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Issue No 25

Nejat Newsletter

Periodical Publ icat ion of the Nejat Society

Future of the Ashraf

Base

1

MEPs intrigued by

accounts of newly ar-

rived escapees

2, 3

Nejat Society Visits

Geneva

4

Deciding the fate of the

Mujahedin

5

Ashraf when is a city

not a city?

6

MKO, 'another version

of al-Qaeda'

7

Iranian exiles arrested 12

How many women have

reached the summit?

1

Resolution ratified by

the Iraqi Administra-

tion

9

A Camp Ashraf in

France

9

Pardoned ex-MKO

members return to Iran

8

International law to

determine MKO fate

8

The MEK and US-Iran

Relations

12

OPINION - America's

tough decision

11

Iraq: No country will-

ing to take MKO

10

Ashraf camp captives. 10

Iraq urges US to stop

backing MKO

6

Mojahedin Khalq onthe run 7

Inside this issue:

The Sahar Family

Foundation SFF in

Iraq which is a non-

governmental anti-

cult organization tries

to help the families

and the victims of theMKO terrorist cult.

The SFF has thor-

oughly studied the

destructive cult of

Massoud Rajavi and

his wife Maryam and

their base in the Ash-

raf garrison in Iraq.

http://www.saharngo.com/en-index.html

The SFF has issued

several statements

regarding the fact

that the Iraqi admini-

stration is right-

eously trying to hold

control over the head-

quarters of the cult.In an article titled

Ashraf Base in

Iraq, from inside

and from outside it

is shown that the Ash-

raf base facility in

Iraq has several ad-

vantaged for the MKO

as an isolated cult. In

this article we read:

Then the Ashrafbase is an opportu-

nity from inside to

preserve and con-

trol the forces and

is an opportunity

from outside for

propaganda.

The article then deals

with this questionthat But what

would happen if the

Ashraf Base is dis-

mantled? Then after

discussing this ques-

tion it concludes that

In one word the

cult would loose its

main vessel and

without that no

content of the MKOwould exist.

Future of the Ashraf Base

20 October 2008

How many women of PMOI have reached the summit?

Fars News Agency

October 19 2008

New details on the

Unfertilization Plan of

MKO to promote the

ranks of women in the

cult

A former member of

MKO, in Iraq said:The peoples Mujahe-din of Iran does hys-terectomy surgerieson women ranks andfile and promotesthem to the IdealSummit [total devo-

tion to leader] .Theyhave made 150women barren so far.

Mrs. Batoul Soltani(43) who has a 20-year experience ofmembership in MKOand worked profes-sionally and actively inIraq, Britain andFrance and mountedto the rank of theleadership council ofPMOI, participated apress meeting amongforeign journalists of

Iraq answering theFNAs correspondentsquestions.

At the beginning she

explained the recruit-

ment methods thatthe group uses to in-

crease the number of

members and said

that she joined the

organization due to

her adolescence ideas

that needed to be

filled by political ac-

tivities.


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Not only does the MKO not allowwomen to marry, women are

made to work in the scorching sunfor hours at a time so their com-plexions are ruined and they be-come ugly. This is so they do notdevelop the vanity to think theycould be attractive to a man, shetold delegates.In order to remove hope from thewomen of ever having a family,they are being sent under surgeryfor spurious medical conditions tohave their wombs removed[hysterectomy] and around tenpercent of women in Camp Ashraf

have now undergone this surgery.When they tried to impose it onher, Ms Ebrahimi ran away. Shebegged delegates to take doctorsto Camp Ashraf to check the ve-racity of what she was tellingthem.The MKO told her that if she leftthe camp and went with theAmerican soldiers, they would rapeher. For this reason it took twoyears before she was able to havethe courage to escape.Ms Ebrahimi said she saw Mr Paulo

