Rostam Pourzal, Alternet.org, December 28, 2007:...Many of us remember the Iraqi exile groups whose tall tales the Administration used to justify the invasion of their country in 2003...more...
Mojahedin.ws,December 28, 2007:... Rajavi promised that if nothing happen at the end of the two years, all the Ashraf residents were free to stay or leave: “Anyone who wants may leave, and I will myself throw out all those who are worthless. I will keep the rest who are pure, and then, I will tell them what they can do for me”...more...
Daily Press Briefing, Sean McCormack, Spokesman - Washington, DC- December 11, 2007...I think this is a group that was in some way constituted in the United States. I can't tell you exactly how we view them. You'd probably get a better read on that from the Department of Justice or the FBI...more...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, December 23, 2007:... Regardless of many contradictions in POAC’s judgment and remaining of MKO on the list of the proscribed organizations, MKO’s insistence to recognize the judgment necessitates its compliance with some rules. Granted that MKO has forsworn terrorism since June 2001, as it has claimed and is stated in the POAC’s judgment, the group has to present proven evidences to justify its claim of renunciation of terrorism... more...
Iranian Pen Club, December 22, 2007:...According to the news received in the last few days by Iran-Ghalam (IRAN-PEN) association, the condition of disaffected members of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation who are now accommodated in the TIPF part of Ashraf Camp is critically dangerous. Some personalities have already raised concern not the least Mr. Mohammed Hasibi... more...
Mohammad Hassibi, December 20, 2007:... Since August 2007, I have received telephone calls and emails from individuals, who are among a group of 200 Iranians being detained for the past five years in an American military camp in Iraq...more...
C.T.D.H.R., December 18, 2007:... After arriving in Baghdad Mr. Mohammadi and his wife had to receive medical attention to their injuries and then started contacting the authorities including the Canadian Consul, Ms. Sonia Hooykaas in Jordan, to report the situation. At the same time Ms. Hooykaas kindly informed our Centre that she will report the case to Ottawa and will reflect our concerns regarding this situation...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, December 20, 2007:...The newly reviewed report from the State Department in 2007, upgrading the position of Mojahedin Khalq Organization from a "Terrorist Group" to a "Terrorist Cult" is hardly in line with its claim to have rejected violence since 2001"... more...
IRNA, December 20, 2007:... The head of MKO had attended the session on an invitation sent to her by a pro-Zionist EP member, but was seriously humiliated due to the heavy anti-MKO atmosphere of the meeting.
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Nejat Society, December 20, 2007:... We therefore strive to inform the international public opinion in this regard and draw the world’s attention to our cause. We do hope that our publication would create some interests with you. We also would be happy to be in contact with you. You would be quite welcomed to visit us in our office in Tehran...more...
Press tv, December 19, 2007:... The European legislator said ignoring the terrorist group's violation of human rights and inviting it by Struan Stevenson would undermine the European Parliament's efforts to promote democratic values ...more...
IRNA, December 17, 2007:... The Justice Advocacy Group delivered documents to the MEPs putting the number of families falling victims to the MKO terrorism at 16,000 and that over 80 percent of those assassinated were civilians...more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 18, 2007:... I wish all the states took MKO out of their terrorist lists so Mr. And Mrs. Rajavi had no more excuse to make. For ten years they have been making excuse of being frozen because of the terrorist tag, otherwise everything had been solved ...more...
Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies, December 16, 2007:... Asked if the issue of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) would be included in the Iran-US talks on Iraq, Hosseini said activities of terrorist groups will be among issues to be discussed by the two sides....more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, December 16, 2007:... The current LOGO of the MOJAHEDIN KHALQ ORGANISATION is hardly in line with its claim to have rejected violence since 2001"
The description of its logo published by the Organisation remains valid and is used in internal teachings up to this day ... more...
House of COMMONS, December 13, 2007:... Malcolm Bruce: We have accepted sometimes that terrorist organisations can change their ways?... Mr Brown: But I do not think we have that evidence...more...
Agence France Presse, December 14, 2007:... I remain convinced that where terrorism is concerned, the rights of the law abiding majority and the overriding need to protect the public, both in the UK and abroad, must lead us to take such a cautious approach ...more...
IRNA, December 15, 2007:... Calling the MKO as a terrorist group, the Danish ambassador underlined that the Danish government is determined to prevent activities of the grouplet in the country...more...
IRNA, December 15, 2007:... He said he had looked at the issues surrounding the MKO and that it was "certainly the case it has been involved in terrorist activity."
"It is the right thing to do" in outlawing the terrorist group as a proscribed organisation under the country's Terrorism Act 2000, the prime minister said...more...
Press TV, December 12, 2007:... In an exclusive interview with Press TV, member of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament, Emma Nicholson, said that a special new court has been convened and decided that the British government acted in haste in putting the Mujahedin Khalq Organization on the terrorist list...more...
Tehran Times, December 13, 2007:... Iraqi chief prosecutor Jafar al-Musawi has said that Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) members in all countries should be extradited to Iran to face trial...more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 12, 2007:...Do these programs broadcasted by the official TV network of a proscribed organization corroborate its claims of abandoning terrorism and militarism? These pictures and clips well indicate that claims and words can never be trusted unless proved by action... more...
Nejat Society,December 12, 2007:... Mr Khodabandeh referred to the absence of Mr Paula Casaca MEP from Portugal who dropped his name from the list of the delegation in the last minutes due to the pressure imposed by the MKO. He said that he was really willing to visit Mr Casaca today and tell him some mere facts about Iran and about the MKO. He mentioned that surely Mr Casaca missed an opportunity to face the truth...more...
reports by LATimes (USA) and ISNA (Iran), December 12, 2007:... He also denied that Iran had resumed a secret nuclear weapons program, a claim made by an Iranian exile group, the Mujahedin Khalq, which has been listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department and the European Union ... more...
Another exposing article by WSJ, December 11, 2007:... The MEK has its roots as a Marxist-Islamist body that fought to overthrow the Shah and has been seeking to overthrow the current government since the mid-1980s. The U.S. and the European Union list both the NCRI and Mujahedin e-Khalq as terrorist organizations ...more...
Nejat Society, Tabriz University, December 04, 2007:... On Tuesday 4th of December 2007, a meeting was held in the Law Department of Tabriz Islamic Free University. The topic was "Brainwashing: Crime against Humanity"...more...
IRNA, December 10, 2007:... Angelika Beer also asserted that the MKO grouplet is recognized as an illegal outfit by European Parliament, European Union and also US and British services, adding that the policy of European Parliament toward MKO is rejecting it and avoiding contacts with it...more...
Professor Paul shedon Foote, December 08, 2007:... That portion included a discussion of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists. Brown and Sesno did not explain that President George W. Bush had used the MEK as a pretext for the Iraq War in 2002 and then protected America’s terrorist enemies at Camp Ashraf, Iraq in 2003...more...
Iran Interlink Brief, December 08, 2007:... Now with the US National Intelligence Estimate report on December 3rd effectively removing any reason for war with Iran for the foreseeable future, there is nothing left for Rajavi to fill the void between now and January 2009. His deadline for destruction appears to have arrived sooner than he anticipated...more...
Mohammad Hussein Sobhani, December 08, 2007:...In my opinion you are not a supporter of the MKO but a patriotic citizen of the UK. Therefore you want to use the MKO as a military tool in terms of the accomplishment of your objectives. But I want to advise you that your theory is wrong... more...
Mojahedin.ws, December 7, 2007:... Even the accuracy of such remarks that “the PMOI has conducted no military activity of any kind since about August 2001” is dubious and questionable. Corroborated by Mojahedin’s own official communiqués published in the group’s official organ, Mojahed, MKO has certainly conducted terrorist operations inside Iran ...more...
Islamic Republic of Iran Network 2, Tehran, in Persian 1900 gmt 4 Dec 07:... Americans are conducting certain bizarre approaches such as arming non-military groups some 70,000 in number. He drew parallels between this policy and arming the Mojahedin Khalq fighters and Pezhak in Kordestan... more...
William O. Beeman, New America Media, Dec 05, 2007:... neoconservatives Patrick Clawson and Daniel Pipes lobbied for its removal from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations in order to use the MEK in the Bush White House drive for regime change in Iran...more...
Comment on the desperation of Rajavi's backers in the USA. December 05, 2007:...Mr. Armey and his friend should have known by now that no right minded person would pay a penny for your defunct terrorists. Ten years ago? Maybe. Now? We don't think so Sir!... more...
Sattar Orangi comments on Coucil of Foreign Relations Article, December 5, 2007:... It is much a new challenge for the US for having put any trust in a proscribed terrorist group that is heavily built on the structure of a cult of personality...more...
By Bernd Kaussler, Asia Times, December 04, 2007:... The most vocal advocate and perpetrator of violent regime change in Iran is the Mujahideen-e-Khalq organization (MEK), an Iranian opposition group designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States (Executive Order 13224, Department of State, 2003) and the European Union...more...
Iranian radio, 20:40 gmt, December 02, 2007:... The UN secretary General's new envoy in the Iraqi affairs, Staffan de Mistura, in his meeting with Iran's envoy to Baghdad said that monafeqin [hypocrites; reference to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization] was a terrorist organization and that any activity by this group in Iraq was illegal...more...
The Guardian, December 1, 2007:... The Home Office minister Tony McNulty said he was disappointed by the decision. "We don't accept it and we intend to appeal. "The government adopted a cautious approach in relation to the de-proscription of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran... more...
IRNA, December 01, 2007:... The MKO, which has carried out wholesale terrorist acts in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, was among the first organisations to be formally outlawed under Britain's Terrorism Act 2000 ... more...
Los Angeles Times, Kim Murphy, Staff Writer, December 01, 2007:... "I think this ruling would be a substantial boost to the organization, but I don't think they stand a bat's chance in hell of being able to unseat the regime," Patrick Clawson, an Iran specialist with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said in a telephone interview...more...
VOA English Service, London, November 30, 2007:... The opposition group was first set up in the 1960s with the aim of overthrowing the U.S.-backed regime of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It took part in the Islamic revolution, but soon fell out with the new clerical government and set out on a campaign of assassinations and bombings to topple it. The group moved to Iraq in the 1980s and operated from there with the blessing of Saddam Hussein. After Saddam was ousted, the U.S. military disarmed the group...more...
BBC, November 30, 2007:... A militant organisation, whose ideology combines elements of both Marxism and Islam, the group based itself in Iraq after being expelled from Iran.
For more than 15 years before the fall of Saddam Hussein, it used bases in Iraq to launch attacks against Iran...more...
BBC. November 30, 2007:... The son of a key Iraqi Sunni politician and up to 50 other people have been held by security forces who say they found a car bomb in the MP's compound.
The MP, Adnan al-Dulaimi, insists the car was not in the compound and he strongly denies any links to terrorism ... more...
Press TV, November 29, 2007:... Jafari said Iran is a victim of terrorism while the US backs the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iranian terrorist group based in Iraq ...more...
Interview with MEHR News, November 25, 2007:... The group has been placed on the list of terrorist groups. He claimed that the US military does not support any terrorist group including the MKO. He admitted: The American government considers the MKO grouplet to be a terrorist group and once again claimed that the US military was not supporting them...more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, November 28, 2007:... The delegation headed by Mr Mike Gapes, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the House of Commons, consisted of the members of that committee including Mr Richard Younger-Ross, Mr Ken Purchase, Ms Gisela Stuart, Sir John Stanley, Mr John Horam, Mr Fabian Hamilton and other MPs...more...
Zamboangajournal, November 25, 2007:... Masoud: Memoirs of An Iranian Rebel could remind some readers of Arthur Koestler’s classic “Darkness at Noon”, an account of how Communism can turn perfectly sane and well-educated men and women into delusional maniacs...more...
Edward Termado, Sabz Association, November 26, 2007:... I am an Iranian Christian who served as a soldier in 1981 during the war between Iran and Iraq. I was injured during one attack by Saddam Hussein's forces against Iran and subsequently was taken prisoner by Saddam's army ...more...
Mojahedin.ws, November 26, 2007:... Of the causes behind Rajavi’s flight to Iraq and MKO’s settlement there was that both the organization itself and France fancied MKO would be a potential drive to overthrow the Islamic regime of Iran in a short span. It is what Saeed Shahsavandi has said in session 136 of his interview with the Voice of Iran ...more...
A report by Iran-Interlink, November 22, 2007:... neoconservatives promote the exiled Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq organization (aka MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) in the pursuit of 'regime change'. As well as being a totalitarian cult which acted as Saddam Hussein's private army for two decades, the MEK is listed as a terrorist group in the EU and USA...more...
IRNA, November 21, 2007:... British Ambassador to Tehran, Geoffrey Adams, along with members and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons have met and talked with several families of victims of terrorism ... more...
By Gareth Porter, Asia Times, November 20, 2007:...The US military was apparently operating on the basis of information from the Iranian armed opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) that was badly out of date. more...
TDUGDALE.BLOGSPOT.COM, November 18, 2007:... Bush wanted proof that Iranians (and the Iranian government) were bringing armour-piercing weapons and explosives into Iraq. The problem was that all of the reliable people told them they were off base, so they went to some folks who knew how to play ball.more...
Washington Post Foreign Service, November 13, 2007:...Iraqi police announced that five Iranians had been seized in the town of Khalis. Maj. Mohammed Zayidan, director of the local police force's major crimes unit, said the four men and a woman had been found in a car, with no identification papers and speaking only Persian...more...
Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), November 13, 2007:... Referring to the support of the US for the terrorist group of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq, Boroujerdi said, "Ties between terrorism and a number of countries is the main factor to deteriorate security crisis there."...more...
The Nation (Thailand), November 16, 2007:...dealings with terrorist groups such as the People's Mujahadeen Organisation (MKO), and the Kurdish PEJAK and PKK. The MKO, which was once on Saddam Hussein's payroll...more...
Press TV, reprting from SvD daily, Sweden, November 15, 2007:... It is inappropriate for Bjorn Leivik and Anne Ludvigsson to have participated in a panel debate arranged by an organization known to be terrorist, cult-like and brutal ...more...
By HIBA DAWOOD (UPI Correspondent), Middle East Times, November 14, 2007:... They have caused the death of thousands of Iraqis in 1991 when they were allies with Saddam, and still are causing several problems in Iraq especially the many bombings that happened in Kirkuk ...more...
Mojahedin .ws, November, 2007:... Classified as a terrorist group by the United States and by the European Union, the PMOI is largely discredited today. It was based in Iraq since 1986 and faces the full impact of Saddam 'Hussein's fall from power. Founded in Iran under the Shah's regime, they took up armed ...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, November 14, 2007:... The internal ideological revolution of Mojahedin demanded fundamental changes in all their mental and political structures as well as their worldview that depicted the vista of the chosen utopia ... more...
Newsweek, November 12, 2007:... Stop support for anti-Iranian terrorist organizations like the MKO cult based in Iraq, the Kurdish separatist group PJAK, and pro-Taliban Baluch separatists, Jondollah...more...
National Post, November 9, 2007:... Her family believes she has been brainwashed or is afraid to speak her mind, and Ms. Bhardwaj said human rights groups have reported that "defectors" who try to leave the camp are routinely beaten and detained. "She's under mind control of the MEK," Mr. Bhardwaj said.more...
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, November 11, 2007:... Massoud Rajavi, leader of the Mojahedin-é Khalq Organisation (MKO), issued a statement from his hiding on 29th October 2007 (7th Aban 1358) which appeared on the organisation's website "hambastegimeli" on 1st November 2007... more...
IRNA,Berlin, Nov 8, 2007:... The Iranian female lawmakers also criticized a number of their German counterparts for having links with counter-revolutionary terrorist groups like the MKO grouplet and Pejak... more...
Mojahedin WS, November 10, 2007:... This could be said of US conduct with regard to Al-Qaeda's precursors in Afghanistan in the 1980s, and of its current dealings with terrorist groups such as the People's Mujahadeen Organization (MKO), and the Kurdish PEJAK and PKK. The MKO, which was once on Saddam Hussein's payroll and responsible for the loss of many innocent lives ...more...
by Wayne Madsen, Opednews.com, November 9, 2007:... Israelis are everywhere in Kurdistan." Some are there for business reasons but a number are engaged in support for the PKK, PEJAK, and the MKO. This Israeli support, carried out with a wink and a nod from the neocon cabal in Washington, has strained Turkey's relations with both Jerusalem and Washington...more...
