Nejat Newsletter - ISSUE 22

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The List of Designated Terrorist Organizations WasReleased Rajavi cult failed again in its lobbying efforts

Issue No 22

Nejat Newsletter

Periodical Publication of the Nejat Society

List of DesignatedTerrorist Organiza-tions

1

18 million Iraqis wantMKO expelled

1

UNHCR deploresrefugee expulsions

2

An extract of inter-view with RyanCrocker

2

Report on the firstseries of survivors ofMKO arrive in France

3

Efforts to return exiles

to Iran problematic

4

Protected Iranian Ex-iles in Limbo in Iraq

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Repatriating after

being paid by MKO

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Camp AshrafCount down

7

Group of MKO de-

fectors arrived in

France

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The use of pro-scribed MKO by

CIA and Pentagon

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Inside this issue:

Mojahedin w s,

April 23, 2008

http://www.mojahedin.ws/news/text_news_en.php?id=1640

Designation of ForeignTerrorist Organizationsby the US State Depart-ment play a critical rolein fighting against ter-rorism and is an effec-tive means of curtailingsupport for terrorist ac-tivities and pressuringgroups to get out of theterrorism business asasserted by the StateDepartment. Through afact sheet published byOffice of the Coordina-

tor for Counterterrorismon April 8, 2008, thecurrent list of desig-nated foreign terroristorganizations (FTO) wasreleased. The name ofMujahedin-e Khalq Or-g a n i z a t i o n(MEK/MKO/PMOI), aterrorist Iranian group

also proscribed by someother countries includ-ing the country mem-bers of EU, occupies therow 29 of the total 44names as it has been inthe list since 1997.To identify a FTO, as

explained in the report,the Office of the Coordi-nator for Counterterror-

ism in the State Depart-ment (S/CT) continuallymonitors the activitiesof terrorist groups ac-tive around the world toidentify potential tar-gets for designation.When reviewing poten-tial targets, S/CT looksnot only at the actual

terrorist attacks that agroup has carried out,but also at whether thegroup has engaged inplanning and prepara-tions for possible futureacts of terrorism or re-tains the capability and

intent to carry out suchacts.Re-designation of MKOas a terrorist organiza-tion underlines the factthat the organizationhas failed in its lobbyingefforts to convince itssupporters in the Con-gress to reconsider itsoutlaw position. Report-edly, MKO has beenengaged in unproduc-tive intelligence collabo-ration with American

forces in Iraq to ap-pease them since theyare well aware of thehypocritical nature ofMKO especially afterwas transformed into acult of personality as-serted in the State De-partments report ofApril 30, 2007.

7 April 2008

'18 million Iraqis want MKO expelled'

Tue, 22 Apr 2008

A member of theIraqi Parliament saysat least 18 millionIraqis seek to expelthe terrorist groupMojahedin Khalq Or-ganization (MKO).

In a Monday meetingwith the head of theHabilian Association inMashhad, Hanin al-Kadu

said according to ongo-

ing polls most Iraqiswant the terrorist groupout of the war-torncountry.

"The people of Iraq andIran have every right towant the MKO to beexpelled from the coun-t r y , " r e s p o n d e dM o h a m m a d - J a v a dHashemi-Nejad, head ofthe Habilian Associa-

tion.

The MKO has beenblacklisted as a terroristorganization by manycountries, including theUS.

It assisted former Iraqileader Saddam Husseinin the massacre ofthousands of innocentIraqis; it also carriedout countless terroristattacks inside Iran.


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An extract of Nazi Biglaris interview w ith Ryan Crocker

American Ambassador in Bagdad

UNHCR deplores refugee expulsion by Turkeywhich resulted in four deaths

UNHCR,

April 25,2008

http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/4811e23c4.html

GENEVA Four men, includ-ing an Iranian refugee,drowned after a group of 18people were forced to cross afast-flowing river by the Turk-ish police at Turkey's south-eastern border with Iraq, wit-nesses have told the UN refu-gee agency.

