Ali Shirzad
Massoud Rajavi

Massoud Rajavi killed the human inside me

Ali Shirzad was young and enthusiastic to bring freedom to his nation when he left Iran to join the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). He walked through Iran-Turkey border for eight days to go to the group’s headquarters in Iraq via Turkey, in the Fall of 1987.
As a knowledgeable educated and artistic man, he dreamed of the MEK camp as the ideal world where he would be able to read more books and to have more thoughtful discussions for his personal growth and for the growth of his society. But, soon, he realized his dream would never come true in MEK.

“As I arrived in Iraq, I was shocked to see that there was no time left for studying and thinking,” he writes in his detailed memoirs of living in MEK. “I was deprived of thinking in any way.”

Ali Shirzad

Ali Shirzad

According to Ali Shirzad, MEK leaders admire two types of members, the ideologic ones and the trusted one. The former are those who ideologically are close to the leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, the later are those who are always trusted because they never question the orders; they just obey the leaders.
“What happened to me in the Cult of Rajavi?”, Shirzad wonders. “Not only I did not learn anything, but also I forgot everything I knew. When I left MEK my brain had no Gray Cortex!”

Despite his passion for poetry, arts and music he was not able to go for them for some time after his defection. “I was not in the mood for them”, he writes. “I found myself a shallow person without soul and emotions.”
That was why he did not contact his family until a few months after his departure from the cult-like system of MEK. “I had to wait to rebuild my personality and to cope with my animal nature”, he asserts. “That disaster had been caused by Massoud Rajavi. He had killed the human inside me.”
Ali Shirzad believes that if a person even has a supernatural wisdom, he will turn into an idiot under the ruling system of the Rajavis.

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weekly digest
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 289

++ Iran-Interlink posted in Farsi about the cooperation between Rajavi and the Saudis in discouraging Iranians from voting in the upcoming presidential election. This week the MEK fronted a man called Ahmad Afshar, (who has changed his name to Mussa Afshar). Afshar was the go between for Rajavi and the Iraqi intelligence and security services. He features in the videos taken by Iraq’s Mokhaberat of the meetings between the MEK and Iraqi services. These show Afshari as the MEK translator as they are bargaining about the price of the assassinations that the Iraqi security services gave to Rajavi to perform, and show the bundles of cash being handed over to the MEK in these meetings. assassinations they were given by security services of Iraq they were talking about it and getting bundles of money etc. Afshar has now surfaced in Saudi media, this time on channel 24. He says that if the people of Iran don’t vote, particularly Arabic speakers – who should be separate anyway along with the Balouchis and Turks and etc, who are forced to be part of Iran – if they stop voting then, as Massoud Rajavi has always said, we can put this separatist demand on the table and get backing to creating disturbances inside Iran. “We [the MEK] are on the same side as the Saudis and we should be doing these things.” Massoud Khodabandeh on Twitter indirectly referred to this performance and pointed out that the last time there was an election in Saudi was 1400 years ago when they decided to ‘elect’ someone to kill prophet Mohammad in his sleep.
Last time some in #SaudiArabia witnessed #Ellections was 1400 years ago when they decided to “choose” someone to kill prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in his sleep.
He was ultimately saved by migrating at night from Mecca to Medina (Hence the start of Islamic Hejri calendar) pic.twitter.com/7opDiGadV1

— Massoud khodabandeh (@ma_khodabandeh) June 8, 2021

++ Zahra Moini in Germany posted about the election and the MEK. She goes from the disqualification of Massoud Rajavi in 1980 who wanted to be president but wouldn’t accept the constitution. Moini relates one disqualification after another over the intervening years to the present time. She points out that Massoud Rajavi is now trying to support one of the disqualified candidates, while at the same time insisting that nobody should vote.

