“Following the identification of active members of several groups linked to the MKO grouplet, several simultaneous sting operations were conducted in Tehran and several other cities and serious blows were dealt to those groups,” the unnamed security official said on Friday.

Despite using alias names and titles, most of the identified groups had history of association with the MKO grouplet and many of the arrestees had been previously jailed for similar activities.

Two of the arrestees had recently entered Iran with the aim of instructing their agents inside the country on how to cause turmoil during election, the source said.

The MKO organization is responsible for numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

Out of the 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, some 12,000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.

Iran’s eleventh presidential election will be held on June 14, 2013.

The Islamic Republic’s president is elected for a four-year term and candidates must be vetted for their qualifications by the Guardian Council.

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An Iraqi security source has said that a cadaver had been found near the Camp Ashraf, former military headquarters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) located some 100 kilometers west of Iranian border.

According to Habilian Association, an anonymous security source was quoted by Buratha news as saying that a shepherd found an unidentified decomposing corpse of a man near the Camp Ashraf in Diyala province.

Blaming the terrorist group for the murder, the Iraqi security source deemed the act a criminal offense.

So far, over 3100 of MKO members have been transferred to their transient home in Camp Liberty. Although the Iraqi government’s patience is wearing thin and has repeatedly insisted the expulsion of MKO members from its soil, the group leadership seems more unwilling to allow the rank and files to be separated.

In late March, Albania offered to grant asylum to 210 MKO members in Iraq. But, the group’s spokesperson has immediately turned down the offer. Instead, he asked for the resettlement of all the members in the US or their relocation back to Camp Ashraf. However, after some two months last week, 14 members of the terrorist group arrived in Albania.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran strongly condemned the recent terrorist bombings in Iraq which killed and injured many civilians, warning that the terrorist attacks are aimed at undermining the stability and security of the Muslim country.

In a statement on Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi strongly condemned the attacks, and expressed sympathy for the bereaved families of the victims.

At least 100 people were killed and more than 250 others wounded by a series of car bombs in mainly Shiite districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Monday. One of the bombs exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims North of Baghdad, killing 14 people and injuring 15 others.

Two car bombs hit Basra, a predominantly Shiite Southern city 420 km (260 miles) Southeast of Baghdad yesterday. The first struck the Hananiya neighborhood, near a busy market and restaurants, and the second was detonated inside a bus terminal in Saad Square, police and medics said. Eleven people were killed.

No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but such large-scale bombings bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq, which seek to destabilize the central government.

More than 700 people were killed in April by a UN count, the highest figure in almost five years. Relations are coming under more strain by the day from the increasingly sectarian conflict in neighboring Syria.

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Habilian Association’s Secretary General has said that the departure of 14 MKO members for Albania is the beginning of the terrorist group’s collapse.

Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, Habilian Association’s Secretary General, referred to the Albanian government’s asylum offer to MKO members and said, “MKO’s ringleaders tried so hard to postpone their expulsion from Iraq using their Zionist lobbyists and advocates.”

“But the collapse of this terrorist group is inevitable due to the Iraqi laws and also the international laws, so their efforts have led to nowhere,” he added.

Hasheminejad reiterated, “it can be seen now that despite all MKO leaders’ efforts, they have not been able to achieve their desired results and the terrorist group’s collapse has started.”

Habilian SG continued, “Albania, as well as some other states, has agreed to receive 14 members of the terrorist group and they are now being relocated.”

He said the Albanian government’s agreement to receive these MKO members is based on international laws and agreements between the United Nations and Iraq.”

At the end, Hasheminejad referred to this relocation as the starting point of the terrorist group’s disintegration which would finally lead to the destruction of the festering tumor.

Albanian Prime minister had made an announcement that he would offer asylum to 210 member of the MKO, currently living at a former U.S. military base near Baghdad. He had said the offer was made for “humanitarian reasons”.

In a statement released on Monday, the Ministry said, “The enemies of the nation have intensified their destructive activities and [are] making arrangements for different types of seditious acts ahead of the upcoming … election.”

The Ministry has managed to “identify and neutralize a number of enemy plots and scenarios” as it had been monitoring the moves of enemy agents and therefore made necessary preparations to counter them, the statement added.

“Among the most recent plots uncovered by the [Intelligence] Ministry was the smuggling of a large cache of light weapons into the country."

After intelligence and security work, two terrorist groups behind the transfer of weapons into the country from its western and eastern borders were identified and disbanded, the statement said.

