The Inside Story of America s Favorite Terrorist Group (Leadership election in Mojahedin Khalq before any talk of delisting)
The Inside Story of America's Favorite Terrorist Group
(Leadership election in Mojahedin Khalq before any talk of delisting)
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... When American forces attacked Iraq, according to Iraqi documents captured and declassified by the U.S. military, Rajavi met with Saddam’s top intelligence operatives and agreed to use MEK forces against insurgents, freeing the Republican Guard to fight the Americans. The report of the meeting was sent directly to Saddam’s son, Odey. It is little wonder that the current Iraqi regime is opposed to the MEK—a stance constantly fueled by the Iranian regime. Throughout this bloody history, replete with tactical and strategic blunders, Rajavi and Maryam have remained the absolute leaders of MEK ...
Ever since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Iranian MEK (short for Mujahedeen-e Khalge) has been a thorny spoil of war for the United States. Originally an armed anti-Shah movement, they came to fight the clerical regime they helped impose only to move on to supporting Iraq in its war against the ayatollah and his minions. Having targeted and killed several prominent Americans during their heyday in the 1970s, they are on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. Now, about three thousand members of the group—seasoned in fighting the Iranian regime and stationed by Saddam in a place called Camp Ashraf—are American captives in Iraq. In the last few years, their fate has been the subject of constant squabbles in Washington and between Washington and Baghdad. With an apparently endless supply of funds at their disposal, MEK members have repeatedly and unsuccessfully petitioned the federal government to have their names taken off the terrorist list. In a few days, Secretary Clinton will have to decide how to answer their pleas.
And so their remarkably well-oiled machine of PR firms, powerful American politicians (all handsomely paid for services rendered) and other pressure groups is now at it again. These advocates repeat what the MEK and its many front organizations claim: The group has jettisoned its violent past and is now, in its new incarnation, a key component of the democratic movement.
At the same time, another equally well-oiled machine, this one with lobbyists paid for by the clerical regime in Tehran, is working against delisting MEK, calling the group a dangerous cult with Iranian, Iraqi and American blood on its hands. Many in Iraq (either taking their cues from the current leadership or with an eye toward the days when MEK was an enforcer for the Saddam regime) are opposed to the group’s continued residence in their country.
MEK was formed in opposition to the Shah in the mid-sixties, and before long virtually its entire leadership was arrested and sent to the firing squad. The only early leader to survive was Masud Rajavi, who continues to rule the group to this day. In the seventies, the remaining members sent a representative to Najaf to work with Khomeini, then living in exile. Khomeini’s supporters in Tehran, including Rafsanjani and Montazeri, convinced the ayatollah to allow the use of religious funds to support the families of those MEK members who had been imprisoned or executed. Yet Khomeini never fully trusted the group; its ideology seemed a dangerous combination of Marxism and its own interpretation of Shiism. As one Iranian critic put it, MEK is “Stalinism minus the vodka.”
After the revolution, MEK was amongst the most stalwart supporters of the clerical regime. It grew in number and stature rapidly, soon becoming the most formidable organization in the country. The MEK used its increasing power to pressure the government into increasingly radical action—from more summary trials and executions to the occupation of the American embassy. Simultaneously it adopted close ties with Moscow, and particularly with the KGB. One of its leaders, named Saadati, was arrested while passing to the KGB a counterespionage file the group had taken when it attacked the Shah’s secret-police offices. In return, the kgb promised to give the MEK a full list of CIA agents in Iran.
But eventually MEK fell afoul of the regime and began to fight the power holders in Tehran. Young men and women were sent in droves to armed street demonstrations. Khomeini’s regime responded with remarkable brutality, slaughtering thousands of the organization’s members. The group returned the favor and killed, by its own claims, more than two thousand regime leaders. MEK was in fact the first group in Iran (and arguably in the region) to use suicide bombers.
Eventually the group had no choice but to take its surviving cadres out of the country. On January 7, 1986, in a letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the MEK requested the Soviets “give temporary asylum” to any member of the organization that fled across the border into the Soviet Union. Concurrent with the request for asylum, in another letter to the “Dear Comrades” of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, MEK asked for a loan of three hundred million dollars to continue their “revolutionary anti-imperialist” actions (see: anti-Americanism). This request came on the heels of a twelve-page letter from Rajavi to “Dear Comrade Gorbachev” in which he began by praising the Soviet Union’s efforts “against imperialist adventurism.” To support his organization’s loan application, Rajavi informed Gorbachev that the MEK “has faced the most concentrated efforts of officials from the United States” and offered supporting documents in an appendix.
It is not clear how the Soviets responded, but MEK soon settled in Iraq, helping Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran. In 1988, the group—lead by Rajavi and his wife, Maryam—engaged in three operations, conducted with the help of the Iraqi army, against Iranian forces. By all accounts, all three were badly bungled. Several thousands were killed on both sides. Moreover, in Iranian prisons, on Khomeini’s direct order, about four thousand MEK prisoners, who were serving time on earlier charges, were summarily executed lest they help the invading MEK units.
When American forces attacked Iraq, according to Iraqi documents captured and declassified by the U.S. military, Rajavi met with Saddam’s top intelligence operatives and agreed to use MEK forces against insurgents, freeing the Republican Guard to fight the Americans. The report of the meeting was sent directly to Saddam’s son, Odey. It is little wonder that the current Iraqi regime is opposed to the MEK—a stance constantly fueled by the Iranian regime.
Throughout this bloody history, replete with tactical and strategic blunders, Rajavi and Maryam have remained the absolute leaders of MEK. They are worshipped by their adherents. The organization’s members and their advocates tell the world they have jettisoned their past and are now dedicated to democracy. In cults, however, leaders remain unchanged.
The reality is that the MEK has fought the clerical regime more effectively than any other group. It is also true that throughout nearly all of its history, the same couple has ruled the organization, and there are many claims that they rule it with an iron fist. Only if there is free and fair discussion of the current leadership under democratic conditions (and under international supervision), and only after a new, fresh leadership is freely and democratically elected should the United States even consider the idea of removing the group from its terrorist list.
... Iran-Interlink representative Anne Singleton travelled to Iraq mid April at the invitation of the Baghdad based human rights NGO Baladiyeh Foundation, officials of the Government of Iraq and other NGOs involved in the Camp Ashraf problem. The Baladiyeh Foundation, headed by Mrs Ahlam al-Maliki, provides humanitarian assistance to a wide range of deprived sectors of Iraqi society arising directly from the invasion and occupation of Iraq by allied forces in 2003. Baladiyeh Foundation is concerned by the humanitarian crisis at Camp Ashraf caused by the group’s leaders who are refusing to allow access to human rights organisations to verify the wellbeing of all of the camp’s residents ...