Casaca when he visited Camp Ash-raf. We were not allowed to ap-proach him and speak to him, sheexplained to delegates. If they hadsomewhere to go, she told dele-gates, without doubt ninety-ninepercent of the people in CampAshraf would leave the camp andthe MKO.Mr Hamid Siah Mansoori (speakingEnglish) told delegates he hadbeen in the MKO for over twentyfive years. He described how hehad gone to Iraq from Canada. He

had a good education, and a goodlife in Canada and had his ownbusiness before leaving everythingbehind in the mid 1980s to go toIraq. He then described the MKOsattitude to family. He said no oneis allowed to contact their family,except in a few cases where peo-ple were told to contact their fam-ily to get money from them. Hesaid the MKO told his family hewas dead. They came to look for

him five years ago at the begin-ning of the American occupation

but were told he was dead.Mr Hamid Siah Mansoori said hehad arrived only a week ago, buthad lost any contact details for hisfamily. Nevertheless, his first pri-ority now was to make contactwith his parents and the rest of hisfamily.

Ms Beer asked delegates if theyhad questions. One delegate askedhow the MKO continued to be fi-nanced which allowed them tocontinue to undertake such expen-sive campaigns in parliament andelsewhere. Another delegate askedfor more detail about the role ofthe Americans in supporting CampAshraf when the US State Depart-ment so strongly describes them

as a terrorist group.

Anne Singleton answered thesequestions, pointing out that duringthe reign of Saddam Hussein theMKO had received almost unlim-ited finance from Saddam Hussein,as well as from Saudi Arabia andsome western governments frombehind the scene. Now, however,although it is clear that MKO fi-nances are dwindling somewhat, itwas unclear how the MKO couldcontinue to spend so much money,

and the only people to answer thatare the MKO themselves.

Ms Singleton pointed out a fiveyear rift in policy toward the MKObetween the US State Department which has a very thoroughknowledge of the MKO and theUS Defense Department underDonald Rumsfeld. Some in the USAdministration wanted to use theMKO in confronting Iran and there-fore Camp Ashraf has been pro-tected by the US military in Iraqfor five years. Ms Singleton con-ceded that this protection wasbeneficial in keeping the MKO out

of danger in the midst of a warzone. But that the Americans hadalso flouted the UN Fourth Genevaprotocol by not allowing MKO tomeet their families and not ena-bling them to leave the situation.Ms Beer then introduced MrMohammad Sobhani who had pre-viously addressed the Delegation.Following that meeting he hadbeen the subject of unfounded ac-cusations of having attacked MKOmembers in Paris. Instead, MrSobhani was the victim of a violent

attack when some fifty MKO sup-porters ambushed a meeting atwhich Mr Sobhani was a speaker.Following this, Mr Hadi ShamsHaeri briefly pleaded with dele-gates to help him have contactwith his children whom he has notbeen allowed to see for eighteenyears. He asked that Mr PauloCasaca accompany him to CampAshraf and help him meet withthem again.At the end of the meeting Ms Beerexpressed her appreciation for the

speakers and said it had been avaluable meeting. One which,given the ongoing situation atCamp Ashraf, might soon be re-peated.After the meeting, several of theattendees stopped to talk to thevisitors in particular the threewho had just arrived from Iraq -and asked them to keep them in-formed of developments.

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Deciding the fate of the Mujahedin (MKO, MEK,...)doomed if it doesn't.

Members of the terrorist organization

have protested outside the White House

this past week, angered by the Bushadministration's decision to hand over

Camp Ashraf to the Iraqi government.The government of Iraqi Prime Minis-

ter Nouri al-Maliki will surrender the

MKO members to Tehran, they argue,

who in turn will imprison and execute

them.

Though approximately 500 MKO fight-ers have been repatriated to Iran and no

reports of abuse have emerged accord-

ing to the International Committee ofthe Red Cross, which oversaw their

return, sending rank-and-file

Mujahedin members to Iran

against their will would beirresponsible.

Hated by the Ira-

nian people for

having fought onSaddam's side in

the Iraq-Iran war,

the Iranian Mujahedin is

understandably fearful of thefate awaiting them in Iran.

After all, the Iranian govern-

ment systematically violatesthe human rights of journalists and un-

ion leaders alike, let alone anti-Iranianterrorists.

Yet, contrary to the protesters outside

the White House, the issue is not a

choice between freedom in Camp Ash-

raf and captivity in Iran.

