Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Show solidarity with Iranian people by curbing Mojahedin Khalq terrorists in
London

LEEDS, England, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An open letter to Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, today asked his government to stop incitement to
violence being broadcast into Iran by a terrorist group from London. Massoud
Khodabandeh, of Leeds-based Middle East Strategy Consultants, said, "The
Iranian people's courageous, peaceful demonstrations to achieve their natural
freedoms and rights are being fatally undermined from within the U.K."

Khodabandeh said the Mojahedin-e Khalq (aka MKO, MEK, NCRI, PMOI, Rajavi cult)
is broadcasting incitement to violence from London through its satellite
programme Sima-ye Azadi. The group is also known to be financed through
British-based banks. "Britain, following Washington's lead, has put herself in
a position where she is seen to support terrorism. This is not in our
interests," said Khodabandeh.

Hardliners in the Iranian government yesterday imposed zero tolerance on
street protests after it was found that members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e
Khalq cult had been dispatched to Iran to foment violence among the ordinary
protestors.

In August 2009, Massoud Khodabandeh published a second report following
consultation with the Iraqi government on plans to expel the cult from Iraq.
An Iraqi government official stressed that terror teams could not have been
sent from Camp Ashraf after American forces handed over control of the
terrorist base to Iraq in January 2009.

Although the MKO remains on the U.S. terrorism list, the group operates freely
from bases in Paris, London and Germany where the terrorist group's members
are "fully trained in terrorism and are ideologically committed to the violent
overthrow of the Iranian government."

In the context of the nuclear issue, regime change would be a desirable
outcome for the British government, but this "must not be pursued through the
use of terrorism or terrorist groups," said Khodabandeh. The letter said, "We
cannot ask a terrorist group to renounce violence and give up terrorism.
Instead we are asking your government to curb their activities in line with
British law and with your government's own stance on terrorism."

Massoud Khodabandeh told the British Prime Minister, "We would expect that you
act immediately to prevent the incitement to violence by the terrorist
Mojahedin-e Khalq from inside the U.K. In doing so you would remove from
Iranian hardliners their main excuse for crushing the people's legitimate
protests to bring about change in their own country."

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SOURCE Middle East Strategy Consultants Ltd.

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