It said that the groups were transferring a considerable number of different weapons, including pistols and grenades, into central parts of the country when they were quickly identified and arrested in Kermanshah and Sistan-Baluchestan Province and their arms were also confiscated.

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A former Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson and current presidential hopeful has said the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and NCRI) has by no means a place in Iranian people’s calculations.

“The enemies must know that the (Iranian) nation has paid heavy price in order to safeguard the achievements of the Revolution and to defend (our) national interests,” Ramin Mehmanparast said on Saturday during an exclusive interview with Habilian Association.

“Certainly, people are bound and determined to be in the scene to draw a bright future for themselves and their country,” he added. “The more the enemies of Islamic Republic of Iran conspire against us, the more our nation will awake.”

Referring to the MKO’s persistent efforts to dissuade people from taking part in the upcoming presidential election, Mehmanparast said the terrorist MKO grouplet is a detested group among Iranians, and such measures will serve to increase their unpopularity.

The MKO has left no stone unturned to prevent a huge turnout in the forthcoming presidential election in June.

He went on to say that having gained a lot in terms of seditious movement and MKO’s traitorous activities against the country, Iranian people will turn out in large numbers, and will make enemies regretful of their efforts to create discord.

Finally, ex-spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said the MKO has by no means a place in Iranian people’s calculations.

“The residents’ arrival in Albania late last night is an encouraging first step in the relocation of the group of 210 residents the Albanian government has agreed to receive,” said the UN Special Representative for the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Martin Kobler.

More than 3,000 residents, most of them members of a group known as the People’s Mojahedeen of Iran, are temporarily housed in a transit facility called Camp Liberty – also know as Camp Hurriya – while the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) carries out a process to determine their refugee status.

Mr. Kobler said that the departure of the group from Iraq is in accordance with the memorandum of understanding of 25 December 2011, which foresees the relocation of the residents to third countries. “I thank the Government of Albania and encourage other Member States to come forward and to receive residents in their countries as well.”

Following the original offer by the Albania Government to assist in the resettlement, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he “unequivocally supports” Mr. Kobler’s efforts “to courageously and creatively, in exceptionally difficult circumstances, help resolve this situation.”

In addition, in his recent report about the situation in Iraq, Mr. Ban urged those who express support for the residents of Camp Hurriya and the remaining residents of another camp, New Iraq, to stop spreading insults and falsehoods about Mr. Kobler and instead help to promote a durable solution.

Following Albania’s announcement, the Government of Germany offered humanitarian admission for approximately 100 residents of the camp.

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Undoubtedly, one of the most prominent examples of double standards adopted by the United States and some other western countries towards the terrorism issue, is their attitude towards the terrorist Mujahedin e-Khalq Organization.

In an obvious contrast with international laws, MKO members were granted asylum while the group was still on the list of terrorist organizations. Despite they witnessed the terrorist group’s crimes, MKOs’ headquarters were protected by the Police in France.

While the group was formally recognized as a terrorist organization, they were allowed to hold meetings and gatherings in many European countries. As though western entities revealed MKO’s violation of human rights inside the cult, no efforts were made to rescue the trapped members. While it was once a crime to support the MKO (one of the reasons announced by the Bush administration to attack Iraq was Saddam’s support of the MKO), immediately after invasion of Iraq, the terrorist group was under the U.S. protection.

Even though many informed technical and diplomatic experts evaluated MKO’s claims against Iranian nuclear activities as untrue and false, MKO’s propaganda was widely used against Iran. Whenever western diplomats needed a leverage to pressure Iran, they used to line up the terrorist group’s members in London, Washington, Paris, Geneva … to protest against Islamic Republic.

Despite all their supports for the terrorist MKO, western countries have not been able to ignore some facts about the group. There are some international reports that reveal MKO’s real nature.

These documents show there is a global consensus on the fact that the MKO is a group with a criminal record.

A review on the documents could be useful for many politicians and researchers. Documents show that western countries counted on the MKO to be able to influence Iranian internal issues after the terrorist group started its armed conflict against the people and when the cult leaders escaped to France. They used to believe the MKO enjoyed popular support in Iran. But just a few years after MKO’s presence in Europe, the US Department of State destroyed all the hallucinations on MKO in a detailed report, describing the terrorist group as a mosquito against Iranian military forces. The report explained MKO’s undemocratic and cultic characteristics. The cult’s cooperation with Saddam’s intelligence was revealed in the report and at the end Iranian people’s hatred of the group was emphasized. Public disgust of the terrorist MKO is reviewed in many other documents.