Mojahedin.ws, November 9, 2007:... The gist of Massoud Rajavi’s latest message issued from his hideout on 29 October is that the organization never withdraws from its long-advocated policy of resorting to terrorism and militarism to assume political power...more...
Press TV, Novermber 09, 2007:... some European countries support the members of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO)... Hashemi Shahroudi called on certain European countries to reconsider their stance vis-à-vis the issue of terrorism and terrorist groups...more...
Fars News Agency, Tehran, November 08, 2007:...The corruption in the judiciary system of Argentina allowed Zionist regime of Israel to push its agenda by feeding lies and false evidence which are ironically submitted by a proscribed terrorist organisation(Mojahedin Khalq Organisation or Rajavi cult)... more...
Awaa Association, November 2007:...In this issue:...US openly supports proscribed terrorist groups while accusing Iran. MKO—A US-backed militia Meddling Aggressively in Iran. Cult of the Chameleon - A documentary by Aljazeera television about Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq Organisation)...more...
France 24 Television, November 04 2007:...The international French Television station FRANCE 24 broadcasted today a program about Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi Cult), exposing their true nature...more...
Press TV, Novermber 07, 2007:... The United States, as a country that has occupied Iraq 'must lead the fight against all terrorist groups in Iraq, without discrimination," President Abdullah Gul said in a press conference with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Baku...more...
Iran-interlink November 07, 2007:... While Israeli lobby agents advocate in Washington, London, Paris and Baghdad to use terrorist organisations to advance Zionist interests, Iran uses the opportunity to discredit the US and its allies even more ...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, November 6, 2007:...Although there is a five-year interval between the two events, ideological divorces are a complementary step to the marriage of Maryam and Massoud that deteriorated the status of family life in MKO. Mehdi Abrishamchi, Maryam Rajavi’s late husband, justifies the act of Maryam’s divorce... more...
Roozhnama, Iraq, October 29, 2007:... lawmaker added: "The Iraqi constitution does not allow the use of Iraqi territories as a base by terrorists. The Mojahedin-e Khalq are terrorists and it is very important to expel them from Iraq. The United Iraqi Alliance supports the Iranian government's calls for expelling the group from Iraq." ...more...
Radio Free Europe, November 02, 2007:... It does not matter what the terrorist groups are called; they can be the PJAK [Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, an ethnic-Kurdish guerrillas with links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK], the PKK, or the 'hypocrites,'" Mottaki said, the last a reference to the MKO ...more...
Press TV, November 04, 2007:... The United States has been linked to anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), even though the state department has branded it a terrorist organization ...more...
IRNA, Baghdad, October 31, 2007:... Zebari told the press conference that presence and activities of such terrorist groups as MKO, PJAK or PKK are contrary to the interests of regional states ...more...
Reuters, October 28, 2007:... At a joint news conference with Babacan, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Sunday also accused the United States and Israel of involvement in terrorism in the region. "We see ... their hand behind some of the regional terrorist activities,"...more...
Bahar IraniT Mojahedin.wsT October 31, 2007:... Even before the Islamic revolution of 1978 in Iran, MKO and some active armed militia advocated bank robberies and similar ransacking acts as revolutionary deeds to support the struggle. As confessed by Ali Mihandust ...more...
IranTV October 27, 2007:... He pointed out the Monafeqin group [reference to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization] and other political groups at the beginning of the eighth Majlis elections ...more...
October 29, 2007:... four more survivors of the Rajavi cult have escaped from the military base of this terrorist organisation in Iraq and, after taking refuge with the American forces in Iraq, have now arrived at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran ... more...
Economist Intelligence Unit - Risk Briefing, 24 October 2007:... there has been an open debate in Washington as to whether the MKO could be used as part of some future campaign to destabilise the Iranian regime, and the administration is in no mood to give any perceptible ground to Iran over the issue ...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 27, 2007:... Failing in its military phase, although never denouncing its armed strategy, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has adopted a diplomatic phase mainly stressing on a prodemocracy campaign in the Western countries as an appropriate means to survive...more...
by C. A. Virginia, U.S. October 24, 2007:... Pipes also failed to mention that the Mujahedin were allowed to operate in Iraq by Saddam Husayn and in fact helped the Iraqi Ba'thist dictator by serving as an internal security mechanism. He weakly attempts to explain away the fact that the group is listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 19, 2007:... As mentioned in the previous article, exaltation of self-immolation in the messages of MKO’s leaders is in fact an applied ploy to encourage members to commit suicidal operations for cult causes ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 16, 2007:... A scrutiny into the internal relations of the cults, especially in their leaders’ manner of conveying orders to the members while they are absent, reveals that most of these orders are issued indirectly through tokens and expressions incorporated in the messages...more...
Centre for Thought, Dialogue and Human Rights in Iran – Toronto, October 12, 2007:... As an organization that is opposed to the violation of Human rights, we believe that these people are in grave danger if remained in Iraq under the current situation. Therefore we require that based on Geneva Convention 1967 and UN declaration 1987 their refugee rights be recognized immediately. In addition, since UN has no office in Iraq, except in the Kurdistan, they should be reallocated to another country to have full access and freedom to follow up with the required procedures to facilitate their final settlement in a free and democratic country...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 14, 2007:... Of the key terms to develop an understanding of MKO’s internal revolution is the notion of ‘being in the leader’s debt’. That is the principle that requires all the individuals to deny their personal qualifications and potentialities and completely rely on the leader for the legitimacy of any value. In other words, any goodness is attributed to the leader and the vices are all on the part of the individuals...more...
Mojahedin.ws, October 16, 2007:... the author refers to Mojahedin-e Khalq as a bankrupt group that “spend the night in bed with enemies of our people and in the morning cry freedom. Their account is different. They are sentenced to the destiny of decaying in the arms of those who call them terrorist yet protect them to use in another day”...more...
Press TV, Sun, 14 Oct 2007:... A French court has summoned two MKO members who incited one of the group's supporters to set herself on fire in a June 2003 protest...more...
By Michael Rubin, The Weekly Standard, October 2007:... In exchange, Washington would refrain from pressing regime change, abolish sanctions, recognize Iran's "legitimate security interests," crack down on the militant Mujahedin al-Khalq (MKO), and give the Islamic Republic access to "peaceful" nuclear, biological, and chemical technology...more...
Mojahedin.ws October 11, 2007:... Shahsavandi asserted that Mojahedin, and Rajavi in particular, play the same role as did Ahmad Chalabi in winning acceptance for the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. The same as Chalabi, Rajavi also claims his goal is a democratic government in his homeland. However ... more...
Irna, reporting from Euro News, October 10, 2007:... He (Majles Speaker) said he had cancelled visit to France in protest to an invitation extended to the head of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization to take part in the fall meeting of the European Council parliamentary assembly. "By such a move, I in fact intended to give the message of protest at their double-standards: Somewhere they condemn terrorism and they and even Americans confirm terrorist nature of MKO and somewhere else, they invite the MKO heads, who are under international police chase, to attend the European Council meeting ...more...
Le Monde Diplomatique, Selig S Harrison, October 01, 2007:... darling of the Washington lobby for regime change in Iran. Alireza Jaffarzadeh, chairman of the MEK’s front group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, appears regularly on the conservative TV channel Fox News as its Iran expert, rather like the pro-US Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi before the Iraq invasion, rallying Congressional and media support for military action against Iran...more...
Fars News, October 07, 2007:... Considering the background and the legal papers and documents pertaining to the legal prosecution of the MKO, the EU and France merely contradicted their claims about campaign against terrorism by inviting them (the MKO leaders), Talayee Nik reminded...
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Press TV, October 06, 2007:... Hadad Adel who was due to deliver a speech in the official session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly as the head of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) cancelled his trip following a meeting between some Council of Europe officials and the head of the terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO)...more...
IRNA, October 05, 2007:... He said certain people, provoked by MKO, started to raise questions about Iran and Palestine at the European Council parliamentary gathering but fortunately the Indonesian speaker gave due response to them...more...
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, Press TV, October 06, 2007:... Honest, intelligent Americans would not work for or support any center or politician promoting Wilsonian democracy. Unfortunately, uninformed American voters and corrupt American political leaders have had a long history of supporting communist, fascist, or other totalitarian takeovers of countries...more...
Iran Interlink, October 05, 2007:... The hardliners of Iran regularly exploit the group to attack the west for double standards and justify their own actions. In this way, no other group has helped the IRI more than the MKO - which the IRI insists on as its only alternative throughout the world...more...
IRNA, October 04, 2007:... Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel has canceled an scheduled visit to Strasbourg, France, where he was to address the European Parliament on Thursday. The decision was made in protest to "the dual behavior" of EP officials...more...
Iranian Radio, October 03, 2007:... At the meeting, the French government's double standards and discriminatory conduct on the subject of terrorism was criticized, and it was underlined that the freedom of action of the hypocrites mini-group [reference to the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization] in that country was viewed as ...more...
IRNA, October 03, 2007:... A military commander said here Wednesday that the Tuesday night assassination of a Shia clergyman in Khash was aimed at sowing discord among Shia and Sunni Muslims...more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East, October 03, 2007:... Considering the very negative role that this group has had in the security situation of Dayaleh Province and intensifying the insecurities in this region, the government of Iraq is seriously angered by their conduct and is making efforts to take control of this issue...more...
Al-Rai newspaper/Rabi' Yahya, translated by Iran Didban, Oct 02, 2007:...These sources, stressing that press conferences by Iranian opposition on Iran's nuclear program are not coincidental, said: "Secret services of the U.S. used the same tactics five years ago and gave their initial intelligence to the Iranian opposition to be announced in their press meetings."...more...
Fox News Channel: Communist Terrorist Television for Dupes by Paul Sheldon Foote. October 1, 2007...: It is a total lie to refer to the NCRI as Iran ’s parliament in exile. A small number of communist cult members in France declared that the NCRI is Iran’s parliament in exile... more than one million Iranians living outside of Iran never voted for the cultists in France, led by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi. more...
Financial Times, September 30, 2007:... He also claimed Tehran had information that US officials were holding talks with Izzat al-Douri, the former Ba’athist senior official who is said to be leading parts of the Sunni insurgency. “This is a disaster for the Iraqi people,” he said ...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, October 01, 2007:... From the beginning (1965) up to the time being, the issue of leadership in MKO, in spite of stressing on democratic centralism, has actually faced sever challenges. During the early formation years, from 1365 to 1972 when Mohammad Hanifnejad was executed, Hanifnejad’s hegemonic political leadership was ...more...
Fars News, September 29, 2007 Reported:...Less than four months after the assassination of Shaykh Hashem Samiri, a Friday prayer leader in the [southern] city of Ahwaz has been the target of a failed assassination attempt... more...
Awaa Association, September 2007:... In this issue: Open letter to King Abdullah of Jordan - 11th of September 2001 and the MKO - 11 September and MKO’s Tactic of Duplicity - Why the US granted 'protected' status to Iranian terrorists - MKO Behind Karbala Massacre...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, Septemper 27, 2007:... The ideological revolution within Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, or cult of Mojahedin, has led to so many changes in terms of internal relations of MKO. Mojahedin based the survival of the organization on the necessity for institutionalizing the components of the ideological revolution...more...
Press TV, September 29, 2007:... It also slams the US for harboring terrorist groups like the MKO and training al-Qaeda and Taliban militants during the occupation of Afghanistan by the USSR...more...
Al-Ahali newspaper/Iraq, translated by Iran Didban, September 29, 2007:...Jafar al-Mousawi, the chief prosecutor of Iraq's high criminal court said: "The court has documents proving the involvement of Mojahedin-e Khalq organization in killing and assassinating 35 Iraqi citizens in southern Iraq in 1991."...more...
Agence France Presse, September 28, 2007:... Iran denied on Friday claims by the country's main opposition group that it is building a new bomb-proof underground site for developing nuclear weapons, linked by tunnel to an existing complex at Natanz...more...
Mehr News and Press TV, September 28, 2007:...the repetition of the base less lies by Associated Press (AP) broadcasted at the same time as the start of negotiations of permenant security council members in New York is no more than a failed attempt to disturb the positive atmosphere created by the cooporation between Iran and the Atomic Energy watchdog IAEA... more...
Mojahedin.ws, September 27, 2007:... At the same time when a number of the insane set themselves on fire, there are others in whose minds doubts are formed. The revolution has to be continued to stop formation of doubts ... more...
Behzad Alishahi, Paris, September 21, 2007:... It reminded me again of when Massoud Rajavi announced in a meeting that if and when Mojahedin reach the end of the road, every one of the ex-members and critics, wherever they are, would be a target for assassination, and this was an ideological order from an ideological leader to cult members... more...
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, September 2007:... The US State Department officially considers a group of 3,800 Marxist Iranian rebels - who once killed several Americans and was supported by Saddam Hussein - "terrorists." But the same group, under American guard in an Iraqi camp, was just accorded a new status by the Pentagon...more...
Israel Faxx, By Ha'aretz, September 26, 2007:... Ahmadinejad turned the question around and accused the U.S. of backing terrorist groups that he alleged train in Iraq to launch attacks in Iran. The reference is apparently to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, a group...more...
IRNA, September 25, 2007:... The Iranian academics posed 10 questions to Bollinger in return for the 10 questions he asked from President Ahmadinejad ... more...
Al-Rai Alaam/Jordan, September 25, 2007:... Criticizing these Iranian news sources, he said: "publishing such reports contradicts King Abdullah's efforts to boost the ties between the two nations on the basis of understanding and respect."... more...
Iraqmemory.org, September 25, 2007:... There's no dispute in the way this organization acted, because the memory of Iraqis is full of their organized terror, committed under the supervision of Baathists. Those supporting this group should know that this group is only a burnt card, lacking even a supporter in Iran and political-military influence...more...
Iran Interlink, September 24, 2007:... This news comes after a series of attacks carried out by the MKO in European cities including the planned semi-military operation carried out by MKO members in Paris in June 2007, which ended in the serious injury of speakers and invitees of a peace conference in FIAP building...more...
Middle East Online, September 24, 2007:... MEK fighters not only assisted the Iraqis in the Iran-Iraq War but also helped Saddam put down the 1991 Kurdish uprising. While claiming to be democratic and pro-Western, the MEK closely resembles a cult. In April 2003, when I visited Camp Ashraf, its main base northeast of Baghdad, I found robotlike hero worship of the MEK's leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi; the fighters I met parroted a revolutionary party line, and there were transparently crude efforts at propaganda...more...
IRNA, Sep 24, 2007:... What I came to realise was that they were committing just as much abuse of human rights inside their organization as Amnesty International was 'clocking-up' in other countries throughout the world...more...
Press TV, September 22, 2007:... According to informed sources, there is strong evidence showing that the terrorist group, Mujahedine Khalq Organization (MKO), was in collaboration with the CIA in the kidnapping of an Iranian national named Farhadi, who was a member of an Iranian commercial delegation to Sulaimaniya...more...
Behzad Alishahi, September 21, 2007:... If there has ever been any doubt about the possible degree of stupidity of mankind, today, with the brightness of folly shining brilliantly from the nominal head of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (who is currently confined by the US Army along with the remainder of the group in Camp Ashraf in Iraq), there should be no further doubt that humankind has crossed new frontiers even in this respect...more...
Irandidban, September 19, 2007:... One should note that when the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq took effect in 1988, terrorist MKO faced a political-military deadlock that, in Rajavi's view, could be resolved only by a new war between Iran and Iraq or Iran and the US...more...
Associated Press Writer, September 18, 2007:... PARIS (AP) - French authorities plan to investigate the 1999 killing of a top Iranian general, which was claimed by an Iranian opposition group based in France, judicial officials said Monday...more...
Radio Free Europe Documents and Publications, September 15, 2007:... The MKO is a militant Iranian opposition group that has been based in Iraq since the early 1980s. The group is classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department and the European Union...more...
IRNA, Tehran, September 16, 2007:... As to activities of the terrorist Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in the past several years, he said over 16,000 people, including one president, one prime minister, four ministers and a group of MPs, were killed in Iran during their terrorist operations...more...
Tehran Times, by our staff writer, September 17, 2007:...Yet, Jordan’s government has been facing a serious wave of social unrest since the final days of King Hussein, particularly in 1999 and 2000, which proves that Jordan is too weak to become a regional player able to contain Iran...more...
Times on line, memories of Elahe, September 16, 2007:... Whatever she did was informed by a deep and abiding love for her country and fellow Iranians. Surely it is because of this integrity that the nation has honoured her memory by playing her songs on national radio. The first female singer to be publicly broadcast for 27 years ...more...
Irandidban, September 15, 2007:... Since the terrorist MKO is now protected by the US and believes that the only way for getting out of crises is to have the political and military support of American warmongers, it’s mobilizing its forces to ask the US to stop supporting the Iraqi government led by Nouri al-Maliki ...more...
Tehran Times, September 14, 2007:...The MKO is officially on the U.S. terrorist list, but is now being protected by the U.S. occupying forces there. It has been responsible for multiple attacks, including assassinations of leading politicians in Iran over the years. Offers by Iran to exchange al-Qaeda terrorists it holds in prisons, for MKO terrorists, were rejected by the U.S...more...
Press TV, September 11, 2007:... The United States has reportedly assisted the fugitive leaders of the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) to flee to Jordan. MKO leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and at least four other senior members of the group had fled to Jordan and were now under the protection of the Jordanian government... more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, September 13, 2007:... In recent weeks we have received unconfirmed reports that Mr Massoud Rajavi and Mrs Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, together with a few other high ranking members, have been transferred to Jordan where your Government is to protect them from the arrest warrants ...more...
MojahedinWS website, September 13, 2007:...Saeed Shahsavandi’s recent interview with the Voice of Iran, originally in Farsi, focused on the subject of the MKO members’ suicide within the Camp Ashraf following the organization’s internal ideological revolution. Talking on the suicide of members opposed to MKO’s ideological shift Shahsavandi said ...more...
Nejat Society, September 11, 2007:... "Bagherzadeh" was one the bases of the Mojahedin-é Khalq Organisation (MKO) in Iraq before the fall of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. This base was normally used for the group gatherings of the MKO members in Iraq - otherwise knows as the National Liberation Army (NLA)...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, Sep. 11, 2007:... Hardly anyone doubts that al-Qaeda perpetrated 11 September attacks had a great impact on Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, or Mojahedin cult, to make a shift in its terrorist conducts. The global reaction against the attacks and a shown decisiveness to combat ...more...
Aftabe Yazd website, September 10, 2007:... Mas'ud and Maryam Rajavi, the heads of the militant Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, are being allowed to open an office in Jordan, as part of the Jordanian monarch's acts of hostility to Iran and Shi'is ... more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, Sep. 10, 2007:... On the anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks perpetrated by al-Qaeda makes it absolutely necessary to have a review over the hideous phenomena of terrorism and the identical political and ideological features shared by the notorious terrorist groups...more...
Habilian Association, September 09, 2007:... representative of Kut tribesmen and people Sheikh Hajj Sa'd Abdulhosein stressed that Monafeqin are the common enemy of Iranians and Iraqis. "More than Iranians, Iraqis suffered from this group and that's why they call for the expulsion of the group... more...
Irandidban, September 09, 2007:... Giving the responsibility of security in Diyala province- as the center of tension and the main settlement form terrorists- to Iraqi police is an important issue requiring more time to discuss; however, it is particularly interesting because this province holds the MKO's main base under US protection...more...
Mehr News, September 09, 2007:... Mousawi had said earlier that there is evidence to suggest that the MKO had a hand in murdering Iraqi citizens and arrest warrants have been issued for 150 MKO members, including ringleaders Maryam Rajavi and Masoud Rajavi...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, Sep. 9,2007:... A careful and close scrutiny of al-Qaeda and MKO’s organizational infrastructures reveals surprising similarities in their theorizing of terrorist operations. That is much because the two nearly show great interest in the same ideological teachings of terrorism theoreticians ...more...
Sent by Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, Sep. 7, 2007:...Jafarzadeh is currently playing the Chalabi-role. MeK and the NCRI are claiming they too favor a secular, democratic Iraq. However, as described in interviews on a Dateline show directed by Bronwyn Adcock, aired on October 4, 2006, former MeK members describe the organization as focused strictly on its own ambitions and those of its money-hungry leaders, with cult-like indoctrination techniques... more...
Us State Department Press Release, reported by Scoop, Sepember 05, 2007:... but I can tell you that the American position on the MEK has not changed in any way, shape or form...more...
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote, Global Politician, September 4, 2007:... Professor Rabbi Daniel Zucker, a promoter of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists, has made a new list of the enemies of this evil cult. It is a high honor to be placed on a list of enemies of these communist terrorists who have murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and large numbers of Iranians and Iraqis... more...
Habilian Association, Mashad, Iran, Sep 04, 2007:... "During the uprising of 1991, a number of Turkmen from Kirkuk were also killed by the organization of Monafeghin. So, besides the suppression of the uprising in the north, different ethnicities faced the risk of becoming totally destroyed," he added...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, Sep. 3, 2007:... Although MKO showed no clear position concerning the 9/11 attacks, but in itself the group advocates the terrorist feat since its political and ideological principles from its very initiation have been founded on antagonistic and anti-imperialism attitudes...more...
Aawa Association, Cologne, Germany, September 01, 2007:... It is now clear that the cult leaders have changed their recent tactics and have chosen to resort to open violence and terror in European countries and, as they have always instructed, this starts with the human rights activists, critics and ex-members who are blamed for the failure of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation to find a new benefactor...more...
Irandidban, September 01, 2007:...After 27 years, terrorist MKO's European branch "NCRI" has started to search for the main reasons of its failures; this has caused all its analysts and leaders to conclude that Islamic Republic of Iran is mainly responsible for their failures (or, as they say, "the costs they paid")...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, August 31, 2007:...After the initiation of the ideological revolution, Mojahedin’s relations underwent a complete metamorphosis. Mojahedin’s quadrilateral relations changed into a trilateral one. On one side was situated Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, at another stood Massoud and on the third was whatever refuted the two formers. Noting in between the two ends was legitimized...more...
Gregory Elich for Global Research , August 2007:...Accusing MEK of past involvement in repressive measures by former president Saddam Hussein, the current Iraqi government wants to close down Camp Ashraf, located well outside of Baghdad, where many of the MEK fighters are stationed. But the camp operates under the protection of the U.S. military, and American soldiers chauffeur MEK leaders...more...
Anjomane Solh, August 31, 2007:...A Norway based HR organisation called for immediate investigation on a alleged blasphemy case in a remote town of Pakistan by Amnesty International. Head of the organisation, “Anjomane Solh”, Ghasem Ghezi while in meeting with Mr. John Peder Egenوs, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Norway said...more...
Iran Interlink Brief, August 29, 2007:...According to Iran Interlink’s source, the aim of the Conference, which has not been announced publicly and invitations to which have been limited to a discreet handful of journalists and politicians, is "to take revenge against the critics and victims" of the cult who have been exposing the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi under the protection of Saddam Hussein over a period of 25 years...more...
Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 2, Tehran, in Persian 1900 gmt August 28, 2007, reported by BBC Monitoring:...Asked about the recent announcement by Interpol that the leaders of the banned Mojahedin Khalq organisation are being arrested if there are any plans for them to be extradited? Hojjat-Ol-Eslam Mohseni-Ezhe'i said that there are no plans as such but he hoped that the Iraqi people will put these figures on trial as they...more...
Mojahedin WS, August 29, 2007:...The terrorist operation justifiably worked for the proscription of MKO as a terrorist group. As described by the State Department’s report “In 1981, the MEK detonated bombs in the head office of the Islamic Republic Party and the Premier’s office, killing some 70 high-ranking Iranian officials, including Chief Justice...more...
BY TOM SCOTNEY,Sunday Mercury, Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd, 19 August 2007:...But Mr Binley spent his time in America in July 2006 talking to US politicians about the future of Iran, and spoke on behalf of NCRI...more...
Nejat Society, August 27, 2007:...With regards, we the former members of Mojahedin-é Khalq Organization (MKO) in Nejat Society present you with our briefing publication called Nejat Newsletter. Nejat Society has been established by those defected members of MKO who have managed to break through the boundaries of the Organization in Ashraf Camp in Iraq...more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, August 22, 2007:...Hassan Daioleslam cannot honestly claim to be an independent analyst. While he has noted the 501 (c) (3) status of NIAC, he has failed to analyze even one Form 990 for NIAC or for any other public charity involved in political activities related to Iran. He has not disclosed his own source of funding. In his future research, he should begin by reading Form 990 disclosures at Guide Star...more...
Mojahedin ws, August 26, 2007:...Released by its official organ Mojahed, originally published in Persian, No. 257 dated August 24, the organization showed an angry backlash against recently released reports by Iraqi and Iranian media that ‘Interpol has issued arrest warrant for Massoud and Maryam Rajavi’, and called it a falsified report....more...
Mehr News Agency, August 24, 2007:...In an interview with Mehr News in Mashhad, Habilian Association's Executive Director, Mohammed Sanavi said: "The convention was mainly aimed at discussing the issue of terrorism in Iran and Iraq, providing solutions for this phenomenon, exposing the crimes of terrorist MKO and revealing the involvement of MKO leaders in Saddam's atrocities against Shiites and Sunnis."...more...
Baztab, August 24, 2007:...Members of this terrorist group published false reports from unreal Iraqi groups, scolding Jafar al-Mousawi. However, the reports on arrest warrant for Massoud and Maryam Rajavi showed that solid evidences of Iraqi prosecutor have convinced the Interpol to arrest the gang leaders...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, August 23, 2007:...The defected members of MKO are not the sole targets of the group’s sever propaganda and tongue lashing; the dissident outsiders and critics including international organizations, human rights bodies, civil foundations and individuals...more...
Mehr News Agency, August 22, 2007:...The Organization for Protection of Iraqis' Rights" asked the Iraqi government to bring the leaders of terrorist MKO to justice. Stressing the fact that terrorist MKO had been involved in killing more than 780 Iraqi citizens, the organization also asked the families of the victims to file a complain...more...
IranMania, August 21, 2007:...LONDON, August 18 (IranMania) - Iran will be very helpful if Iraq seriously deal with the terrorist Mojaheddin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), Prosecutor General Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi said, MNA reported....more...
Mojahedin ws, August 20, 2007:...The Iran Policy Committee (IPC) has recently published their new book, “Baghdad Ablaze: How to Extinguish the Fires in Iraq and Allow for a Triumphant Return Home of US Military Forces.” Raymond Tanter, the president of IPC, in an interview...more...
Mojahedin WS, August 20, 2007:...I speak to those who are mentally captivated in the clutches of a cult whose leaders only follow their egocentric ambitions. When I see this gang fall in with the aliens against national interests to accomplish the cult’s interests, I say more...
Buratha news, August 20, 2007:...Jafar al-Mousavi, the head of Iraq's high criminal court, stressed that the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e khalq would be informed of its charges for its involvement in suppression of Sha'banieh uprising...more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, August 16, 2007:...Russo failed to mention (and Chris Matthews failed to ask) that the White House’s September 2002 background paper on Iraq listed the MEK as one of three of Saddam Hussein’s sponsored terrorist organizations in Iraq. In September 2002, the White House used the MEK as a pretext for the Iraq War. In 2003, American and coalition military forces attacked Camp Ashraf, Iraq, killing some of the MEK terrorists...more...
Baztab, August 15, 2007:...Sabir Abdul Aziz al-Douri acted as Saddam Hussein's direct link to Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the banned anti-Iran opposition group Mujahedin Khalgh Organization (MKO). The researcher said al-Douri was directly involved in the execution of 237 Iranian captives identified by MKO agents in Iraqi camps...more...
Mohammad Sobhani, Ghalam Association, August 15, 2007:...Hassan Daioleslam, who is also considered as a member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi Cult) had been under harsh criticism for a long time by the cult leader Massoud Rajavi because he would not leave the USA and join the cult under the rule of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. But now, in the new circumstances...more...
Press TV, August 15, 2007:...the prosecutor stressed the tribunal's attempts to bring leaders of the banned group Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi to justice, adding the Iraqi government has taken steps to even obtain the extradition of MKO criminals whom are abroad...more...
Sotaliraq, August 14, 2007:..."There are legal rulings on the leaders of MKO and PKK. However, what prevents their expulsion from Iraq is that no country is willing to accept them," said Hussein Kamal, representative of Iraqi Interior Ministry, during "Security Conference" in Damascus...more...
Aswat al-Iraq, August 13, 2007:...Judge Jafar al-Moosavi, the chief prosecutor of Iraq's High Criminal Court, said: "Principal legal measures have been taken against the MKO." In an interview with Aswat al-Iraq, he added: "After documents and evidences were collected on MKO's involvement in killing Iraqis and plundering their properties, the case is now in judicial phase." ...more...
By: neha gandhi, CBC Television, August 12, 2007:...A tale of a family torn apart by lies, deception, and government bureaucracy, “Breaking the Ties That Bind” is a true story of the Mohammady family and their tangled history with the Iranian resistance force known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)...more...
Mojahedin WS, August 11, 2007:...Now, four years after that event, the French police make no risk and keep an open eye on MKO’s activities. Following the release of possible terrorist operations by MKO’s suspects, MKO immediately reacted to acquit the group of terrorist charges and to stop the French anti-terrorist forces to conduct another countermeasure. MKO attempts to convince the French authorities that the report is the outcome of Iran’s disseminating false information and that Mojahedin are reputedly democratic activists in the Europe...more...
Michigan daily, August 09, 2007:...I am banned from going to my dear friends at Alban Towers since he made a point to keep me isolated from family friends and living in fear of my very well being and life.....One might ask who 's spell is he under. Alireza took my place as Raymond's wife.....or at least he took my home space and life...more...
TF1, France, News at 20:00, August 08, 2007:...the Luxemburg authorities claim that the four of Iranian origin are closely linked to the Mojahedin Khalq Organization Headquarters in France. The rail system between France and Luxemburg has been interrupted for almost twenty-four hours and...more...
Press TV, August 08, 2007:...He also identified that we witness the unfortunate activities such that of the anti-Iran terrorist group of MKO which functions under the aid of the occupiers of Iraq such as developed support from US Congress...more...
Al-Iraqiyah TV, Baghdad, in Arabic August 06, 2007:...Mojahedin-E Khalq organization, which is viewed as a threat to Iran's security and which is classified as a terrorist organization. The presence of this organization in Iraq is against the law and the Constitution...more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, August 7, 2007:...That is the way MKO, a proscribed terrorist group that enjoys support of the US forces in Iraq, looks at it much because the group is at odds with the Iraqi government over its decisiveness to expel the terrorist group from Iraq. Once forming close alliance with Saddam against Iran, MKO acted also as his loyal mercenaries in suppression of uprising Iraq dissidents...more...
Guardian, August 07, 2007:...It is appalling, if unsurprising, to read the neoconservative cheerleader Oliver Kamm arguing in these pages that the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki 62 years ago saved lives and ended suffering. The subtext is plain. The same camp whose vocal endorsement led to the present catastrophe in Iraq are now hawkishly gazing at Iran...more...
Press TV, August 07, 2007:...A website affiliated to Iraq's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported that four people have been killed and some others injured in the attack. MKO and al-Qaeda members used rockets and small arms to attack the district...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, August 5, 2007:...In her speech made on 30 June in Paris, Maryam Rajavi, Mojahedin’s cult she-guru, announced her group’s readiness to look after of 1,000 Iraqi orphans. The unexpected demand might be considered a humanitarian move unless you are familiar with MKO’s terrorist and cult nature...more...
IRNA, August 05, 2007:...No re-labeling can "put a shine on a body recognised internationally as a terrorist organisation, or in any way justify their terrorist cause," it said in a letter to the Sunday Telegraph...more...
Baztab News, August 05, 2007:...The two sides (Iran-U.S.) said that the National Unity government has done its best to establish security and stability in Iraq, expand ties with neighbors and the world community on the basis of international laws and common interests...more...