The incident took place onWednesday 23 April at an un-patrolled stretch of the bor-der, near the Habur (Silopi)official border crossing inSirnak province in southeast-ern Turkey. According to eye-witnesses, the Turkish au-thorities had earlier attemptedto forcibly deport 60 people of

various nationalities to Iraqthrough the official bordercrossing. The Iraqi border au-

thorities allowed 42 Iraqis toenter the country, but refusedto admit 18 Iranian and Syr-ian nationals. The Turkish po-lice then took the 18, whichincluded five Iranian refugeesrecognised by UNHCR, to aplace where a river separatesthe two countries, and forcedthem to swim across.According to the witnessesinterviewed by UNHCR, fourpersons, including a refugeefrom Iran, were swept awayby the strong river currentand drowned. Their bodiescould not be recovered.UNHCR is in contact with thesurviving refugees through itsoffice in Erbil, in northernIraq. They are deeply trauma-tized by the experience,UNHCR staff reported.UNHCR had sent previous

communications to the Turk-ish government requestingthat the five Iranian refugees,

who had all been detained af-ter attempting to cross intoGreece in an irregular man-ner, not be deported. DespiteUNHCR's requests, the refu-gees were put in a bus, to-gether with other persons tobe deported, and taken on a23-hour trip to the Iraqi bor-der last Tuesday. UNHCR hadexpressed in a number ofcommunications sent to theGovernment of Turkey that itdid not consider Iraq a safecountry of asylum for theserefugees.UNHCR is seeking clarificationfrom the Government of Tur-key on the circumstances sur-rounding the forced expulsionof the refugees and the tragicloss of life.Story date: 25 April 2008

UNHCR Press Releases

two?

Ryan Crocker: we con-sider MKO as a terroristgroup. They killed Ameri-can military officials in Te-hran and were a part ofSaddams intelligence ser-

Voice of America,

March 4th,2008.

http://www.nejatngo.org/index_en.php?news_id=848

Nazi Biglari: there are twoIranian dissident groups inIraq: Mujahedin-e-Khalqand the Kurds of Iraqi Kur-distan. Do the Americanshave any links with these

vice. Everything is clear. Weoppose all terrorist organiza-tions whoever and wherever

they are.

Nazi Biglari: what will you

do with the Mujahedin Khalqin Camp Ashraf? JalalTalebani has called themterrorist group and said that

their presence in Iraq is ille-gal.

Ryan Crocker: this is a cru-cial question and we are ne-gotiating the case with Iraqiadministration. If they aresupposed to leave Iraq, theyshould have a destinationthat should be designated.

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Report on the First Series of Survivors of Mojahedin-

e Khalq's Camp Ashraf in Iraq Arrive in France

News wire, April 06, 2008

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-

bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-06-

2008/0004787254&EDATE

PARIS, April 6, 2008

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/

At a press conference in Paris on

April 5, 2008, the first series of sur-

vivors of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Or-

ganisation, aka the Rajavi cult or

Saddam's private army, announcedtheir 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 bom-

barded and disarmed by the US

army back in 2003 and have beenconfined since in Camp Ashraf in

Iraq.

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 takesanctuary with the American Army.

She alleged that Marjan Akbari,

daughter of Bashir Akbari, was

killed by the organisation about two

years ago.

Mr. Jamshid Charlang, 49 years old,

alleged imprisonment and torture by

the Mojahedin for criticising the

group's leaders. He said during hisimprisonment he witnessed the tor-

ture and murder of Parivis Ahmadiin an MKO run prison inside Camp

Ashraf. The MKO prevented

Charlang from seeing his wife and

child for twenty years. After the fallof Saddam he escaped and reached

the American army camp before ar-

riving in Paris.Ebad, 33 years old, and Alireza, 36

years old, were among others talking

about the situation of Camp Ashraf

which is protected by the American

Army, but is still run internally bythe uniformed military structure

kept intact during the past fiveyears.

In February 2008, Massoud Khoda-

bandeh of Iran-Interlink reported

from Baghdad after several meetingsaddressing the issue of foreign ter-

rorism in Iraq. Iraq's governmentdemand to expel all 3,000+ Camp

Ashraf captives is stalled because no

western country will de-proscribe

the group so that asylum can be

granted them. In the interim, Sahar

Family Foundation was establishedin Iraq to help disaffected Mojahedin

members who renounce terrorismfind asylum, be reunited with their

families and integrate back into

mainstream life.

The Conference was organised bythe Association for the Protection of

Iranian Refugees in France. Accord-ing to BBC reporting, the Associa-

tion's spokesman Javad Firoozmand

said this is only the first group to

arrive in France after the establish-

ment of Sahar Family Foundation.



