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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today an-

nounced the appointment of Jane Holl Lute

as his Special Adviser for Relocation of Camp

Hurriya Residents Outside of Iraq.

Camp Hurriya, located near the Baghdad air-

port, is home to some 3,200 Iranian exiles,

many of them members of a group known as

the People's Mojahedeen of Iran who havebeen in Iraq since the 1980s.

Since 2011, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

together with the UN Assistance Mission for

Iraq (UNAMI), has been trying to find reloca-

tion opportunities outside Iraq for all camp

residents. So far, the international commu-

nity has secured relocation to third countries

for only 311 residents.

In her new role, Ms. Holl Lute, a citizen of the United States, will work with a wide range of stakeholders, in particular

Member States, to assist in relocating the camp residents, according to a statement from Mr. Ban's spokesperson.

Among her previous roles, Ms. Holl Lute served as the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support and

Assistant Secretary-General for Mission Support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO).

Ms. Holl Lute most recently held the post of US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. She was also the Executive Vice-

President and Chief Operating Officer of the UN Foundation and the Better World Fund, among other positions.

The newly appointed UN official will work with Mr. Ban's Special Representative in Iraq and UNAMI head, Nickolay Mlade-

nov, who last week reiterated that the Iraqi Government bears the responsibility for protecting the camp's residents, as

part of an agreement it signed with the UN in 2011.

Camp Hurriya, as well as Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) which had previously housed the group, have been targeted

for violent attacks.

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Ban appoints Jane Holl Lute

to aid relocation of Iranian

exiles in Iraq

Un.org,, January 5, 2014

Jane Holl Lute
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The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and the Of-

fice of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released

the Half Yearly Report on Human Rights, covering the period

from January to June 2013.

Extract from the report (PDF file):[...]11.1 Camp New Iraq (Camp Ashraf)/ Camp Hurriya (CampLiberty)In accordance with the memorandum of understanding

signed with the Government of Iraq in December 2011,

UNAMI continued to conduct daily monitoring visits to Camp

Hurriya, where more than 3,000 members of the Peoples

Mujahedin Organization of Iran/Mujahedin-e-Khalq (PMOI/

MeK) an organisation formally listed by a number of

States as a terrorist organisation are currently based.

On 9 February and 15 June Camp Hurriya was subjected to

rocket attacks. In the first attack, eight residents were killed

and, according to staff at the Government-run clinic in the

Camp, a further 71 were injured. As a result of the second

incident, two residents lost their lives. The SRSG publicly

condemned both attacks and called on the Government of

Iraq to take appropriate measures to ensure the protection

and safety of the residents. In the aftermath of the February

attack the residents leadership demanded, inter alia, to

return to Camp Ashraf and that they be provided with large

T walls for all accommodation blocs and amenities (totalling

some 17,000 large T walls), personal protective equipment

(PPE) for each resident, and 380 bunkers in addition to the

120 already present in the camp. By the end of the report-

ing period, the Government of Iraq had provided 296 bun-

kers and 591 small T-walls but had refused the residents

leaders request for a return to Camp Ashraf, for personal

protective equipment and for large T walls.

UNHCR has continued to work towards identifying individu-

als in need of international protection and durable solutions

for the residents of Camp Hurriya. As of 30 June 2013,

1,604 individuals had been identified as requiring interna-

tional protection. However, UNHCRs efforts to find durable

solutions for the residents have been hindered by the non-

cooperation of residents, such as the boycotting of UNHCR

interviews. In March, the Government of Albania offered to

accept up to 210 residents for resettlement.

However, the PMOI/MeK refused the names accepted by

the Government of Albania, and insisted that it should de-

cide who should be resettled there. As a result by the end of

June, UNHCR had facilitated the resettlement of 71 resi-

dents only. Similarly, in April the Government of Germany

decided to accept up to 100 residents for resettlement. At

the time of writing, preparations were underway to relocate

the first group some time in July.