Another important document on the MKO, was the Human Rights Watch report about the cult’s inner relations. The report revealed MKO’s mistreatment of own members. Those who were once deceived by the group’s leaders and were at full service of the terrorist organization, were detained in Abu-Qoraib or the cult’s own prisons, being tortured by their former comrades. The report revealed some inhuman approaches adopted in the cult including mandatory divorces and separation of children from their parents. The report also described how the MKO was held under tight control of the husband and wife team of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and has a history of cult-like practices that include engaging in extended self-criticism sessions.

More dramatically, the report states that former MKO members told Human Rights Watch of being arrested, in some cases violently abused and in other instances imprisoned, when they protested MKO policies or tried to leave the organization. They were held in solitary confinement for years in a camp operated by MKO in Iraq under the protection of Saddam Hussein.

In mid 2009, the Rand Corporation also published a report about the MKO titled ‘Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum’. This report was written by a team of four who worked for 15 months in the US and Iraq to produce the most thorough analysis to date of the group’s cultish aspects. MKO is referred to as a cult 88 times in this report. It is stated in the report ‘an examination of MKO activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies.’ Elsewhere in the same document it is stated: ‘Rajavi instituted what he termed an “ideological revolution” in 1985, which, over time, imbued the MKO with many of the typical characteristics of a cult, such as authoritarian control, confiscation of assets, sexual control (including mandatory divorce and celibacy), emotional isolation, forced labor, sleep deprivation, physical abuse, and limited exit options.’

There are lots of more internationally known documents that reveal the terrorist nature of MKO group.

At the end, all these documents help to figure out how unpopular and isolated the terrorist Mujahedin e-Khalq organization is in the eye of Iranian people and all the people around the world. It doesn’t matter whether they are removed from the list of terrorist organizations, it doesn’t even matter whether the United States and some other western countries fully support the cult, the nature of this terrorist organization has not changed.

Deputy Head of Majlis National Security Committee said members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and NCRI) are doomed to homelessness and vagabonding due to their inhumane crimes.

According to a report by Habilian Association, Iranian lawmaker Mansour Haqiqatpour was quoted by ICANA as saying that the present situation of the MKO members is the outcome of what they have done against Iranian and Iraqi people.

Referring to the closeness and intimacy between MKO and Zionists Haqiqatpour said, “The only place for them is the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

The Iranian member of parliament went on to say that the United States is pursuing the resettlement of MKO members in the region in order to use them. “There is certainly no place in the region for the group members,” he underscored.

“Should the Iraqi government looks for stability in the region, it has to take firm steps to expel the terrorist MKO group,” he said.

Welcomed by the former Iraqi dictator in 1980s, the terrorist MKO group assisted Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran and suppression of Iraqi Kurds.

After some three decades of their stay in Iraq, the terrorist group has faced international pressure to leave the Arab country. Accordingly, remaining members of the terrorist MKO in Iraq had been relocated to a former US military base near Baghdad’s International Airport for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to determine their refugee status.

Iraq is a member of the resistance movement and that’s impossible for the terrorist MKO to exist in such a country.

“Despite there are numerous documents that prove Mujahedin e-khalq organization’s crimes against the people of Iraq, the Iraqi government has only agreed with expulsion of the group.” Said a member of Iraqi national alliance in a meeting with Seyyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, Habilian Association’s Secretary General.

Jomeh Al-Otvani, a member of Iraqi national alliance pointed out MKO’s crimes against the Iranian and Iraqi nations and reiterated: “The MKO has just united the two Iranian and Iraqi nations by conducting these crimes. Thousands of Iraqi people have also been martyred by the MKO just like a lot of Iranians.”

Al-Otvani referred to Iraqi people’s view on the government’s measures against the terrorist group and said: “According to the constitution, the government tried to expel the group from the country. But people believe the government has had too much flexibility towards the cult’s members and that’s because it is satisfied with their expulsion only, despite there are many documents showing their crimes against people.

He also pointed out the USA’s ongoing pressures to keep the MKO in Iraq and said: “the government has tolerated a lot of pressures from the US regarding to the MKO’s expulsion. The United States aims to tense relations between the two Iraqi and Iranian nations by doing that.”

