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http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/massoud-khodabandeh/secretary-clinton-trapped-falsedichotomy
Massoud Khodabandeh
Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UN which would allow more time and give oversight of the eviction process to the UN and to representatives of the EU and US. The Iraqis have kept their side of bargain the deadline for the MEKs departure was extended and negotiations were facilitated to persuade the MEK to cooperate in a move from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty where the UNHCR would be able to assess each individual for refugee status. (Remember that no external body, including the GOI, has been able to freely access the inside of Camp Ashraf since the fall of Saddam Hussein.) The first 800 individuals have now moved and another 800 are lined up to move over the next few days in two groups of 400. The MEK leader has not been able to exploit the situation and kill any hostages. The GOI has control of the situation. UNAMI has been rigorous in its supervision of the move and, by enforcing its own rules and regulations has not allowed propaganda to overshadow activities at either camp. Facilities at the new camp were approved by UN inspectors, the ICRC has been involved and behind the scene EU and US special advisors have been keeping a watchful eye on events. The MEK has character assassinated UNAMI and its officials, and others, in the media but UNAMI has not been diverted by the efforts of the MEK and their backers. But one pernicious factor which has actively impeded proper progress in this task has been the support given to the MEK by Israelis and US Neoconservatives whose clear intent is to politicise what is essentially a humanitarian situation. The MEK is a well-honed tool in the hands of these ideologues and is used to incite hatred against Iran and Iraq among ignorant and lazy political communities. The MEK is far too valuable for them to allow it to disappear. Most recently, the MEK has been used by Mossad to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. This being so will make it even more difficult for UNAMI to transfer them to third countries. This ruthless use of the MEK as a mercenary terrorist force has a direct impact on the situation of the hostages trapped in the camp; their future becomes all the more uncertain. But then, it has been all along, the clear intention of the MEKs paymasters to keep the MEK intact as a terrorist entity in Iraq, in total disregard for the human beings involved.
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The Vain Struggle to Keep Ashraf Open The ground reasons for the closure of Camp Ashraf are more than enough
... The ground reasons for the closure of Camp Ashraf are more than enough to present. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, made it clear that the camp had to be closed simultaneous with the exit of the American forces from Iraq. America also left the decision for the groups future to the Iraqi government. However, under outside pressures and to show its good-will for humanitarian reasons, the Iraqi Government agreed to extend the deadline for another six months, beginning October 2011 to the end of April 2012. However, a big bulk of MKOs propaganda machine is still concentrating on the issue of recognizing ...
Mojahedin.ws, March 27, 2012
All the current evidences indicate that the story of MKO is nearing its end in Iraq and closure of its bastion and the consequent expulsion of its insiders from Iraq are unquestionable. And the Rajavis themselves have come to learn the bare fact despite their advocates struggle on their behalf. Whatever we see coming out of the organizations propaganda apparatus drumming up support for the insiders and recognition of their rights is nothing more than a shrewd play by the leaders, with Rajavi at the top, to distract the outsiders from a different episode that is to occur in the future. The ground reasons for the closure of Camp Ashraf are more than enough to present. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, made it clear that the camp had to be closed simultaneous with the exit of the American forces from Iraq. America also left the decision for the groups future to the Iraqi government. However, under outside pressures and to show its good-will for humanitarian reasons, the Iraqi
Government agreed to extend the deadline for another six months, beginning October 2011 to the end of April 2012. However, a big bulk of MKOs propaganda machine is still concentrating on the issue of recognizing the rights of Camp Ashraf residents and strives on progress to keep the camp open and active in Iraq. Why is Rajavi on a struggle of securing his organizations stay in Iraq while he knows the efforts are foiled for certain reasons? Neither the Iraqi political potentiality allows the group to live nor does the organization itself feel safe to survive on the Iraqi soil, especially after the leaving of American forces. An idle organization with many imposed limitations would mean a rapid political and strategic deterioration and structural disintegration. The Iraqi government substituting the fallen dictator totally disappointed MKOs hope of having a replaced reliable patron. For clear as well as untold reasons Rajavi can neither continue his organizations stay on the Iraqi soil nor is Iraq willing to let it on its soil. In fact, further stay in Iraq is tantamount to an idle lingering that guarantees no political and strategic development for the organization. Besides, the heavy investment on some former American personalities and paying them thousands of dollars to speak in MKOs behalf in the groups occasionally held luxurious events resulted in much less than the least expectations. Above all, Rajavi came to the reality, particularly after the exit of American forces and handling the control of Ashraf to Iraq itself, that none of the orchestrated squawks and
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Jordan confirms rejection of building a camp for Iranian opposition to its territory
... A source in the Interior Ministry told Al Arab alyawm newspaper today that Jordan refused to agree the setting up of a camp "for the Iranian opposition, or any other opposition. Jordan is committed to its obligation that it should not interfere in the affairs of other countries." The source denied that Jordan was to have any discussions with any party for the construction of an Iranian refugee camp or reception of refugees. According to the newspaper, the Interior Ministry of Jordan was responding to a statement issued by National Council of Resistance of Iran (aka; Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, PMOI) which said ...
