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Olsi Jazexhi responds to Maryam Rajavi & Gholamali Narimi‘s offer to abandon Mullahs for Skanderbeg

In the following video Dr. Olsi Jazexhi responds to an attack that Gholamali Narimi and the Iranian Mojaheden (MEK) command have made against him in one of their websites.

Olsi who investigates the MEK in Albania, its criminal and illegal activities; like human enslavement, radicalization, calls for doing jihad against a foreign country, etc. has become a major target of MEK attacks, lies and propaganda. While the Iranian ex-terrorist foreign fighters have not been able to assassinate him so far, they have launched many character assassination articles and letters against him. In their latest attack they appeal to Olsi to stop his critique against MEK and align himself with”glories of Albania”- meaning with MEK war against Iran.

MEK is upset with Olsi because on Jul 10, 2020 he has interviewed the brother of Gholamali Narimi, Mr. Hamid Reza Narimi and his wife Mrs. Sager. These family members of Gholamali appeal to the MEK soldier to abandon jihad and terrorism and come back home.

However, the appeal against jihad and terrorism is considered a psychological torture by the MEK command which does not want its soldier to abandon war and return back home. For this reason they attack Dr. Olsi Jazexhi and make him a collaborator with the Mullahs (Priests of Islam) who rule Iran.

Olsi responds to these jihadi attacks and lies with facts and invites them for a public debate. He appeals to the MEK to abandon war, terrorism and lies and embrace democracy and freedom of speech. Here is the latest attack against Olsi Jazexhi: Inviting Olsi Jazexhi to align himself with glories of Albania, not Mullahs in Iran

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September 19, 2020 0 comments

Herd mentality or mob mentality within cults

The cult of Rajavi

MEK commanders treat members like serfs: Albanian journalist

Pointing to the brutal behavior of MEK ringleaders with their members in their camp, Gjergji Thanasi tells the Tehran Times this fact is enough to predict how brutally MEK will treat the Iranian people if they ever come to power in Iran.

He believes if the Rajavi cult comes to power they will transform Iran into a Hell on the earth.

Albania _Thanasi

This is the text of the interview:

Q: You have claimed the presence of 7,200 members in the MEK camp in Albania. How did MEK increase the number of its fighters in the Albanian territory between 2016 and 2019, while it was numbered 3,000 when they first arrived in Albania?

A: Albanian authorities offered no precise official figure of MEK members coming to Albania. The best they made public was “several thousand MEK members came to Albania between 2013 and 2016.” Figure 7 000 I made public was based on the data offered by “Instituti i Statistikave” (The Institute of Statistics). This is a government board whose director is appointed by the prime minister himself. This institute published the figure of 7 000 Iranian residents in Albania. Apart from a handful of Iranian diplomats and a score of Iranian (refugees, illegal migrants) in prison or in the refugee center of Kareci, there are virtually no other Iranians in Albania but for the inmates of Ashraf 3 Camp in Manez (Durres Municipality), i.e., the MEK personnel.

It is simple math that if there are 7 000 Iranian residents in Albania, almost all of them are MEK members. In order to obtain more precise data, you can consult the photos of the data sheets issued by the fore mentioned institute (Instituti i Statistikave). I cannot speculate how the number of MEK members increased. There is a virtual official blackout covering MEK, its membership, and its activities in Albania. The way they enter Albania (what travel documents they use to enter), the way they leave Albania mainly by plane is never made public by the Albanian authorities. We Albanians learn that the cult leader Maryam Rajavi left Albania only occasionally, as in the case when border police and emigration of Belgium refused her entering the Kingdom of Belgium while she was traveling from Albania to Belgium.

Q: Why was Albania chosen as the host country for the MEK?

A: Albania was chosen as a host country for MEK personnel as it was considered as a sui generis “Ersatz”. Virtually no country accepted MEK personnel on their soil. Even Vanuatu refused to accept a dozen of them. In 2013 we accepted little more than 200 MEK members in Albania. Mr. Berisha, the then premier of Albania during the official ceremony of the arrival of the new Iranian ambassador in Tirana, Mr. Gholamhossein Mohammadnia, told the ambassador that we have an understanding with UNCHR and our American partners that a limited number of members of that organization (MEK) will settle in Albania, while the rest will settle in other NATO, and, or EU countries such as Romania and Bulgaria. Premier Berisha also inquired whether the Iranian Embassy was ready to issue travel documents to any of MEK members who wished to return to Iran. The ambassador’s answer was that his embassy staff would not deprive any Iranian consular service. Then in 2016, after the then Secretary of State Kerry visited Albania, hundreds and hundreds of MEK members began arriving in Albania by plane accompanied by officials of UNHCR. I feel very sorry, yet my personal impression was that only the Albanian government in the whole world volunteered to Mr. State Secretary Kerry to serve as a refuge for that “human trash,” i.e., those MEK members arriving and settling in Albania.