At the end of the meeting he predicted that the terrorist cult will be disintegrated by being expelled to the western countries and said: “Iraq is a member of the resistance movement and that’s impossible for the terrorist group to exist in such a country.”

More than a decade since the United States unleashed its military on the Middle East in the name of fighting terrorism, countries in the region have only seen terrorism expand.

The United States’ support of terrorist groups such as PJAK can be easily proved by monitoring these groups’ activities. The USA shares many common goals with such terrorist groups including confrontation with Iran. PJAK is just another good terrorist from the United States’ point of view.

PJAK came into being in 2004, a year after the US led invasion of Iraq. And since then it has thrived under the nose of the US forces. There are several reports indicating ongoing ties between the United States and PJAK. PJAK enjoys the most advanced military and communications technologies provided to them by the Israeli and American intelligence services.

Behrouz Tahmasbi, a former ranking member in the PKK and then PJAK says: “the formation of PJAK within the PKK dates back to the arrival of the US in the Middle East. It was about a political agreement between the PKK and the United States. When the PKK militants stepped aside from the war in 1999 and Abdullah Ocalan was arrested as well, they could not face the US and take up arms. Therefore in order to reduce the pressure of the US, the PKK gave Washington the green light by forming PJAK which was intended to fight against Iran.”

A former PKK leader, Osman Ocalan says: “The PKK planned to infiltrate into Iran through establishing PJAK with the support of the US. In other words, PJAK was created with the aim of interfering in Iran’s affairs.” terrorist group’s Former leader also believes: “The US was happy with the establishment of PJAK. It gave the militant group its full support and prevented the government of the Iraqi Kurdistan to act against them. It let the PKK and PJAK to operate freely across Qandil Mountains near Iran-Turkey border.”

Robert Baer, a former CIA operative who worked for many years in northern Iraq and who retains strong ties to the Kurdish political scene, told SPIEGEL: "I understand that the US provides intelligence to PJAK so that they are better able to protect themselves in any conflict with the Iranians. This force protection intelligence is given to them through the Delta Forces."

As the illegitimate child of the United States’ presence in the region, terrorist PJAK has always benefited from strategic political, financial and military support of the United States and its allies and also the intelligence services of those countries. Despite this fact, the relations between the USA and PJAK have always been kept hidden, informal and even denied. The most important reasons why the US tries to hide its ties with PJAK include: previous experiences of Iranian people rejecting US dependant groups, PJAK’s ties with the PKK which is the enemy of the Turkish government as a key ally of the United States in the region and the violent, terrorist and separatist nature of PJAK’s activities which could further raise public hatred against the USA.

Exclusive documents are found in recent years which leave no doubt about existence of relations between the United States and PJAK. Including to these documents, Wikileaks has revealed some US embassy diplomatic cables in Turkey and Iraq which include interesting points about US- PJAK connections.

One of the most important of such cables is a report on a meeting between Meir Dagan (the former head of Israeli intelligence service) and Nicolas Bronze, the Secretary of State’s deputy in the Bush administration. Based on this report, Dagan had suggested ethnic clashes and separatist movements as a way to confront Iran. He has had a special emphasis on the Kurd separatist groups in that meeting. The only separatist group active in Iran is PJAK. And Dagan emphasized that the mentioned groups are prepared for conducting terrorist activities.

A secret report from the US embassy in Turkey is another revealed cable. This report is about a meeting between a high ranking US General and a Turkish General. The Turkish General reminds his American counterpart that his forces have managed to take a film from one of PJAK and PKK’s camps in the Qandil mountains where a number of US soldiers are handing the terrorists some food and ammunition.

Another report is about the US embassy in Iraq. It is mentioned in the report that in a meeting between the representatives of the US embassy and Iraqi Kurdistan government, when the Kurd representative is asked to stop PKK’s activities in Kurdistan region, he criticizes the US double standard and reminds him of the US support of PJAK and Mujahedin e-Khalq organization in Iraq.

Another cable is a report about the meeting between a Kurdish commander and the US military officials in Iraq. The Kurdish commander reiterates the US efforts to insecure Iranian borders by helping PJAK and announces his readiness to help the United States to achieve that goal.

Despite the US has actually supported PJAK since its establishment until now, PJAK still remains on the US list of foreign terrorist organizations. By recognizing PJAK as a terrorist organization, the US protects itself from any moral criticism. William Beeman, an anthropologist author and Middle East expert, believes the fact that PJAK is on the US list of terrorist organizations has not prevented the United States from providing funds to the group.”

