MEK is the worst of the worst. And that's putting it lightly.

MEK's Marxist tactics such as setting themselves on fire for their dear leader ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/36444791/MKO-Human-Torches ) reminds me of North Korea.

Aside form American killings in the 79 revolution they have Kurdish blood on their hands too, being involved in Kurdish killings and suppression siding once with Saddam Hussein ( http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/02/dictators_and_violence )

Anyone who claims these people have anything to do with democracy needs to have his head examined. The likes of Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz are what is wrong with America today.

Congressional Record, Senate Proceedings and Debates of the 103rd Congress, First Session Thursday, January 21, 1993
SUPPORTING THE RIGHT OPPOSITION GROUPS IN IRAN AND IRAQ

Worth a read:

http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2009/11
/the-mko-mek-pmoi-facts.html

rudy is hilarious, im surprised he got all the way up to the top like that while being a comedian

Let's not leave the Mujahideen el Khalq's newest political supporter, who is clearly enthusiastic about the cause according to this release:
http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/11753-mayor-richard-m-daley-speaking-of-camp-ashraf-and-liberty-is-speaking-about-humanity-

Just one question, how much?

just incredible how the left dreams up drivel to merely catch people's attention with sensationalistic headlines...

this one sickened me.

Apart “intended factual mistakes”, in other words shear lies in virtually every paragraph of the article, one clearly gets the feeling that the US administration, or the State Department at best, continue to threaten their counterparts, in this case the residents of camp Ashraf, to accept conditions imposed on them by the UN special representative, Mr. Kobler, on demands by the US, as stated clearly in the article, in violations of a MoU signed by the same Mr. Kobler with the Iraqi government. All Ashraf residents ask for is respecting the same MoU. But the practice of the last two months, as well as the article, show clearly that the UN and the US prefer to take the part of Iraqi government (especially its Iranian allies or big brothers) rather than safeguard or at least respect international law.
Without being in a position or having the authority to reply to the factual errors, I just have a few points:
The list of personalities stated in the articles as supporting the MEK would make any reasonable person ask himself or herself how could a group, listed by the State Department as an FTO, have such support in the country? And the author has not mentioned the solid support in the congress, where Mme Clinton and her friend have been having a hard time ever since they lay foot in a Foreign Relations’ committee hearing on the issue.
And then the State Department has to respond to the Appeals Court on March 26 why it is intentionally delaying to restudy the listing process of the MEK for so long.
The only answer is that they are on the side of the truth, and the administration is escaping the truth, in a bid to find a way to further curry favor with the mullahs in power in Iran to beg them to stop a deadly nuclear program on the brink of giving birth to military nuclear capability.
It is true; the MEK practice makes things difficult for the UN and the US in their bid to do this. But experience has shown that the only way to avoid a disaster in the shape of nuclear armament in the hands of the mullahs is to stand firm against them. So even if the practice seems hindering such efforts, it should be hailed, rather than attacked through unnamed officials who do not dare even mention their identity.

It would be much better and logical if the so called officials would have given their names as well. This however would require them to be countable for the lies published in the article.
The easiest thing is no doubt to publish lies in an article without any names.
Only 2 questions:
How incompetetent do you believe the US army can possibly be to say time and again that there are no arms in the camp, while the unknown official still claims that the camp residents could be armed. This is certainly nothing new and is precisely in line with the remarks which have been repeatedly made and are continuing to be made by the Iranian mullahs.(they also claimed that the MEK have nuclear and chemical weapons hidden in camp Ashraf).
Similar lies have been repeately shouted throughout the years. If you follow the events, you will see the same pattern going on in Syria today. Being directed by Tehran, Bashar Assad also claims that all the Syrian people support him and the demonstrations by in other cities are carried out by the terrorists. The unnamed official is better to name himself a complete supporter of the mullahs in Iran.

If the Obama administration official has nothing to hide, why appear anonymous all the time. Why not say your name for the record if you have nothing to hide, that means that you are lying up to your teeth.

Secondly, speaking about the facts, this Obama administration official and the Cable should understand that in the view of the US forces in Iraq and thus the view of the US administration, the residents of Camp Ashraf are recognized as Protected Persons under the fourth Geneva Convention since 2003. There are 3400 signed documents, with the signature of the highest US military commander in Iraq (back then) which testifies to this end.

This is an existing fact, and for the Cable or Foreign Policy or the Obama administration official to take the words of the new Iraqi government before the US military and Pentagon as for Camp Ashraf to be a militarized cult compound on the Iraqi sovereign territory seems a little bit too hard to imagine or accept. And for the record the status of Protected Persons under the fourth Geneva Convention is only given to civilians.