In English:

++ A piece by Nejat Society titled ‘MEK’s efforts for more sanctions against Iranians’ examines the MEK’s current situation as mercenaries for Israel and the US. Since the US cannot use military power against Iran, it relies on sanctions and the MEK make every effort to exacerbate the effects of these sanctions on the Iranian people through their intelligence and propaganda activities. “Spying on governmental, semi-governmental and private-economic institutions and organizations in Iran, as well as attempts to influence Iran’s economic networks with other countries, are the actions that MEK agents have taken to discover Iranian systems to circumvent sanctions. Also, MEK seeks to find the areas in which the Iranian government has had some progress in domestic production that directly eliminated the effects of sanctions.
“Foreign companies under the contract of the Islamic Republic of Iran are other targets of MEK operatives to discover Iran’s business relations with other countries, which seek to explore possible ways to circumvent the sanctions. The agents of the MKO in this area are generally seeking intelligence on Iranian parties by contacting law offices, shipping companies, insurance companies and brokers.” This work is a major source of income for the group.

++ Robert Fantina writing in Core Middle East takes the lid off the fabricated bomb plot against the MEK in 2018. Fantina simply applies a little logic and rationality to the arrest of Iranian diplomat in Austria, Assadollah Asadi, in joint operation by German, French and Belgian police for procuring explosives and a detonator which he allegedly handed over to an Iranian couple from Belgium in a restaurant in Luxembourg. “Initially, Belgium authorities hacked his email, and found one inviting him to a conference in Germany. It is somewhat interesting that the most ‘incriminating’ email they found was this invitation. How unusual is it, one might ask, for a foreign diplomat to be invited to an international conference?

“But that was what was needed. Going to Germany for the conference, Asadi allegedly met a Belgium couple of Iranian origin at a restaurant in Luxembourg. Here is where things get a bit foggy. This couple reported receiving a package from Asadi, without knowing what it contained. At some point, they were arrested with a package and – lo and behold! – it contained a bomb.” Fantina points out that it makes no sense that Iran would blow up the extremely unpopular MEK in France creating carnage, while Iran was enjoying worldwide sympathy following President Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA. The piece concludes that the US government will be disappointed that Asadi’s imprisonment will not lead to regime change. The questions may remain unanswered but it is reasonable to conclude that this is “yet another attempt by the U.S. and its minions to marginalize, ostracize and demonize Iran.”

++ Nejat Society reports that the covert protests and dissatisfaction among the rank and file of the MEK – which has been on going for a long time – is increasing. Scrawling messages on the bathroom walls and other places where they are not supervised by the camp commanders indicates that more and more members want to leave the group but are intimidated by daily cultic abuse; verbal and physical attacks. Since arriving in Albania over 400 members have escaped the cult. Rajavi has ordered that members sign a ‘letter of engagement’ swearing an oath to stay in the MEK until the overthrow of the Iranian government.

Jun 11, 2021

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Azade Saboor Mom
Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A letter for my daughter; Azade Sabour

My dear daughter I wish you contact your siblings and me freely. Shima,Ehsan,Arash and me live with your memories. We long to see you again.

My dear Azade I want you to decide your own fate and way of life without restrictions of cult affairs.
As you have had no contact with us during all these twenty-one years, and even have had no activity in social media, it seems that you are living under dehumanizing condition.
Your spouse; Kaveh, has separated the group and is living in Sweden. In his last call to his family, Kaveh said that he is still awaiting Azade’s return.

Azade Sabur Mom

I am totally unaware of you and your health conditions. As the MEK cult leaders do not allow us to have any contact, I publish this letter to the cyber space in the hope that one day you get access to the internet and be able to read my letter.
Love,
Your mother

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Malek Hozhabr
The cult of Rajavi

I was under pressure and forced to attend brainwashing meeting

Malek Hozhabr was living in Turkey as a young boy when deceived by the MEK recruiters into joining the group. He says:

“In 2002, we arrived in the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Camp Ashraf. I found out that I was on the wrong path as soon as I arrived in Ashraf. I expressed my dissent and asked to leave the group but I was not allowed. Instead, I was threatened to be delivered to Iraqi Intelligence Ministry. I was constantly under pressure and forced to attend brainwashing meeting. They wanted me to give up.”

