Now, it has turned to be Rajavi’s short-term strategic goal and agenda. In this hostile and antagonistic behavior against the Iraqi government MKO is also invoking the support of many Western advocates who are engaged in an endless battle of condemning the Iraqi Government and calling for the establishment of US forces in Ashraf voicing that these forces have an obligation to provide the residents’ permanent protection.
The transfer of the control of Camp Ashraf to Iraqi
Blair seemed to imply Iran did prefer the dictatorship under Saddam in Iraq despite the fact that the dictator had imposed a devastating war on the country, and supported and accommodated one of the most notorious terrorist groupings, behind assassinations of leading Iranian prominent figures and officials, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).
During a fresh grilling at Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War, ex-UK Premier Tony Blair has claimed that Iran considered a democratic
The second group surviving pre-revolutionary armed warfare was Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCR, NLA). Mujahedin insisted to continue their armed strategy and rejected new rules as they had their own interpretation and analysis of the post-revolution era.
Over the past two centuries terrorism has been used for various reasons to achieve various goals. Terrorism has been used by a variety of social, religious and political zealots and ideologues and the
According to the Habilian report, the MKO ringleaders have provided financial and structural support for the establishment of over 20 publications and sociopolitical groups in Iraq in recent years in a bid to see their desired government in power.
Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, reported that the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has made heavy investments to gain soft power in Iraq as part of its broader efforts to secure its
Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan regional government Barham Salih rejected reports on presence of members of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in Kurdistan.
Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan regional government Barham Salih rejected reports on presence of members of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in Kurdistan.
"Basically, reports on presence of MKO members in Kurdistan are unfounded and sheer lie. We intend to establish joint security with
“The ‘political remarriage’ of Rajavi with Maryam Azdanlou, wife of one of his closest staff members who was forced to leave her publicly, is presented as ‘one of the most important revolutionary and ideological decisions ever taken by the Mojahedin’.”
About the Kurds
Soon it would the turn of Mr Abdel Rahman Ghassemlou, leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPIK). Mr Rajavi criticized him for “having accepted talks with Khomeini, thus recognizing his
They convince the individual that expressing the contradictions is something that might cost any price. They talk about “any price” because the individual should expect insults and maltreatments following expressing his contradictions. A lot of time and effort is used for this issue.
The systematic control within MKO
I believe if you have not been a member of the MKO cult, it is too hard to understand what the “systematic control” is. I will mention some aspects of it which I
Mukasey, Giuliani Falter in Defending Support of Group Tagged as Terrorist Outfit, Prof. Cole Says
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The federal law that prohibits "material support" of groups that the State Department labels terrorist organizations has been upheld against constitutional challenges by the Supreme Court and defended by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey and other conservative politicos, such as Rudolph Giuliani and Tom Ridge.
But when constitutional law expert David Cole recently pointed out
An official in Iraqi government said that the Iraqi government has done necessary measures to expel Mojahedin-e khalq terrorist grouplet by the end of 2011.
An official in Iraqi government said that the Iraqi government has done necessary measures to expel Mojahedin-e khalq terrorist grouplet by the end of 2011.
Abdollah al-Beyzani said that the MKO will be expelled from Iraq because of their enmity towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and their crimes against Iraqi people
The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) had attempted to lure Iranian nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi into cooperation, but it went for the option of assassination after Ali Mohammadi turned down the offer, his wife said.
"Ten days before Dr. Ali Mohammadi's martyrdom, the Hypocrites (as MKO members are called in Iran) had sent him a number of important documents related to Iran's nuclear issues through the internet and asked him to comment on the
With the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime, he put his back into protecting the achievements of the Islamic Revolution led by Imam Khomeini and as the Iraqi imposed war broke out, he rushed to the war fronts to defend his country and beliefs against the Saddam-led intruders…
Martyr Nour Mohammad Abdi Nejad was born in a very religious family of believers in 1960 in the northern city of A’amol. There he grew up and went to school until he finished the elementary school. Then he
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi underlined Iran's upper hand in the war on terrorism and spying networks, and announced that Iran has recently arrested 10 terrorists and spies.
"Over ten people have been arrested in connection with different networks and the trend will be continued planning," Moslehi told reporters elaborating on the recent intelligence developments in Iran, specially the capture of the terrorists responsible for the assassination of Iranian
…It becomes clear that there is an American and Israeli intelligence connection to the MKO and to the Jundollah and to many of these individual atrocities that this group has been committing within Iranian borders.
The US administration is ramping up a "secret war on terror groups" in hot spots around the globe by establishing a new military targeting center, officials say. The following is Press TV's interview with former US Senate candidate Mark Dankof regarding the
MEK’s American supporters want to use it as a battering ram against the Iranian regime, and yet this exile group has even less credibility than the Chalabi organization did: what support they had inside Iran evaporated when they fled to Iraq and took up with Saddam Hussein
Rep. Peter King (R-New York) is the kind of in-your-face demagogue that only the state of New York could have elevated to high office. From his perch in the 3rd congressional district, in Long
A member of the Iraqi parliament on Monday described the US as the stumbling block to the expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from his country, stressing that Washington strives to block any move made by the Baghdad government to this end.
"The presence of Monafeqin (the hypocrites, as they are called in Iran) on Iraq's soil violates the country's constitution and the US is the main impediment to the expulsion of the terrorist group from
Imprisonment and torture -emotional, mental and physical of members who wanted to separate from the Mojahedin Organization but whom the Organization doesn't want to let go.
These are also what I witnessed and are additional reasons for my disassociation with the Mojahedin:
- The absolute dictatorship of Rajavi, allowing no rights to others.
- Lack of freedom in the Organization.
- Deprivation of the right to choose and prohibition of members gathering together and holding
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
The group, the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran, also known as MEK, claims to have thousands of armed members based in military camps in Iraq, financed and equipped by Saddam Hussein. In the 1970s, elements of the group were involved in the murder of American servicemen and civilian contractors in Iran and took part in the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979. The State Department has included the MEK on its list of international terrorist
In 1981 Rajavi escaped to France. Soon after, the MEK began evolving into a cult. Rajavi declared that the organisation should be run equally by a man -himself - and a woman. The problem was Rajavi's wife had died fighting the Islamic government. He needed a new partner to join him at the top of the organisation. Rajavi's deputy Mehdi Abrishamchi voluntarily divorced his wife Maryam, so Rajavi could marry her. Massoud Rajavi's marriage was the beginning of a series of ideological and
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