The western powers have been pressuring the UN to make it help the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) extend its presence in Iraq, political sources in Iraq said, and added that Baghdad will not swing under these pressures and will definitely expel the group from the country's soil.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007278982
"The UN support for the continued presence of the MKO on Iraq's soil is the result of the pressures exerted by
“Bombs are the Mojahedin’s weapon of choice, and they have used them frequently against American targets, for example on the occasion of President Nixon’s visit to Iran in 1972, the PMOI set off bombs at more than 12 locations throughout Teheran”
This led Liberation conclude that:
“In Iran, the Mojahedin have only the capability to carry out terrorist attacks from time to time. In Iraq, they participate in Saddam’s repression, notably against the Kurds. Maryam had to leave her
The United Nations and the Government of Iraq signed a memorandum of understanding to relocate MKO members living in a camp in the north-eastern part of the country.
According to Habilian Association database, UN News Center reported on Saturday that an agreement signed yesterday by Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Martin Kobler and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq, Faleh Fayad.
The
Top advisor to Speaker of Iraq's Majlis al-Aala Sayyed Mohssen Hakim says that the presence of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in the country can be defined as an international crime, because the organization is not officially permitted to stay in the country.
According to Habilian Association database (families of terror victims in Iran) Hakim said in an interview with ICANA, "The security of two neighboring countries of Iran and Iraq is completely
On Saturday Ali Akbar Rastgou, former foreign affairs chief of MKO, wrote an open letter to German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich requesting him to be cautious of MKO terrorists and not to let them enter Germany by deception.
According to Habilian Association database (families of terror victims in Iran), Ali Akbar Rastgou, defected member of MKO terrorist group, now living in Germany, in an open letter to German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich requested him not
Hegemonic powers aim to influence the region with terrorist actions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday evening.
http://www.irna.ir/ENNewsShow.aspx?NID=30727769&SRCH=1
He made the remarks in a meeting with Armenian Iranians in Yerevan.
President Ahmadinejad noted that hegemonic powers aim to give power to their pawns in the region and make puppet regimes.
Iran’s president stressed that the greedy arrogant powers have victimized millions of people by
Member of the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Parviz Sorouri says no European country is willing to accept the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) because the cost of hosting them will be too high.
http://www.icana.ir/en/NewsPage.aspx?NewsID=186193
Sorouri said on Saturday that based on creditable documents, the MKO has committed about 14,000 acts of terror in Iran.
“But the European Union (EU) under US pressure and
Expressing his abhorrence of the deceits of MKO ringleaders during the years of his captivity in Ashraf garrison, one of the former MKO members who has been recently escaped from Camp Ashraf, MKO terrorists’ headquarters in Iraq, stated that 23 years of his life “was ruined in hell”.
According to Habilian Association database (families of terror victims in Iran), the ex-MKO member fled Mojahedin-e Khalq garrison on 23rd November and put an end to 23 years of captivity in the
Ten members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have reportedly escaped from Camp Ashraf, the terrorist group's base in Iraq's Diyala province.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217445.html
After fleeing from the camp, the MKO members surrendered themselves to the closest police station in Baquba on Friday.
According to an Iraqi security official, the group members escaped from the camp due to the oppression of MKO authorities and requested the Iraqi officials to help them
A senior Iranian lawmaker says there is no rationale behind the presence of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq, as the Iraqi nation has been a major victim of the terrorist activities of the group.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/217417.html
“The MKO is a terrorist organization, whose presence in Iraq is destitute of any logic. At the time of (former Iraqi dictator) Saddam [Hussein], this group had an organized role in the massacre of the Iraqi people and the
Later on, Tafreshi’s assassins have been arrested and confessed, “I did not know him at all… our mission was to identify a target for assassination.”
Name: Sayyed Reza Tafreshi
Date of birth: March 19, 1963
Date of martyrdom: August 11, 1981
Place of martyrdom: Ferdowsi Avenue, Qazvin, Iran
Marital status: Single
A friend of Tafreshi’s remarks about his friend’s assassination were as follows:
“It seems like only yesterday, August 11, 1981 at eleven o’clock in the morning
"The secretary general of the United Nations presented a suggestion for the Iraqi government, asking to postpone (the closure)...and we agreed," Maliki told reporters, adding that the six-month extension started in November.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/21/us-iraq-campashraf-idUSTRE7BK1I820111221
Iraq on Wednesday extended a year-end deadline to close an Iranian dissident camp by six months, responding to a request by the U.N., which is mediating the resettlement of
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired his deputy Saleh al-Mutlaq, a staunch supporter of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), for his moves and measures against Baghdad interests.
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"Maliki has ordered the security forces to prevent Saleh al-Mutlaq from entering the Iraqi cabinet compound," Senior Advisor to Iraqi prime minister Ali al-Badri told FNA on Wednesday.
"At present Mutlaq's office is
Large groups of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization are escaping Iraq stealthily and the number of residents in Camp Ashraf - the MKO's main training center in Iraq - has dropped from 3,400 to 3,200 as the deadline for the expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq is nearing.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007278260
According to a report by the Habilian Association database (families of terror victims in Iran), MKO ringleaders and their supporters
American officials have expressed fears that the leadership of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) – which US government reports frequently describe as a cult – may order the massacre of their followers, rather than permit the peaceful disbandment of Camp Ashraf, which would deprive the MEK of one of its most powerful assets.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1220/With-deadline-looming-to-close-MEK-s-Camp-Ashraf-in-Iraq-what-next
Camp Ashraf, home to militants opposed
Experts on the MEK accuse its leaders of holding its own members hostage to efforts to get the organisation removed from the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106259
The Barack Obama administration and the United Nations are struggling to convince the leadership of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group with cult-like characteristics, to vacate a camp in Iraq and allow residents to move to another
As Iraq's deadline for the closure of Camp Ashraf approaches, the ringleader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization says the MKO will accept the UN offer to relocate if certain conditions are met.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/216820.html
Maryam Rajavi said in a statement on Tuesday that the camp's residents were "in principle" prepared to relocate on condition that the UN, the US and European Union support and endorse the proposal, and the Iraqi government guarantees the
A senior Iraqi politician said that the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is still carrying out terrorist activities in Iraq, and underscored the necessity for the expulsion of the terrorist group, according to a report published by Habilian Association database.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007278136
A senior Iraqi politician said that the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is still carrying out terrorist activities in
Pointing to MKO’s expulsion from Iraq befor December 31, 2011 the French-language Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes wrote, “Despite US pressures, Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland rejected the resettlement of 11 members of the MKO organization.”
Pointing to MKO’s expulsion from Iraq befor December 31, 2011 the French-language Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes wrote, “Despite US pressures, Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland rejected the resettlement of 11 members of the
The Egyptian government voiced its strong opposition to a planned meeting of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Cairo and cancelled the convention.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007278002
The meeting was scheduled to be held this afternoon in Pyramisa Hotel in Cairo, but the terrorist group canceled the meeting after the government of Egypt expressed its strong opposition and did not issue the necessary permission for the meeting.
The western powers have been pressuring the UN to make it help the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) extend its presence in Iraq, political sources in Iraq said, and added that Baghdad will not swing under these pressures and will definitely expel the group from the country's soil.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007278982
"The UN support for the continued presence of the MKO on Iraq's soil is the result of the pressures exerted by
