Iran: Factions feud over regime’s failed plots against PMOI

NCRI – In the run-up to the sham elections, the various factions of the mullahs’ regime have been feuding amongst themselves over the removal of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the United Kingdom and European Union terrorist lists and the failure of the regime’s plots against Camp Ashraf. Faced with most of the criticism, the regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference on May 25 pathetically tried to play down these defeats.  “This grouplet is dead and has no role in geopolitical equations”, he said.

Unable to control his anger at the removal of the terror tag from the PMOI, he said: “By removing the Mojahedin from the terrorist list, the Europeans showed their true colors and were disgraced”.

NCRI – In the run-up to the sham elections, the various factions of the mullahs’ regime have been feuding amongst themselves over the removal of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the United Kingdom and European Union terrorist lists and the failure of the regime’s plots against Camp Ashraf. Faced with most of the criticism, the regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference on May 25 pathetically tried to play down these defeats.  “This grouplet is dead and has no role in geopolitical equations”, he said.

Unable to control his anger at the removal of the terror tag from the PMOI, he said: “By removing the Mojahedin from the terrorist list, the Europeans showed their true colors and were disgraced”.

Frightened of the expansion of the PMOI’s message and its strength, Ahmadinejad feebly tried to console the regime’s forces. He said: “If some Westerners imagine they can use the Mojahedin as a lever against Islamic Iran, they must know that two or three powerful states were not able to do anything against us, and grouplets are insignificant and cannot threaten us”.

Mohsen Rezai, former commander of the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a candidate in the sham elections, on May 24 said: “One of Ahmadinejad’s unforgivable mistakes was to neglect the progress of the PMOI’s removal from the list of terrorist groups”. He added that this had afflicted “billions of dollars in damages” to the country. Previously, during the mass executions in the summer of 1981, Rezai had announced: “More than 90 percent of the Mojahedin have been eliminated and the rest will soon be destroyed”.

Several weeks ago, the regime’s former president, Mohammad Khatami, said that during his tenure the PMOI was placed on the terrorist list, but during Ahmadinejad’s term the organization was taken off the list.

At the conference on May 25, Ahmadinejad admitted to the continuation of the regime’s criminal and unlawful plots against the residents of Ashraf, saying: “Iran is in constant communication and negotiation with Iraqi officials and pursues the handover of the leaders of the Mojahedin”.

Last week, Saeed Jalili, the secretary of the regime’s Supreme National Security Council, in a meeting with the Iraqi Foreign Minister described the “continued presence” of the PMOI in Ashraf as “unacceptable” for the regime’s “foundational security”. Ahmadinejad too repeated Khamenei’s February 28 demand of the Iraqi government, telling the Iraqi Foreign Minister: “The agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq must be quickly implemented”.

Photo: Thousands of supporters of the Iranian resistance demonstrated on January 27, 2009 during a rally in front of the European Union council headquarters in Brussels. The rally came one day after the EU Foreign Ministers decided to remove People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the EU terrorist list. The European Union on 26 January 2009 removed PMOI, from its blacklist, bringing an end to a long legal battle.