Irandidban, August 04, 2007:...Incoming reports indicate that requests by CIA and intelligence services of some Arab countries from the group to increase its activities have risen; the requests focus on decreasing MKO's political and propagandistic campaign and increasing its services for these agencies...more...
By Gareth Smyth, Financial Times :...Then they went to Iraq, helping Saddam Hussein in fighting with Iran during the war, then fighting with Shias and Kurds during the 1991 uprising, giving Saddam Hussein intelligence and every assistance. Now they are in Iraq. A good number of them have already been transferred to Europe, but some foot-soldiers - worthless in the current situation - have remained in camp Ashraf...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, August , 2007:...Coming to pass MKO-run media bureaus in the Europe and also among the member residents of Camp Ashraf we encounter young people that hardly you can see any relative correspondence between their age and the atmosphere wherein they are exhausting their juvenile vigorousness...more...
Irane Ayandeh, August 02, 2007...It was also revealed that one of the main aimes of this orchestrated attack was to Assassinate Mr. Massoud Khodabandeh, Mrs. Anne Singleton and Mr.Mohammad Hussein Sobhani who were attending the meeting. the assassination attempt failed due to the intervention of French Police...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, August 1, 2007:...For nearly two decades, MKO’s coalition with Iraqi Ba’ath Party was one of the major issues that challenged the group. Such a relation initiated a new critical phase within MKO that consequently resulted in the detachment of a remarkable number of MKO as well as NCRII members. The broadly felonious fallout...more...
Nejat Society, Tehran-July 30th 2007:...According to Nejat Society correspondent, four other people defected MKO and repatriated. The four defectors, who were MKO members for a long time, spent a few weeks in TIPF Camp and finally could return Iran with Red Cross cooperation...more...
Press TV, Agust 01, 2007:...In interview with Al-Alam TV channel on Tuesday, Fazel al-Shavili said that the Iraqi government has found concrete documents implying that Saudi princes pay a monthly $30 million to the armed terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO)...more...
Mehr News AgencyT July 30, 2007:...its newest methods forces its members to call their families, prompt their detention [by the government] so as to provide propagandistic materials for MKO in the international levels. The families should be vigilant about this otherwise the masters of violence would take advantage of them."...more...
Mailed by Lira Arshia, Mojahedin.ws, July 30, 2007:...This Cheney-Bandar effort, the sources warn, is one of the driving factors, provoking Iran, and fuelling the prospects of a near-term explosion. Earlier in July 2007, an emissary of Prince Bandar delivered $750,000 to the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian exile group that formerly worked for Saddam Hussein, and which is on the U.S. State Department's international terrorist organizations (ITO) list...more...
Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, July 29, 2007:...While I truly sympathise with the victims of the brutal Mullah ruling my country, Iran, I caution you not to drift into the PMOI’s propaganda traps by echoing their statistics about the number of people attendant their gatherings, people executed in Iran, and the number of supporters of the group in Iran...more...
Press TV, July 29, 2007:...Iraq will spare no effort to help Iran fight against terrorist groups and has the same expectation from Iran, as an old friend to the Iraqi nation, Talabani added...more...
Jodat Kazem/Al-Hayat, London, July 26, 2007:...U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested Abdullah Al-Jabouri, former governor of Diyala on charges of coordinating the activities of al-Qaeda, Baath party and Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization and also because of being involved in terror and sabotaging operations.Foad al-Taaei, director of al-Khales Information Office in Diyala, said to Al-Hayat...more...
IRNA, July 25, 2007:...Two former members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO), Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Jamil Bassam, said that the organisation has reached the dead-end, and the countdown has started for its decline. Khodabandeh and Bassam, both 54, became members of the MKO in 1983 and quit the terrorist organisation four years ago...more...
Mojahedin.ws ,July 2007:...In our previous letter entitled ‘Exigency of Monitoring Mojahedin’s Moves’ it was asserted that a close monitoring of MKO’s run media deem necessary to develop an exactly calculated judgment of MKO’s positions and its long-term objectives that jeopardize your government and...more...
BBC Yorkshire, Radio Leeds, July 26, 2007:...I was involved with a terrorist cult, the Mojahedin Khalq, which denied its members marriage and children. Those are the levels of intrusion that these organisations have on ordinary members. So, they would not allow anyone to be married, they forced people to divorce and took their children away from them. It was only after I left and...more...
National Iranian American Council, Jul 11, 2007:...In a letter dated June 19, 2007, NIAC's attorney Afshin Pishevar demanded that Voice of America, Persian Service (VOA) "cease and desist" from continuing to function as a political platform for those attacking NIAC. This was the first time NIAC resorted to legal measures to thwart the campaign to depict all opponents of war between the US and Iran as agents of the Iranian government...more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, July 22, 2007:...When will you disclose the amount of money (if any) you receive from or contribute to the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran)?...more...
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, July 2007:...One example of the social destruction of cult practices could be observed with the case of Mr Djavani. He has not only abandoned the organisation but every kind of religion and the Almighty God too. He has lost his faith with God all together after being disappointed with a cult claiming to be a religious establishment...more...
MIDDLE EAST REPORT No:237:...The memoir of Masoud Banisadr, until 1996 a US and European representative of the National Council for Resistance (NCR), the MKO's nominally independent political wing, helps present a picture of the organization as it functioned from the late 1970s...more...
Mehr News Agency, July 21, 2007:...According to AFP, Rahman Mashavi, police spokesman in Karbala, said that they were arrested after police received intelligence on their entrance to the city in Al-Husseinieh area, 20 Km north of the city...more...
National Public Radio, Weekend Edition - Saturday, July 21, 2007:...Semitapur joined the MEK in the 1990s, recruited as a naive college student in Virginia. Eventually, he made his way to a training base in Iraq. And in 2001, he was sent over the border with automatic rifles, ammunition, grenades and two cyanide pills in his mouth...more...
Sattar Orangi, Mojahedin.ws, July 21, 2007:...Once home secretary under Margaret Thatcher's government, Lord Waddington in his comments, published in The Scotsman, said in defence of MKO...Lord Waddington seems to have forgotten that MKO is hardly a “dissent within the country” for Iranian regime; the group is lying at his own county’s gate at the moment. It is hard to accept that he knows nothing of the group’s past bloody terrorist activities in Iran predating and postdating 2001 when he shows his objection to the EU’s decision of maintaining MKO on its list of terror...more...
The Nejat Society, Tehran, Iran, July 2007:...Last summer we had news – later confirmed by the organisation – which designated that Mr Yasser Akbari-Nasab had passed out due to self-immolation. This – along with some other news indicating that the MKO had asked its entire member to volunteer for self-emblazing – has put the families into grave distress...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 17, 2007:...Of the major challenges touched upon by MKO's ex-members after the ideological revolution was the occurrence of an overall change in organizational relations as well as intra-organizational controlling procedures in order to exercise a permanent and all-out mental, emotional and political control over the insiders. It was aimed to break...more...
Irandidban, July 19, 2007:...those not willing to return to Iran and asking for going to a third country have been offered by the Iraqi government to get a six-month laissez-passer and visa for turkey; they could leave Iraqi by air or ground and personally pursue their own refugee issues...more...
Iran didban, July 19, 2007:...On ties with MKO, as you said, I stress that our ties are limited to a few email messages. This is inevitable. They congratulated us for our achievements and we expressed happiness when limitations were lifted from them. Most of our contacts are allocated to the groups that act peacefully and respect people...more...
Hadi al-Anbaki/Al-Sabah Newspaper, July 17, 2007:...Najm al-Rabiee, member of council of Diyala province, referring to growing unrest and increasing terrorist operations in al-Khles area, said: "A man called Aziz al-Faraj is at the center of accusations; he is the son-in-law of Ezzat Ibrahim al-Dowri, the second man in Saddam's regime. Aziz al-Faraj is the leader of terrorist operations...more...
Albayaba News, Iraq, July 19, 2007:...Since terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda, remnants of Baath party, the Army of Mohammed al-Fateh (headed by infaomous Izzat al-Dowri and Mojahedin-e khalq) have taken Diyala province as a safe haven and use it to plunder people, and despite witnessing daily terrorist operations in this province...more...
Fars News, July 18, 2007:...After General Abdulkarim Al-Rabiee asked Baqubah refugees to return to their homes following the restoration of security in parts of the area, residents said that security won't be established in the city while American forces appease terrorist groups including Mojahedin Council, Ansar al-Sunnah and Mojahedin-e khalq...more...
Press TV, July 17, 2007:...Senior Iraqi officials are accusing the US of cooperating with 'gangs of killers', in al-Anbar and Diyala provinces. They are also critical of Washington's supporting of the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization(MKO). The United States and some of the regional countries are dissatisfied with the results of the parliamentary election In Iraq. US officials, who interpret the self-reliance of Iraqi leaders as detrimental to their policies in the region, take any measures to undermine the Iraqi government...more...
Habilian Association, July 17, 2007:...They declared war against our nation in 26 years ago and killed many people in all positions. We have 16000 terror victims. We collected a statistics that Munafeqin has accepted it. Although both of nations are opposition this group is in Iraq. I have heard opinions of Iraqi officials; they are determined to expel MKO but just The US administration has blocked efforts for expulsion of them from the Iraqi soil...more...
Mojahedin WS, July 16, 2007:...It was obvious from the very beginning, even for Mojahedin themselves, that the EU was decisive to keep the group on its terror list. Although there is a unanimous agreement that even if the group were unleashed it could be of no weight, as it is not at the present, the inclusion of its name in terror list...more...
Nejat Society, July 16, 2007:...There are many queries raised relating this incident; such as why the MKO elements attended the meeting and what was their purpose and why they brought recording cameras with themselves to the meeting and why they only used the elements residing in the countries other than France. All these factors prove that the act was previously planed and organised. We have also been informed about the depth of involvement of the leaders of the MKO, currently based in north of Paris in Auvers-sur-Oise. The following information has been revealed to us:...more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, July 15, 2007:...On June 17, 2007, there was a knifing incident in Paris, France involving Iranians. Until the French police and court system sort through the conflicting evidence, both sides are posting evidence supporting their accounts...more...
Al -Bayyinah al-jadidah, Baghdad, July 2007:...The Iraqi daily 'Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah' wrote the Saudi prince has mentioned several conditions for helping the congress of terrorists, including the weakening of the present Iraqi government and the participation of Sunnis and Shiites who supported the former Ba'athist regime in the congress...more...
Kenneth R. Timmerman/FrontPageMagazine/July 13, 2007:...The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian terrorist organization that has murdered Americans, is once again trying to launder its past and to convince Western governments that it can provide an effective alternative to the equally murderous regime in Tehran...more...
Mississauga News, July 13, 2007:...Breaking the Ties that Bind is about terrorist organization Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The film focuses on an Iranian family’s attempt to rescue their daughter from an MEK camp in Iraq. Almost a decade ago, Somayeh Mohammady left Toronto to go to Iraq to learn about her family history. Instead, she was forced to stay at Camp Ashraf, a terrorist camp. She remains there, brainwashed...more...
Iran Interlink, July 13, 2007:...During the Paris meeting Mr Sobhani, along with the other guests of the meeting, was attacked by over fifty people. It was later revealed that the attack had been organised by the Mojahedin Khalq from its headquarters in Auver-sur-Oise. Its purpose, to stop anybody criticising the cult...more...
Press TV, July 12, 2007:...In an interview with IRNA, the cleric said the Iranian exiled terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has committed acts against the interests of Iraqi people and its activities in Iraq are banned according to the Iraqi Constitution...more...
Irandidban, July 10, 2007:...Mr. Maliki's order to prevent Iraqis from entering the MKO's camp and to prevent MKO elements from leaving it, and then deploying Iraqi forces to surround this terrorist camp, relates to the government's and parliament's decision two months ago, which had the agreement of Coalition forces and was announced officially by Mr. Ali Al-Dabbagh...more...
Mojahedin.ws , July 8, 2007:...The Global war on terrorism calls for prompt action against terrorist moves wherever they might threaten people’s peace and tranquillity. For long a blacklisted terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), has taken safe haven in your country. Recently, the EU has maintained MKO on its terror list, but simultaneously the group organized a rally in the vicinity of Paris...more...
Iran didban, July 10, 2007:...Reports by Iraqi sources indicate that Iraqi PM's new order to ban all trips to and from MKO's camp Ashraf has been widely reflected and welcomed among Iraq's political forces and has frightened and angered supporters of terrorist Mojahedin-e khalq...more...
Anne Singleton, July 09, 2007:...It is clear that responsibility for the lives of people attacked by a terrorist organisation which is apparently favoured by some Israeli lobbies and neo-conservative circles to be used to carry out terrorist acts against Iranians, Iraqis and others, cannot be laid at the door of the cult itself, but must rest with the people who have been maintaining them as a terrorist force whether in Iraq or in Europe and North America...more...
Mohsen Al-Jaberi/Buratha news:...Iraqi prime minister warned "Adnan Al-Dulaimi" and "Saleh Mutlaq" that they would be arrested if they took part in MKO's conference set to be held in Camp Ashraf"...more...
IRNA, july 8, 2007:...A Lord Member of Parliament in Britain, who called on all western countries to provide their all-out support for the terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e khalq to topple the Iranian regime, was mocked by other MPs...more...
United States Department of Treasury, June 28, 2007:...The United States Department of the Treasury has published a June 28, 2007 list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons. This list includes many of the aliases being used by the Rajavi Cult (MKO, MEK, Mojahedin, ...).Any financial transactions in any of the following names is considered as "Financing Terrorism" and should therefore be reported to the relevant department...more...
IRNA, June 5, 2007:...Iran's mission to the UN here Wednesday said a call made by two US representatives to take more political advantage of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization against Iran was a "giant leap in wrong direction"...more...
Adel Habe, Sotaliraq, Baghdad July 05, 2007:...This so-called city witnesses strange relationship between the leaders of Mojahedin-e Khalq and Iraqi (and non-Iraqi) terrorist groups, including the "Islamic Government of Iraq" that assassinates Iraqis and seeks unrest in Iraq...more...
Press TV, July 07, 2007:...Ouad Nejm al-Rabiee, a member of Dayali National Salvation Council, also disclosed that MKO renders financial assistance to some Iraqi opposition groups, according to Iran's Fars news agency...more...
Mojahedin.ws, July 5, 2007:...Iraqi children have no need of terrorists to take care of them. If MKO really intends to show respect for humanitarian moves devoid of any political considerations as it claims, it can show its good-will by letting humanitarian organizations visit and watch over the condition of the Group’s own insiders forcefully held within Camp Ashraf...more...
Press Release, US House Resolution 333, Dennis Kucinich, 4 July 2007:...Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 5, 2007:...Explicitly referring to the role of MKO in this crackdown, the recently published State Department’s report quotes Maryam Rajavi encouraging MKO combatants to "take the Kurds under your tanks". Also, there is a TV documentary picturing Kurds mainly based on evidences presented by the eye-witnesses, victims, and...more...
Nejat Society, July 04, 2007:...Nejat Society has been established by those defected members of MKO who have managed to break through the boundaries of the Organization in Ashraf Camp in Iraq and return home to their families. Nejat Society is a Non Government Organization (NGO) that is registered and performs under acts of Islamic Republic of Iran. We feel obliged...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws, July 3, 2007:...Maryam Rajavi has recurrently reiterated that suicidal-operations and self-immolations work as the best potential leverage of pressure in the Europe. Although it is considered to be a cultic approach, one should bear it in mind that MKO have the potentiality of displaying the most flagrant instances of cult modus operandi. Exactly in the same way...more...
Interview with Anne Singleton, Woman Magazine, July 03, 2007:...when I switched on the TV and saq the suicide message of one of the London bombers, a cill went down my spine. It wa like deja vu. I recognised the young man's language and behaviour, because there was a time when that could have been me. I too was one prepared to give up my liver for a terrorist cell...more...
Press tv, July 02, 2007:...Hosseini warned the EU against the formation of a new MKO-linked group which he described as 'The European al-Qaeda'. He lambasted the EU for failing to enter the so-called 'National Resistance Council of Iran' in its list of terrorist organizations...more...
IRNA, July 02, 2007:...Asked about the possibility for return of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) members to Iran with respect to a call by their families, Hosseini said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran will pardon all the group's members who have committed no crime...more...
By Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, July 02, 2007:...The EU has re-listed the Iranian opposition group (MEK, MKO, PMOI, OPMI, Rajavi Cult, etc.) in the terror blacklist. EU has maintained the group in the list for the past few years. But a single question remains lingering on my mind about the effectiveness...more...
By CECILE BRISSON ,Associated Press Writer, 1 July 2007:...The People's Mujahedeen, which is also on the State Department's terror list, seeks the overthrow of Iran's Islamic government. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein let the group -- also known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, or MEK -- operate camps in Iraq from which it staged attacks on Iran...more...
The Black File, June 15th, 2007:...There are a lot of evidences and documents on MKO terrorist nature. Considering all the reasons of MKO’s stay in FTO list one can realize the measure of pursuing MKO’s case and also its terrorist background since its foundation. Therefore, designating MKO as a terrorist organization is not to appease Iran and neither to treat MKO unjustly...more...
Gulf News, June 30, 2007:...The Iraqi Minister of State, Hassan Al Sarri, accused MKO of funding, training and equipping Al Qaida insurgents and Saddam Hussain's supporters. He told Gulf News: "The Americans are fully responsible for the MKO file. MKO is a serious threat to Iraq's security and stability."...more...
Payvan news, June 30, 2007:...The EU removed three Italian groups, Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti (Anti-Imperialist Territorial Units); Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria Rivoluzionaria (Unit for Revolutinonary Proletarian Initiative); Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria (Units for Proletarian Initiative) and added the Greek group Epanastatikos Agonas (Revolutionary Struggle)...more...
Iran Interlink, June 29, 2007:...Our investigation into the matter has revealed that this transfer of a known terrorist from Camp Ashraf to Europe and his return within 11 days has not been a single incident. From what we understand, quite a few people have "gone missing" from Camp Ashraf since 2003. If so, the camp is even more of a disgrace than is generally known...more...
BBC Monitoring Middle East, June 27, 2007:...The Diyala Tribes Grouping Front, headed by former Governor Abdallah al-Juburi who resides in London, has held an expanded conference at the Ashraf Camp, which belongs to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq [MKO] terrorist organization. The conference was aimed at supporting the MKO...more...
By CONSTANT BRAND ,Associated Press Writer, 28 June 2007:...The People's Mujahadeen Organization, which is also known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, or MEK, has been on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations since 1997, which bars anyone in the United States from providing material support...more...
Aawa Association, Cologne, June 28, 2007:...By the most conservative estimates, the show, which probably will bring something between 5,000 to 7,000 hired people to the venue, is costing between 750,000 to 1,000.000 Euros. And this is perhaps only a small portion of the money spent by the enemies of the people of Iran in a desperate attempt to save the proscribed terrorist cult, Mojahedin Khalq Organisation...more...
Irandidban, June 27, 2007:...Ten days after MKO agents' bludgeoning in Paris, NCRI's Commission of Political Studies eventually released its report on the seminar of "Association for the Protection of Iranian Immigrants in France"!...more...
Anne Singleton, June 26, 2007:...this kind of disruption has become emblematic of the Mojahedin's inability to even vaguely disguise its cult nature. Similar disruption has taken place in meeting after meeting held by former members of the cult...I and other former cult members, rather than feeling angry or intimidated, have nothing but the greatest sympathy for those victims who are still trapped inside this dangerous, destructive cult...more...
Mojahedin WS, June 26, 2007:...Last night, Iranian National TV aired a documentary on Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). The program called “The Wolves”, the first part of a serial, scrutinizes into MKO’s history following the Islamic revolution in Iran and its armed and terrorist activities since its declaration of armed struggle against the newly established Islamic government...more...
Dr. Armand NOURI Président de l’organisation PARS et le comité pour le renversement, June 26, 2007:...Chronologiquement l'organisation des moudjahiddines khalq (peuple) joue un rôle important pour le départ du chah. Par la suite son leader Massoud Radjavi collabora étroitement avec Abolhassan Bani Sadr, premier président soi-disant de la République Islamique. Une fois...more...
Irandidban, June 25, 2007:...Much has been said about recent MKO's bludgeoning, headed by Mohammed Hayati, in Paris and different dimensions of this even have been clarified. However, what made this horrible crime, namely the terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e khalq, has been ignored...more...
The Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2007:...Even so, the Pentagon continues to safeguard more than 3,000 MEK members and their families at an Iraqi military base near the Iranian border under an international covenant protecting displaced peoples. The U.S. command has allowed the group to use Camp Ashraf as a base to orchestrate anti-Iranian political and propaganda programs, though it has disarmed MEK fighters...more...
Bahar Iranin, June 25, 2007:...Your report states that “Despite U.S. efforts, MEK members have never been brought to justice for the group's role in these illegal acts”. Your delinquency in the past has imposed high prices on the world to pay. To keep MKO on the terrorist list fails to be the sole solution to confront the threat of the group as a cult and the remiss in efforts has to be redressed...more...
by Paul Foote, opednews, June 24, 2007:... Unfortunately, the interviewer did not ask Professor Tanter who is funding the Iran Policy Committee (IPC).
The Iran Policy Committee has disclosed: Members of the IPC: James Akins, Ambassador (ret.); Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, USMC (ret.); R. Bruce McColm, Lt. General Thomas McInerney; Captain Charles T. “Chuck” Nash, USN (ret.); Lt. General Edward Rowny, USA (ret.); Professor Raymond Tanter; Major General Paul E. Vallely, USA (ret.)...more...
Entekhab, June 24, 2007:...Osaneh Mahmoudi had filed a complaint against terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq in France in 2003, because she had been injured in MKO's terrorist operation. This session was the first to hear this diplomatic-judicial case in France...more...
Pars Iran, Canada, June 22, 2007:...The violence action in Paris on June 17, 2007, was orchestrated by Mr. Mohammad Hayati who is a top aide to Mr. and Mrs. Rajavi, who recently left MKO Military base in Iraq , Ashraf , Mr. Mohammad Hayati was one of the top commander of National Liberation Army who are responsible for many human tragedy during Iraq and Iran war...more...
Association for the Protection of Iranian Immigrants, Paris, 21 June 2007:...The "executive field officer" of the operation has been Mr. Mohammad Hayati (aka: Siavosh) who has been a military leader of MKO from the time of the Shah and who is currently a member of MKO as well as the National Council of Resistance. He conducted the attack using his men and had communication with them through mobile phones...more...
Iran Ghalam (PEN) Association, June 21, 2007:...The arrival of Mohammad Hayati in Paris and the subsequent terrorist operation he headed has been raising serious questions about the capability and the possible role of the American Forces in Iraq who claim to have been keeping the terrorist organisation confined to Camp Ashraf since 2003...more...
The Observer, June 18, 2007:...organisation could no longer claim that its aim was to defend human rights and bring about democracy. 'The attempts at self-immolation to protest against the arrest of Madame Radjavi are proof of a new fanaticism,' he said. 'Auvers was to become the Mujahideen's world headquarters after the loss of bases in Iraq.'more...
By SELIG HARRISON, Financial Times, June 20, 2007:...Dismantling the MEK would be the best way to signal US readiness for an accommodation with Tehran, since it is the only militarised exile group seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic and is the darling of the Washington "regime change" lobby. Alireza Jafarzadeh, chairman of an MEK front group,the National Council of Resistance of Iran, appears regularly on Fox News and is playing a role like that of Ahmad Chalabi in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, rallying congressional and media support for bombing the Natanz nuclear site...more...
A publication by Awaa Association, June 2007:...Recently the public learnt about members of sects committing suicide or putting themselves on fire. Scientists, psychiatrists and sociologists have pursued studies into this. One of the elementary features of sects is that you cannot distinguish it from the outside. You will have to look behind the facade and...more...
By Safa Haeri, Iran-Press-Service, Posted Monday, June 18, 2007:...Meanwhile, another gathering of Iranians in Paris on Sunday 17 June was marred in blood when some 40 to 50 men, some hooded, belonging to the outlawed Mojahedeen Khalq Organisation (MKO) attacked the conference of the newly created Association For The Protection Of Iranian Exiles in France."As the meeting started and as participants were taking seats, suddenly a group of 40 to 50 people, some of them armed with white arms, stormed the place, attacked the participants, wounding some of them", Mr. Firouzmand, one of the organisers told Iran Press Service...
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By Anne Singleton, June 20, 2007:...The violent attack on this public meeting was planned by Mohammad Hayati, a leading member of the MKO. Three months ago this man was in Camp Ashraf in Iraq under the protection of US forces. Hayati, a known assassin with a history of terrorist activity going back to the time of the Shah in Iran, is now in France planning and conducting terrorist activities in Europe. The Mojahedin Khalq maintains its Headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise...more...
mojahedin.ws, June 20, 2007:...Maryam Rajavi’s arrest and imprisonment in France on 17 June 2003, not talking of its prejudicial impact to her political character, made Mojahedin face a new challenge. The challenge was the outcome of an encounter of Western democracy and civility vis-à-vis the dominant social anarchism and wild adventurism in Mojahedin...more...
Iran Didban, June 20, 2007:...On the attack in Paris, it should be noted that since a few days ago, MKO websites had started instigating their supporters and members to take aggressive measures against a meeting "The Association of Protecting Refugees' Rights" was going to hold. It was important for MKO to disrupt this meeting since they believed it gave the upper hand to former members and defectors...more...
IRNA, June 18, 2007:...According to IRNA from Paris, fifty unknown men, allegedly the members of Mojahedin-e khalq terrorist organization attacked the guests and sponsors of the meeting with knives and broken glasses, leaving 13 wounded...more...
IranMania, Friday, June 15, 2007:...LONDON, June 15 (IranMania) - An Iranian anti-terrorism association has called on the Iraqi government to expel the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country. Hashemi, representing almost 16,000 families of victims of the MKO's terrorist attacks, also briefed the Iraqi official on the activities and objectives of the association...more...
Mojahedin WS, June 15, 2007:...The group has recurrently condemned Iran of interfering in Iraq’s domestic affairs, but what it can be called when a terrorist group puts forward to form a coalition of dissident groups against a legally established government that intends to expel them....more...
IRNA, June 14, 2007:...He pointed to the establishment of a commission in the Iraqi government, tasked with investigating the case of MKO, and said: "regarding the reports of this commission and given their treacherous history against Iraqis and the fact that they war part of Saddam's brutal system, Iraqi government is determined to expel them."...more...
Irandidban, June 13, 2007:..Taking these measures, forces controlling Camp Ashraf have detained 8 members of MKO's intelligence section who have been in touch with terrorists; these people are now being interrogated in Camp Fernandez. They have been recognized as very dangerous and would be tried for...more...
Association for the Protection of Iranian Immigrants (APE-Iran), June 2007:...The Association hopes to promote a new and positive relationship between Iranian society and French citizens. We place peace and tolerance at the core of the development of the social and cultural relations between Iranian societies and French citizens...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin.ws , June 2007:...Although not yet translated into English, Bijan Niyabati’s “A Different Look on Mojahedin’s Ideological Revolution” contains countless evidences that challenge MKO’s adopted circumstantial decision-takings. Being an ardent advocate of MKO and the Rajavis, Niyabati has never intended to criticize the group’s strategies...more...
Nejat Association, June 10, 2007:...The sheer fact is that Maryam Rajavi has a trial to face in a near future for fraud and terrorism in a French court of justice. This of course has put the organization in an awkward position. The organization thinks that if the ruling party in France is changed, this trial and its heavy file would be over shadowed...more...
IRNA, June 08, 2007:...Head of Khuzestan Province Branch of NEJAT Organization, too, said at the gathering, "This organization has ever since its establishment facilitated repatriation of some 500 repenting MKO members and their reunion with their families throughout Iran."...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, Iran-Press-Services, June 09, 2007:...There are a few simple steps which are all that is necessary for Mrs. Rajavi to undertake in order to have the MKO de-proscribed. One would imagine that, contrary to what Mr. Binley claims, such a move would perhaps be popular with some politicians in the west as it would create another middle to low range tool against Iran...more...
by Niall Stanage, NY Observer, Published: June 5, 2007:...In at least one instance, associations with Mr. Jafarzadeh’s friends have proven problematic for D.C. power brokers. Three years ago, leading neoconservative Richard Perle found himself in hot water after he spoke at an event that was ostensibly intended to aid the victims of the Bam earthquake, but which was also apparently associated with the M.E.K. Mr. Perle claimed he believed that all proceeds of the events were going to the Red Cross...
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BBC Monitoring Middle East, June 02, 2007:...Text of commentary by Pezhman Karimi from the "Viewpoint" column entitled: Iran, pioneer in fight against terrorism, by Iranian newspaper Resalat on 23 May...Is it not true that the MKO members, as the lever to commit crimes against the Iranian people and the means to suppress the opponents of the Ba'th regime, are being supported by the US and Britain today?...more...
Shadowspear, June 07, 2007:...The NIAC (National Iranian American Council) claims that "as a result [of their alliance with Saddam Hussein during the war], they are viewed as traitors by the overwhelming majority of Iranians and Iranian Americans.".[17] A report by the Foreign Affairs group of the Australian Parliament states "[The MEK] is believed to have lost much of its popular support within Iran since siding with Iraq"...more...
Salim Al-Ramisi/Sotaliraq, June 06, 2007:...Millions of Iraqis ask this question from the government and parliament of Iraq repeatedly, but we hear from some politicians and occupiers that Iran is interfering in Iraq; meanwhile, they ignore the presence of terrorist MKO in Iraq, which started in 80s when Saddam was in power. Could these claims justify the presence of this group in our land? The organization that stood beside Saddam Hussein and, as all Iraqis know, Saddam used it to achieve his goals...more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, June 4, 2007:...Another speaker at the Intelligence Summit 2007 was Alireza Jafarzadeh. Jafarzadeh worked in the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in the National Press Building in Washington, DC, until the Federal Government closed the press office of the Iranian Communist MEK (PMOI, MKO, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) and raided Jafarzadeh’s home to take away boxes of documents. The MEK has been on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations since the...more...
Nejat Association, June 03, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
Habilian Association, June 03, 2007:...Mr. Mohammad Hamood, deputy of Iraq foreign minister, expressed his sympathy with Iran people, especially terror martyrs’ families and also reminded that: “terrorist groups from all around the world are in Iraq and in each day tens or hundreds of Iraqi people are assassinated by them, but this point is too significant that since establishment of new government in there, officials demanded to expulsion of them and also they posed this issue to strange forces in Iraq...more...
Sattar Orangi, June 03, 2007:...Mohammad Mohaddessin, a spokesman for the MKO's political wing, in his recent reaction against the EU decision states that “the EU and the United States were maintaining the group on their terror lists to avoid further harming relations with the Iranian government”. It seems that Mr. Mohaddessin has totally forgotten that the US and Iran have been at loggerhead with Iran since...more...
Euobserver, May 31, 2007:...Some EU diplomats and Iranian expats believe the opposition group still has a sinister, fanatical fringe however. At least one of its high-profile supporters in the west has conceded the PMOI leadership is not a model of liberal democracy...more...
Dr. Latif Vakil/Albayyeneh Newspaper, June 02, 2007:...When we hear that Mr. Maliki, as the chief commander of Iraqi armed forces, has asked for the expulsion of terrorist Mojahedin-e khalq organization from Iraq, we ask ourselves about the levels of the power of an elected prime minister because we wonder who he is addressing. He's the chief of executive branch, so he should order not ask...more...
Mojahedin WS, June 01, 2007:...Alejo Vidal-Quadras, vice president of the European Parliament and a supporter of MKO told a news conference that "We have come across no evidence whatsoever which would justify maintaining the PMOI on the terrorist list". It seems that these advocates talking on behalf of MKO have not yet come across the well justified evidences of the State Department that re-designated MKO as a terrorist organization on April 30...more...
Mojahedin WS, May 31, 2007:...Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians...more...
Press TV, May 29, 2007:...The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court has been provided with documents on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization's (MKO) crimes against the people in southern Iraq and the people of Tuz Khormato in the south of Kirkuk,” the Iraqi Chief Prosecutor, Ja'far al-Mousavi, told the Iraqi Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah paper...more...
