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A recent report by the RAND Corporation, a prominent think tank that does research for the US Government, illustrate that Washington committed a judgmental error when dealing with the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq. During the 2003 Operation Iraqi freedom, an ongoing military campaign that resulted in the invasion of Iraq by the coalition forces, the MKO was designated as an enemy force.
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The fact is that there is no guarantee for other countries to be secure from the intrinsic violence of such a cultic group unless Mujahidin would abandon their cultic activities like self-immolation, hunger strike, human shields, etc. As it was pointed out, this is the shared point linking Mujahidin and al-Qaeda together as well as to other cultic trends. The only difference is in their power of adoption to conditions at which Rajavi looks with pride.
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Simon Gass vowed he would do his best to remove the Iranian mistrust towards Britain and added London does not consider the MKO an official organization and has no respect for it. Gass also emphasized that Britain favors Iran’s right to access peaceful nuclear energy according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and believes it is necessary to continue talks to sort the nuclear issue properly.
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They have dunned Iraqi government in many instances one of which is their claim of ownership of a part of Iraqi soil where they are settled under the cover of international conventions. Likewise, they may claim the possession of their settling in Auver-sur-Oise in France. Regardless of the basis of this claim, the significant point is that Mojahedin insist on it firmly even at the cost of members’ victimization just like what happened in June 2003.
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He said the grouplet was active in murdering innocent Kurds in northern and Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq under Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq. The ideas of the grouplet violated the religious structures, civil law and human rights. The grouplet has slaughtered 12,000 Iranian civilians and officials."The agents of the terrorist grouplet are still active to carry out their plots in Iran," Movahedian reiterated.
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The US ambassador to Baghdad has recently advised the Iraqi government to soften its stance on the members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO). Iraqis believe that the move is in parallel with part of MKO's efforts to extend their stay in Iraq and to bring Camp Ashraf under US control. They have also criticized some internal media for their coverage of stories calling for the release of 36 MKO members.
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"The U.S. presence in Camp Ashraf is not in conformity with the security pact signed between Baghdad and Washington and the Iraqi constitution," Muhammad Hamidawi told Iranian Mehr News Agency. "According to the Iraqi constitution it is illegal to host terrorist groups who threaten the national security of neighboring countries," he insisted.
(Mehr News Agency)
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Members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq suffer increasing desperation, an Iraqi newspaper commented. "MKO supposed they will be welcomed by France thanks to their role in Iran's post-election events, but Paris left them hopeless in Camp Ashraf," ,an informed source in the camp who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Iraqi newspaper Sawt Al-Fayli.
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Members of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, aka MEK and PMOI) have turned to call on Christian leaders for help, following a not so influential hunger strike in response to Iraq's attack on Camp Ashraf. They met the Archbishop of Canterbury this week, when Dr Rowan Williams urged hunger strikers to end their protest.
Meanwhile, MKO called on Pope Benedict XVI to intervene on their behalf.
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One bizarre complication is that the PMOI is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organization, mainly on grounds of guerrilla action it took earlier against the Iranian regime. The US Army was directed in 2003 to protect this "terrorist" organization largely because it has provided helpful information to the US. One solution to the Iranian dissidents' problem would be for the US to give them asylum as political refugees.
(Christian Science Monitor)
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