Al-khaddran (Khalis Governor):
We have set up a lawsuit against the Mojahedin Khalq
(aka: MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult)
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... Diyala has seen a significant improvement in security since last July after the Camp of New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) came under the control of the Iraqi government, which has in turn offered Mojahedin Khalq(MEK,MKO, Rajavi cult) members that they may return to either Iran or to any other country. They do not come under the rules which apply to refuges or those with families within Iraq according to International law ...
(Massoud Rajavi and Saddam Hussein)
Al Dustour, Baghdad, March 02, 2010 (Translated by Iran Interlink)
Link to original (Arabic)
http://www.daraddustour.com/التفاصيل/tabid/94/smid/427/ArticleID/8655/reftab/38/Default.aspx
Diyala, the constitution
Governor of Khales, Khalis Uday Al-khaddran, said he had filed a lawsuit on behalf of the citizens of Khales against the Mojahedin organization for the crimes perpetrated against them. Al-khaddran said that the MKO has held around 6000 dunums of land in Khalis district for more than 18 years. This organization was the right hand of the deposed (Saddam) regime and played a prominent role in sheltering and supporting what he described as (criminals of the state).
Al-khaddran added: "We hope the new government will remove this Organization from the land of Iraq and enforce the Constitution, which provides that Iraq not be used as a base for aggression and harm to neighbouring countries that enjoy good relations with them". At the same time I am requesting from humanitarian and international organizations that they find an alternative place for the organization and take them out of Iraq.
Diyala has seen a significant improvement in security since last July after the Camp of New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) came under the control of the Iraqi government, which has in turn offered MKO members that they may return to either Iran or to any other country. They do not come under the rules which apply to refuges or those with families within Iraq according to International law.
الخدران:اقمنا دعوى قضائية ضد منظمة خلق
3/2/2010 5:23:12 PM
ديالى ـ الدستور
قال قائممقام قضاء الخالص عدي الخدران ان المواطنين في الخالص اقاموا دعاوى قضائية ضد منظمة خلق لما اقترفته من جرائم بحقهم. وبين الخدران ان منظمة خلق تسيطر على حوالي 6000 دونما من اراضي قضاء الخالص منذ اكثر من 18 عاما وهذه المنظمة كانت اليد اليمنى للنظام البائد وكان لها دور بارز بأيواء ودعم بما وصفهم بــ (مجرمي الدولة الاسلامية).واضاف الخدران "نامل من الحكومة الجديدة اخراج هذه المنظمة من ارض العراق وتطبيق الدستور الذي نص بعدم اتخاذ العراق قاعدة للعدوان وايذاء الدول المجاورة التي نتمتع بعلاقات جيدة معها", كما طالب في الوقت نفسه المنظمات الانسانية والدولية بأيجاد ملاذ لهذه المنظمة واخراجها من العراق. يذكر ان ديالى شهدت تحسناً امنياً كبيراً منذ تموز الماضي بعد وضع معسكر العراق الجديد (اشرف) سابقا تحت سيطرة الحكومة العراقية والتي بدورها خيرت افراد منظمة خلق اما بالعودة الى ايران او اللجوء الى اي بلد اخر كونهم لاتنطبق عليهم قواعد الاسر او اللجوء داخل العراق حسب القوانين الدولية
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Also
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7784
Iraq: According to us, United Nation, Red Cross and others, Mojahedin Khalq have no status in Iraq and they know it
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... We have prepared that their families come to see them. We have arranged to go all the humanitarian aid to them, whatever is food or healthcare or medicines. It is the normal life they have… But at the end, we tell them Iraq is not… your choice. Look for a third country ...
Press TV, Baghdad, March 01, 2010
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119736
Ali al-Dabbagh, the Iraqi government spokesman and a candidate for the Rule of Law Coalition,
gestures at a sample ballot as he speaks to Shia elders during a campaign event in Baghdad, Iraq
(...)
Press TV: You know, we noticed that since the Iraqi government signed the bilateral or the withdrawal agreement, the US troops started to withdraw from certain cities. But, in the mean time they handed over the responsibility of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) or Camp Ashraf or the New Iraq, as it is named now, to the Iraqi government, and we have heard many statements about their expulsion and many other things. So far, do you think that nothing has been done except for entering the camp and opening some police stations over there without making any progress in their expulsion from the country?
al-Dabbagh: We do not want to expel them against their right. We are dealing with them in the most humanitarian way. But at the same time they have to respect the law of the country. They treat themselves as guests. They have no status in Iraq. This is known for us, known for them, known for the United Nations, known for all the organizations, even the Red Cross. They have no status. But they are… we treat them as a guest, as de facto we had inherited from the last regime… Once they do not follow the laws of the country here, they are going to face the law itself. So what is… we do not want to create a problem for them. We have prepared that their families come to see them. We have arranged to go all the humanitarian aid to them, whatever is food or healthcare or medicines. It is the normal life they have… But at the end, we tell them Iraq is not… your choice. Look for a third country. We do not want to force you to go back to Iran. We do not want to do so. We do not want to take you and throw you on the border of Iraq like other countries may. But at the same time, it is that this MKO, they live in different places. Do they have that privilege the same as they have in Iraq or that Western countries? Do they give what we are giving to MKO? They have to respect the law. We are telling them we are not going to harm you. We are not going to create problem and difficulties for you. But you have to respect the prevailing law.
Press TV: But, a few months ago, they have rejected the sovereignty of Iraq when the Iraqi security forces tried to enter the camp and they faced the Iraqi government with knives and tear gas and many other stuff. And even, I have met with some Iraqi soldiers and officers, and they were extremely wounded. So, after the elections, what do you think their status is going to be?
al-Dabbagh: That is the status. That is… we are telling them we are working with the organizations, international organizations, to find a third country for them. We cannot keep them and Iraq be their third country. They have no hope to stay in this country. That is what we are telling them. So, friendly we are telling them we do not want to be harsh. We do not want to be dealing or taking any measure. We will not take that measure but at the same time, they have to help us, they have to help themselves. And we ask the international community to help them and find another country to host them and to accept them.
(...)
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(Maryam Rajavi in terrorist cult's HQ in Paris)
(Rajavi cult or MKO aslo known as Saddam's Private Army)
Full Interview:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119736
Ali al-Dabbagh upbeat about Iraqi election
Press TV has conducted an exclusive interview with Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh on the country's parliamentary elections, which are to be held on March 7.
Following is the text of the interview:
Press TV: What is the importance of this election for the country?
Al-Dabbagh: The importance of the election based on and coming from that this is the first Iraqi people and the voters going to choose persons, by persons, by numbers. Unlike the others, just like the previous elections which just choose means of the list which they do not know who is that. This is very important which gives them the hope that they could be part of the change. They could nominate their representative by name, by person which they believe that he is going to be a real representative for them, a real defender of their right, and he is going to honestly representing them in a good way. This gives the hope. Second that, it is important that it is building up. It is building an accumulative advantage and record of the democracy. This is an importance. As well as, there is a challenges facing Iraq. Challenges for the reconstruction for the three services, for which the people are waiting after seven years. Some of the people are desperate because there is nothing delivered. Most of the difficulties are not yet fixed. So the people are looking forward to choose a real representative to keep the ministers, the cabinet accountable and the questionable for all the failure which might happen and it could improve the political situation in Iraq.
