Policy on Iran and Desperate Attempts to Discredit the MEK

‌By Farzin Hashemi- Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI
Over the past week, once again policy on Iran was widely discussed in the media. Simultaneously, in recent weeks there has been more growing call for a new approach toward Iranian opposition, the #MEK. The announcement by the US National Security Advisor that “Iran is officially on notice” drew much attention. This position was followed by more Tweets from President Trump and a new round of sanctions, raising the prospect of a change of policy in the US approach towards Iran. As far as the Iranian Resistance, and its components including the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (#MEK/#PMOI), is concerned imposing sanctions against a number of individuals and companies affiliated to the clerical regime for their role in missile proliferation is a positive step in confronting the illegitimate and terrorist dictatorship whose record includes 120,000 political executions. Simultaneously, they are engaged in a massive disinformation campaign to discredit the democratic opposition, the #MEK and the coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), led by its President-elect Maryam Rajavi. By spreading fake news about the #MEK/#PMOI, originated from the Ministry of Intelligence of the mullahs’ regime and the intelligence section of the IRGC, their objective is to convey this false message that there is no viable opposition and the world must accept and deal with the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Thus, the core of the issue is not their debunked allegations but their hidden agenda to maintain the policy of appeasement.

Iran - Maryam Rajavi: With the Death of Rafsanftni one of the Two Pillars of the Ruling Theocrascy Collapses

IRANIAN EXILED OPPOSITION   

Maryam Rajavi, the leadr of the political arm the Iranian opposition group mujahedeen-e-Khalq,(MEK/PMOI) said in a statement that she hoped the Iranian regime would fall apartwith Rafsanjani's passing. “With the death of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the two pillars and key to the equilibrium of the religious fascism ruling Iran has collapsed and the regime in its entirety is approaching overthrow,” she said. Maryam Rafavi said Over the past 38 years, whether under Khomeini or afterwards, Rafsanjani played a critical role in suppression at home and export of terrorism abroad as

well as in the quest to acquire nuclear weapons. Rafsanjani who had always been the regime's number two, acted as its balancing factor and played a decisive role in its preservation. Now, the regime will lose its internal and external equilibrium. #MaryamRajavi:In 2006,#Rafsanjani was implicated by #Argentinian investigators in 1 of the deadliest instances of #Iran'ian #terrorism abroad. A 1994 suicide truck bombing of the AMIA Jewish

community center in #BuenosAires, in which 85 people were killed. 

The international community should end its silence and inaction over Iran ’s crimes

As we wind down the highly turbulent year of 2016, a look back at Iran’s record in these 12 months is quite necessary. And rest assured there is nothing to brag about. From a human rights perspective, 2016 was the stage where Iran resorted to some of the worst atrocities from 1979 to this day. Tehran, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, increased group executions of minorities while imposing a much heavier crackdown against rights and political advocates, as reported by Human Rights Watch. Iran remains the world’s leading executioner per capita and tops the ranks in juvenile executions, according to Amnesty International.

As unveiled in a sound file of the late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, in line to lead the regime following founder Ruhollah Khomeini, perpetrators behind the summer #1988Massacre of 30,000 political prisoners–mostly members and supporters of the opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (#PMOI/#MEK)–are currently enjoying senior regime posts in the Rouhani cabinet. This rendered increasing meddling and lethal military intervention in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and beyond, including the recent horrific scenes of Aleppo. Tehran also supported the Bashar Assad regime through intensified advisory, financial, intelligence and weapons support to notorious Shiite militias and what was left of the crumbling Assad army. One can hardly argue against the fact that Iran enjoyed eight years of appeasement from the Obama administration, providing much needed financial relief for Tehran. Despite all this, the regime also needed to continue to portray an anti-American image for its dwindling domestic base.

The international community must end its silence and inaction over Iran’s crimes inside the country and throughout the Middle East, as advocated by Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella group of numerous organizations seeking peaceful regime change in #Iran. The policies adopted in 2016 by the West, and especially Washington, provided Iran the money and opportunity to pursue its domestic and foreign policies. The international community should take the opportunity of a new U.S. administration in 2017 to launch a new and principled approach vis-à-vis Iran. 
This will pave the path to resolve humanitarian and political crises engulfing the Middle East, bring an end to Iran’s meddling and support the Iranian people.

