by Fabian Mahmoudi(OfficialWire)
These days, blaspheming MEK has opened prospects of a SEO marketing
carrier for some, and a hobby for others. ParrotingTehran’s outdated lie
is not the only insult to injury for respected journalists, but serving
as enslaved docile pen-pals to the worst enemy of humanity is
obnoxious..
“The bigger the lie the more prone to be believed” is the outline
for a round-the-clock competition in a mud sliding campaign against the
MEK, most probably groomed by Tehran, that outsmarts the famous
World's Biggest Liar annual competition in
Cumbria,
England.
The moral George Washington was brave enough to say, “I cannot tell a
Lie” while Mark Twain concluded
“Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't."
Why is there such enormous gap of values between today’s’ American principals and that of their icons?
The answer is profoundly simple: The clerical fascists are at work in Tehran.
We will go over some of the most colossal and
significant lies on the MEK and their tragic results. Of course, such a
list cannot be comprehensive since most of the victims of this atrocious
hobby have not lived to tell the truth. It is said that the truth will
set one free.
The first grand liar was the founder of the present Iranian government Khomeini
(1).
When inParisin 1978, he equivocated a vague future forIranand lied
about his plot to establish a theocratic jurisprudence and said, “when
the Shah is gone, I will go back toQom," implying that he would retire.
When the MEK foiled his plot in an interview in keyhan- February 1979-
revealing, “the intentions to derail the trend of change under the name
of fighting communism for Islam," Khomeini called them “hypocrites."
In 1978 the MEK, with more than 500 000
supporters only inTehranbecame the popular pro-democratic organization
that advocated a platform based on the ballot box and collective
participation of people in the social –political change ofIran. Its
meetings packed by youth eager to understand the new promoted antithesis
to Islamic fundamentalism preached by the Ayatollahs became the deathly
battleground for thugs hired by the clerics. Peaceful rallies were attacked by
“anonymous” organized crowds equipped with knives' axes and chains. (2)
Hundreds of participants were wounded, many arrested and disappeared.
Khomeini called the meetings “against Islam and hypocritical” thus
paving the way for more slaughter on the streets. When the MEK objected
to “mysterious” crowds attacking and promoting fear, Khomeini in an
official broadcast outflanked MEK’s demand for the “right to assemble”
and said, “they blind themselves and injure themselves in their meetings
and blame it on others to taint the image if Islam."
When faced with a serious rival, whose popularity and fame had
reached all corners ofIranattracting the youth from all social classes,
Khomeini simply issued a religious fatwa and tagged them as “Anti-Gods”
and terrorists being paid by Israeli Moussad and Saddam Hussein.
While Khomeini’s’ cold-blooded massacre of 20,000 MEK supporters was being reported in the
foreign press
(3), he claimed the MEK was responsible for these deaths. Later
survivors of the massacre from various political tendencies revealed
that the plot to massacre the prisoners was initiated in 1977 and had
nothing to do with any MEK action outside the prisons.
Khomieni left a legacy of outrageous lies and brainwashing campaign against the group after his death.
In a letter to the UN special reporter, a former deserter of MEK who
was repatriated by the Iranian Intelligence service called Tafrashi
wrote of his ordeal. “They approached all those who separated from the
MEK. They would finally recruit them. We were to focus on a smear
campaign against the organization. They said in order to show neutrality
we should once in while lash out againstTehran, but hit harder against
the group.”
These instructions formed the foundations of a smearing
policy by the mullah’s Intelligence agency, today advocated by Seymour
Hersh, the Rubins and their off-springs.
As reflected in my previous articles, ethical journalism is
diminishing. Noble journalism that once reflected the truth, remains as
an asset for those writers who never bent to ego and Machiavellist journalism.(5)
One such example was a Washington Post article that clarified the truth about chimes involving the MEK in US military personnel
assassination. (4)
A partial list of spectacular lies is proof of the
complicated challenge facing professional journalism in defying cheap
journalism:
- Stale gossips about MEK physical involvement in the US embassy
hostage crisis in Tehran has repeatedly been disapproved by those
responsible at the time (6) yet some find it best to “strike while the
subject is hot” only to score in google search.
- The groups’ mutilating of Christian priests inIranhas been
categorically rejected in a UN report (7) and yet, the subject is still
spicing articles.
- MEK involvement in terrorist acts such as bombing of the holy
shrine in Mashahd has been forgotten myths even in Tehran’s smear
campaigns, yet they are still favored by some mystery writers today.(8)
- Paltering facts brazenly only to use them as a rouser is repugnant
for any journalist, let alone when an expired Iranian Intelligence agent
such as “Khodabandeh and wife (singleton)” are used as “experts” on the
subject of MEK. A tactic recently used unethically by Seymour Hersh and
roused by a number of potent pro-ayatollah sites. Rehashing expired,
but colossal lies will not buy ethics for such “parrotists”. The same
agent is still panting out lies rejected officially by the Iranian
press, probably taking his counterparts as fools. (9)
Unfortunately, it is true as Winston Churchill once
said, “"A lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its
boots on."
In the life staking struggle by residents incampAshrafand their
leaders, an International campaign involving the European Union, The
Security Council members and the United Nations is evading bloodshed on
the behest ofTehranby Iraqi forces. A long term peaceful relocation of
the refugees (some members of MEK) to their countries is planned after
they undergo UN registration procession.
The goodwill gesture of the residents and their leadership for a volunteered relocation to camp liberty has
been applauded
as courageous by high ranking US officials and their European
Colleagues.(10) The new location is a looted garrison, only one sixtieth
of the area of their owned town Ashraf, with no basic foundations such
as; portal water, electricity, sewage system.