Press TV: Talking about the services, do you think that this election would lead the country to prosperity and unity?
al-Dabbagh: Well, it is not easy from the first time that they could achieve a hundred percent. But we could say that a certain percentage could be achieved. Once the heart of the political system in Iraq, parliamentary system, which is the council of representatives, which is the parliament, when it is healthy, that it could produce a healthy government, a healthy institution, a positive institution. This is the importance that they could be a good representative, a brave people which they could stand there and could bring a good people to the cabinet to improve the services. The political situation, this is the problem. It is a brittle situation still in Iraq. After seven years of the change in Iraq, still a consensus is ruling and governing the situation, which we do need to make a real democracy. A direct democracy is not a consensus democracy, which depends to on the acceptance of the other. The balanced way, which is being held during the past period, it produced a brittle situation. We hope that it will be a better… in the future.
Press TV: After the election campaigns and all the promises that were given by the candidates, do you think the turnout would be huge for the elections?
Al-Dabbagh: I do not think that. I do not think the promises could be fulfilled. It is not an easy, it is not a magic way that any candidates say I could do what, I could so. It is not the way. The most important thing that we have, I said, a healthy heart, a health of the political process, which is the parliament. When this built, of course, it will produce a better… A qualified and efficient… But a deficient… Some of the deficient minister and deficient senior official, which they could not play a major role in improving the services. I guess that the best thing to achieve that we will have a good governance which could produce a better performance. There is no problem of solving some of the difficulties. While the core is good, they could employ, they could nominate a qualified people which they could fix the difficulties and the problems in Iraq.
Press TV: You think the Iraqi people are looking for security. So what are the measures that you have taken or the government has taken to secure the electoral process?
Al-Dabbagh: Let me say that we do not need to say we do. I think we did. If there is a thing to be named to Mr. Maliki that the security situation… Everybody knows that they cannot move in the daytime. At the 3 o'clock, Baghdad is a ghost city. Nobody could move at 3 o'clock. But now nighttime they could travel. I do not say that there is no challenge. There is still challenge. We still are facing those devils which they make horrific attack on Iraqi people. We do need to work to maintain the security, to fix the security. But we had achieved a good performance in the security. What is after security? After security, I think the people would like to see a better life, to be a better living standard, a better education, healthcare, better rational, food, car, better jobs. Unemployment is high still in Iraq. The salaries, the incomes are still low. We want to improve it. All this people are… and it is legitimate. Iraq is a rich country. So this is the thing we are talking about. What is after security? We do not want to say we will do. We already did. But at the same time there are also some failure. Some of the services are not yet fixed. There is deficiency in some places which we do need to bridge this deficiency.
Press TV: I agree with you a hundred percent, but the question actually popped up after the recent threats which were made by the… groups or the terrorists that they are going to target the polling stations and target even the people who are going to vote. What kind of coordination have you done to secure the elections?
al-Dabbagh: I could say that this is not the first time. We had three elections and this is the election we have. We are just looking and hearing the threat. And at the end… Iraqi people are a brave people. As I said, at the time, some of the countries at the day of election, the percentage of the voters comes down, goes down. But here in Iraq, we have a threat. Bombs are coming and attacks are coming and terrorists may attack. But the people are coming. And this is the thing here in Iraq which might be different. This why they are coming, because we have good people, we have a wise people. Like Grand Ayatollah Sistani, like the other politicians, are calling the people to go for voting and this is good. For the Iraqi government is trying to take all the measures in order to secure the centers and the security of the voters, security of the papers, security of all related issues. This is the job of the government and I think there is a plan which is being done. Even we have a surveillance, area of surveillance, which is giving extra protection. This is in the capacity which we could do. And I think there is no way for us. Only to succeed. Failure and accepting… from those devil enemies is not in our agenda.
Press TV: Since the bilateral agreement or the withdrawal agreement between Iraq and the US, most of the US officials and actually the commanders are all the time saying that the security is fragile and the security forces are not well-prepared to take over the security file from the US Army. Why do you think they are all the time accusing the Iraqi security forces, or even the (Iraqi) Army, of being incapable of taking over the security file?
al-Dabbagh: I do not deny that there is a challenge, challenges which are facing us in Iraq. But the situation as… as in the media. We have a threat. Devil enemies are attacking us. I do not know monthly, weekly you could say, and it is horrific attack. We have lost a great number of our civilians. But at the end there is agenda, it has been signed and agreed before. The American administration are committed to that table. At the end of 2011, foreign troops staying in Iraq. That challenge. We have to work hard. There is no choice for us. We have to get the security all transferred to Iraq, the security file transferred to Iraq. And there is no other option for us. We have to succeed. Failure is not our agenda.
Press TV: Will you explain for me what is the meaning of the statement which was released by General Odierno when he said that the withdrawal of the US troops will be based on the results of the elections? What does that mean?
al-Dabbagh: I do not think that the decision is to be taken by the military people. This is a political decision and not a unilateral decision. It is a bilateral (one). It has been agreed. It is over. It is over. So talking on other issues, I do not think that it is right, and in the end Iraq is the main decision-making in this issue. We had this. We did the decision and it is final. 2011 whatever challenges. We feel that there is no major challenges. That cell which hates Iraq, that we are facing this one. And this cannot be overcome by the number of the military, whether it is American or Iraqi. There is another way to protect the Iraqis and to fight those devil enemies, by intelligence, by the other means, by the people. But not part of it that increases the number or maintaining that number, huge number of the military or foreign militaries.
Press TV: Do you call it an intervention by the US ambassador when he accuses the Accountability and Justice Commission members of being related to some countries like for example for Iran he said like Ahmad Chalabi and Faisal al-Lami is being related to Iran and ruled by Iran. How do you look at these accusations?
al-Dabbagh: I do not think that this is the role of any ambassador in Iraq should talk about this issue. This is an internal issue. Iraqis are… they have to fix it. And it is not right to talk in this way because it will create problems and difficulties. And we have noticed that the ambassador had said something positive and he said this is an Iraqi issue, Iraqis, they have to fix this problem. And the American administration is treating this issue as a pure Iraqi decision and they refer to it as an Iraqi decision.
Press TV: We have heard that some pressures have been put on the Accountability and Justice Commission and some other judges who are responsible. Can you tell us about this, if you know any?
al-Dabbagh: I think it has been over. The Iraqis are coming and meet those judges and they had chosen what is their function, how do they function. We do not interfere with their daily job, with their decision, with their technical decision, for legal decision. It is their job. Nobody is allowed to interfere in that. But they have to maintain what for they have been established and what is the function of that committee or that commission. The commission is in charge for checking the candidates names, whether they are complying with the Accountability and Justice law or not. Not the winners, the candidates. (This) means that they have to check it before the election, not after the election. I think that… was a mistake. Their declaration… it is not their job. They put them, the major leaders here in Iraq, they put them and they had explained to them this issue, and they accepted, so we overcame, and it is over.
Press TV: Some candidates made surprise visits, or let's say visits, to the other countries or even neighboring countries like, for example, recently Mr. Iyad Allawi was in Saudi Arabia and met some Saudi officials and held some meetings with security figures. Why do you think he made such trip in this specific time?
al-Dabbagh: Most of the politicians, they pay a visit to foreign countries for different reasons. The visit is not, is not really a big question or anything which makes doubt or suspect. But at the time of election, it might be different, and especially when meeting some intelligence people. This might create question… for Iraqis that we do need people to live among us… We need the people to be, when I vote for you and you be a parliament member, you should attend the sessions of the parliament. You should not go just in tourism trips to other countries. I do need you here to defend my right. This is the question being raised by Iraqis. At the end, let me say Iraq is not ruling by one person. There is a chance for everyone to make a healthier relation with some of the regional countries. But based on what? Based on the right of the Iraqis.
