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It was here that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) conducted training,

beginning in 2005, for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a dissident Iranian

opposition group known in the West as the M.E.K. The M.E.K. had its beginnings as a

Marxist-Islamist student-led group and, in the nineteen-seventies, it was linked to the

assassination of six American citizens. It was initially part of the broad-based revolution

that led to the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran. But, within a few years, the group

was waging a bloody internal war with the ruling clerics, and, in 1997, it was listed as a

foreign terrorist organization by the State Department. In 2002, the M.E.K. earned

some international credibility by publicly revealingaccuratelythat Iran had begun

enriching uranium at a secret underground location. Mohamed ElBaradei, who at the

time was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United

Nations nuclear monitoring agency, told me later that he had been informed that the

information was supplied by the Mossad. The M.E.K.s ties with Western intelligence

deepened after the fall of the Iraqi regime in 2003, and JSOC began operating inside Iran in an effort to substantiate the

Bush Administrations fears that Iran was building the bomb at one or more secret underground locations. Funds werecovertly passed to a number of dissident organizations, for intelligence collection and, ultimately, for anti-regime terrorist

activities. Directly, or indirectly, the M.E.K. ended up with resources like arms and intelligence. Some American-

supported covert operations continue in Iran today, according to past and present intelligence officials and military

consultants.

Despite the growing ties, and a much-intensified lobbying effort organized by its advocates, M.E.K. has remained on

the State Departments list of foreign terrorist organizationswhich meant that secrecy was essential in the Nevada

training. We did train them here, and washed them through the Energy Department because the D.O.E. owns all this

land in southern Nevada, a former senior American intelligence official told me. We were deploying them over long

distances in the desert and mountains, and building their capacity in communicationscordinating commo is a big

deal. (A spokesman for J.S.O.C. said that U.S. Special Operations Forces were neither aware of nor involved in thetraining of M.E.K. members.)

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From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energys Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and

remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas,was once used for nuclear testing, and now includes a counterintelligence training facility and a private airport

capable of handling Boeing 737 aircraft. Its a restricted area, and inhospitablein certain sections, the curious are

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It is not exactly clear why certain MKO-run websites are

making sorts of suppositions about an ongoing American

lobbying for the transfer of MKOs terrorist elements to five

friendly nations and allies of America in the Middle East,

namely Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Qatar and

Pakistan. Although not verified, these countries are claimed

to have agreed to a series of security and intelligence

agreements with America. The remarkable point to refer is

that almost all these countries share borders with Iran.

Azerbaijan and Pakistan have common land borders with

Iran while Saudi Arabia and Qatar share maritime borders.

Jordan is also a country that has a common border with

Syria.

Regardless of the accuracy of such suppositions, the bare

truth is that, for certain reasons and a mutually reached

security agreement, the US is doing its best to locate the

members of MKO in third countries. The Western countries

have already disagreed to accept a quota for these terrorist

elements although the group is removed from the EU

terrorist list. No other country members of the United Nation

have so far have accepted to receive them on their soil. In

his briefing to the UN Security Council on 10 April, Martin

Kobler, Special Representative of the Secretary-General,

said that:

I reiterate my call to Members States to accept the

residents of the Camp [Ashraf] in their countries. Now that

UNHCR has begun its work, it is high time for the

international community to accept eligible candidates and

fund the relocation process. The support of the

international community is urgently needed. I welcomed the

joint UNHCR-UNAMI resettlement conference which took

place in Geneva on 23 March. More than 30 Member

States participated. However, no country, has committed to

accept residents. A donors appeal meeting also took place

the same day seeking to raise 39 million USD fund for the

Ashraf project. Only one Member State made a concrete

pledge and this falls far behind what we had hoped. Withoutinternational support, the process cannot succeed.

Then the undisputed fact is that no country in the West

Is the US Lobbying for the Settlement of MKO?