The Mujahedin is not an effective op-position to the unpopular government

in Iran as the organization's defenders

in Washington claim, but a politico-religious cult that brainwashes its mem-

bers, places children of Mujahedin

members with other families in order to

prevent parents from defecting, and

who according to Human Rights

Watch, maintains control by torturing

its rank and file. "Members who try to

leave the Mujahedin pay a very heavy

price," according to Joe Stork of Hu-man Rights Watch.

Its involvement in terrorism is undis-

puted. It assassinated several Ameri-

cans in Iran in the 1970s. It supported

the taking of the U.S. Embassy in Iran

and blasted Ayatollah Khomeini for

Trita Parsi, Washinton times,

October 5, 2008http://www.washingtontimes.com/news

/ 2 0 0 8 / o c t / 0 5

/deciding-the-fate-of-the-mujahedin-80160510/The Bush administration inherited

many of Iraq's problems when it in-vaded that country, including an Ira-

nian terrorist organization funded and

armed by Saddam Hussein, the Muja-

hedin-e Khalq (MKO). Though in the

midst of a war on terror, the Bush ad-

ministration chose in 2003 to protect

3,000 of the organization's militants

and house them in a camp given to the

group by Saddam Camp Ashraf justnorth of Baghdad.

Ever since, the faith of this State De-

partment-listed terrorist or-ganization has been unclear.

Hated by Iraqis for its in-

volvement in Saddam's

crimes against the Iraqi peo-

ple, the Baghdad govern-

ment wants to expel the group. But no

country is willing to take them.

Though the Iranian government wants

to put the group's leadership on trial inIran, it seems less interested in the or-

ganization's rank and file. The Euro-

pean governments have little interest intaking in 3,000 battle-hardened Muslim

militants, fearing that they will use

Europe as a base to plan and execute

further terrorist attacks.The U.S., on the other hand, has al-

ready contradicted its own principles

by giving preferential treatment to an

organization on the State Department'sterrorist list even though President

Bush himself pointed to the organiza-

tion's patronage under Saddam Hussein

as evidence of Iraq's support for inter-

national terrorists in his speech to theUnited Nations in September 2002.

"Iraq continues to shelter and supportterrorist organizations that direct vio-

lence against Iran," President Bush

said. To complicate matters further, if

reports that the U.S. has used MKOterrorists for cross-border raids into

Iran are true, then Washington certainly

doesn't want these militants to end upin Iranian hands.

Washington seems doomed if it does,

releasing the American diplomats in

1981, arguing instead that the hostages

should have been executed. It made a

pact with Saddam Hussein in the 1980sand fought alongside his army against

their Iranian countrymen. Later in the1990s, they became Saddam's most

trusted henchmen, tasked with quelling

Kurdish and Shiite uprisings against the

Iraqi dictator.

According to defectors, Mujahedin

members in Camp Ashraf celebratedthe Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

In 2004, French authorities descended

upon the Mujahedin headquarters inFrance, arresting the leader of the cult,

Maryam Rajavi. Immedi-

ately, zealous Mujahedin

members staged hungerstrikes and several set them-

selves ablaze. Hardly the

behavior of a democratically

oriented opposition group.But the vast majority of the

Camp Ashraf residents are

not so much members of a

terrorist cult as they are vic-tims of it. The camp is itself

a prison. It may have pro-

vided Mujahedin militantswith protection against ordinary Iraqis

who sought to avenge their relativeskilled by the Mujahedin at the behest of

Saddam Hussein, but the prison has

primarily enabled the leaders of the

terrorist organization to prevent the

rank and file from defecting.

Rather than debating where to expel theMujahedin terrorists, help should be

provided to the rank and file to break

with the cult and make free choicesabout their future. It's the only humani-

tarian solution to this dilemma - and

one that defeats rather than protects this

anti-American terrorist group.

Trita Parsi is president and founder of

the National Iranian American Council

and author of "Treacherous Alliances:

The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and

the United States."

