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Court Orders the MEK Leader to Pay Billions to Victims

An Iranian court has ordered the leader of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) to pay nearly 8000 billion tomans in damages for the victims.

“Over 40 former members of the group and a number of people who were injured filed a lawsuit in this case,” Zabihollah Khodaian told the reporters in a press conference.

court hearing on the MEK leaders crimes

“The court, through the Foreign Ministry, notified the Ministry of Justice of the countries in which the group operates,” he said adding, “as you saw, the group leader reacted to this case in a message.”

Khodaian added that the court ruled that the MEK’s leader must deliver the sum of 7,660,000,000,000 tomans in compensation to the victims who have suffered physical and mental damage.

The first court hearing in the crimes of MEK leadership was held in March 2021, when 42 former members and victims stated part of the physical and mental tortures of the MEK.

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Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 297

++ In the run up to the COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow at the end of October, former MEP and MEK advocate Struan Stevenson has been busy publishing his demand that Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi be arrested on arrival in Scotland. Now Stevenson is claiming that he has actually stopped Raisi from attending the Conference for fear of arrest. This remarkable achievement started with spreading stories from ‘sources from inside Iran’ saying that Raisi had been invited to the Conference. This information was not published anywhere in public in Iran and it is unlikely that Stevenson has access to the offices of the president of Iran, so how he could know about this invitation is anyone’s guess. After dropping this information into their publications, the MEK and Stevenson threaded together a narrative which focused on alleged crimes committed by Raisi as a judge thirty years ago, and the demand for his arrest. According to Stevenson, this has frightened Raisi so much that he has refused to come. This prompted ridicule on Farsi social media. The man who used to work for Saddam Hussein and the MEK has come to the low point that he is farting and laughing at it himself.

++ In Albania, journalist Gjergji Thanasi has written about the family of Hassan Heyrani in Iran. His parents have applied for visas to Albania so they can see the son they have not met with for 25 years. They explain how the MEK prevented Hassan from contacting them. But now he is living freely they should be able to visit. The MEK are trying behind the scenes with the corrupt Albanian government officials to prevent them getting visas. Thanasi is adamant that he will do all he can to make sure they are able to visit.

++ A spokesman for the judiciary in Iran has talked about the court case involving former members of the MEK demanding compensation from the leaders for their suffering. The spokesman announced that the fine and compensation amount has been issued. The verdict has now been passed by the foreign office to the countries that support and harbour this group, requesting that they hand over the guilty people and ensure they pay the money.

++ In Albania, the issuing of ID cards to all non-Albanians has started. Officials have entered the camp and one by one are taking fingerprints and identity details from each resident. The MEK and its backers are desperate to stop this, but it seems they can’t do much as this is a blanket issue covering everyone who is a foreign national in the country. If Albania wants to join the EU they have to go ahead with this. What the MEK is really afraid of is not the former members getting ID cards, but the issue of ID cards to current members. Once they have this documentation half the members will leave.

++ This week and last week, Iran was shining in wrestling, football and other sports. The MEK completely ignored the existence of sport in Iran this week. Some commentators reacted saying that Maryam Rajavi sent congratulations to the football teams of Iraq, Brazil and elsewhere but totally ignored Iran. This, they say, reminds us that they and other anti-Iran agents have been lobbying for sanctions on Iranian sports, which has failed.

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++ Anne Khodabandeh wrote how the MEK has evolved ‘From Fanatical Terrorists to Fanatical Followers’. According to Khodabandeh, the MEK is fading into obscurity. It’s place – causing trouble between the US and Iran – is disappearing since the new Iranian president prefers to look East in pursuit of Iran’s national interests. The MEK is not mentioned in current discourse on Iran and Iranian issues, including the Swedish court case. Even though this is essentially an MEK event, both Struan Stevenson and Iran International fail to mention the group in their public stances. Ironically, as Iran has emerged victorious in several sporting fields in recent weeks, Maryam Rajavi herself cannot speak about Iran. Khodabandeh identified Rajavi’s move to shift control of the MEK to her daughter and niece as evidence that she is prepared to use their status as French citizens to take control of the vast personal wealth she inherited from her husband Massoud from Paris. She cannot travel to Auvers-sur-Oise, but her daughter and niece can. Without a meaningful role, the remaining members in Albania will become more and more a burden to the MEK’s backers. Neglect will mean the MEK will fade to become a cult of fanatical followers without a struggle.