An Iraqi Sadrist MP has urged the Iraq’s government to speed up the expulsion of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) members from the Arab country.

Reiterating the impossibility of further presence of MKO terrorists in Iraq, the Iraqi parliamentarian said the return of the MKO members to Camp Ashraf is impossible, Habilian Association reported.

Al-Mansouri was quoted by Ashraf News as saying that the MKO terrorist group constitutes a threat to the Iraq’s security, adding, the only option for the group is their immediate expulsion from Iraq.

Hussein al-Mansouri also pointed out that some members of the MKO group are wanted by the police in connection with their crimes under Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi officials have repeatedly emphasized that the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization, armed and supported by the Iraqi executed dictator Saddam Hussein, pose a real threat to Iraq's territorial integrity. Hence, the Iraqi government has signed an agreement with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Martin Kobler to relocate the residents of Camp Ashraf to a temporary transit location where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will start a process of refugee status determination, a necessary first step for their expulsion outside Iraq.

I DON'T have a single American friend. I don't understand them," said Tamarlan Tsarnaev.

The Boston terrorism has been squelched: Tamarlan, dead in a police shoot-out left his younger brother Dzhokar wounded in the hospital.

Commonly terrorism refers to violent acts intended to create fear (terror); are perpetrated for a religious, political or ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians).

However, where appropriate, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

Reviewing the book Terrorism of the State, Ron Jacobs asks some penetrating questions such as; is it the actor that determines whether or not an act is terroristic? Or why is the US hesitant to accept the commonly held definition of terrorism? And is the reason because doing so would indict the United States as a terrorist state?

Professor William Odom, formerly President Reagan's NSA director wrote: "Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world."

Because of vigilance since 9/11, says Irfan Husain, "terrorism in the US has virtually been stamped out. It is precisely because of this success that the Boston attack has caused so much fear and outrage".

It doesn't require genius to predict that, in America, Muslims other than Arabs or Iranians will have increased attention paid to their activities.

Alex Seitz-Wald, writing in Salon, puts it in perspective: "Chechen terrorism may be less familiar to most Americans than that carried out by fighters from the Middle East or Afghanistan and Pakistan, but Chechen separatists have fought a long and bloody war against Russia in the region's long war of independence from Moscow."

MKO, an American-sponsored terrorist organisation, now in a camp on the border between Iraq and Iran, has been responsible for thousands of assassinations in Iranian cities.

According to Aletho, the German Interior Ministry confirmed the initiation of the processes required for granting asylum to 100 MKO terrorists. That makes both Germany and America sponsors of terrorism.

I just finished reading the stories of dozens of young Palestinian boys, between the ages of six and 18 who have been arrested by Israeli police.

Accused, at most, of throwing stones at Israeli armoured vehicles, these boys were put in solitary confinement, given electric shock, had their heads beaten against a wall and kicked until they passed out.

Before they were released, they were told not to discuss their arrests or punishment with anyone or they or their family would pay a price of more suffering.

These young Palestinian children, having done nothing wrong, have been the victims of Israel's forces of terror.

Remember, the distinguishing features of terrorism include a person, organisation or country with the power to take action that will instil fear in others. Terrorists can be people we might not normally consider as such.

Members of Congress are frightened by threats posed by lobbyists/terrorists like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the National Rifle Association.

Media executives have utilised their terrorist power to frighten reporters or anchors away from telling the truth.

The fear goes with the job. Someone like Chris Hedges loses a job at the New York Times for his political honesty and that frightens a multitude of people in the industry.

Similarly, someone like Norman Finkelstein loses his university tenure, and academics around the country are frightened by the terrorism of Alan Dershowitz.

What's in a name? That which we call a terrorist by any other name would smell as vile.

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has criticized the politicized and double standard approach of the US toward the issue of human rights.

In its annual human rights report released on April, the US State Department accused countries such as Iran of clamping down on rights activities.

In reaction to the report, Mehmanparast said the US is one of the main “violators of the most basic principles of human rights and international law.”

“It would be better for the US government to be responsible for its human rights performance in the field instead of continuing with its wrong and repetitious behaviour of accusing other countries,” he said.

“The politicized approach and the adoption of double standards by the US on human rights in the world is not a new issue and has turned into the political tradition for the country," he added.

