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August 2007
Nejat Society
Tehran-July 29th 2007
According to Nejat Society correspondent, four other people defected MKO and
repatriated. The four defectors, who were MKO members for a long time, spent a few
weeks in TIPF Camp and finally could return Iran with Red Cross cooperation.
The defectors’ names:
Ahmad Rostamian
GholamReza Shirdom
Jamil Abdollahzade
AliReza Naghashzade
The above-named people will consequently state their comments on the disruptive
atmosphere in Camp Ashraf.
PressTV
Tue, 21 Aug 2007
Massoud Rajavi assisted Saddam Hussein in massacre of innocent Iraqis.
Interpol is hunting for the leaders of the terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization
(MKO) known in Iran as Monafqeen or hypocrites.
The Iraqi newspaper Al-Bayyinah al-Jadidah reports Interpol offices around the world have
been notified and are hunting of the Rajavis.
The Iraqi government provided Interpol with evidence of MKO's role in the massacre of
Iraqi citizens, and arrest warrants have been issued to bring Massoud and Maryam
Rajavai, the leaders of MKO, to justice.
Jaafar al-Mousawi the Public Prosecutor of the Iraqi High Court has also confirmed that
the court has issued arrest warrants for 150 MKO members.
According to al-Mousawi, Baghdad has even taken steps to extradite MKO criminals who
are abroad or have fled to Jordan.
Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) assisted Saddam in the massacre of thousands of
innocent Iraqis, and it has committed several terrorist acts in Iran.
MD/HGH/RE
East French Rail Lines in Terror Alert with Four MKO Members Sought
Iran condemned British overt support for a Proscribed terrorist group, Mojahedin
Khalq Cult
(Farsi translation of Mr. Booker's article was posted in Terrorist websites before coming
out in Telegraph!!)
Link to Mr. Booker article in Telegraph.co.uk.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/29/nbook129.xml
Mr. Booker's article has been translated in to Farsi and posted in Mojahedin Khalq
Organisation web sites (on the list of Terrorist organisation in USA, EU, Canada and
United Kingdam!!) shortly before the publication of this article in Telegraph!! (Iran Interlink)
Link to: State Department's Report on Mojahedin Khalq Orgainsation, Rajavi cult headed
by Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi (2007)
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2309
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Response to Christopher Booker
Ahmad Baaraan, Paris, July 29, 2007
Your Sunday Telegraph article of July 29 titled “EU flouts its own highest court…” has
some serious flaws that deserve your attention. I have known MEK (PMOI, NCRI, MKO,
…) for more than 25 years up-close and personal. I have also studied the group in my role
as a researcher. Therefore, I see myself qualified to comment about it. Quite frankly, your
article is just an echo of the PMOI’s own propaganda filled with false and misleading
information.
The enlistment of the group in the EU’s terror list is based on the group’s own behavior
which is nothing short of a personality cult revolving around its leader, Massoud Rajavi,
with a history of violence and a philosophy based on hatred. The group has also been
enlisted by the US Government as an FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) which was
later upheld in court. In concurring with the Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia,
Judge Harry T. Edwards notes: “…the public, unclassified administrative record, including
petitioner’s own submission to the Secretary, contains more than enough evidence to
support the determination that petitioner (PMOI) engages in terrorist activity.” (1)
The December ruling by the EU Court you have referred in your article did not favor de-
listing the group. To the contrary, it clearly dismissed the action sought by the PMOI to
annul the EU Common Position 2005/936/CFSP- the updated terror list that included the
PMOI. It did however order to unfreeze the group’s assets due to lack of proper procedure
for such freezing. Therefore, your assertion that the British Government is flouting its own
court is not accurate. This ruling is readily available in 16 different languages on the
Court’s own official web site. (2) PMOI and its paid politician supporters have misled many
about this, relying on that most would not read the actual ruling. I challenged the PMOI to
translate the entire ruling (not just the select parts) in Farsi (Persian), and to post the
translation on the Internet. They have refused to do so, and will continue such. More than
7 months after the ruling, only the favorable part of the ruling has been published on the
group’s Internet site.
Your article also refers to NCRI as a coalition of which PMOI is a member. This is simply
not true. Not only people familiar with the group know that NCRI is just a decoy for PMOI;
the United States Court of Appeals in Washington DC ruled the following:
After an extensive investigation of MEK and NCRI, the FBI reported to the State
Department that “it is the unanimous view of the FBI personnel who are involved in and
familiar with the FBI’s investigation of the [MEK]that NCRI is not a separate organization,
but is instead, and has been, an integral part of the MEK at all relevant times…. Contrary
to NCRI’s portrayal of itself as an umbrella organization, of which the MEK was just one
member, the FBI concluded that is NCRI that is “the political branch” of the MEK.”(3)
I caution you not to drift into the PMOI’s propaganda traps by echoing their statistics about
the number of people attendant their gatherings, people executed in Iran, and the number
of supporters of the group in Iran.
Regards
Ahmad Baaraan
Paris
ABaaraan@yahoo.fr
(1) http://uniset.ca/other/cs5/327F3d1238.html
(2) http://curia.europa.eu (case number T-228/02)
(3) 362 U.S. App. D.C. 143; 373 F.3d 152; 2004
Sotaliraq
2007/08/14
"There are legal rulings on the leaders of MKO and PKK. However, what prevents their
expulsion from Iraq is that no country is willing to accept them," said Hussein Kamal,
representative of Iraqi Interior Ministry, during "Security Conference" in Damascus.
"We don’t want these groups to disrupt the stability of our neighboring countries."
"With the cooperation of the UN, Iraq is negotiating with some countries to convince them
to accept the MKO," he added.
It should be noted that the security experts of Iraq's neighbors joined the security
conference in Damascus on Wednesday and Thursday; permanent members of the UN
Security Council also participated in the conference.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/45323.pdf