Human Rights Abuses Inside the

Mojahedin Khalq Camps (HRW,

M a y 2 0 0 5 )

(Rajavi cult Headed by Massoud

Rajavi Maryam Rajavi)



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Iran-Interlink,

September 12, 2008 Apparently we - the 'rest of theworld', that is - are not allowed to

refer to Camp Ashraf as anythingother than Ashraf City. Says who?Says Massoud Rajavi, leader-in-hiding of the Iranian Mojahedin-eKhalq organisation (MKO, MEK,aka Rajavi cult). Why?Well, the MKOs military camp isnow under the control of the Iraqigovernment. American forceshanded it over this week. In spiteof a deeply insulting scaremonger-ing campaign by the MKO, whichclaimed that the Iraqis wouldstage a Srebrenica-style massa-

cre if they got their (dirty, bar-baric) hands on the MKO, thehandover to Iraqi military person-nel has gone ahead, as planned,without incident.The Iraqi government will nowwork with MNF and internationalagencies to find a satisfactory so-lution to the illegal presence offoreign terrorists in its territory.The MKO response to the inevita-ble loss of its main base for ideo-logical indoctrination has been in-teresting. Aside from the

massacre tactic, the group hasalso gone all out for an ostrich-like

pretence that it is not really a uni-formed military group and that thepeople in Camp Ashraf sorry, 'Ashraf City' are just likeordinary citizens living in a small,

thriving town.Last week, Iranians were amusedto watch Voice of America televi-sion when it gave air time to MKOspokesman Alireza Jafarzadeh. Inthe programme Jafarzadeh ex-tolled in glowing terms the greatachievement of the MKO in creat-ing this wonderful city and de-scribed the facilities enjoyed bythe MKO there.Without contradicting his words,let us have a little glimpse at this

city and compare it with our own

towns and cities, the places we alllive and work and send our kids toschool.Ashraf has an extensive cemeterybut no maternity hospital hashuge, well-equipped salons formass meetings but no arrange-ments to register or celebratemarriages or births has (gendersegregated) swimming pools butno nurseries, primary schools orhigh schools and no playgroundshas prisons but no court of law hasstrictly enforced regulations

(including compulsory hijab) butno council elections has gas sta-

tions (segregated, with differentopening times for men andwomen) but no place to drive resi-dents work up to 18 hours a daybut there is no bank because they

dont get paid - unpaid workersneed no shops they have nomoney to buy anything residentsonly wear military uniforms sothere are no shops to buy prettydresses and make-up, or smartsuits or casuals has air-conditioned, gender segregatedaccommodation but no hotels forvisitors from out of town to visittheir families has no internet ca-fes, no newspaper deliveries, noradio or television sets for individ-ual use, no satellite channels to

choose from has no public tele-phones and no mobile phonesIs anyone allowed to keep a pet?Does this sound like the town youlive in, or would want to live in?No?So when is a city not a city? Whenits a cults military and ideologicalheadquarters of course.Over forty people who have es-caped from Camp Ashraf have ar-rived in Europe in the past fewweeks. They are happy to talkabout current conditions inside the

MKO. Please contact Iran-Interlinkfor further details.


Ashraf when is a city not a city?

Iraq urges US to stop backing MKO Terrorist Groupparty,'' a statement said on

Tuesday.

In the statement, the govern-

ment of Prime Minister Nouri

al-Maliki said the Mujahedeen

Khalq Organization is med-

dling in the country's internal

affairs and supporting anti-

government activities.

The statement warned that

those who violate the order

will face charges under the

anti-terror law.

Earlier today, Iraq's main po-

litical blocs in the parliament

demanded the expulsion of the

MKO members from the coun-

try.

Before the US-led invasion in

2003, the Mujahedeen Khalq

Organization had enjoyed Sad-

dam Hussein's support.

After the US-led invasion of

the country the US put the

group's members under protec-

tion in a northern part of Iraq

amid reports that they had

been used for by Washington

for espionage and violence-

related activities.

June 17, 2008

Press TVhttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.

aspx?id=60407&sectionid=3

51020201

Iraq bans any deal with the

members of the Mujahedeen

Khalq Organization (MKO),

calling on the US to stop sup-

porting the terrorist group.