Furthermore, the defamation of Protected Persons which could facilitate further aggressions against them is illegal under international law, so Mr Rogin your article here is actually breaking the law. But I guess this is nothing you have to worry about since if there would be any killing of the residents of Ashraf by Iraqi armed forces, you just write another article blaming the defenseless, unarmed residents of Ashraf. This is the moral, ethic and standards of journalism today as one is aiming for the top. Just divert and depict the reality.

The only ill-advised here is the US Department of State who thinks actually that Iraq is democratic with an inconclusive government. The Obama administration still believes that they can talk the Iranian regime to abandon its nuclear program, diplomacy with world’s largest state supporter of terrorism.

The Obama administration’s tireless efforts regarding MEK is to have them all slaughtered in Iraq, Camp Ashraf or Liberty, but quietly. This in the hope of offering the Iranian regime the gift of annihilating its main and most organized opposition in the vain hope that the mullahs then will talk to Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

The article only reminds me of the tactics used by Goebbel in Hitler's Germany.
As Alan Dershowitz put it, this is a scandal. This is a fraud; a fraud not involving money, but a fraud involving threats to human life.
They are issuing reports saying, well, it was the victims who threw the garbage, it was the victims who turned on the water and used up the waterspouts, it was the victims who made the place unlivable. That is the oldest excuse in the world.
The article is really shameful as it calls the most well known and respected personalities in the US as simple minded and lazy.
I would ask Mr Josh Rogin , to step out of his office and give a solution for the problem. And, to start with, he might as well follow the footsteps of General Philips and go and see the situation from Iraq, rather than staying in office and swearing at those who have indeed taken steps forward.

Is it April Fool's Day already?

This article is quite funny, as its central point is that MEK's paid advocates (who at least put their names on their opinions) cannot be trusted, while the Obama Administration's anonymous paid spokesperson can be trusted.

Oh, and yes, those paid Obama advocates claim that all MEK's troubles are caused by MEK themselves, even including MEK wrecking its own utilities inside Camp Liberty. Any evidence of that Josh? Did you just forget to ask the paid Obama anonymous spokesperson for any proof of such assertions?

Practice Tip for Writers: Ask for evidence of claims before you jot down what people say as "facts." Additional tip: almost everyone talking to you is pushing an agenda, whether overtly paid or not.

Pretty sad journalism Josh. Neatly typed, though.

Peter Van Buren
wemeantwell.com

This is a rule that Iran's MOIS has made a good use of it to discredit the only real opposition capable of changing the brutal regime. The unnamed official accuses the MEK advocates that " Either they are too lazy or too arrogant to actually do their homework. They don't spend the time to learn facts, they just pop off."

This is a good example of arrogance itself. I have listened to the speeches. All of them who are referred here as "lazy", they all have been saying that the USSD does not answer to their emails or calls. They (the State Department officials) don't even bother to talk to people who have worked closely with MEK in Iraq. Generals, ex Governors, Mayor Giuliani, and Congressmen have asked to go there to visit the new site at their own time and expense. None of these calls were responded by the State Department Officials.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/mar/04/us-turns-its-back-on-camp/

So as the old Persian proverb says, shall we believe the mullah (who claims he has not stolen the chicken) or the tail of the (stolen) chicken that is evident from under his aba (long cloths mullahs wear on the top of their dress which hides all the filth underneath)?

The last sentence of the article also reminded me of the crocodile tear. The so called official instead of condemning the attacks that have killed 47 unarmed civilians under official US protection, is accusing the victims of provoking the brutal guards for wanting their basic rights. This is why I say this unnamed official is both lying and at the same time betraying the very principle this country, the USA, is built on. Shame, shame shame, if he new the meaning of it at all.

