Yves Bonnet’s French lawyers condemned Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult)’s fake announcement
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... He was sentenced to pay penalty and publish an apology letter in three French newspapers. He was required by the court to mention in the letter of apology that his book:” Vevak at Ayatollahs service” was written under the orders of Mujahedin Khalq Organization. He also had to pay a 3000 – euro penalty. Following the publication of the distorted announcement regarding Bonnet’s Court, plaintiffs of the court complained to french judiciary .Yves Bonnet’s attorneys, to respond the court judge, denied the announcement published on MKO official websites and declared that they didn’t compose or publish any announcement regarding Yves Bonnet’s court ...
Aria Iran, June 08 2011
Translated by Nejat Society
http://www.nejatngo.org/en/post.aspx?id=3724
Link to the original (Persian)
http://www.iran-interlink.org/fa/?mod=view&id=10143
French lawyers of Yves Bonnet seriously condemned the group’s misinformation on his court ruling and reproached MKO for distortion of the ruling.
Following the biting failure of Yves Bonnet, former Head of French Secret Service, in French appeal court in Paris, Rajavi’s band set off for a disinformation campaign quoting fake words of Bonnet’s French lawyers.
In the announcement allegedly related to 5 French lawyers published on MKO’s websites in Persian, Yves Bonnet has won two courts against his plaintiffs during the 2 past years.
In fact, Mr. Yves Bonnet absolutely lost his two courts in Paris where Rajavi’s Band had mobilized 600 people and attacked and bit critics.
He was sentenced to pay penalty and publish an apology letter in three French newspapers.
He was required by the court to mention in the letter of apology that his book:” Vevak at Ayatollahs service” was written under the orders of Mujahedin Khalq Organization. He also had to pay a 3000 – euro penalty.
Following the publication of the distorted announcement regarding Bonnet’s Court, plaintiffs of the court complained to french judiciary .Yves Bonnet’s attorneys, to respond the court judge, denied the announcement published on MKO official websites and declared that they didn’t compose or publish any announcement regarding Yves Bonnet’s court.
They seriously condemned MKO’s obstinate act to distort the ruling of French judiciary.
The attorneys told that they hadn’t been aware of the text of the announcement and admitted that the court ruling was based on Mr. Bonnet’s failure
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Also
http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=9594
Court Session Held in Paris on French Intelligence
Support for Mojahedin Khalq
(MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorists
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... The session was held on March 10 after three individuals who were named in a fake book as elements of the Iranian regime filed a complaint. The first session of the court had been held on December 17-18, 2009, during which Yves Bonnet, the former Member of the French National Assembly and Director of the DST, and MKO's ringleaders as well as head of the publication that published the fake book were found guilty. Yves Bonnet had paid several visits to MKO's main training camp, the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) in Iraq's Northern province of Diyala ...
Fars News, March 13, 2011
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8912210701
Link to reports from the court (Persian)
One:
http://iran-interlink.org/fa/?mod=view&id=9581
Two:
http://iran-interlink.org/fa/?mod=view&id=9584
Three:
http://iran-interlink.org/fa/?mod=view&id=9588
TEHRAN (FNA)- The second session of a court hearing on the former Director of the French Counterterrorism Agency's (DST) support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) was held in Paris on Thursday evening.
The session was held on March 10 after three individuals who were named in a fake book as elements of the Iranian regime filed a complaint.
The first session of the court had been held on December 17-18, 2009, during which Yves Bonnet, the former Member of the French National Assembly and Director of the DST, and MKO's ringleaders as well as head of the publication that published the fake book were found guilty.
Yves Bonnet had paid several visits to MKO's main training camp, the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) in Iraq's Northern province of Diyala, the Habilian association - a human rights group formed of the family members and relatives of the Iranian victims of terrorism - said in its website on Saturday.
The MKO has been in Iraq's Diyala province since the 1980s.
The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.
The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
Many of the MKO members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.
A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.
According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.
The group, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.
The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran's new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.
The terrorist group joined Saddam's army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who also argue for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.
Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf - about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad - last year and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.
The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.