Press TV: You know, we noticed that since the Iraqi government signed the bilateral or the withdrawal agreement, the US troops started to withdraw from certain cities. But, in the mean time they handed over the responsibility of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) or Camp Ashraf or the New Iraq, as it is named now, to the Iraqi government, and we have heard many statements about their expulsion and many other things. So far, do you think that nothing has been done except for entering the camp and opening some police stations over there without making any progress in their expulsion from the country?
al-Dabbagh: We do not want to expel them against their right. We are dealing with them in the most humanitarian way. But at the same time they have to respect the law of the country. They treat themselves as guests. They have no status in Iraq. This is known for us, known for them, known for the United Nations, known for all the organizations, even the Red Cross. They have no status. But they are… we treat them as a guest, as de facto we had inherited from the last regime… Once they do not follow the laws of the country here, they are going to face the law itself. So what is… we do not want to create a problem for them. We have prepared that their families come to see them. We have arranged to go all the humanitarian aid to them, whatever is food or healthcare or medicines. It is the normal life they have… But at the end, we tell them Iraq is not… your choice. Look for a third country. We do not want to force you to go back to Iran. We do not want to do so. We do not want to take you and throw you on the border of Iraq like other countries may. But at the same time, it is that this MKO, they live in different places. Do they have that privilege the same as they have in Iraq or that Western countries? Do they give what we are giving to MKO? They have to respect the law. We are telling them we are not going to harm you. We are not going to create problem and difficulties for you. But you have to respect the prevailing law.
Press TV: But, a few months ago, they have rejected the sovereignty of Iraq when the Iraqi security forces tried to enter the camp and they faced the Iraqi government with knives and tear gas and many other stuff. And even, I have met with some Iraqi soldiers and officers, and they were extremely wounded. So, after the elections, what do you think their status is going to be?
al-Dabbagh: That is the status. That is… we are telling them we are working with the organizations, international organizations, to find a third country for them. We cannot keep them and Iraq be their third country. They have no hope to stay in this country. That is what we are telling them. So, friendly we are telling them we do not want to be harsh. We do not want to be dealing or taking any measure. We will not take that measure but at the same time, they have to help us, they have to help themselves. And we ask the international community to help them and find another country to host them and to accept them.
Press TV: One last question Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh. Do you think there will be any fraud in this election?
al-Dabbagh: It will be. Iraq has not yet built its institution. And there is a weakness in that… in the monitoring, in all performance. But it will not be that large-scale and big-scale which, you know, it is a crash or make the election not legitimate. I think we are trying to minimize. One of the good things that the competition between the blocs and alliances will create a self-monitoring. I have to monitor you. You have to monitor me. Plus that we have the media, we have the commission, we have also monitors, international monitors, which they are coming. This is a good… We are trying to build up. But I guess that in this election it will be less violation and fraud compared to the last election.
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(Daniel Zucker, Maryam Rajavi and ALi Safavi)
(Ali Safavi as the commander of Saddam's Private Army in Iraq)
(Maryam Rajavi directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish people)
(Rabbi Daniel Zucker with Maryam Rajavi!)
Also
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7763
Scandal over US-supported Terrorists in Iran
Americans support Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists as well as Jondollah
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... “I think it’s quite obvious that the United States is being very hypocritical,” Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi says. “They are not only supporting this terrorist organization but they were also supporting the MEK for a number of years, they have carried out many terrorists attacks in Iran over the last three decades.”...
Russia today, February 27, 2010
http://rt.com/Politics/2010-02-27/iran-sunni-insurgent-arrest.html
Iran insists the US was backing the leader of an armed Sunni group heading an insurgency in the country who was captured earlier this week. Washington denies the claims.
Abdolmalek Rigi says he was on his way to the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan to meet with a US official when he was seized – sparking further mystery over American use of the facility in the Central Asian country.
It's not the first time the Manas airbase has hit the headlines, and all for the wrong reasons.
The latest allegation is from Iran claiming the facility is an American front to transport terrorists to undermine the Iranian government.
Read more
“The Americans promised to give us aid, they said they would cooperate with us and give me arms and machine guns. They told me in Kyrgyzstan they had a base called Manas near Bishkek and that in a place like this some high ranking American person could come and we could make an agreement about making personal contacts,” Abdolmalek Rigi said.
This statement comes in a televised confession on Iranian state TV. Officials claim when they captured the terrorist leader he was carrying a fake Afghan passport.
“The Americans said that Iran was going its own way and they said their problem at the present is Iran, not Al-Qaeda, not the Taliban, but Iran,” Abdolmalek Rigi said. “One of the CIA officers said that it was too difficult for them to attack Iran militarily but they plan to give aid and support to all anti-Iranian groups that have the capability to wage war and create difficulty for this Islamic state.”
The confession has sparked criticism from those who let the United States set up shop in their backyard.
“The US is setting a precedent of double standards which manifests itself in the backing of Sunni terrorists who fight against the legitimate government of Iran to create a separatist state in the south of the country. It's sad that the US air base has now become a transit corridor for pro-American militants from Sunni insurgent groups which organize attacks in Iran,” says political analyst Toktogul Kakchekeev.
The Jundallah group confirmed the arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi and now is accusing the US and other foreign intelligence services of helping the Iranian government capture its leader.
“The Jundallah group or The Rigi Brothers organization – it is a family firm, you might say – which operates as a terrorist organization and is widely thought to be based in Pakistan, but it operates in Iran on the other side of that border,” explained investigative journalist Webster Tarpley, who is sure there is an extra twist to the story involving Pakistan, which possibly gave the militant leader away.
The Jundallah group is believed to be engaged in drug smuggling and organizing terror acts.
They are accused of blowing up top Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers last year.
“This Abdolmalek Rigi was the number one most wanted terrorist on the Iranian most wanted list,” he said.
Despite the fact that the details of Abdolmalek Rigi’s arrest remain unclear, “either way it is a tremendous victory for the Iranians because they essentially decapitated this very threatening terror group,” believes Tarpley.
CIA’s dark ties
Webster Tarpley said that western political observers, like Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker and Brian Ross of the BBC, believe that the Jundallah group was on the CIA payroll.
“This is the US$400 million in Iran’s Regime Change Act approved under [George W.] Bush. This guy has been meeting with, as some say, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer who met this terrorist and certainly NATO generals in Afghanistan,” accused Tarpley and added that “they [Jundallah group] operate as an arm of NATO strategy in the entire region.”
In Webster Tarpley’s opinion, this episode is part of the battle for Belujistan, a critical area for Iran for hydrocarbon transit to China.
It appears, said Tarpley, that the goal of the offensive of the US in the Helmand province of Afghanistan is Iran’s economic interests. By announcing the offensive in Helmand province, they “wanted to drive the Taliban to Pakistan,” cutting Iranian exports to China through Pakistani seaports.
Watch Webster Tarpley's interview
Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran claims that the US is being hypocritical and that Iranians are happy after Abdolmalek Rigi was captured.
“They were not only supporting this particular terrorist organization…[…] For many years, they’ve carried out many thousands of terrorist attacks on Iran, as well as other terrorist groups such as Pi-juk and so on,” Marandi told RT. “What is extraordinary about this particular terrorist organization, that has the backing of the United States, is that they carry out some of the most brutal murders, they cut people’s heads off on television and it does not get any coverage on BBC or CNN or in The New York Times, which is itself pretty extraordinary, but the murders that they carried out have angered the Iranians for the last few years. And it was a major victory for the Iranian intelligence organizations that they were able to capture the leader and his deputy the other day.”