The feeble attempt by Josh Rogin against American ex officials who have served three consecutive administration with honor, is just one of a series of attempts by the supporters of the appeasement policy headed by the failed Obama foreign policy.
The Iranian people identify with United States and the American people through these honorable men and women who have stood up against injustice and have sided with the resistance. In every era you have people who try to justify the injustices and side with the oppressors. If it was up to Obama and the State Department they will keep on supporting the clerical regime against the people of Iran as they did during the 2009 uprisings. When the Iranian people poured into the streets in Tehran, Obama and the State Department supported the ruling theocracy and let the Iranians down. The echo of millions of people shouting in the streets of Tehran" Obama are you with us or with the mullahs" can still be heard in the streets of Tehran.
As for negative articles and attacks against the Iranian resistance and the honorable ex officials we should expect to see more of them. The fact of the matter is that we are approaching the end of the so called appeasement policy and the State Department and the Obama administration will be forced to take the MeK off of the terrorist list. The sanctions are working and the clerical regime is on its last legs so no matter how hard the cowards in the White House and State Department try they can not stop the imminent down fall of the mullahs in Tehran. As an American Iranian I thank God that there are honorable human beings like the ex officials who have stood up in support of justice. I can not imagine if there were no one backing the resistance and stand against the injustices committed by the State Department how could we face the Iranian people when the mullahs are gone. The actions of these ex officials in support of the Iranian resistance is one of the reasons I can say I am proud to be an American Iranian. As for you Mr. Josh Rogin, all I can say is that when this medieval Clerical regime falls no one will know who you are but the Iranian nation will forever remember the names of people like Howard Dean, Patrick Kennedy, Tom Ridge........

Rogin's argument is: MEK is paying a PR campaign, and one dude from State, who's too much of a coward to even speak publicly, told me that everything is actually fine and dandy.

Not buying it.

I am astound by the talent you have shown to put together so many lies and rubbishes to try to misinform the public about MEK, and your unjust liaise with the Iranian criminal Mullahs in a shameful try for further appeasement of the criminal Mullahs. Who else would call the main Iranian resistances which over 120000 of its supporters have already been executed in Iran, a sect! Bashar Assad and its Russian allies are also calling the just resistance of the great Syrian nation as tugs and terrorists and ….
Indeed you have immorally repeated the typical lies of the Iranian ministry of Information. You have lied about the killing of the Americans in Iran. You have lied about the Kurds in Iraq. You have lies about MEK members having arms in Ashraf, and you have lied about them deliberately putting out garbage and manipulating the Ego system at the so called camp liberty, which is supposed to be a temporarily place for them until they would be transferred to third countries. Unjustly you have ignored the fact that there is a MOU in place that should govern the voluntary displacement of the dissidents in Ashraf to Camp liberty, and based on that, the situation imposed on the dissidents in the new camp is noting less than a concentration camp. No enough water and electricity, no freedom to leave the camp, presence of armed Iraqi guards inside the camp, whereas the same guards are responsible for killing 47 and injuring over 1000 of the residents in two inhumane attacks in July 2009 and April 2011, preventing dissidents from free access even to very vital medical care for cancer patients, and overlaying the entire camp with spying cameras, CCTVs, eavesdropping, just to name a few. Unlike what UNAMI and the despicable authority in the state department are pretending-whom you have referred to as not even willing to give his name while making such unfounded and colossal lies and accusations about MEK – Camp Liberty is a prison with disgusting living condition and the negligence of the MOU means nothing but a dirty conspiracy for dismantling the Iranian opposition and plotting another massacre.
You have to bear in mind though; you and whoever has paid you to write this garbage will be complicit in all what is and what will happen in camp Liberty. And like the world will never forgive what Russia and China are doing to the Syrian people. We will never forget people like you and others that have a part in this shameful dealing with the Iranian resistance. Indeed unlike what you have portrayed, Ashraf and its residents are the beacons of hope and inspiration for millions inside Iran and if you think we as the Iranian community will rest aside for this shameful conspiracy of the Mullahs in Iran to prevail, you are insane.
With the Arab spring on the go, the Iranian spring will eventually come and the truths about the heroic residents of Ashraf will also come alight. Let’s stay on the right side! The people of Iran will never forget those who aided the mullahs.

CNGS:

Hey Josh, one is hard-pressed to find an iota of factuality in this, the yellowest of journalistic piece you have concocted, utilizing anonymous officials from the foggiest of the bottom of the American bureacracy, speaking form the both sides of their mouths. I shall provide ten reasons below to establish your lack of bona fides and perhaps mendacious remarks on your part and the officials purportedly having made such unconscinable statements:

1. UNSGSR, Martin Kobler, who signed the so-called MoU with the GoI, submitted a 9-point letter to the residers of Camp Ashraf, guaranteeing their minimum and basic human rights, respect for their dignity and personal property, their safety and security, the movement of their transferrable properties, and sale of their non-transferrable properties under the supervision of relevant international organs. If you possess the slightest amount of decency, take a look at some of the pictures and films of what the Iraqi SWAT teams did to the residents, as they set out to move to "Liberty", utilizing Nazi-like tactics, breaking and vandalizing their belongings and humiliating the residents to no end. Items that are necessary to lead a basest human existence.

This is only a small part of what has transpired, contravening not only the letter and the spirit of the MoU, not to speak of the 9-point letter sent to the residents, providing them assurances that their basic human rights will be respected.