The Iranian official pointed to numerous human rights violations by the US including support for the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and removing it from the list of terrorist groups, the establishment of illegal and extraterritorial detention centers, torture and human rights violations in Guantanamo prison, and the brutal massacre of civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He added that the abduction of citizens of other countries and illegal rendition flights, violence against immigrants, crackdown on anti- Wall Street protests, harassment of Muslims, racial discrimination, and the bad situation of prisoners in the US are other instances of human rights violation by the US.

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Iran’s mission to the United Nations has strongly criticized the meddlesome remarks by a former US administration advisor regarding the Islamic Republic’s internal affairs.

In an article published in the Wall Street Journal on April 16, Michael Ledeen urged the US administration to overthrow the Islamic Republic establishment by inciting unrest during the upcoming presidential election in Iran.

Iran’s 11th presidential election will be held on June 14. The president of Iran is elected for a four-year term in a national election.

Iran’s mission to the UN sent a letter to the Wall Street Journal in response to the article, blasting Ledeen’s “vilifying” and “misleading” remarks about the Islamic Republic.

“For the past 34 years, ever since the Islamic revolution overthrew a US-backed monarchical dictatorship, Iran's new representative political system has been consistently vilified in the US media,” the letter read.

According to the letter, Ledeen supports an “interventionist approach” toward the Islamic Republic without “any respect for Iran's sovereignty and national rights” and he fails to see the legitimacy of Iran’s establishment due to his “deep-seated animosity.”

“Iran's political system… is based on regular, competitive elections and checks and balances among the branches of government,” the letter said.

Iran’s mission also slammed Washington’s hostile approach towards Iran, evident in measures such as removing the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the State Department’s blacklist on September 28, 2012.

The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

Out of the 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, some 12,000 have fallen victim to the acts of terror carried out by the MKO.

The MKO opened an office in Washington, one block from the White House, on April 11

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TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iraqi lawmaker warned against the threats posed by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI), and called for the immediate expulsion of the grouplet's elements from Iraq.

"The MKO is a completely terrorist group and its elements are looking for a suitable opportunity to conduct terrorist acts and incite crisis in the country (Iraq)," Al-Alam satellite TV quoted member of the Iraqi Parliament's Security and Defense Commission Ammar Tameh as saying.

Tameh underlined that the remaining MKO elements should be expelled from Iraq as soon as possible.

Despite the efforts made by the Iraqi government to expel all MKO elements from Iraq, the western supporters of MKO, specially the US, have prevented their expulsion from the Muslim country so far.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq's Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty transient facility near Baghdad.

No world country has yet accepted to host the members of the terrorist group.

The MKO, 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 took the MKO off the US terror list in September.

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Habilian Association will kick off its new exhibition alongside the International conference of Islamic Awakening and the Scholars of Ummah’s in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

The exhibition entitled “The Men of Their Words” will be running from Monday 29th April for two days and will present laminated posters in three languages English, Arabic, and Persian regarding some Shia and Sunni scholars of Islamic Ummah who had been targeted by the terrorist groups.

The visitors will be provided with Habilian Association’s products, the most important and recent of which is a booklet containing the contents of the exhibition.

The conference is the 6th international conference on the Islamic Awakening in Tehran which will be attended by Muslim scholars from all over the world.

The issue of weird and cult-like conduct of the leaders of Mujahedin e-Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a MEK and NCRI) and their bizarre treatment of other members has been an acknowledged issue.

The MKO authorizes use of violence against its own members. MKO leaders further use acts of violence as a tool for inner-cultish elimination of members who have somehow distanced from the group’s ideology.

Some major and most prominent methods adopted by leaders of terrorist groups such as MKO to keep and extend their dominance include: Removal of opposition, discrediting the disaffected members and naming them as betrayers before and after their removal, slandering the critics and the opposition by false and shameful accusations, surprising inversion of the political or ideological stance, and encouragement of members to humiliate themselves when facing any feelings of obligation, questions or doubts. In this case, the member will turn into a devotee and inculcates himself that he doesn’t have the ability to think and differentiate between things. And that’s just his leader who forms his life and thoughts.

Such occurrences that have taken place in the terrorist MKO are discussed below briefly.

Assassination of Javad Saeidi in autumn 1973 by the so called Muslim leadership of the MKO and assassination of Sharif Vaqefi in spring 1975 by the Marxist leadership of the cult are no different in their natures. Both of these assassinations have taken place as a result of the cult’s belief in Stalinism and physical removal. From the MKO’s point of view, not only such assassinations can’t be blamed, but also they are done to protect the governing principals in the organization. In a cult with such a view, any opposition to the leadership will lead to death and physical removal. Javad Saeidi’s only sin was that he was bold enough to leave the organization. Sharif Vaqefi’s crime was somehow the same and he was assassinated with the excuse of not obeying the organizational orders. It wasn’t just about the fact that they didn’t convert to Marxism.