"The Cabinet decided to ban

any dealings with this organi-

zation by any Iraqi or foreign

individual, organization or


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Fri, 26 Sep 2008

Press TV

A spokesman for the family

members of terrorism vic-tims in Iran says the Muja-hedin Khalq Organization(MKO) is simply an earlierversion of al-Qaeda.

Iraj Moradi, the spokesman forthe Edaalat Society, whichrepresents over 12,000 rela-tives of Iranian victims of ter-rorism, said the MKO and al-Qaeda use the same methodsto lure their members into car-rying out terrorist attacks.

Iraj is the son of Ebrahim Mo-radi, a blacksmith who was as-sassinated by the MKO in June1984.

The Mujahedin Khalq Organiza-tion is a terrorist group bannedby many countries includingthe US. It has claimed respon-

sibility for numerous terror at-tacks inside Iran and Iraq sincethe 1979 Islamic Revolution.

At a recent UN human rights

conference in Geneva, EdaalatSociety revealed documentshighlighting the extent of MKOactivities in Iran as well as thegroup's cooperation with for-mer Iraqi dictator SaddamHussein.

The MKO has long beencharged with assisting Saddamin the massacre of thousandsof Iraqi civilians.

A British envoy, who has re-ceived the documents, askedthe delegation to shed light onMKO crimes in a visit to the UK- where a British court hasdropped the MKO from itsblacklist of terrorist organiza-tions.

"Edaalat Society does not seekrevenge," said Sepehri, the

daughter of another Iranianvictim.

"Branding some terrorists'good' and some 'bad' would

legitimize their actions andprovide a pretext for their exis-tence," she said referring tothe recent UK court ruling.

She added that is why the MKOhas continued its existence.

According to Sepehri who is theofficial spokesman for theEdaalat Society, terrorists aresick people who are sufferingfrom hallucinations due to the

cult-like structure of their or-ganizations and could be curedif they were freed from themind-control tactics of theirleaders.

A delegation of the Edaalat(Justice) Society has recentlyvisited Geneva to attend theUN human rights summit andmeet NGOs and rights groups.

MKO, 'another version of al-Qaeda'


Mojahedin Khalq on the run(The recorded video file is44.04 minutes. the discussionon MKO starts in the secondpart of the programm. 22.56min)

http:/ / ww w.presstv.ir/ Programs/ player/ ?id=69853

Useful sits onthe MKO

http://www.saharngo.com/

http://www.iran-interlink.org/

http://www.iran-aawa.com/

http://www.mojahedin.ws/

http://www.negaheno.net/

http://www.pars-iran.com/

http://www.rahai.nl/

http://www.theblackfile.com/

http://www.ariairan.com/

http://www.teror-victims.com/

http://www.iran-ghalam.de/

http://www.parwaaz.com/

Massoud Khodabandeh and

Arash Sametipoor join

live from Geneva

4 corners,

Press TV,

September 18, 2008

http:/ / ww w.presstv.ir/ Programs/ #1

Massoud Khodabandeh andArash Sametipoor who are at-tending the UN Human RightsCouncil meeting in Geneva,Participate in a discussionabout the future of Camp Ash-raf after hand over to the IraqiGovenment.


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Tue, 02 Sep 2008

Press TV

The Iraqi government says thecounty will deal with the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organi-zation (MKO) based on Inter-national regulations.

Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraq's governmentspokesman, said that his countryis seeking to gain full control ofthe terrorist group's Camp Ashraffrom US forces.The comment comes as the Iraqimilitary forces have surroundedthe camp since Wednesday night.

The Ashraf Camp in Diyala prov-ince was the headquarters of theMKO members during the reign offormer Iraqi dictator Saddam Hus-sein, but has been converted to a

training center for MKO terroristsunder the US control since the2003 invasion of the country.The Iraqi official warned the ter-

rorist group against engaging inany political activities inside thecountry."Iraq will support voluntarily re-turn of MKO members to Iran or

any other countries, "Dabbaghsaid adding "Iraq will not considerexpelling MKO members forcefullyfrom the country and will deal with

them according to internationalregulations."Along with at least six other sitesin Iraq, Camp Ashraf was given tothe MKO as their headquarters andtraining site by the former US-backed Iraqi dictator.It was from this base the MKOlaunched operations against Iranduring the Iran-Iraq war and laterassisted Saddam in violently sup-pressing the Iraqi Kurds during the1991 uprising.The MKO is blacklisted by many

countries including EU memberstates as a terrorist organization.The group has claimed responsibil-ity for hundreds of terror attacksinside Iran.