Source:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/313133-iran-in-2016-exploiting-obamas-appeasement-policy

Kia is a political analyst and member of the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, also known as MEK). He graduated from North Texas University.

Why We Shouldn’t Worry About Giuliani’s Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group

By ROBERT G. TORRICELLI November 28, 2016

First, I want to be clear about one thing: This isn’t about Rudy Giuliani. Arguably the broadest and most impressive bipartisan coalition in a generation has supported the MEK in its campaign for regime change in Iran. This includes two former chairmen of the joint chiefs, two former CIA directors, a former attorney general and the former chairs of both political parties. The ideological range includes everyone from Howard Dean and Patrick Kennedy to Newt Gingrich and John Bolton. 

The annual gathering of Iranians in Paris in the presence of President-elect of the Iranian Resistance and a group of their supporters 

From this perspective, the outlier isn’t Rudy Giuliani; it’s Daniel Benjamin. Let’s review a little history: The MEK was part of the coalition opposing the shah of Iran in the late 1970s, where it resisted the regime through political and military action. Its leadership was devastated by the shah’s secret police both by execution and imprisonment. The vacuum of leadership was briefly filled by a Marxist group that was rejected by the incarcerated MEK leaders. Many of these Marxist leaders were killed by the shah or by the mullahs after their ascent to power in 1979, and the MEK eventually regained its original leadership. As soon as it became clear that the mullah’s ambition for Iran was a theocracy, the MEK became an opposition group and fled into exile in Paris and Iraq. Some current and former State Department employees, including Mr. Benjamin, have a different concept. 

They remain committed to the idea that the MEK was a terrorist organization—a notion, I believe, which stems from an illusion of American reconciliation with the mullahs. In 1997, a group at State succeeded in convincing President Bill Clinton to place the MEK on the State Department list of terrorist organizations. Some claimed at the time that this decision was mainly intended as a goodwill gesture to Iran. The State Department gave as its reasons the MEK’s long record of violence, but I can tell you that as a member of the Foreign Relation Committee, I reviewed the State Department file on the MEK and found no evidence, no testimony and no reason for the designation except placating Tehran. Mr. Benjamin may quarrel with his efforts but it's important to note that voices in the American foreign policy establishment as diverse as Senator McCain, Secretary Clinton, Deputy Secretary Blinken and John Kerry’s own personal representative on the MEK, Jonathan Weiner disagree. Each has thanked Rudy Giuliani and the other Americans involved in these efforts.The president-elect may or may not choose Mr. Giuliani as secretary of state. What shouldn’t happen is for countering Tehran and assisting our country to be seen as anything other than a valuable contribution to his consideration.

Iran - Ahmad Montazeri Receives Jail Sentence without a lawyer on charges of "acting national security"

NCRI - Trial of Ahmad Montazeri without a lawyer in the Special Clerical Court on charges of “acting against national security”
Today November 27, late Ayatollah Montazeri’s son Ahmad Montazeri was sentenced to imprisonment and defrocking, according to an announcement by the Montazeri’s official website. Due to publishing his father's audio files on the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran, on charges of "acting against national security and propaganda against the publication of secret documents" Ahmad Montazeri has been sentenced to 21 years in prison and defrocking by the Special Clerical Court.
Iran sentences son of dissident cleric to 6 years in prison
Iran Ahmad Montazeri Sunday Special Clerical Court to six years in prison for carrying a tape recorded voice of her father's release thousands of prisoners sentenced to death in 1988 at the end of its war with Iraq condemned.
For years, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died in 2009, the country's ruling Islamic establishment of imposing dictatorship in the name of Islam was accused, and with his criticism following the disputed presidential election in June of the same year.

Tancredo: Left Targets Giuliani for Fighting Terrorism too Energetically

MayorRudy Giuliani for fighting Iran-sponsored terrorism too aggressively. Well,duh!

In a week that saw “Fake News” become the number one topic of debate among mainstream journalists, Politico decided to double down on stupidity and serve up a prime example of fake news. The Washington post dutifully echoed the false accusations to give the lie a cloak of respectability not bestowed by Politico.