Watch full video with Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen, also posits there is a connection between the US and the group.
“What [Rigi] has stated on Iranian television is that he was there to meet a top US official,” says Madsen. “And the word I get from Asian intelligence services is that person was President Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke who happened to have been in Bishkek at the same time.”
Watch Madsen's interview
Meanwhile, the US State Department strongly denies any involvement with Rigi and released this statement to RT:
“We view the arrest of Mr Rigi as a positive step to prevent potential attacks against innocent civilians. The US strongly condemns all forms of terrorism, including those that target Iran. Any allegations of US involvement are absurd. The US does not sponsor or support terrorism,” US State Department spokesperson Darby Holladay said.
Also, the Obama Administration has repeatedly said relations with Iran have to begin with renewed diplomacy, a sentiment that has critics growing increasingly more skeptical.
“I think it’s quite obvious that the United States is being very hypocritical,” Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi says. “They are not only supporting this terrorist organization but they were also supporting the MEK for a number of years, they have carried out many terrorists attacks in Iran over the last three decades.”
------- Also Rajavi, Rigi to make Joint Terror front Mojahedin Khalq terrorist group to be relocated to Pakistani boarder . ... In this meeting, [head of the Rigi group] Abdolmalek Rigi has met with a number of the operatives and commanders of the Hypocrites grouplet and has held talks with them. He announced that he would be ready to have any sort of cooperation [with MKO] in line with making a terrorist group under the name of the Armed Forces Organization of Mojahedin ... Tabnak, Februaruy 16, 2010 Text of report by Iranian Tabnak news website on 16 February
--------- Also read: Two terror groups (Rajavi, Rigi) join to create new organization . ... Meanwhile, there were reports from Pakistan that some Iraq-expelled MKO elements by contacting the absconding, bandits and anti-system groups in Pakistani regions, particularly in Karachi and Islamabad, are in pursuit of attracting forces [manpower] to form a new armed organization that may likely lead to the creation of this organization ... Jam-e Jam, Tehran, January 30, 2010 Translated by BBC Monitoring Middle East Text of report under "news shadow" section headlined "Forming a terrorist organization with convergence of Monafeqin [MKO] and Rigi" published by Iranian newspaper Jaam-e Jam on 26 January ----- Also: Iraq Finds Evidence of Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq Involvement in Public Massacre . ... "In the documents found at Iraq's intelligence ministry and other security offices after the toppling of Saddam, the leaders of the terrorist organization have announced that they slaughtered 25,000 Iraqi people on different occasions and over various issues," ... Fars news, January 18, 2010 TEHRAN (FNA)- Different Iraqi groups in a statement announced that they have found substantiating documents on the massacre of 25,000 Iraqis by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) during Saddam Hussein's despotic rule over the country. "In the documents found at Iraq's intelligence ministry and other security offices after the toppling of Saddam, the leaders of the terrorist organization have announced that they slaughtered 25,000 Iraqi people on different occasions and over various issues," different Iraqi groups in the eastern province of Diyala said in a statement released to the country's Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki. --------- Also read: CIA, Baathists meet in Yemen!! . ... The Americans, with whom Saddam was allied until 1990, reportedly want to create a special anti-jihadist unit. They no longer trust Saleh's Political Security Organization, which they say has been heavily penetrated by al-Qaida. During the 1990-91 Gulf crisis triggered by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, Saleh was one of the few Arab leaders to support Iraq ... UPI, January 15, 2010 BAGHDAD , Jan. 11 (UPI) -- The Central Intelligence Agency is reported to have recently conducted secret contacts in Yemen with Iraqi Baathist leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein's former vice president, in a bid to negotiate a political accord between Sunni insurgents and the Shiite-led Baghdad government. ------- Also: Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown Show solidarity with Iranian people by curbing Mojahedin Khalq terrorists in London . ... Massoud Khodabandeh told the British Prime Minister, “we would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq from inside the U.K. In doing so you would remove from Iranian hardliners their main excuse for crushing the people’s legitimate protests to bring about change in their own country.” ... CNBC, January 04, 2010 An open letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown , today asked his government to stop incitement to violence being broadcast into Iran by a terrorist group from London. Massoud Khodabandeh, of Leeds based Middle East Strategy Consultants , said, “The Iranian people’s courageous, peaceful demonstrations to achieve their natural freedoms and rights are being fatally undermined from within the U.K.” Khodabandeh said the Mojahedin-e Khalq (aka MKO, MEK, NCRI, PMOI, Rajavi cult) is broadcasting incitement to violence from London through its satellite programme Sima-ye Azadi . The group is also known to be financed through British based banks. “Britain, following Washington’s lead, has put herself in a position where she is seen to support terrorism. This is not in our interests.” said Khodabandeh. Hardliners in the Iranian government yesterday imposed zero tolerance on street protests after it was found that members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq cult had been dispatched to Iran to foment violence among the ordinary protestors. In August 2009, Massoud Khodabandeh published a second report following consultation with the Iraqi government on plans to expel the cult from Iraq. An Iraqi government official stressed that terror teams could not have been sent from Camp Ashraf after American forces handed over control of the terrorist base to Iraq in January 2009. Although the MKO remains on the U.S. terrorism list , the group operates freely from bases in Paris, London and Germany where the terrorist group’s members are “fully trained in terrorism and are ideologically committed to the violent overthrow of the Iranian government”. In the context of the nuclear issue, regime change would be a desirable outcome for the British government, but this “must not be pursued through the use of terrorism or terrorist groups”, said Khodabandeh. The letter said, “We cannot ask a terrorist group to renounce violence and give up terrorism. Instead we are asking your government to curb their activities in line with British law and with your government’s own stance on terrorism.” Massoud Khodabandeh told the British Prime Minister, “we would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq from inside the U.K. In doing so you would remove from Iranian hardliners their main excuse for crushing the people’s legitimate protests to bring about change in their own country.” ENDS Note to editors * * * The original letter, Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown Show solidarity with Iranian people by curbing Mojahedin Khalq terrorists in London Alongside your government, we applaud those ordinary Iranian citizens who are determined to exercise their right to have their voices heard. As your government says, “they are showing great courage”. The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has stressed that people had the right to protest peacefully without being beaten and jailed. We agree. It is a shame therefore that the Iranian people’s courageous, peaceful demonstrations to achieve their natural freedoms and rights are being fatally undermined from within the U.K.. The people of Iran deserve to be supported in their own efforts, on their own terms and should not be expected to shoulder the burden and pay the price of other agendas. Yet this is exactly what has happened over the past few days, weeks and even months. Clearly the essential problem your government has with Iran is over the nuclear issue. Should your government come to some agreement or should the US government accept a deal with Iran, would your government really be any more interested in the right of the Iranian people to protest freely against their government than you are currently interested in the rights of people in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, … . In this context, regime change would be a desirable outcome of the unrest inside Iran. But even if we accept that you, the US and the Israeli governments have the right, in your own interests, to work towards changing the government of another country, surely regime change (to establish a government which would accept the terms of US administration on the nuclear issue) must not be pursued through the use of terrorism or terrorist groups. Today, Iran’s Interior Ministry has ordered a complete crackdown - zero tolerance - on street protests on the grounds that the disturbances are being led by foreign interference (British, U.S., and Zionism) acted out by the Washington backed Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist group. Unfortunately the Iranian government’s excuse for this appalling situation has come from within the U.K. itself. The hardliners in Iran have demonised Britain by broadcasting together clips from the BBC Persian Service and the terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq’s satellite programme Sima-ye Azadi. The link? Both are broadcast from London. Both are financed through banks in London. In recent days Sima-ye Azadi, as broadcast from London, has been incessantly