Ex- Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) members recount ordeal in Iraq
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... The spokesperson of the Iraqi defense ministry, General Mohammed al-Askari, said in a Tuesday press conference in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad that the three former MKO members escaped from Camp Ashraf, the terrorist group's headquarters in Iraq, and surrendered to the Iraqi security forces, a Press TV correspondent reported. The official said that the defected members have provided the Iraqi government with the evidence required to shut down the camp according to the international laws. The former members of the terrorist group say the residents of Camp Ashraf are completely cut off from the outside world, and are tortured and traumatized, but are also afraid to escape ...
Three defected members of the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have given an account of their ordeal during their stay at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
The spokesperson of the Iraqi defense ministry, General Mohammed al-Askari, said in a Tuesday press conference in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad that the three former MKO members escaped from Camp Ashraf, the terrorist group's headquarters in Iraq, and surrendered to the Iraqi security forces, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The official said that the defected members have provided the Iraqi government with the evidence required to shut down the camp according to the international laws.
The former members of the terrorist group say the residents of Camp Ashraf are completely cut off from the outside world, and are tortured and traumatized, but are also afraid to escape.
Having lived in misery and under pressure for many years, Maryam Sanjabi, one of the MKO deserters, surrendered herself to the Iraqi forces deployed near the camp last week.
“None of the residents of Camp Ashraf have the right to contact their families... The only thing that can separate a member from the MKO is death,” she said.
“The leaders of the camp have spent millions of dollars to train the residents of the camp how to launch attacks and even encounter the Iraqi security forces,” Sanjabi added.
Another former MKO member, Abdullatif Shadvari, who escaped from the camp two months ago, earlier said, “The punishment of those who try to escape from Camp Ashraf… is execution.”
On April 8, 34 people were reportedly killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and MKO members residing in Camp Ashraf in Diyala province.
Iraqi forces say there is evidence that the people have been killed by the organization itself.
On April 11, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the cabinet is determined to shut down the camp.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraqi executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala near the Iranian border.
More than 3,000 MKO members are residing at the camp. In addition, the MKO sends elements to Iran on spy and terrorist missions.
The organization is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
Following the overthrow of Saddam in 2003, the Iraqi government has set numerous deadlines for the terrorist group to leave the country but MKO has managed to maintain its base due to US backing.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, and is responsible for numerous terrorist acts against both Iranians and Iraqis.
Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has been blocking its expulsion by pressuring the Iraqi government against such a move.
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Declarations of three recently defected members of the MKO
Ms. Maryam Sanjabi, a member of the leadership council of the MKO and also a member of the NCR, along with Mr. Barat Kaykhaee and Mr. Latif Shardari, both veteran members of the MKO, are amongst many individuals who recently managed to escape Ashraf garrison in Iraq and leave the Rajavi cult and surrender to the Iraqi police.
After recent incidents and the clashes between the Iraqi police forces and a limited number of people inside the Ashraf garrison, these three former members participated on their own request in a press conference with the presence of reporters, photographers, TV channels and also political and legal personalities and the representatives of international and human rights organizations, and briefly described their own experiences inside the cultic garrison of Ashraf.
This conference was held on Tuesday 19th April 2011 by the Iraq government in the green zone of Baghdad and lasted for two hours. Some documents and materials prepared by the Sahar Family Foundation were distributed amongst the participants.
The texts of the declarations made by these three former members are as follows:
Speech delivered by Ms. Maryam Sanjabi in the Press conference held in Baghdad on Tuesday 19th April 2011
My name is Maryam Sanjabi. I was a member of the leadership council of the MKO and also a member of the NCR before I left Ashraf, and I hereby announce that I have abandoned both entities.
My decision to leave the MKO has been made based on my bitter experience of 20 years with the organization and realizing its cultic ideology. This was not an easy job to do at all. According to cultic regulations, no one can leave the organization and that is why I had to escape covertly and reach the Iraqi forces and ask them to help me to leave Ashraf.
More than 20 years of bitter experience in the Ashraf garrison and witnessing how the members are mind captives of Massoud Rajavi's dictatorship and how they lose everything, made me feel responsible to leave the organization and try to let everyone know what is going on there.
One guru is holding the leadership of this cult for more than 30 years, and I should say that he does not believe in anyone and anything but himself. After 30 years he is becoming more and more a totalitarian leader and forces the members to obey him using sophisticated psychological tools.
I try to explain briefly:
I was denied of my most basic humanitarian rights so was everyone else.
The leaders do talk about freedom and human rights and claim for democracy, but I saw some deniable facts against all these that I wish to share some of them with you.
It is nearly 25 years that the inhabitants of the Ashraf garrison are deprived of their most basic human rights which are recognized in all countries by all organizations round the world. Despite the massive propaganda made by the MKO for freedom and freedom loving, and despite their claims for justice and human rights which they misuse in the international relations, the organization is keeping the members under mind exploitation and deprives them of their known rights.
None of the members are allowed to contact their families freely and they are not allowed to visit them. Between 2004 and 2006 some members of families managed to come to Ashraf and visit their relatives. The MKO allowed that in order to misuse them for its own purposes. They intended to recruit the youth some even less than 18 years old. Other interests were followed in this regards such as gaining money, gaining information, persuading them to create unrest inside Iran and absorb new recruits and so on. The visits were totally controlled and monitored under the supervision of a superior, and after the families left, the relatives inside the organization were kept in isolation for some time and they were asked to write a report about the family and how he or she feels about them. They were under pressure to express their disgust towards the families. The members were not allowed to spend the night with their families and especial meetings were arranged for them which I refer to later.
In the age of IT, none of the members in Ashraf garrison have the right to use telephone, mobile or internet. Not only have they no access to these, if they try to do so, they have committed an offence. Of course some have access to internet which is totally controlled and they should use it with the presence of someone else. They use internet for the organizations propaganda purposes. The members cannot contact their families. There are individuals in Ashraf that they have no trace of their families for more than 20 years.
Even the critically ill people cannot contact their families before they die. Only after their death the families are informed about their loss just to give them a deadly shock.