UNAMI has continuing concerns about human rights abuses

committed by the PMOI/MeK leadership within Camp Hur-

riya against the residents. These claims have been made to

United Nations Monitors during interviews with residents

who had managed to leave Camp Hurriya, as well as in a

number of private discussions with residents who still re-

side in the Camp despite the leaderships attempts to

prevent such discussions. The PMOI/MeK, which has a hier-

archical and authoritarian structure, imposes a number of

severe restrictions on the residents rights, including the

right of freedom of movement within the Camp and the

right to leave the organization, the free right of association,

along with restrictions on contacts with family members(including those residing in Camp Hurriya), on access to

basic communications, and on access to medical care and

treatment.

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UNAMI Half Yearly Report on Human

RightsJanuary to June 2013

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ByMazda Parsi

Its been near 4 decades that the Mujahedin Khalq

Organization (the MKO) embraces the Regime Change

Option against the Iranian government. The group names

every New Year whether according to Iranian calendar or

the Christian calendar as the year of the overthrow of

the regime.

In order to accomplish its so-called objective the

overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iranthe MKO has had

various bed fellows including Saddam Hussein the

deposed Iraqi dictator. The group was Iraqi Baaths

intelligence and military aid during the eight years of a

destructive war between Iran and Iraq. They perpetrated

countless random terror acts to assassinate Iranian

officials and civilians.

Immediately after the cease fire was signed by Iran and

Iraq, the MKO leaders launched the notorious EternalLight Operation ( Forough e Javidan) across Iranian

borders in the vain hope of reaching Tehran in three days

Massoud Rajavi the leader of the MKO had planned a three

-day operation to seize Tehran and change the Regime!

The operation was like a mass suicide. A large number of

the group members were killed. The group was harshly

defeated and forced back in the arms of its Iraqi landlord

Saddam Hussein. Then, in 1991, the MKO continued

offering services to the land lord by aiding him with

suppressing Kurdish uprising and Shiite Intifada in Iraq

where most former members of the group recall the

infamous Maryam Rajavis quote Take the Kurds under

the tanks and save your bullets for the Iranian soldiers.!

However, the MKOs long time loyalty to the enemy of

Iranian people did not accomplish anything at the end.

Following the American led invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi

dictator fell off power. The MKO was disarmed by the

American army. The group leaders now had to answer a

large number of questions in the mind of the rank and files

who were promised an armed violentregime change in

Iran.

Faced with an ambiguous dreadful fate in camps in Iraq

members of the cult of Rajavi witnessed the collapse of

the mirage Regime Change in Iran the Rajavis had

painted for them in many years. Defection from the group

was on the rise and Iraqi newly established government

didnt want Saddams mercenaries on its territory.

The leaders of the MKO strived to make new allies in the

region ranging from Saudi Arabia to Israel. The new mutual

teamwork included terrorist and spying operations against

Iran in exchange for receiving financial, military, and

intelligence support. Meanwhile the groups propaganda

played its leading part in derailing the Wests diplomatic

efforts to engage in negotiations with the Iranian

government.

Conversely, despite the MKOs hard work to gain the worlds

support for its so-called desire for regime change in Iran the

situation of the group as a cult of personality deteriorated ,

day after day. The process of the groups expulsion from

Iraq has started and is ongoing although a bit slowly. There

is an increasing growth in the number of defectors from the

groups cult-like structure. Therefore, today the main issue

for the group leaders is to maintain the structure of the cult

which guarantees its survival.

At least during the past decade, the MKO has resorted to

different powers in the world not for the sake of regime

change but for its own survival. Regime Change is not a

promise anymore; it has been reduced to a New Year

resolution on the MKO propaganda websites even if it is

repeated three times.

The 40-year-old MKOs New Year Resolution: Regime

Change!

nejatngo.org, January 09, 2014

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After removing the extremist organization Mojahedin-e-

Khalq (MEK) from its list of terrorist organizations in 2012,

the US State Department has been unsuccessfully trying to

move militants from this group out of Iraq and closer to

sites that are being readied for future armed hostilities.

