ALL MKO SAY ARE PURE LIES (Iran)

iran-press-service.com ^ | August 20, 2005

[F14 Pilot]

All the information the Mojahedeen provides the western media is pure lies and fabricated to discredit the Iranian regime and help the United States and Israel to put more pressures on Iran”, a former senior member of the outlawed, Baghdad-based Mojahedeen Khalq Organisation (MKO) told Iran Press Service.

Referring to recent press conferences held by the MKO spokesmen in various capitals, including Paris, Vienna, London, Berlin and Washington “revealing” secret nuclear sites or the number of centrifuges undeclared to the international nuclear watchdog, the source who asked for anonymity said the MKO has no information about Iran’s sensitive military projects and what they tell the media is what the CIA feeds them.

An Iranian Stalinist-Islamist organization financed, equipped, trained and supported by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during his war against Iran and after, the MKO (a.k.a, MEK, National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI, People's Mojaheedin of Iran, PMOI), is now playing the same role at the hands of the American so-called neo-cons at the Pentagon as an instrument of both political and military pressures on the ruling ayatollahs, analysts said.

“Iranian military-oriented installations are kept very secret, with very limited people except the technicians and scientists having access to them, people that are under regular control by experts. Considering the activities of the Mojahedeens as spies and infiltrators, anyone suspected of the smallest and remote links with them is immediately arrested”, the source, a former high-ranking intelligence and security officer with the group added.

The group, now under US protection in their camps in Iraq, is on the American and European lists of terrorist organizations, but its political branch, the Council of Resistance, is active in major capitals of the world and became a darling of the Western press after it revealed the existence of a heavy water reactor in Arak and the uranium enriching installations in Natanz, both situated in central Iran.

However, the satellite images of the sites put on internet by an American specialized firm a day after confirmed that the information was provided to the group by some Pentagon sources keen to get the MKO out of the terrorist list, giving it the image of a group that has reliable sources inside Iran.

This was confirmed latter by the CIA after President George W. Bush personally praised the MKO for the information it provides to the international community about Iranian military-orientated nuclear activities “hidden” by Tehran.

“We had all these information and have reported them to the Administration”, the CIA source had said, frustrated at the leak of sensitive intelligence documents to the terrorist group.

In fact, while Iran had defaulted by not reporting the construction of the installations to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but they were quite visible since the construction in both Arak and Natanz were on the ground and not under ground.

“Except the information on Natanz and Arak the group disclosed, documents that were given to them by the Americans, all other material the Mojahedeen gave to the media are open secret, most of them from the Iranian press, like the name of companies and firms that works for the Defence Ministry and are known to the IAEA”, pointed out Mr. Mas’oud Khodabandeh, a former senior officer of the group.

Actually, Iranian nuclear negotiators, including Hojjatoleslam Hasan Rohani, the former most senior supervisor and coordinator of Iranian nuclear projects explained that under the Iranian safeguards agreement as it then existed, the Iranians were not obligated to tell the IAEA about any of that activity until they began processing "source or special nuclear materials" for introduction into those gas centrifuges.

The other reason Iran started to build some of the sites secretly was of fear of facing sanctions by the IAEA and the international community.

Hence, American, Israeli and some European nations’ accusations that Iran is secretly making atomic weapons by diverting nuclear technologies aimed at peaceful and civilian purposes.

“Every time the IAEA had a meeting of its Board of Governors debating Iranian nuclear issue or Iranian and European negotiators met, some unidentified European diplomats revealed new, hidden Iranian activities and at exactly the same time, MKO spokesmen organized press conferences to repeat the same information”, one senior Iranian negotiator told Iran Press Service.

The Mojaheedin collaborated with Ayatollah Khomeini to overthrow the former Shah of Iran. As part of that struggle, they assassinated at least six American citizens, supported the takeover of the U.S. embassy, and opposed the release of American hostages.

After being expelled from France in June 1986, the group, assisted by Saddam Hussein, formed the National Liberation Army and launched its most significant incursion in June and July 1988, when they coordinated an advance into Iran with Iraqi forces. During the same offensive, Iraqi units in other sectors of the front used chemical weapons against Iran.

“On 17 June 1992, Mas’oud Rajavi, the egocentric supreme leader of the organisation and a Mojaheedin delegation visited Saddam Hussein. In his statement, Rajavi said, "Iranian national movements and their masses strongly denounce the Iranian regime's alliance with U.S imperialism, world Zionism, and regional reactionaries to launch aggression against Iraq, participate in the blockade on it, and interfere in the domestic affairs of this safe, steadfast country in the interests of colonial schemes and conspiracies”, according to a State Department report on 1994.

Not only the group engaged in Iraq’s war against Iran and killed thousands of innocent Iranians, not only the group collaborated actively with Iraq’s secret services in the slaughter of Iraq Kurds and Shi’ites and took part in Iraq’s attack on neighbouring Kuwait, but is also killed many of its own members, as reported by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.

“Human rights abuses carried out by MKO leaders against dissident members ranged from prolonged incommunicado and solitary confinement to beatings, verbal and psychological abuse, coerced confessions, threats of execution, and torture that in two cases led to death”, the HRW said in one report published last year.

Surprisingly, however, the MKO has some supporters in Congress and this is evidently the result of a long lobbying effort. The effect of this lobbying effort is primarily seen in the repeated claims that some large number of members of Congress have signed on to some statement endorsing the MKO.