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NPR:MorningEdition,

April 28,2008

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89990562RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

Since the U.S. invasion ofIraq, Iran's government hasregarded Camp Ashraf warily,but some Iranians are helping

MEK members get back home.NPR's Mike Shuster reportsfrom Tehran.MIKE SHUSTER: Like BatulSoltani and thousands of oth-ers, Arash Sametipourcould've been trapped inCamp Ashraf all these years.He joined the MEK in the1990s, and in 2001 he wassent from Iraq into Iran to as-sassinate an Iranian general.The plot failed, he lost his

right hand in a grenade explo-sion and was imprisoned inIran. Now he runs the NejatSociety in Tehran, a non-governmental group thathelps former members of theMEK who want to get out ofthe organization. RecentlySametipour was in Baghdad tomeet with some of them, whohe agrees are in an impossiblesituation.Mr. ARASH SAMETIPOUR:

Since these people, they did

not have any legal documentsand the situation in Iraq wasreally critical for them, we de-cided to provide them any hu-manitarian help that we could,and I think we were success-ful in that point.SHUSTER: Of the MEK mili-tants in Camp Ashraf, morethan 200 have left the campon their own and have been

living in the transitional campthe U.S. set up nearby. These

people, Sametipour says,want to leave the MEK butdon't necessarily want to re-turn to Iran.Iran's government still viewsthe MEK as a threat andwants to see the group dis-banded, according to Ali Re-said(ph), the director of theNorth America department ofIran's foreign ministry.Mr. ALI RESAID (Iranian For-eign Ministry): They are a

very serious and very danger-ous terrorist group and it isrecognized by European andeven the U.S. government.SHUSTER: Iran's governmentwould like to take custody ofthe leaders of the MEK andput them on trial, saysSametipour.

Mr. SAMETIPOUR: Theywere involved in brainwashingprocess and terrorist opera-tions inside Iran. Iranian au-thorities have announced thatthese people must be prose-

cuted in Iran. I think a list of50 to 60 people are there whoIranians want them. Theywant them to be prosecuted.SHUSTER: But it is the posi-tion of the Iranian govern-ment that the vast majority ofthose who live in Camp Ashrafare free to return to Iran with-out punishment, says Ali Re-said.Mr. RESAID: For those of

them who have repentance oftheir activities, also those of

them who are not seriouslyinvolved with any assassina-tion or these sort of things,we have amnesty for them.SHUSTER: The Nejat Societyhas tested Iran's offer of am-nesty. Arash Sametipour sayshis group has helped repatri-ate several hundred formerMEK members, and he saysthey are now living normallives in Iran.Mr. SAMETIPOUR: Right af-

ter fall of Saddam Hussein,Iranian government had an-nounced officially that there isan amnesty for those who arewilling to return home. Wehave talked to many authori-ties over here and this is atruth that, you know, whenthey come back over here toIran there won't be any prisonwaiting for them. They can

just live like any other citizen.SHUSTER: When Sametipourwas in Iraq recently he con-cluded that the U.S. is notreally sure what it wants to dowith those in Camp Ashraf.Some in the U.S. government,he fears, may still be temptedto use them as a bargainingchip with Iran.That may also be the case be-tween the government of Iranand Iraq. The issue was onthe agenda when Iran's presi-dent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,traveled to Baghdad in early

March for talks with Iraq'spresident, Jalal Talibani. Iraq'sgovernment may simply takecustody of these people ifthey are released by the U.S.In that case their fate mayfigure significantly in the fu-ture of relations between Iraqand Iran.

Mike Shuster, NPR (the Na-tional Public Radio) News.

Efforts to Return Exiles to Iran Problematic

(Mike Shuster reporting from Tehran)



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NPR News

Morning

EditionApril 28,

2008

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89990559RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

This is MORNING EDITIONfrom NPR News. I'm ReneeMontagne.STEVE INSKEEP, host:

And I'm Steve Inskeep. Goodmorning. We're about to bringyou up to date on a groupthat's called a terrorist organi-zation or even a cult. It'scalled those things but it's un-der the protection of the U.S.military. It's a group of Irani-ans. They want to overthrowIran's government and theyare in exile right now in Iraq.We're going to hear thismorning from both sides ofthe border about one of thestranger stories to emergefrom the war. The story cen-ters around the Iranian exileswho call themselves the Peo-ple's Mujahideen, or MEK.Their U.S.-protected camp iscalled Camp Ashraf. NPR'sAnne Garrels begins with thestory of one woman who es-caped them.ANNE GARRELS: Last springafter living in Camp Ashraf forhalf her life, 40-year-old Batul