Pardoned ex-MKO members return to Iran

International law to determine MKO fate

civilians over the past 30 years,including the assassination of thelate president Mohammad-Ali Ra-

jaei, prime minister Bahonar and jud i c i a ry ch i e f Aya to l l ahMohammad Beheshti.

The MKO is also known to havecooperated with Iraq's US-backedformer dictator Saddam Hossein insuppressing the 1991 uprisings insouthern Iraq and the massacre ofIraqi Kurds.On Tuesday, Iraq's governmentspokesman Ali al-Dabbagh saidthat his country is seeking to gain

full control of the terrorist group'sCamp Ashraf from US forces. Thecomment came after the Iraqi mili-tary forces surrounded the campon Wednesday.Situated in Iraq's Diyala province,Camp Ashraf was used as an MKObase during the rule of SaddamHussein. Following the 2003 occu-pation of Iraq the camp--under UScontrol-- was converted to an MKOtraining center.In August, the Iraqi parliamentpassed a resolution setting a six-month deadline for an MKO depar-ture from the country, threateningexpulsion.Iraq's Government Spokesman, Alial-Dabbagh, Tuesday modified thestance, saying that the country willsupport the voluntarily return ofMKO members to Iran or any othercountry. He added that Baghdadwill not expel MKO members force-fully, and will deal with them ac-cording to international regula-tions.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008

Press TV

Senior Iranian diplomat saysTehran has pardoned severalformer members of the MKOterror group, allowing them toreturn to the country.

During the past two years, nu-merous members of the Mujahe-din-e-Khalq Organization haveabandoned the MKO base. Theyhave also expressed regret fortheir past actions, Iran's Ambas-sador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, said on Saturday.

Iran has pardoned a number ofthese people, allowing them toreturn to the country and theirfamilies, he added.Iran, Iraq, Canada, the UnitedStates, and the European Unionrecognize the Mujahedin KhalqOrganization (MKO) as a terroristgroup.The group is responsible for bomb-ings, killings, and attacks againstIranian government officials and


Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraq's govern-

ment spokesman

Iran's Ambassador to Bagh-

dad,

Hassan Kazemi-Qomi


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Resolution ratified by the Iraqi Administration on the MKO

Mojahedin.ws,

October 3, 2008

http:/ / www .mojahedin.ws/news/ text_news_en.php?

id=1828Once and following the French

police raid against MKOs HQs

in Auvers-sur-Oise, M.

Bousquet de Florian, the direc-

tor of French counter-

intelligence, confirmed that

many MKO leaders had re-turned to France since the

American intervention in Iraq

to turn Auvers-sur-Oise into

an operational headquarters for

terrorism. It was hard to be-

lieve what he meant. The

Camp Ashraf once turned into

a bastion of terrorist plots and

operational headquarters heav-

ily supported by Saddam, nowMKO needed new HQs the pa-

tron being fallen.

Reported by VO news on 24

September 2008, a number of

elected representatives of Val-

d'Oise gathered to support thePeople's Mojahedin Organiza-

tion of Iran (PMOI/MEK). As

the report states, sixty may-

ors of Val-d'Oise support the

PMOI, main opposition to the

regime to the mullahs in Te-

hran. All are demanding the

withdrawal of the Iranian Re-

sistance from the list of terror-

ist organizations of the Euro-pean Union.

In its 8 October 2006 edition,

the paper Al Irak Al-Yom

wrote: "72 sheikhs and leaders

of the tribes in the vicinity of

Ashraf City, while supporting

the charter of honor of the

tribal sheikhs of all the Prov-

ince of Diyali which states that

the People's Mojahedin arehonorary citizens and members

of their tribes, signed a new

charter in which they under-

take the defense of Ashraf City

against all threats constituted

from the ruling regime in Iran.They emphasized that any at-

tack against the People's Moja-

hedin and Ashraf City

amounted to an attack against

themselves, their families and

their tribes".