Habilian Association, May 28, 2007:...In this meeting, Mr. Sheikh Emadodin Tamimi, director of Ansar-ul-hojjeh association in Baghdad, Sheikh Safa Tamimi, Friday Prayer Leader of Baghdad’s Mosques, and Asadollah Feli, secretary of Shiite Kurds Islamic movement in Iraq, met and talked to Habilian general secretary and executive director about Munafeqin terrorist...more...
Aawa Association, May 28, 2007:...The AAWA Association publishes with this edition its chief English-language monthly " AAWA Brief ". The " AAWA Brief" comprises excellent articles and opinions of Iranian and foreign experts over the organization Volksmojahedin Iranmore...
Professor Sheldon Foote, May 27, 2007:...Sepehrad has proved to be a key link in the MOSSAD-Mojahedin nexus in recent years. It is through her that Israeli agencies feed intelligence disinformation to Ali Reza Jaffarzadeh, which is in turn broadcast to the world via the FOX media network. Sepehrad also feeds disinformation to Hedayat Mostowfi and Ali Safavi, two long-standing MKO members who are key figures in the organisation’s propaganda activities. A frequent traveller to Israel, Sepehrad is now considered a veteran MOSSAD agent. Indeed she...more...
Nejat Society, May 27, 2007:...Please do not hesitate to ask us if you are enquiring any information about MKO and its deeds in Iraq and elsewhere. We wish to request you to drop a few lines to let us know your opinion about our newsletter. We are looking forward to seeing from you...more...
Traitors USA, May 27, 2007:...After former Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted upon the closing of the office of the MEK's National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in the National Press Building in Washington, DC, the Fox News Channel retained Alireza Jafarzadeh as a foreign affairs analyst...more...
Mojahedin WS, May 27, 2007:...The Mojahedin cult’s she-guru, Maryam Rajavi, in reaction to the decision states that “If the Council decides to maintain the PMOI on the list, the organization will again refer the matter to the European Court of Justice”...more...
Mehr News, May 25, 2007:...Bahram Rajaee, the director of international and external relations for the American Political Science Association, told the Mehr News Agency in an interview on Tuesday that he believes the most important goal of the planned talks between Iran and the U.S. should be...more...
Iraqi Belagh.com, May 26, 2007:...Reports indicate that elements of Mojahedin-e khalq organization have attacked the residents of Al-Anbakieh area near Al-Meqdadieh; this group has faced resistance by the families and consequently 15 members of this terrorist group have been killed...more...
Nejat Association, May 26, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
BBC News, Ch1, May 24, 2007 (18:30):...Anne Singleton was interviewed today, May 24, 2007 on BBC1 News, Look North, explaining the tactics and damage inflicted by Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult)...more...
Die Presse, Austria, May 18, 2007:...He speaks of his mission so as it was an ordinary mission. The failure in the mission made him swallow a cyanide capsule but the poison didn’t work so he tried to suicide with a grenade. He lost his right hand and was transferred to a military hospital and could survive death. Following the recovery, he spent four more years in Evin prison...more...
Irandidban, May 22, 2007:...According to incoming reports, the gang of Rajavi and its leaders in Paris are facing a new major challenge. The fact is that the stupid remnants of Rajavi had promised their desperate members, tired of relying on foreign powers, that they "would push the US to clash Iran in Iraq" and...more...
BBC Radio Leeds, May 23, 2007:...my next guest, married mother from Leeds, from white middle class British familly, not some one you would expect would have had military training from Mojahedin. But that is exactly what happed to Anne Singleton...more...
By Massoud Khodabandeh, Asia Times, May 21, 2007:...Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sanctioned the meeting set for May 28 between Iran and the United States in Baghdad over the security of Iraq "to relieve the pain of the Iraqi people, to support the government and to reinforce security in Iraq"...more...
Nejat Association, May 21, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
Al-Sabah, Iraq, May 20, 2007:...The group, which reportedly maintains bases in Iraq, was put on the U.S. State Department's list of foreign terrorist groups in 1997 and on the European Union's terrorist list in 2002 because its violent attacks often killed civilians. However, certain reports indicate that the group's strong stand against Iran has won its support by some U.S. lawmakers and U.S. military command in Iraq...more...
International Herald Tribune, May 17, 2007:...According to Italian investigators, Total in 2002 unwittingly helped Baghdad finance an Iranian group, the Mujahidin Khalq, or People's Mujahidin, which is on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations. Less than a year later, in 2003, France's counterintelligence agency stormed the group's headquarters in Paris on terrorism charges...more...
Irandidban, May 19, 2007:...The terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq, with long history of denying its own acts and plots, responded to the comments and revelations of Mr. Hadi Farhan Abdullah al-Aameri, the head of Iraqi Parliament's Security Commission, by projection and denying the facts; Mr. Aameri had revealed MKO's ties with Al-Qaeda...more...
An interview by Billy Briggs
Big Issue Magazine (UK), May 2007:...Anne Singleton from Leeds felt superhuman when she joined the Mujahedin fighting the Iranian government. Having discarded her Kalashnikov, she tells Billy Briggs her remarkable story to prevent others falling prey to cults and extremism...more...
Iran Sabz, May 17, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the List of designated terrorist organisations. Once again Mojahedin Khalq organisation (MKO, MEK, aka the National Council of Resistance, NCR, NCRI) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997..more...
Nejat Association, May 16, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
Mojahedin.ws, May 14, 2007:...The groups and organizations that claim to have renounced armed campaign are mostly judged by their actions rather than the words. There are groups that indeed mean what they say and declare it publicly for the world to see and judge. On the contrary, there exist groups...more...
Reported by Nejat Association, May 14, 2007:...On Saturday 5 May 2007, Dr Masoud Banisadr Writer and Former Member of the Mojahedin-é Khalq Organisation (MKO), participated in a day long seminar in London School of Economics & Political Science and delivered a speech on The Use of the Philosophy of Martyrdom within Religious Cults for Acts of Terrorism...more...
Nejat Association, May 14, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
Speech of Mr. Seyed Javad Hasheminejad in congress on “Muslim world, victim of terrorism”,Habilian, May 13, 2007:...Politicians and authorities of west countries, who always give solution for any problem and introduce themselves as leaders of struggling against terrorism, are unaware of this point that the terrorists abuse them...
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Buratha News, May 13, 2007:...The document, No. 3501, dated May 2002 and signed by former Iraqi "Mokhaberat" (secret service), reveals that Saleh Al-Multaq worked for that secret service since 1999. The documented (translated from Arabic) is as follows...more...
EUobserver, May 12, 2007:The MKO started out in 1965 as a Marxist-Islamist cult in Iran but fled after suffering purges that saw over 150,000 members slaughtered by the post-cultural revolution Islamic regime...more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, May 12, 2007:...The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
Iran Interlink Brief, May 2007:...The main consideration with the Mojahedin is that it is a cult. When Maryam Rajavi goes to trial the Mojahedin will, without doubt, respond with a series of orchestrated protests including more self-immolations. But...more...
Nejat Association, Tehran, May 09, 2007:...The US State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-é Khalq Organization (as well as the National Council of Resistance and the National Liberation Army) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997...more...
Financial Times, May 08, 2007:...Mr Araghchi said Washington’s relationship with “terrorist” groups hostile to Iran made Tehran sceptical of its intentions. He cited the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, the Iranian group under US “protection” in Iraq, and Pejak, an Iranian Kurdish faction linked to the Kurdistan Workers party, based in northern Iraq...more...
Habilian Association, Iran, May 08, 2007:...Habilian associations held an exhibition as a main part of congress on Munafeqin terrorist group’s crimes and a lot of people also came and visit it eagerly. For the first time in this exhibition, a list of 16000 victims was presented into divided and provincial parts with the name of place...more...
Dr. Massoud Banisadr speech in London School of Economics, May 05, 2007:...This is interpreted to mean that some martyrs would stand higher than prpphets. But which one of them? Before I go any further, let me emphasis more on the meaning of this saying of Quran, and ...more...
Irandidban, May 07, 2007:...As noted before, the new report of "Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism", published on April 30, has a more serous tone on the MKO than previous reports.
These additions, retrieved by comparing annual terrorism report 2006 and 2006, are as follows...more...
Bahar Irani, May 04, 2007:...The United States has been linked to anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), even though the state department has branded it a terrorist organization...more...
US State Department Office, May 2, 2007:... In 2003, French authorities arrested 160 MEK members at operational bases they believed the MEK was using to coordinate financing and planning for terrorist attacks. more...
Iran didban, April 30, 2007:...What's important now is that MKO forces need high morale and Rajavi is trying to use this case to boost the morale of his member; he tries to convince them that all MKO problems would be solved if Royal was elected president in France...more...
Ibrahim al-Novini/sotaliraq/Sweden, April 30, 2007:...MKO's comments on rejecting Iraqi government (published on Sotaliraq website) indicate that these people don’t respect elected government. Nearly 3000 of them eat and sleep here in our country and speak insolently...more...
By Dave Clark, AFP, April 29, 2007:...It was based in exile in France until 1986, when the then prime minister, Chirac, expelled them.
Saddam Hussein's Iraq became the group's new home, and they developed a guerrilla army to launch cross-border attacks into Iran...Nevertheless, the US State Department continues to list the PMOI as a terrorist organisation, as does the European Union...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, April 28, 2007:...The BBC's Tehran correspondent Frances Harrison has been reporting on the recent "Crackdown over dress codes" in which thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week. Several hundred women have been arrested...more...
Aawa Association, April 27, 2007:...The AAWA Association publishes with this edition its chief English-language monthly " AAWA Brief ".
The " AAWA Brief" comprises excellent articles and opinions of Iranian and foreign experts over the organization Volksmojahedin Iran...more...
Mehr News, April 26, 2007:...Bassem Al-Awadi, Arab media activist who's no in London, added: "All Iraqi parties involved in Iraq's political process stress that Iraq should not interfere in the internal affairs of its neighbors."...more...
IRNA, April 26, 2007:...Visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said here Wednesday evening " Iraq government has decided to expel members of the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country."...more...
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, April 24, 2007:...The third article of the resolution presents evidences that Dick Cheney has been fully aware of the actions taken by the United States towards Iran and making contacts with anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK)...more...
A-Hayat, London, April 25, 2007:... Shirvan al-Vaeli, Iraq's security minister, said in an interview with London-based Al-Hayat that "the MKO had created security crisis in Iraq" . "Initial agreements have been reached between Iraqi government and the US, which is responsible for protecting MKO members in Iraq, on the issue of how to protect these people," he added...more...
Nejat Society, April 25, 2007:...With regards, we the former members of Mojahedin-é Khalq Organization (MKO) in Nejat Society present you with our briefing publication called Nejat Newsletter. Nejat Society has been established by those defected members of MKO who have...more...
Mojahedin ws, April 25, 2007:...The self burnings proved, for those yet in doubt, that MKO preserved the characteristics of both a terrorist group and a cult. Following the classic techniques of cults, Mojahedin relies on psychological manipulation and brainwashing to mesmerize the insiders to follow the orders...more...
Mehr News, April 23, 2007:...TEHRAN, April 23 (MNA) -- Apparently the U.S. and British authorities have become so desperate for an alibi that they have readily embraced the assertion of the infamous anti-Iranian Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), which is listed as a terrorist group by Britain, the United States, and the European Union...more...
National Iranian American Council (NIAC), April 21, 2007:...The two articles are written by a neoconservative author (Kenneth Timmerman) and a Marxist Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) supporter (Hassan Daioleslam), whose group has been identified by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (Daioleslam's article was initially published on a MKO website prior to be being used by Frontpage magazine)...more...
Associated Press, April 23, 2007:...After the 1979 Islamic revolution toppled the shah, the group was exiled to Iraq, from where they carried out cross-border raids during the 1980-1988 war between the two countries. Several thousand of its members were disarmed by U.S. forces after Saddam's overthrow in 2003 and restricted to an army camp near Baghdad...more...
Germany's security service (Bayern department), April 2007:...There's no separation between MKO and NCRI in Germany. MKO has been isolated by Iranian exile groups since the MKO claims to be the only "democratic alternative" for the Iranian regime. In fact, the group is far from being democratic. Disciplined hierarchical structure and cult-like leadership like that of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi proves...more...
Iran Interlink, April 21, 2007:...It is not a secret that America has recently helped some of the smuggling gangs and terrorist cults, which have been denounced over the years throughout the civilized world, in an attempt to put more pressure on Iran to stop enriching Uranium...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, April 21, 2007:...Focus on line reported last month that a paid 'rent-a-crowd' had been transferred from Cologne to Brussels for a similar protest to remove the Rajavi cult (aka, Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, MKO, MEK, PMOI, National Council of Resistance …) from the terrorism lists. The news agency said...more...
AFP, April 20, 2007:...The EU has already written to OMPI, recalling "the organisation's past, notably the attacks that it has been responsible for", the diplomat said...more...
BBC, April 04, 2007. Transcription by: Nejat Society, April 21, 2007:...A cult you can characterize it by several means. It has a self-appointed and non-accountable leader who is usually charismatic person that would be Masud Rajavi in this case, who when you listen to his speech is a very charismatic speaker, you can get quiet carried away and...more...
Iran didban, April 19, 2007:...Quoting Turkish newspaper ,New Anatolian, ISNA news agency reported that, Bush administration supports MKO and PKK in Iraq and encourages them to conduct terrorist attacks in Iranmore...
Ehsan Kavehpour, Mojahedin.ws, April 17, 2007:... Has anybody asked why are so many women kept against their will in a military camp separated from their families and relatives?...more...
Iran didban, April 17, 2007:...Michael Scheuer, former CIA agent, refers in his book, "Through Our Enemies' Eyes", to the relations between Al-Qaeda and terrorist MKO. He wrote...more...
Rawstory, Larisa Alexandrovna, Published April 13, 2006:... “The US army secured a key MEK facility 60 miles northwest of Baghdad shortly after the 2003 invasion, but they did not secure the MEK and let them basically be because [then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz was thinking ahead to Iran.” ... “They are doing whatever they want, no oversight at all,” one intelligence source said...more...
Factbnet, April 16, 2007:...The first set of criteria comes from the group' use of a specific set of mind control tactics...The second set of criteria has to do with defining other common elements of mind control systems...more...
Iran-Sabz, April 15, 2007:...We would like to draw your attention to the fact that after 4 years from the time of disarmament of the Rajavi cult in your country, around 3000 members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO) are still being kept in a camp near Khales, (Diyali Province) called ASHRAF...more...
Nejat Association, March 2007:...The truth is that MKO is a well established terrorist cult which has all known behaviors of such groups and their name is among various international terrorist lists...more...
EUROPEAN VOICE, Massoumeh Torfeh,London, March,2007:...How could anyone with obviously so little information on the subject insult not only the EU foreign policy-makers with such an ill-informed analysis but also insult the Iranian nation by advocating PMOI to lead them to freedom?more...
Iran-Interlink Brief, April 2007:...The crisis over the capture of fifteen British Navy personnel by Iranian Revolutionary Guards masked a longer running problem involving 3,000 Iranian captives held by US forces in Camp Ashraf, Iraq...The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK, aka Rajavi cult) which owns the captives certainly did not remain silent when...more...
LK Today program on GMTV (England), March 2007:...I'm really interested in rescuing the members of MKO and taking them out of the cult and also I'd like to prevent new individuals from being recruited by the cult...more...
Ardeshir Ommani,Mathaba.net, April 2007:...Apparently, the U.S. and British authorities have turned so desperate for an alibi that they readily embraced the assertion of an infamous anti-Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalgh (MEK) group, listed as a terrorist organization of bandits by Britain, the U.S., and the European Union...more...
Mojahedin WS, April 09, 2007:...The value of whatever intelligence MEK claims to have is the quid pro quo for using U.S. troops to provide safe haven for a group of terrorists who had been deemed beyond the pale of any human contact by the State Department. Apparently even the Shiite government in Baghdad wants the MEK out of the country...more...
Buratha news, April 08, 2007:...Khalaf Al-Elayan is of few Sunni representatives who went to Europe by the invitation of Mojahedin-e Khalq and held lobbies there to get support for the Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult)...more...