Giuliani’s alleged violation was participating in events sponsored by an anti-Iran exile group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK), a group that has widespread bipartisan support in Congress and that even John Kerry’s State Department admits has provided valuable intelligence on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.The PMOI/MEK is the largest and most influential member of the coalition of anti-Mullah groups, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which acts as a government in exile while aiding pro-democracy forcesinside Iran.Many members of Congress in both political parties have supported the work of the PMOI/MEK, including Democrat Sen. Robert Menendez, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Rep. Ed Royce, and Sen. John McCain. Other prominent supporters include Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, former CIA Director James Woolsey, and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. I, too, while a member of Congress and also more recently, have participated in PMOI/MEK-sponsored conferences and can personally bear witness to the group’s anti-terrorism credentials.The fallacious, unproven charges repeated by Politico‘s headline that the PMOI “killed Americans” is based largely on an incident inside Iran back in the 1970’s, before the Mullahs came to power and 25 years before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.There has never been a shred of evidence that any members of the current PMOI were involved in those events, yet the American left is now using those discredited allegations to smear one of our nation’s fiercest anti-terrorism warriors, Rudy Giuliani.The charges against PMOI-MEK dredged up by Politico have been refuted by multiple investigations and are no longer given credence even by Obama’s State Department. For nearly two decades, those allegations arising from events in the 1970’s were used as a basis for listing the PMOI/MEK as a terrorist organization.

• However, secret cables later revealed that the reason for that State Department listing in 1997 was Iran’s insistence on the listing as a condition for “normalizing” diplomatic relations.
• In 2012, the State Department removed the group from that list because of the lack of evidence to justify it– and after a federal court agreed there was no basis under federal law for the erroneous listing.

So, why is the political left suddenly so interested in smearing Rudy Giuliani?Could it have anything to do with Giuliani being one of two or three individuals on Donald Trump’s short list for Secretary of State? Do Democrats fear that the former NYC mayor might take the U.S. State Department in a new direction in opposing Iran’s vast network of financing for terrorist groups worldwide?If the American news media establishment had an ounce of integrity, this Politico smear campaign against Giuliani would be laughed out of town. Instead, in  an act of sheer desperation, prominent parts of the establishment media have joined the lynch mob. Obviously, this tells us more about the left’s motives and goals than it does about Giuliani.The establishment media have run interference for Obama’s Iran policy for eight years, and apparently prefer Mitt Romney over Rudy Giuliani as President Trump’s Secretary of State. Hopefully, that might be enough to tip the scales on that imminent decision in Trump Tower.

It's time to change U.S Policy on Iran regime

NCRI - It would be in the Iranian people’s interests, and a pre-requisite of peace and stability in the region, for the Trump administration to adopt a firm Iran policy, argues Heshmat Alavi in The Hill. The following is the text of his op-ed which was published on November 22:
The U.S. presidential elections and the victory of Donald Trump alludes to the end to a long era. After all, Iran benefited significantly from the past 16 years of appeasement adopted by the past two U.S. administrations.
MAJOR MISTAKES UNDER TWO PRESIDENTS

George W. Bush launched a war with Iraq, shifting all attentions from Tehran to Baghdad, and opening the doors of Mesopotamia to Iran’s lethal meddling. Barack Obama extended a helping hand to the mullahs, providing a green light for the regime to severely crack down on the Iranian people. Obama’s foreign policy pillar of engagement with Iran resulted in the toughest period for the Iranian people ever since Eisenhower and the 1953 coup d'état against Iran’s sole democratically elected government. The mullahs received the ultimate life support as the Obama White House refused to implement many of the measures included in the already misguided nuclear agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), to full extent.
Thus, it goes beyond doubt that an end to the Obama tenure will be considered a severe blow to Iran. In the past 16 years, Tehran was able to take full advantage of Washington’s strategic mistakes to further plunge the entire region into chaos, as we see now in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon. The U.S. policy on Iran in the Bush and Obama administrations increased the suffering of the Iranian people.
WHAT TO EXPECT

