| The anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) which has committed numerous crimes against the Iranian nation should be dissolved immediately, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) General Hossein Salami underlined on Sunday. |
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The anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) which has committed numerous crimes against the Iranian nation should be dissolved immediately, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) General Hossein Salami underlined on Sunday.
"The disarmament of the Monafeqin (i.e. Hypocrites, as MKO members are called in Iran) is not an important issue but the main issue is the existence of the grouplet which should be dissolved," General Salami reiterated.
Elaborating on different solutions and ways for confronting the terrorist group, he reiterated, "There are various strategies for this purpose; but under any kind of condition, this grouplet should not be allowed to run activity and have a structure. We demand dissolution of this organization."
Salami also strongly criticized the West's double-standard approach towards terrorism, and said despite the western countries' anti-terrorism slogans, they have established relations with terrorist groups, including the MKO, and support them against the other countries. Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.
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.