2. Without any substantiation, you act as the mouth-piece of and administration and a State department, playing election-year politics with the lives of a group of innocent, unarmed, "Protected Persons", "Persons of Concern" and a group who has been scarred twice by the savages of the Iraqi and Iranian governments, massacring 47 residents and more than one thousand wounded right under the nose of the then Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates, and accusing them of trashing their own place of resident at "Liberty", which is none other than the lies and mendacities by the government of al-Maliki, who owes his election to the so-called Iranian 'supreme leader", Ali Khamenei, and who has been ordered to annihilate the most intractable opposition to the regime in Tehran.

3. You never actually did your homework, as a so-called National Security writer, to comprehend that from the outset, the placement of the PMOI/MEK in the FTO list, constituted no basis in law, but politics alone, and was instituted solely as placating and appeasing the then so-called reformist faction of the mullahs, Mohammad Khatami, in 1997, as if a viper has ever given birth to a dove. Or the man who fed the crocodile in the hope that he may be eaten last. What a dream?

4. You accuse some of the most dignified former American officials from every branch of the US government and non-governmental individuals: General Shelton, Howard Dean, Louis Freeh, CIA Director, Tom Ridge and Professor Alan Dershowitz, to just name a few, as the tools of PMOI/MEK, who are only in this for the money...and of coure not to speak of close to 100 representatives of the US House of Representtives on both side of the Isle. HAVE YOU NO SHAME, SIR?

5. You refuse to point out that the Thee-Judge Panel of the DC Court of appeals ordered the State Department more than 20 months ago to either take out the PMOI/MEK out of the infamous and bogus list, or provide evidence to the contrary, an action by the State that could have well prevented the barbaric massacre of 37 innocent residents by the savage mercenaries of the the Iraqi government, in collusion with the terrorist Qods Force of the mullahs of Tehran, in early April 2011.

6. You shamelessly disregard the Writ of Mandmus complaint filed with the United States Court of Appeals For the District Columbia Circuit, on behalf of the PMOI, where the government is ordered to respond to the petition before March 26, 2011, an the petitioner by April 2, 2012.

Isn't this, and other legal actions, perhaps the cause and the source of the antipathy on the part of your Deep Throat, or Throats? Who are shedding crocodile rears for the well-being of the residents of Camp Ashraf, and beating their chests, accusing the leaders of the PMOI planning to obstruct a peaceful resolution of this humanitarian crisis.

7. Did you hear that the barbaric forces of al-Maliki have been violating the basic human rights of the residents, humiliating and degrading them, by more than 15 hours of savage behavior inspecting their belongings, and 50 hours of delay, once they had set out to leave for "Liberty."

8. Did you at any point in your article refer to the armed forces within "Liberty" patrolling an area no greeter than 3/4 square kilometer (having been reduced from the original 40 Sq. kilometer promised to the residents) an average of 55 times round the clock, intimidating the relocated residents?

9. What is the matter with you? You keep calling these people a "cult" and people who are under the control of their leaders... I suggest that you study the history of revolutions in the course of the last couple of hundred years, including the American Revolutin, and then perhaps, you gain some insight into what it takes to take on one of the most soul-destroying entities known to man, in contemporary times, the religious facism dominating these intrepid souls' land, having had to sacrifice life and treasure to liberate their county from the yoke of a gang of thugs who have no doubt added another irremovable stain on the darkened pages of history.

10. And finally, the whole foundation of this country is predicated upon lobbyists and lobbying. The problem for you folks, is that these hard-working guys are so good at what they do with the sweat of their brow, that they have been able to overwhelm the mullahs' billions of dollars dispersed to questioable characters, and people with checkered pat, SUCH AS TRITA PARS, either through the now defunt Alavi Foundation, or other illegal means, to lobby and conspire with the functionaries of the biggest beauracracy in the US government... not to mention the big chunks of camoaign money given to some of these characters currently running things, by the California Branch of the hezbollah of the mullahs of Iran. Why don't you look into an outfit called Iman Foundation...

In conclusion, a piece of advice for you Josh. It ain't too late. History will judge you harshly, if you don't reconsider and issue an apology for the heap of trash you have disseminated...