Q: Does the Albanian government or the United Nations oversee events inside the MEK camp?

A: There is nothing official! Neither the United Nations nor the Albanian government has ever made public that they oversee or that they do not oversee what happens inside the gated compound called Ashraf 3 Camp in Manez (Durres Municipality). In 2018 a classified document of the General Directorate of the State Police was leaked to the press. This document contained data and facts which prove that our police force tried to keep an eye on the MEK members and their activities. Yet the information contained in this leaked document was generally vague, with a few details or hard facts. Officially no government employee of Albania (police, army, secret service, inner revenue inspectors, health inspectors, municipal police of Durres Municipality, water inspectors, even firefighters) can enter the camp without the express permission of the MEK commanders. When they receive permission to enter the camp, their vehicles (even official police cars with police marking and police plates) are thoroughly searched, even using telescopic mirrors. Then they are ordered to park their vehicles in a designated area, and they proceed on foot. Sometimes even distinguished guests invited by the commanders of the camp (I mean written invitations) are body searched using metal detectors.

When the Municipality of Durres informed MEK that they offered personnel and equipment to disinfect the camp in order to prevent any outbreak of Covid-19 in the camp, they were profusely thanked, and they were very politely declined permission to enter Ashraf 3 Camp.

Even in case of a pandemic outbreak, the local authorities and even our health ministry representatives were not allowed to enter into the gated compound of MEK in Manez near Durres city. One can imagine how little Albanian authorities can oversee events inside the MEK compound. To properly explain to Iranian public opinion, I shall draw this comparison: It was easier for an Iranian Arab to enter and inspect his land estate during Soviet occupation, let us say in 1942, than for an Albanian official to enter and inspect Ashraf 3 Camp of MEK in Albania let us say in 2020.

Q: What is the role of the United States in supporting the Rajavi cult in Albania?

A: There is a lot of hearsay about the Americans’ role in supporting the “Animal Farm” of Maryam Rajavi in Albania.

Apart from State Secretary Kerry’s visit in 2016, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, in written form to prove American hand or at least U.S. finger in the Ashraf 3 “pie.”

Even the accord between the Albanian government and UNHCR is a closely guarded secret. There is a lot of transparency about, let us say, the investment of 50 million USD by NATO (U.S.) in upgrading the military Airport of Kucova, yet an Albanian or foreign journalist can have no info about that accord, the rights and the obligation of Rajavi cult followers residing in Ashraf 3 Camp!

Yet the way MEK members physically enter the offices of our Ministry of Interior (they have special passes), the way their vehicles traveled during the curfew time (Covid-19 pandemics), without being stopped by police or Albanian Army checkpoints and roadblocks means that their patron was an entity powerful enough to change the Albanian officials and civil servants into obedient Quislings of MEK.

However, no Albanian journalists have seen even a scrap of official paper issued by the U.S. embassy in Albania or any other department of U.S. administration regarding MEK presence in Albania.

Let me give you a personal example. In August 2019, I sued defendant Behzad Saffarin a MEK commander, for libel as he had published articles accusing me of being an infamous spy of Iranian MOIS.

In one year, the first judge of my case resigned not only of my case but also from the justice system to pursue a private-sector career. The judge replacing the former one was arrested some four days ago on corruption charges. The hearing of my case was postponed five times on different grounds. There were seven hearing sessions, yet there is no progress beyond the introduction and identification by the judge of the parties and their lawyers taking part in this legal case! I invite the readers to try to imagine what is that mysterious and powerful entity that pushes Albanian judges to string puppets or ruin their career and sometimes even their personal liberty.

Q: Is the Rajavi cult a pro-democracy group?

A: They treat their members as serfs and as robots. I believe this fact is enough to understand how they will treat the Iranian people if they ever come to power in Tehran.
I have visited Iran, and I can assure anybody that present-day Iran is not Paradise on earth, yet the Rajavi cult seizing power means transforming Iran into “hell” on the earth. To speak of this sect as a pro-democracy group is to tell a tall lie and to be proud of telling such a lie!

Q: What a threat can the MEK pose to Albania’s national security?

A: Our national army is only 6 000 strong (with 5 000 others theoretically in reserve). Imagine for a moment there are 450 000 Albanians with military experience or military trained to live in gated compounds in Iran. Do you feel secure in Iran with foreign “guests” outnumbering your Army? Now imagine some of these foreign “guests” have blood on their hands (Iranians’ blood, Iraqi Shiites’ blood, Kurds’ blood, and even some Americans’ blood); how do an average Iranian in the street feel?

We have very tough money laundering enforcement laws in Albania. As an Albanian, I am not allowed to transfer even 3 000 Euros to my daughter studying in Germany without filling a lot of forms to declare the origin of the money I am sending to my daughter. A conservative figure of the land and the facilities in Ashraf 3 Camp is 100 million pounds. I defy the MEK cult to make public bank documents for the transfer to Albania of even a fraction of 100 million pounds. How did they transfer that immense sum of money (at least in Albania, it is considered immense) without using bank channels? Why money laundering law enforcement vanishes in the thin air when MEK money is in question? Why the rule of law fails to work for these “guest” on the Albanian soil!?

In 2014 with the U.S. embassy’s aid, the Albanian Parliament drafted and passed a law to severely punish anyone inciting people to wage war against another country. The “inhabitants” of The Animal Farm of the Rajavi cult in Albania 24 hours a day, seven days a week spread propaganda and incite people to wage war against Tehran! I ask the question: Is Iran a country or maybe Iran is some alien spacecraft, so is it the duty of the human race to wage war against such aliens? We Albanians have no cause to go to war against Iran, yet nobody tries to uphold the Albanian law passed in 2014 with the U.S. embassy’s aid and funding in Tirana (USAID funding). Why should my country be transformed into an outpost to wage war against Tehran? As far as I know, Iran has not occupied even an inch of Albanian lands. The last time Iranian fought against the Albanians was some 25 centuries ago when the Persian Army of Xerxes the Great fought against the Greeks, and some Illyrian tribes allied with the Greek city-states (Illyrian are our ancient forefathers).

I fail to see the Albanian national interest at the Albanian administration’s conniving at the fact that this Rajavi cult infringes the 2014 law while inciting war against Tehran. If MEK wants to wage war against Tehran, it can go somewhere else and wage war against their homeland just as they did during “Mirsad Operation.” I strongly believe that Albania’s security is threatened if my Albania is used as a place to recruit an army against Iran, a heavily armed country like Iran!

Q: What is the view of the Albanian people towards MEK and their presence in their country?

A: I cannot speak on behalf of the Albanian people!

September 19, 2020 0 comments

Mohammad Vali Gholizadeh Birani, father of Ali Gholizadeh Birani

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

I am worried about my son’s health at MEK camp in Albania

Honorable representative of the World Health Organization in Albania,
I am Mohammad Vali Gholizadeh, the father of Ali Gholizadeh, a prisoner of the MEK cult.

Mohammad Vali Gholizadeh Birani, father of Ali Gholizadeh Birani

With the current situation, I am worried about my son’s health at MEK camp in Albania.

I desperately ask you to visit the MEK cult camp in Albania, and allow us to contact my son. Please aware us of my dear son’s condition.

My phone number:
09031327526/09112842282

Thanks in advance,

September 17, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Nejat families letter to the head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on HR

Letter from the head of the West Azarbaijan Nejat Society to the human rights officer of the European Parliament

The following letter was sent by the head of the Nejat Society of West Azarbaijan Province (north-west Iran) to Maria Arena, Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, regarding the non-response of the Albanian government to the request of the families to contact and visit their loved ones in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in that country. Summaries of a number of families’ request letters have also been attached to this letter.

Ms Maria Arena MEP, Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights

Greetings and Regards,
On behalf of the families of West Azarbaijan Province, in unison with other families throughout Iran whose children are being held in the MEK camp in Albania, I would like to inform you that they only want to communicate with their children so that they can at least hear their voices after so many years of distance. But the MEK leaders are preventing their members from having any contact with the outside world, and the Albanian government supports this cultic behavior.

