'Tank Girl' Army Accused of Torture

The People’s Mujahideen of Iran (MKO) are a 4000-strong anti-Iranian dissident army, currently under US protection in a camp in Iraq. They have a vociferous public relations campaign in Britain and the backing of some Washington neo-conservatives. The group, known as the “tank girls” because of the preponderance of women in its ranks, were being financed by Saddam Hussein in camps in Iraq. The army was allocated illicit cash from the UN oil-for-food program, according to Iraqi ministry documents.

A former English soldier in the MKO, Anne Singleton, now living in Leeds, talked to the Guardian last week. She said the MKO was a brainwashing cult, which ordered its members alternately to divorce and re-marry. As a “Tank girl”, she says she wielded a Kalashnikov in the Iraqi deserts with a battalion of women equipped with tanks and revolutionary slogans. They are run by Maryam and Massoud Rajavi, who are married.

A bizarre revolutionary army supported by British politicians who want more “regime change” in the Middle East, has been accused of torture and brainwashing.

Evidence obtained by the Guardian backs a report by Human Rights Watch. This makes detailed accusations of abuse, including deaths under interrogation, against the “People’s Mujahideen” of Iran (MKO).

The Mujahideen are a 4000-strong anti-Iranian dissident army, currently under US protection in a camp in Iraq. They have a vociferous public relations campaign in Britain and the backing of some Washington neo-conservatives.

The group, known as the “tank girls” because of the preponderance of women in its ranks, has also won the support of the Daily Telegraph, which wants it to help overthrow the mullahs in Tehran. It says in a leader: “We should back the main resistance group, the People’s Mujahideen … Give them the tools and they will finish the job”.

There is a growing right-wing campaign in parts of Washington and London for regime change, citing Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But leftwing UK figures have also joined the campaign to legitimize the Mujahideen, whom they see as freedom fighters.

An advertisement by supporters in the Guardian last month quoted Labour peer Lord (Robin) Corbett, as well as Liberal Lord…

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