Romania would be an auspicious location for 3,000 of

these militants, specifically the city of Craiova, which is

located near the Bulgarian border. Massoud Khodabandeh,

who was previously a highly placed leader within the Moja-

hedin-e-Khalq, referred to the Bulgarian press in his claims

that the issue of their resettlement was discussed during

the meeting between the American secretary of state, John

Kerry, and the Romanian foreign minister, Titus Corlatean,

in Brussels in early December 2013.

Early last year, Albania and Germany announced their will-

ingness to accept a few hundred of the 3,000 fighters.

However, the MEK insists that all the members of the

group be resettled together in one area, something to

which the governments of these countries have not been

prepared to agree.

Despite Hillary Clintons decision to the contrary, the MEK

is still considered a terrorist organization in Iraq and

Iran. Iraqs Shiite government, which rose to power afterthe US invasion in 2003, has an adversarial relationship

with the members of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq and insists

that any countries that provide the group with support also

be willing to accept its members for resettlement within

their own borders.

At present, MEK militants are being housed at a former

American military base near Baghdad, and their camp has

more than once been the target of rocket attacks in recent

months (the latest incident was on Dec. 27,

2013). Mojahedin-e-Khalq militants blame the Iraqi au-

thorities for the attacks, but the latter have denied any in-

volvement.

Who is the Mojahedin-e-Khalq?The MEK is a militant organization that is waging an armed

struggle against the Iranian regime. The group has been

responsible for the deaths of about 50,000 people, includ-

ing the assassination of the president, prime minister, and

dozens of senior Iranian officials. After its relocation to Iraq

in 1986, Saddam Hussein often received assistance from

the organizations members during the Iran-Iraq war and

also employed them to suppress the Kurdish separatist

movement.

From the beginning of the US campaign against Saddam

Hussein, the organization became a focus of interest of the

American government. In 1994 the State Department sent

Congress a damning 41-page report conclusively proving

the MEKs status as a terrorist organization, and as a result,

the group was included in the State Departments 1997 list

of terrorist organizations. The report specifically stated, It

is no coincidence that the only government in the world that

supports the Mujahedin politically and financially is the to-

talitarian regime of Saddam Hussein.

After the American military invasion in 2003, the group

Is the US preparing to stash 3,000

terrorists near the Ukrainian border?orientalreview.org, 08 January , 2013

http://orientalreview.org/2014/01/08/is-the-us-preparing-to-stash-3000-terrorists-near-the-ukrainian-border/

Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean listens

to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Brussels,December 3, 2013
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came under US control. The MEK actively

lobbied to be removed from the official

list of terrorist organizations, and the US

put its members to use as part of Amer-icas clandestine commando operations

against Iran.

It has now emerged that the Bush admini-

stration secretly brought members of the

MEK to the US for military training that

included signals intelligence and other

skills related to covert espio-

nage. Presumably the program ended

just before the Obama administration

took office. Apparently, the MEK wasthen placed under the control of Mossad,

which utilized it to kill Iranian nuclear sci-

entists. Thanks to an article by Justin

Raimondo, the writer and founder of the

Antiwar.com website, the group was

dubbed Hillarys Terrorists.

It is obvious that the Mojahedin-e-Khalq

is not a peaceful organization. In fact, it

would be better compared to the Taliban,

Al-Qaeda, or Jubhat al-Nusrah, other

groups which also enjoyed the tacit sup-

port of the United States until they be-

came too unruly. In addition, Syria, Iraq,

and Afghanistan have still been unable to

extricate themselves from the aftermath

of the MEKs activities within their bor-

ders.

One can only guess at what awaits Roma-

nia should this army of 3,000 militants

come calling at its door. Harboring so

many fighters so close to Ukraine, a coun-

try that has been afflicted with EuroMai-

dan fever for the past month and a half,

could pave the way for any number of

coercive scenarios for regime change.