American is lobbying for the transfer of MKOs elements to five Arab allies

Mojahedin.ws, April 23, 2012

http://www.mojahedin.ws/en/?p=16115

risks to

receive

bunches

of

terrorists

on their

soil under

any

humanitarian or other causes. The only choice remained

are some middle-Eastern countries over whom the US has a

hegemonic influence as his allies. And of course, if any of

them might ever welcome such an imposed offer, it would

be because of the promises and guarantees that the US will

have to fulfill.

However, Rajavi is not unwilling to leave Iraq as well since

he has no other choice but to submit to the decisiveness of

the Iraqi government to expel the group. But for some

reasons he prefers to be settled in one of the countries in

the region rather than moving to a Western country. In

general, in the West there exists no promising future for the

political-organizational survival of the group. Rajavi knows

well that his organization is regarded in the West as a group

that still carries potential and active threats. He has the

previous experience of a short span settlement in France;

soon he came to understanding that he could not parry the

blows of a capitalist and bourgeois society and found that

the sole alternative was to move to Iraq to survive. Thesettlement in Ashraf was like the injection of a new life into

the group.

There in Iraq, Ashraf was turned into a cult bastion with all

potentialities of a dangerous cult of personality run by the

Rajavi couples. The formation of a Liberation Army added to

the threatening might of the group through which a new

wave of terrorist operations raged through Iran. In the eyes

of a Western country the Ashraf residents are just the same

members of the army that carry the very same threatening

potentialities and for sure, none of them welcomes theseready to launch missiles as Rajavi refers to his forces.

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mentioned five countries much pleases Rajavi because proximity to Iranian borders is a precious advantage; still the group

remains a military and espionage threat. Besides, it lingers as a ready-to-use tool in the case of any American or Israeli

military option against Iran. It should be reminded that despite claims of denouncing terrorism, MKO through the past

decade has been trying to win Americans favor by displaying its military and espionage potentiality. But regardless of this

willingness, it is the other side of the coin that is of any importance, the Americans themselves. It means that the US under

no condition accepts to take the organization to the West since it is aware of the possible consequences of such a

transfer. Still it needs MKO and prefers to shelter and watch over it in lands far away but enough close at hand for the day

to come.

Both America and MKO have come to realize that the group is actually useless and passive on Iraqi soil. The new Iraq is

no more a tool in the hands of America, like Saddam, to be used against Iran. However, the US seems to be still under the

illusion that MKO can be a bargaining chip in dealing with Iran and that is because it may have failed to have a proper

analysis of a bankrupt group whose main struggle is to survive. The disadvantages of accepting MKO overweighs the

advantages and hardly any country accepts the risk of housing it. Will any of the five mentioned countries let a terrorist

group on its soil when another neighbor has menaced it with immediate expulsion? It is a question of logic and politics.

Iraq's Human Rights Minister, Mohamed Shaya Sudani, said on Wednesday that one hundred members of the Mojahedin-

e Khalq had been removed from Iraq at their own request.

On the sidelines of a joint press conference with Martin Kobler, Sudani told Al Sabah, "The winding up of the agreement

between the ministry and the United Nations includes the removal of members of the MEK from the country. They are

being moved gradually from Diyala to Baghdad, in order to keep this agreement on track...

Sudani pointed out that "the transfer process was being interspersed with interviews of individual members by the High

Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in order to ascertain their choice to voluntary return to their country of origin or to

apply for asylum for any country in the world; this resulted in the transfer of some 100 of them to other countries". Sudani

warned that "the transfer of MEK members from one place to another part of the country is not a final solution to the

problem and is not compatible with human rights standards. Because they are not accepted by the international

community their stay in Iraq is being prolonged, which is incompatible with the laws in force and the new policy in the

country and the government's decision to expel them from Iraq."

He explained that "no organization or party has accurate statistics on the number present in the camp, either before the

transfer or now. This is the responsibility of the international community, as members of the organization prevented entry

of any party, whether government or non-governmental, to the camp to undertake an accurate count of the numbers either

when they were under the American administration or the government of Iraq..."

http://www.iran-interlink.org/index.php?mod=view&id=12223

Human Rights Minster confirms the removal of 100MEK from Iraq

Wafaa Amer, Al Sabah Newspaper, Baghdad, April 26 2012

(Translated by Iran Interlink)

Link to the original news (Arabic)

http://www.alsabaah.com/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=25973

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Companies representing former FBI Director Louis Freeh

and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Hugh

Shelton have received federal subpoenas as part of a

Treasury Department investigation into the source of

payments to ex-federal officials who openly advocated for

removing an Iranian dissident group from the State

Departments terror list, sources told NBC News.