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, April 08, 2007:...Initially I should emphasise that your comments in your interviews are the replicate of those of Mas’ud and Maryam Rajavi which are constantly repeated in their statements. You also – exactly like them – do not go into details and leave many unanswered questions behind...more...
UPI, Baghdad, April 6, 2007:...What we have here is a policy that described the people here from the MEK as a protected group, and one of our coalition partner countries is actually protecting them in the camp where they mostly are...more...
IRNA, April 07, 2007:...AFP's report from Paris on Wednesday indicate that prosecutor general has asked the court to add money laundering and fraud charges to the case, which includes connection with terrorism and saboteur groups...more...
Ghalam Association, April 06, 2007:...speech addressed to members of the European Parliament on March 27, 2007 by former member of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation, Mr Mohammad Hossein Sobhani. The meeting was hosted by Ms Angelika Beer, on the topic "maintaining the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO) in the list of proscribed terrorist groups after the verdict of the Court of First Instance in Luxembourgmore...
From Michael Ware, CNN, Apri 05, 2007:...the U.S. State Department officially considers the MEK a terrorist organization -- meaning no American can deal with it; U.S. banks must freeze its assets; and any American giving support to its members is committing a crime...more...
BBC Radio Asia, April 04, 2007:...The interview contiued live for the best part of the morning program. Anne went in to details of her involvement in the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist organisation with exclusive details about the internal relations inside Rajavi cult...more...
Marwan Tofiq/Barasa news agency, April 03, 2007:...The comments of Iraqi interior minister on the MKO and their activities in Iraq exposed part of realities on terrorist operations in Diyalah and showed that the MKO was involved in the activities...more...
Bahar Irani, April 03, 2007 :...That is a good evidence of Mojahedin’s need to be supported by external forces. Mojahedin’s penchant for concealing the contents of the ideological revolution is in fact one of the key opacities to have a precise understanding of this establishment...more...
Iran Peyvand Association, April 03, 2007:...Mr. Willems confirmed that Belgium regards the Mojahedin-E khalq of Iran as a dangerous cult, and that his talks with both gentlemen further confirmed his stance...more...
Iran-Interlink. Baghdad, April 02, 2007:...Mr. Mossavi added: "Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult) stayed in Iraq during the time of Saddam Hussein as his guest and their presence at this moment has neither legal nor acceptable"...more...
Iran-interlink, cologne, April 2, 2007:...According to Focus, most of the side actors and actresses were duped into believing that the MKO demonstration was part of a movie and not a real event...more...
Scoth Ritter interview, March 2007:...On the ground, the CIA is recruiting Mojahedin-e-Khalq, recruiting Kurds, recruiting Azeris, who are operating inside Iran on behalf of the United States of America. And there is reason to believe that we’ve actually...more...
Iran Interlink, March 31, 2007:...It is widely believed that the Iranian Government has benefited the most from the freedom given to this terrorist organization in Washington and London. Iran has also frequently used the claim that the terrorist organization is 'the only source of western intelligence from Iran' and thereby discredits and rejects all these accusations by default...more...
Aawaa Association, March 30, 2007:...The " AAWA Brief" comprises excellent articles and opinionsof Iranian and foreign experts over the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation of Iran....more...
Mojahedin WS, March 27, 2007:...Jubin Afshar, obviously an advocate of the terrorist cult of Mojahedin, expresses in American chronicle an absurd claim in his discuss over the capture of the British solders saying...more...
By Paul Foote, March 27, 2007:...While the Iran Policy Committee does disclose that one of its employees is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the IPC does not disclose its funding sources.With the help of the neo-conservatives (neo-Trotskyites), this totalitarian terrorist organization has been able to dupe many in the Democratic and Republican parties. Can the Rajavi Cult dupe progressives?Professor Paul Sheldon Foote...more...
BBC2, Newsnight program on Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult, January 2007:...The widow Maryam Rajavi stuck amongst fanatical devotion. She is accused by some of running a crew, a manipulative cult.
The America which protects the now-disarmed fighters in Iraq can’t decide what to do about them, it runs the people Mujahedin, also known as MEK or MKO as terrorists...more...
Pars Iran, March 26, 2007:...U.S. officials “made MEK members swear an oath to democracy and resign from the MEK,? reveals an intelligence source, “and then our guys incorporated them into their unit and trained them.? Reliance on the MEK began under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the direction of Vice President Dick Cheney, and soon MEK soldiers were being used...more...
Bahar Irani, March 26, 2007:... Ali Safavi, a political member of MKO who has registered to set himself afire at the order of Massoud Rajavi the leader of the organization, in a documentary made by BBC on MKO claims that the propaganda over the ideological revolution is a product of...more...
parts of secretly filmed meeting in Iraq:... 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 moneymore...
ABC News, March 21, 2007:...His statement today is a public announcement that this group has been the source of allegations which U.S. officials are making about Iranian intervention in Iraq," said Mohammad Mir Ali Mohammadi, a spokesman for Iran's U.N. Mission...more...
Iran didban, March 19, 2007:...MKO tries to impose itself on the Iraqi government so that it may continue keeping members as hostages to guarantee the survival of the group. Unfortunately, humanitarian organizations have no access to MKO camp to more...
Nejat Society, March 19, 2007:...Nejat Society has been established by those defected members of MKO who have managed to break through the boundaries of the Organization in Ashraf Camp in Iraq and...more...
GMTV, March 2007:...Lorrain Kelly interviews Anne Singleton on GMTV (Ch.3, Britain) about Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult). a warning about recrutment by Distructive Cults...more...
Ali Mohsen Razi/Barasa news agency, March 17 2007:...added that he had visited Nuri Al-Maliki last week to discuss the issue as well as the fact that Diyalah has become a safe haven for terrorists...more...
Waleed Aley, Australian News, March 17, 2007:...One, the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, which has a long history of anti-regime violence, is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Yet Pike believes that "a faction within the Defence Department wants to unleash them...more...
IPS, Interview with Reese Erlich, March 17, 2007:...MEK is really a cult, run by very secretive and authoritarian leaders. Both these groups consider themselves social democrats, but ironically, they receive the most support from extreme right wingers in the U.S...more...
Bloody Friday, Halabja, March 2007:...Dedicated to the people of Halabja who on March 16th, 1988 suffered the worst chemical attacks committed by the Iraqi regime. On that day...more...
By Ernesto Londoño and Saad al-Izzi, Washington Post Staff Writers, March 14, 2007:...The issue of expulsion, which is not directly related to the pending criminal charges, is expected to come before the Iraqi parliament in coming weeks...more...
Larisa Alexandrovna, The offington post, March 14, 2007:... I for one will have to say that for me, US troops - fighting the war on terror - being forced to act as servants to terrorists and former Saddam police contractors, kind of tops...more...
Britain, House of Lords, March 13, 2007:... The CFI judgment focused on issues of EU procedure; the Court did not rule on the substantive question as to whether the MeK is a terrorist group...more...
By Ahmed Rasheed, REUTERS, March 12, 2007:...top Iraqi prosecutor plans to bring charges against senior members of an exiled Iranian opposition group over its alleged role in oppressing Iraqi Shi'ites and Kurds under former president Saddam Hussein...more...
Iran mania, March 12, 2007:... Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court will conduct trial of the ringleaders of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), Iraqi chief prosecutor of the supreme criminal court Jaafar al-Mousavi said...more...
Mojahedin WS, March 11, 2007:... Fortunately, since MKO’s propaganda machine can never keep silent over a simple terrorist move, there are many instances of launching mortar attacks and detonating bombs inside Iran after the claimed date...more...
Zargham Mohammed Ali/Baghdad/Aswat al-Iraq/ March 11, 2007:...There are lots of documents, including audio and video tapes, proving MKO's involvement in at least two crimes. First, their involvement in killing people and forcing them to...more...
Mojahedin WS, March 11, 2007:... It is not wrong to say that the acts of self-immolations imposed Mojahedin’s demands on the French judges and courts to take a moderate position to stop further agitation of the public opinion...more...
Massoud Khodabandeh, March 09, 2007:... At this critical point I beg you to take every precaution to ensure the safety of your citizens (as well as others) in Cologne and elsewhere in Germany...more...
Centre C.I.E.G., March 8, 2007:... let us recall that the Belgian senator Josy Dubié and our Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht are of this opinion and had the courage to denounce the recent, scandalous meeting between the “president for life? of the group and Anne Marie Lizin, President of the Senate...more...
Patrick McElwee, Scoop, March 06, 2007:...Telegraph reports there is even an ongoing discussion in the Defense Department over whether to "unleash" on Iran an Iraqi-based organization, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq, which is on the State Department's terrorist list...more...
Parvin Haji, Canada, March 06, 2007:... Cults like the MEK should not remain such a mystery to people at this time. It is no longer an unknown phenomenon. Broad agreement does exist...more...
Nejat Association, March 06, 2007:...The former women members of Mojehedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) participated in a commemorative meeting which was organised by the Nejat Society in Isfahan on...more...
Iran interlink, February 2007:... experts in this field, broadly agree on a general principle which is that a terrorist group that systematically utilises violence to reach its goals will also be utilising some specific aspects of cult modus operandi according to...more...
Mojahedin WS, March 03, 2007:... I remind those who insist on keeping the PMOI in the list that appeasement will have dire consequences. We are speaking about the lives of individuals... more...
Iran Interlink, March 02, 2007:...What I discovered was a sect, a group of men and women completely and irrationally devoted to their leader, Masoud Rajavi, which shocked me deeply. I had a feeling that I was among a group of fanatics who...more...
The Sun, March 02, 2007:... Little more than a decade ago, Anne was learning how to fire rifles and gearing up to fight for the group backed by Saddam Hussein...more...
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, March 01, 2007:...If the killing of all the people whom the Mojahedin have assassinated inside Iran is justified, then what about the thousands of similar people in Iran right now who have not been assassinated...more...
Centre for Thought, Dialogue and Human Rights – Toronto, February 28, 2007:... The main reason behind the efforts of the likes of Mr. Kilgore is to keep these guys in Iraq without any protection from the international community. It helps the MKO leadership to sell the services of these guys to the best buyer, currently Americans, as they did before with Saddam Hussein. In return, the leadership and their agents get to enjoy a free and luxurious life in democratic societies while sharing that blood money with the campaigns of a few politicians and rub elbows with them to intimidate their critics...more...
Irandidban, February 28, 2007:... what the MKO is now boasting as "assemblies and gatherings" can be interpreted as a political shambles, showing that the group is collapsing and dismantling...more...
House of Commons Debate on Iran, Hansard, February 27, 2007:..."the MEK is proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 and its involvement in violence means that it has little support in Iran."more...
IRNA, February 28, 2007:...Portugese MEP Paul Casaca, who organized the pro-MKO group 1Friends of a Free Iran' in the EP, had objected that since no MKO member was invited to speak, Sobhani should also not be allowed to talk in the meeting...A voting of MEPs took place and the agenda was approved as it was...more...
Council of Foreign Relations, February 27, 2007:...Protection of MEK forces by U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq (they are reportedly being protected by Bulgarian troops) is a source of controversy among some Middle East analysts, given the MEK’s ties to Saddam and the group’s terrorist leanings...more...
February 28, 2007:... Followed by Angela Bear, Michael Matison read a report on legal rights in EU Parliament. Then Senator Josie Doubie shared his personal experience visiting the Camp Ashraf . He mentioned MKO is a cult group by the definition of the cult.
Mohammad Hussien Sobhanie talked...more...
Iran didban, February 27, 2007:...the MKO is not considered a proper choice even in the eyes of those who support the idea of using them, but they're considered as armed mercenaries who can create chaos and unrest...more...
Telegraph, February 25, 2007:... The group is currently listed by the U.S. State Department as terrorist organization, but Mr. Pike said: "A faction in the Defense Department wants to unleash them. They could never overthrow the current Iranian government but they might cause a lot of damage."...more...
Nejat Society February 26, 2007:... we the former members of Mojahedin-é Khalq Organization (MKO) in Nejat Society present you with our briefing publication called Nejat Newsletter. Nejat Society has been established by those defected members...more...
BBC persian, February 23, 2007:... In an impartial view of their support for the group, we can say that they don't know what they're precisely supporting. Sometimes, these politicians sing petitions for the sake of humanitarian issues or democratic issues in Iran without knowing that a group like the MKO could be behind it...more...
Justin Raimondo, February 21, 2007:... The Iraqi government has recently reiterated its position that the MEK is a terrorist organization, an opinion shared by the European Union and the U.S. Department of State. However, not everyone in the U.S. administration agrees ...more...
Iran didban, February 22, 2007:... Despite the condemnation of terrorist operations in Zahedan by the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council and their call for the prosecution of those behind the attacks, terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq supported the terrorists under the name of "National Council of Resistance"... more...
Mojahedin ws, February 21, 2007:... The cult attempts not to ease its grip to let the members free. Nearly a month ago, Dawlat Norouzi, a spokeswoman to the cult, told Al Sharq Al Awsat that “We only have around 4,000 ...more...
Aswat Al Iraq, February 21, 2007:... Iraqi government has decided to expel the MKO from Iraq. Giving political refugee status to this terrorist organization, which is a danger for our neighbor, is not acceptable. We can't accept them in our country either...more...
Nahrainnet.net, February 11, 2007:.. A diplomat in the EU said: "The Sunni's delegation had entered Brussels through improper channels and it could have achieved far better results if I had come by the invitation of Arab League or some Arab states. more...
Nejat Society, February 20, 2007:... Nejat Society has been established by those defected members of MKO who have managed to break through the boundaries of the Organization in Ashraf Camp in Iraq and return home to their families. Nejat Society is a Non Government Organization (NGO) that is registered and performs under acts of Islamic Republic of Iran... more...
Iran-Interlink, February 19, 2007:... "We only have around 4,000 men, women and children who reside in Ashraf camp", says Rajavi cult spokeswoman... more...
Iran interlink, February 19, 2007:... While the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (Rajavi cult), which is a banned organization in the USA, UK, European Union and Canada, was trying to counter the report by BBC that the head of the bandit gang was being interviewed by the Rajavi cult television network, and deny the reports, the following item from Abdollah Rigy was found on... more...
IRNA, February 18, 2007:... The European Union (EU) has sent a letter to the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in which it enumerated the reasons it has placed the MKO on its terrorist blacklist...more...
Ittihad newspaper/UAE, February 18, 2007:...Fazel Al-Shovaili, adviser of Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Shirvan Vaeli, said: "MKO is a terrorist group with long history of killing Iraqis ...more...
Larisa Alexandrovna, February 16, 2007:... I believed that the attacks by MEK had been halted in March of last year. If this attack is shown to be tied to MEK terrorists or any other "group" we are funding, arming, and training in the region, then the US will be implicated - even if we had nothing to do with the bombing directly...more...
Abdulkarim al-Mohammadavi/Sotaliraq, February 16, 2007:... This organization was used as a sectarian group against Iraqis and Saddam Hussein turned them into a suppression force against Iraqi people. In 1991, we witnessed the role of this organization in Shaabanieh uprising against the Kurds. The elements of this group are known for their brutality. In 1991, during the assassination...more...
Bahar Irani, Mojahedin WS, February 16, 2007:... A notable date in Mojahedin Khalq’s history is 20 June 1981 which marks a turning point in developing a good understanding of the group’s ideological, political and strategic nature that build the fundamental premise of its challenge with the Islamic Republic... more...
Omid Pooya, Mojahedin WS, February 16, 2007:... The chief infrastructure parameter on which Mojahedin TV operates is the group’s ideology that is infused in all its programs and which is the main factor to delimit the network compared with many other networks. One might identify it with the Bolshevik daily newspaper Pravda during the Communist era of Lenin and Stalin...more...
Nabil Al-Basari/Sautaliraq, February 12, 2007:... Our government should always be vigilant about the dangers of MKO criminals, who were used by Saddam Hussein in killing our Kurd brothers during 1991 uprising...more...
Iran didban, February 10, 2007:... the worst part of his lies were expressed when he showed pictures which had nothing to do with Iraq. One of these pictures, also published earlier by the MKO, shows former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami visiting Ebrat museum in Tehran...more...
Radio Rarda, February 7, 2007:... Spiegel Magazine has published an article, "The Second Iraq", in which discusses the issue of US's support for Iranian opposition group, the MKO, to confront the Islamic Republic...more...
