Massoud Khodabandeh, November 30, 2009:... I would like to know what steps your Government is willing to take to secure the safety and security of anti-terrorism activists who are being threatened by every possible means by the notorious Mojahedin-e Khalq organisation HQ in your countrymore...
Thus, the armed strategy of liberation hitting its end, since the organization must abandon its concentration camp, what will Rajavi’s alternative will be? Relocation of Ashraf to any other land necessarily means that an alternative is crucial to the survival of the organizationmore...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will deliver Channel 4's alternative to the Queen's Christmas Day speech this year, it has announced.
He will be shown telling British viewers "the general will of nations" is for a return to "human values".
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Iraq's National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie issued a statement on Sunday banned political and media activities of terrorist grouplet Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) on Iraq's territory. more...
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff says up to 30,000 extra troops could be sent to Afghanistan in 2009, almost doubling the US presence.
"Some 20 to 30,000 is the window of overall increase from where we are right now," Adm Mike Mullen said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned militants in Gaza that while his government would not rush to go to war, it would not evade such a decision. more...
A Ministry of Defence source says Britain could start withdrawing most of its 4,100 troops from Iraq in March 2009 because of significant progress made in the security situation in the city of Basra, where most UK troops have been serving. more...
Japan has unveiled a 225-billion-dollar stimulus plan as the Nikkei suffered sharp falls on the back of the US Senate's decision not to bail out the auto industry. Prime Minister Taro Aso said Japan would beat the 'financial tsunami'.more...
Iran has summoned the French ambassador in Tehran over comments made by the French president about his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
In the speech, given on 8 December on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Mr Sarkozy said: "How is it that a people such as the Iranian people - one of the world's greatest peoples, one of the world's oldest civilisations, sophisticated, cultured, open - have the misfortune of being represented as they are today by some of their leaders? more...
Iran has strongly condemned a decision by a Luxembourg court to remove the MKO from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.
"No change has been made to the nature of this cult, they are the same people with the same ideology and manifestationmore...
Iran has told US President-elect Barack Obama to abandon the "failed" US carrot-and-stick approach to solving the atomic row with Tehran.
Mr Obama on Sunday vowed "tough but direct diplomacy",
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The Chinese government expressed its "strong dissatisfaction" after French President Nicolas Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama in Poland on Saturday, but officials have not announced any reprisals against France or the EU. more...
Hundreds of tombstones marking the graves of Muslim soldiers who died for France during the bloody battles of World War One have been daubed with fascist symbols. The attack comes on the biggest feast day in the Muslim calendar. more...
A senior Russian official says Moscow is preparing to counter any possible US missile raids launched on its soil from outer space.
"They [the Americans] truly see space as a potential sphere for armed conflict and in connection with this [they] are not withdrawing from plansmore...
The Iranian Majlis (parliament) says the time has come for the Islamic Republic to engage in dialogue with lawmakers in the United States.
Iran's Majlis Speaker, Ali Larijani, told reporters on Monday that the parliament is mulling over the letters received from members of the US Congress and Senatemore...
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has said that a US Congress letter to the Parliament is under study but Iran needs more detail to reply.
"The letter sent by members of the US Congress is being studied and we have not responded it yet.more...
An Iraqi court has sentenced to death Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, for his role in crushing a Shia uprising in 1991.
It is the second death sentence passed on Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein.
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For the first time since 2003, Iran and Iraq have exchanged the remains of soldiers killed in the war between the two countries.
The bodies of 241 soldiers, most of them Iraqis, were handed over at a border crossing near Basra.
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Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the outlawed Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), or People's Mujahedin Organization, recently met with members of the German Parliament in a bid to rally support for the removal of the group from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.more...
A court in Iran has ruled that a man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid.
The ruling was reported in Iranian newspapers on Thursday.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday urged the world to resist the "greed" of capitalism and to prevent the rebuilding of the shattered global financial system.more...
A suicide bomber targeted Friday prayers at a Shia mosque south of Baghdad killing at least nine people. The attack came a day after the Iraqi parliament approved a plan calling for the withdrawal of US troops by the end of 2011. more...
"I have said this to my friend Kofi [Annan]: I find it impossible to shake hands with somebody who has dared to say that Israel must be wiped off the map.
"I know perfectly well that we must resolve what is perhaps the most serious international crisis we are having to resolve: that of Iran moving towards a nuclear bomb.
"We cannot resolve it without talking to Iranian leaders, but, after what was the Shoah, after what was the 20th Century, I cannot sit at the same table as a man who dares to say: Israel must be wiped off the map."
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"The Iranian exile organization of the People's Mojahedin Organization which acts under the cover of the National Council of Resistance of Iran is not a suitable partner in dialogue for a responsible policy towards Iran," a spokesperson for the Green Party, Claudia Roth said late Thursday.
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“During the past two years, numerous members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization have abandoned the MKO base. They have also expressed regret for their past actions,” Iran's Ambassador to Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, said on Saturday.
“Iran has pardoned a number of these people, allowing them to return to the country and their families,” he added.
Iran, Iraq, Canada, the United States, and the European Union recognize the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) as a terrorist group.
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The United States of America has consistently and historically championed itself as a preeminent nation in the world. However, since recent international and domestic events left the US in a more precarious position, they are desperately making friends with unlikely groupsmore...
Since Monday, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) is no longer considered a terrorist organization in Great Britain. The group would like the European Union to do the same. That is the message they hoped to get across at their annual assembly, held Saturday in the city of Villepinte, in the Paris region.more...