Source in Russian:h t t p : / / w w w . r e g n u m . r u / n e w s /

polit/1752035.html

Translated with abridgments by ORIEN-

TAL REVIEW

Dear Mrs Popa,

by your home page - www.freeiran-romania.org -, we took notice of the

Comitetul Parlamentarilor Romani Pentru Iranul Liber. As an Iranian-exile-

association from Germany, we also campaign for human rights and democ-

racy in Iran.

However it is conspicuous, that the statements and reports on your home

page nearly exclusively deal with the well known claims and demands of the

Mojahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MEK/MKO/PMOI).

The MEK has no political significance inside Iran and is not the right way for-

ward to get involved with a free and democratic Iran.

Similar to the other european support-organizations, like the Deutsch Soli-

darittskommitee fr einen freien Iran (DSFI), The British Parliamentary

Commitee for Iran Freedom - http://iran-freedom.org/- or Friends of a Free

Iran in the European Parliament, the Comitetul Parlamentarilor Romani Pen-

tru Iranul Liber seem to be just another lobby -organization and mouthpiece

of the MEK.

Such a commitment only aids the MEK and not the people inside Iran.

A first step showing real humanitarian commitment could be, urging the Ro-

manian government to take some refugees from Camp Liberty and save them

from further attacks.

In contrast the MEK at any cost tries to keep their members together, to eas-

ier indoctrinate and control them. At the moment the Liberty-residents pay the

price of permanent fear of further attacks and deaths.

The fact, that again and again European politicians feel up to disseminate

those contradictory and escapist demands of the MEK without reflectingabout seem to militate for the PR and lobbying of the MEK.

With such a blind commitment you run the risk of losing your political credibil-

ity as some European politicians hat to learn already.

For much background information about the lobbying of the MEK, please con-

tact us.

With best regards,

AAWA Association e.V.

Dipl. Ing. Ali Akbar Rastgou

(Chairman)

Open Letter to the Romanian

Parliamentary Committee for Free IranAawa-association.de, January 11, 2013

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Washington may turn Romania into a hotbed of tension,which will prove quite a headache both to Romania properand the neighbouring countries. The point is the UnitedStates is making efforts to move several thousand membersof the People s Mujahedin of Iran organization (Mujahedin-eKhalq) from Iraq to Romania. The so-called civilized society scare for radical Islamists is due to the fact that the Mujahe-din see their mission in fighting Iran, which the West alsoseeks to weaken by all means available.By Ilya Kharlamov

Both Iran and Iraq see Mu-

jahedin-e Khalq as a terror-

ist organization. The armed

wing of the organization, -

the National Liberation

Army of Iran, is believed to

have founded the National

Council of Resistance of

Iran, which brings together

all of Iran's opposition

forces. Those who opposed

the rule of the Shah of Iran

started their resistance in

the middle of the 1960s on

a romantic idea of building

a class-free socialist society, but as time went on, the idea

degenerated into mass-scale terrorist attacks and acts of

sabotage. The Iranian authorities' sharp rebuff caused Muja-

hedin-e Khalq to move to the neighbouring Iraq, whence it

launched armed attacks on Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and

helped the Iraqi regime to quash Kurdish rebellions. Mujahe-

din-e Khalq went on with its attacks on Iran in the subse-

quent years taking advice from and controlled by the United

States.

But the impressive "record of service" (some 50,000 people

killed, including Iran's top-echelon officials) proved no hin-

drance to the EU and US recent decision to strike Mujahedin

-e Khalq off their list of terrorist organizations. The EU and

the US obviously proceeded from the assumption that "theenemy of my enemy is my friend", although the two saw Mu-

jahedin-e Khalq as terrorists just a short while ago.

US to flood Romania with

terrorists

voiceofrussia.com, 10 January, 2014

http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_01_10/US-to-flood-Romania-with-terrorists-6396/

Washington's plan to deploy the Islamists in Romania is

inappropriate at the very least, says Russian expert in Ori-

ental Studies Boris Dolgov, and elaborates.