Irandidban, February 4, 2007:... Family of a former MKO member, based in TIPF, reported that in the latest wave of defection, 5 repentant members of the group escaped the cult and joined the TIPF...more...
Daily Mail, February 2, 2007:...Miss Singleton and her husband are involved in the campaign group Iran Interlink highlighting the dangers of groups such as the MKO...more...
AP, February 2, 2007:... He said a joint committee including representatives of the US, Iraq and the Mujahideen had been established to arrange for the group's departure. He gave no deadline for them to leave... Al Dabbagh's comments came amid rising tension between the United States and Iran and weeks after the Iraqi government told the two countries to solve their problems away from Iraq's territories.more...
IRNA, February 1, 2007:... a series of issues which are connected with security in Iraq and Iran, one of which being the presence of the outlawed terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization in Iraq.more...
Iran-didban, February 2, 2007:... The conclusion is that in a political analysis, such MKO moves only proves this group's inability to influence Iran's political scenemore...
Basil Adas, gulfnews, January 31, 2007:... Hadi Al Ameri, leader of the Badr Organisation of the Shiite Supreme Council, has accused the MKO of training terrorist elements and working to destabilise Iraqmore...
Iran didban, February 1, 2007:... Despite pressures from pro-Baathist supporters of MKO and obstacles by occupiers, Iraqi officials acted decisively and announced the issue of MKO expulsion from Iraqmore...
Mojahedin.ws, January 31, 2007:... For sure, the Iraqi nation and authorities hardly tolerate such allegations by a terrorist group enjoying the support of American forces in their own country when more...
Part of Foaad Khosmood's Interview with Scott Ritter, January 31, 2007:... you say that Israeli intelligence was the true source of the new information on Iran’s hidden nuclear facilities. You also say that Michael Ledeen and some Washington neocons arranged for MEK to be the conduit... more...
Yorkshire post, January 31 2007:... She views the Mujahedin now as a cult and says their methods of psychological manipulation are tried and tested and used by many other groups more...
By Juan Cole, January 30, 2007:... They now supply disinformation about Iran to the U.S. in order to foment conflict, much as Ahmad Chalabi lied in order to sell the Americans on invading Iraq...more...
CNN Arabic, 23 January 2007:... details of the 35th session of Anfal Court, which clearly points to the fact that Ali Hassan Al-Majid ordered MKO members to pursue and target Kurds inside Iranmore...
TPMCAFE.COM, January 28, 2007:... Can the U.S. once again make a pact with truly bad people under the hackneyed expression, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend??...more...
BBC world service, 26 January 2007:...Outlook hears Anne's story and Heather Payton also speaks to the BBC's Security Correspondent, Gordon Coreramore...
IRNA, January 24, 2007:... "Representatives of the International Red Cross met several families of MKO members in the building of Association," The head of Nejat Association in Western Azerbaijanmore...
Omid Pouya, Mojahedin.ws, January 24, 2007:... In fact, Mr. Jafarzadeh's answer implies that the US main problem in Iraq is that it is confronting people who reject to disapprove Saddam's ousted regimemore...
Expresso, Portugal, 19 January 2007:... Not feeling disturbed by the existence of the video which has been put on the Internet, the European Deputy reveals that more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, 19 january 2007:... the Iran Policy Committee (staffed by a former CIA employee and former American military officers), and so many members of Congress have betrayed Americamore...
LA Times, 22 January 2007:... THE SUPREME COURT has rightly refused to block the trial of seven Los Angeles residents accused of contributing funds to an Iranian opposition movementmore...
Iran didban, 23, january 2007:... In response to Jafarzadeh's request from the West to put pressure on Iran and focus on internal situation, CNN's Lou Dobbs asks:more...
baztab news, January 22, 2007:... According to AP, Iraqi government spokesman Ali Al-Dabbagh stressed that Iraq has banned the activities of MKO in its soilmore...
Iran didban, January 22, 2007:... Tom Lantos, the head of Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday, Jan. 17, that he's ready to go to Iran along with a delegationmore...
Jamshid Tafrishi, January 22, 2007:... I have instructed my lawyers to investigate the false allegations published in your paper and the source of the claim that I have written a letter to a US court. more...
Hansard, Thursday, 18 January 2007:... The EU-wide asset freeze against MeK is therefore still in force. The EU keeps all its terrorist asset freezing decisions under regular review.
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LONDON (AFP) - January 18, 2007:... As soon as it got to the White House, and as soon as it got to the Vice-President's ( Dick Cheney) office, the old mantra of 'we don't talk to evilmore...
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HEARING ON THE NEXT STEPS IN THE IRAN CRISIS
JANUARY 11, 2007:... My view is that the MEK doesn't represent the kind of government we would like to see in their past actions -- and they're all documented fairly well -- in Iran. To me, it would be a bigger burden.
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M. Taymorian , January 16, 2007:... Your detachment from the NCRI, or better to say Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), as well as your unexpected return to Iran are two coincident daring acts that deserve appreciationmore...
Karim Haghi Moni, January 12, 2007:... This week Mr. Paulo Casaca (Member of the European Parliament for Portugal's Socialist Party) and André Brie... paid a 4 day “good will? tour of Camp Ashraf in the outskirts of Baghdad. more...
20minutes website, January 15, 2007:... After the fall of Saddam Hussein my brothers could come to Iraq to visit me. They brought me some pictures and gifts and told me thatmore...
Massoud Khodabandeh, January 13, 2007:... It must be said simply that this approach is 'too little, too late'. No one expects any reaction to his ridiculous claims neither from the US, Iraq nor Iran.
The Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult) died a long time ago. These tragi-comedy scripts cannot revive them, much as some wish they could
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Mojahedin.ws, January, 2007:... MKO intensified their armed operations in the years between 1973 and 1976. Its terrorist operations were mainly aimed at American citizens and institutions inside Iran including assassination of 6 American military officers and civilians and bombing tens of buildings... Strongly supported by Saddam, military units of MKO, based in Iraq under the flag of the National Liberation Army, were settled in seven facilities starting from 1986more...
Nejat Society correspondent – Mehr Abad Airport Tehran- Jan.10, 2007:... Khosro Eslamizade and Mehdi Shahkarami by more than 20 years of cooperation with MEK defected the Mujahedin due to the leaders' inhuman behavior and their abuse of the members' primary personal and social rights more...
Verfassungsschutz, January 13, 2007:... In this regard, Awaa Association in Köln, comprising of former MKO members who have admittedly quit the organization fully, warned in its website about possible terrorist attacks including self-immolations during world cup by MKO supporters.
In response, Justice Association tied to NCRI in Köln claimed that the Iranian regime is bringing suicide volunteers to Germanymore...
In the Supreme Court of the United States, January 2007:... Thus, "the MEK has been designated a terrorist organization throughout the
relevant period, and that designation has never been set aside." Pet. App.
26a. And, as the court of appeals recognized in this case, any errors in
the process that produced the 1999 designation were ultimately "harmlessmore...
Metropolitan News Enterprise, January 9, 2007:... The justices, without comment, left standing a 2004 ruling of the Ninth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals that while the government's order making such a
designation may be appealed by the group, it cannot be collaterally attacked
by persons charged with a criminal offense of having contributed "material
support" to a group so designated.more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, January 10, 2007:... These representations about the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, Rajavi
Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) omit that this terrorist group murdered American
military officers and Rockwell International employees. The MEK committed
many atrocities in Iraq in 1991, such as the massacre of large numbers of
unarmed Kurds. The MEK committed a terrorist act in New York City. In
September 2002, President Bush's background paper for his remarks to the
United Nations listed the MEK as one of three Saddam Hussein-supported
terrorist groups operating in Iraq.more...
LATimes, January 09, 2007:... The MEK was founded as an Iranian Marxist group in the 1960s with a mission of overthrowing Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi and establishing a Marxist regime. But after the shah's fall in 1979, the new Iranian regime was dominated not by Marxists but by Muslim clerics.
Later, the MEK participated in terrorist activities that targeted Americans, the government said. In a federal court in Washington, the group also admitted it supported assassinations of Iranian officials and mortar attacks on Iranian facilities.
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karim Haghi, January 10, 2007:... 120 000 Iranian soldiers fell during the war, some of them from chemical attacks by the Iraqis. Even after 17 years after the war ended thousands more are still suffering from the effects of exposure to chemical weapons.
Saddam acquired those weapons of mass destruction through companies in France, Germany and the Netherlands. The technology and the know-how in building these weapons were given by the west approval.
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Reuters, January 08, 2007:... The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal by seven people charged with raising money for an Iranian opposition group dubbed a "foreign terrorist organization" by the U.S. government. more...
Habilian Association, December 2006:... Of course, we are, as children of terrorists victims, willing to open the terrorism record in Iran and we are too happy that innocent people of Camp Ashraf can join their families and hope that others people of them will can return to their country and get out of the organization’s pressure, like that more than 300 of them returned during one and two years agomore...
Irandidban.com, December 2006:... Terrorist group of MKO gathered its British supporters in London in a meeting called "Iranian Fundamentalism, A Growing Threat".
In the meeting, MKO's traditional supporters spoke in favor of MKO policies which made their speeches repetitious, hollow and clichéd. Their speeches showed how unaware they were [of the nature of MKO], people who have been supporting the group for more than 2 decades!more...
Habilian Association, Tehran-1 January 2007:... Ms. Fariba Hashtroudi, former member of national council of resistance (NRC) who has traveled into Iran recently, met and talked to Mr. Seyed Javad Hasheminejad and Mohammad Sanavi, Secretary General and executive director of Habilian associationmore...
Paul Sheldon Foote, January 3, 2007:... The PMOI (MEK, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) supports totalitarian rule in Iran, not a secular and pluralistic democracy. According to the MEK: Rajavi is Iran. Iran is Rajavi.more...
Irandidban.com, January 4, 2007:... Following Irandidban's report on Rajavi's dirty deal with Americans to save himself from CIA interrogators, incoming reports indicate that "he and some other leading officials of the MKO have been transferred to Jordan".more...
Baztab website, January 4, 2007:... This came as Massoud Rajavi left US control in Baghdad suburb and went to Jordan along with some other MKO members.
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Pars Iran, January 4, 2007:... The execution of dictator of Iraq was greatly welcomed by the majority of the people in the Middle East, particularly by Iraqis, Kurds and Shia and some Sunnis such as Turkmen that had suffered mostly under the Saddam' Regime.more...
Iran didban, January 2, 2007:... Stevenson's words expose his purpose, based on a crookedly devised plan by MKO leaders in order to get them out of the list. This list prevents them from performing illegal activities.more...
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Payvand News, December 29, 2006:... The Iran Policy Group (IPC) is advocating the use of terror group fighters from the Mujaheden-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) “as intelligence agents and urged the consideration of military options to spark an uprising in Iran,?[vi].more...
FCO December 30, 2006: ... 'I welcome the fact that Saddam Hussein has been tried by an Iraqi court for at least some of the appalling crimes he committed against the Iraqi people. He has now been held to accountmore...
A report by Rahaee Association, Netherlands, December 22, 2006: ... A report was made by Focus Grant, a national paper, from the court of appeal in the Netherlands on 14 December 2006. In parts we read:
...the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation is known as a terrorist organisation almost globally.more...
Radio Farda, December 19, 2006: ... Ms. Sabin Mayer, Director of Human Rights and International Relations of EU's Greens, pointed to the process of talks between Europe and Iran since the government of Khatami and said: "Geopolitically, Iran is important and European Union believes that Iran can be taken out of isolation only by dialoguemore...
Embassy, December 20th, 2006: ... Last month, the Canadian government reviewed the group and found that it still qualified to be on the list of terrorist organizations banned in Canada, said Philip McLinton, a spokesman from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness more...
Paul Sheldon Foote, TraitorsUSA, December 21, 2006: ... Iran Policy Committee (IPC) is comprised of former officials from the White House, State Department, Pentagon, intelligence agencies, and experts from think tanks and universities.
The Executive Director is described as a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).more...
Payvand.com, December21, 2006: ... Arash Sametipour, explained the methods of the MKO and how he was tricked by the grouplet.
He said the MKO assigned him to carry out terror acts in Iran and advised him to commit suicide if he failed in his terror mission
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Anne Singleton, December 20, 2006: ... The main victims of this court ruling then are the individual cult members interred in Camp Ashraf. They are now unable to leave the cult. Unable to make contact with their families and unable to return to their homes, the MKO will now tell those members trapped in Camp Ashraf that their armed struggle is being supported by western democraciesmore...
Karim Haghi, December 20, 2006: ... The reality is that removing the Mojahedin-E Khalq of Iran out of the European Terror list will not make any impact what so ever. In the past, the Mojahedin used to get their entire funding and support from the Iraqi regime, and even with all the tanks and guns it still didn't amount to anythingmore...
Irandidban.com, December 18, 2006: ... Complaints on the illegal presence of terrorist organization of Mojahedin-e Khalq as a source of instability in the region were top on the agenda. They also backed government's decision to expel the group from Iraq.
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Mojahedin.WS, December 18, 2006: ... Reported by Time Online on December 14 in an article entitled "Iran's Armed Opposition Wins a Battle — In Court", the author controverts the possibility that the EU might remove the MKO from its terrorist list. It seems, as it is wise, that nobody risks unleashing the hound one has effortfully leashed based on sound reasons.more...
Paris Association, December 17, 2006: ... A brief investigation in Mr. Jafarzadeh’s background reveals his close association with the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a front for the Mujahedin al-Khalq Organization also know as MKO or MEK, a cult like organization with a 40 year history of terrorismmore...
Newswire, Washington, December 14, 2006: ... The letter said in part: “The delicate and ongoing humanitarian effort of the UNHCR, ICRC, HRW, AI and many smaller organisations to rescue victims of the MKO headed by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi in Iraq has been jeopardized by this decision.
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Radio Farda, December 13, 2006: ... we consider it a terrorist organization and like other terrorist groups such as PKK, Hamas, Hizballah and many others in the Middle East we oppose this organization. We don't support it.
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Karim Haghi Moni, 12 December 2006: ... the Mojahedin announced with pride the assassinations of a number of Americans personal stationed in Iran as listed below:
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IRNA, December 13, 2006: ... Piris said the decision to include the MKO was taken by consensus of all EU member states... the MKO remains on the terror list and its assets in Europe will remain frozenmore...
IRNA, December 13, 2006: ... The ruling runs counter to the spirit of the UN Security Council resolution 1373 which holds governments responsible for fighting terrorist groups," said Hosseini on Wednesdaymore...
Irandidban.com, December 12, 2006: ... Iraqi government will not allow non-Iraqi groups to perform sabotage operations against other countries from Iraq. For these groups including the MKO, we have predicted two options: either leaving the country as soon as possible or stopping operations against other countries,"more...
Iran-Interlink, December 12, 2006: ... The significance of denouncing the so-called "Armed Struggle" by the Rajavi cult cannot be underestimated. Although everyone knows that the cult was engaged in terrorism right up to the time of the fall of Saddam Hussein more...
Nejat Society, December 11, 2006: ... Up to 500 ex-members of MKO have managed to return home to their families since the overthrow of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. more...
Ali Ghashghavi, December 10, 2006: ... During those years I witnessed more than 100 people entering Abu Ghraib prison who had been sent by the Mojahedin with similar accusations against them. The fate of all of them was the same.more...
Alireza Mirasgari, December 9, 2006: ... In 1994, the prison guards of the Rajavi cult (MKO) threw the body of Mr. Parviz Ahmadi into our cell. He died in front of our eyes more...
Pars association, December 8, 2006:... We would appreciate it if you could make public your own definition of terrorism. On what basis do you claim that the MEK is not a terrorist group after killing so many more...
Milad Ariaee, December 7, 2006: ... The above mentioned law firm, charging the Mojahedin with the highest fees, is to attempt to whitewash the history of this terrorist organisation more...
Pars association, December 7, 2006:...you are well aware of the 1994 State Department report which describes this organization as a terrorist groupmore...
Mohammad Sobhani, December 7, 2006:...I urge you to look at the issues mentioned in this letter from a humanitarian point of view before judging it as a political issuemore...