The bereaved families recently issued a petition with more than 11,000 signatures to visit their children and sent it to Albanian government officials. The share of families and supporters in West Azarbaijan Province is more than 500 signatures.

In addition to this request, many letters and video messages have been prepared by families to their loved ones trapped in the MEK camp in Albania, which they have published in cyberspace so that those may reach their children. To date, however, the Albanian government and international human rights organizations have not responded.

On the other hand, the officials of the MEK, not only did not pay any attention to the demands of the families, but also threatened, insulted and slandered the families in their media and ignored their demands.

Since the outbreak of Covid-19 virus, the concern of families has increased because the MEK members have a collective life in a closed environment where the disease spreads rapidly and on the other hand no health control is applied by the authorities. Recently, it was reported that two members of the MEK, Massoud Nasiri and Shahin Qassemi, had died at the Mother Teresa Hospital in Tirana due to corona, and that a number of members were hospitalized in the corona ward.

It should be noted that in recent years, the MEK has deceived many people and attracted them into its organization under the pretext of a better life, education and work in European countries. It has also deceived many Iranian prisoners of war in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

Now the families of these people, who have not seen their children for years and have not even heard their voices, and are unaware of their condition, are asking you, as a European human rights official, to take a stand on this issue and defend their rights. Please ask the Albanian government to remove barriers to communication and allow these families to visit.

For your information, the summary of a small number of dozens of letters of request from the families of West Azarbaijan Province, just as examples, are attached to this letter.

Many Thanks – Head of the West Azarbaijan Nejat Society

maria.arena@europarl.europa.eu

Families of MEK hostages in ALbania - west Azarnayjan

Summaries of the letters:

Mr Mohammad Reza Mohammadnejad’s request to meet with his brother Bahman Mohammadnejad from Naqadeh

Currently, my only brother Bahman is in the hands of the MEK in Albania. As far as our family is concerned, we will do our best to get news from him and communicate with him.

In two videos, Mr. Mohammadnejad called on the Albanian government to stand up to the MEK’s demands and allow him to meet with his brother, Bahman Mohammadnejad, in Albania.

Letter from Mr Yadollah Allahverdi Khalifani from Naqadeh to the Prime Minister of Albania Mr Edi Rama

I am Yadollah Allahverdi Khalifani, the brother of Naqi Allahverdi Khalifani. My brother has been in the MEK for more than 32 years and is now in the camp of this group in your country.

The MEK deceived my brother in Turkey and took him to Iraq. He was then transferred to your country in 2016 and held in a closed, remote camp of the organization.

During all this time, including since this organization transferred our children to your country, it has not allowed any contact or visitation with the family.

As the Prime Minister of Albania, I ask you to put an end to our concerns as a family at the earliest opportunity and to assist in issuing a visa for me to enter your country and meet with my brother.

Request to meet Mr Abdollah Gorky with his brother Abdorrahman Gorky from Bukan

My dear brother, a few days ago, we signed a family petition asking the Albanian government to issue visas to families for humanitarian reasons and allow them to travel to Albania to see their loved ones. This is not the first time. When you were in Iraq, we went to different places several times to follow up on your situation, but we did not hear from you. Now we want to try again, maybe this time it will be effective.

Mr Miri Hosseini’s appeal to see his captive brother, Hossein Hosseini, after 32 years in captivity in Saddam and Rajavi camps from Salmas

“My brother Hussein was a member of the 77th Khorasan Division. Finally, he put on the holy uniform of a soldier and went to the battlefields. Hussein enlisted in the army in 1986 and had only 20 days left in his service. He was later handed over to the group in exchange for the good service of the MEK leaders to Saddam Hussein, in order to experience captivity in a different way.

Now I want my brother to call us so that we can hear his voice at least after being away for 32 years.

Mr Abdollah Ebrahimi appeals to the Prime Minister of Albania and human rights organizations to obtain information about his nephew Rasoul Shakhsizadeh from Sardasht

Rasoul Shakhsizadeh was captured by Iraqi forces and taken to a POW camp on Iraqi soil while walking and carrying goods on his back in impassable areas in the Sardasht border area. Rasoul was handed over to the group at Camp Ashraf after being subjected to various forms of mental and physical torture for some time under an agreement between Iraqi officials and MEK leaders. After the expulsion of the organization from Iraq, Rasoul was taken to Albania.