The Treasury Department also sent a subpoena to a

speaking company for former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed

Rendell, an MSNBC contributor, who made $160,000

throughout 2011 for appearing at conferences and rallies

in places like Paris, Brussels and Geneva.

Federal investigators are looking to see if these officials

took payments from the Peoples Mujahedin of Iran (MEK),

a designated terrorist group, and thereby violating federal

law barring financial dealings with terrorist groups, NBCs

Michael Isikoff reported.

Speakers often charged $30,000 or more per talk and

took first-class flights. According to NBCs anonymous

sources, the speaking fees totalled hundreds of thousands

of dollars. The former officials under investigation,

however, say that they were told the payments came from

wealthy American and foreign supporters of the MEK, not

Ex-federal officials investigated after

advocating for terrorist groupDailly Caller, April 18 2012Matt Potter, Suniego reader, July 27, 2011

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/18/ex-federal-officials-investigated-after-advocating-for-terrorist-group/

new wave of terrorist operations raged through Iran. In the eyes of a Western country the Ashraf

residents are just the same members of the army that carry the very same threatening

potentialities and for sure, none of them welcomes these ready to launch missiles as Rajavi refers to his forces.

Resettlement in any of the mentioned five countries much pleases Rajavi because proximity to Iranian borders is a

precious advantage; still the group remains a military and espionage threat. Besides, it lingers as a ready-to-use tool in the

case of any American or Israeli military option against Iran. It should be reminded that despite claims of denouncing

terrorism, MKO through the past decade has been trying to win Americans favor by displaying its military and espionage

potentiality. But regardless of this willingness, it is the other side of the coin that is of any importance, the Americans

themselves. It means that the US under no condition accepts to take the organization to the West since it is aware of the

possible consequences of such a transfer. Still it needs MKO and prefers to shelter and watch over it in lands far away but

enough close at hand for the day to come.

Both America and MKO have come to realize that the group is actually useless and passive on Iraqi soil. The new Iraq is

no more a tool in the hands of America, like Saddam, to be used against Iran. However, the US seems to be still under the

illusion that MKO can be a bargaining chip in dealing with Iran and that is because it may have failed to have a proper

analysis of a bankrupt group whose main struggle is to survive. The disadvantages of accepting MKO overweighs the

advantages and hardly any country accepts the risk of housing it. Will any of the five mentioned countries let a terrorist

group on its soil when another neighbor has menaced it with immediate expulsion? It is a question of logic and politics.

Gov. Ed Rendell,


the group itself. They also say

they resent any suggestion

they are assisting a terrorist

group.

Shelton argued that the MEK is a legitimate resistance

group, working to overthrow the Iranian government, which

he called Americas number one enemy.

John Sullivan, a spokesman for the Treasury Department,

said in an email to Isikoff: The MEK is a designated terrorist

group, therefore U.S. persons are generally prohibited from

engaging in transactions with or providing services to this

group. The Treasury Department takes sanctions

enforcement seriously and routinely investigates potential

violations of sanctions law.

But why did the Treasury Department decide to investigate

now? NBC News believes that one possible clue was anemail sent by a small Pennsylvania-based firm called

Speakers Access, inviting a Washington-based national

security expert to speak at a conference in Geneva on

behalf of our client, National Council of Resistance of Iran,

Foreign Affairs Committee which is considered by the

Treasury Department to be an alias of the MEK.


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to continue to maintain the M.E.K. on the terrorist list.

How can the U.S. train those on States foreign terrorist

list, when others face criminal penalties for providing a

nickel to the same organization?

