran clandestine nuclear facilities in Natans. Though, according to a report by the expertise journal Nuclear Fuel in December 2002, IAEA has already been completely aware of those facilities.”
Extracted from the report published in the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse” on 10/24/08, relating the press conference held by MKO, meanwhile the seasonal meetings of IAEA council.
Mujahedin-e-Khalq must believe that the world has achieved a unified description of them, having recorded them as terrorist, cultist, mercenary and spy. The MEK should pay the price of this changed description by their own nature and it is definitely obvious that the cults don’t shoot their own nature and the world has basically accepted that spying, warmongering and terrorism are rooted from the cult-like nature of MEK.
All treasons committed by Mujahedin take their roots from their cult-like practices. Which Iranian is willing to tie his fate with a criminal dictator like Saddam Hussein? Or is proud of submitting the nuclear information of his own country to foreigners? And shouts proudly that “we have denounced Iran!” all those are justified by a manipulated mind. This is a matter that is responded by psychology: the cults have no will.
“MEK has long been considered as the most important spying network in Iran but today they seem to have a very weak operational power. “
Figaro 10/26/2008
It is not an accident that everyone believes in MKO as spies and implicitly states that they are an ended movement. This is a reality that was proved following the fall of Saddam Hussein. But the MEK are trying to survive as long as possible by their false propaganda.
Since 1981 when the National Council of Resistance of Iran was founded by Abul Hassan Bani Sadr(the first Iranian President who fled Iran together with Masud Rajavi),the most influential members has left the council . The significant example is Banisadr himself, who left the NCRI after Masud Rajavi made a treaty with Tariq Aziz; the Iraqi general whose country was in war with Iran at that time. The result of Bani Sadr’s defection was the absolute leadership of Masud Rajavi on NCRI as well as MEK. For further information on the process how the NCRI became the umbrella organization for MKO you can read Ann Singleton’s book “Saddam’s Private army.”
In 1990’s, due to the lack of democracy and the dictatorship of Masud Rajavi, the NCR became a tool, depended on MKO, to be used along with Mujahedin’s objectives. In 1993, the majority of members of NCRI (about 95%) were MKO militants.
Nowadays, the NCRI is the main front organization, for MEK to achieve Western support with its” Diplomacy section” which is under the charge of Mohammad Seyed Al-Mohaddesin and of-course directly under the supervision of Masud Rajavi.
In fact the non- Mujahed members of NCRI have no influential role but the main role belongs to MKO which is listed as a terrorist organization by EU, US and Canada. The NCRI was also added to the list in 2002
The activities of the Diplomacy section are as followings:
Lobbying activities and campaigns in the European parliaments and US congress and Senate, trying to gain their support in various ways including showing the journals claiming to have their colleagues’’ support, showing list of signatures of their alleged supporters …
The NCRI, itself includes many other front institutions that launch fundraising activities throughout Europe and North America. By showing pictures of Iranian orphans they solicit large amounts of money and then with their complicated money laundering operation, they send the sums to their bank accounts in Turkey or UAE. The money will be used to buy arms for their terrorist activities.
Their deception policy does not end up to here. MKO’s large payments to western politicians is a big motivation for them to speak at its rallies which are mostly held in other countries, European capitals with wonderful tour that nobody can ignore having fun in a free trip.
The gathering with western lecturers who have democratic slogans and allegedly want to make democratic change in Iran would be further motivation for the others who will be deceived by the NCRI in future.
The Mojahedin fundraise in shopping malls, airports, train stations, and other busy places. They would stop people and show them pictures and ask the people to help those children. In reality,the money raised would be spent on many terrorist activities in Iran.
The armed struggle is not able to survive except by having the military equipments and support and especially the support and accompaniment of the public opinion. When an armed opposition loses such a support in the country, it has to look for it abroad.
As MKO was so eager to achieve the power in the political scene of Iran, it could not stay in Europe like the other Iranian dissident groups who are politically or socially fighting the Islamic Republic. The MEK stopped all its social and political activities in Europe in 1980s and sent the forces to Iraq to enjoy the Iran-Iraq war to expand its military power.
At the beginning the only common point of MKO and Saddam Hussein was their common enemy: Islamic Republic.
Iraq provided MEK with land, equipments and funds for their so-called National Liberation Army and in exchange the MEK were spying the Iranian forces’ intelligence for the Iraqi intelligence service.
Therefore the Iraqi government was using the MKO’s facilities to serve its own front.
The civil armed struggle was replaced by the front armed struggle because the civil struggles had been defeated in Iran and now MKO needed to depend on Saddam Hussein who was fighting Iran. If MKO had led its political struggles from Europe, France it would have not needed the support of a dictator and violator of Human Rights like Saddam Hussein.
The MEK had accepted the armed struggle by the side of Saddam Hussein, so they had to accept the presence of Iraqi specialists, military relationships, intelligence exchanged and cooperation in military operations …
To accept the war in the fronts where the invader enemy had started the war and bombarded and killed the innocent people, is more illegal and more anti-national than the civil war.