Whether Trump remains loyal to all his election campaign pledges is a legitimate question. From Tehran’s point of view, however, this new White House will be completely different from a Hillary Clinton White House. More importantly, however, are appointees of Trump’s probable administration lineup. This team has been completely against Iran. Tehran is already terrified of the likes of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Ambassador John Bolton.
FINAL THOUGHTS
A new American president with a firm stance will have a major impact on politics inside Iran. Does this mean the new American administration will completely put aside the entire appeasement policy and stand alongside the Iranian people?
Time will tell.
A new era in U.S.-Iran foreign policy began Nov. 8. With Trump’s election, a complete restructuring is in the making for Washington. The Trump administration adopting a firm Iran policy is in the Iranian people’s interests, and a pre-requisite of peace and stability in the region. The more this regime is terrified of a Trump presidency, the more it proves how Obama played completely into the mullahs’ hands.
The election of Donald Trump marks a new beginning, and the mullahs themselves understand this best.

Iran - A female political prisoner under severe duress

Sediqeh Moradi, Iranian political prisoner

NCRI - Ms. Sediqeh Moradi, Iranian political prisoner who is in Tehran notorious Evin Prison has been summoned to appear in the regime's court later this month for a re-trial. Ms. Moradi, 54, who is suffering from sciatica and a torn meniscus and tendon of the leg, but id being denied proper medical treatment. This is the third time that Ms. Sediqeh Moradi has been imprisoned for her beliefs. She was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on the charge of ‘Moharebeh,’ or ‘waging war on God,’ for having relations with the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) by the notorious executioner-judge Mohammad Moghiseh in Branch 28 of the regime’s Revolutionary Court in Tehran.

Iranian in Austria condemn human rights abuse under Rouhani

Iranian who live in Austria hold a rally for few days protested to Rouhani's visit of Vienna, against human rights abuses under him. They were chants of "Rouhani is a terrorist," "No to Rouhani," and "Democracy, Freedom with Maryam Rajavi". All Iranians demand change regime in Iran. They don't want mullahs regime. The mullahs regime in Iran is terrorist and fascist and Rouhani is a criminal and enemy of Iranian. The rally was organized by the Human Rights Center for Victims of Fundamentalism which supports the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), the principal Iranian opposition group and the pivotal force of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Demonstrators also expressed their support for the members of the PMOI in Camp Liberty, Iraq. Camp Liberty was targeted by the Iranian regime on October 29, 2015 when a barrage of rockets killed 24 residents and destroyed a large portion of the camp. The demonstrators urged the UN and the US to provide protection to Camp Liberty residents.

Iran - Rouhani's two-years human rights record

Hassan Rohani

NCRI - Who is Hassan Rouhani and know more about him.
What has been action during his tenure? Hassan Rohani on human rights is no different of other mullahs.
His ideas also is reactionary and medieval ideas, because he is also mullah.Hassan Rohani not only opposed execution, but described these are as "God's commandements" and "laws of the parliament that begongs to the people". There have been over 2,000 executions in Iran in the two years that Rouhani has been in office, more than in any similar period in the past 25 years. Human rights situation in Iran is very dreadful. 
The victims include political dissidients like Gholamreza Khosravi, an activist of Iran's principal opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMIO or MEK) who was hanged solely for providing financial assistance to a satellite television station supporting the opposition.

Iran - More pressure on the families of the residents of Camp Liberty by Mullahs regime

NCRI - The Iranian regime has arrested two relatives of members of the main opposition group People's Mofahedin Organization of Iran (OMOI or MEK) in the past week in the  city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran.

Qaseem rezvani the martyrs of the massacre Sep 10 Ashraf

On Monday, December 21 the mullahs' regime Security force raided a party that had been arranged by PMOI supporters and their relatives to mark 'Shab-e Yalda', the longest night of the year, in Karaj. The detainees were Fatemeh Rezvani, whose brother Qassem Rezvani was killed in the 2011 massacre at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The another one Ms. Azar Karvandi who is a former political prisoner of the 1980s and mother of a PMOI member currently in Camp Liberty, Iraq.

 

Iran - Clashes between political prisoners and their families with prison henchmen in Evin

On Monday December 21, 2015 During meeting political prisoners with their families, the political prisoners clash with henchmen in and intelligence elements of the Iranian regime. Because the henchmen and intelligence elements of the Iranian regime imposed Pressure on prisoners. In reaction to this protest, the security and inspection elements, along with other henchmen, attacked the prisoners and banned further visits. The henchmen openly told the political prisoners that they would like to treat them the way political prisoners were treated in the 1980s. In 1988, some 30000 political prisoners, the vast majority members of the main opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were executed within the span of a few months for refusing to renounce their opposition to the mullahs’ fundamentalist regime.