inciting ordinary people to commit violence during the recent protests in Iran. The programme urges people to arm themselves with firearms and other weapons and to target government personnel and facilities. Iran’s security forces have arrested several individuals who claim to be MKO members who have been sent to Iran in order to incite violent resistance during anti-government protests. This includes the alleged assassination of Seyyed Ali Moussavi, nephew of former presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi by MKO operatives. Interestingly, a source in the office of Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri Al Maliki, has confirmed that it would have been impossible for any MKO member to have been dispatched to Iran from Camp Ashraf in Iraq since the Government of Iraq took control of the camp in January 2009. However, the MKO’s members who live freely in Europe are fully trained in terrorism and are ideologically committed to the violent overthrow of the Iranian government. It is therefore most probable that these teams have been dispatched from here. Your government has criticized the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. Unfortunately, your government has not made clear its position on the use of terrorist tactics during these protests. We cannot ask a terrorist group to renounce violence and give up terrorism. Instead we are asking your government to curb their activities in line with British law and with your government’s own stance on terrorism. The massive turnout to counter theprotest demonstrations and the severe government crackdown on anti-government street protests would not have been possible if it had not been for the involvement of the MKO. The severity of the response -reports suggest a turnout of over 3 million people in Tehran only - is not against the ordinary citizens of Iran but against a known terrorist group which has tried with western support to hijack the protest movement for a different agenda. Iranian government run media has broadcast telephone conversations from the MKO’s base in London, intercepted following the June election protests, in which an MKO leader is ordering terrorist acts in Tehran. Your government cannot have been unaware of this activity and yet has done nothing to prevent or prosecute those responsible under British law. Britain, following Washington’s lead, has put herself in a position where she is seen to support terrorism. This is not in our interests. The Mojahedin is known to Iranians inside and outside the country as a Washington/Zionist backed terrorist group. It is known worldwide as Saddam’s private army, responsible for the murder of tens of thousand of Iraqis, Iranian, Americans and Europeans. But, as you are aware, its media and financial support are based in London. We would expect that you act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq from inside the U.K.. In doing so you would remove from Iranian hardliners their main excuse for crushing the people’s legitimate protests to bring about change in their own country. I am sure your government has enough information on this situation, but if not, please feel free to contact me so that I can apprise you of these facts. ------ Also read: Ashoura Day's Assassination Carried Out by 'Rare Gun' Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq terrorists have been involved . ... He said that there was a "Western scenario" aimed at inciting violence in Iran through killing people on Ashoura day. "After close reviews it was revealed that he has been assassinated by a rare and special gun," Iran's interior minister said in remarks that seem to be an indirect reference to Ali Mousavi, the nephew of the defeated presidential election candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi ... FNA, Tehran, January 03, 2009 TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said one of those killed in Tehran on Ashoura day was shot with a "rare gun." He said that there was a "Western scenario" aimed at inciting violence in Iran through killing people on Ashoura day. ------- Also read: Iran: Mousavi's Nephew Assassinated by Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists . ... "We have no doubt that Monafeqin (the Hypocrites, as MKO is referred to in Iran) has been involved in this issue," Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran today ... Fars News, Tehran, December 31, 2009 "We have no doubt that Monafeqin (the Hypocrites, as MKO is referred to in Iran) has been involved in this issue," Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran today. Also read: Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq terrorists (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) admits involvement in Iran's protests . ... According to police reports, at least seven people were killed in clashes that broke out between security forces and protestors during the disturbances. The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years ... Press TV, December 30, 2009 The Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) has acknowledged that it played a role in Sunday's violent anti-government protests in Iran. -------- Also read: Iran: Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) terrorists arrested in protests . ... The unnamed source was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying that protestors had attacked mourners participating in Ashura ceremonies and damaged public property and parked vehicles in central Tehran ... Press TV, Tehran, December 27, 2009 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:17:16 GMT A source with the Iranian Intelligence Ministry has announced the arrest of a number of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorists in the anti-government protests that sparked in central Tehran. -------------- Also read: Iran: More Washingon backed Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists arrested . . BBC Monitoring, July 22, 2009 . Minister dispels "rumours" of execution order against Iranian reformist Text of report entitled "Intelligence minister: Tajzadeh is not yet produced before the court, let alone be executed" published by Iranian newspaper Aftab-e Yazd on 16 July -------- Also read: 'Mousavi, Karroubi assassination plots foiled' (The five Washinton backed Mojahedin Khalq hit squads came from Ashraf base in Iraq) . ... According to the report, the would-be assassins were from the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and had entered the country from the southwestern province of Khuzestan, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf. They were reported to have received training at the MKO-run Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The main intention of the operation was to attribute the assassination of Mousavi and Karroubi to the Iranian government, the report added... Press TV, July 19, 2009 Iran's security services have foiled an attempt by terrorists to assassinate defeated presidential candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, a report says. -------- Also read: Israel planned 'Ahmadinejad assassination'- Mojahedin to execute the plan . . Press TV, July 17, 2009 Israel, in collaboration with Iranian terror groups, planned to assassinate Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Tehran's top intelligence official.
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Also read: US has not changed its regime change policy . . By Massoud Khodabandeh, May 7, 2009 Following the AIPAC meeting, Senator John Kerry, a Democrat, said that Washington is not in a 'regime change mode'.
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Iran airs Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists confessions Also the Audio tape of terrorists' contacts with their HQ in London . . Press TV, News in Breif, June 21, 2009 ------------ Also read: Iran finds US-backed MKO fingermarks in riots (Confessions of arrested MKO members linked to London) . . Press TV, June 21, 2009 The terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has reportedly played a major role in intensifying the recent wave of street violence in Iran. They had also revealed that they have been given directions by the MKO command post in Britain. Confessions of arrested MKO members in recent disturbances Habilian Association, reporting from Fars News, June 21, 2009 I was trained in camp Ashraf how to set fire to buses and attack the military bases -------- Also read: Wahsington backed terrorists used to discredit Iranian demands for justice Fox News Channel: Communist Terrorist Television for Dupes . . Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, USA, June 20, 2009 On October 1, 2007, I posted “Fox News Channel: Communist Terrorist Television for Dupes”. http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-iongVI On June 20, 2009, the Fox News Channel devoted the entire day of live programming to coverage of the unrest in Iran. For supporters of the Iranian communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, there was no need to watch their Sima Azadi television channel via satellite. Throughout the day, the Fox News Channel provided favorable coverage for the communist terrorists. Some examples were:
http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=7713
translated by BBC Monitoring
Link to the original (Persian)
http://www.iran-interlink.org/fa/?mod=view&id=7712
Tehran, 16 February: [Opposition group] Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization [MKO] and [Sunni rebel group] Rigi grouplet have held initial talks to make a joint front and cooperate.
According to Javan Online, the heads of the Rigi and Hypocrites [MKO] grouplets have recently met in an area in Pakistan and have held talks.
In this meeting, [head of the Rigi group] Abdolmalek Rigi has met with a number of the operatives and commanders of the Hypocrites grouplet and has held talks with them. He announced that he would be ready to have any sort of cooperation [with MKO] in line with making a terrorist group under the name of the Armed Forces Organization of Mojahedin.