Soltani made a run for it. Shefled to the nearby Americanmilitary compound. ThoughU.S. soldiers protect Ashraffrom outside attacks, Batulsays they do nothing to stopthe MEK from continuing topersecute its members.Ms. BATUL SOLTANI(Former Member, MEK):(Through translator) The MEKleadership remains in control

in the camp and we had nochoice but to stay. We were

under psychological andphysical pressure. The U.S.does nothing inside Ashraf.They allow the MEK to terror-ize the inmates.GARRELS: Until the U.S. in-vasion, the MEK carried outcross-border attacks againstthe government in Tehran. Italso helped Saddam Husseintarget his enemies at home.The new Iraqi governmentmade up of those former ene-mies has no love for the MEK.After the U.S. invasion,American soldiers disarmedthe militants and set upcheckpoints around the campto protect its members from

Iraqi retribution. Some in theBush administration and Con-gress believe the MEK could

be a useful ally against theIranian government, thoughU.S. officials say that view isno longer widely held. Theyand the Iraqi governmentwould like the militants atCamp Ashraf to leave thecountry. A few hundred havefled but Batul says most cultmembers cannot act freely,either because they've beenbrainwashed or because of

MEK pressure.Ms. SOLTANI: (Through

translator) I never saw theRed Cross or American sol-diers inside the camp. TheMEK leadership manipulatesanyone who comes in so theysee only what they want themto see.GARRELS: Recruited in Te-hran as a teenager, Batul saysher dreams of overthrowingthe Iranian governmentturned into a nightmare. Onceshe and her young husbandarrived in Ashraf, all coupleswere ordered to divorce. Herchildren were taken away.Ms. SOLTANI: (Throughtranslator) My son was sixmonths old and my daughterwas five. They said you can'tkeep your children here. Wewill send them overseas toEurope. I have not seen mychildren in 16 years.GARRELS: MEK commandersalso took away the members'documents and warned them

they would be arrested bySaddam's security if they triedto leave. Then after the U.S.invasion, Batul says MEK lead-ers warned them the Ameri-cans would kill anyone wholeft. Batul says she stayed onhoping if she were a dutifulmember she would eventuallybe reunited with both her chil-dren and her husband. Finallya year ago she stole a car,made a dash for a U.S. check-

point, and was given refugeby the American military.She's now searching for herchildren.Ms. SOLTANI: (Throughtranslator) I am asking Irani-ans all over the world if theyknow anything about my chil-dren. The Mujahideen won'ttell me where they are.

(cont. on the last page)

U.S.- Protected I ranian Exiles in Limbo in I raq

(Anne Garrels reporting from Baghdad)



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Repatriating after being paid by Mojahedin Khalq(Rajavi cult or MKO)!

Nejat Society, Tehran,April 23, 2008

http:/ / ww w.nejatngo.org/ ind

ex_en.php?news_id=850

Nejat Society visited Mr. Man-sour Asari

Nejat Association had talks withMr. Mansour Asari who recentlydefected from MKO and joined hisfamily in Iran, at Nejat NGOsTehran office:Im Mansour Assari, the son ofMojtaba. I was born in Khansar,in 1972. In July, 2000, I was re-cruited by MKO in Turkey where Ihad gone to reach Europe later.Then they sent me to Camp Ash-raf.In 2004, after the organizationwas disarmed, I found an oppor-tunity to leave MEK andjoin TIPF.Immediately after Istepped in Ashraf, I fig-ured out that I have noth-ing in common with MKOsideology and functions.Every thing was contradic-tory to what I saw onMKOs satellite TV but I

was afraid of expressingmy opinion because theywould cause too muchpressure on me in their socalled current operations(self-criticizing meetings).I was told, in Turkey, thatthe exit of the organization is al-ways open but in camp Ashraf,Masud Rajavi and Nasrin ( Mah-vash Sepehri) told clearly thatany one who is willing to leavethe organization, has to confess,in front of the cameras, that heor she is the agent of Iranian In-

telligence Ministry and then writeand sign what she/ he has said.Therefore, I kept quiet waiting fora chance to leave.In TIPF, no country would like toreceive us since the MKO is onthe terror list. In January 2008, Ileft TIPF, without any money andreturned to Ashraf since thegroup had announced that theywould give money to any onewho wants to go to Europe. Wewere 5 people who returned to

