Fars News Agency, Translated by BBC Monitoring, Aug 28, 2008:... The al-Forat television network reported that spokesperson for Iraqi defence ministry, Gen Mohammad al-Asgari made the announcement. He said: At this time, the camp is surrounded with support form an Iraqi military battalion and Iraqi forces have placed it inside a security enclosure ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, August 24, 2008:... Naturally, the members distanced from the influence of the laboratory could cause problems for the organization and they had to be controlled according to the same controlling measures imposed on them in Camp Ashraf despite living in Auvers-Sur-Oise or anywhere else in the Europe. Oddly enough, these cultic, controlling measures proceeds in the heart of the modern, democratic world ... more...
Press TV, Aug 25, 2008:... In a recent move, Britain removed the banned Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from its blacklist of terror organizations. The MKO has committed acts of aggression against both Iranian and Iraqi nationals and remains banned by the European Union and the United States ... more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Aug 25, 2008:... In an article in the NEWSTATESMAN by John Pilger dated 29 May 2008, it is shown that the MKO is being used by the Bush administration against Iran for terrorist activities, even though the organization has been designation as a terrorist group by the State Department ... more...
Pars Iran, Canada, Aug 25, 2008:... WE are wondering how come you stand behind MKO as a women while they have been systematically violation UN human rights charter such as the freedom of marriage, right to make a family , the right to education. You sold Canada very cheap by the trip to Paris paid from Sadam's pupet...more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, August 22, 2008:... It may seem hard to believe that the first seeds of MKO’s transition to a cult of personality were sown in the heart of the Western democratic and free soil following the initiation of the ideological revolution within MKO. In fact, before MKO relocation to Iraq to execute cultic relations in Camp Ashraf ... more...
Middle East Today, Press TV, Aug 17, 2008:... Anne Singleton and Ebrahim Khodabandeh discussing US protection for MKO Terrorists in Camp Ashraf...more...
Sahar Foundation, Baghdad, Aug 19, 2008:... "...Oddly enough, the group, the Mujahadeen-e Khalk, is listed as a terrorist organization by our own State Department. The MEK worked with Saddam Hussein and even fought as his ally in the war against their own countrymen. But the MEK shares the same goal as the Bush-Cheney administration ... more...
Mojahedin Monitor, Aug18, 2008:... perhaps no story is more tragic than that of the former members of the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who wish to leave their state of limbo in war ravaged Iraq, can not return to Iran and hope for safety, and have not yet managed to gain asylum to any other corner of this earth ... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, Aug 16, 2008:... Sir Geoffrey Adams, British Ambassador to Tehran, paid a visit to the Nejat Society
The British Ambassador to Iran, Geoffrey Adams, along with a high ranking official from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) who was visiting the country required a meeting in the office of the Nejat society in Tehran. A number of members and associates of the society including Mr. Arash Sametipour, the international relations secretary, were present in the meeting ... more...
Sahar Foundation,Baghdad, Aug 14, 2008:... Regarding the fact that the control of the base of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq called the Ashraf camp, as a part of the Iraqi territory, is going to be handed over to the Iraqi authorities by the coalition forces ... more...
Habilian Association, Aug 11, 2008:... He asked the Iraqi security forces to deport MEK terrorists from Iraq as soon as possible. He called MEK a terrorist cult which is responsible for all the existing unrests and violence in Dyali...more...
ISNA - Tehran, Aug 09, 2008:... Meanwhile regarding a committee founded in Iraqi defense ministry to pursue the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) case the official said that Iraqi government is willing to take charge of the MKO terrorist group and make a decision about them. According to this official the U.S. is also willing to concede the MKO responsibility to Baghdad ... more...
IRNA, Aug 08, 2008:... After the MKO members' expulsion from Iraq, Iran will follow up the issue of the grouplet leaders' hand over to Iranian judicial authorities and if necessary, they should be tried at the Hague as war criminals ... more...
Iran-Interlink, Aug 07, 2008:... Iran-Interlink heartily congratulates Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Atefeh Naadalian on their recent marriage in Tehran ... more...
John Pilger The Guardian, Wednesday August 6 2008: ... the lies of justification grow more outrageous. Iran is the current "threat". But Iran has no nuclear weapons and the disinformation that it is planning a nuclear arsenal comes largely from a discredited CIA-sponsored Iranian opposition group, the MEK - just as the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction originated with the Iraqi National Congress, set up by Washington ... more...
The Arkansans Democrat Gazette, August 5, 2008:...But the MEK shares the same goal as the Bush-Cheney administration: regime change in Teheran. So they're useful for American purposes. When's a terrorist not a terrorist? When he's on your side ... more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, August 6, 2008:... The last lines clearly delineate the intention of what he refers to as ‘the international community’. Nobody is the least interested in the life and destiny of these enslaved people in Camp Ashraf as human beings. The Europeans and Americans have reached a consensus to manipulate these members as means of leverage to be used against the Iranian regime ... more...
Constance Andresen Tanter, Washington DC, Aug 05, 2008:... I BELIEVE THAT MADAME RAJAVI AND THE GROUP DO NOT SUPPORT WOMENS RIGHTS SINCE THEY KEEP PAYING AND FUNDING RAYMOND TANTER AND SINCE I WAS THE WIFE AND AM ON APPEAL THAT ALL THEIR INTERNAL AUDITS WILL BE BROUGHT FORTH......HE FOOLED ME AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS....HE HAS THREATENED MY LIFE IF I SPEAK OUT OR EVEN HAVE AN ATTORNEY TO DEFEND MYSELF. I WONDER WHY HE HAS HIDDEN ALL OF THIS AND IN THE DIVORCE ALL DOCUMENTATION OF AL OF THE EMAILS AND UNDO INFLUENCE IS DOCUMENTED FROM THE MEK CAUSING A US STATES DISTRICT COURT IN WAHSINGTON DC TO NOT GRANT DISCOVERY OR EVEN DUE PROCESS.....I AM SEEKING AN ATTORNEY ON APPEAL AND ALSO I WONDER IF I MAY NEED TO SUE THE MEK FOR WHAT IT HAS DONE TO A UNITED STATES CITIZEN I HAVE LIVED IN FEAR OF MY LIFE ... more...
