"The US administration uses the MKO to create security challenges and problems in Iran, and this trend has continued since many years ago," says Dr. Foad Izadi, Professor at the University of Tehran and US affairs expert.
Iranian Diplomacy: The US has announced that it will take in a number of MKO members. What has this country's position been toward this terrorist group from the inception of the group until today?
Foad Izadi: What we had seen was that the MKO had been in alliance
A number of former veterans of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization sent a letter to France's new president-elect, Francois Hollande, informing him of cult-like nature of the terrorist group as well as its purpose for using France "specially Paris for their cultic objectives like they did in Iraq."
The congratulation of Yaran Association to the President of France Mr. François Hollande
Mr. President,
First of all , we would like to submit to you our sincere congratulations for your
A senior Iranian foreign ministry official condemned the western countries for sheltering members of different terrorist groups, including the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and deplored the West's double-standard attitude towards terrorism.
"We believe that despite the claims that others (Western countries) make about fighting terrorism, they provide the most support for terrorist groups," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said.
"In
Three other members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization fled from Camp Liberty, a former U.S. military base near the Baghdad International Airport, the Persian service of the Fars News Agency reported from Habilian on Wednesday.
It had been decided that 3200 MKO members living in Camp New Iraq be relocated to Camp Liberty in eight groups, each consisting of 400 members.
The Iraqi government has recently evacuated the fifth batch of 416 members of the group from Camp
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to rule on whether to remove an Iranian dissident group from a U.S. terrorism blacklist about two months after its refugee camp in Iraq closes, the Obama administration said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments on a petition from the group, Mujahadin-e Khalq, or MEK, which is seeking an order forcing the State Department to either remove it from the list or require action within a
The Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that Tehran will react strongly against any move to station the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization in regional countries.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast also said the regional countries should be aware of Iran’s sensitivity in this regard, warning that any harboring of the terrorist group would damage their relations with Iran.
“If it is a Zionist-American plot that they (MKO) be stationed in regional
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari underlined that his country is determined to expel the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR), and asked the world states to help Baghdad with the rapid expulsion of the terrorist cult.
"Iraq has fulfilled its international undertaking with regard to the transfer of these elements to Liberty Base and it is now the turn of the European, North American, and generally foreign states, to accept
A recently defected member of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in Bremen, Germany describes the notorious cult as an “anti-religion and anti-humanity group.”
Describing the vicious aspect of the cult maembers, the former MKO member, living in Germany, says that during one of the meetings of the terrorist group a senior member declared that “we are ready to collude with the Devil” to overthrow the Iranian regime, Habilian reported.
“There I understood that the
Leaders of the Munafeqin terrorist group (MKO) are trying to take a new building like Camp Ashraf in Iraq, says Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad.
Discussing the current degrading conditions of the terrorist group after their relocation from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty, Habilian Foundation Secretary-General Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad told YJC that the conditions at Camp Liberty are not similar to the ones at the notorious Camp Ashraf, since it restricted the activities of its
An Iranian lawmaker says members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) are left with no choice but to return to Iran and seek clemency.
“The MKO’s condition is that they can neither stay on Iraqi soil nor can they go to other countries,” Deputy Chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Ebrahimi said Sunday.
“They (MKO members) are left with no option but to seek clemency from the Islamic Republic,” he added.
Ebrahimi said
Iran has arrested several suspects in connection with the assassination of its nuclear scientists, Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi announced on Sunday.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a periodic meeting of Iran's Drug Campaign Headquarters here in Tehran today, Moslehi said that Iran has recently made some important arrests, and explained that those apprehended by the security forces have been arrested for drug and security charges.
"Some of these
State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner released a statement on Saturday joining the call of the United Nations to member states to assist in the permanent relocation of eligible members of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Today, the fifth convoy of approximately 400 Camp Ashraf residents safely arrived at Camp Hurriya. The United States welcomes the continued cooperation of the Government of Iraq and the residents of Camp Ashraf with the United Nations Assistance Mission in
A member of Iraq’s Supreme Islamic Council was quoted by Nasim news agency as saying that Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) supporters are “as corrupt as the terrorist group itself”.
According to a report published by Habilian Foundation (families of Iranian terror victims), member of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq Dr. Habib al-Tarfi said Mujahedin-e Khalq group has nothing of its own and all that it has belongs to Iraqi people.
“We are calling for compensation
The UN Special Reporter for Human Rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, admitted in his new report that the Iranian people have been a victim of the terrorist activities carried out by the members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).
"For the first time, it has been explicitly mentioned in a report by the UN special rapporteur that based on documents, 17,000 Iranian people have been targeted by MKO's violence, and that the country is a victim of terrorism,"
The fifth batch of Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorists were transferred to Camp Liberty which lies northeast of the Baghdad International Airport, YJC reported.
According to Habilian Foundation (families of Iranian terror victims), Uday Khadran, governor of Khalis, said that 416 MKO members, including 350 Monafeq (Hypocrite, MKO) women were expelled from Camp Ashraf.
The report adds that almost 1000 members of the terrorist group are willing to return to Iran and seek Islamic
Zionist lobbies are seeking to shelter members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Azerbaijan as the US administration is trying to station the terrorists in five neighboring countries of the Islamic Republic. Authentic reports from sources privy to the MKO disclosed that the US administration is consulting with five of Iran's neighboring states to persuade them into sheltering the MKO terrorists.
After nearly three decades, Iraq is now expelling
Chairman of the Commission on Security and Defense tells Ashraf News that the decision to expel the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) is final.
The head of the Security and Defense Committee in the House of Representatives Hassan al Sanid, said that Iraq will ask the courts to try the terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq. He said that there are many citizens who have been damaged or their property was confiscated by the group under the former regime.
Al Sanid told
The Iranian ambassador to Iraq has said that the Islamic Republic is making diplomatic efforts to extradite 166 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who have innocent people’s blood on their hands.
The Iranian ambassador to Iraq has said that the Islamic Republic is making diplomatic efforts to extradite 166 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who have innocent people’s blood on their hands.
A number of MKO members are willing to return to
No country in the world is ready to shelter members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), Habilian Secretary-General announced on Tuesday.
“Monafeqin (the Hypocrites, MKO members as they are called in Iran) have announced that they will accept leaving Iraq, but no country accepts to shelter them because they have sought group asylum which is outside the boundaries of the laws of all countries and international bodies,” Secretary-General of Iran's
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani lashed out at the UN Security Council for keeping mum about the assassination of Iranian scientists by the Zionist regime of Israel.
"The Security Council which is so watchful (of world events) didn't even frown at the Zionist regime (for the assassination of the Iranian scientists)," Larijani said in Tehran on Monday, blasting the silence shown by the international bodies on Tel Aviv's terror attacks against the lives of Iranian