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http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=7710
French court rules against Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) advocate Yves Bonnet
Rajavi cannot silence critics through intimidation and defamation
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... Mr. Yves Bonnet, former Member of French National Assembly and Director of the French Counterterrorism Agency (DST), has been fined and was ordered to pay compensation in a libel case on February 11, 2010. Mr. Christohpher Barge of Timaeus publishing company was also ordered to publicise the court’s decision in relation to the book ...
Iran Interlink, Paris, February 14, 2010
http://www.iran-interlink.org
(Maryam Rajavi in terrorist cult's HQ in Paris)
Mr. Yves Bonnet, former Member of French National Assembly and Director of the French Counterterrorism Agency (DST), has been fined and was ordered to pay compensation in a libel case on February 11, 2010. He was warned that further infringements would attract even more severe punishments.
The defamation case was brought by Mr. Ehsan Naraghi, Mr. Jahangir Shadanlou and Mr. Manouchehr Shalali against Mr. Yves Bonnet who had falsely accused them of being ‘agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in a book titled ‘VEVAK: At the service of the Ayatollahs’. Mr. Christohpher Barge of Timaeus publishing company was also ordered to publicise the court’s decision in relation to the book.
In February 2005, a similar defamation case was won by British academic Dr. Ali Ansari. A book written by a leading member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq had described Dr. Ansari as an "ardent apologist" and a "fervent proponent" of the Iranian Government. On receiving Dr. Ansari's complaint in court, the publisher accepted fully that there was no basis for what had been written about him and immediately offered him an apology. The court ordered a suitable sum to be paid to an appropriate charity and for Dr. Ansari's legal costs to be met in full.
This latest decision of the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris in the case against Yves Bonnet was in a similar vein. The complainants were under severe pressure by the Mojahedin-e Khalq during the hearing on 17 and 18 December 2009 as several hundred members of the group packed the building in an attempt to intimidate the complainants and witnesses.
The judgement against Yves Bonnet and his publisher is another example of the failure of Rajavi in the attempted demonization of Iranian dissidents and critics of the Mojahedin-e Khalq.
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http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9216
Wondering at those Americans who stand under the flag of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen
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... Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission”. Then he (Massoud Rajavi) with a smile on his face continued his war cry and said, ”What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power, then this paper tiger (the USA) will be destroyed as a whole.” ...
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
Iran Interlink, January 03, 2011
http://www.iran-interlink.org
A documentary about Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq terrorists
Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult terrorism in Iran and Iraq
link to download the video file
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Also read:
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=7264
Silent Cry
Press TV, November 23, 2009
www.presstv.com
This documentary takes us beneath the surface of acts of terror against Iran and shows how Iranians have been targeted by various terrorist groups, some of which enjoying the support of human right organizations.
(part one)
(part two)
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link to one of the Mojahedin Khalq songs advocating killing Americans (In Persian)
Captain Lewis Lee Hawkins
(Photograph courtesy Annette Hawkins)
Lets create another Vietnam for America(pdf).
(Mojahedin English language paper April 1980)
Letter to Imam (Khomeini) (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper April 1980)
Some questions unanswered regarding the US military invasion of Iran (pdf).
(Mojahedin English Language paper June 1980)
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
(Izzat Ebrahim and Massoud Rajavi still at large)
(Washington backed Maryam Rajavi in terrorist cult's HQ in Paris)
(British Lord!! Corbett promoting terrorism under the Logo of MKO for the past 25 years)
(In the streets of London with Lord Corbett!!)
(MKO members in European Countries 2003)
(massacre of Kurdish people)
(Abdolmalek Rigi on Voice of America, presented as a democratic alternative)
(Mojahedin's Maryam Rajavi and Jondollah's Abdolmalek Rigi)
Jafarzadeh representing terrorist organisation NCRI
(Picture form MKO/ NCRI clandestine television)
(Daniel Zucker, Maryam Rajavi and ALi Safavi)
(Ali Safavi as the commander of Saddam's Private Army in Iraq)
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http://iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=9172
Did Giuliani And Co. Provide ‘Material Support’ To Terrorist Group?
(Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)
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... The group’s hatred of the Islamic Republic led it to ally with Saddam Hussein, and it fought on the Iraqi side of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Following the Gulf War, “the group reportedly assisted in the Iraqi Republican Guard’s bloody crackdown on Iraqi Shia and Kurds who rose up against Saddam Hussein’s regime; press reports cite MEK leader Maryam Rajavi encouraging MEK members to ‘take the Kurds under your tanks,’” according to the State Department. The group’s alliance with Saddam made it widely despised among the Iranian community at large, as it remains to this day ...
(Alejo Vidal-Quadras , Mojahedin Khalq logo, Struan stevenson )
Matt Duss, Think Progress, December 24, 2010
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/12/23/
did-giuliani-and-co-provide-material-support-to-terrorist-group/
The Washington Post reports that four prominent Republicans — former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani, former Bush administration homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, former homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey — told “a forum of cheering Iranian exiles” in Paris “that President Obama’s policy toward Iran amounts to futile appeasement that will never persuade Tehran to abandon its nuclear projects.”
The four “demanded that Obama instead take the controversial Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) opposition group off the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations and incorporate it into efforts to overturn the mullah-led government in Tehran”:
“Appeasement of dictators leads to war, destruction and the loss of human lives,” Giuliani declared. “For your organization to be described as a terrorist organization is just really a disgrace.”
The four GOP figures appeared at a rally organized by the French Committee for a Democratic Iran, a pressure group formed to support MEK.
It should be obvious that describing Obama’s Iran policy — which includes a new set of both multilateral and unilateral sanctions — as “appeasement” indicates either a misunderstanding of the policy, or a misunderstanding of what constitutes “appeasement.” (Though, to be fair, conservatives tend to use “appeasement” loosely as a general term for “foreign policy I don’t like.”)
As for the MEK, after the GOP’s victory in November I predicted that we’d be seeing more efforts by pro-war conservatives to set the group up as an Iranian version of Ahmad Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. Very much like the INC, the MEK has no genuine base of support in their own country — its real base is found among American neoconservatives.
Daniel Luban profiled the MEK last November:
Founded as a militant group with an ideology combining aspects of Islam and Marxism, the group is frequently described today as “cult-like,” built around a personality cult centered on leader Maryam Rajavi. [...]
The group’s hatred of the Islamic Republic led it to ally with Saddam Hussein, and it fought on the Iraqi side of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Following the Gulf War, “the group reportedly assisted in the Iraqi Republican Guard’s bloody crackdown on Iraqi Shia and Kurds who rose up against Saddam Hussein’s regime; press reports cite MEK leader Maryam Rajavi encouraging MEK members to ‘take the Kurds under your tanks,’” according to the State Department. The group’s alliance with Saddam made it widely despised among the Iranian community at large, as it remains to this day
Luban notes that the MEK’s “militant anti-Iranian stance has made it a favorite of hawks in Washington”:
The MEK’s neoconservative supporters continue to push for it to be taken off the State Department terror list, which it has been on since 1997. One of the many ironies about the MEK is that, for all the groundless allegations that hawks made about Saddam Hussein’s connections to terrorist groups during the runup to the Iraq war, the terrorist group with perhaps the closest links to Saddam was one that the hawks themselves supported.
Human Rights Watch also released a report in 2005 detailing the group’s record of subjecting dissident members to torture and solitary confinement.
Leaving aside the spectacle of prominent conservatives going abroad to criticize the administration’s foreign policy on behalf of an Iranian exile group largely despised by Iranians, there’s actually a real question here of whether Giuliani, Townsend, Ridge, and Mukasey have violated U.S. law in regard to “material support” for terrorism.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project that “the First Amendment does not protect humanitarian groups or others who advise foreign terrorist organizations, even if the support is aimed at legal activities or peaceful settlement of dispute”:
In a case that weighed free speech against national security, the court voted 6 to 3 to uphold a federal law banning “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations. That ban holds, the court said, even when the offerings are not money or weapons but things such as “expert advice or assistance” or “training” intended to instruct in international law or appeals to the United Nations.
Over to you, Attorney General Holder.