Iranian MP Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini has criticized the United States’ decision to remove the Mojahedin Khalq Organization from its list of terrorist groups.
The U.S. State Department on Friday formally removed the MKO, whose members are known as munafiqin (hypocrites who claim to be Muslims) in Iran, from its official list of terrorist organizations, Reuters reported.
In an interview with the Persian service of the Mehr News Agency on Saturday, Naqavi-Hosseini, who is
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says US police was indifferent to the assault on Iranian diplomats in New York City.
“Unfortunately we witnessed a form of US police indifference regarding the actions of [terrorist members of] the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and no matter how many times we gestured to the police that they need to stop the attacks of these individuals, they remained apathetic,” said Mehmanparast.
The Iranian diplomat, who
Despite Elizabeth Rubin’s article on the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) in the New York Times op-ed of August 13th, 2011 entitled, “An Iranian Cult and its American Friends,” and her earlier July 13th, 2003 essay, “The Cult of Rajavi,” not one American in one hundred could even identify this organization or anything about its history.
After a multimillion dollar lobbying campaign, the United States lifted the terrorist organization from the terrorist Mujahedin-e
A group with a history of bombings and murders, including the killing of US citizens, which also happens to oppose the current Iranian government, has paid its way off of a US blacklist, Lajos Szasdi, an international affairs analyst told RT.
The US Secretary of State announced the removal of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MKO) from its list of terrorist organizations on Friday. Originally one of the main participants of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, it is now in opposition
Under pressure from a court order, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Friday revoked the designation of an Iranian resistance group in Iraq as "terrorist," but expressed strong reservations, dpa reported.
The decision follows a years-long legal process that finally prompted an impatient US court in June to declare the People's Mujahideen Organization (PMOI/MEK) would be automatically delisted as a terrorist organization if Clinton did not act otherwise.
Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani has called for the extradition of the members of the anti-Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the Islamic Republic to stand trial.
“The leaders and members of the MKO must be extradited to Iran to receive punishment for their crimes,” IRNA quoted Amoli Larijani as saying on Wednesday.
“The group has shed the blood of over 17,000 Iranian citizens, including senior government figures and
Iran lashed out at Washington for its decision to strike the name of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) off the list of terrorist groups, and stressed that the move will be violation of the international obligations by the US.
Last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton notified Congress that she plans to take MKO (also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) off a State Department terror list.
The notification will be followed by formal removal in coming days from the
Professor of California State University says delisting Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) as a terrorist organization will provide additional evidence of the corruption of America’s political leaders and the ignorance of voters who vote for these traitors.
“The American political leaders who support the delisting of the Iranian Communist MEK (MKO, PMOI, NCRI, Rajavi Cult, or Pol Pot of Iran) terrorists are some of the worst traitors in American history,” Paul
President of the IHRS in the United States says Iraq has the right to close Camp Ashraf, Mujahedin-e Khalq’s paramilitary base in Iraq, and the U.N. is responsible for finding third countries for MEK members’ resettlement.
Hamid Murad, president of the Iraqi Human Rights Society in the U.S., told Habilian reporter on Monday that the United States suggested that all the parties and relevant organizations gather data on the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorists group’s crimes and
Iraq has denounced the United States’ plan to remove the anti-Iranian Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, including Iraq, and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis. The group also cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacres of Iraqi Kurds and in suppressing the 1991
US officials leaked to several news outlets Friday an impending decision by the Obama administration that it intends to remove the Iranian dissident group Mujahadeen e-Khalq (MEK) from the treasury department's terror list.
Historically, the group joined together with Islamists to topple the Shah in 1979. But after it assassinated an Iranian president, prime minister and supreme court justice, Ayatollah Khomeini turned on its members and approved the massacre of
An Iraqi parliamentarian disclosed that the country's al-Iraqiya alliance, headed by former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, has tight cooperation with the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).
"The organization (the terrorist cult) has strong links with a number of al-Iraqiya leaders and is directly supported by these (political) leaders," Member of National Iraqi Alliance at the Iraqi parliament Qassem al-A'raji told FNA on
Iranian lawmaker Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini says no country should grant asylum to members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).
“The MKO is a terrorist group and governments should not grant them asylum,” Naqavi Hosseini said on Monday.The Iranian lawmaker added that all of MKO’s inhumane actions have been registered in the group’s “criminal record”.
Naqavi Hosseini said paving ground for the MKO terrorists to continue their activities is “against
The United Nations envoy in Iraq on Sunday welcomed the last major relocation of Iranian exiles from a camp outside of the capital, Baghdad, and called for a renewed focus on resettling the residents in third countries.
“This is an important step as we near the end of the relocation process. I would like to thank the residents for their cooperation,” said Martin Kobler, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
Iraqi sources say 680 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have been moved from their original residence in the eastern province of Diyala to a new camp near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Diyala provincial officials said the seventh group of the MKO terrorists was transferred from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf and situated about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, to Camp Liberty on Saturday.
The court ruling yesterday in NIAC’s lawsuit against Seyyed Hassan Daieoleslam granted NIAC victory on its central demand, while falling short on other objectives.
NIAC brought the lawsuit against Daieoleslam in 2008 in response to his slander and defamation against the organization and its co-founder, Trita Parsi. Our objective with the lawsuit was two-fold.
First, to challenge Daieoleslam’s false accusations that NIAC lobbied for the Iranian government in court and
Foreign diplomats who visited the former U.S housing camp described the conditions as acceptable. Some said the conditions there looked good compared to other refugee camps. “I wouldn’t choose to live here, but when we talk about refugees ... and what their living conditions are all over the world, this should be considered exceptional,” said Ramon Molina, the Spanish Embassy’s deputy chief of mission.
Iraq offered foreign diplomats on Tuesday a rare glimpse at a camp that is the
The MEK frustrated with the Iraqi court’s decision to pass a death sentence on fugitive Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, has launched a stinging attack on the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
After an Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Hashemi - who has been convicted of running a death squad and is currently on the run in Turkey - to hang for the murder of a lawyer and a brigadier general, his terrorist counterparts, the Mujahedin e-Khalq organization couldn’t
An Iraqi official said that Camp Ashraf will be completely evacuated till the end of September and the government of Iraq will turn it into the Tigris Operations Command Headquarters.
According to Habilian Association website, Aswat al-Iraq news agency quoted Ghaleb al-Atiya, police spokesman in Diyala province, as saying that so far Iraqi police have transferred 2400 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in 6 groups of 400 from Camp Ashraf to Camp al-Hurriya (Liberty)
A local official in Diyala province announced that the Iraqi government is laying grounds to move 680 MKO members from camp Ashraf as the seventh round of MKO expulsion.
According to Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) quoting the Iraqi Kurdistan news agency AK, Uday Alkhadran Governor of Khalis has said that the Iraqi government is about to send 680 MKO members from camp Ashraf to camp liberty on the outskirts of Baghdad as the seventh round of MKO