People have no right to have a family inside the cult and family relationship is forbidden. The excuse is that when you choose to struggle you should abandon the normal life and you should be devoted to your cause and your leader. I must explain here that during the past 20 years that the internal ideological revolution was imposed upon the organization, having a family was denied, the members were continuously subject to enormous pressure and mind manipulation and over 90% of their and the officials’ time was used up to attend meetings in this regards. The members had to be convinced continuously that they are doing the right job and their ideology is superior to every other ideology in the world and in the history. But reversely after the ideological revolution was introduced to the organization, the number of members deteriorated day by day and they had to impose more dictatorial ruled over the members. It is worth mentioning that internally in the leadership council they used to say that men never accepted the ideological revolution and women’s domination; and this was a major problem the cult was facing with and had no way out of it.
If you refer to the statistics, 3400 individuals out of 80 million population of Iran are in Ashraf garrison and I know that more than one third of them came to Ashraf by mistake or being deceived without knowing anything about the MKO which has another story.
After 30 years, one person is still ruling the organization and is leading the members without consulting any of them on any issue and continuously claims that he knows better than everyone else and he never makes any mistake.
The members of this organization have no right to have access to free world and to the media. They have no access to television, radio, papers and apart from the MKO's satellite television every other media is banned. To try to have access to these is an offence and the person would be prosecuted. Having a radio or tape recorder or even listening to non-organizational music is an offence and anybody trying to do so would be held in custody.
Misleading in the organization is such that sometimes some international organizations used to visit the Ashraf garrison. In that particular day exceptionally they used to put satellite televisions on in the gathering rooms showing canals such as the CNN and Al-Jazeera temporarily to pretend that the people in Ashraf have access to all TV canals. They used to put everything back to where they were as soon as the visiting delegations left.
The inhabitants of Ashraf garrison had even no access to internal telephone and could not contact one another. Everyone is under tight control. One is not allowed to go anywhere, even the sickbay, without the permission of the commander. One must have permission letter signed by the commander of the unit to go from one part to another. This situation is applied to women more severely since they have to do everything in pairs. Passing or doing anything alone is forbidden.
Up to 70 to 80 percent of the members cannot use a car. If they want to go to another place they must use public vehicles confirmed by the commander.
There is a great discrimination to use the food and hygiene and medicine for men and women in Ashraf. Women commanders who continuously talk about freedom and justice have far better privileges than others. Women commanders who are members of the leadership council enjoy the best welfare facilities while the men are deprived of the most essential necessities.
There is no freedom of even thinking, no right to choose a friend, to right to have a chat with co-workers, no right to see the relatives and the members of the family inside the garrison even brother or sister, no right to choose to participate in a particular ceremony or not, no right to use any spare time for anything, all these are forbidden and considered as offences. These are the most essential rights of an individual everywhere in the world that are violated in the organization as they did in the medieval. They have worked on everybody’s mind so smartly that everyone considers all these rights as sins.
There are meetings of 100 or even 1000 people. In these meetings they force everyone to expose their most private acts and thoughts and be ready to be told off by everyone else. The participants start swearing and calling all names. These meetings are practically a sort of psychological and mental torture imposed on the participants one by one. There are many cases that the meetings go on as long as 10 to 15 hours or even days for only one person. This is done to break the subject’s personality and individuality and force him or her to confess to even false accusations. Then the person should be punished for it. This had become a normal daily practice inside the MKO and meetings are held every day.
Inside the organization, according to the cult’s ideology it is said that no member has any identity of his or her own and everyone’s wealth and life and spouse and offspring and family belongs to the leader. It is said that in particular the lives and breathes of every member belongs to the leadership which the life is for Massoud and the breath (mind and thoughts) is for Maryam. This is the base of the MKO’s ideology.
This means that no one can take any decision on anything and has no will power at all.
The situation is so harsh that they say the members must be kept so busy all the time that they would never have time for thinking and they must be so tired that when they go to bed they fall asleep so soon that they have no time to think about anything. That is why the working hours in Ashraf is from 5:30 in the morning till 11 at night which puts everyone under enormous mental and physical pressure, particularly when approximately two third of the members are over 40 or 50 years old.
There are many undeniable facts about the Rajavi cult which there is no just explanation for it and these are just a tiny part about the cultic and complicated internal relations of the MKO.
Since I became a member of the leadership council, they told me that I cannot leave the organization under any circumstances, and if I do so the penalty would be death and I must kill myself taking cyanide piles. I wish to ask: is there anywhere in the world that a president or a minister or a security official is not allowed to resign? If there is no such case then why the MKO considers this as betraying the organization and the penalty is death. The MKO gives a death sentence to all its opponents. To escape from the organization and to leave Ashraf and even for the families to come to Ashraf and seek for their loved ones is a crime and the person doing so must face death. This has been emphasized by Rajavi on many occasions. (So if anything happens to me or my friends, the MKO is directly responsible).
At this moment there are many members of the leadership council inside Ashraf garrison who do not wish to stay and the leaders do no let them go and they are practically detained in there. There are many who do not agree with the MKO but they are afraid to express their opinions. I personally know some of them who do not wish to risk their lives and they do not dare to oppose Rajavi and his cult.
I wish to add that this problem is not for the leadership council only. Inside the Ashraf garrison, no one is allowed to express opinion and no one is allowed to leave the place.
This is a big lie fabricated by the MKO that everyone is free to leave the Ashraf garrison. Those who managed to escape from Ashraf can bear witness to this real fact.
Unfortunately Massoud Rajavi thinks that he can materialize his childish dreams by using the lives of the people and to act as a totalitarian leader in the 21st century.
What has made me to come and try to talk to you and express my stances and my points of view is that I have deep sympathy for those victims who lost their lives in the recent events and those who are still captive, both physically and mentally, inside the garrison and are forced to obey the leader.
The lives of the people worth more than anything else in this world and no one can decide about other people’s lives and destiny, and no one can force others to take part in something that they might lose their lives. Inside the cult it is clearly announced that the only thing that matters is the leadership and others should only scarify themselves for him.
The MKO as a cult has always clearly interfered in Iraq’s internal affairs. Namely they have established particular committees to fulfill their aims and many members are active in them.
These committees which are named such as Iraq relations or social committees have the Iraqi internal affairs in their agenda. They try to mobilize unrests inside the country by using huge amounts of money and making a lot of propaganda against the Iraqi government. They spent millions of dollars on satellite canals for these purposes which my friends would explain.
I wish to urge all international organizations to give help to free the captive members inside the MKO. You as the international bodies and human rights organizations do have the right and you are obliged to visit the inhabitants of the Ashraf garrison one by one and inform them about their rights and about the outside world. You must open the way of these people to the outside world and this is your right and your duty to force the organization to open the doors of Ahsraf and let everyone choose individually.