Some of the members, who didn’t accept the new ideology of the organization, were forced to criticize and somehow humiliate themselves. Some others were forced to go laboring in the southern regions of the city in order to think twice on their ideologies. Some religious members were banned from having weapons and cyanide capsules. As a result of this punishment, the punished member would be easily arrested by the Police if spotted. The members who stood against changing ideology were eliminated if they were too inflexible.

Javad Saeidi was sentenced to death by the organization’s leadership because of his opposition to the organization. He hid in Qom city for a few months but finally he was kidnapped and killed while he was blindfolded.

Some other MKO members assassinated by the order of the cult leaders include: Mahdi Amir Shah Karami, Majid Sharif Vaghefi, Morteza Samadieh Labaf, Rafat Afraz, Mahboubeh afraz, Abdoreza Moniri Javid, Morteza Houdashtian, Hossein Kermanshahi Asl, Mohammad Hasan Abrari Jahromi, Ali Mirza Jafar, Hosein Ahmadi Rohani, Ali Mohebbi, Ahmad Ahmad, Fatemeh Fartouk Zadeh, and Ali Khodaei Sefat and Mohammad Gharzi.

The idea of fomenting ethnic tensions in Iran as a means to destabilize the country is not a new one. Rohrabacher, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, has never been shy about promoting ethnic separatism and supporting violent groups as a way to pressure Iran. In addition to his support for groups like Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), he has championed resolutions promoting Azeri and Balochi ethnic separatism in Iran.

His new resolution, H.Res.183, would push the Broadcasting Board of Governors to beam news broadcasts in Azeri and Baloch languages into Iran and its border regions with Pakistan to promote ethnic tensions.

Rohrabacher’s intentions are clear. Last year he sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which he stated that, “Aiding the legitimate aspirations of the Azeri people for independence is a worthy cause in and of itself. Yet, it also poses a greater danger to the Iranian tyrants than the threat of bombing its underground nuclear research bunkers.”

According to reports, the intended purpose of this letter was to capitalize on the opportunity provided by news stories at the time concerning a budding military cooperation between Israel and the Azerbaijan Republic. “It would be wise for the United States to encourage such cooperation, as the aggressive dictatorship in Tehran is our enemy as well as theirs,” Rohrabacher wrote to Clinton.

He is also one of the top supporters of the MEK, and detractor of the Green Movement. He was a major driver of the effort to remove the mujaheddin from the terror list, while acknowledging their use of violence to achieve political goals. “I will have to admit, the thing that attracts me to this movement is that it is willing to fight,” Rohrabacher said ahead of the MEK’s delisting. “It won’t just be pacifists."

There are other violent movements, such as the Sunni militant Jundallah – designated in 2010 as a Foreign Terrorism Organization by the United States – which will undoubtedly benefit from this type of continued effort Rohrabacher is championing to foment ethnic tensions in Iran, particularly in the volatile Sistan-Baluchistan regions bordering Pakistan, which is the intended purpose of Congressman Rohrabacher’s latest resolution.

It should also be noted that Mr. Rohrabacher does not fail to mention, as an added incentive to support H.Res.183, the vast natural resources and the strategic importance of the border region between Iran and Pakistan. “Whereas it is believed the area inhabited by the Baloch people holds a large reserve of oil, natural gas, gold, and other minerals and comprises 1,000 miles of strategically significant coast line from the Persian Gulf and along the Arabian Sea.”

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MKO’s history is filled with complicated brainwashing techniques to prepare its members for different terrorist operations including suicide attacks and the organization has a long record of using suicide terrorism to take out Iranian political or religious elite.

Humiliation and revenge appear to play a key role at the organizational and individual levels in shaping the sub-culture that promotes suicide operations. Humiliation is an emotional process that seeks to discipline the target party’s behavior by attacking and lowering their own and others’ perceptions of whether they deserve respect; The process that has been used along with other brainwashing techniques in terrorist organizations such as Mujahedin e-Khalq (MKO, a.k.a MEK and NCRI) to pursue the organization members to blindly obey the leaders of the terrorist group and prepare them for self sacrifice.