“We have not heard from him since then and we are still in complete ignorance. We tried to find a way to meet or call him through human rights organizations, but to no avail” said Abdollah Ebrahimi, Rasoul’s uncle. Rasoul’s parents, who had been waiting to see him for years, passed away longing to see their son.

Akbar Khosravi’s parents’ painful letter to their child captive in Albania from Naqadeh

My son, all your brothers and sisters are waiting to see you, we hope to see and hug you again before it’s too late, and we miss you so much. My son, call us.

Mr. Shahram Jafari Kia requests from the Albanian government to meet with his brother Bahram Jafari Kia from Orumieh

We recently signed a petition with the Albanian government on behalf of the families, requesting visas and permits for the families to visit their children and their siblings.

I think this is the minimum demand and the most basic human right of every person and family to meet and communicate with their loved ones. We will continue our efforts.

Letter from Mr Ali Eftekhar to his sister Fatemeh Eftekhar captive in the MEK from Khoy

My dear sister, I do not know whether you know or not, my father died at the age of 92, longing to see you.

Now mother is too old and eager to see you and wishes to embrace you, I hope you do not withhold this love from her.

We now ask the esteemed Government of Albania to provide the possibility of face-to-face meetings or at least telephone calls for families, which is a humanitarian and human rights practice. We appreciate the assistance and cooperation of the esteemed Albanian government.

September 16, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Fake Journalist, Fake freedom and fake humanitarian aid of the MEK

Another fake persona under the name of”Amir Basiri“who publishes articles on behalf of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ the Cult of Rajavi) was recently revealed by the American Conservative Magazine.

The first one had been exposed by Murtaza Hussain of the Intercept, last year. He revealed that”Heshmat Alavi“is a created persona run by trolls working inside the camp of the MEK, Ashraf 3, in the region of Durres in Albania. [1] [2]

According to both reports, the so-called articles circulated in certain western media such as Forbes and the Hill under the name of Alavi and Basiri were then boosted by a chain of accounts, many with only a few followers and which solely tweet the authors’ arguments: support for the MEK and regime change in Iran.

Paul Brian and Arthur Bloom of the American Conservative describe the MEK-run troll farm in twitter against the Iranian government as”a hall of mirrors amplifying the case for war with Iran”. They consider the MEK’s large amounts of money going to the pockets of twitter as a good reason to use the platform of this social network for warmongering propaganda and aggressive content.”The ad money from NCRI and pro-MEK accounts seems to have dampened Twitter’s desire to crack down”, they state.”A request for comment from Twitter was not returned as of press time.”[3]

Naturally, the MEK accuses the American Conservative of being the”a mouthpiece for the mullahs”. This accusation is a frequent one against anyone who challenges the MEK regulations or criticizes its behavior. Similarly, they accuse the families of their members who desire to visit their loved ones taken as hostages inside camp Ashraf 3 in Durres, a region in North of Tirana as agents of Iranian regime.

The calls of families of the MEK hostages on the Albanian authorities and human rights bodies have not been responded yet. While their humanitarian request to contact their loved ones in the MEK is totally ignored by the Albanian authorities, the mayor of Durres Emiriana Sako, in a note published in the Washington Times, praises the MEK for providing”humanitarian aid”to the local residents of Manza, Durres! She is proud of accepting the MEK cultic group”as part of their community”. [4]

Mayor of Durres officially expresses her support for what she calls”the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom and democracy”and hopes”that the residents of Ashraf 3 can return to their country very soon when freedom and democracy is restored in Iran”.

In an open letter to Maria Arena, the head of the European Parliament’s subcommittee on Human rights, former member of the MEK and the CEO of Nejat Society, Ebrahim Khodabandeh urged her”to endorse the humanitarian demands of the families and asked the Albanian government, which is responsible for this organization in its own country,”why elderly mothers and fathers after some four decades should not have contact with their children“. [5] The right to live in a free world with normal relationships with family and friends is one of the most basic rights of a human being. The MEK members are deprived of such an absolutely humanitarian right.