Kuwait News Agency, Amman, March 05 2012 Translated by Iran Interlink Link to the original news (Arabic) http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2225086&Language=ar Amman - 5-3 (KUNA) - Jordan reported here today the country's categorical rejection of a suggestion by the Iranian opposition group based in Camp Ashraf in Iraq to build a camp on Jordanian territory until they move to other countries. A source in the Interior Ministry told Al Arab alyawm newspaper today that Jordan refused to agree the setting up of a camp "for the Iranian opposition, or any other opposition. Jordan is committed to its obligation that it should not interfere in the affairs of other countries." The source denied that Jordan was to have any discussions with any party for the construction of an Iranian refugee camp or reception of refugees. According to the newspaper, the Interior Ministry of Jordan was responding to a statement issued by National Council of Resistance of Iran (aka; Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, PMOI) which said that the organisation (MKO) proposed to the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to transfer around 3000 residents from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty, near Baghdad. They had proposed to be given residence on a temporary basis in the border area near Jordan under the supervision of the Red Cross and the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at their own expense in an area which the Red Cross and the United Nations used during the Iraq war in 2003 where tents housed tens of thousands of asylum seekers fleeing the war...
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protests against the Iraqi Government and demonization of Nuri al-Maliki to prolong his organizations stay in Iraq could deter Iraqs decisiveness to expel the group. However, MKO has proved to be the untrusted party in any contract, the side that refuses to comply with the other side when there is a dispute to be settled peacefully. It spends big sums to challenge and its tone is hostile and threatening when called to parley. Typically, it is a shock and prepared to strike when you never expect it and double speaks when everything seems resolved and concluded. At least it is what has been going on during the past two months of the arrived agreement to move residents from Ashraf to Temporary Transit Location TTL. The deadline is nearing, less than two months, and still Rajavi is dillydallying. Probably, he is gambling on another trick to disappoint the Iraqi Government; but he has to be also alert to the possibility of a shock he never expects.
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If it wasnt because of the backing of Israel and the Neoconservatives, Rajavi would have had no choice but to open the doors of his closed totalitarian group and allow the individuals trapped inside to walk free. That is the aim of everyone on the ground working to resolve the situation in Iraq. In this respect it is no less the responsibility of the US Government to work with the international community to dismantle this terrorist group and rescue the hostages. But while the rest of the world is genuinely working toward a peaceful end to the camp and the release and resettlement of the hostages, it appears Secretary of State Clinton is somewhat ambiguous in her dealing with the situation. Based on a legal ruling, Clinton must make a decision by the end of March whether the State Department remove the MEK from its terrorism list or not. Presenting this as leverage she has introduced a unilateral condition to the MEKs removal from Iraq; if the MEK cooperate with UNAMI and the Government of Iraq, she has indicated, we will remove them from the US terrorism list. But cooperation with UNAMI is a legal obligation rather than an optional choice for the MEK. So what is really behind this position? On the surface this would appear as though the USG is prepared to do a political deal to get the MEK to leave Iraq (and in doing so gain credit with the Iraqi government). It is as though the MEK were a far distant uncontrollable threat to US security which needs careful handling to bring it under control before dismantling it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Everything that the MEKs western owners can do is being done to help the MEKs leader keep the doors to the camp closed, to keep the hostages inside and to deny them contact with their families even though this is against all humanitarian, moral or indeed criminal law. By talking about the terrorism list rather than talking about what is happening in Iraq Clinton is bowing to this pressure. Certainly if UNAMI is allowed to do its job properly with the support of all the international community there will not be an organisation left to be listed or not listed. By invoking the US terrorism list, the actual script appears to be whether the MEK can be more useful listed as terrorists or if they are not regarded as terrorists. This false choice disguises the real intent of its proponents which is to keep the group intact as a terrorist group so it can be rearmed and used. Secretary Clinton, indeed the whole government of America, needs to unhitch the politically charged consideration of the MEKs inclusion in the US terrorism list from the very real humanitarian situation in Iraq. If the USGs intention is really to deal properly with this terrorist group, it should reassert the humanitarian focus of American policy toward the MEK and unequivocally support the dismantlement process in Iraq.
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forces since 2003, agreed to be moved last month. U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in December. Also known as the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran, the group led a guerilla campaign against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran during the 1970s that included attacks on U.S. targets. As a result, the United States placed it on its list of foreign terrorist organizations. The group has said that it has renounced violence. BAN ON FINANCIAL SUPPORT Americans are banned from providing financial and other support to any group included on the so-called "Foreign Terrorist Organization" list, and its members or representatives are banned from entering the United States. Representatives for the group, which has also received support from several former senior U.S. government officials, had urged the court to intervene and force the administration to act or take the step itself of removing the group from the list. "Such relief would - despite the PMOI's long history of terrorism - remove an important barrier to the PMOI's ability to operate freely in the United States, and is clearly unwarranted here," the State Department told the court. "Moreover, an order directing the Secretary to act by a particular date is also inappropriate given the highly complex and delicate overall nature of the matter pending before her," it said. The State Department also warned that court action "would seriously interfere" with its efforts to resolve the Camp Ashraf situation. A lawyer for Iranian opposition group, Viet Dinh, said that they would respond by the April 2 deadline set by the court. "The important thing to recognize from the brief is that the Secretary recognizes her responsibility to delist the PMOI if it does not meet the statutory criteria, and she does not have any discretion to keep the group on the list simply out of national security concerns," he told Reuters. The appeals court has deferred a decision on whether it will hear oral arguments in the matter. The case is In re: People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, No. 12-1118. (Editing by Mohammad Zargham)q
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