Now the Province of Diyali in

Iraq becomes known as Val-

d'Oise in France in the same

way that the mayors of Val-d'Oise replace the Iraqi sheikhs

and tribe leaders. Has France

really accented to the forma-

tion of another Camp Ashraf in

the heart of the country?

Human Rights Abuses In-

side the Mojahedin Khalq

Camps (HRW, May 2005)

Rajavi cult Headed by Mas-

soud Rajavi and Maryam

Rajavi

they are expelled from the coun-

try. In this respect any interac-

tion with them must be done ac-

cording to the Iraqi laws.3. Any interaction with the ter-

rorist MKO by any organization

or party or establishment or en-tity (whether Iraqi or foreigner)

inside Iraq is forbidden and any-

one having any interaction with

them (breaching the law) is liable

of being prosecuted according to

the terrorist acts of the country.4. It is essential that the multi-

national forces to give up the or-

ganization and hand over all

check points and points of obser-

In the Name of God

Number: 216, Year: 2008

The Iraqi Administration, in its

27th ordinary session held on 17th

June 2008, ratified the followings:

To approve the binding measuresdescribed below regarding terror-

ist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organiza-

tion (MKO):1. Emphasizing on past resolu-

tions regarding the MKO as a ter-

rorist organization and its expul-

sion from Iraq.2. Putting the MKO, currently

on Iraqi territory, under full con-

trol of the Iraqi government until

vation to the responsible Iraqi

authorities.5. Activating the judicial sen-

tences issued against the terror-

ist MKO elements who have com-

mitted crimes against the Iraqi

people.6. Cooperating with the ICRC

in order to find basic real solu-

tions for the problem of the pres-

ence of the MKO in the Iraqi ter-

ritory and to activate the past

resolutions about their expulsion

from Iraq.

Ali Mohsin Ismail.

The Secretary of the Iraqi Ad-

ministration

A Camp Ashraf in France



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Mon, 22 Sep 2008

Iraq's ambassador to Iransays so far no country inthe world has agreed toshelter the dissident mem-bers of the US-backed MKOterrorist group.According to International Law,the outlawed Mujahedin KhalqOrganization (MKO) should behanded over to any countrywhich is prepared to harbor itsme mb e r s , Amb as sad o rMohammad Majid Al-Sheikhtold Fars News Agency.However, no government hasso far expressed willingness toadmit the group into theircountry, al-Sheikh added.Baghdad has issued a six-month deadline for the MKO toleave the Iraqi soil.He ruled out the possibility ofextraditing MKO members to

Tehran saying according to In-ternational Law, Iraq is not al-lowed to force the members toreturn to Iran.

Al-Sheikh explained that any amember who is willing to re-turn to Iran, should be handedover to the Red Cross, and themovement would then deliverthem to Iran.Al-Sheikh said that the Iraqiforces will soon take control ofthe Mujahedin group enclave, asmall area about 60 km (35miles) north of Baghdad.

of the MKO who managed to es-cape Camp Ashraf by taking refugewith American forces in the TIPFwhich was established to help peo-

ple escape the cult. When TIPFwas closed earlier this year, MrPiransar made his way throughIraqi Kurdistan and on to freedomin the west where he is now a po-litical refugee due to his opposition

... He emphasised that massof misinformation issued bythe Rajavis and their back-ers such as Robin Corbett,Paulo Casaca and StruanStevenson, is aimed atkeeping human rights or-ganisations out of CampAshraf so that Massoud andMaryam Rajavi can continue

their inhuman mistreatmentof their captives behindclosed doors

Hassan P iransar,

Paris, October 02, 2008

Mr. Hassan Piransar arrived inEurope a few weeks ago. He is oneof the former executive members

to the MKO and the IRI.As one of the executive members,he has experienced and witnessedthe many abuses and deceptionspracticed by the Rajavis not onlytoward outsiders but in particularagainst their own members. He at-tended a meeting of the Iran Dele-gation of the European Parliamenton September 9, 2008 to ask thatCamp Ashraf be opened up to hu-

manitarian bodies and that the peo-ple trapped inside be rescued. Heemphasised that mass of misinfor-mation issued by the Rajavis andtheir backers such as Robin Corbett,Paulo Casaca and Struan Stevenson,is aimed at keeping human rightsorganisations out of Camp Ashraf sothat Massoud and Maryam Rajavican continue their inhuman mis-treatment of their captives behindclosed doors.

