Conclusios
Having studied the present documents and evidences, the only conclusion one can arrive at is the fact that NCRI/NLA is a subsidiary group to MKO which was set up to meet MKO’s terrorist needs. All these three groups (MKO, NCRI, NLA) are led by a single leader and the senior echelons who work in each of these three groups, have membership of the other two groups as well. This in itself clearly proves that the three groups enjoy a single identity. It has been mentioned clearly and explicitly in the reports drawn by the State Department of the United States and some European security services, including the Netherlands, Germany and France that all three groups have one single identity and refer to themselves under different names only because of the extenuating circumstances.
NCRI was not established to become involved only in political activities, the objectives the founders pursued when founding the group dealt simultaneously with a range of terrorist, propaganda and political activities. As a matter of fact, NCRI was set up to coordinate MKO’s terrorist acts with other Iranian opposition groups which had already commenced violent operations.
One of the other objectives followed by NCRI has been to persuade other Iranian opposi-tion groups to work with MKO by joining NCRI. Some of these groups joined NCRI at first but deserted it later when they found out about the true nature of NCRI, including its terrorist nature and the complete influence of MKO over the group. So the idea received a setback right from the beginning.
NCRI set itself a strategy to expand terrorism and to achieve this strategy, it founded another terrorist branch called NLA (which was later labelled a terrorist group by the EU).
Being stationed in Iraq, NCRI’s leader organized all the forces within a single entity going by the name of National Liberation Army (NLA) [242].
MKO/NCRI claims it has ended terrorist operations within Iran since 2001, where as in the communiqués published under the name of “ MKO’s Commanding Headquarters”, it has officially claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks conducted in the years 2001 and 2002 inside Iran. It has never denounced clearly and officially the terrorist operations it has perpetrated in the past. As the group members were forced by the American military to surrender all their weaponries (never on a voluntary basis), the leaders are determined to get the guns back and keep NLA inside Iraq. All these efforts demonstrate the terrorist nature of NCRI and the fact that they still insist on armed conflict.
The other approach NCRI adopted to implement its terror strategy was to propagate ter-rorism which is publicly done by its television network “INTV” and its publication “Mojahed”. It is unbelievable that INTV is aired and Mojahed is circulated throughout United States and Europe.
NCRI has managed to establish undemocratic and authoritarian relations within the group, including interference in the legal affairs of the members, collective divorces, exploitation of children and the rights of children, money laundering, encouragement of members to commit suicide and torch themselves upon the arrest of Maryam Rajavi by French anti- terrorist police and many other cases which have been mentioned in many reports published by the US State Department, UN Human Rights watchdog and many international magazines. All these ele-ments point to one single fact that NCRI along with MKO and NLA are not only a single ter-rorist group but a single terrorist cult.
Despite the authoritarian characteristics mentioned above, president – elect of NCRI, Maryam Ghajar Azedanlou, a.k.a. Maryam Rajavi, claims she enjoys 90 percent popularity in Iran. Judging by the reports of official sources including Western diplomats in Iran, Western journalists and European and American Intelligence and Security Services,
MKO/NCRI/NLA does not enjoy any popularity within the country and is not supported by the people. Some independent sources have gone further to say that not only is the group not supported by the people, but actually hated by the people because of the group’s cooperation with Saddam during the eight-year war with Iraq. To recap the position of the Iranian people, it should be mentioned that there is a fundamental difference between the position of NCRI and that of the Iranian people.
After all, if a group has any popularity, it will not need to resort to terrorist tactics. It can simply rely on its popular support.
Taking into account the following characteristics, one must ask whether this is a political group or a terrorist sect:
MKO/NCRI/NLA are all led by the same leader ( Masoud Rajavi ); the members ( who share membership in all three groups ) have terrorist convictions; as officially announced they have set a terror strategy for themselves; NCRI persuades members to commit suicide and torch them-selves; NCRI lacks popular support inside the country; the other Iranian opposition groups left NCRI and worst of all, cult relations exist inside the group which have intensified its terrorist acts.
In conclusion, the Islamic republic of Iran requests the honourable Council of Ministers and respectable members of Cotter to examine, based on international law and convention [243], the existing documents and evidences and condemn terrorist acts committed by this group by including NCRI and its leaders ( Masoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi/Ghajar Azedanlou ) in the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations.
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