Statement by NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee

A wave of international outrage condemned the completely false, distorted, and discredited report issued in May 2005 by Human Rights Watch, against the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). On February 15, 2006,  after a nine-month delay, HRW issued a statement desperately trying to whitewash the scandal created by its manipulation of human rights for political purposes.

By Professor Daniel M. Zucker

The Global Politician - Michael Rubin's recent attacks on the Mojahedeen-e Khalq must have the mullahs of Iran laughing hysterically. Here is a vocal opponent of their corrupt regime doing their job of slandering the principal opposition group for them. It should thus come as no surprise that the Teheran regime's electronic and print media have been giving prominent coverage to the Farsi translations of Mr. Rubin's articles. At the very least, the mullahs and their VEVAK agents must be patting themselves on the back for once again succeeding in dividing (and thus conquering) their opponents.

NCRI - Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, said yesterday, "The nuclear fuel cycle in Natanz has been completed and uranium 235 with 3.5% enrichment is being produced.  We are not willing to let go of the technology we have achieved through the efforts of our own experts and become dependent on others."

The Associated Press - Talks with Iran on a Russian proposal aimed at resolving an international crisis over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program are not going easily, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

"The talks are not going easily but we are counting on reaching a positive result," Putin told journalists on a visit to Azerbaijan.

By Peter Finn

The Washington Post, MOSCOW -- Iran continued Tuesday to parry a Russian offer to enrich uranium on Russian soil for its nuclear energy program, putting off any move to finalize a deal because it has no real incentive to bend yet, according to diplomats and Russian analysts.

By Gareth Harding

The United Press International, BRUSSELS -- Europeans are supposed to prefer soft to hard power, jaw-jaw to war-war and appeasement to confrontation. In short, in the words of neo-conservative scholar Robert Kagan: \'Americans are from Mars; Europeans are from Venus.\'

A rebuttal to Michael Rubin's Monsters of the Left...

By Ali Safavi

theOneRepublic.com - As a sociologist who has known, closely studied the history and followed the activities of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), in the past 34 years, I read with amazement and somewhat dismay Michael Rubin's "Monsters of the Left," (theOneRepublic, January 25, 2006) [1]. His article purports to be a scholarly survey of the assistance provided by "the Left" to the MEK.

By Mark Beunderman

EU Observer, BRUSSELS - The Iranian foreign minister Manuchehr Mottaki meeting MEPs on Monday (20 February) said a Russian compromise on Tehran's nuclear programme "could be acceptable" - but Moscow's hopes are limited.

NCRI - Khalil Dolaimi, head of the defense council in the former Iraqi officials' tribunal, said the Iranian regime had offered them millions of dollars to blame the chemical bombing of Halabja on the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran.