Those figures are simply wrong. First it is claimed by another poster that 120,000 of MEK have been executed. Then it is claimed that 120,000 have been executed and most of them were MEK. That is simply not true. There have been executions of MEK, but the numbers are nowhere near what is claimed by MEK propaganda. That and the fact that MEK likes to claim every one executed inside Iran as its own members, but the reality is different from that. As I said, MEK numbers in its heyday never exceeded 10,000 and most of them were sympathizers not full fledged members. The clearest proof of that fact is that after Rajavi fled from Iran, the number of assassinations by MEK of government officials practically fell to zero. Everybody left. They have assassinated a handful of officials during the next 25 years but that is not anything near the power that MEK claims to have. The bulk of executions of MEK happened in the early years of the Islamic Republic, after MEK killed the president, the prime minister, half of the cabinet, four grand Ayatollahs, the leadership of the largest party in Iran, hundreds of ordinary people from teachers to garbage collectors to young Basiji kids. The other time was in the last days of Iran-Iraq war when a column of MEK whores rode into Iran on Saddam donated tanks and trucks and massacred a couple of border villages, before they were all killed by the Iranian military and revolutionary guards. At the same time, on the word sent by Mr. Genius Rajavi, the MEK rebelled in some prisons in Iran, thinking that the day of reckoning has come for the Islamic Republic. That sealed their fate there and then. AI put the number of executed in that night at 300. Mr. Genuis’s figure is 7,000. By the way, the letter by late Ayatollah Khomeini is taken out of context by the report. It is true that he did not think very well of MEK, though.

What is very interesting is that supporters of MEK refute the John’s Hopkins study of Iraqi deaths, and yet repeat this ridiculous figure about executions in Iran.

“In February 1980, 60,000 copies of the Mojahed Newspaper were seized and burned. In
Mashad, Shiraz, Qa’emshahr, Sari and dozens of small towns, club wielders
attacked and looted Mojahedin Headquarters, student societies and meetings.
Since the Mojahedin meetings were often large, these attacks turned into huge
melees. Some 700 were injured in the attack on the Mojahedin Headquarters at
Qa’emshahr in April, 400 in Mashad. Ten members of the organisation lost
their lives in clashes between February and June 1980.”In response to a letter by PMOI supporters in August 1980 complaining about the
crackdown, Mullah Allameh, head of the Revolutionary Court in Bam, Southern Iran,
wrote, “According to the decree of Imam Khoemini, the Mojahedin of Iran are
infidels and worse than blasphemers… They have no right to life.”

The turning point in the struggle between the PMOI and the Iranian regime came on
20 June 1981, when the PMOI called a demonstration to protest at the Iranian
regime’s crackdown, and to call for political freedom and the release of thousands of
its political prisoners. In relation to this fateful day, Ervand Abrahamian stated,
“…Vast crowds appeared in many cities, especially Tehran, Tabriz, Rasht,
Amol, Qiyamshahr, Gorgan, Babolsar, Zanjan, Karaj, Arak, Isfahan, Birjand,
Ahwaz and Kerman. The Tehran demonstration drew as many as 500,000
determined participants. Warnings against demonstrations were constantly
broadcast over the radio-television network. Government supporters advised
the public to stay at home: for example, Nabavi’s Organisation of the
Mojaheds of the Islamic Revolution beseeched the youth of Iran not to waste
their lives for the sake of ‘liberalism and capitalism’. Prominent clerics
declared that demonstrators, irrespective of their age, would be treated as
‘enemies of God’ and as such would be executed on the spot. Hezbollahis
were armed and trucked in to block off the major streets. Pasdars
[Revolutionary Guards] were ordered to shoot. Fifty were killed, 200 injured,
and 1,000 arrested in the vicinity of Tehran University alone. This surpassed
most of the street clashes of the Islamic Revolution. The warden of Evin
Prison announced with much fanfare that firing squads had executed twentythree
demonstrators, including a number of teenage girls. The reign of terror
had begun.”17
In a report published in 1987, Amnesty International added,
“Although its own records [i.e. Amnesty’s records] of the number of
executions is far from exhaustive, in the six months between July and
December 1981 it recorded 2,444 executions… In the early 1980s Amnesty
International gathered detailed information about mass executions and
recorded a number of cases in which minors were executed in the Islamic
Republic of Iran for political offences… Amnesty has also received reports of
the execution of juveniles, some as young as 11, in 1981 and 1982. Amnesty
International has received reports also of pregnant women being executed.”18
Since then, PMOI members and supporters have been the prime victims of human
rights violations in Iran. Tens of thousands of its supporters have been executed by
the Iranian regime, including 30,000 political prisoners who were executed in a few
months between the summer and autumn of 1988, following a fatwa issued against the
PMOI by Ayatollah Khomeini. The fatwa read in part,

“As the treacherous Monafeqin [Mojahedin] do not believe in Islam and what
they say is out of deception and hypocrisy,… it is decreed that those who are
in prisons throughout the country and remain steadfast in their support for the
Monafeqin, are waging war on God and are condemned to execution… It is
naïve to show mercy to those who wage war on God. The decisive way in
which Islam treats the enemies of God is among the unquestionable tenets of
the Islamic state. I hope that with your revolutionary rage and vengeance
toward the enemies of Islam, you would achieve the satisfaction of Almighty
God. Those who are making the decisions must not hesitate, nor show any
doubt or be concerned with details. They must try to be ‘most ferocious
against infidels’.”

The PMOI claims that in the past 25 years, the Iranian regime has executed over
120,000 political prisoners, most of them affiliated with the PMOI. It has also
published a book detailing the names and particulars of over 21,600 of those
executed. In a briefing on Iran, Amnesty International stated that in the period
between 1981 and 1982 alone, “…thousands of members of the People’s Mojahedin
organisation were executed.”

14 ‘The Iranian Mojahedin’, by Ervand Abrahamian, pg. 206
15 ‘Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution’ by Shaul Bakhash, Basic Books, 1990
16 ‘Enemies of the Ayatollahs’, by Mohammad Mohaddessin, Zed Books, pgs. 55 and 56

The secular cleric and politician, Ayad Jamaluddin, who is a ranking member in the foreign relations committee in Iraq’s Parliament has confirmed this, saying that he has carefully examined all the existing evidence and testimonies, and has found no grounds for the validity of such an allegation.

Even Iraqis who were Saddam’s opposition are defending the PMOI/MEK…Iraqi National Accord Movement, led by Dr. Ayad Allawi, demanded the protection of Ashraf residents, and ask the government and all national leaders to take steps in this regard and refuse to give in to Iranian pressures.

In 1999, current Iraqi Foreign Minister Mr Hoshyar Zebari, then head of foreign affairs of the Kurdish Democratic Party(KDP), wrote a letter to a court in the Netherlands. He wrote to the court that we, the KDP, heard in 1991 those rumors that PMOI was involved in suppression of the Kurds and Shiites. We investigated this issue and we, the KDP, were convinced that all those allegations were false; all those allegations were rumors and PMOI had done nothing against the Kurdish people, not during the uprising of 1991, nor in its aftermath. This is an official document.

There is much disinformation about the PMOI/MEK…afterall remember the MEK/PMOI are a resistance organization and with limited resources. Iran’s minsitry of intelligence has the oil money at its disposal.