CNGS

Josh should realize he is actually what he accuses the MEK and its supporters to be: "Either he is too lazy or too arrogant to actually do his homework. He doesn't spend the time to learn facts, he just pops off. He accept the pro Tehran line without question and then he postures."
Did you ask these simple questions that any objective journalist would ask:
1. Did the State Department visit the Camp and approve it before the residents were forced to go there?
2. Why weren't the residents' representatives, their lawyers, or any of the Members of Congress who volunteered to go to Camp Liberty before the residents of Camp Ashraf were taken there not allowed to visit and inspect the Camp and see the place for themselves?
3. Why weren't any of the U.S. Military Generals and commanders who offered to go to Camp Liberty on their own expense to visit the Camp and report about its condition?
4. Were any of the independent human rights organizations such as Amnesty International allowed to go to Camp Liberty?
5. Why repeated request by the MEK to allow independent observers, journalists, and Members of Parliaments to visit the Camp Liberty has been rejected?
6. You mentioned that UN monitors the water, sewage, and conditions at the Camp: but have you asked the UN if the Camp has drinking water? Do people at Camp Liberty have freedom of movement or they are deprived by the Iraqi police?
7. Has anyone else been allowed to Camp Liberty to endorse this anonymous U.S. official claim that Camp Liberty is now a paradise??!!
8. It is very simple to allow the western journalists to visit Camp Liberty and talk to the residents and see things for themselves rather than getting a paid and biased writer such as Josh to repeat what State Department says and portray them as facts.
9. Have the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and CNN and Fox and all the other major media outlets been to Camp Liberty? Or the purpose is to get an article published--even by a blogger with no credibility--to control the spin?!!
10. This article, in my view, is self destructive, and the bias is evident in every sentence of the article.

I am surprised to see that the State Department's policy over Iranian opposition is exactly like that of Mullah's regime. In 1997 Clinton administration and its through its short sighted Secretary of State Madeline Albright black listed the Iranian opposition , MEK, to curry favour the mullah's regime of Iran. In 2002 MEK revealed the Iranian regime's infamous nuclear weapon's program, rather than appreciating this, their offices in US was closed by the request of Iranian regime and the State department. In 2003 the Secretary of State of the time Colin Powell, made a deal with the Mullah's regime in Geneva to Bomb the Iranian opposition camp's in Iraq, As a result more than 100 opposition members lost their lives as a result of bombing or attacks by Iranian regime's mercenaries. Since 2003 there has been several attempts by the State Department to harm the Iranian opposition centres in Iraq. Why? This does not make sense. whilst the Iranian regime, like an octopus , with its fundamentalist ideology was trying to spread its tentacles throughout the region, why should State department try to destroy the main opposition to this regime. Apparently there are people in State Department who are serving Iranian regime's interests and not the US ones

I regret to see this biased article published by FP. The article is overwhelmed by unsubstantiated allegations against MEK and its officials. Quoting the "unnamed" US official doesn't relieve the writer of his responsibility for an accurate journalism. The statements quoted by the "unnamed" officials should be investigated and verified by the writer before they are published. MEK has not sabotaged the camp; it has not littered garbage and manipulated the utilities. The Iranian government used the same tactic to defame the MEK. It blamed MEK for torturing his own members. The fact is that the camp was looted by the Iraqis and its infrastructure was destroyed soon after the US Army left it at the end of last year. The article goes on with the fantasy of likening the US political and military officials from both parities with "a bunch of court flatters" to the Queen. No, on the contrary, they are just a group of responsible politicians who have taken side with the right. One should not forget that lives of 3400 Iranian refugees are at stake. Stories such as this are not helping the worsening humanitarian situation at Camp Liberty and Camp Ashraf.

It is a shame how you have tried to divert from the main issue, which is the continuation of the appeasement of the mullahs in Iran, simply by discrediting its only viable resistance.
MEK has been cleared from any involvement in terrorist activities by various high courts in Europe and UK and the court has called the decision to blacklist MEK as perverse and without any basis. Even the court in Virginia has ruled against the allegations and has asked for a review.
I also think this is very immoral to try to discredit the very distinguished American authorities from various administrations who have bravely stood up for justice and freedom in Iran, in order to justify the current administration's weak policy towards the mullahs in Iran.
In my view they are the ones who really represent the American conscious and your suggestion that they have been paid for their support is very irrelevant and in a way very disgusting to hear from a columnist who has obviously sold his gifted art of writing to the appeaser’s of the mullahs in Iran. How shameful.

In my opinion, the people should hear the truth and judge for themselves. Thanks God, unlike Iran or Iraq, freedom of speech may be practiced in the US. I see nothing wrong with paid ads or paid speeches. After all, no politician will risk its reputation just for financial benefits. I think it is time to stop the propaganda against the MEK and see what they really are saying. One should understand why they don't want to be relocated inside Iraq or surrender to the dictations of the Iranian government.