Ashraf. There, Zhila Deihim,RezaMoradi,Mohammad Ali Salehi andHamid Araste and Yousef Anbazencountered us. We stayed with

them for 21 days. Mohammad AliSalehi talked to me to convinceme to stay there, he took me tothe entrance part. Nemat Oulaieeand Adel (Mohammad Sadat Dar-bandi) tried to keep me but fi-nally I said to Batul Rajaiee: Iam insistent to leave they paid1800 $,took my signature andreceipt. I left Ashraf for Turkeywhere the defectors of the or-ganization helped me be settledin Istanbul.I called my family and explainedeverything. A few days after theIranians New Year, my parentscame to Istanbul to visit me.They were always crying duringour visit but I had no feeling. I

couldnt recognize them at first,because they had become tooold. After a while, I felt my feel-ings starting to revive and beganto cry. Up to that time, I had de-cided not to return to Iran since Ithought it was treason to the or-ganization. But the logic was re-

placing my fanatic cult-likethoughts. I felt that I loved myfamily and country. When I wasassured that I would have notrouble in Iran, I decided to re-turn with my family. They wereready to help me go to Europebut I wanted to go nowhere ex-cept Iran. I arrived in Iran thisMarch without any problem. Iplan to work here, building mynew life.In my opinions, all those who are

in MKO, are captives and de-served to be released. I was im-prisoned in Ashraf psychologicallyand physically. In fact the fear of

the peer pressure and mentalbars, had kept me in Camp Ash-raf. Most of the members of Ash-raf have no way out. It is evendifficult to leave Ashraf and Jointhe TIPF. When you are kept in aplace like Ashraf, you feel theworld is limited to that only place.They try to inspire the membersthe illusion of being the superiorpeople of the world.As a matter of fact, I had an ex-traordinary experience. I had to-tally forgotten all my family,emotions and love. Visiting myfamily helped me a lot, find mynormal life style reviving my hu-man emotions. Now, I realizewhy MKO is terrified by family

contacts, why the cultssee the families as theirenemies.The reality is that MKOpaid the money to Mr.Assari and some otherdefectors to leave Iraq.But the question is thatwhy MKO didnt do such athing in all those previous

years and didnt try tohelp the other separatedmembers who had lost abig part of their life. Atthe first view one maythink that MKO doesntwant them to return to

Iran. But this reason is not ac-ceptable since they could help thedefectors in the past too but theydidnt . The reason of such achange in MKOs behavior cannotbe anything but the trip Mr. Ma-sud Khodabande took in Iraq andthe meetings he had with Iraqi

authorities discussing the MKOaffairs in Iraq and the result wasthe foundation of SFF (SaharFamily Foundation ) . This actionwill absolutely be a changingpoint in MKOs activities in Iraq.At the present time the most ter-rifying problem for MKO is themembers joining to SFF since thetestimonies made by these peo-ple will from an important part ofMKO criminal case in Iraqicourts.



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Anne Singleton,

April 10 2008

Background

In a message issued in

2006, Mojahedin leader

Massoud Rajavi set his cult

members a deadline of

January 2009 by which

time he told them if theMojahedin had not over-

thrown the Islamic Republic

of Iran, then all the resi-

dents of Camp Ashraf

would be free to stay or

leave: Anyone who wants

may leave, and I will my-

self throw out all those who

are worthless. I will keep

the rest who are pure, and

then, I will tell them what

they can do for me.

Although Rajavi has index-

linked his group to the for-

tunes of the American Ad-

ministration for the pastfive years, cult experts un-

derstand that such dead-

lines and threats are es-

sentially meaningless in

terms of actual action. But

they are part of a powerful

armoury of tactics which

cult leaders use in order to

threaten, frighten and co-

erce members into staying

in a cult and not facing the

outside world. Members of

the Rajavi cult will certainly

have been galvanized by

fear provoked by this dead-

line. The worst fear of a

Rajavi cultist is to be ex-

pelled from the cult and la-

belled an agent of the Ira-

nian regime.