One of the cultish characteristics of Mujahedin e-Khalq organization is a focus on suicide operations. The MKO has frequently used the threat of suicide as a negotiating tactic or to frustrate investigations. This proved particularly effective after 10 members immolated themselves in Paris as a protest action following the arrest of Maryam Rajavi, the MKO’s co-leader, in 2003. Concerned that the Paris immolations might be repeated on a larger scale at Camp Ashraf, the JIATF rejected proposals to forcibly dismantle the organization.

Among all the terrorist approaches the MKO has taken, it seems suicide operations have usually been used to take out prominent public figures.

MKO’s history is filled with complicated brainwashing techniques to prepare its members for different terrorist operations including suicide attacks and the organization has a long record of using suicide terrorism to take out Iranian political or religious elite.

Ayatollah Dastgheib was one of the most popular public figures who became a victim of MKO’s suicide operations.

On Friday, December 11, 1981, Ayatollah Sayed Adbulhussain Dastgheib was killed along with some of his companions when a bomb exploded as they were heading to Shiraz main mosque to perform the Friday congressional prayers. The assassin, Gowhar Adab-Awaz, 19, was a female member of the terrorist MKO.

NCRI, an offshoot of the MKO, took full responsibility of the attack in an announcement. It is written in a part of the announcement: “… on Friday, December 11, the unit was dispatched to the place to perform the preplanned operation. At the chosen moment, the Mujahed sister, Gowhar Adab-Awaz succeeded to break the security circle and killed [Ayatollah] Dastgheib along with 12 of his bodyguards by exploding a handmade bomb. Other Mujahed fighters referred to their bases without any injury. Our Mujahed sister was martyred in this brave operation…”!

Other prominent suicidal terrorist operations undertaken by the MKO include:

Assassination of Ayatollah Madani

Ayatollah Sayyid Asadullah Madani, the Leader of the Friday Prayers of Tabriz in East Azarbaijan Province was a representative of Ayatollah Khomeini there and MKO assassinated him on September 11, 1981. He was one of the closest aides of Ayatollah Khomeini. MKO could not tolerate him seeing him a popular individual not talking in their favor and perishrd him in a most inhuman manner.

Assassination of Ayatollah Hasheminejad

Following the Islamic Revolution, Martyr Hashemi Nejad was elected as an expert in the Assembly of Experts on the Constitution representing Mazandaran. He played an important role in including articles on the Velayet-e-Faqih. His political wisdom led him to recognize the deviations of Banisadr, MKO and liberals much sooner than others. He finally became the secretary of the Islamic Republic Party in Mashhad, where he started countering the hypocrisy dominant on some state departments.

Finally in September 29, Hasehemi Nejad was attacked to martyrdom by an MKO member while leaving a classroom at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in Mashhad.

Assassination of Ayatollah Sadoughi

Ayatollah Sadouqi spent most of his time with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He did not detach himself from Imam Khomeini, even when Imam was sent into exile to Turkey and then to Najaf Ashraf. During all those years, he was still in touch with Imam Khomeini through letters, and he was wholeheartedly involved with accompanying him in his anti-Shah struggles.

In July 2, 1982, when he finished the Friday prayer and when he was leaving Mihrab, a Mujahedin-e Khalq-linked suicide bomber killed himself and Ayatollah Sadouqi by pulling the pin of a grenade as he embraced the great Muslim scholar. Ayatollah Mohammad Sadouqi became known as the third martyr of Mihrab (Mihrab is a praying place in Mosque indicating the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, where the prayer leader stands and leads the others in prayer) among Iranians.

Assassination of Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfahani

Following the victory of Islamic Revolution in 1979, Imam Khomeini appointed Ashrafi Esfahani as the Friday prayers leader of Kermanshah. Since he played a significant role in advancing the goals of revolution, the global arrogance and its internal mercenaries could not tolerate his activities and tried to assassinate him three times; two were unsuccessful but the last one, in October 15, 1982, led to the martyrdom of Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfahani. The suicide bomber who was a member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK and PMOI) embraced Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfahani during the Friday congressional prayer in Kermanshah and pulled the pin of a hand grenade, killing the great scholar and himself and wounding Ayatollah Ashrafi Esfahani’s son, Haj Sheikh Mohammad.

It is estimated that more than 12000 innocent Iranian people were assassinated by Mujahedin e-Khalq organization in the early years after the Islamic revolution in Iran.