"If the Romanian leaders have certain doubts, and they will

certainly question the correctness of the decision, then

they should stiffly oppose the move. The organization acts

against Iran, Tehran sees it as terrorist, Mujahedin-e Khalq

is known for numerous terrorist attacks and life attempts.Besides, the US plan is at variance with the recent trend

towards improving relations between Washington and Te-

hran. Also, a presence of Islamic

militants will serve to aggravate ten-

sion in the region. It's obvious that

peaceful coexistence with the peo-

ple of other religions is the last thing

the Islamists will think of when arriv-

ing in Romania".

So far, the US attempts have proved

futile, even though Romania heavily

depends on Washington. The US

sees Romania as an important na-

tion in terms of its geopolitical inter-

ests, and has been patronizing Bu-

charest throughout the post-Soviet

period. But the pay Washington has

demanded seems clearly excessive.

Yet, when the US State Secretary John Kerry met with his

Romanian counterpart Titus Corlaean in Brussels in De-

cember, they took up the issue of moving the Mujahedin in

question to Romania, according to some reports. A year

earlier, Germany and Albania said they were prepared to

accommodate Mujahedin-e Khalq militants. But the organi-

zation chiefs insist on a compact settlement of all three

thousand militants, who are currently making their home at

a US military base in Iraq. But the Albanian and German

authorities see this as too dangerous. The terrorist leaders

are in a stalemate. They are welcome nowhere, while in

Iraq they have been coming under rocket fire recently. The

organization activists put the blame at the current Iraqigovernment's door, namely because the Iraqi Cabinet has

been openly demanding that the terrorists be removed
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from the country.

Action on the US plan is fraught with danger, but is highly

improbable, points out an expert with the Moscow-based

Institute for Strategic Studies and Analysis, SergeiDemidenko, and elaborates.

"A transfer of a large group of people, drilled ideologically

and militarily, to an unstable European area will clearly add

no quiet to the area. But Romania will hardly approve the

scenario, since Bucharest realizes that Romanians will oth-

erwise have to deal with people of specific mentality, ori-

ented to fighting the non-Moslems, or kuffar, which is about

the only thing they can do at all. But if the events do follow

that scenario, this will only serve to further aggravate the

situation around Islamic radicalism in Europe, the more sosince the European security services can do nothing to

counter Al-Qaeda militants who are active in southern

Europe".

Of course, one may admit by a stretch of imagination that

sticking to its friends in trouble is kind of noble of the

United States; the more so since the US is due to build a

military base in Romania, where the militants could be ac-

commodated at first. Also, the recent agreement on Iran's

nuclear programme involving the United States will hardly

prove a watershed event in the Iran-US standoff. Washing-

ton has not forgone up the plan to deploy its missile de-

fence system in Europe to defend the West from Iran's mis-

sile strike.

Whether to accept the members of an organization, placed

on a par with Taliban and Al-Qaeda, or not depends wholly

on the Romanian government, which will likewise be solely

responsible for its decision. The authorities of the

neighbouring Ukraine will also have food for thought. The

well-trained fighters may prove effective as a force to

change the government or at least rock the unstable situa-

tion, for they are not used to sitting idly.

The Mujahedin-e Khalq has

been called a lot of things

over the years: terrorists, a

cult, even (by themselves) a

government-in-exile. Onething that is undeniable at

this point is that they wield

considerable influence

among US officials past and

present, and that lobbying

heft is being thrown behind

stopping the Iran nuclear

deal.1

Former Governor Howard Dean (D VT), a major MeK en-

thusiast, was among the speech-givers at a recent spon-sored briefing that condemned the deal, saying any deal

must be conditioned on imposing some sort of deal on Iraq

to deal with MeK exiles there. Former US Special Envoy

Robert Joseph concurred, and blasted the current deal as

appeasement.