Western politicians and particularly the authorities of Albania should stop getting fooled by the MEK’s fake journalists, fake democratic gestures and fake humanitarian aids. The authors of the American Conservative accurately suggest,”As a matter of journalistic ethics any organization engaging in systematic dishonesty like this has provided a very good reason to blacklist them”.
Mazda Parsi

References:
[1] Brian, Paul & Bloom, Arthur, Another Opinion Columnist Pushing War with Iran Who Doesn’t Actually Exist, the American Conservative, September 5th, 2020.
[2] Hussain, Murtaza, An Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets. But Is He a Real Person?, the Intercept, July 9th, 2019.
[3] Brian, Paul & Bloom, Arthur, another Opinion Columnist Pushing War with Iran Who Doesn’t Actually Exist, the American Conservative, September 5th, 2020.
[4] Sako, Emiriana, ‘Mutual respect and understanding’ in Ashraf 3, the Washington Times, August 13th, 2020.
[5] Nejat Society CEO’s letter to Ms Maria Arena MEP | Nejat Society

September 15, 2020 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 275

++ Unconfirmed reports from medical personnel in Mother Theresa hospital in Tirana suggest that at least one MEK member has died of COVID-19 in the past week.

++ MEK are on overdrive to fetch up anyone who can string a sentence together to attack Olsi Jazexhi, Gjergji Thanasi and other journalists. As usual, these MEK members are people who are not accessible, who are confined to the camp. MEK knows that anyone outside the camp – lobbyists and others who still have a place in society – will be questioned and challenged. The people in the camp have no stake in society. Analysts say this a panicked reaction by Rajavi because she is confined to Albania and has nowhere else to go. She is spending all the money and energy that she used to spend elsewhere in Albania to keep her foothold there. An Iranian analyst says it’s like she’s in solitary confinement and every now and then the door opens, and a plague of journalists is poured in. Rajavi is phobic about journalists and she is screaming with fright. Some analysts say Albania is the last graveyard of the MEK, they will sit there and rot.

++ This week marked the anniversary of the killing of 51 people in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, 10 Shahrivar 1392. Some former MEK members who were there and are now out have written about the situation. Many write about Massoud Dalili who was the 52nd victim; tortured and killed and his face burned so he would not be recognised. He was identified by the Americans from his DNA. Rajavi kept these one hundred members in the camp to get money – as leverage. Some writers remember that when they were killed, Mohsen Rezai said “never mind about 51 people, just see how much coverage we have got. If we do a hunger strike as well, we’ll get more coverage. That’s more important.” They tried to sell this to us as a victory – as they tried to sell us deportation from Iraq to Albania as a historical victory, comparing it with prophet Mohammad going from Mecca to Madina.

In English:

++ MEK has been left reeling from the inescapable reaction by Albanians to its attacks on journalists and academics. In particular, Olsi Jazexhi, who is a well know academic with a strong media presence, has invited Maryam Rajavi to a public debate about her activities in his country. In another interview, he pointed out that MEK were imposed on Albania by the US and that Albanians, since then, have protested and demanded that MEK should not be located in their country.

++ Nejat Society CEO Ebrahim Khodabandeh and member Soraya Abdullahi have both written to Maria Arena, MEP, Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), describing the situation of MEK members in the camp in Albania, the families’ efforts to make contact with them and the Albanian government’s silence over their pleas.

++ Mazda Parsi writing for Nejat Society says

‘Families of the MEK members should plant the seed of hope for their loved ones’. Parsi points out that cults work vigorously to break family ties to create insecurity. “Family relation is important since our mental growth, well-being, and stability all depend on our family relations. Children brought up in a healthy family will be able to establish better bonds outside their home… A family makes all its members feel safe and connected to one another.

It provides them with the comfort of having people by their side during tough times, helping them to manage and control the stress. A family allows its members to feel safe, protected, accepted and loved despite all shortcomings. Families are the basic units of the society that teach children about relationships.

Now imagine the children who lived and grew up in a cult-like system. Children in the MEK – who are now in their thirties or forties—do not know how to build trust in others.” Parsi relates a parallel situation to MEK. Glenn Stok helped free his sister from Scientology. Stok had an opportunity to reach out to his sister at a family funeral. But MEK families have no way of contacting their loved ones.