Robert Baer, a retired C.I.A. agent who is fluent in

Arabic and had worked under cover in Kurdistan and

throughout the Middle East in his career, initially had told

me in early 2004 of being recruited by a private

American companyworking, so he believed, on behalf of

the Bush Administrationto return to Iraq. They wanted

me to help the M.E.K. collect intelligence on Irans

nuclear program, Baer recalled. They thought I knew

Farsi, which I did not. I said Id get back to them, but

never did. Baer, now living in California, recalled that it

was made clear to him at the time that the operation wasa long-term thingnot just a one-shot deal.

Massoud Khodabandeh, an I.T. expert now living in

England who consults for the Iraqi government, was an

official with the M.E.K. before defecting in 1996. In a

telephone interview, he acknowledged that he is an

avowed enemy of the M.E.K., and has advocated against

the group. Khodabandeh said that he had been with the

group since before the fall of the Shah and, as a

computer expert, was deeply involved in intelligence

activities as well as providing security for the M.E.K.leadership. For the past decade, he and his English wife

have run a support program for other defectors.

Khodabandeh told me that he had heard from more

recent defectors about the training in Nevada. He was

told that the communications training in Nevada involved

more than teaching how to keep in contact during

attacksit also involved communication intercepts. The

United States, he said, at one point found a way to

penetrate some major Iranian communications systems.

At the time, he said, the U.S. provided M.E.K. operatives

with the ability to intercept telephone calls and text

messages inside Iranwhich M.E.K. operatives

translated and shared with American signals intelligence

experts. He does not know whether this activity is

ongoing.

Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated

since 2007. M.E.K. spokesmen have denied any

involvement in the killings, but early last month NBC

News quoted two senior Obama Administration officials

as confirming that the attacks were carried out by M.E.K.

units that were financed and trained by Mossad, the

Israeli secret service. NBC further quoted the

Administration officials as


a separate interview, a retired four-star general, who has

advised the Bush and Obama Administrations on national-

security issues, said that he had been privately briefed in2005 about the training of Iranians associated with the

M.E.K. in Nevada by an American involved in the program.

They got the standard training, he said, in commo, crypto

[cryptography], small-unit tactics, and weaponrythat went

on for six months, the retired general said. They were kept

in little pods. He also was told, he said, that the men doing

the training were from JSOC, which, by 2005, had become a

major instrument in the Bush Administrations global war on

terror. The JSOC trainers were not front-line guys who had

been in the field, but second- and third-tier guystrainers and

the likeand they started going off the reservation. If were

going to teach you tactics, let me show you some really sexy

stuff

It was the ad-hoc training that provoked the worried

telephone calls to him, the former general said. I told one of

the guys who called me that they were all in over their heads,

and all of them could end up trouble unless they gotsomething in writing. The Iranians are very, very good at

counterintelligence, and stuff like this is just too hard to

contain. The site in Nevada was being utilized at the same

time, he said, for advanced training of lite Iraqi combat

units. (The retired general said he only knew of the one

M.E.K.-affiliated group that went though the training course;

the former senior intelligence official said that he was aware

of training that went on through 2007.)

Allan Gerson, a Washington attorney for the M.E.K., notes

that the M.E.K. has publicly and repeatedly renounced terror.Gerson said he would not comment on the alleged training in

Nevada. But such training, if true, he said, would be

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Honorable President of USA , Mr. Barack Obama

Greetings

I , Homayoon Kahzadi , am the separated member of pmoi ,Rajavis cult who had spent 15 years of my life in this cult(mko,pmoi,Rajavis cult). Today I am very happy and joyfulthat I can write such a letter to you in the free world insupport of my friends who are still in Rajavis cultic

captivity .

Mr. President

An Iranian proverb says, when a member of a body is hurt

by time ,the other members will react.

Since I have experienced a very harsh and terrifying ordealin Ashraf garrison and since I have tolerated many severetortures and prisons in Rajavis cult and since I have seenand observed many cruelty and bloodshed by Rajavis cultso I as a reliable witness would like to draw your attention

to the following subjects:

Any delay in the trial of pmoi leadership is inappropriateand unacceptable because the presence of this cult inEuropean countries is much more dangerous thanexplosion of an atomic bomb and I urge you not to allowthem to expand their terrorist activities in your country as

well as European countries .