Iraq bans any deal with the members of the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO), calling on the US to stop supporting the terrorist group.
"The Cabinet decided to ban any dealings with this organization by any Iraqi or foreign individual, organization or party,'' a statement said on Tuesday.
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Concerning the case of Alain Chevalérias against Sara Rajabi, wife of Naseri, a judgement was made on April 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie Sauteraud, before the 17th Chamber of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris. The Mojahedin-e-Khalq, and the political front the ‘National Council of Resistance of Iran’ relay their propaganda through Iran Focus, and those who repeat their words on my trial against Sara Naseri seriously distort the findings of the trial. Moreover, they renew their lies and slander against my person.more...
He used to send letters to his family covertly and let them know that he wants to dispatch from the MKO and sought help and of course he did not want this to be disclosed since he knew that the organisation would harass him. The letters of Sa'id Nowruzi are available and could be presented anytime anywhere. Sa'id was once sent to Europe on a task from Ashraf camp on 1994 where he managed to send some letters to his family and seek their help but he was sent back to Iraq immediately. Once he had packed his case to leave but he was threatened that if he goes his family in Iran would be killed so he changed his mind.
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State Department Issues List of Foreign Terrorist Groups Fact sheet lists current designated foreign terrorist organizations (begin fact sheet) United States Department of State Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism Washington, DC April 8, 2008 more...
Ms. Nasrin Ebrahimi, 26 years old, who served in the group for over 10 years explained how two years ago she used a military vehicle to escape the terrorist run camp and take sanctuary with the American Army. She alleged that Marjan Akbari, daughter of Bashir Akbari, was killed by the organisation about two years ago. more...
PARIS, April 6, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a press conference in Paris on April 5, 2008, the first series of survivors of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation, aka the Rajavi cult or Saddam's private army, announced their escape from Camp Ashraf in Iraq and their arrival in Europe. The Mojahedin, which is proscribed as a foreign terrorist entity in the US, UK, EU and Canada, was bombarded and disarmed by the US army back in 2003 and have been confined since in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. more...
The association for the protection of Iranian emigrants and residents of France "ARIA" informs you that during the next month, a press conference will take place in Paris in the presence of the last mujaheds renoncés.
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By Louis Charbonneau at the UN Security Council meeting | March 20, 2008:... An Iranian envoy also addressed the council, accusing the United States of supporting the Iraq-based People's Mujahideen (MKO) guerrilla group. The MKO is banned as a terrorist group in Iran, the United States and the European Union. Washington issued no direct rebuttal of the commentsmore...
My name is Batul Soltani daughter of Morteza. I was born in 1965 in Iran and at the moment I live in Baghdad. I married with Mr Hosein Moradi in 1986 in Iran and then we moved to Pakistan together the same year. We were recruited by the MKO in that country and then we were ordered to go to Iraq a year later in 1987. In 1991 we were separated by the order of the organisation and had to give up our children who were sent to Europe latermore...
On 21st of February 2008, a court session was held at the Palace of Justice in Paris to deal with a complaint made by Mr. Alain Chevalerias, a French journalist and the author of the book called Brulé Vif (Burned Alive), against the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation of Iran (MKO).more...
Ahmadinejad and his Iraqi counterpart condemn an Iranian opposition group under U.S. guard northeast of Baghdad.
By Tina Susman and Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers, March 2, 2008
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Massoud Khodabandeh from the Centre de recherches sur le terrorisme depuis le 11 septembre 2001 (Paris), who was in Baghdad for meetings concerning the fate of the remaining individuals following dismantlement of Camp Ashraf which houses the disarmed Iranian terrorist organisation Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, was invited to participate in the discussion.more...
The Sahar (Dawn) Family Foundation is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organisation which has been established to provide humanitarian aid to the families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MKO) who are based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.more...
Juan Cole, February 06, 2008:... It also shows that the Mojahedin-i Khalq terror group engaged in hostile action toward the US forces, but also were granted a truce in 2005. The MEK is an Iranian terror group that has killed civilians inside Iran and was given a base in Iraq by Saddam Husseinmore...
Lords Hansard, February 4, 2008:...We continue to believe that the PMOI was responsible for a number of serious military attacks over a very long period of time and that its disarming was entirely pragmatic—in the event of the coalition forces forcing it to disarm after the intervention in Iraq. We have seen no evidence that the organisation has publicly renounced violence and terrorismmore...
by iran intelink: BBC Persian Service, January 26, 2008 Javad Firuzmand interviewed by Mehrdad Farahmand :... Mr Firuzmand told the BBC that 70 of the dissidents tried to go to Turkey after they left the Americas with the aid of some smugglers, but the Turkish border police arrested them and after one month in prison and remaining in compulsory camp were handed over to the Iraqi Policemore...
a.k.a. MKO; Mujahedin-e Khalq; Muslim Iranian Students' Society; National Council of Resistance; National Council of Resistance (NCR); Organization of the People's Holy Warriors of Iran; The National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA); The People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI); National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI); Sazeman-e Mujahedin-e Khalq-e Iran more...
Mohammad Mohamadi, January 12, 2008:... Today at 16:10pm I was informed by Canadian government that according to Iraqi government my parents , Mostafa Mohamadi and My mom, Mahbobeh ( Hamzeh) Mohammadi , are not safe any more in Iraq and asked Canada to help them to be transferd to a safe country. The Canadian agent expressed the government’s concern on their safety more...