Each person inside the garrison must be interviewed independently without the presence of the commanders and they must be accepted by the western countries as individuals.
You are the international organizations who claim to know the most basic rights of the people of the world. Then why you let the MKO as a destructive cult keep its members captive for nearly 25 years inside its physical and mental boundaries in Ashraf.
And so far no one in the garrison has been allowed to have any contact with the outside world and none of you have managed to see any of them and even give them a letter from their families or a mobile phone or a transistor radio.
Speech delivered by Mr. Barat Kaykhaee in the Press conference held in Baghdad on Tuesday 19th April 2011
I, Barat Kaykhaee left the Ashraf Garrison on my own will and secretly to free myself from the Rajavi cult. I was a member of this cultic organization, but because of Rajavi’s autocratic and wrong decisions and absence of basic liberties and human rights for the members, I decided to leave.
I had for several times expressed my protest to the organization’s policies, especially towards the Iraqi government as much as possible. However, not only does the organization not tolerate the ideas of the members and even those of the MKO officials, but also the members should pay a heavy price for expressing their views. Therefore, I decided to escape from the organization and after passing through several barricades and bulwarks which they have placed in order to prevent the members to flee, and after traveling a long distance, I surrendered myself to Iraqi forces.
I should say to all the members who have trouble with the organization that they can do the same thing and save themselves from the captivity, despite the MKO’s threat that all of those who quit and their families will be killed.
I would also like to express my deepest sympathy with the victims of the recent incidents and their families. They were our dear friends who became victims of the stubborn and wrong policies of Rajavi, who still thinks he can stay in Iraq.
Regarding the recent incident which resulted in the victimization of some of our friends, I should say that the MKO leaders had prepared themselves to clash with the Iraqi government since two years ago. They had also provided trainings on how to clash with Iraqi forces, in case they invaded the garrison. They had also provided some equipment. Unfortunately, contrary to Maryam Rajavi’s claims and her urge for combat, none of the MKO high-ranking officials were present at those clashes and they just victimize the young members for their dictatorial policies.
Mrs. Rajavi herself is in Paris and Mr. Rajavi is not seen in any of these incidents. They even do not send a leadership member to the battleground. However, they get 20 to 30-years-old young men and women to be killed. The innocent people who engage in these clashes are just victimized for Masoud Rajavi’s hegemonic dreams and Maryam Rajavi’s freedom-seeking deceits.
Maryam Rajavi said “We will not mourn and what happened was all glory,” which means she prides herself for victimizing other people.
While it has been 8 years since the Iraqi government announced that the MKO should leave the country; and for several times issued peaceful solutions and insisted that she is serious and she does not want a military organization in her soil, why didn’t the MKO respect the laws of the country in which it resides?
I ask the MKO officials that while from the very beginning your goal was to fight with the US and then with the Islamic Republic, how come you firstly made friends with America? What happened that you forgot the so-called war and you are now fighting the Iraqis?
Now one-third of the forces in the Ashraf garrison are busy interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs in an attempt to manipulate Iraq’s social and political situation, so that the MKO can stay in Iraq like in the past and become able to keep its members captive in the garrison and not letting them have any contact with the outside world. You have deceived your members for 8 years, saying you will emerge victorious.
If the MKO claims that it respects international conventions and human rights, it should have respected the laws of the country in which it resides. Last year, some other members of the organization were also killed for the same reason. After the US forces left Iraq, the Iraqi government rightfully decided to build a police station on one of Ashraf’s streets. However, the MKO prevented the move through its resistance, warmongering and propaganda.
Their main worry was that the members get in contact with the Iraqi agents and subsequently with the free world. The MKO leadership did not want anybody to enter the camp’s area. Up until now, animosity is growing and I think the MKO officials won’t hesitate to get all the members killed and as she says they won’t “mourn” for that. During these years the members have always been told that they should have been killed when they were 12 or 13, the same age of the MKO’s first martyr.
Masoud Rajavi has for several times announced publicly that he wants war a hundred times more and if there is no war he will wage one. He has always said he won’t let us die in bed and that he is going to give us salvation. He is a person who knows no value for human life and thinks the only way to fight is to get people killed only to prove that he is the one who knows everything while he knows he is better than anybody else that he is the most desperate person. During these 30 years he has resorted to every pressure on the members to keep even this restricted number of people in the organization.
As far as I know, the Iraqi government has set a new deadline for the MKO to leave Iraq by the end of the current year. I call on all the residents of Ashraf to use the opportunity and save themselves from that evil organization before Rajavi again wants to victimize you to save the MKO officials.
The Iraqi government has openly announced that it does not want the MKO in its soil because the organization interferes in the country’s internal affairs, organizes uprisings and revolts from inside Ashraf, forms committees and spends millions of dollars to sponsor some Iraqi groups, spreads propaganda via its satellite network, etc. The Iraqi government is serious about its decision.
During these years, the MKO has put the interference in Iraq’s internal affairs on its agenda:
• From the first years of war, it started recruiting and training Iraqi agents in order to use them to help the organization stay in Iraq and pursue its objectives. • A special committee in Ashraf together with the main part of military FMs is allocated to work on Iraqi social groups: o It recruits Iraqi agents and pays them for supporting the MKO and acting against the Iraqi government. o It constantly contacts those agents via email and internet and uses them as its channels for staging rallies in different cities and villages. o About one third of the MKO members work in the FMs mainly to have contact with Iraqi agents, gain their support for the organization and obtain information from them o Everyday 500 PCs are used to contact with Iraqi agents • At the times of mobilizing forces and obtaining signatures, the MKO sent about 100,000 emails • The MKO convened • One of MKO’s demands from the Iraqi people and tribes was to stage protests and overthrow Nouri Maleki’s government. This was even announced publicly from the organizations TV satellite. • The organization held tribes summits in Baghdad and other provinces and the main agenda of the meetings was staging demonstrations in support of Ashraf to stabilize its position. • The MKO paid the Iraqi agents via its bank account and internet • The primary agenda of the meetings was opposing the government but the real agenda was staging a revolution in Iraq and instigating revolt in the country • The MKO have openly called for the ouster of Maleki • The MKO by spending a lot of money wanted the Iraqi agents to do a lot of things for it such as holding commemoration ceremonies for the MKO martyrs, staging demonstrations, holding exhibitions, etc. • At the time of elections in Iraq, the MKO spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to divert it from the normal path. They even designed posters for some Iraqi candidates • The MKO provided refuge for some Iraqis acting against the government • The MKO forged 5.2 million signatures under the name of Iraqi people • The MKO hires staffs and lawyers to work for their benefit in Iraq • The MKO held election campaign for some factions
By spending that money, the MKO could have obtained asylum for the members to solve their problems Masoud Rajavi and the other MKO leaders want to stubbornly keep Ashraf in Iraq without observing the country’s laws and keep people captive in the camp without any access to the outside world.