Malek Hozhabr

After the American invasion to Iraq, Malek escaped Camp Ashraf and went to the American camp and from there he and two other comrades, named Heidar and Nasser succeeded to escape to Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where they were arrested by the security forces. The judge court listened to his testimony about his experience in the MEK and released him.

In 2005, Malek was able to return home after three years of being a hostage in the MEK. “As a victim of the Rajavi’s suppressive system, I am ready to testify in any court of justice,” he says.

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MKO members in Albania - Camp Ashraf 3
Mujahedin-e-khalq Organization Members

Clandestine protests in the MEK camps

Underground protests have ‎dramatically increased among members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, now based in the group’s headquarters in the region of Durres in Albania.
As long as the history of the Mujahedin Khalq as a cult of personality under the rule of Massoud Rajavi, clandestine dissent has been on going among the rank and file. According to former members of the Cult of Rajavi, disagreements and demands for defection from the cult-like system of the group, has enhanced since the group’s relocation in Albania.

Based on the news from the insiders, protesters who are afraid of voicing their dissent, write slogans against the group’s leaders on the walls of bathrooms where they are not under the supervision of commanders. This has happened on different occasions which indicates the rise in the number of dissident members who want to leave the group but they are intimidated by verbal and physical abuse on daily cult jargons.

Albania - MEK - Ashraf 3

A member of Mujahedin-e Khalgh walks in a street at the Ashraf-3 camp. Photo:Gent shkullaku/AFP

Although most members of MEK refuse to express their opinions openly because of fears of torture and abuse committed by the group commanders, the increase in the number of defections from the group since its arrival in Albania has been indicative of an increase of dissatisfaction.
According to unofficial data, since the resettlement of MEK in Albania, more than 400 people have left this group, regardless of those suspicious cases who have been killed mysteriously inside Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Durres, Albania.
The rise of protests in the Cult of Rajavi has plunged the leaders of the group into alternative ways to prevent the spread of protests among the rank and file, in addition to conventional methods of the organization, including solitary confinement and peer pressure. In this regard, all members of the group have been ordered to sign an engagement letter to stay in the group until the overthrow of the Iranian government –which according to the leaders of the group has been always close during the past forty years.

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Human Rights
Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Terrorists of MEK in the corridors of Human Rights Buildings

It seems quite normal that human rights activists from all over the world participate in forums on human rights, in form of NGOs, semi-governmental organizations and government representatives. Human rights institutions are actually an area for those who are trying to use the human rights literature and its components to defend the rights of groups of people who have been in some way victims of human rights violations.

Meanwhile, sometimes there are participants, who have nothing to do with diplomatic and legal mechanisms. The groups that used to speak with the language of weapons and violence, today participate in human rights events to advocate for human rights while their capacity and determination for terrorist acts still persist!
The Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) is one of those groups whose operatives go to the various housings of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s corridors and rooms each day. What do these formerly designated terrorists with a long history of terror and violence want in this environment?
After being expelled from Iraqi territory, MEK lost many of its capabilities, most notably in the field of armed action, and now it is inevitable to escape from the collapse of their cult-like system. So, they have to play in other areas.

Front Organizations
The relation between the group’s name and terrorist and armed activities has made it impossible for them to enter the Human Rights Council with the original name and, also, to escape from their records, which is precisely the opposite of human rights action, while maintaining in coverage to be present on the meetings. These people usually have no record of association with MEK and its leaders on the Internet. They even deny their association with the cult.

Recruiting people who have no idea about the MEK
The MKO leaders, both in terms of better preservation of the coverage and lack of enough forces, benefit from fugitive Europeans in need in Europe to work on behalf of them. Some of these people have been spending too little time hiring NGOs and are trained to promote the organization’s goals within the targeted event. These people are generally chosen from underprivileged refugee seekers. They have no record of dealing with MEK and its cause.

MEK lobbying

Manipulating journalists and politicians
One of the most important skills of MEK agents is their power of rapprochement. By approaching the assistants and associates, official reporters, journalists and even politicians they try to identify themselves as a reliable source of news, documents and information on human rights in Iran. As an example, since Ahmad Shaheed was elected as Iran’s Special Reporter, agents of MEK tried to establish close and even non-affiliated ties with the reporter’s assistants. Buying gifts or even paying bribes to his assistants was one of the common ways for the group to approach them.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Another example was recently reported by the Independent. According to the report, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill apologized for delivering an address to a “cult-like” Iranian dissident organization that has been linked to terrorism. Carroll MacNeill had addressed an online event hosted by MEK on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day. Speaking to the Sunday Independent, Carroll MacNeill said she had been asked by a constituent to speak at an online parliamentary conference to celebrate IWD.
“The event was attended by many other European parliamentarians and was in recognition of Iranian women’s fight for gender equality,” she said. “The invitation and correspondence I received in relation to the event did not make any reference to the [MEK], nor was I ever aware or made aware of any link between the event and this organization.”

Launching propaganda against Iran
The agents of MEK have to attend the events from the first minutes of the beginning until the last few seconds, and they also have duties to engage with other NGOs from other countries, meet with journalists and officials to communicate and to gather news and information on panels.
In addition, MEK agents, in the course of leading their paid associates inside Iran, try to lead them to commit more radical acts and eventually get heavier judicial sentences! This will work better for the group’s propaganda against Islamic Republic.

Activities in areas irrelevant to Iran
During the past few years, the MEK agents have been active in certain unrelated issues with the Islamic Republic of Iran. For instance, agents of the group take part in all human rights panels in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria. They take actions for linking themselves to the interests of these states

MEK rally in brussels within Syrians

Show-off protests
One of the permanent actions of MEK during any human is holding protests with very few people of their sympathizers or rented crowds. Mobilizing their uneducated and unusable forces inside in front of the buildings, they sometimes organize them for a month to set up a rally there.

The gatherings are organized with MEK’s own logo and name, and in fact it is similar to other gatherings of the group to show off that they still have supporters. This section of the group that has been active for many years in the UN office in Geneva, Switzerland and in New York, the United States, has several times been banned by the authorities who have been noticed about the violent past of the group.

MEK rented people to participate to their rally

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Jaafar Adibpur brothers
Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A photo to my captivated brother at MEK Camp; Jaafar Adibpur

My dear brother, we all have missed you a lot. we have your love in our hearts. We long to see you and hear your voice. We review your memories over and over again. We are all worried about you, since we have had no contact with you for long years.
My dear Jaafar, I send you a photo of my brothers and mine to you.
Love,
Your brother Hossein Adibpur.

Jaafar Adibpur brothers

Jaafar Adibpur brothers

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Torab Ali Nemati
Former members of the MEK

The MEK forced me to take up arms against my own countrymen

Honorable UN Representative in Tehran
Your Excellency,

According to the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of the POWs
I am Torab Ali Ne’mati. I was arrested during Iran-Iraq war by the Mujahedin-e Khalq forces who were fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein. I was imprisoned in the group prisoners for about 8 months. Then they forced me to participate in their operation against Iran called Eternal Light and so as to take up arms against my own countrymen.

Torab Ali Nemati

After long years I managed to free myself from the group. I have complaint against the cult leaders as they violated the 3rd Geneva convention relative to the treatment of the POWs. They did this to me and other POWs. They should be prosecuted as I injured physically and mentally.

Sincerely,
Torab Ali Ne’mati
Zanjan Province, Iran

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Assadollah Asadi
IranMujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

The Curious Arrest Of An Iranian Diplomat

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been always under the eyes of the United States government and its Middle East ally, the apartheid, Zionist entity of Israel. This was clearly demonstrated when Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi was assassinated. Now, the same story happens again but this time has different angles for different agendas by different countries. A joint operation by German, French and Belgian police arrested a diplomat Iranian over a fabricated plot of having explosives and a detonator

We are referring to the case of Mr. Assadollah Asadi, 49, an Iranian diplomat who worked at the Iranian embassy in Vienna. He arrested in Germany and recently sentenced to twenty-years in prison. How this all came about is anyone’s guess.