The MeK is putting a lot of effort behind the same Senate

sanctions bill that the Israel Lobby is so staunchly behind.2

The bill would violate the Iran deal by imposing new sanc-

tions, and would effectively kill negotiations.

While the depth of the MeKs funding of this is, like much of

their lobbying, strictly off-the-record (Gov. Dean openly re-

fused to answer questions about how much he was paid for

his statement), the group appears to still envision itself be-

ing the benefactors of US-imposed regime change in Iran,

and is willing to pull out all the stops to see to it that diplo-

macy does not succeed and rapprochement remains impos-

sible.References:[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/iranian-groups-

american-supporters-favor-new-sanctions-slam

[2] http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/12/20/mek-

purchases-27-us-senate-votes-for-war-with-iran/

Mujahedin-e

Khalq OpposesIran Deal, Pushes

Sanctions

News.antiwar.com, January 29, 2014

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/01/29/mujahedin-e-khalq-

opposes-iran-deal-pushes-sanctions/
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Letter to Antnio Guterres UNHCR from former members in Eastern

Azarbaijan province in Iran

Honorable Antnio Guterres UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva

As your Excellency are aware, Camp Liberty in Baghdad, the temporarycamp for nearly three thousand members of the Peoples MojahedinOrganization of Iran (PMOI) subjected Thursday night 26 December 2013

to a terrorist attack by rockets and mortars. According to PMOI this attackcaused death of 4 of the camp residents and wounding 71 others, many of

them in critical condition.

The PMOI has published the names and photographs of the killed, but not the names of the wounded.

We, the undersigned, as a group of former members of PMOI in Eastern Azarbijan province (Northwest of Iran), express oursupport for the request of the families of the residents of Camp Liberty to ask your honor, as UN High Commissioner forRefugees and international authority are responsible to solve this issue, as well as the competent international bodies,especially the International Committee of the Red Cross and its office in Iraq to obligate the leadership of the PMOI toannounce the names of the wounded residents in this incident by any appropriate means, such as informing the familiesor to allow the wounded to contact or meet their families because according to international humanitarian laws and basic

principles of human rights, they are worried about the health and status of their relatives residing in the refugee camp.

We believe that lifting the cultic and organizational restrictions are the basic and fundamental way to liberate captive

members in Iraq, from an organization that has known as a reactionary cult with dictatorial internal relations, as has beenemphasized in recent UNAMI report for the first half year of 2013, where indicates: UNAMI continuing concerns abouthuman rights abuses committed by the PMOI/MeK leadership within Camp Hurriya against the residents.The PMOI/MeK,which has a hierarchical and authoritarian structure, imposes a number of severe restrictions on the residents rights,including the right of freedom of movement within the Camp and the right to leave the organization, the free right ofassociation, along with restrictions on contacts with family members (including those residing in Camp Hurriya), on access

to basic communications, and on access to medical care and treatment.

We also announce our support for the request of a group of families of the residents of Camp Liberty to speed up thetransfer of the residents from Iraq, where there are daily killings of many innocent people in terrorist incidents or in bloodysectarian clashes, to the third countries specially the sick and wounded, while nearly third of them have documents of

residency or asylum in European countries or North America.

We join these families to call international bodies, especially theUN High Commissioner for Refugees to put their utmost efforts tourge the member states towards resettling the residents to the

third countries as soon as possible.

We would like to express our deep appreciation and gratitude inadvance for your efforts in this regard, and informing the families

about the fate and status of their relatives in Camp Liberty.

a group of former members of PMOI in Eastern Azarbijan province

(Northwest of Iran)

27 January 2014

Signatories


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www.aawa-association.de

Publication of Association AAWA e.V.

Responsable:

Dipl.-Ing. Ali-A. Rastgou

Postfach 90 31 73

D-51124 Kln

E-mail: [email protected]

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http://www.nejatngo.org/en/post.aspx?id=7574#.UzKdC4XD_ac

Letter to Guterres from former MKO membersNejat association, January 28 2014

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