It is said that provision of weaponry and exchange of information have been among agreed issues in this meeting prior to finalizing the decision to make a joint front.
Source: Tabnak news website, in Persian 0600 gmt 16 Feb 10
http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=7653
In continuation with Monafeqin [Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization] terrorist group's support to Abdolmalek Rigi and the terrorist organization active under his group as National Resistance Movement, several meetings were held for mutual support and co-operations in Karachi and Islamabad. A number of MKO commanders and Abdolmalek Rigi himself participated in these meetings.
In these meetings, it was agreed to form a new group called the Iran Mojahedin Armed Forces [Niruha-ye Mosalleh Mojahedin-e Iran] with the help of Rigi's terrorist group and the MKO, the Jahan News quoted the informed sources as reporting.
Meanwhile, there were reports from Pakistan that some Iraq-expelled MKO elements by contacting the absconding, bandits and anti-system groups in Pakistani regions, particularly in Karachi and Islamabad, are in pursuit of attracting forces [manpower] to form a new armed organization that may likely lead to the creation of this organization.
Similarly, following the occurrence of the recent street unrests in Iran and Monafeqin's announcement of their readiness to launch operations in the country, the American forces in Iraq have taken fresh initiatives for providing training to some Monafeqin forces in different fields.
Source: Jaam-e Jam, Tehran, in Persian 0000gmt 26 Jan 10
http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=7597
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8810271513
Addressing the Iraqi government in their statement, the groups urged an immediate expulsion of the MKO members from their province and from the country.
The statement has been signed by various groups and people from different walks of life, including university professors, elites, tribal leaders, religious figures, artists, poets, sportsmen and sports federations, influential figures, students' union and city councils of the Diyala province.
The MKO has been in Iraq's Diyala province since the 1980s. The Iraqi government and parliament have also underlined on different occasions that they would not tolerate the group anymore and that they are seeking to expel the group from the country in the near future.
The anti-Iran terror group has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran's new leaders in the early years after the Revolution, including the then President Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar and Judiciary Chief Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam's army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
The MKO was put on the US terror list in 1997 by the then President, Bill Clinton, but since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group has been strongly backed by the Washington Neocons, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7582
(Issat al-Douri was directly in Charge of MKO terrorists for over 20 years)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/01/11/CIA-seeks-truce-with-Iraqi-Baathists/UPI-21111263231071/
The Paris-based Intelligence Online Web site said other meetings were held with Baathist leaders in Damascus, the Syrian capital where Douri and his associates reportedly live.
The objective is to reconcile the minority Sunnis, who were the backbone of Saddam's tyrannical regime, and the majority Shiites, who were brutally suppressed by that regime, before crucial parliamentary elections scheduled for March 7.
There was no official confirmation of the Intelligence Online report by Washington or Baghdad. But it coincided with reports that U.S. counter-terrorism agents were working with former Saddam-era Iraqi intelligence officers in Yemen to counter the growing al-Qaida threat there.
The regime of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was close to Saddam and has long employed Iraqi army officers to lead its 67,000-strong armed forces.
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, hundreds of former military and intelligence officers who served Saddam have flooded into Sanaa.
The Americans, with whom Saddam was allied until 1990, reportedly want to create a special anti-jihadist unit. They no longer trust Saleh's Political Security Organization, which they say has been heavily penetrated by al-Qaida.
During the 1990-91 Gulf crisis triggered by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, Saleh was one of the few Arab leaders to support Iraq.
Yemen at that time was a member of the U.N. Security Council and cast the only vote against a resolution permitting the use of force to drive Saddam out of Kuwait.
"That will be the most expensive 'no' vote you'll ever cast," a U.S. diplomat told the Yemeni ambassador.
Washington cut off its $70 million aid package to Yemen. Now President Barack Obama is doubling U.S. military aid to Sanaa to $150 million.
The CIA effort got under way early in the summer through the good offices of the head of Jordan's General Intelligence Department, Mohammed al-Raqqad, Intelligence Online said.
According to Intelligence Online, the CIA wants to reconcile Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites before the U.S. military withdrawal is completed by the end of next year so that the Americans can leave a stable, united state behind them.
The prospects of a deal appear to be slender.
"Aware of their capacity to create mayhem in the run-up to the legislative elections, the Baath Party stalwarts are laying down draconian conditions for any halt to violence," the French Web site reported.
It listed their terms as "readmission of their militants to the civil service and the army and revocation of legislation punishing any political affiliation with the former regime."
Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is currently conducting a major crackdown against the Baathists, who he blames for three waves of suicide bombings in central Baghdad in August, October and December that killed some 400 people.
At the same time, Maliki's political credibility took a drubbing that could seriously affect his prospects of re-election in the March polls.
If the CIA's strategy fails, Intelligence Online warned, "The American military could well leave behind a country in the midst of a civil war."
Maliki's security adviser, Safa Hussein, warned in December that al-Qaida in Iraq has now fallen under the influence of the Baathists, led by Douri and his main rival, Gen. Mohammed Yunis al-Ahmad.
On Friday the government banned 15 parties from contesting the March poll because they had been linked to the Baath Party or promoted its ideals.
But the outlawed Baath remains a palpable presence. In November a mysterious television channel praising Saddam began broadcasting -- nobody knows from where -- on the anniversary of his execution in 2006.
The so-called Saddam Channel, reportedly run by Douri's people, disappeared after three days of showing footage of Saddam in his heyday and playing patriotic songs urging viewers to "liberate our country."
Douri, the last high-ranking fugitive from Saddam's rule still at large with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, regularly exhorts Iraqis to topple the Baghdad government and restore the Baath to power.
Douri, 65, last surfaced on an audiotape broadcast by al-Jazeera on April 9, the anniversary of the founding of the Baath, which ruled from 1968 until Saddam was toppled by the Americans in 2003.
(Issat al-Douri was directly in Charge of MKO terrorists for over 20 years)
(Maryam Rajavi directly ordered the massacre of Kurdish people)
(MKO members massacared the Iraqi Kurds in 1991)
(Mehdi Abrishamchi and Massoud Rajavi taking orders from Saddam's head of secret services)
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7518
http://www.cnbc.com/id/34686287
also:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS99721+04-Jan-2010+PRN20100104
Massoud Khodabandeh is the director of Middle East Strategy Consultants Ltd which also operates the information website www.Iran-Interlink.org . Mr Khodabandeh has been involved in Middle East politics for over thirty years and is a leading expert on the Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation. Since 2008 he has acted as consultant to the Government of Iraq on plans to expel foreign terrorist groups.
Massoud Khodabandeh, January 04, 2010
Dear Gordon Brown,
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7513
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8810100628
"After close reviews it was revealed that he has been assassinated by a rare and special gun," Iran's interior minister said in remarks that seem to be an indirect reference to Ali Mousavi, the nephew of the defeated presidential election candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
"He was assassinated in an area that was not the scene of protests," Mohammad Najjar added.
"Foreign agents assumed that they could incite tension by making such moves," press tv quoted the Iranian official as saying on Wednesday.
Iran announced on Wednesday that the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), was responsible for the Sunday attack on the slain nephew of Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
"We have no doubt that Monafeqin (the Hypocrites, as MKO is referred to in Iran) has been involved in this issue," Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting here in Tehran.
The MKO has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries including the United States.
The terrorist group targeted Iranian government officials and civilians in Iran and abroad in the early 1980s. The group also attempted an unsuccessful invasion of Iran in the last days of the Iraq-Iran war in 1988.