Being silent in front of such terrorist and cutthroat cultwhich is not committed to any international regulations and

rules of law, is considered as humane behavior?

Closing eyes upon their terrorist past and the breach ofhuman rights by them (by invoking to the human rightswatch report) is not like training and breeding a deadly and

poisonous snake by our hands?

Have you thought seriously about the consequences of

mujahedin terrorist cult and their activities?

The leadership of mujahedins cult has perpetrated awfuldeeds ranging from terrorism and assassination to moneylaundering and schismatizing among parties and interfering

in other countries affaires , for instance;

Fake and false propaganda and flashy vote of a court of lawin Spain against the Iraq prime minister which does nothave any lawful prestige among other countries for

instance:

The Ashraf scuffles which has been carried out by the directorder of Rajavi , they pretend that those scuffles are USfault. I draw your attention to the following topics which the

pmoi leadership have issued them in their Media:Maryam Rajavis speech ( after the representatives speech

in the US congress hearing session)

From now on the responsibility of any blood which is shed in

Ashraf , is on USA and the Iranian resistance is no longerready to negotiate about the relocation of Ashraf residents

inside Iraq.

The Rajavis cult site , the article written by ManochehrHezarkhani by the title An intermediate for US plan:

I do not know when the European representatives see

this badger ambassador, how they feel

The Rajavis cult site has published an article by the titleAshraf camp the criteria of sincerity in US idiotic policy which is written by Sanabargh Zahedi one of the cult

members .

Mr. President

This cult which has not left Iraq yet , has begun stragglingwith principals and policies of other countries , wait and

see while they reach to European and Americancountries ,what they will do !

The ringleaders of this cult have issued the death decreeand harassment of all separated members and theirdissidents and opponents throughout the world and theythreaten the family of those captives who want to see theirloved ones and they insult the Iraqi government by calling

them names such as mercenary and traitor.

Yes there is no trust on wolves , so I urge you to confinethis terrorist cult by all means and stop all their activitieswhich ends up to violence and bloodshed and surrender

the cult ringleaders to the justice .

Respectfully

Homayoon Kahzadi

23-4-2012/ paris

Open letter to the President of USA , Mr. Barack ObamaHomayoon Kahzadi, Yaran Association, Paris, April 24 2012

http://iran-yaran.fr/middle/1010-kohzadi.HTM


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http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=12229

Hoshyar Zebari calls for

European countries to resettleresidents of Camp AshrafAl Sumerian News, Baghdad, April 27 2012

Translated by Iran Interlink

Link to the original report (Arabic)

http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/1/40514/news-

details-Iraq%20politics%20news.html

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, on Thursday,

asked European countries to resettle residents of Camp

Ashraf in their countries, saying that without this the

process of transfer to Camp Liberty is threatened withfailure.

A Foreign Ministry statement received by Alsumaria

News, reported that "Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari

discussed today with the President of the United Nations

Mission in Iraq Martin Kobler the issue of Camp Ashraf

and ways that Iraq would meet its humanitarian and

international obligations," indicating that "Iraq has

demanded that European states accept to resettle

them, and without this the ongoing process between

Iraq and UNAMI to move them [MEK] to Camp Liberty isthreatened with failure."

...On February 17th the Iraqi government, in

coordination with the United Nations, moved 400

residents of Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty in western

Baghdad in the first transfer of MEK members outside

Diyala province since April 2003.

The United Nations mission (UNAMI) said in a statement

issued at the end of January that the infrastructure and

facilities in camp Liberty comply with international

humanitarian standards set forth in a memorandum of

understanding signed between the Iraqi government

and the United Nations...


denying any American involvement in the M.E.K. activities. Theformer senior intelligence official I spoke with seconded the

NBC report that the Israelis were working with the M.E.K.,

adding that the operations benefitted from American

intelligence. He said that the targets were not Einsteins;

The goal is to affect Iranian psychology and morale, he said,

and to demoralize the whole systemnuclear delivery

vehicles, nuclear enrichment facilities, power plants. Attacks

have also been carried out on pipelines. He added that the

operations are primarily being done by M.E.K. through liaison

with the Israelis, but the United States is now providing the

intelligence. An adviser to the special-operations community

told me that the links between the United States and M.E.K.

activities inside Iran had been long-standing. Everything being

done inside Iran now is being done with surrogates, he said.

