The American Conservative’s Jordon Bloom ran into a befuddled John Bolton at the Republican National Convention yesterday and had a timely question for him:
He was on his way in to observe the speeches, and I knew he wouldn’t have much time to answer more than a question or two in passing. So I asked the most important one: given the definition laid out in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project,was he at all concerned that his advocacy on behalf of the Iranian dissident group the
On a Saturday afternoon last February, journalist Carl Bernstein got up on stage at the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan and delivered a speech questioning the listing of an obscure Iranian group called the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) on the U.S. government list of officially designated foreign terrorist organizations.
The speech, before a crowd an organizer put at 1,500, made Bernstein one of the few journalists who has appeared at events in a years-long campaign by
The Government of Iraq has made considerable efforts to achieve a peaceful and secure resolution for the residents of Camp Ashraf, and we urge continued steps to address humanitarian concerns raised at Camp Hurriya by the residents.
Press Statement
Victoria Nuland
Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
August 29, 2012
The United States welcomes today’s safe arrival of the sixth convoy of approximately 400 Ashraf residents to Camp Hurriya, the first
Reports say there have been clashes in Camp Ashraf as Iraqi police attempted to inspect the belongings of the sixth batch of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq group.
According to a report published by Habilian Association website, a well-informed source told Arabic language Buratha news agency that members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq group attacked Iraqi security forces with knives and truncheons yesterday in a bid to prevent them from examining their belongings.
To
According to the reports from Iraq, sixth convoy of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI) is going to be relocated from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty today.
The report comes as the ringleader of the terrorist group had set August 23 for the relocation of its members from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty.
“After many years of suffering came upon the Iraqi people by the terrorist Munafeqin (Hypocrites, a term used by Iran and Iraq to describe MKO)
Iraq’s security forces have reportedly arrested Mohammad Eqbal, a spokesman for the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) at Camp Liberty, informed Iraqi security sources said.
Eqbal was arrested on Friday on the order of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on charges of provoking members of the organization to disobey the decision of the Iraqi government for the transfer of the remaining residents of Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty, a former US military
In a statement released Saturday, Maryam Rajavi, the ringleader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK, and PMOI), announced that the relocation of sixth convoy of MKO members at Camp Ashraf will be started on August 23.
The remarks come as two U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, have recently told New York Times that the group’s refusal to complete a move from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty “may doom its bid” to be delisted as a U.S
State Department officials are preparing for a possible decision by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to redesignate an Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organization, in part because of the group’s resistance to abandoning its camp in Iraq, two American officials said Wednesday.
The group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen, has mounted a costly campaign to be removed from the terrorist list, enlisting an array of prominent American politicians and
There is no way in which a compromise can be made with the Mujahedin-e Khalq and the closure of Camp Ashraf is a problem concerning Iraq’s territorial integrity, said Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's media advisor.
Referring to the final stages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) expulsion from Iraq, Ali al-Moussawi condemned as unacceptable MKO’s objections to the conditions at Camp Liberty, Habilian Association website reported on Sunday.
Al-Moussawi
A senior Iraqi official disclosed that several Baath party leaders who have recently returned from Syria have had tight cooperation with the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR).
"There is strenuous cooperation between the MKO members and certain ringleaders of the dissolved Baath party who have just returned from Syria," Governor of al-Khalis city in Diyali province Odai al-Khadran told the al-Istiqamah newspaper on Saturday. He
A senior Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander described terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI) as a role model for him and other Syrian insurgents.
“Mujahedin-e Khalq is our role model, and we inform them that our doors are open to them,” Malek al-Kurdi, a deputy commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army, addressed a joint session of MEK and senior figures in the anti-Assad armed rebel groups.
His comments come just days after a highly placed
A senior official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli regime is involved in establishing terrorist training bases across the globe in collaboration with despotic rulers and by using the US sway.
“The Zionist regime (Israel) collaborates with despotic rulers in the world and uses the influence of arrogant powers such as the US to engage in establishing terror training camps across the globe,” said Director of the IRGC’s Public Affairs Office Brigadier
While the anti-Assad rebels in Syria are suffering defeat, hundreds of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) members have entered the chaos-stricken country to back the so-called Free Syrian Army.
According to the agreement signed between Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group, United States, Turkey, and Israel, some areas of the Iraqi Kurdistan have been converted to military bases for training armed groups fighting against the Syrian government, Arabic language Ur
Sources revealed that some members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq group (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) are going to leave Iraq to join the anti-Assad terrorists through Syria’s northern borders.
“A number of U.S. and Turkish officers accompanied by several commanders of Kurdish Peshmerga forces had a meeting with some high ranking members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in Erbil, Iraq,” well-informed Iraqi security sources told the Arabic language Top News TV
A senior Iranian legislator called on the government to use the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran later this month to counter the West's nuclear terrorism against Iran.
"The so-called advocates of human rights have launched nuclear terrorism against the Iranian nation's scientific achievements; they plot to assassinate the Iranian nuclear scientists and make official statements about their intention for manipulating and sabotaging Iran's
The U.N. chief is urging some 1,200 MKO members to follow orders to leave Camp Ashraf and resettle in Camp Liberty, near the Baghdad International Airport.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday also urged other countries to give asylum to the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran.
“He urges both sides to continue to work constructively in this regard with a view to peacefully concluding the transfer of the remaining residents as soon as possible,” said a
The U.S. State Department's annual report on terrorism, issued on July 31, again listed Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI) as a foreign terrorist organization.
On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department released its congressionally mandated Country Report on Terrorism, which provides an overview of terrorist activities in the previous year, while it still bears the name of the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
In 1997, when the U.S. Department of State first established the
The Iraqi government on Tuesday told the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization that it must move out of Camp New Iraq, which was formerly known as Camp Ashraf, immediately or be forced to leave, Reuters reported.
Iraqi authorities have been locked in a protracted row with the MKO over their plan to move 3,000 members of the group from Camp Ashraf to a large former U.S. military base, a step toward expelling the group from Iraqi territory.
The United States also said last
Sources say that terrorist MKO group's leader, Maryam Rajavi, along with other high ranking members of the terrorist group had a meeting earlier last week to explore ways to convince the European countries to accept the members of the terrorist group who are being held at Camp Ashraf and Liberty.
According to a report published by Habilian Foundation website, Arabic language Nahrain News Agency quoted informed sources as saying that the grouplet leadership contacted the U.S
The Iraqi government has announced that the time table which was given to the Mojahidine Khalq Organization has ended.
In a meeting with the representatives of eight foreign counties the Iraqi national Security Advisor stated that the MKO members have never shown any cooperation with the Iraqi government and Iraqi has accepted the six months period in response to request of the UN.
The meeting which was organized and headed by the Iraqi national security advisor included the