MEK leader and Saddam
Posted on 02/20/2005 7:37:52 PM PST by Khashayar
Ali Reza Jafarzadeh, frontman for the MKO and the NCRI in the United States, is still being introduced by the Fox News Network as their independent Iran analyst. Fox News' insistence on using this individual has prompted ridicule by many in the media and in political circles. Fox News has clearly decided that using this notorious man is more important for their pay masters than maintaining their reputation as a serious broadcaster. Or it could be that the Network has no other choice in its decision making except to consent to this scandal. Whatever the reason, Fox News has refused to answer any questions about it. The company is already under investigation about its code of conduct and connections with terrorist organizations.
For those who have still any doubts about the issue, below is a brief biography of the notorious terrorist whom Fox News introduces as its analyst.
Alireza Jafarzadeh was born in Mashad (Iran) and moved to the USA before the 1979 revolution in Iran. He began there as a student of Civil Engineering. But he soon became engaged with the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in the US. The MKO is designated by the US, UK, EU and many other countries as a terrorist entity in part because of the MKO's affiliation with the regime of Saddam Hussein. MKO activities include the massacre of Iraqi Kurds and Marsh Arabs in March 1991 after Gulf War I, and co-operation with Iraqi Intelligence in hiding WMDs from UN weapons inspectors. Jafarzadeh worked for the MKO in several countries including Iraq. He was promoted to the position of spokesman for the MKO in the US which then gave him a position as member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the MKO's political wing, which is also designated in the US as a terrorist entity.
Jafarzadeh quickly became a devoted member of the MKO and on the order of the organization's Ideological (or cult) Leader, Massoud Rajavi, married Robabeh Sadeghi of Babol, Iran, after she fled her country in 1986. In 1990, Massoud Rajavi ordered all MKO members to divorce for ideological reasons. Jafarzadeh and Sadeghi, were divorced on his command.
Jafarzadeh was such a committed member that he repeatedly volunteered for suicide operations. In the MKO publication No. 127, he is quoted as saying that he is ready to burn himself in front of the UN's New York office whenever it is needed for the MKO's cause.
In 1988, together with 15 other MKO members in the US, Jafarzadeh left for Iraq to participate in the Eternal Light military operation. He served in Hossein Abrishamchi's military unit in Iraq and undertook terrorist training in an Iraqi camp called Zaboli Camp. After the MKO's disastrous defeat in this operation, he was sent back to the US.
In a press conference on 24 March 1991, Jafarzadeh explained the details of one particular MKO operation in Iraqi Kurdistan (Operation Morvarid). This was soon exposed, by Human Rights Watch among others, as the deliberate massacre of Kurdish civilians by the MKO on the direct orders of Saddam Hussein.
Some months later, MKO radio announced Jafarzadeh had been made a Deputy Executive member of the MKO. His name along with his paramilitary rank was also published in MKO newspapers.
In 1992, with the help of Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Service, Jafarzadeh traveled to Pakistan to negotiate and establish new relations between the MKO and one of the war lords of Baluchestan (on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border). The relation was established in order to facilitate sending terrorist teams into Iran for paramilitary terrorist operations. Jafarzadeh was the broker for this deal and in person paid some of the tribal chiefs on behalf of Iraqi Intelligence.
From 1998 Jafarzadeh has been introduced as a member of the NCRI (MKO) Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1992 he took part in interviews (including an interview with Voice of America Radio) as the NCRI representative.
Jafarzadeh also attended a meeting in Washington in 2001. The meeting was organized by the MKO to protest inclusion of their name in the US administration's list of terrorist organizations. Jafarzadeh was the MKO's speaker at this meeting to explain their position.
Fox News now introduces Jafarzadeh as either their employee or as the head of a consultancy company. But as recently as 2002 the same man was interviewed by Fox News as the MKO's representative in the US Congress.
There are serious allegations that Jafarzadeh has been involved in illegal deals in the USA, including deals involving chemicals which can be used to produce WMDs. There are also allegations that the MKO, with him as its representative, have been involved in serious money laundering and drug trafficking in the USA. These allegations, as well as his and Fox News' dodgy connections in Washington, are currently under investigation.
As an Iranian, I'd rather Mullahs to these terrorists.
Without these intrepid individuals, we would still know barely anything about Iran's surreptitious nuclear program.
Yes, they were terrorists in a past life, but now they are an invaluable resource in our struggle against the chief state-sponsor of terror, i.e., the IRI.
At worst, they are a misguided cult, but at best, they are an ally-as important as Pakistan, Afghanistan or any other-in our mutual WOT.
Well, the US will fail the battle over the Mullahs by supporting such terrorists.
No Iranians want the terrorists to run the country!
I will fight against them if they attack Iran or try to hurt us.
And I don't believe the U.S. is supporting them. In fact, quite the opposite is the case.
However, it is folly to deny the fact that these folks have proven to be an extraordinary intelligence resource, as far revealing some of the more ill-concealed state secrets of the Iranian nuclear weapons program.
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MEK employee in FOX NEWS CHANNEL
For the sake of good discussion - we should invite Jafarzadeh to make his reply.
If Jafarzadeh is a terrorist as you said - the FBI, CIA and the rest of the Intelligence community are made to look like they are all dumb by permitting a terrorist to roam around in the US. I'm 100% they are not these are totally dedicated organizations.
You indicated your preference to the mullahs - I hope you are not in the United States because if you are - why are you here in the land of the great Satan?
Khuoda Hafez!
You are missing something important. These people want the demise of the regime. yes. But they want the demise so that THEY Can Take Over. They aren't in this for OUR benefit.
I'd rather Mullahs to the MEK terrorists!
Moreover, I am hearing a great cooperation between the pentagon and MEK. That is why CIA or FBI can not do much about him.
My question is: Why do the US support MEK terrorist group?
Jafarzadeh is a known entity. He speaks well and smiles nicely.
He is a terrorist living in the U.S
every terrorist can smile nicely!
Why are the French-of all people-suddenly concerned about individuals who collaborated with Saddam Hussein, a man who-if they had there way-would still be in power, terrorizing the Iraqi people?
This is nothing more than a maneuver on their part to save face, but most importantly, to placate the mullahs who oversee their oil-rich ally, Iran.
MEK leader and Saddam
Of course, He uses his smile to fool people.
People are dumb?
As I alluded to in a previous post, the primary advantage that they present is as an intelligence asset in the fight to prevent Iran from developing nuclear capabilities.
Whatever else their faults-and they are manifold-this one crusade-for lack of a better word-should have earned them some good will from the international community, whose leaders are repeatedly invoking the need for nuclear disarmament.
"This is nothing more than a maneuver on their part to save face, but most importantly, to placate the mullahs who oversee their oil-rich ally, Iran."
Yes. It's a "maneuver" by the French. But that doesn't make MKO harmless. They are dangerous.
Decisions were made some where else... FIGHTING here over the MEK being legitimate, safe or dangerous does not make sense here.
I am going to write to FOX NEWS and President Bush.
I hope President Bush hears us. Although I doubt FNC hears any body but MEK affiliated people.
I have to disagree.
I understand using criminals as informants. I think that's the extent of what we are doing.
Good will? No.
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