However after a while the Iraqi Intelligence Service suggested that MKO launch mortar attacks in the cities of Iran. Thus MKO mixed its armed struggle in the fronts with the partisan attacks in the cities and expanded the war in to the whole Iranian territory where a lot of innocent people were killed.
In the operations, the MKO members were under heavy pressure and stress because they knew that they were shooting their compatriots who were service-men or even civilians.
The people in the region also hated the MKO showing their hatred by not giving them any facility. In 1986, Masud Rajavi declared the end of civil partisan struggle officially announcing that:
” The macro-border war is replaced by the micro –civil war.”
Therefore they began to pay their debt to Saddam Hussein. They were so devoted to Saddam that sometimes the Iraqi Authorities assigned the terror objectives for MEK.
The important question, here is: How the anti-human dictator, Saddam Hussein, was so adopted with some pro-human freedom fighters?
The answer is their common ideology and idea and also activity. But how could the both side share the same ideology?
The answer should be analyzed psychologically: The idealist Iranian youth who were brainwashed, manipulated through a long indoctrination process, held the arms as their most excellent mean, camping among the anti-Iranian Baathists. How can they meet the demands of their own nation?
As soon as they picked up the arms, they got distanced from their own nation.
When they entered Iraq, they were completely separated from Iranians who viewed them as traitors since then.
When they attacked Iran, they were considered as the hostile mercenaries of Saddam Hussein.
Now that, their God father is overthrown, they are looking for another one, to hang on. This is the main characteristic of all opportunists who are hungry for the power.
How the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult) destroyed all documents and books in Camp Ashraf
After the fall of Saddam Hussein, Rajavi ordered us to search all the camp. Ashraf camp had to be wiped off any material linked to Saddam’s apparatus. He told us, the new hosts (Americans) are stronger and will be able to help us a lot more. He ordered all the anti American and anti imperialist books and documents to be destroyed.
Download Mujahedin destroyed all documents and books in Camp Ashraf
This special report by filmmaker James Longley focuses on the impact of the
MEK on US–Iran Relations. Though the MEK, an exiled Iranian group, is listed on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, they continue to enjoy both the covert and overt support of some members of US Congress and the Bush Administration because of their opposition to the Iranian government.
This filmed report explores the history of the MEK, their ideology, their participation in the Iranian revolution and exile from Iran, and their collaboration with Saddam Hussein’s regime. Using interviews with historians, journalists, and first-person accounts of former members of the MEK, their shifting role is tracked through to the present day, as they continue to play a central role in US-Iran relations and create sharply divided opinions between various branches of the US government.
A film by James Longley
Download The Mujahedin Khalq and US-Iran Relations- Part One
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If the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is forced to weigh anchor from Iraq, since the Iraqi government is decisive to expel the group as once France did, it has to drop it in another country; it has already succeeded to drop it partly in France although not officially consented and announced neither by French government nor the organization. In fact, the organization needs to root in a country to survive, as it has already survived in Iraq for so long within its Ashraf cult-like enclave.
In spite of many current controversies and concerns that the group’s members would be sent to Iran to face trial for numerous terrorist atrocities if the Iraqi government holds the control of Camp Ashraf, a duty more on the shoulders of legal international tribunals investigating war and terrorist crimes, Iran seems to be unveiling to receive and tackle with so many ideologically potential terrorist forces that need thought reformation and have to go under a process of treatment for psychological or physical traumas before being sent into the society. No doubt, it would lead the organization to the precipice of absolute demise and that is why the organization is already protesting an improbable decision through a widespread international propaganda blitz.
Now at the service of world powers that walk on a war path with Iran, MKO will be probably granted a camp of refugees. Will it be a Western country? Of course not, since none of them is willing to risk its internal security. Despite given protections, the world has witnessed MKO’s acts of violence, meddling and espionage wherever it has been settled. Even the strictly imposed controls of French anti-terrorist forces could not cease potential terrorist and cult threats of the group settled in Auvers-sur-Oise when it came to display its real cult nature through setting member ablaze in Paris streets.
The courageous deed by the French government to handcuff terrorists who tried to turn Auvers-Sur-Oise into a bastion of terrorist plots worked as a blueprint for the Iraqi government to follow in order to have more control over Camp Ashraf. Being kept on terrorist lists or removed by some certain country does not necessarily mean that the countries where MKO members are officially, or under political refugees, residing have changed their views on the group; they are known to be terrorists and cultist above all and no country trust them to be freely moving here and there.
Restrictions imposed on the organization in France and Iraq, where it holds two bases, has actually checked group’s political and propaganda activities more or less. All these lead to a third supposition that the group would be relocated to the US as refugees. Although the US is supporting MKO to utilize it against Iran, however, it has never come to terms with the organization to recognize it an alternative for Iran’s current ruling order.
But MKO’s settlement in the US requires another decision: abandoning group’s designation as a terrorist organization. Of course, such a decision would cause the greatest controversy not only amongst the ruling administration but also amongst different political parties as well as national and social communities. It would be a logical and rational question to ask whoever delist MKO that how a group long occupying notorious rank of terrorists comes to be removed from the list and, above all, turns into a most favorite opposition group permitted to settle in the country. Then, where the terrorist cult is destined to settle?