Moslehi reiterated that investigations into the case are still underway, and assured that the country's authorities will pursue the case to the end.
Meantime, the intelligence minister dismissed the reports that Seyed Ali Mousavi, the son of Mir-Hossein's sister, was killed during the Sunday frenzy in Tehran.
"The incident has happened in the form of a terror attack and in a place other than the area of the unrests," he added.
A group of opposition supporters on Sunday took advantage of the highly revered religious day of Ashoura - the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hossein (AS), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Shiite Muslims' third Imam - to chant slogans against top Iranian government officials.
Meantime, tens of millions of Iranians were on the streets on Sunday to take part in annual massive processions across the country to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein (AS).
Clashes began after demonstrators started clapping and showing happiness, insulting the mourning people who were also in the streets to commemorate Imam Hossein's martyrdom anniversary.
Tehran's police headquarters announced that eight people were killed in clashes, but meantime underlined that the police forces neither used violence nor fired a single bullet on Sunday.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7494
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8810091636
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran announced on Wednesday that the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), was responsible for the Sunday attack on the slain nephew of the defeated presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
The MKO has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries including the United States.
The terrorist group targeted Iranian government officials and civilians in Iran and abroad in the early 1980s. The group also attempted an unsuccessful invasion of Iran in the last days of the Iraq-Iran war in 1988.
Moslehi reiterated that investigations into the case are still underway, and assured that the country's authorities will pursue the case to the end.
Meantime, the intelligence minister dismissed the reports that Seyed Ali Mousavi, the son of Mir-Hossein's sister, was killed during the Sunday frenzy in Tehran.
"The incident has happened in the form of a terror attack and in a place other than the area of the unrests," he added.
A group of opposition supporters on Sunday took advantage of the highly revered religious day of Ashoura - the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hossein (AS), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Shiite Muslims' third Imam - to chant slogans against top Iranian government officials.
Meantime, tens of millions of Iranians were on the streets on Sunday to take part in annual massive processions across the country to mark the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hossein (AS).
Clashes began after demonstrators started clapping and showing happiness, insulting the mourning people who were also in the streets to commemorate Imam Hossein's martyrdom anniversary.
Tehran's police headquarters announced that eight people were killed in clashes, but meantime underlined that the police forces neither used violence nor fired a single bullet on Sunday.
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http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7490
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114950§ionid=351020101
MKO followers cooperated with the demonstrators and coordinated the protests, the organization's leader Maryam Rajavi told AFP in Paris on Tuesday.
Rajavi also urged unity among those bent on overthrowing the Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
"It's a call for solidarity among all those who reject the rule of the supreme leader, the Velayat e-Faqih," she told AFP in Paris.
"What we call the 'Green movement' against the electoral fraud quickly disappeared to be replaced by a deeper movement whose goal is the total overthrow of the regime," she claimed.
The MKO leader also predicted that the government of Iran would fall within 12 months if foreign powers remain neutral.
Her comments came after protests in Iran during Sunday's Shia Muslim ceremonies of Ashura — the anniversary of the martyrdom of the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Imam Hussein (PBUH).
According to police reports, at least seven people were killed in clashes that broke out between security forces and protestors during the disturbances.
The MKO, listed as a terrorist group in Iran, Iraq, Canada, and the US, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians over the past 30 years.
The attacks include the assassination of the late president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei, prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar and judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.
The MKO is also known to have cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hossein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.
The organization is also notorious for using cult-like tactics against its own members, tactics which include torture and murder of defectors.
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7477
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114774§ionid=351020101
Protestors took to some central and downtown streets in Tehran, hijacking the Shia Muslims Ashura event during which people commemorate the 7th century death of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) grandson, Hussein (PBUH).
The unnamed source was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying that protestors had attacked mourners participating in Ashura ceremonies and damaged public property and parked vehicles in central Tehran.
The protesters reportedly chanted slogans against top Iranian government officials.
According to the Intelligence Ministry source, a number of MKO terrorists were arrested in this connection
http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=6699
The intelligence minister has said: "During the recent unrests, some of the leading anti-revolutionary groups such as some individuals related to the Monafeqin movement [hypocrites, reference to Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization] have been arrested." [Punctuation as published here and throughout] He added that the TV broadcast of the confession by those arrested during the recent events was subject to the judge's decision.
According to Mehr [news agency] in response to a reporter's question on the reasons for not executing Rigi's brother, Gholamhoseyn Mohseni-Ezhe'i said: This issue is subject to the judge's and the judiciary's decision. In fact it is a general procedure to review the matter [broadcast of confession by accused] is some problem comes up in this regard or if a lawyer or someone else requests for it.
The intelligence minister rejected the speculations that Rigi's brother has not been executed on the instructions of the Ministry of Intelligence.
In reply to a question about the rumours related to the order to execute Islamic Mojahedin Organization's central committee member, Mostafa Tajzadeh [as published, he is a reformist and member of Islamic Iran Participation Front], he said: If someone has not been produced before the court yet, how can such instruction [of execution] be given?
Replying to the question whether Tajzadeh's confessions will be broadcast or not, the intelligence minister said: As I said earlier, it is the judge's duty to give decisions on this matter. The case has not been presented before the court yet.
In reply to the question: "Where do you find yourself in the cabinet divided by the president in three parts," he said: I have no idea of his decision. You can better judge about my place in these three parts. I have really tried to be a soldier of the system since the victory of the revolution and I will continue to be [in the future]. I have always said that a soldier is not asked were to be placed [for service]. A soldier is always asked to do something. I am a soldier of the system and it makes no difference where I am placed.
Regarding the rumours that he will not be in the 10th cabinet, he stated: I have also heard these rumours. Is it possible for me not to hear such rumours when others do the same?
Source: Aftab-e Yazd, Tehran
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Mir-Hossein Mousavi (L) and Mehdi Karroubi
Jahan News quoted an unnamed source that five hit squads, had entered Iran as part of a concerted effort with the aim of assassinating the two opposition figures.
In the event, the report says, “with the vigilance of the intelligence and security bodies,” these plans were foiled when four of the hit-squads were arrested and one fled.
According to the report, the would-be assassins were from the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and had entered the country from the southwestern province of Khuzestan, bordering Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
They were reported to have received training at the MKO-run Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
The main intention of the operation was to attribute the assassination of Mousavi and Karroubi to the Iranian government, the report added.
The report notes that in the run-up to the June 12 presidential election, “a number of anti-revolutionary groups had intended to carry out a similar plan by placing a bomb in the aircraft carrying [former President] Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, which was foiled by the flight security forces.”
Jahan News did not reveal the identities or genders of the terrorist detainees, or whether the assassination plan was foiled before or after the election.
The MKO, a terrorist group on the proscribed lists in Iran, Iraq, USA and Canada, was housed, funded and armed by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in return for attacks against Iran.
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Intelligence Minster Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i said Israeli officials met with the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) to execute the plan, according to a report by the semi official Fars News Agency.
"The Zionist regime had met with the MKO on the sidelines of the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting in Egypt and in Paris to assassinate Mr. Ahmadinejad," Mohseni-Ejeie was quoted as saying on Friday.
The terrorist group had, however, set conditions for carrying out the assassination, he added. "They had asked that the US and the West remove their name from their blacklists."
The MKO was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country some twenty years later after carrying out numerous acts of terrorism inside the country.
