The Baathist elements and the MKO's suppression of the Iraqi Kurds in the north during the misanthropic Operation Anfal in 1988 and fierce massacre of Iraqis in the south in Intifadah Shabaniyah in 1991 negatively influenced the public opinion in Iraq.
Though, the Saddam regime's oppressive [1980-88] Imposed War against the Islamic Republic left long-term adverse effects on the two countries' cultural and historical relations, the two sides tried to redefine the ties
Iran has executed a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group and a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. Ali Saremi, a member of the MKO terrorist group, had been found guilty of charges of being a Mohareb (an enemy of God) and spreading propaganda against the Islamic establishment. Saremi was hanged in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Tuesday; IRNA quoted the Tehran Prosecutor's Office as saying.
Iran has executed a
Iranian officials say US politicians and the CIA have openly supported terrorists groups such as Jundallah and the MKO.
Press TV interviewed Professor, Paul Sheldon Foote of California State University regarding the tragic terrorist attacks in Chabahar. Professor Foote shares his insights regarding the recent attacks in South Eastern Pakistan.
Press TV: We will look more into this with Professor, Paul Sheldon Foote of California State University. Professor, it's good to have you with us. The
Governor of Iraq's Diyala province has held the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) responsible for the recent surge in violence across the northeastern region.
“Intelligence reports drawn by the security committee in Diyala prove that MKO hands are involved in a series of deadly terror attacks and explosions in the province,” Fars news agency cited Abdul Nasser al-Mahdawi as telling AK News on Tuesday.
Mahdawi added that the terrorist organization has managed to train elements of
Makki Rafi'ee, a defected member of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), complained that the ringleaders of the group have ordered their agents to torture dissidents in a bid to dissuade them from leaving.
Rafi'ee reiterated that agents of the MKO resorted to various types of torture and pressure against him during the last 15 years that he had been jailed in the notorious Camp Ashraf in Northern Iraq.
"After 15 years of imprisonment in Camp Ashraf and tolerating
People in Iraq's Diyala province organized a protest in front of Camp Ashraf were the Mujahidin Khalq terrorist organization or MKO members are residing.
People have been calling on Iraqi officials to expel the organization from their country, and described their presence in Iraq as a chronic disease.
Key individuals turned out for the protest including tribal leaders, clerics and local government officials.
Protesters have been shouting, "leave our country", and carried anti-MKO slogans to
In an interview with “Alsumaria News” the source said that “a medical team stationed inside the Camp Ashraf, 55 km north of Baquba received a communication from the camp about a case of suicide of one of the members of Mojahedin Khalq. The case is under investigation to verify whether the man has committed suicide by hanging himself inside his room”. The source also said that “another investigation is underway to determine the main reason that has prompted someone in the Iranian opposition to
Hundreds of Iranian and Iraqi demonstrators have protested against the presence of the anti-Iran terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq.
The demonstrators gathered outside the group's headquarters and training center, Camp Ashraf, in the Iraqi province of Diyala and called for the expulsion of the terrorist group.
Among the demonstrators were families of MKO members, who say their loved ones are being held inside the camp against their will.
MKO leaders are reported to be
Mr Mehdi Fathi, a hostage of the Washington backed Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) terrorist group died in Camp Ashraf (CIA protected MKO HQ) in Iraq one year after the Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq) leaders refused to allow his return to France for medical treatment.
The leader of the Mojahedin Khalq is a fugitive. He has been in hiding since the fall of his last benefactor Saddam Hussein. But his third wife Maryam Azodanloo (Rajavi), based at the European HQ of the terrorist
Leaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have resorted to various types of torture and pressure, including a cut of medical supplies to ailing members, to suppress growing dissidence in their main training camp in Northern Iraq.
A report by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group said that under the direct order of MKO's Ringleader Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the terrorist group in the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) have made
The Iranian negotiating team showed a powerful presence in its talks with the Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany) in Geneva and managed to defend the country's stances on different issues, a senior Iranian legislator said on Wednesday.
"Owing to its powerful position-taking prior to the talks and following the demand of the people's deputies (at the parliament) for the team's firmness and seriousness, the negotiating team managed to prevail its logic over
The secretary of IRI's Supreme National Security Council has condemned the West and G5+1 for the terrorist attack which led to martyrdom of an Iranian lecturer.
"Last week on the same day terrorists targeted two Iranian scientists and one of them was martyred," Jalili said.
"Iranian nation has been the biggest victim of terrorism," Jalili said.
"Iran has lost 1,300 of its citizens because of the terrorist attacks of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who are supported by the west," he
One of the members linked to former Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi's headquarters who has had extensive cooperation with the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has been apprehended.
The arrestee had been operating under the pseudonym Benjamin, reported Fars news agency on Monday.
According to the report, he organized the street protests following the June 12 Iranian presidential election in 2009.
He was once arrested in one of the post-election
Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said that the US, Israel and British spy agencies and the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) are conducting joint terrorist operations to assassinate Iranian university professors and scientists.
"This inauspicious act was sponsored by the Zionist regime and in coordination with the western intelligence agencies, the US and Britain in particular, and was carried out by MKO hirelings," Vahidi said in Iran's Northern
The families of the victims of the latest terrorist incidents in Iran have strongly criticized the European Parliament for its support for an anti-Iranian terrorist group, according to a recent report.
In a letter to the European Parliament, relatives of the victims of two terrorist attacks carried out in Tehran on Monday criticized some European governments and international organizations for their stances on terrorism, the Fars news agency reported on Monday.
The families say the double
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani strongly criticized the United States' double-standard approach towards terrorism, and reiterated that Washington is using the so-called war on terrorism as an excuse to dominate the region.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has frequently announced that based on information the US pursues a hypocritical attitude towards the issue of terrorism and views it as a pretext for dominating the region," Larijani said on Sunday.
He further referred to the recent
Due to the numerous defections from the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO/MEK/NCRI) the Rajavi cult has entered another historical decline. The first wave of defections followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein, the cult’s former military and financial sponsor. At that time, the first major strike hit the MKO as coalition forces took control of Camp Ashraf, the organization’s ideological container, located in northern Iraq. As Saddam Hussein fell, the group’s leaders immediately cooperated with coalition
A Pakistani political activist reflecting on Washington’s recent stand, said here Monday United States nurtured the terrorist Rigi grouplet, alos known as 'Jondollah'.
Hamed Mir added, “Jondollah terrorist grouplet could not have activities at Iran-Pakistan border region without relying on US support and it was in fact the financial and information support for the top members of that group that enabled them to launch so many suicidal and other attacks in that border region.”
Referring
The British government nervously reacts to a Press TV report in which its support to certain anti-Iran terrorist groups is documented.
The Press TV report had it that Iran's Intelligence Ministry has arrested four UK-linked terrorists in the western city of Marivan.
The ministry said the captured terrorists have confessed to assassinating five Iranians in the past two years and that they were supposed to receive $20,000 for each terrorist operation inside Iran but they were only paid $8000 in
Iran announced on Tuesday that it will pursue expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq once Baghdad sees its new government in power.
"We hope that after the popular government is formed and established in Iraq, it will put the issue of Monafeqin (hypocrites as they are called in Iran) on its agenda and consider it as a serious issue and take serious action on its case," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said at his weekly press