And their loved ones have no way of contacting them. “Glenn Stock knows that some destructive cults prevent any possibility for their members and their families to communicate. ‘If you have a family member or a friend in Scientology, or any religious cult, and you’ve lost the ability to communicate, plant that seed and wait for the opportunity to help’, he suggests. ‘Do it before it’s too late, and be ready to do whatever you can when the call for help arrives’.”

++ Yaran Iran Association in Paris reported that a delegation of former MEK members visited the Albanian embassy in Paris to present over 11,000 letters and signatures of the families and friends of MEK members who have been taken hostage by the Rajavi cult. They demanded that the Albanian authorities take action to end MEK human rights abuses and enable the families to make contact with their loved ones in Albania.

Sep 11, 2020

September 15, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Death of MEK members due to corona-virus

News received from Albania indicates that at least three Iranians were admitted to Mother Teresa Hospital in the Corona ward, who are certainly members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult).

According to the latest information, at least one of them has died, and the doctors have been prevented from commenting on the cause of death. But hospital staff have privately said he was a member of the MEK and a resident of the organization’s camp who died due to corona-virus, and they have not yet been allowed the cause of death to be announced.

MEK members in Albania - corona - death

The hospital officials themselves say that this is a matter of great concern because there is no access to the MEK camp and it is not clear what is going on there, and the virus is spreading in a closed environment and in public life. They also expressed concern that many more patients were hospitalized in the camp itself or taken to local hospitals.

Today, the MEK broke the news of the deaths of “Massoud Nasiri” and “Shahin Qassemi””in a hospital in Tirana.”They were about 60 years old and the cause of death was not known, while in the previous procedure they had to give an excuse for their death. No one dies at the age of 60 for no reason.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, the Nejat Society and the grieving families have repeatedly written to the World Health Organization and Albanian officials expressing concern about the possible dangers in the MEK camp and calling for the Albanian authorities to intervene.

It should be noted that according to Albanian health officials, the MEK camp in the country is out of their control and there is no monitoring of it, and there is no information on the implementation of health protocols in a close-knit community.

September 14, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

MEK Families Petition Albanian Embassy in Paris

Presenting over 11,000 letters and signatures of the families and friends of MEK members who have been taken hostage by the Rajavi cult, families demand an end to Human Rights abuse and access to their captured loved ones.

On the afternoon of Thursday September 10, 2020, a delegation of former members and officials of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (Rajavi Cult, MEK), including Alireza Nasrollahi, Mohammad Razaghi, Ghorbanali Hossein Nejad, Ghafoor Fattahian and a group of ex member in France, joined together in the Albanian Embassy in Paris.

Former MEK members in Paris visit Albanian Embassy

The 11,000 signatures and letters directed at the PM, President, and officials of the Albanian government from the families were presented in a book submitted to officials in the Embassy.

Former MEK members in Paris visit Albanian Embassy

Families are being refused entry visa to Albania by the direct request of leaders of Rajavi Cult. This denial of access to family members is a direct abuse of the UN Human Right Charter as well as International Laws. Families demand a stop to such behaviours which only support Modern Slavery, and demand access to their children and loved ones. Some of the families have not met with their loved ones for decades, as Saddam Hussein would not allow access either when the MEK were based in Iraq.

Former MEK members in Paris visit Albanian Embassy

The officials in the Embassy welcomed the delegation, registering their demand and promised that the message and the documents will be presented to the Presidential Office as well as the PM and other relevant officials in Albania.

We will publish in due course a full report and interviews with the media.

Hoping for the day that the families will be allowed to see their children.

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Text of the letter:

To Prime Minister Edi Rama and the Albanian Government – Demanding MEK members basic human rights

Albanian Embassy in Paris

Former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and families of MEK members in Albania have gathered in Paris to issue this message, through the Albanian embassy, to Edi Rama and his government.

Four months ago, a petition was signed by over eleven thousand people. The petition asked the Albanian government to let the families of MEK members in Albania have contact with their loved ones.

“For over three decades, the leaders of the MEK have refused to allow the families of these members to have any sort of contact with their loved ones in the MEK camps (in Iraq and in Albania).”

The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic raised the fears of these families about the health and welfare of their loved ones. Many worried they might not be able to have contact with them before it was too late. Elderly parents are desperate for a last, loving conversation with their children.

In spite of this petition and many individual appeals, neither Edi Rama nor any official or authority answered this petition nor addressed the concerns raised in it.