The article I read is rather interesting. The whole article is an orchestrated effort to make some already heard lies, to look true. One question remains to be answered: Why this very informed official has to remain un named. What is he afraid of?
The answer is simple enough: It is far easier to repeat lies against known figures without making your name known.
No thief goes to some one's house and steal, leaving a signature on the door.
And this is just what the unnamed official has done. And it is very unfortunate that the writer of the article has fallen into this trap, which works to help the mullahs in Iran.

Who is this "official" person that you keep coding? Why didn't you ask this "official" about the condition of Camp Liberty? Did you ask if the camp has a running water? Did you or the "official" person visit the camp? It seems that the only ill-advised is the one that you are getting from your anonymous "official".
I agree with Said that this article is really shameful as it calls the most well known and respected personalities in the US as simple minded and lazy.

My advice to the writer is to ask for evidence of claims before writing and presenting anything if you don't like to make a foul of yourself.

Mr Josh Rogin,
This is only very lazy journalism to write an article about some false facts, while quoting unknown officials.
The shear fact however is that the so-called unnamed officials are very well-known.
Do please note the lazy journalism that is used, which is ready to thraw mud in the face of the best know officials and figures in United States, only to be able to fill an article which is use as a lobby by the fundamentalist regime in Iran.

Before making any annotations about the article, I would rather mention the remarks made by MR. BERNSTEIN the famous political journalist who exposed one of America's greatest stories in corruption The Water Gate
MR. BERNSTEIN ‘’ said ‘’one of the things we do as journalists when we decide what is news is we decide what portion of the story is devoted to what we know to be fact and what portion of the story is devoted to what we know is lie. And yes, we put in there, in our stories, the part that is lie, but we have a responsibility to point out when that part of the story is lie. And two, we have a responsibility not to inflate the lie and give it equal time to what we know is the truth.’’
I wish you read what Mr. Bernstein says because you will then find your own status quo and realise by writting a lots of nounsence which has previously been used by the Mullahs and his agents thousands of times you will only reveal your true natur and your lack of credibility.

Another amazing piece of sensational tabloid journalism quoting anonymous "officials" (or better calling them royalty) who are still trying to curry favor with the Iranian regime. Let's blame everything on the MEK and its leadership and supporters and forget the role of State Dept. in creating this situation by keeping the group in the FTO list.

I just want to ask two questions about the position of Foreign Affairs can go through and answer and not just to me but to all human rights, equality organizations, and happy to himself as well. . . . . . .
The first: if there is no evidence on growing or one-way weapons into battle Ashraf. All American military forces were in battle Ashraf since 2003 has witnessed the struggles that Ashraf residents had disarmed shortly after 2003 and although in 2009 they had agreed that there was some kind of weapon in the struggle Ashraf. Why the position of Foreign Affairs tries to show injustice information. If he does not know well enough information, he shall not describe it as not true and if he knows any information that there is no weapon at all, so one wonders why he's lying.
And the second question: if the position of Foreign Affairs is confident that the Mojahedin Khalghs members exaggerate everything to the struggle of Liberty with the bad and the crisis with drinks water crisis with electricity, major problems with waste management system, the struggle of the residents do not receive voluntary and lots of other problems, Iraqi government and United Nations representatives and the unknown position of Foreign Affairs has refused to cooperate with both old political and military positions who wanted to fight Liberty and approve before Ashraf's residents moved to the prison when it is called the fight Liberty. It was already late December 2011, when 21-old politician and military forces reported themselves to themselves were ready to go to Iraq and wanted to see the struggle Liberty but got no answer then.
Best regards
Hamid A

Those familiar with the negotiations would hardly guess that unnamed official here is anyone but Daniel Fried, Secretary Clinton’s special adviser on Camp Ashraf who have said similar things in the past.

It’s a shame that he uses such a cheap language and insults against respected former Officials who served the United States for so many years, instead of responding to their legitimate demands.

This kind of slander campaign only complicates his own work when no one will trust him again, similar to his predecessor Lawrence Butler who had to leave his job after insulting MEK and former US officials in a New York Times story.

Being paid for your expertise is not unusual nor dishonorable in United States, but spreading unsubstantiated rumors and propaganda without putting your name is truly immoral and shameful for an administration official.

The entire reason to list MEK on the terror list was to appease the Ayatollahs in Tehran AND intimidate, by to use of fear, the supports of MEK in US.

Previous head of FBI has said many times he did not find anything against MEK.

First Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, has said many times the MEK was never on any of the "terrorist activity" reports he received daily while he was in the Homeland Security!