In 1990, the Council of Resistance, made of several grouplets most of them existing on letter heads, “elected” Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the third wife of Mas’oud as Iran’s president and started a new wave of terrorist operations inside the country.

“If some one in Iran has reliable information about the regime’s secrets on nuclear or military activities and for whatever reason he wants to pass them to outside world, he would certainly not give them to a completely discredited group like the Mojahedeen, but would give, or sell them to Western intelligence agencies”, added Mr. Khodabandeh, who deserted from the MKO some years ago and is now active in exposing the true face and nature of the Organisation on his internet site “Iran-interlink.org”.

[F14 Pilot]

Ship these idiots to Gitmo!

[F14 Pilot]

Terrorist MKO - Iran Ping!

[konaice]

Ship these idiots to Gitmo!

Which ones?

[AdmSmith]

The site is here http://iran-interlink.org/ and it looks like a site made by persons that have escaped a cult http://iran-interlink.org/files/about.htm compare with sites by former members of $cientology, Transcendental Meditation etc.

[Daaave]

Frontline World

Iran-Going Nuclear, May 2005

"Backgroud To A Crisis

By Zachary K. Johnson

"Revelations of a Secret Program"

"Alireza Jafarzadeh, the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told the world that the Iranian government had a secret nuclear program and was building two facilities south of Tehran in central Iran that would be capable of producing material that could fuel a nuclear weapon."

"The U.S. State Department said that Jafarzadeh's group was a part of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), which killed U.S. citizens in Iran in the 1970s and supported the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran but was expelled after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. After that, the dissidents waged a worldwide campaign to topple the Iranian government and replace it with a secular regime."

"Despite questions about the source of the information, the dissidents' claim that Iran had a covert nuclear program proved to be true. The hidden sites -- a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz and a heavy-water plant in Arak -- were later confirmed by a U.N. monitoring group and the Iranian government, though the Iranians insisted that they were intended only to generate peaceful nuclear energy."

pbs.org/frontlineworld/

[Daaave]

"Friday, March 25, 2005"

"MEK says Iran is secretly enriching uranium"

"Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian exile who has reported accurately in the past about hidden atomic facilities in Iran now says Iran is secretly purifying uranium for use in nuclear weapons at a recently-constructed underground facility at a military complex called Parchin.

"Iran has completed an underground tunnel-like facility in Parchin, which is now engaged in laser enrichment," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian exile who has reported accurately in the past about hidden atomic facilities in Iran.

"This underground site is camouflaged and built in an area of Parchin that deals with the chemical industry," he told Reuters by telephone on Thursday from Washington, citing "well-placed sources inside the Iranian regime."

Posted at Regime Change Iran

By....DoctorZin

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[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Valin]

Bump

[humint]

Thanks for the PING...

Michael Ledeen

"The MEK, an organization I do not admire, but whose information is generally credible on such matters, claimed that more than 50,000 workers participated, from Pakdasht and Varamin near Tehran, to Golestan province in the north and Khorassan province in the east, to Qom and Yazd in the center to Bushehr and Shushahr in the south. Notice that Varamin and Bushehr are sites of Iran's nuclear program. And notice also that, so far as I know, not a single Western trade union has seen fit to support their Iranian brothers and sisters, nor has a single "progressive" publication or blog deplored the fact that most Iranian workers are a year and more behind in receiving their wages. Indeed, many of their leading lights prefer to make libelous accusations against the few of us who have supported freedom for the Iranian people, falsely claiming that we want a military invasion of Iran."

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This ones my favorite via globalsecrity-dot-org! Under the category of things that make you go "hmmmm?"

On 17 May 2003 the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported "During the Khatami's presidency, the Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics formed a new biological weapons center to expand biological bomb. That was called Malek Ashtar University and is based in Lavizan Shian Technological Research Center

Imagery from August 2003 reveals large buildings inside a secure perimeter, while imagery from March 2004 shows that the buildings have been dismantled, the rubble removed, and the earth scrapedCommercial imagery acquired in March 2004 revealed that a facility at this location had been completely dismantled, with the vegetation removed and ground scraped clear.

[F14 Pilot]

That site was a road under construction!

Anyways, MKO is hated by majority of Iranians and they shouldn't be given any chance or airtime.

They are bunch of useless terrorists!

[F14 Pilot]

MKO/NCRI terrorists!

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"That site [Lavizan] was a road under construction!"

LOL, you're funny... my side hurts I'm laughing so hard!!! NO... NO... I know what they were doing!!! They were building a NASCAR track for a the new Busch series planned in Iran...

DUH!!!

[F14 Pilot]

have you seen that part of tehran closely?


BTW... MKO consists of bunch of marxist liars and it is none of my business if you tend to believe what bunch of terrorists say!

[Michael Bluth]

All Your MKO Are Belong to US!

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"...it is none of my business if you tend to believe..."

Look F14, that's exactly the point. No one knows what to believe about Lavizan. The IAEA requested an inspection and the Iranian government made the place disappear. The truth has been trucked away. Seeing as how the mullah's have a track record of disappearing whatever could get them into trouble, my first guess is not "road construction". The fact is there are a number of revelations that have come from the group that have been verified by the IAEA. It's a fact that the Axis of Evil can't make disappear.

[F14 Pilot]

All I know is that MKO is a terror group! And they shouldnt be trusted.

Mullahs sound better than bunch of communists who are no friend of freedom!