The sources I spoke to were unable to say whether the people

trained in Nevada were now involved in operations in Iran or

elsewhere. But they pointed to the general benefit of American

support. The M.E.K. was a total joke, the senior Pentagon

consultant said, and now its a real network inside Iran. How

did the M.E.K. get so much more efficient? he asked

rhetorically. Part of it is the training in Nevada. Part of it is

logistical support in Kurdistan, and part of it is inside Iran.

M.E.K. now has a capacity for efficient operations that it never

had before.

In mid-January, a few days after an assassination by car bomb

of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran, Secretary of Defense

Leon Panetta, at a town-hall meeting of soldiers at Fort Bliss,

Texas, acknowledged that the U.S. government has some

ideas as to who might be involved, but we dont know exactly

who was involved. He added, But I can tell you one thing: the

United States was not involved in that kind of effort. Thats not

what the United States does.

Illustration by Guy Billout.

five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed since 2007


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It is not exactly clear why certain MKO-run websites are making sorts

of suppositions about an ongoing American lobbying for the transfer

of MKOs terrorist elements to five friendly nations and allies of

America in the Middle East, namely Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Azerbaijan,

Qatar and Pakistan. Although not verified, these countries are claimed

to have agreed to a series of security and intelligence agreements

with America. The remarkable point to refer is that almost all these

countries share borders with Iran. Azerbaijan and Pakistan havecommon land borders with Iran while Saudi Arabia and Qatar share

maritime borders. Jordan is also a country that has a common border

with Syria.

Regardless of the accuracy of such suppositions, the bare truth is

that, for certain reasons and a mutually reached security agreement,

the US is doing its best to locate the members of MKO in third

countries. The Western countries have already disagreed to accept a

quota for these terrorist elements although the group is removed from

the EU terrorist list. No other country members of the United Nation

have so far have accepted to receive them on their soil. In his briefing

to the UN Security Council on 10 April, Martin Kobler, Special

Representative of the Secretary-General, said that:

I reiterate my call to Members States to accept the residents of the

Camp [Ashraf] in their countries. Now that UNHCR has begun its work,

it is high time for the international community to accept eligible

candidates and fund the relocation process. The support of the

international community is urgently needed. I welcomed the joint

UNHCR-UNAMI resettlement conference which took place in Geneva

on 23 March. More than 30 Member States participated. However, no

country, has committed to accept residents. A donors appeal meeting

also took place the same day seeking to raise 39 million USD fund forthe Ashraf project. Only one Member State made a concrete pledge

and this falls far behind what we had hoped. Without international

support, the process cannot succeed.

Then the undisputed fact is that no country in the West risks to

receive bunches of terrorists on their soil under any humanitarian or

other causes. The only choice remained are some middle-Eastern

countries over whom the US has a hegemonic influence as his allies.

And of course, if any of them might ever welcome such an imposed

offer, it would be because of the promises and guarantees that the US

will have to fulfill.

However, Rajavi is not unwilling to leave Iraq as well since he has no

other choice but to submit to the decisiveness of the Iraqi government

to expel the group. But for some reasons he prefers to be settled in


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one of the countries in the region rather than

moving to a Western country. In general, in the

West there exists no promising future for the

political-organizational survival of the group.

Rajavi knows well that his organization is

regarded in the West as a group that still carries

potential and active threats. He has the previous

experience of a short span settlement in France;

soon he came to understanding that he could not

parry the blows of a capitalist and bourgeoissociety and found that the sole alternative was to

move to Iraq to survive. The settlement in Ashraf

was like the injection of a new life into the group.

There in Iraq, Ashraf was turned into a cult

bastion with all potentialities of a dangerous cult

of personality run by the Rajavi couples. The

formation of a Liberation Army added to the

threatening might of the group through which a

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