Khomeinist propaganda seeks to tie MEK to Al Qaeda

   There is no limit to the lies from the Khomeinist disinformation campaign against the MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq]. The MEK has been fiercely opposed to the regime in Iran and has been demonized for it. Just as the politically correct left demonizes Israel for standing up to Jihadist terrorism, they're also demonizing the MEK.
   One of the major claims made by Khomeinist propagandists is that the MEK has ties to Al Qaeda. For instance, Khomeinist propaganda website Iran Interlink claims:

Iran Interlink, November 06, 2010: … Massoud Rajavi was on the stage and while he had his hands on his waist he began a war cry against the USA, and in his admiration for Osama Ben Laden and his organization, Al Qaeda, he said, ”This was fanatical Islam which trembled and shacked the basis of US Imperialism and they destroyed the twin towers which were the symbol of their power, and successfully reduced it to rubble through their successful mission”. Then he (Massoud Rajavi) with a smile on his face continued his war cry and said, ”What will happen to the USA if revolutionary Islam with our Ideology and Maryam’s leadership comes to power, then this paper tiger (the USA) will be destroyed as a whole.” …

 Actually, where is the evidence of that? And why don't we see MEK terrorists killing Americans? Why don't we see the people in Camp Ashraf supporting the insrugents and sending people off to kill American troops in Iraq? The MEK denounced violence back in 2001. In 2003, the MEK handed over their weapons to the US-led coalition and have accepted their status under the 4th Geneva Convention. Yet Iran and their terrorist proxies continue with their constant terrorist aggression against the innocent people in Camp Ashraf. There is no evidence of MEK terrorism against America. There is no national security threat from the MEK. In fact, the MEK's goals match up with US security interests. The Iranian regime, on the other hand, has been killing Americans. Iran and their proxy terrorists have murdered American troops, Iraqis, who don't support Iran, and Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf. What Khomeinist Iran-interlink doesn't tell you is that Iran publicly considers America to be the "Great Satan". Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his Presidency, at the same conference where he was well known for calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map", said:

Such people are using words like “it’s not possible”. They say how could we have a world without America and Zionism? But you know well that this slogan and goal can be achieved and can definitely be realised”. 

 So in other words, Ahmadinejad, in addition for calling for Israel's destruction, called for America's destruction. The conference was known as "The World without Zionism and America." So  Khomeinist Tehran constantly calls for the destruction of Israel and America and has been carrying out terrorist attacks in order to try to achieve that goal. Right now, Iran is developing nukes to achieve that goal. Ahmadinejad said that right while Iran was still working on its nuclear weapons program.
  Another Khomeinist disinformation claim has been the claim that the MEK worked with Al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef to bomb a Shia shrine in Iran. But while Iran has falsely accused the MEK of being terrorists and has done all it can to present the MEK as a terrorist threat, Iran itself is a terrorist threat. In other words, Iran has tried to portray the MEK as what they are. And as for the false claim of the MEK supporting Al Qaeda, the 9/11 Commission report actually reports instances of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah working with Al Qaeda. The 9/11 commission report says this about the Khobar Towers bombing:

In June 1996, an enormous truck bomb detonated in the Khobar Towers

residential complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that housed U.S.Air Force per-

sonnel. Nineteen Americans were killed, and 372 were wounded.The opera-

tion was carried out principally, perhaps exclusively, by Saudi Hezbollah, an

organization that had received support from the government of Iran.While the 

evidence of Iranian involvement is strong, there are also signs that al Qaeda

played some role, as yet unknown. [page 60]

The 9/11 Commission report states also:

In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan 

between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to coop- 

erate in providing support—even if only training—for actions carried out pri- 

marily against Israel and the United States. Not long afterward, senior al Qaeda 

operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives. In the 

fall of 1993, another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for 

further training in explosives as well as in intelligence and security. Bin Ladin 

reportedly showed particular interest in learning how to use truck bombs such 

as the one that had killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.The relation- 

ship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not 

necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist opera- 

tions.As will be described in chapter 7, al Qaeda contacts with Iran continued 

in ensuing years. [page 61]

Also as reported by the 9/11 Commission report:

As early as January 1994, Bin Ladin received the surveillance reports, com-

plete with diagrams prepared by the team’s computer specialist. He, his top mil-

itary committee members—Banshiri and his deputy, Abu Hafs al Masri (also

known as Mohammed Atef)—and a number of other al Qaeda leaders

reviewed the reports. Agreeing that the U.S. embassy in Nairobi was an easy 

target because a car bomb could be parked close by, they began to form a plan.

Al Qaeda had begun developing the tactical expertise for such attacks months

earlier, when some of its operatives—top military committee members and sev-

eral operatives who were involved with the Kenya cell among them—were sent

to Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon. [page 68]

As for the 9/11 hijackers, the 9/11 Commission report states:

As we mentioned in chapter 2, while in Sudan, senior managers in al Qaeda

maintained contacts with Iran and the Iranian-supported worldwide terrorist

organization Hezbollah, which is based mainly in southern Lebanon and

Beirut. Al Qaeda members received advice and training from Hezbollah.

Intelligence indicates the persistence of contacts between Iranian security

officials and senior al Qaeda figures after Bin Ladin’s return to Afghanistan.

Khallad has said that Iran made a concerted effort to strengthen relations with

al Qaeda after the October 2000 attack on the USS

Cole

, but was rebuffed

because Bin Ladin did not want to alienate his supporters in Saudi Arabia. Khal-

lad and other detainees have described the willingness of Iranian officials to

facilitate the travel of al Qaeda members through Iran, on their way to and from

Afghanistan. For example, Iranian border inspectors would be told not to place

telltale stamps in the passports of these travelers. Such arrangements were par-

ticularly beneficial to Saudi members of al Qaeda.

