By Associated Press PARIS (AP) -- Iran condemned on Saturday the Obama administration for taking an Iranian militant group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein off the U.S. terrorism list, saying it shows Washington's "double standards." The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which began as a guerrilla movement fighting Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, helped ...

Outgoing UN special envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler has slammed the leaders of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) for human rights violations in Camp Hurriya in Iraq. Addressing the UN Security Council On Tuesday, Kobler said, Of increasing concern are the human rights abuses in Camp Hurriya itself by the camp leadership. Hundreds of daily ...

TEHRAN, July. 10 (MNA) Former Mojahedin e-Khalq [MEK] terrorist cult protested in Germany and France, slamming the leader of the group for her deceptive actions aimed at winning Europeans and Americans support in order to attain her wicked goals. Former terrorist MEK members have staged two protests against Maryam Rajavi in Paris and Cologne over ...

Kyrgyz student Alina Alymkulova recounts how she was recruited to travel from Prague to Paris to attend a rally for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an Iranian opposition movement in exile. The MKO and its Paris-based political wing, the National Council of Resistance in Iran, are often at the center of controversy. The MKO, which advocates ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Egyptian Al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun (Muslim Brotherhood) party deplored the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCRI and PMOI) for its heinous crimes against the Iranian civilians. "Ikhwan al-Muslimun condemns the grouplet's (the MKO) acts against the innocent citizens," Abdoh Mostafa Dasouqi, a senior member ...

[caption id="attachment_30951" align="alignright" width="210"] File photo shows members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).[/caption] One day before the rally of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in a Parisian suburb, former MKO members tellPress TVof their ordeals in the terrorist groups Camp Ashraf in a press ...

The National Council of Resistance of Iran, an exiled coalition of Iranian opposition groups, was due to meet near Paris on Saturday, where major international figures such as the USs former UN ambassador John Bolton were expected to speak. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled coalition of Iranian opposition groups, was due ...

BAGHDAD: Seventy-one members of an exiled Iranian opposition group based at a camp nearBaghdadhave been relocated to Albania, the UN said Saturday, a week after the camp suffered deadly mortar attacks. The resettlement is the latest in protracted efforts by the UN to move the around 3,000 members of the former rebel People's Mujahedeen at Camp Liberty,...

[caption id="attachment_34180" align="alignright" width="210"] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (R) receives the UNs special envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler at his office in Baghdad on June 20, 2013.[/caption] Baghdad has urged greater cooperation from the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to remove Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization ...

An Iranian lawmaker says the terrorist anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) must be prosecuted and brought to justice for its acts of terrorism. Given the crimes committed by MKO members, the international bodies should pay heed to the requests of the families who have fallen victim to MKO terrorist activities and bring its members to trial ...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A Shiite militia has claimed responsibility for a rocket attack over the weekend on a sprawling camp near Baghdad that killed two members of an Iranian exile group. Saturday's attack on Camp Liberty also killed an Iraqi and wounded nine Iranians and seven Iraqis. Cleric Wathiq al-Batat, who leads the Mukhtar Army, told The Associated ...

(Reuters) - For decades, an Iranian dissident group has seemed to be on the wrong side of history. Suppressed by both the Shah ofIranand then the ayatollahs who deposed him in 1979, its supporters have faced prison, death and exile, and were shunned in the United States as members of a cult-like terrorist organization. The Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) ...

[caption id="attachment_30951" align="alignright" width="300"] File photo shows members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).[/caption] An Iranian lawmaker has criticized the US policy of using terrorism as a tool, labeling Washington as the axis of evil and a supporter of terrorism across the globe. In its annual "Country Reports ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEICriticalThreats Project Iran AnalystWill Fulton.   Politics In a published letter, the countrys Friday Prayer Leaderspraisedthe performance of the Guardian Council and affirmed the necessity of all parties and individuals to obey the ...

An Iranian group that was classified as a terrorist organization until 2012 has officially registered to lobby the government,the Hill reported Friday. The National Council of Resistance of Iran has hired former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli to represent it. In its registration with the Justice Department, the group said it intends ...

BAGHDAD (AP) -- The first group of exiles from an Iranian opposition group have moved to Albania from a former U.S. military base near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations mission to Iraq said Thursday. In a statement, U.N. envoy Martin Kobler said 14 members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq arrived in Albania late Wednesday, the first ...

PARIS (AP) -- With its militant wing no longer a terror organization as far as the U.S. government is concerned, an Iranian opposition group hosted a U.S. House delegation for the first time Sunday and briefed the lawmakers on the fallout of a deadly rocket attack at a refugee camp in Iraq. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a France-based ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Hundreds of supporters of an Iranian opposition group have rallied in Stockholm, denouncing the Islamic Republic's regime and urging the U.N. to better protect the group's members in neighboring Iraq. Former U.S. Congressman Patrick Kennedy was among the speakers Saturday at the demonstration in support of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, ...

BERLIN (AP) -- Several prominent Germans are urging the U.S. and Europe to take in members of an Iranian opposition group whose lives are at risk in Iraq. The call was made Wednesday at a meeting in Berlin of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, whose militant wing is housed at a former U.S. base in Baghdad. A rocket attack last February claimed ...

[caption id="attachment_26327" align="alignright" width="300"] An Image showing people casting their votes during Irans 10th presidential election, June 2009[/caption] Irans mission to the United Nations has strongly criticized the meddlesome remarks by a former US administration advisor regarding the Islamic Republics internal affairs. In an article ...