Hereby, I submit my request to you and other international human rights organizations to save the MKO members from the current horrible situation and not let them fall victim to Masoud Rajavi’s hegemonic dreams.
Speech delivered by M Latif Shardari in the Press conference held in Baghdad on Tuesday 19th April 2011
I am Abdol-latif Shardari and I have been in Rajavi’s group for 25 years and have undertaken various responsibilities in different types of life. As I confirm my colleague’s words, try to give up this MKO organization and having passed through shaped and obstacle routes and passing by the guard posts employed to be an obstacle fencing Iraqi armed forces in Camp Ashraf. I could reach Iraqi troops to exit Camp Ashraf.
The most important issue made me give this organization up is that whatever is being broadcast through media boards of MKO is different from inside the real. As the least of human rights is not respected them. Moreover we are regarded as prison of war in this camp so that the most basic rights are not respected as well.
To me as real is that I think during 8 years ago not only the fake , fiction , unreal & dictatorial MKO leadership that out of any logical factor & incomparable to the new procedures of modern world but also International Community is faulty especially in letting & making Camp Ashraf be still up in Iraq .
No opportunity to have free & private word has been made for no one for 8 years & never has been given a hand to be able to have a way but to be kept at the camp & be murdered.
The issue I want to talk about is MKOs paradox & controversial points in its positions & decisions.
As you know Maryam & Masud Rajavi apparently withdrew from their positions in armed struggle to deceive the International Community after US– Iraq war & Maryam Rajavi announced that believes in third way as solution that it is to hold free &fair election in Iran …… some other slogans Although she announced that in domestic organization strategy & speeches both Maryam & Masud believe in armed combat against Iran. And furthermore they wanted to raise this belief among the other members of MKO. Some day at the end we will get back our weapons from Iraqi government & start up the armed combat again.
The most basic belief in the organization was (& still are used) to carry out suicide & armed combat operation & however in International Community & accompanied by lawyers. Maryam Rajavi continuously accused other Islamic groups as Fundamentalists.
MKO chart is unique as one the most fundamentals by itself, including the belief in 21 century:
1- To carry out armed battle & human massacres. 2- To implement mind & physical restrictions & enslave the members. 3- To hold compulsory & training meetings in the field of ideology & sectarianism believes. So that all members must respect & worship one appointed leader & have got no right criticize him. 4- To make Maryam & Masud Rajavi the most glorious & incredible minded persons & to separate them from other members of group so that it is said that concerning political & Masud personal views , each members of MKO can only comprehend 2.5 % of whatever is being discussed by him .So we came up with a long distance to closely comprehend his thoughts & ideas . 5- To have no right to criticize or object leaderships way of management. His policy, route map & plan decided on behalf of the organization. 6- To spread this belief that all members in organization should sacrifice their lives far the leadership & whatever they own as : wealth , lifes, spouse , child , family & even their thought belongs to leadership & nobody has no identity by his own & all members receive their personality from the leadership . To discuss over these vital matters may take times & is catastrophic & so confusing that it cannot be included in this explanation & I just wanted to have a small word about it.
I should remind that as this cult (organization) constantly believe in armed combat, one of the MKOs duties is to interfere in Iraq's affairs & hampering Iraq's Government .For achieving its goal & aims, the MKO Leader (Masoud Rajavi) declares to all MKO members to resist militarily against Iraqis, so the result is that we will win & can stay at Camp Ashraf & in IRAQ at the end.
MKO not only did not pay any attention to the Iraqis warning & ultimatum, but also MKO Leader prepared & reorganized the members for war against Iraq's government at Camp Ashraf. Masoud Rajavi orders for readiness for war as follows:
1- To prepare to attack Iraqi forces by bats, clubs, truncheon, stones & stone – thrower machine (made in Camp Ashraf). 2- To prepare & produce tools to defend themselves. 3- To made plan to disarm Iraqi forces, confiscating their vehicles & even capturing Iraqi polices (if they try to enter Camp Ashraf). Masoud asked us we should not withdraw & given up any cm of Camp Ashraf soil to Iraqis. We must resist & not allow the Iraqis to enter Camp; they want to deploy their troops & established facilities here. Masouds strategy was (and is) to stimulates Iraqi forces to shot MKOs members. 4- To instruct & train MKOs members (for 2 years & beyond the trenches & embankments at Camp Ashraf) how they can taking hostage, disarming & attacking Iraqi forces.
Despite the fact that for more than 8 years Iraqi Government repeatedly warns & informs that MKO must leave the IRAQs soil as soon as possible, MKOs leader & its council while rejecting this request, do not leave the country in declared deadline. MKOs leader & its council not only didn’t pay any attention & obey the IRAQs rules & obligations, but also they hampering the Iraq government's activities by means of:
I. Masoud & Maryam Rajavi announced all members of MKO should try: 1) collapsing Iraq's government. 2) Taking part in rally against the Iraq government. 3) staging protest as well. II. Spending enormous amount of money for doing such strategy .( No : I ) III. Protest against Iraq's ruling government. IV. Recruiting from local Iraqis aiming at fulfillment of MKOs (Masoud) strategy in Iraq & to change the destiny of Iraq's Government. V. Employing, enrolling & hiring local Iraqi people & get them into military training at Camp Ashraf. MKO force these people to taking part in ideological class held at Camp. Shortly after that these guys were ordered to gather information for MKO. They serve as MKOs spies indeed. One of their jobs was (and still is) to publicize in favor of the MKO. These facts are just a few (but not all) about the realities upon MKO function in Iraq.
I am so sorry about my innocent friends who victimize themselves for their wrong insistence .So I, from here, request & ask all International Agencies , Communities & Organs (involved in humanitarian affairs , human rights, etc) as your humanitarians , conscientiously , religiously , or even as your natural duties, help us to find a solution for Camp Ashraf Case & ask you to end & stop this painful situation for Camp Ashraf residents via peaceful means .