October 16 2021

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The cult of Rajavi

Ban on members’ marriage has led to genocide in the MEK camps

Mr. Karim Khan, Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and Regards,
We would like to inform you that we are from the families of members of the Mojahedin sect. Unfortunately, for many years, Maryam Rajavi has trapped our children in mental and physical captivity with the tools of violent repression and brainwashing, depriving them of the right to live and communicate with the free world. This sectarian group has been torturing our loved ones mentally and physically for decades in Iraq and now in Albania.

Mr. Karim Assad Ahmad khan; Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Maryam Rajavi and other key members of this inhumane group have created a new form of slavery in the Mojahedin camp. The practical ban on members’ marriage has led to genocide. There have been tears in our eyes for years so that we can visit our children for once. But Maryam Rajavi opposes this demand by violating moral principles. The crimes of the Mojahedin leaders against the disgruntled members are numerous, and our children are exposed to the dangerous thoughts of the leaders of this sect in order to be destroyed. While we fully support the complaints of the former members against the Mojahedin, you are asked to take serious measures to expedite the prosecution of Maryam Rajavi and other leaders of this evil group.
Thanks & Regards:

Families of members detained in Zanjan, Iran
1- Ghasemi 2- Jamaati 3- Sadeghi 4- Asadi 5- Kamyab 6- Parvizi- Afshar 8- Ghadimi 9- Soleimani 10- Mohebbi 11- Karami Afzal 12- Aziri13- Almasi 14- Mohammadi 15- Rahimi 16- Yeganeh Taromchi- 17 – Borji 18 – Saranjeh 19- Mohajer Samadi 21- Kalantari 22- Rahmani 23- Allah Verdi 24- Alishahi 25- Bigdeli 26- Molaei 27- Morsali 28- Bagheri 29- Daneshvar 30- Ghanbari31- Nemati 32- Zakeri

October 16, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Fathullah Eskandari letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Mr. Karim Khan, Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and Regards,
I, Fathullah Eskandari, am one of 42 plaintiffs in a case against the Mojahedin in which the leaders of the Rajavi group have been convicted on numerous pages of human rights violations, including genocide, torture, imprisonment, forced labor, and hundreds of others. It is emphasized that this evil group in Albania is currently committing crimes against humanity, and despite the final verdict and the presentation of sufficient evidence to the Hague tribunal, no legal action has been taken against this hellish sect. I am one of the victims who was shot in the arm and my right hand was severely wounded by direct fire from the leaders of the Rajavi sect. As one of the complainants, I urge you to pay attention to speeding up the investigation.

Fathullah Eskandari is one of the plaintiffs in the case
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Fathullah Eskandari; one of 42 plaintiffs in a case against the Mojahedin-e Khalq leaders

October 16, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

MEK – From Fanatical Terrorists to Fanatical Followers

Experts and informed observers will be aware that over the past few months the MEK has been absent in public discourse regarding Iran. For a group which touts itself as the main opposition, this is nothing short of disaster. After being expelled from France three years ago and setting up her headquarters in Albania, Maryam Rajavi has worked hard to keep the MEK relevant. This meant continuing with the annual rallies in which paid speakers speak to rent-a-crowd audiences. Even though due to the COVID-19 crisis, even these events have been severely curtailed and forced online. It also meant accepting a new role for the MEK members in Albania. But, aside from the MEK slave members tapping and clicking into cyberspace, the MEK has been unable to make any breakthrough in the new political landscape concerning Iran.

Maryam Rajavi

The new president in America, Joe Biden, himself dithered and eventually failed to re-join the JCPOA and lift sanctions, in the process losing a key policy win. However, Iran also has a new president, Ebrahim Raisi, whose first foreign policy announcements defined Iran as looking toward its neighbours and beyond that, looking East. Usually, the MEK would slip itself between the two enemies. This time, Iran has turned its back and the MEK have simply fallen into the gulf and into obscurity. Much to the dismay of anti-Iran pundits, Iran’s newly appointed foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, met with many countries during the UN General Assembly – including the UK’s Liz Truss. The MEK were not able to stage any protest at the event.