Initially, Belgium authorities hacked his email, and found one inviting him to a conference in Germany. It is somewhat interesting that the most ‘incriminating’ email they found was this invitation. How unusual is it, one might ask, for a foreign diplomat to be invited to an international conference?

Assadollah Asadi

But that was what was needed. Going to Germany for the conference, Asadi allegedly met a Belgium couple of Iranian origin at a restaurant in Luxembourg. Here is where things get a bit foggy. This couple reported receiving a package from Asadi, without knowing what it contained. At some point, they were arrested with a package and – lo and behold! – it contained a bomb.

Let’s look at this a little more closely for a moment. A couple met a foreign diplomat in a restaurant and received a package from him. They didn’t inquire what it contained; they were just pleased to accept it. Was it a gift, to be opened when they returned home? Or was it a bomb that they naively and innocently were going to take somewhere to detonate? Or was there no package at all?

Let’s also look at the logistics of this. The Belgium authorities say that Asadi wanted to blow up an anti-Iran rally being held outside Paris. The rally is one of the MEK’s (Mujahedin-e-Khalq) usual events, attended by some right-wing U.S. politicians, but the group poses no threat to Iran; it is extremely unpopular in that country. What sense would it make for an Iranian diplomat to cause the carnage such a bomb would certainly result in, at a time when it had worldwide sympathy following U.S. President Donald Trump’s illegal departure from the JCPOA?

When Asadi was seized, the personal possessions he had with him were listed and nothing incriminating was found.

One of the charges against him was that he was transporting explosives aboard his Austrian airlines flight. For any of us who have flown anytime in the past 15 years, it is obvious that getting bombs or related equipment on a plane is virtually impossible. Items as simple as nail files are found when going through security, and are confiscated.

A report in Radio Farda of October 20, 2020, stated the following:

“Tehran has repeatedly dismissed the charges against Assadi, calling them a ‘false flag’ operation by the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI, a political group that supports the overthrow of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran) political arm, the MKO, which presents itself as an alternative to the clergy-dominated ruling establishment in Iran.

Tehran accused European states of harboring the MKO, which it deems a terrorist organization. The group had previously been based in the Iraqi capital Baghdad under former president Saddam Hussein.”

A spokesman for the Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saeed Khatibzade, commented on the case during an interview on May 10, 2021. The Tehran Times reported that he said that Asadi’s “detention was illegal from the beginning and a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunities.’

He highlighted that the whole judicial process lacks the necessary legitimacy.

“‘We said from the beginning that we consider it against international law, and it is a very dangerous innovation that these countries have made.’”

The United States government has worked hard to demonize Iran for two main reasons: First, the people overthrew the brutal, oppressive U.S. puppet government of the Shah of Iran, replacing it with one of their own choosing which does not to bow to U.S. demands, and second, Iran threatens Israel hegemony in the Middle East, and U.S. government officials will do anything to support that apartheid regime. And the tentacles of the U.S. reach far and wide; certainly, Belgium isn’t interested in displeasing the global imperial giant.

Asadi has been sentenced to twenty-years in prison. But the U.S. government will be disappointed to learn that the arrest of one diplomat will not encourage the Iranian people to turn from their own chosen government and embrace one that has long sought their oppression.

One might reasonably ask why such a ‘dangerous’ individual was even invited to attend a conference. One might also question why diplomatic immunity was ignored in this case, and what country ordered it to be so.

The truth of this situation may never be known. Yet is it not unlikely that the arrest and conviction of Assadollah Asadi is yet another attempt by the U.S. and its minions to marginalize, ostracize and demonize Iran.

By: Core Middle East

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