The main tactic which the

Rajavi cult uses to inculcate

artificial fear in members is

to depict the world outside

of the cult as peopled by

the enemy. The Rajavi

cult members are indoctri-

nated with the belief that

they face an imminent, all-

pervasive yet unspecified

threat of annihilation from

agents of the Iranian re-

gime; a generic labelwhich encompasses every-

one who challenges the

false reality which the

members live by. In this

way they see even close

family members as ene-

mies. It can produce such a

climate of fear that cult

members do not even trust

one another any more.

In this atmosphere of in-

duced fear and paranoia,

the clock on Massoud Ra-

javis deadline is ticking.

The focal point of events

which will determine the

future of his cult is Camp

Ashraf. The following diary

describes events at the

camp.

(to read the full text ofthe article please referto Camp Ash ra f Coun t - dow n by Anne Sing le -

t o n a t I r a n -Interlink.org)

http://iran-

inter-link.org/?mod=view&id=3737

Camp Ashraf Countdown by Anne Singleton



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I ranian Exiles in Limbo (cont)

PERIODICALPUBLI CATION OF THE

NEJAT SO CIETY

officials speaking on back-ground say it's not safe forAmerican soldiers to go intothe camp. U.S. and U.N. offi-cials say they cannot forcemembers to go back to Iranagainst their wishes. But theU.N. has not found othercountries willing to take them.The clock is ticking.Under a new status of forcesagreement, the Iraqi govern-ment will likely take control ofAshraf by the end of the year.Caught at the end of a press

conference, General DouglasStone, who's currently incharge of Ashraf, made itclear he would like this messto go away. He said it's goingto be discussed with theIraqis, adding, things like thisdon't go on forever, right? Butafter five years he still has nosolution.Anne Garrels, NPR News,

Baghdad.

(cont. form page 5)

GARRELS: Defectors say theMujahideen keep those wish-ing to leave out of sight. As-ghar Farzin says he was oneof the lucky ones. An Ameri-can colonel during an initialsearch of Ashraf five yearsago discovered him by chancein an MEK prison.Mr. ASGHAR FARZIN (MEKDefector): One day someoneknocked my door. I sawAmerican commander because

I can explain for him in Eng-lish, he sat next to me andlistened to me.GARRELS: With the help ofthe American officer and theRed Cross, he was able toleave Ashraf. But he says oth-ers still there need help andcounseling.Though they acknowledge asignificant number of cultmembers are trapped, U.S.

Address

P. O. Box 14395/679

Tehran, IranFax: 88 96 10 31

[email protected]

Were on the Web

www.nejatngo.org

Nejat Society

Group of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi

cult) defectors arrived in France

BBC persian, April 06, 2008:http:/ / ww w.bbc.co.uk/ persian/ iran/story/2008/ 04/ 080405_bd-mko.shtml

Reported by BBC originally in Persian, a group ofMojahedin-e Khalqs detached members arrived inFrance. It is the first of a number of groups thatmanaged to leave Iraq for a Western country.

In the past months, groups of separated membershave struggled to get to Western countries throughneighboring countries. Many of them were arrestedespecially in Turkish borders and were returned toIraq. Following Saddams fall, a big number of MKOsmembers held within the Camp Ashraf against theirwill, found the opportunity to escape the cult andtake refuge in an American-run temporary facility notproperly accommodated for the huge number ofdefectors.

A reported number of 380 have already returned to

Iran under the auspices of the ICRC but there are stillmany who have filled to be granted refuge in Westerncountries.

Link to BBC radio report on the subject (P ersian)http:/ / iran-interlink.org/ fa/ ?mod=view&id=4279

Link to Aria Association report:http:/ / iran-interlink.org/ fa/ ?mod=view&id=4281

The use of proscribed

Terrorist MKO by CIA

and Pentagon in Iraq

The news was first publishedby ALseyassah in Arabic onApril 20, 2008http://www.alseyassah.com

The Iranian Foreign Ministryspokesman, Mohammad-AliHosseini, on Sunday de-nounced the US for supportingterrorism in Iraq.http://www.irna.ir/

This is while the latest reviewof the US list of terrorist or-ganisations released on April08, 2008 has kept MojahedinKhalq Organisation and its ali-ases on the list of FTOrganisa-tions.http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-eng-lish/2008/April/20080410111249xjsnommis0.111355.html

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