By Scott Ritter, Special Contriburtion, Seoul Times, Aug 04, 2008:... The organization represents no state and can be found on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations, yet since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the MEK has been under the protection of the U.S. military. Its fighters are even given "protected status" under the Geneva Conventions. The MEK says its members in Iraq are refugees, not terrorists. And yet one would be hard-pressed to find why the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees should confer refugee status on an active paramilitary organization that uses "refugee camps" inside Iraq as its bases... more...
Nejat Society, Tehran, Aug 04, 2008:... Initially in this symposium Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh a former member of the international relations department of the MKO in the UK discussed two topics which were the de-proscription the MKO in Britain and the recent resolution passed by the Iraqi governments which indicates that the control of the Ashraf Camp must be handed over to the Iraqi authorities. He pointed out that the families have suffered most from the latest decision ... more...
Press TV, Aug 04, 2008:... The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, it said, adding that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. According to Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts deserters under torture and jail terms...more...
UPI, August 1, 2008:... The United States and Iran have had an acrimonious relationship since a CIA-backed coup in 1953 overthrew the Iranian government. Now, the report said, "U.S.-Iranian political atmosphere and dominant American philosophies have encouraged the U.S. government to forge a friendship with an Iranian opposition group that is living in exile, the People's Mujahedin of Iran." ... more...
Interview with Ali Kordi, 1 August 2008:... The situation in today's Iran is very different from the circumstances which prevailed in the early 1360s decade [early 1980s]. Not only small groups such as the Mojahedin, but also major powers and countries too are not capable of confronting Iran. The recent missile manoeuvres of the [Islamic Revolution] Guards Corps bears testimony to that fact. On the other hand ... more...
Press TV (The Agenda), London, July 31 2008:... Is American using Terror Groups to fuel a Dirty War inside Iran? - Presented by Yvonne Riddley, Anne Singleton from Iran-interlink participates in a one hour discussion on "The Agenda", Press TV, London studiomore...
By Selig S. Harrison; Harrison is director of the Iran Program at the Center for International Policy.
Newsweek International, July 31, 2008:... To start a broader dialogue on the nuclear issue, Obama would have to take one crucial step sought by Iran: end CIA and Special Forces support for insurgents seeking to overthrow the Islamic republic, especially Kurdish separatists and the Iraq-based Mujahedin-e Khalq. This move wouldn’t need to be publicly announced, however, and would thus have a low domestic political cost for Obama ... more...
Julia Murray, NIAC, Jul 31, 2008:... Washington DC - NIAC held a briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill to shed light on the risk of a possible proxy war between the USA and Iran through various sectarian and political groups in Iran and Iraq, including the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The event featured Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.), an expert on strategy and military organizations ... more...
Research Bureau, Mojahedin.ws, July 31, 2008:... Generally, as Thaler Singer suggests, “Cults tend to require members to undergo a major disruption or change in lifestyle”. Many cults put great pressure on new members to leave their families, friends, and jobs to become immersed in the group's major purpose. This isolation tactic is one of the cults' most common mechanisms of control and enforced dependency ... more...
IRNA, July 29, 2008:... The protestors were families of those MKO members who have been kept (mostly unwillingly) in the terrorist cult's camp some 60 km north of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.
The center, called the Ashraf Camp, is a place where the MKO members are brainwashed to get prepared to participate in terrorist operations against civilians targets ... more...
Iran Interlink, June 24, 2008:... We cannot expect Iran or Iraq to offer succour to people who have committed acts of violence against the people of those countries. It is clearly the responsibility of the MKO’s western backers to now rescue them ... more...
Al Alam, June 19, 2008:... It is not the duty of Iran or Iraq to help these people but the U.K., U.S. and Israel should grant safe haven and retirement opportunities for their cohorts ... more...
House of COMMONS, December 13, 2007:... to proscribe an organisation that has been involved in terrorist activity seems the right thing to do...more...
Aljazeera television, October 17, 2007:... Anne Singleton: Massoud Rajavi has likened himself as the bridge between people and God. Now from that position, he can more or less order his followers to do anything... more...
By: neha gandhi, CBC Television, August 12, 2007:...a true story of the Mohammady family and their tangled history with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (Rajavi cult)... more...
Meeting between Abbass Dawari the representative of Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq Organisation) and the secret services of Saddam Hussein. giving information about their own country in exchange for money.more...
Sun.co.uk, March 2007:...Anne was learning how to fire rifles and gearing up to fight for the group (Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult) backed by Saddam Husseinmore...
Iran interlink, February 2007:... The case study has been chosen from the Mojahedin-é Khalq Organisation (MKO). This organisation according to current sociological definition is a destructive cult... (www.cultsandterror.org) more...
BBC persian, February 23, 2007:...the group has changed its policies, methods and even internal relations several time and what has remained under the command of Massoud Rajavi...more...
Film evidence shows Maryam Rajavi, personally ordering tanks to roll over Kurdish villagers in 1991.
She is directly responsible for torture and executions more...
Middle East scholars widely dispute the assessment that the MEK is a legitimate democratic alternative to the Iranian regime. “That’s patently nonsense,? said Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institutemore...
And Alireza Jafarzadeh asks permission from the head of the cult (Rajavi) to carry out self immolation and suicide operations anywhere in the world. His letter has been published proudly by the Mojahedin official newspapermore...