Iraq: No country willing to take MKO

Ashraf camp captives. Ask yourselves What kind of city is this?


"The MKO members are notallowed to exit the camp, northey are not permitted to usearms," the ambassador said.

He added that Iraqi officialswould hold meetings with thegroup members to persuadethem to return to Iran, in casethey were reject by all theother countries.The dissident group leaderswhich are accountable for as-sassinating officials in Iran fol-lowing the 1979 Islamic Revo-lution are based in France, butsome 3,000 members of thegroup reside in Iraq.Backed by the United Statesand the former Iraqi dictatorSaddam Hossein, the grouphas used its northern Iraq en-clave - Ashraf - to launch mili-tary incursion against Iran.The MKO is blacklisted as a ter-rorist group by a majority ofthe European Union memberstates as well as the UnitedStates.

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Swiss judges examining the fund-ing of a group linked to the PMOI.One of the PMOI's lawyers, WilliamBourdon, said the investigationwas unfounded and was aimed atcovering up what he said was thefailure of an existing French probe."The Swiss case file is empty, andthere is every reason to believethat the same is true in France andthat this second judicial front hasbeen opened to try to hide the firstfile's certain collapse," he said.In June 2003, police arrested 167people in the Paris suburb of Au-vers-sur-Oise where the PMOI isbased.Of those arrested, 17 were placedunder formal investigation, includ-ing Maryam Rajavi, the leader ofthe PMOI's political wing, the Na-tional Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI) , on susp i c i on o f "associating with wrongdoers inrelation with a terrorist undertak-ing".That judicial probe has lost mo-

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PARIS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - About10 people close to a banned Ira-nian opposition group were ar-rested last week in France andSwitzerland in connection with amoney-laundering investigation,

judicial sources and the group'slawyer said.Several of the people close to thePeople's Mujahideen Organisationof Iran (PMOI) -- listed as a terror-ist group in the European Unionand United States -- were in policecustody on both sides of the bor-der on Monday, the sources said.The police swoop was coordinatedbetween French and Swiss officialswho were acting at the request of

mentum and many of the restric-tions on the suspects' movementwere lifted in 2006.Earlier this year the PMOI calledon the EU to remove it from its listof banned terrorist organisationsafter the British parliament upheldin June a court ruling that its inclu-sion on a list of banned groups inBritain was wrong.But the EU said in July it waskeeping the PMOI on its blacklist,adding it saw no grounds foramending the listing of 48 groupssubject to asset freezes and othersanctions in Europe.A French source said then thatParis -- a major player in diplo-matic negotiations over Iran's nu-clear programme and the currentholder of the EU's rotating presi-dency -- came forward withgrounds for the group to remainon the list. (Reporting by ThierryLeveque; writing by Francois Mur-phy; editing by Janet Lawrence)

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The MEK and US-Iran Relations

Category: Documentaries

Regions: North America, Middle East

Topics: Current Affairs / News, War / Violent Conflict

http://www.linktv.org/programs/mekThis special report by filmmaker James Longley focuses on the

impact of the MEK on USIran Relations. Though the MEK, anexiled Iranian group, is listed on the State Department's list of

Foreign Terrorist Organizations, they continue to enjoy both the

covert and overt support of some members of US Congress and

the Bush Administration because of their opposition to the Ira-

nian government.

This filmed report explores the history of the MEK, their ideology,

their participation in the Iranian revolution and exile from Iran,

and their collaboration with Saddam Hussein's regime. Using in-

terviews with historians, journalists, and first-person accounts of

former members of the MEK, their shifting role is tracked

through to the present day, as they continue to play a central role

in US-Iran relations and create sharply divided opinions between

various branches of the US government.

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