Regardless of the unequivocal control of the Iraqi forces over
living conditions of the residents, we are faced with magnified lies, no
doubt cycled by the ayatollahs to impair the residents’ relocation to
other countries.
-TabnakState-run news reported 58 residents “escaped Ashraf” for
freedom. This is while all 3455 residents have already registered their
applications with the UNHCR and are under the supervision of the UN.
Earlier, the residents announced the number of casualties by Iraqi
attacks and suppressive measures to be 45 people. The claimed 58
escapees were never verified.
- During the 14-month total siege of the groups’ residency ‘Ashraf’,
which made any contact with the residents impossible, Iranian press
claimed MEK women had carried out a kamikaze operation inBaghdad.
Lawyers, families of the residents along with diplomats had complained
they were not allowed visits to the camp, and the residents were
practically imprisoned by Iraqi forces.
- On March 28, after a group of Ashraf residents had voluntarily
relocated to the newcampLiberty, the half a kilometer residential area
was attacked by mortars, whileBaghdadwas on maximum security alert for
the Arab Summit. The Iranian state run Khorasan newspaper, December 27,
2011, attributed the attack to the MEK.
- As the forth group of residents were preparing for relocation
toCampLiberty, the Iraqi SWAT brigade attacked residents who have
already agreed to refrain from retaliation as a goodwill gesture. They
were abiding the MoU signed by UNAMI and Iraq which legally allows their
portable belongings transferred to the new compound. This was
prevented by Iraqi forces by force.(11) At the moment
armored vehicles,(12)
numerous police inspection posts, eavesdropping devices around the
small compound and the legal presence of Iranian Intelligence agents at
their doorsteps, have transitioned liberty into a prison camp.
The irony of it all is the victims are blamed for “being beaten, attacked by mortars and hampering the relocation process”.
Villains are let loose while the victims are chained.
It is rare to find integrity and honor akin to that of George Washington who “could not lie”.
In the annals of history it seems there are 10 dishonest scoundrels
for every honorable hero likeWashington. This has often resulted in
elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple
effects and humanitarian tragedies.
At the end it is people likeWashingtonand epics such as the
resistance against ideological tyrants inTehranthat make history and not
egoistic liars.
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6- The USstate department reciting cleric media have accused
the MEK for participating physically in the US Embassy hostage crisis on
November 4, 1979. Ervand Abrahamian’s report
(1989, p. 57)
suggest otherwise. While the MEK was following a policy of
non-confrontation with Khomeini they chose not to support the student
take over of the Embassy. ““It was later revealed that these university
students were organized by Hojjat al-Islam Khoiniha, a prominent member
of the IRP and the leader of the Tehran University
komiteh [a morality guard organization].”. According to Massoumeh Ebtekar
(Takeover in Tehran, Massoumeh Ebtekar, Talon Books, Canada, 2000, p. 234),
who was the spokesperson during the hostage crisis for the radical
students, the MEK “had been opposed to the takeover and the
confrontation with America from the very first. In sharp contrast to
lies mirrored by the State department and parroted by pro-ayatollah
pundits, The MEK said the clerics had “engineered the hostage crisis to
impose on the nation the ‘medieval’ concept of the
velayat-e faqih.”
In return, Mohammad Reza Saadati- an MEK member was taken hostage by
government thugs, trialed for treason and spying for the Russians and
Mussad and executed. This was while the group mustered over half a
million into the streets ofTehran. Its newspapers outsold those of the
ruling clerical party by sixteen to one.
7--Accordingly, articles came out accusing the MEK of “mutilating”
three dissident Christian priests. Explaining how Abdollah Nouri, a
former regime Interior Minister, had admitted at his trial in November
1999 that MOIS had murdered the Christian leaders, the British member of
Parliament ,Lord Avebury explained:
“The concerted effort to
attribute the atrocities to the Mojahedin was intended to demonize the
resistance while at the same time ridding the state of troublesome
Christian leaders who refused to submit to the dictatorship.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Tolerance, Abdelfattah Amor,
in his UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Tolerance, 9 February 1996
stated:
“The Iranian government had apparently decided to execute those
Protestant leaders in order not only to bring the Mojahedin organisation
into disrepute abroad by declaring it responsible for those crimes, but
also, at the domestic level, partly to decapitate the Protestant
community and force it to discontinue the conversion of Muslims.”
8- On 20 June 1994, the first bombing of the holy shrine of Imam Reza
took place killing 26 people. In several other attempts covert NGOs
claimed that MEK planted the explosives at the holy shrine in Mashad.
Khamenei publicly attributed the attack on the MEK andIran’s former
Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Velayati summoned foreign ambassadors
inTehranto demand that restrictions be imposed on the Mojahedin and the
Iranian Resistance’s activities worldwide. During the public funeral
held for the victims a large crowd chanted “Death to the MEK”.
A Cleric later revealed the act was the result of infightings and
carried out by the MOIS (Iran’s notorious Intelligence service.)
(9) In 1998, during khatami’s presidency a chain of murders of
dissidents occurred. The Judiciary spokesman Fotovat Savadkouhi blamed
the murders on the MEK. A few days later, the Director of Islamic
Propaganda Organization stated as fact: ‘These murders were carried out
by the Zionists with the cooperation of the Mojahedin group.’ However,
the Iranian regime was soon forced to admit that in fact the murders
were the work of MOIS. A statement issued by the public relations
department of MOIS in January 1999 read:
“With utmost deep regret, a number of our irresponsible and selfish colleagues at the
Ministry, who were no doubt in contact with foreign intelligence services, have committed these crimes.”( Salam’ Iranian newspaper, 6 January 1999)
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Fabian is a freelance writer.
