Hundreds of members of an Iranian opposition militant group exiled in Iraq defied yesterday's deadline to vacate their camp, a move that may jeopardise the group's removal from a US terror list.
Members of Mujahedeen-e Khalq, MEK, resisted the evacuation even as the group's US supporters have stepped up lobbying attempts to see them taken off the US list of terrorist organisations.
Nearly 2,000 members of MEK have relocated from the land they were granted by Saddam Hussein in
An Iranian lawmaker says US support for the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) emboldens the group to carry out acts of terror, stressing that they should be expelled from Iraq.
“This group, backed by the United States, is seeking to win concessions from the Iraqi government to continue its terrorist and spy operations in the region,” ICANA quoted Seyyed Ramezan Shojaei Kiasari as saying on Friday.
Kiasari pointed to MKO crimes against the Iraqi and Iranian nations
The State Department is growing increasing frustrated with the MEK and its American lobbyists, and now with two leading lawmakers who are injecting themselves into the cause of the Iranian dissident group.
Tensions between Foggy Bottom and supporters of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK), a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization opposed to the Iranian regime, have been building for months. The plan to relocate 3,200 members of the group from its compound in Iraq
Ringleaders of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) have resorted to Zionist lobbies to find a European host after their expulsion from Iraq.
According to a report by the Persian-language Neday-e Haqiqat (the Voice of Truth) website, the official in charge of MKO Foreign Commission M. Mohadethin has so far held several meetings with different Zionist communities and lobbies in the US and the EU, including JNFA (The Jewish
An informed source in the Committee for the Evacuation of Ashraf said that the preparation for the sixth stage of the expulsion of MKO elements was started on Sunday.
According to the Habilian Foundation website, the source told the Ashraf News that 28 trucks loaded their belongings at Camp Ashraf and transferred them to Liberty.
According to the report, the items included refrigerators, air conditioners, and so on.
To date, roughly two-thirds of the residents of Camp Ashraf
Iraqi lawmaker Habib al-Turfi reiterated the terrorist nature of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, NCR and PMOI), and said any politician dealing with such organization that kills Iraqis is a terrorist and must be held accountable.
Turfi who represents the National Alliance in Iraq's parliament called for the Iraqi government to implement the constitutional provision which confirms that Iraq will not be a corridor or headquarters for any terrorist
Members of the MKO group were entered Iraqi soil illegally, so they have no choice but to obey the law, says the leadership of the coalition of state law and member of the Iraqi parliamentary Security and Defense Commission.
According to Habilian Foundation website, Abbas al-Bayati told a press conference in Iraq that some European countries have expressed readiness to accept MKO members, adding, “What is important to us is an informal and illegal entry of a group of people
Following a wave of objections towards Huffington Post’s publication of a propaganda piece written by a Mujahedin-e Khalq affiliate, the website deleted the post immediately.
According to a Thursday report published by Habilian Foundation website, the propaganda piece was written by a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance, the political arm of the MKO terrorist group, mainly to exaggerate their 23 June rally in Villepinte.
MKO terror
The company providing communication networks to the Iraqi government, parliament and a number of key institutions in Iraq is actually a front company for the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI), says one source.
According to the Habilian Foundation website report, the source told the Arabic language al-Mustaqbal daily newspaper that the company also provided internet services to the government, parliament, and several key institutions in Iraq.
The interpreter for Maryam Rajavi, the ringleader of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, has revealed the names of a number of politicians and media outlets which were connected to the terrorist group, the Persian service of ISNA reported on Monday.
Iraq’s fugitive vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, for whom an arrest warrant was issued on December 19, 2011 on the charge of ordering assassinations of government officials, is one of the politicians that cooperated with the MKO
A defected member of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) disclosed that the terrorist group is seeking to spark a bloody conflict with the Iraqi government's security forces before leaving its main stronghold in Iraq, known as Camp Ashraf.
"The MKO's (main) ringleader, Massoud Rajavi, intends to ignore the Iraqi government's warnings and the UN advice in a bid to pave the ground for the Iraqi government's military
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi has revealed a joint plot by the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and the German tabloid Bild to launch a smear campaign against an Iranian diplomat.
“The orchestrated attempt of the MKO and the Zionist tabloid, Bild, in plotting, implementing and fueling this fabricated scenario once again indicates their convergence in hatching plots and conspiracies against the Islamic Republic,” Qashqavi said on Sunday.
The
Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi underlined that presence of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCR) in Iraq is illegal, reiterating that Baghdad is determined to expel the terrorist group.
Abawi said in a statement that MKO's presence in Iraq does not meet the description of asylum, and stressed that Baghdad is determined to close the terrorist group's main training base, Camp Ashraf, and drive MKO elements to
A major lobbying campaign by prominent US lawmakers and former top officials in support of the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), has raised legal questions on the legitimacy of such top-level advocacy.
American advocates of the terrorist group, notorious for terror bombings and assassinations of scores of Iranian officials and civilians as well as siding with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran in the 1980’s, have met
Pulitzer-prize winning columnist Clarence Page, who earlier this week got in hot water with his bosses at The Chicago Tribune for his appearance at a pro-MEK rally in Paris last month, told TPM on Thursday that his job “is safe for now.”
The MEK, an exiled Iranian opposition group, is on the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organizations, but is engaged in a multi-faceted push to be removed from the list. In recent years, the group’s supporters have recruited
The United States warned an Iranian dissident group on Friday that time was running out for it to vacate its Iraqi base camp, and said its hope to be taken off the official U.S. blacklist of terrorist organizations could depend on its compliance.
Daniel Benjamin, the State Department's coordinator for counter-terrorism, said the Mujahadin-e Khalq (MEK) must complete its move from the Camp Ashraf facility, which the Iraqi government has vowed to close by July 20.
"It is past
The Chicago Tribune is reviewing an unauthorized paid speaking engagement by its Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page at an event supporting an Iranian group designated as a terrorist organization.
Page, a member of the Tribune editorial board, received $20,000 and was given travel expenses for the June 23 event in Paris, which was sponsored by a group called the Organizing Committee for Convention for Democracy in Iran. It turned out to be a large rally in support of
Sources in the Saudi opposition said that the US is in secret talks with Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir to Washington to ask Riyadh to shelter members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) after the European countries refused to cooperate with the White House in this regard.
According to "Ashraf News" website, the sources pointed out that the negotiations between the US and Saudi Arabia are aimed at convincing Riyadh to host the elements of the terrorist group on the
A high-ranking member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has died at a hospital in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
According to a Monday report by the Mehr news agency, Batoul Rajaei died of lung cancer several days ago after her health deteriorated. She had been transferred from Camp Liberty - a former US military base near Baghdad’s International Airport - to a medical center in Baghdad.
The report added that the MKO insisted on conducting her burial at Camp
Iran announced that its intelligence forces have identified and arrested all terrorist elements behind the assassination of the country's nuclear scientists.
"All the elements involved in the assassinations of the country's nuclear scientists have been identified and arrested," Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement on Thursday.
A number of countries, whose territories and facilities had been misused by the Mossad-backed terrorist teams, have provided the
Hundreds of members of an Iranian opposition militant group exiled in Iraq defied yesterday's deadline to vacate their camp, a move that may jeopardise the group's removal from a US terror list.
Members of Mujahedeen-e Khalq, MEK, resisted the evacuation even as the group's US supporters have stepped up lobbying attempts to see them taken off the US list of terrorist organisations.
Nearly 2,000 members of MEK have relocated from the land they were granted by Saddam Hussein in