In the past weeks, Maryam Rajavi has also failed to take any position about Iran, which for various reasons, political, social and economic has been in the news: Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; the US agreed to withdraw combat troops from Iraq (something Iran’s leaders vowed to make happen after the illegal killing of general Soleimani, deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and eight others); Iran’s naval commander highlighted the navy’s various successes; Iranian fuel successfully arrived in Lebanon to ease shortages there; Ali Landi, a 15-year-old boy who heroically rescued two women from a fire, died of severe burns; Iran’s women’s football team qualified for the AFC Women’s Asian Cup; Iran’s volleyball team beat Japan to win the 21st Asian Volleyball Championship. Maryam Rajavi and the MEK maintained complete silence over all this news, pretending none of it happened at all. Not even a word of criticism or scorn. Nothing. Just sliding rapidly into irrelevance.

Instead, the MEK personnel are being utilised behind the scenes. MEK members are being lined up to give witness testimony in a politicised court case in Sweden. The unstated aim of the trial is to dredge up events that took place three decades previously at the end of the Iran Iraq war in which political prisoners in Iran were executed. The defendant is accused of involvement in unlawful killings while Ebrahim Raisi was a judge in the trials. In this way, Raisi will be tarred with the same brush. But although this activity is straight out of the MEK playbook, this time the organisation is not being promoted. Indeed, it appears that efforts are being made to keep the toxic MEK/NCRI brand out of the reporting. Former MEK stooge, Struan Stevenson’s demand that Raisi be arrested does not mention the MEK, referring to one of its members in the UK only by his name. Even the Saudi backed Iran International TV fails to mention the MEK brand.

Clearly, the MEK are no longer needed as a brand either for funding or fronting anti-Iran efforts. To make matters worse, in Albania, Maryam Rajavi is beset by internal dissatisfaction among the members. Whether as a reaction to losing political and monetary support or as a distraction to divert the attention of the member from her failures, she has resorted to one of her husband’s old tricks – shake up the leadership line up.

Rajavi has introduced a profound change to the organisation of the MEK by appointing her own daughter and her niece to leadership roles. According to MEK expert, Massoud Khodabandeh, this effectively spells the end of the Rajavi Dynasty started by her husband Massoud Rajavi in the 1980s and replaces it with the beginnings of the Qajar Dynasty as members of her own family – Qajar-Azodanlu and her former husband, Mehdi Abrishamchi – are positioned to take control of the cult.

Significantly, several of the family and loyal aides recently promoted to lead the MEK, are French citizens. Unlike Rajavi herself, they will be able to move to Paris and restore the headquarters there. While there is no indication that the MEK will be able to resurrect its role as provocateur and mercenary force against Iran from Auvers-sur-Oise, it would surely be easier to take control of the vast personal wealth Rajavi has inherited from her husband through this change in personnel and location.

As the MEK appears destined to slide further into irrelevance and obscurity, we must ask what will become of the rank and file members languishing in Albania without hope or help. It cannot be that they continue to be exploited as modern slaves, without recourse to health or family. Hopefully, as the MEK’s role diminishes they will become more burdensome. In time, hopefully a short time, they may be dropped entirely and pushed out into the wider community. As for the leadership cadre, there is precedent for violent, destructive cults to fade into social cults. The Ismailis, who began with the Al Sabbah cult of assassins and are currently led by the Aga Khan, are a case in point. In time, the MEK will evolve from fanatical terrorists to fanatical followers. Followers without a struggle.

October 16, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Elderly parents of MEK member appeal to the Albanian gov. to let them visit their son

Dear friends, in this video, an elderly Iranian mother next to her husband appeals to the Albanian authorities to grant her and her husband visas to come to Albania to meet their son Hassan Heirani. They have not met their son for 28 years, and even for 14 years they could not even talk to him, because the Rajavi Cult (Iranians in Manzeh) do not allow members of the Cult to contact family members.

The mother is ready to meet her son in Albania even in the presence of the Albanian authorities, so not only for herself, because she fears the slanderous campaign of the Rajavi Cult with “gogols” of the Iranian spy type, terrorists of the Tehran Regime, mercenaries of the mullahs of idiocy of this kind.

I believe that the Albanian authorities will grant Albanian visas to two elderly Iranian parents, otherwise I publicly promise that I will do not only what is possible, but also the impossible to stigmatize the wickedness and lack of human feelings among the high hierarchs of “Renaissance” of Prime Minister Rama.