Again I ask you: A. To pave the way for private meeting & interviewing all members of MKO at Camp Ashraf freely. B. To facilitate for all MKO members to go to any country they like, or to ask asylum to wherever they are going to live there. C. To announce & inform to all MKO members at Camp Ashraf the IRAQ Governments firmness to shut down the Camp Ashraf as soon as possible & in the declared deadline . D. To help the Camp Ashraf residents to get out from this prison one by one.
Ali Jahani open letter to the Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki
America is the main criminal force behind terrorism in Iraq
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... In your recent interview with the news network, Al alam , you mentioned that some of the western countries have supported this organization financially consequently you want to make a complaint against those countries. Your decision is very great and admirable and I believe the main criminal in this issue is United States of America because of its support of this terrorist organization on Iraq soil without consideration of the will of Iraqi people and their honorable and popular government. I, the former member of this organization, am fully ...
Open letter to the honorable and distinguished Prime-Minister of Iraq, Mr. Nouri Al- Maliki
Respectfully, I, Ali Jahani, am the former member of PMOI (MKO, Mujahedin Khalgh). During twenty years of my close activity in this organization, I had been witnessing many terrifying and horrible experiences of breach of the human rights and awful crimes which probably are unbelievable for some people.
I ,after 2 decades of active cooperation with this organization which its preliminary objectives were 180 degree different than its final objectives ,fortunately could rescue myself from PMOI after the fall of the Saddam Hussein , the dictator of Iraq, in 2004 and after spending 4 years in the American camp , TIPF, which was located near the PMOI main garrison , Ashraf, I could find my way to Turkey and from Turkey I could come to Germany and in Germany beside my life I have been trying my best to reveal and disclose the PMOI inhumane and un political activities by my enlightening activities and my awareness disclosure . Now I would like to share with you some of my experiences which I had seen closely during my membership in PMOI.
1. Espionage, political and military cooperation with the government of Saddam Hussein and PMOI participation in killing of Kurds and suppression of the Shiites in southern part of Iraq.
2. Compulsory separation of the children from their biological parents inside PMOI relations and imposing and forcing the married people to get divorced from each other.
3. Any connection with the family is forbidden and the PMOI leaders force their members to kill any kind of sentiment and feeling with their beloved ones and in stead the members should worship Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
4. Building prisons in their internal relations and torture the dissidents inside those prisons just because they were against the PMOI inhumane policies inside the PMOI relations.
5. The strong censorship inside the PMOI relations about “News” and forbidding having any personal radio and the only News source was the PMOI news network.
6. After the fall of the Saddam Hussein, the Iraq dictator, the PMOI leaders have not allowed the families of their stranded members to visit them and right now there are many families behind the closed gates of Ashraf garrison who have been waiting for more than a year to visit their loved ones but so far the leaders of PMOI have not allowed them.
As you are well informed that since the beginning of the April 2011 there were bloody clashes between the PMOI stranded members and your military forces which had begot many casualties , more than 10 people were killed and hundreds were wounded, but these clashes are not the first one and will not be the last one either.
The leadership of PMOI without having any military achievement send his stranded members to fight against your military force to be killed or injured just to take advantage of their blood for his political objectives and for conservation of his cultic entity and position, but everybody knows that PMOI has remained in your country as unwelcome guests and as collaborator and partner of Saddam Hussein in his bloody crimes against humanity.
The leadership of PMOI does not want to leave your soil without bloodshed and clashes. They do not want to pay the price of being responsive to their bloody cooperation with Iraq dictator during eight years war between Iran and Iraq and their recent unjust clashes with the Iraqi forces which resulted to the death of many stranded members of PMOI, so the leadership of PMOI is looking for more bloody clashes and violence to hide the realities mentioned above and annihilate more of its dissidents in the future clashes. The clash between the stranded members and the Iraqi military forces is the only solution which the leadership of PMOI is thinking about to get rid of its dissidents.
You are maybe familiar with some of the PMOI inhumane and anti-human rights activities which exist like cultic rules and regulations in their internal relations and as a result of this fact, cultic rules and regulations, the cults for conserving their cultic entity are ready to sacrifice their members and they are capable of doing any violent and vicious activity for their survival.
In your recent interview with the news network, Al alam , you mentioned that some of the western countries have supported this organization financially consequently you want to make a complaint against those countries. Your decision is very great and admirable and I believe the main criminal in this issue is United States of America because of its support of this terrorist organization on Iraq soil without consideration of the will of Iraqi people and their honorable and popular government.
I, the former member of this organization, am fully pleased of your decision regarding the expulsion of this terrorist organization from your country till end of this year, but I am urging you, regarding to accomplish the expulsion mandate of PMOI, do not allow any clashes to occur between your military forces and PMOI stranded members because PMOI leadership is looking for such bloody clashes to survive. I am urging you to solve this problem as peaceful as possible and the peaceful solution results in freedom of the stranded members and will make their families very happy.
Iraq orders Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) terrorist group to return occupied land
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... Sheikh Ali al-Zahiri, head of the support council of the Iraqi city of Khalis, said on Tuesday that the Diyala Province court has ordered the terrorist group to return 5,000 hectares of land located inside Camp Ashraf, where the MKO terrorists are located, to the Iraqi owners, IRIB reported. The outlawed MKO fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where it enjoyed the support of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the northeastern town of Khalis, Diyala. The court ruling also required the MKO to pay compensation to 150 Iraqi families for the terrorist group's illegitimate use of the land over the past three decades ...
Iraqi police are seen at one of the entrances leading to Camp Ashraf, the military base of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq's Diyala province. (File photo)
An Iraqi court has mandated the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to return thousands of hectares of land that the terrorist group occupied to set up its military base in eastern Iraq.
Sheikh Ali al-Zahiri, head of the support council of the Iraqi city of Khalis, said on Tuesday that the Diyala Province court has ordered the terrorist group to return 5,000 hectares of land located inside Camp Ashraf, where the MKO terrorists are located, to the Iraqi owners, IRIB reported.
The outlawed MKO fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where it enjoyed the support of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the northeastern town of Khalis, Diyala.
The court ruling also required the MKO to pay compensation to 150 Iraqi families for the terrorist group's illegitimate use of the land over the past three decades.
The development comes as hundreds of Diyala residents staged a demonstration last Tuesday, calling for the expulsion of the MKO elements in Iraq. The Iraqis also demanded the return of more than 36,000 hectares of their land occupied by the notorious terrorist organization.
The MKO -- listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community -- has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranian officials and civilians as well as the people of Iraq.
The MKO cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.