120

Our knowledge of the international travels of the al Qaeda operatives

selected for the 9/11 operation remains fragmentary. But we now have evi-

dence suggesting that 8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi “muscle” operatives traveled into

or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001.

121

In October 2000, a senior operative of Hezbollah visited Saudi Arabia to

coordinate activities there. He also planned to assist individuals in Saudi Ara-

bia in traveling to Iran during November. A top Hezbollah commander and

Saudi Hezbollah contacts were involved.

122

Also in October 2000, two future muscle hijackers, Mohand al Shehri and

Hamza al Ghamdi, flew from Iran to Kuwait. In November, Ahmed al Ghamdi

apparently flew to Beirut, traveling—perhaps by coincidence—on the same

flight as a senior Hezbollah operative.Also in November, Salem al Hazmi appar-

ently flew from Saudi Arabia to Beirut.

123

In mid-November, we believe, three of the future muscle hijackers,Wail al

Shehri,Waleed al Shehri, and Ahmed al Nami, all of whom had obtained their

U.S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and

then onward to Iran. An associate of a senior Hezbollah operative was on the

same flight that took the future hijackers to Iran. Hezbollah officials in Beirut

and Iran were expecting the arrival of a group during the same time period.

The travel of this group was important enough to merit the attention of sen-

ior figures in Hezbollah.

124

Later in November, two future muscle hijackers, Satam al Suqami and Majed

Moqed, flew into Iran from Bahrain. In February 2001, Khalid al Mihdhar may

have taken a flight from Syria to Iran, and then traveled further within Iran to

a point near the Afghan border.

125

KSM and Binalshibh have confirmed that several of the 9/11 hijackers (at

least eight, according to Binalshibh) transited Iran on their way to or from

Afghanistan, taking advantage of the Iranian practice of not stamping Saudi

passports.They deny any other reason for the hijackers’ travel to Iran.They also

deny any relationship between the hijackers and Hezbollah.

126

In sum, there is strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda

members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were

future 9/11 hijackers.There also is circumstantial evidence that senior Hezbol-

lah operatives were closely tracking the travel of some of these future muscle

hijackers into Iran in November 2000. However, we cannot rule out the pos-

sibility of a remarkable coincidence—that is, that Hezbollah was actually focus-

ing on some other group of individuals traveling from Saudi Arabia during this

same time frame, rather than the future hijackers.

127

We have found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the plan-

ning for what later became the 9/11 attack.At the time of their travel through

Iran, the al Qaeda operatives themselves were probably not aware of the spe-

cific details of their future operation.

After 9/11, Iran and Hezbollah wished to conceal any past evidence of

cooperation with Sunni terrorists associated with al Qaeda. A senior Hezbol-

lah official disclaimed any Hezbollah involvement in 9/11.

128  We believe this topic requires further investigation by the U.S. government. [p. 240-241].

   There has also been evidence of Iranian support for Al Qaeda after 9/11 to. The Washington Post says:

 The Jerusalem Force's [Qods force] former commander, Ahmad Vahidi, allegedly helped plan the 1994 bombing of the Amia Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 civilians were killed and 230 injured, according to Argentine intelligence officials and others.
The group has also maintained ties with Al Qaeda for more than a decade, according to US and European intelligence officials. Senior Al Qaeda leaders first met and formed a tactical alliance with the nascent Jerusalem Force in Sudan in the early 1990s, intelligence officials say. The group was creating training camps there at the same time that Osama bin Laden had begun to create his own financial and training infrastructure.

Bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, used his decade-old relationship with Vahidi, then commander of the Jerusalem Force, to negotiate safe harbor for some Al Qaeda leaders who were trapped in the mountains of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in 2001, according to a European intelligence official. 

    The British media outlet Sky News reported that:

Sky News' intelligence sources have said Iran has been supplying al Qaeda with training in the use of advanced explosives, "some funding and a safe haven" as part of a deal first worked out in 2009 which has now led to "operational capacity".

 In all fairness, it's true that Iran and Al Qaeda were on different sides in the Syria conflict. Al Qaeda was part of the Sunni Jihadist element of the anti-Assad rebels in Syria. And Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have been fighting on behalf of Butcher Assad and actively supported his use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians. But still, Iran has constantly had an alliance with Al Qaeda against America and the free world; both before and after 9/11.
   It's funny how Khomeinist disinformation makes the allegation that the MEK has worked with Al Qaeda when Iran's own leaders were the ones who have made an alliance against them. As for the fabricated quote that was supposedly attributed to Massoud Rajavi [its possible for a Khomeinist propagandist to have taken it from an Iranian regime official and then attribute it to Massoud Rajavi], it sounds like what an official from Iran's terror regime would say. After all, Iran has constantly promoted the "death to America" demonstrations. Iran has been actively supporting terrorism against America. All the while, the MEK has not lifted a finger against the US. While Iran and its terorrist proxies have murdered US troops in Iraq, the MEK has been nothing but cooperative with US forces. Even after bombing MEK bases in the beginning of the Iraq war, they still did not fight back.In fact, they surrendered, handed their arms to the US and accepted 4th Geneva convention status. Yet despite this, the heroic people in Camp Ashraf are murdered daily by Iran and its proxy forces. So this claim of the MEK having ties to Al Qaeda or working with Al Qaeda are baseless. It's Iran that worked with Al Qaeda. And this is another area of Khomeinist hypocrisy where Iran is guilty of exactly what Khomeinist disinformation accuses the MEK of.