Targeting all of these honorable people who have served their country in very good standing, and accusing them of receiving money for supporting what is right and just is nothing but the continuation of the intimidation and fear tactics that did never worked on Iranian-Americans that support MEK and will not work on these honorable people either.

I dare the un-named state department official to step forward and accuse House Representatives, such as Judge Ted Poe that they are supporting the removal of MEK from FTP list and improved condition in Camp Liberty because they have been paid:

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/213345-rep-ted-poe-r-texas

If anything, all of these people are upholding values that American people value. Justice and liberty for all. Can State Department please step forward and defend why 4000+ lives were sacrificed in Iraq and now Maliki has created a concentration camp for Iranian refuges?

One way or another, Department of State will have to answer questions about conditions at Camp Liberty. Turing the table around and trying to intimidate those who are questioning the responsibility of US in regards to the people of Ashraf will not work.

As regards the Iranian regime and their large nuclear weapons program, and think to stop the regime with war, or both think with eftergifters politicians, and also require politicians with real right contacts with the regime, but for many years has been Mrs. Rajavi (Mojahedin Khalgh: leaders) have come up with the third solution. What is the third solution? Well! It means pain certainly no concessions, nor war, but open hands out the opposition with out the black list and allow the opposition to remove the unjust regime in collaboration with the Iranian people. While the sanctions are invested with all political contacts with all the top Iranian politician and economics of oil sanctions allmenhet. It is the one that works best in test in terms of the mullahs in Iran. The sanctions have worked fairly well, but when will the signals and oppositioners rights to the removed of the list by the superior courts around the world and into the U.S., those who wish to continue their plans with concessions will sabotage the situation and wants in different ways to keep the regime. Now after many years, everyone knows that the Mojahedin Khalgh has gone into the terrorist list only at the request of the Iranian regime when Khatami was president, and those who wanted to maintain the regime förstärkade all concessions. What had they served on? No one knows not. Without regime fortsättade hard with its nuclear program and deceived the whole world.
The following gifts plans still continuing. The unknown officer has accused the Mojahedin Khalghs members to sabotage the struggle of Liberty and showed good pictures out of the struggle Liberty and lots of accusations against the Mojahedin Khalgh. He or she knows best why the Iraqi authorities and UN ambassador let not any Mojahedin Khalghs representatives or their attorneys walk you to accept. All anklagerser who have already come to the Mojahedin Khalghs Liberty residents are exactly the same anklagerser fundamentalist regime has done to the Mojahedin Khalgh since Khomeini hijacked power in Iran. The only concessions the unknown officer reminds me, almost all Iranians, as he walks in the regime ljnie all against Mojahedin Khalgh.

Hey you Josh Rogin, the real question is how much you have been paid to write this utterly garbage piece! Please tell us how much you have been paid to write a so-called article full of lies, trying to change the place of victims with the perpetrators! This shows the very strength and successes of the Iranian Resistance led by Maryam Rajavi, the President elect of the Iranian Resistance.
And congratulation to you Rogin for joining the 37 members of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Have you not learned your lesson from what happened to those 37 disreputable individuals? Forget about journalism and start a new career as - believe me - after this garbage, you are finished!

Hey Josh Rogin your career in journalism is over, find a new job!
Hey you Josh Rogin, the real question is how much you have been paid to write this utterly garbage piece! Please tell us how much you have been paid to write a so-called article full of lies, trying to change the place of victims with the perpetrators! This shows the very strength and successes of the Iranian Resistance led by Maryam Rajavi, the President elect of the Iranian Resistance.
And congratulation to you Rogin for joining the 37 members of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Have you not learned your lesson from what happened to those 37 disreputable individuals? Forget about journalism and start a new career as - believe me - after this garbage, you are finished!

There are so many inaccuracies that I am genuinely stunned the article was ever posted. The first in a litany of lies is the following: "where more than 3,000 members of the group, many of them suspected to be armed...". Not even the Iranian regime has made such an absurd and lazy comment. The group were disarmed nearly a decade ago!

I am willing to give Mr Rogin the benefit of doubt and suggest that he has been duped by agents of the Iranian regime and has therefore relied heavily on their misinformation. However this lazy and shoddy article only serves to assist and bolster a vile and brutal regime, by putting down their main opposition. This article breathes life into a dying corpse. Unfortunately we Iranians have over 30 years of experience of living with a barbaric regime. I therefore do not exaggerate when I say that this article will indirectly spill the blood of innocent Iranians in Iran and in exile who cry freedom!

" ... many of (the Camp Ashraf residents) are suspected to be armed." (March 12, 2012)

Indeed, it did work the last time such claims were made (March 19, 2003). Hussein was also suspected to have WMDs. I suspect when Mr. Rogin will eventually find a working Scud on Iraqi soil, he will also find an "arm" among the Camp residents.