Iranian Resistance supporters all over the world in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attack

The Iranian declared their solidarity with the people of France in the common struggle against Islamic fundamentalism. 
Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, also observes minute of silence in memory of victims of Paris attacks on Monday, November 16 with French citizens in Auvers-sur-Oise north of Paris. 

Missile Attack on the Liberty 29 October

The site's of missile attack on liberty 29 october

Main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran based in Camp Liberty who themselves were victims of rocket attacks by the mullahs' regime in Iran held  a memorial service on November 16 in solidarity with the people of France. The members of the PMOI (or MEK) lit candles and held signs reading: "From Camp Liberty prison: I am a Parisian."
Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in the world, Because they are victims of terrorism by Islamic fundamentalist in the 37 passt years.
 

2 anniversary of massacre of PMOI members at Camp Ashraf

Martyrs 1 September - Ashraf

NCRI - Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the Camp Ashraf massacre. Fifty two unarmed and defenseless Iranian dissidents, all members of Iran's main opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran,
 PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK), were slaughtered and another group of seven, including six women, were abducted by Iraqi forces at the behest of the regime in Iran.
As the massacre was underway on September 1, a very senior US official in Washington, where it was just after midnight, acknowledged in an email that the Obama administration had been alerted to the attack immediately after it had begun and was in contact with the US Embassy in Baghdad regarding the attack.
 

Iranian in Paris protest for human rights in Iran

Prorest for human rights in iran

NCRI - Iranians living in France on Saturday rallied in central Paris to denounce the upsurge in the rate of executions in Iran under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and call on European governments to make human rights the focus of their Iran policy. The gathering coincided with the 27th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of Iran's political prisoners. 

 
                                                                                 

   Watch a short clip from protest in central Paris:

In the summer of 1988, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini was forced to accept a cease-fire in his eight-year war with Iraq, the fundamentalist ruler of the mullahs' regime ordered a mass execution of all political prisoners affiliated with the main opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).

27th anniversary of massacre of 30000 political prisoners in Iran

NCRI - Saturday marks the 27th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. 

Mass Execution1988

In the summer of 1988, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini was forced to accept a cease-fire in his eight-year war with Iraq, the fundamentalist ruler of the

mullahs' regime ordered a mass execution of all political prisoners affiliated with the main opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).
Khomeini decreed: "Whoever at any stage continues to belong to the Monafeqin (PMOI) must be executed. Annihilate the enemies of Islam immediately." He added: "Those who are in prisons throughout the country and remain steadfast in their support for the PMOI are waging war on God and are condemned to execution ... It is naive to show mercy to those who wage war on God."

Iran - Liberty Camp residents must have unfettered access to food, fuel and other humanitarian necessities; Austrian supporters of Iranian dissidents call

Liberty Camp residents must have unfettered access to food, fuel and other humanitarian necessities; Austrian supporters of Iranian dissidents call

Camp-Liberty-under-siege

 The Australian Supporters of Democracy in Iran on Saturday condemned in the strongest terms the blockage by Iraqi security forces of fuel, food and sanitation services to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad Airport, home to Iranian dissidents. Camp Liberty houses thousands of members of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) who have been recognized as asylum seekers and people of concern by the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.Iranian regime element in Iraq, and has been involved in several massacres both at Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty when Nouri al-Maleki was the Iraqi Prime Minister. "

Iran - Iraqi government lays siege to refugee camp

Baghdad - Camp Liberty, a camp for de facto refugee members of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, has come under siege as the Iraqi government has denied the entry of food, septic tanks, and other vital supplies.

Mojahed women in Camp Liberty

The Mojahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, is an Iranian opposition group that has been engaged in a long and bitter struggle with the Iranian cleric government. Over 2,000 members of the MEK now reside in Iraq at Camp Liberty.  The Residents of Camp Liberty, who are anti-fundamentalist mullahs in Iran want overthrow of molla's regim in Iran.