Bahrain al-Khalifa regime hosts MEK terrorists, fear grow MEK will be deployed against Opposition as pressure to stop abuse increases

MP Slams Al-Khalifa over Using Terrorists against Bahraini Protestors
3 February, 2013 – FARS

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian lawmaker rapped the al-Khalifa regime’s readiness to host the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR), and said the regime intends to use the MKO as means of suppression against protestors in the tiny Persian Gulf Island.

“The Al Khalifa regime is trying to support the terrorist MKO to suppress public protests in Bahrain and use the group in line with its objectives,” Mohammad Saleh Jokar, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Saleh Jokar said on Saturday.

Jokar, however, said that neither the MKO, nor any other force can confront Bahraini people’s rightful protests.

Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since mid-February 2011, calling for an end to the al-Khalifa dynasty’s over-40-year rule, end of discrimination, establishment of justice and a democratically-elected government as well as freedom of detained protesters.

Violence against the defenseless people escalated after a Saudi-led conglomerate of police, security and military forces from the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member states – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar – were dispatched to the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom on March 13, 2011, to help Manama crack down on peaceful protestors.

So far, tens of people have been killed, hundreds have gone missing and thousands of others have been injured.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and Western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran. …source