Iran executes 2 MKO terrorists
Iran has executed two members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group who had carried out activities against the Islamic Republic in liaison with agents in Britain.
The two terrorists, Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad Ali Haj Aqaei, were hanged on Monday for distributing placards and photos of the terrorist group, making videos and images during the post-election unrest in Iran in 2009 and chanting slogans in favor of the MKO, IRNA reported.
Haj Aqaei had confessed that he traveled to and stayed in Camp Ashraf, MKO’s headquarters and training site in the Iraqi province of Diyala, for months.
He also admitted that he once received 3,000 US dollars from the MKO and attended training courses.
He was also arrested 29 years ago on charge of providing financial support to the MKO.
Haj Aqaei had traveled to Iraq many times and intended to stay in the MKO headquarters but had been rejected due to his old age.
The other executed member, Kazemi, had links with MKO leaders inside Iran and collected financial aid for the terrorist group. He had also transferred his son to Iraq.
He had confessed that he took videos and photos from Iran’s post-election violence and conducted interviews with MKO members in Camp Ashraf.
The MKO is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war on Iran.
It has also claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks and the assassination of significant figures and ordinary civilians in Iran over the past three decades.
The group is listed as a terrorist group by Tehran and much of the international community.