I believe that it is worthwhile to provide this elderly couple with a visa, so that the renaissance does not pay the bill of a negative publicity inside and outside Albania.
In a situation overloaded with social tensions to the brink of explosion, I do not believe that “Rilindja” has the capacity to withstand an additional source of trouble and public unmasking !!!!

Gjergji Thanasi,

October 14, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Nejat families pen letter to the UNHCR office in Albania

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Albania
Greetings and respects,

We are a number of families from Azerbaijan province (North West of Iran) of the members of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) who are trapped in the MEK camp in Albania.

After 18 years of separation, the Albanian government has prevented elderly parents of Mr. Hassan Heyrani from entering the country to visit their son. Is this a humane act? Mr. Heyrani is under the care of the UNHCR.

Hassan Heyrani Parents. Hassan is the MEK ex-memebr living in Albania

We urge the UNHCR in Albania to see into this human rights case as soon as possible and make the necessary arrangements for this humanitarian meeting, and oblige the Albanian government to agree to this meeting in Albania where Mr. Heyrani lives at the moment.

A number of families from Azerbaijan Province – Iran

Copy to:
– International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
– Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
– Office of the Interior Minister of Albania
– Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania
– European Union
– The Media

October 14, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Why the MEK members are deprived of family visit

Mr. Mohammad Akbarzadeh from Qazvin Province, the brother of Issa Akbarzadeh, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization in Albania, said in an interview with the Nejat Society correspondent:

Greetings to all the families who are members of the Nejat Society and all the families of Iran, the families who have been waiting for the return of their children for years. The families who sat in Iraq for years with the least facilities to visit their children, but unfortunately the MEK deprived these families with all its power.
I am Mohammad Akbarzadeh. Unfortunately, my brother Issa Akbarzadeh was recruited into this organization in Turkey by conspiracies that you know. we, families staged behind the gates of Camp Ashraf for about 4 years. The families were there empty-handed. All they wanted was to meet their loved ones, and the organization stood against these families with all its strength.

Mohammad Akbarzadeh; the brother of Issa Akbarzadeh; MEK cult hostage

As a brother and as a family member, I first have a question for the international community. The organization always insists that these people are in the group’s camps of their own will. If these people are there of their own free will, why not at least allow them to connect with their families.

Why are all the routes that these members can communicate with their families closed? What is the danger of communication with the family for this organization? Why this has always been the red border for members.
I call on the international community and human rights organizations to provide at least the demands of families, which is a face-to-face visit. There are families who, unfortunately, are not in a good mental and physical condition right now. Parents, who have been away from their loved ones for years, demand at least hearing the voices of their children. The MEK, with all its propaganda voice, claims supporting human rights though it takes these rights of the families and members.

I want to speak as a member of the Nejat Society. I have been serving these families for a long time now. I want to tell Massoud and Maryam Rajavi that with all our strength, with all the power that families have, we are all united so that we can save our loved ones who are still trapped in this cult.

God willing, we complained against leaders of the MEK and we started this movement. Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, who are the cause of all these problems and troubles have arisen against these families, and we hope that they will be brought to justice as soon as possible, in European countries and the Hague Tribunal, to get the rights of each of these families. Brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers and wives who were years away and even children who did not see their father. That is, their father went to war when they were a baby and their father was captured in the war and then he was captured by this organization.

We, the families, call for the trial of Massoud and Maryam, and we call on the international community to pave the way and hold Massoud and Maryam accountable for all the crimes they committed.
Massoud and Maryam and this deceitful cult have not only oppressed our loved ones who are in the cult, but also they have denied the rights of all the parents who are now in Iran and are waiting. There are parents who even waited for a phone call from their loved ones until the moment of their death. I can name a father like Mr. Ghahremani, who even looked for his son Hussein until the last moment until he closed his eyes.
We, the families and the former members want the trial of Massoud and Maryam, and we stand by the end of this process.
I thank you all.

October 13, 2021 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Greetings and Regards
I am Samad Eskandari, the representative of the 42 plaintiffs in the case of the survivors of the Mojahedin terrorist sect led by Maryam Rajavi, who are currently based in Albania. We have complained of torture, imprisonment, prohibition of marriage, prohibition of family relations and other inhumane acts, and in the presence of former members, a public trial attended by local and foreign journalists in accordance with judicial protocols notified to the Mojahedin in Albania and France. They did not comment on the case, but the plaintiffs were threatened with assassination. We have condemned this inhuman sect in 39 pages of the final verdict. It should be noted that after the legal formalities and the 60-day legal deadline, the verdict was approved and the documents were handed over to the International Court of Justice.