Since Saddam was deposed in 2003, the Iraqi government has set numerous deadlines for the terrorist group to leave the country but the MKO has managed to maintain its base with US support
... "Iraq will sue those governments that support the MKO in order to harm Baghdad," Maliki said at a Saturday press conference, Al-Alam news network reported. "The Western states put the MKO on the list of terrorist groups for its crimes against Iraqi people, but they support it now," he noted. Maliki was referring to a recent decision by a Spanish court to summon the Iraqi premier regarding the incidents in Camp Ashraf -- where the MKO terrorists are currently located ...
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has announced that his country will sue the governments supporting the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group.
"Iraq will sue those governments that support the MKO in order to harm Baghdad," Maliki said at a Saturday press conference, Al-Alam news network reported.
"The Western states put the MKO on the list of terrorist groups for its crimes against Iraqi people, but they support it now," he noted.
Maliki was referring to a recent decision by a Spanish court to summon the Iraqi premier regarding the incidents in Camp Ashraf -- where the MKO terrorists are currently located.
The Iraqi prime minister also said that Iraq does not recognize the Spanish court's order.
The MKO fled to Iraq in the 1980s, where it enjoyed the support of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and set up Camp Ashraf in the eastern province of Diyala, near the Iranian border.
The terrorist group cooperated with Saddam in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against both Iranians and Iraqis.
Iraqi lawmakers slam US intervention on US support for Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult)
Iraqis continue to protest MKO camp
US keeps Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) terrorists armed in Iraq
New U.S. approach to Mojahedin-e Khalq (MKO, MEK) in Camp Ashraf overlooks the victims’ human rights
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... The problem is not the name of Camp Ashraf or the name MEK. The Rajavi’s cannot simply re-name, re-brand or even relocate their group for political expediency and expect the ‘members’ to continue as their slaves. To solve this problem (before the question of whether they want to work for or against anyone) the residents must be given access to the outside world, to their families, to media, communications, get paid for their work and have access to the post office, cinema, marriage registry, birth registry, police station, legal aid, courts and legal bodies of the country they are living in etc. Nine years after the fall of Saddam ...
Attitudes are slowly crystallising and shifting over what should be done about the MEK, with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey introducing a new and positive approach in U.S. dealings with the group in Iraq. But the July 4 Miami Herald article ‘Iranian dissidents in Iraq want refuge in 3rd country’ , also highlights the danger that various elements are still trying to derive their own benefits from the MEK even though the demise of Camp Ashraf has become inevitable. Of course you would need to ask those involved what they each hope to get out of such a defunct group.
Ambassador James Jeffrey, addressing only MEK leaders, has urged them to “‘dissolve’ their paramilitary organization and become refugees someplace else in Iraq”. In its turn the MEK itself has already threatened tomassacre its own membersif any external body interferes in the camp. Jeffrey added that the group "really believe that the U.N. and the United States will protect them forever." Well, they have good reason to believe that to be so.
Trita Parsi’s timely article Washington's Favorite Terroristsexposed U.S. hypocrisy in dealing with the MEK in Washington. But we may very well see a similar level of support continuing in Iraq. The obvious way this would manifest would be for the MEK to be taken (en masse) inside a U.S. military base and held there until further notice. This would protect the group from Iraqi attempts to expel them from the country, and also obviate the need for the U.N. to enter Camp Ashraf and rescue the individual residents from their enforced imprisonment by the MEK leadership.
The wholesale transfer of the residents of Camp Ashraf would truly be a human rights disaster. The sooner it is acknowledged that Rajavi is nobody’s representative but his own, the sooner the victims of the MEK will be helped.
From the hardliners in Iran who want to keep their dangerous foreign backed enemy, to the neoconservatives in the U.S. who want to keep the hatred between Iran and the west (as the neocon version of Holocaust denial, the fact that the MEK has killed so many Iranians is what feeds this hatred), to Iraqi internal factions which want to use the MEK for attacking other factions, to Europeans who still believe the MEK are a useful bargaining chip with Iran or can be used to influence the internal affairs of Iraq. All these have an interest in keeping the MEK intact. None wants the dissolution of the camp or the organisation. They all want to stop the camp being disbanded because they are using the MEK for their own various agendas.
The problem is that without taking the necessary action to access the individual residents of the camp they are essentially being left in the ownership of the Rajavis and their backers. In this respect where are the human rights organisations which should be directly involved in helping these victims? What attempts have the U.N. made to actually get inside the camp and have free access to the residents? Human Rights Watch published its ‘No Exit’ report in 2005 which was laudable, but what have they done since then? Amnesty International still prefers to think of the MEK as an entity and ignore the existence of the individuals in the camp. What has AI said about the internal problems of the residents; the daily violations and abuses of their basic human rights?
The problem is not the name of Camp Ashraf or the name MEK. The Rajavi’s cannot simply re-name, re-brand or even relocate their group for political expediency and expect the ‘members’ to continue as their slaves. To solve this problem (before the question of whether they want to work for or against anyone) the residents must be given access to the outside world, to their families, to media, communications, get paid for their work and have access to the post office, cinema, marriage registry, birth registry, police station, legal aid, courts and legal bodies of the country they are living in etc.
Nine years after the fall of Saddam and the disappearance of the cult leader it is not acceptable for a U.S. official to simply try to move the group from one part of the world to the other part without the slightest concern about the human rights of the captives there.
Washington pressures Iraq to provide sancutary for Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) terrorists
Talabani: Iraq's patience has worn thin
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...Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, voiced his support for Iran's call to shut a military camp in central Iraq that has served as a base for an Iranian insurgent group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MeK. Washington, while designating the MeK as an international terrorist organization, has pressured Iraq to continue to provide sanctuary to some 3,400 MeK fighters over fears they would be persecuted if they returned to Iran. Mr. Talabani said in a speech to the terrorism conference Saturday that his government's patience with the MeK had worn thin. The MeK camp "will be shut down by the end of the year," Mr. Talabani said ...
Iran is moving to cement ties with the leaders of three key American allies -- Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq -- highlighting Tehran's efforts to take a greater role in the region as the U.S. military pulls out troops.
The Afghan and Pakistani presidents, visiting Tehran, discussed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "many issues. . .that might come up after the NATO military force goes out of Afghanistan," Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in an interview here Sunday.
"The three presidents were very forthcoming in carrying out the cooperation and contacts so as to make sure things will go as smoothly as it could," he said.
That was a jab at Washington, which is increasingly in competition with Tehran for influence in the region, particularly as popular rebellions have surged across the Middle East and North Africa since January.