Khodabandeh outlines Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult,MKO, MEK) history with George Galloway MP
Twenty years ago and after the Iran-Iraq cease-fire in 1988, Rajavi dispatched thousands of his warriors on ”Operation Eternal Light” across the border to capture Iranian territory and reach Tehran in less than two days. It was a total military failure and a proven suicide operation excluding the leader himself. In fact, Mojahedin hurried to take advantage of a no-war no-peace situation created after the ceasefire. The so-called National Liberation Army (NLA) did not sit waiting and hurriedly launched what many called the suicidal operation; in fact it imposed a high cost on the organization and it was the group’s last striving to take its chances to overthrow Iranian regime.
The failure of the operation Eternal Light (Forough Javidan) initiated challenges against Rajavi’s egocentric decision-making that led many forces of the organization to their death. Most of his critics believe that the operation was in no way correspondent with the organization’s line of strategy and that, Rajavi’s uncertain analysis of the post cease-fire situation compelled him to make a hasty decision.
The operation Eternal Light was the result of the search for an outlet out of an inevitable cul-de-sac rather than to be a strategic necessity. An analysis of the operation from the political and tactical point of view and Rajavi’s rationalization of the operation indicates that the move was the outcome of a desperate situation that had completely immobilized Mojahedin both in political and military fronts. A group that had once concentrated all its campaign marrow in a form of militia warfare and had already suffered great loss, suddenly and unbelievably had shifted to adopt a classic military tack to start a big cross-border operation.
A number of MKO-run sites have recently published an announcement entitled Deployment of previously used agents against Iranian Resistance depicts Clerical Regime’s extreme frustration in an attempt to justify landslide member splinter within the organization. During the past recent months, a number of the detached members who had taken refuge in American-run TIPF returned to Iran; they were all called to be criminals, infiltrated agents, proxies of Ministry of Intelligence, expelled members and much more as it is MKO’s typical. The ever-growing demand of members held in Camp Ashraf to separate the organization has forced MKO to isolate about 200 dissatisfied members to stop further instigation in other members.
The announcement names the separated members one by one and accuses them with cliché allegations atop of which lies their affiliation to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. It also attacks “Sahar Family Foundation”, an NGO established to help MKO’s separated members exit from TIPF and Iraq and to defend their rights, and its founder Massoud Khodabandeh and accused him and his other colleagues of being the regime’s agents.
At the present, the splinter of members within MKO has turned to be the most critical challenge the organization is facing. Also, the intensified challenges among American parties following the released report by American intelligence agencies that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 necessitates a logical and peaceful solution to an issue which have totally disappointed MKO. Through disclosing Iran’s nuclear threat, MKO anticipated instigation of a militarist conflict between Iran and the US; it was the supposition behind Rajavi’s fixing January 2009 as the deadline for the collapse of Iranian regime and Rajavi promised that if nothing happen at the end of the deadline, all the Ashraf residents were free to stay or leave. The countdown being already started, with the Bush nearing the end of his presidency, the Ashraf residents seem to be eager to leave sooner than the promised deadline.
Such deeds by MKO to accuse separated members of being the rival’s agents is an unusual deed looking it from the conventional approaches adopted by majority of campaigning political organizations. It is common among the active groups to recruit members and let them leave whenever they wish. The only organization that seems to have no dissatisfied member and the members have signed to stay to the end is MKO! And, of course, all those who have left, escaped and have appealed to leave are infiltrated agents and more. But there is one exception. The organization has so far taken no position to talk about the separation of Batul Soltani, a member of the Leadership Council of MKO, who two years ago escaped from Camp Ashraf and moved into TIPF. On 14 January 2008 she left the TIPF and moved to Baghdad in order to go abroad but she changed her mind to stay in Iraq and start a legal battle against the organization for all torments she had undergone and suffered.
The path to Camp Ashraf is a one-way path; entering it, nobody is permitted to leave and the organization presents legal excuses for not letting anybody to leave. As stated in item sixteen of the announcement “Since the MOIS insists on introducing its newly- recruited agents as the “former PMOI members”, it should be reminded that the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran announced four years ago in its statement of August 3, 2004, on the legal status of the PMOI, “As the agreement of the legal status of the Ashraf Residents as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention was signed, the leadership of the Resistance and the officials of the PMOI strongly emphasized on the need and importance of making the final choice at this turning point. Thus, all individuals were reminded that before signing the Agreement, they must once again think of their final choice freely and voluntarily. They can go after their desired life and pursue their desirable option. But if they want to stay in Ashraf and continue their struggle for freedom, they must consider all the probable risks”.
As implied, the Ashraf residents have no choice but to stay and those who escape are Iranian regime’s agents. But the question still exist that accusing minor members of many allegations, why MKO rejects to take any clear stance concerning high-ranking separated members? Mojahedin.ws, April 19, 2008