Mr. Karim Assad Ahmad khan; Honorable Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

As the legal representative of the 42 plaintiffs, I am the voice of the victims who were really deprived of a free life, me and even the people who are currently imprisoned in this group. We are so mentally, emotionally and even physically damaged that some of my friends are unable to perform even the simplest physical activity due to physical torture. And in a simple sentence, all the victims of Rajavi’s violence suffered irreparable damage.
We expect you to pursue Maryam Rajavi and other leaders of the Rajavi sect to maintain justice in the world.

Thanks for your attention,
Samad Eskandari, representative of the plaintiffs in the case against the Rajavi terrorist sect

From Iran, Zanjan

October 13, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

MeK Believed They Could Wipe out IRI with Banisadr

The growing connection between Banisadr and Mujahedin authorities during the time of his presidency has not been mentioned a lot. Their relationship reached to its climax after his dismissal first from the position of Commander in Chief and then the Presidency.

The day after Banisadr was discharged from his position as the Commander in Chief, on 10 June 1981, the organization that believed they could “Wipe out the regime” with him, announced that his life was in danger. Mujahedin hid him, preparing his escape from Iran.

His relationship with Mujahedin had begun only a few months after he took the administration, and eventually, his increasing meetings with Masoud Rajavi made other authorities worried. The bitter incident of 5 March 1982, added up to the pother.

Rajavi and Banisadr

The relationship was based on a strategic view that they thought they both will need each other in the future. He later mentioned in his diaries that if they had not come to him, he would have done it.

In 1987, some documents were found and in them, Rajavi had declared that with Banisadr’s cooperation, they would wipe out the regime. The political alliance was beneficial for Banisadr, who had not an organized structure within the system. And he was a means to smooth the way for them to get to their goals.

On 23 March 1981, Rajavi asked Banisadr in a confidential letter to hold a demonstration on April 1. Then, on April 27, Mujahedin hold a demonstration to support the president. On May 21, Rajavi’s second confidential letter was sent to Banisadr, admiring his thesis for a referendum and his opposition to Imam’s advice. He called Banisadr the “Allende” of Iran.

When Banisadr had no authority anymore, their cooperation reached to the top. Mujahedin issued a statement which mentioned: “Mujahedin-e- Khalq is warning and standing against any attempt on the life of the president, and ask for preparation and resistance. We consider supporting him as a revolutionary responsibility all over the country”.

On June 16, they issued another statement claiming that “President’s life is in danger, and that people in Tehran have to prepare themselves to rescue him. You’ve seen their terrible shows last night on TV: people shouting” Death to Banisadr”. Apparently, the hypocrites are so hurried to stage an imperialistic coup, that they plan to execute the legal president and present it on their media”.

After the plan to investigate the inefficiency of the president was approved by the parliament, people held a protest in front of the parliament and asked for immediate action about Banisadr. To respond, Mujahedin issued another statement and asked people to shout “Allah – o – Akbar” on their roof tops, to support freedom and Banisadr. People did not do so and their plan was failed. On June 19, which coincided with Shabaan 15, Imam Khomeini warned the nation about the collusion of Anti-Islamic Revolution groups in Iran and asked for immediate action. Mujahedin also warned about the consequences of dismissal of the president and threatened the members of the parliament not to attend the meeting to investigate the inefficiency of the president: ”

“People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran warns every member of the parliament about the consequences of dismissal of the president. So, we remind them all the parliaments in history which helped the dictatorship to settle and asked them to avoid the eternal curse from the Iranian nation and not to be afraid of those in power.

Meanwhile, they had hidden Banisadr and finally helped him escape the country by hijacking an air force plane with the cooperation of their spies inside of the army.

When he was settled in Paris, Mujahedin used his name as a means to achieve their goals. Rajavi also married his daughter Firoozeh, but their marriage didn’t last long.

On September 29, the plan for Iran’s democratic temporary government was announced and Banisadr, as the president, and Rajavi, as the chief of National Council of Resistance signed it. But soon Banisadr found out that he worked only as a tool for Mujahedin so on 10 March 1984, he left the organization which took his credit and influence.

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