The group is especially notorious for the help it extended to former dictator Saddam Hussein during the war Iraq imposed on Iran (1980-1988) and even aided him in the massacre of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
The group masterminded a series of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, including the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in which more than 72 Iranian officials were killed, including the then Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.
Another group approached by the Israeli officials, the intelligence minster said, was a Pakistan-based armed terrorist group, known as 'Jundallah'. Iran's eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan has been the target of terror attacks by the group, suspected of affiliation with al-Qaeda.
Two weeks before the June 12 presidential election in Iran, 'Jundallah' elements placed a bomb in a crowded mosque in the southeastern city of Zahedan, killing 25 people and wounding 120 more.
A 2007 Sunday Telegraph report revealed that the CIA had created Jundullah and provided it with 'arms-length support' and 'money and weapons' to achieve 'regime change in Iran'.
Another report broadcast by the US-based TV network, ABC also revealed that US officials had ordered Jundullah to 'stage deadly guerrilla raids inside the Islamic Republic, kidnap Iranian officials and execute them on camera', all as a part of a 'systematic objective to overthrow the Iranian government'.
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"Our efforts must be reciprocated by the other side: Just as we abandon calls for regime change in Tehran and recognize a legitimate Iranian role in the region, Iran's leaders must moderate their behavior and that of their proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas," said Kerry, who currently chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Irrelevant to any position taken, observers are aware that this is a government which has been happy to host the head of Jondolla terrorist group on a "Voice of America" programme in which Jondolla was presented as a democratic alternative to the Iranian government.
This is a government whose CIA is holding regular meetings in Soleimaniyeh to create and develop FTOs to target Iranian people.
This is a government which has established offices in London, Dubai and Frankfurt under the Patriot Act in order to recruit people who travel to Iran to meddle in the internal affairs of the country.
This is a government with a long and continuing history of support for Saddamists in Iraq in the hope that they can be paid to foment and maintain hostilities against Iran.
By far the most blatant example of this is that from 2003 until now the US has desperately tried to keep together what is left of the Mojahedin-e Khalq at Ashraf terrorist camp (the MKO is on the US’s own list of terrorist entities) against the wishes of the Government and people of Iraq and against the human rights of the people inside the camp. The US has shown clear resistance in front of the Government of Iraq and the families of victims of this terrorist cult to the process of dismantling and disbanding it. The US has 25 soldiers stationed at the camp, plus five US citizens inside it. They have prevented families from freely visiting their relatives at the camp, they have interfered in the Iraqi process of dealing with individuals and imposing law and order in the camp and have interfered in the process of human rights organisations getting in and helping people individually.
Once the US stops these activities then it can claim it is not in ‘regime change mode’. If Senator Kerry or Nicholas Burns or any other ‘we have changed now it’s your turn’ pundits in the US have any doubt about the veracity of these activities or if they believe they are not perceived – particularly by Iraqis – as a continuation of ‘regime change policy’, then please feel free to contact me and I can appraise them further to this information.
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Iranian security officials reported Saturday that they have identified and arrested a large number of MKO members who were involved in recent riots in Iran's capital.
According to the security officials, the arrested members had confessed that they were extensively trained in Iraq's camp Ashraf to create post-election mayhem in the country.
Street protests broke out after defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi rejected President Ahmadinejad's decisive win in the June 12 election. His supporters have staged a series of illegal rallies ever since.
Iran's deputy police commander, on Saturday, warned against the mass gatherings, asserting that those who engage in any such actions would be severely reprimanded.
Earlier on Saturday, MKO leader Maryam Rajavi had supported the recent wave of street violence in Iran during a Saturday address to supporters in Paris.
Rajavi had reportedly described the MKO terrorists as the real winners of the Iranian election.
The Mujahedin Khalq Organization is a Marxist guerilla group, which was founded in the 1960s.In the past two decades, MKO leaders have been resettled in the northern outskirts of Paris.
The terrorists are especially notorious for taking sides with former dictator Saddam Hussein during the war Iraq imposed on Iran (1980-1988).
The group masterminded a slew of terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq -- one of which was the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in which more than 72 Iranian officials were killed.
A 2007 German intelligence report from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has identified the MKO as a "repressive, sect-like and Stalinist authoritarian organization which centers around the personality cult of [MKO leaders] Maryam and Masoud Rajavi".
Anne Singleton, an expert on the MKO and author of 'Saddam's Private Army' explains that the West aims to keep the group afloat in order to use it in efforts to stage a regime change in Iran.
"With a new Administration in the White House a pre-emptive strike on Iran looks unlikely. Instead the MKO's backers have put together a coalition of small irritant groups, the known minority and separatist groups, along with the MKO. These groups will be garrisoned around the border with Iran and their task is to launch terrorist attacks into Iran over the next few years to keep the fire hot," she explains.
"The role of the MKO is to train and manage these groups using the expertise they acquired from Saddam's Republican Guard," Singleton added.
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report also condemns the MKO for running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations. According to report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
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According to Political correspondent of Fars News Agency, after confessing to direct communication with MKO terrorist group, the two arrested members of MKO in recent disturbances in Tehran stated that they had been trained by this terrorist cult for launching terrorist operations and creating unrest and insecurity in Iran after the elections.
One of these MKO elements in detention said during confessions: I was trained in Camp Ashraf which is the MKO headquarters in Iraq for 3 months and learned how to use weapons, burn down buses and attack the military bases.
The other detained member also pointed to his direct communication with MKO base in England and said: Some one named Zohre constantly called me from London and followed up issues such as burning governmental centers and armed struggles and I did what he wanted me to do.
Detained members of MKO terrorist group in recent disturbances expressed a wide range of information that specifies the details behind much recent unrest. More detailed reports in this regard would b publicized in near future.
Translated by Habilian Association
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During the 11:00 – 11:30 AM (PST) segment, Fox News Channel showed MEK supporters in front of the White House waving their communist flags. The panelists for this segment, Charles Krauthammer and Courtney Kealy, failed to identify or to condemn the supporters of the communist terrorists. These terrorists have murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranian and Iraqi civilians. In September 2002, former President George W. Bush’s White House published a background paper for Bush’s remarks at the United Nations listing the MEK as a pretext for the Iraq War. In 2003, American and coalition forces attacked and killed some of the MEK terrorists at Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
In a later segment, Congressman Darryl Issa (Republican—California) commented that empowerment of people has changed Communist China for the better!
During Shepard Smith’s segment, Smith showed a video of the MEK rally in Paris, France and identified them as the PMOI. The only negative reference to the MEK occurred when Amy Kellogg speculated that the MEK might be responsible for a possible suicide bombing at Ayatollah Khomeini’s shrine in Tehran. Shepard Smith neither responded nor indicated that PMOI and MEK are two names for the same communist terrorist organization.
During Geraldo Rivera’s segment, former Senator Rick Santorum, who was a strong supporter of the MEK in the United States Senate, noted that former Senator (and now Vice President) Biden had originally opposed the Iran Freedom Support Act.
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Then, Geraldo Rivera showed video of Maryam Rajavi’s MEK rally in Paris, France and interviewed Fox News Channel Foreign Affairs Analyst, who headed the NCRI office in Washington, DC until the Federal Government closed the office.
In 2007, Fox News Channel viewers could claim to have been duped by relying upon the Fox News Channel for news. Now, Fox News Channel viewers have no excuses. Those who rely upon the Fox News Channel as a source of accurate news are traitors to all Americans who fought or died fighting communists. Americans do not need to look to Iran or to the Middle East in search for America’s worst enemies. America’s worst enemies are in America.