The overtures by U.S. nemesis Iran come amid tensions between Washington and three governments that have each received billions of dollars in U.S. aid. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, before traveling to Tehran, welcomed President Barack Obama's announcement on Wednesday that the U.S. would withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over 15 months.
The U.S. is also committed to withdrawing all of its remaining 45,000 troops from Iraq by year-end; some U.S. military officials want some troops to stay to serve as a check on Iran, but Iraqi hostility to the U.S. presence has been an obstacle.
In Pakistan, military and civilian leaders are under domestic pressure to curb U.S. ties, in a wave of anti-Americanism fueled by the U.S. raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden at his home in Pakistan.
Tehran has been pressing Afghanistan -- Iran's neighbor to the east -- and Pakistan to end their military alliances with Washington.
Officials at the White House and State Department declined to comment on Sunday on the Tehran meetings.
U.S. and European officials have said they believe Iran's regional ambitions are hampered by a stagnant economy and growing political infighting in Tehran that could cost Mr. Ahmadinejad his job.
There are also historical tensions between neighbors -- and in some cases, current conflicts. Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari that Pakistan must stop lobbing rockets into his country, according to a statement from Mr. Karzai's office. Mr. Zardari denied Pakistan's military was firing the rockets.
But Iran's government took every opportunity to play up its international ties during a weekend that also included a conference in Tehran attended by representatives from around 60 countries.
The Obama administration and European nations had lobbied countries against attending what Iran called an "International Conference on the Global Fight against Terrorism." The U.S. characterizes Tehran as the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.
The event was also attended by diplomats from U.S.-friendly countries such as Mongolia, Oman and Indonesia. The United Nations and Organization of the Islamic Conference both sent representatives.
"Pakistan and Iran share an historic bond," Mr. Zardari told the conference on Saturday, when his late wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was honored by Iran's government.
For its part, the U.S. charges Tehran with fomenting instability by providing arms and training to insurgent groups, including the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Kata'ib Hezbollah militia in Iraq, that battle American forces. Tehran denies the charge.
For the most part, the conference followed a pattern many U.S. and European officials anticipated. Iranian, Cuban and Palestinian representatives -- mixing with North Korean, Zimbabwean and Myanmar diplomats -- branded Israel the world's largest terrorism threat.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, addressed the conference and said the definition of terrorism is abused internationally.
On Friday, after a three-way meeting between the Iranian, Afghan and Pakistani presidents, the three leaders pledged to intensify their joint efforts to fight militant groups and combat narcotics trafficking, while "rejecting foreign interference" in their countries, according to a statement. The three also agreed to meet next year in Islamabad.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, while in Tehran, voiced his support for Iran's call to shut a military camp in central Iraq that has served as a base for an Iranian insurgent group, the Mujahedin e-Khalq, or MeK.
Washington, while designating the MeK as an international terrorist organization, has pressured Iraq to continue to provide sanctuary to some 3,400 MeK fighters over fears they would be persecuted if they returned to Iran.
Mr. Talabani said in a speech to the terrorism conference Saturday that his government's patience with the MeK had worn thin. The MeK camp "will be shut down by the end of the year," Mr. Talabani said. "We intend to prevent any kind of invasion to be launched against any of our neighboring countries."
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Maria Abi-Habib in Kabul and Maya Jackson Randall in Washington contributed to this article.
Iraq: Ashraf Camp will be closed, West should take Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) back home
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... The Iraqi government’s position towards the ‘terrorist’ Mojahedin E-Khalq Organization is very clear, and the Ashraf Camp, used by that group as its headquarters must close by the end of the current year, 2011,Baghdad had called on International Organizations to help it in this issue.We have proposed the formation of a special committee, to comprise representatives of the Iranian and Iraqi sides, along with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Committee is scheduled to convene in the nearest possible time. the Western states must present help in this respect, including the acceptance of persons, belonging to ...
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, has said during his current visit for Tehran, that Ashraf Camp, in northeast Iraq, inhabited by the anti-Tehran Mojahedin E-Khalq Organization, must close by the end of the current year.
“The Iraqi government’s position towards the ‘terrorist’ Mojahedin E-Khalq Organization is very clear, and the Ashraf Camp, used by that group as its headquarters must close by the end of the current year, 2011,” Zibary told a joint news conference with his Iranian Counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehy, in Tehran, carried by the Iranian Fars News Agency on Wednesday, adding that “Baghdad had called on International Organizations to help it in this issue.”
Zibary said that during his talks with his Iranian Counterpart in this respect: “We have proposed the formation of a special committee, to comprise representatives of the Iranian and Iraqi sides, along with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Committee is scheduled to convene in the nearest possible time.”
The Iranian Al-Aalam Satellite TV Station had quoted Zibary as saying that “the Western states must present help in this respect, including the acceptance of persons, belonging to the said ‘clique,’ wishing to move to their countries, as well as preparing the suitable platform for the return of those of them, wishing to return to Iran.”
Answering a question about the dossier of the Iranians, detained in Iraq, he said: “The Iraqi government had released hundreds of Iranians, who were detained in Iraq due to the end of their official residence or ignoring Iraqi laws,” confirming that the Iraqi government was striving to release the remaining Iranians in the near future.
Regarding Iraq’s position towards the developments in Bahrain, Minister Zibary said: “We respect the sovereignty of Bahrain and believe that the Bahraini people must appoint their government and system, and define their fate by themselves,” reiterating Iraq’s rejection of atrocities against Bahraini demonstrators, “because today’s world does not allow such measures against demonstrators, demanding their rights.”
As regards to the future of the foreign forces in Iraq, the Iraqi Foreign Minister said that “the political forces in Iraq were coordinating their attitudes, in order to define a final position towards the future of the American forces in the country.”
Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, had began a visit for the Islamic Republic of Iran, leading a high-level delegation, representing his Ministry’s leading officials in the bilateral, legal and consular affairs, to carry out talks with the Iranian side and discuss Iraq’s relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Wondering at those Americans who stand under the flag of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen
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... Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission”. Then he (Massoud Rajavi) with a smile on his face continued his war cry and said, ”What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power, then this paper tiger (the USA) will be destroyed as a whole.” ...
This documentary takes us beneath the surface of acts of terror against Iran and shows how Iranians have been targeted by various terrorist groups, some of which enjoying the support of human right organizations.
Iraqi police are seen at one of the entrances leading to Camp Ashraf, the military base of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq's Diyala province. (File photo) 