On February 27, 2012, the legal counsel for Iran’s principal opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), filed a Writ of Mandamus in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to enforce the Court’s July 2010 ruling which ordered the Secretary of State to reconsider the PMOI’s petition to be removed from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). The PMOI “seeks a writ of mandamus, in the face of unwarranted and unreasonable agency delay, to order the Secretary of State to delist PMOI as a designated ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization,’ or, alternatively, to act on PMOI’s request for delisting within 30 days (and specifying that, if she does not, the designation shall be revoked).”

Subsequently, on February 29, 2012, the PMOI’s counsel filed an “Emergency Motion for Expedited Consideration.” Also on February 29, 2012, a brief of Amici Curiae Michael B. Mukasey, Thomas J. Ridge, Louis Freeh, Frances Townsend, R. James Woolsey, Robert G. Joseph, Rudolph W. Giuliani, John R. Bolton, John Sano, Glenn L. Carle, Hugh Shelton, David Phillips, Leo Mccloskey, Wesley Martin, Gary Morsch, James Conway, Dell Dailey, Thomas G. Mcinerney, Paul E. Vallely, David A. Deptula And James A. Lyons, Jr., was filed with the US Court of Appeals in support of the PMOI’s Writ of Mandamus.

On March 5, 2012, after reviewing the US government’s petition in response to the PMOI’s motion for expedited consideration, the US Court of Appeals issued a ruling which “ordered that the government respond to the petition on or before March 26, 2012,” and that “the motion for expedited consideration of the petition be granted.”

Camp Ashraf, home to 3,400 PMOI members since 1986, was attacked by Iraqi forces in July 2009 and April 2011. The Iraqi government justified both massacres, in which 47 unarmed civilians were murdered, as cracking down on “terrorists.” According to Members of US Congress Iraqi officials have acknowledged that US designation of the PMOI is partly to blame for the bloodshed in Camp Ashraf. The UN refugee agency officials have also told members of US Congress that as long as the PMOI remains listed, it would be near impossible to find third countries for Ashraf residents.

As an American citizen I really am sorry that a website like foreignpolicy.com is spreading the mullahs propaganda. When will our media stop supporting dictators? When will the white house try to actually do something for human rights instead of negotiating with dictators for some exchange of oil.

Shame on you foreignpolicy
Shame on you white house

We want Freedom for Iran ,we need mek organization to regim change

This article is full of lies and fabrication bearing the same theme of the notorious Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.
First of all why the Iraqi government was so keen on displacing Ashraf residents? They have been there over a quarter of century without any problem why move them somewhere else. Despite all this unjust demand, to show gesture of good will about %24 of the camp residents moved to camp liberty where the condition is not at all suitable for living. PMOI members have released some clips about the living standard of the camp, I do not think the author of this article or his loved ones, the mullahs’ supports, would like to live in that camp for a moment.
The author has deliberately avoided some basic facts, the fact that Ashraf has been searched seven times by the American and twice by the Iraqi’s and despite all these scanning they found nothing. That is why the resident had been attacked twice by the Iraqi security forces. 47 were killed and about 500 injured as the result of gun shots, videos of which have been published worldwide, bringing subsequent global condemnation of Iraqi forces savage attack on innocent civilians. Had the residents been armed they Iraqi security forces would not dear to go near them.
The truth is that over the last 33 years, ever since the fundamentalist mullahs came to power in Iran, they did nothing but kill, terror, torture, destroy and above all demonise their main oppositions. Now that the facts are revealed, they started to shake and distort the truth about PMOI again, hence the article above.

TOO MUCH!! READ ON........

This article is totally untrue and is just the nonsense that the Iranian regime tries to spread in the media.

How unfortunate that some stoop to such low levels in order to prop up the blood thirsty, murdering regime in Iran.

No professional standard and worse still, no morals!

These people are always seen however, whether at the feet of Hitler or Khamenei.

No amount of PR will change the FACT that the MEK murdered American GI's in the 1970's.

Giuliani and the others named in the article should be ashamed of themselves for pandering and taking five and six-figured fees to promote the interests of a terrorist group.

The transition to Camp Liberty, which was good enough for tens of thousands of American troops over the past 8 years is good enough as a TRANSITION site for the MEK members who do not want to be left at the mercy of the Iraqi Army, or PM Maliki, who really have enough other problems.

All this ranting gets me wondering where do the MEK get the money to pay these huge speaking and lobbying fees? It ain't carwashes and pancake breakfasts...