The inference for observers and experts alike is that a foreign terrorist cult, which operates an extra-territorial, extra-judicial camp in your country, is able to impose its will on your country. Otherwise, what objection do you have to allowing relatives to speak with one another. This is a basic human right.

The MEK has a long history of human rights abuses against its own members. The leader Maryam Rajavi presides over a dangerous mind control cult which keeps the members in a state of modern slavery. These members do not have any legal status in your country. They do not have identity documents, residence, work or travel permits. They do not have health insurance and do not receive payment for the work they are obliged to perform for Maryam Rajavi and her benefactors. This state of affairs was exposed by the revelations about the click farm in Manez.

The MEK has a long history of terrorism, violence, murder, crime, money laundry, people trafficking, human rights abuses, deception, duplicity and hypocrisy. Since arriving in Albania, the MEK has shown that it believes it is above the law – a belief bolstered by the lack of state control over the group. MEK appears to be holding the government of Albania to ransom, interfering in the internal affairs and foreign policy of the country with impunity.

With such impunity comes much danger.

The recent scandalous case of Ehsan Bidi – a registered UNHCR political refugee who sought refuge in your country and was issued ten-year residence and work permits – is an example. Bidi was the subject to a conspiracy to have him illegally and forcibly removed from Albania. This came about due to collusion between the criminal MEK, some corrupt security service officials and some corrupt members of parliament. The plot was exposed and thwarted by Bidi’s friends and supporters. But Bidi was right to fear for his life. The suspicious death of Malik Sharai was a reminder to everyone that MEK has killed many of its own members and former members to silence them.

There can be no doubt that those Albanians – lawyers, journalists, academics and others – who helped in this prevent and rescue intervention are true patriots who defended their country’s interests as well as those of a vulnerable individual.

Maryam Rajavi and her followers were expelled from Iraq and have now been expelled from the EU. The assessment of the EU security services is based on fact, not political expediency or corruption. It is difficult to believe therefore that the European Union would welcome the accession of a country which not only hosts such a group but offers it material and political support to continue its nefarious and illegal activities.

In this respect it is clear, Albania must choose – continue supporting the MEK’s criminal and unpatriotic activities or curtail the group so that Albania can be accepted as a member of the EU.

As for the families of MEK members and former members who have exposed and continue to expose the terrible abuses committed by Maryam Rajavi and her gang, we demand that all MEK members:

Have their full human rights observed according to the articles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights
Are given ID papers, residence, work and travel permits and national insurance benefits
Are allowed to freely choose where and how they live and who they associate with
In addition, there has been a blanket ban on issuing visas to families of MEK members – which Saddam also did when MEK were in Iraq. The Interior Ministry of Albania does not have any trace of names of MEK members in your country, yet every Albanian embassy has a list of names of the families who are subject to this ban. The eleven thousand plus signatories to the petition demand that visas are granted to enable families to travel to Albania where they can directly help their loved ones.

We will continue our campaigns and activities as long as these demands are not met.

Signatories:

Attached please find a copy of over 11,000 signatures

Yaran Association, Paris, Translated by Iran Interlink

September 12, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Letter of “mothers, the forgotten victims” to Maria Arena

A letter was sent by Ms Sorayya Abdollahi, Head of the “Mothers, Forgotten Victims”, to the Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, Ms Maria Arena.

The text of the letter is as follows:

Ms Maria Arena, Head of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights
Greetings and Regards

We are the mothers and families of those who were deceitfully transferred by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) from countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, Kuwait as well as the prisoners of Iraq-Iran war during the era of Saddam Hussein to MEK camp in Iraq. These people were then transferred to Albania in 2016 and settled in an isolated and remote camp.

The families of MEK members based in the camp in Albania, especially the suffering mothers, have been unaware of their children’s condition for some forty years, as MEK members are completely out of touch with the outside world.

The desire of families is to meet their loved ones or at least hear their voices for a few minutes. Now, if we consider these people as prisoners, according to international regulations and laws in any country, visiting the family and meeting the next of kin is the least recognized right. Now, considering this important issue, it is necessary to mention that the members captured in the MEK camp in Albania are deprived of the slightest human rights.

A campaign received more than 11,000 signatures from families and their relatives in Iran and other countries requesting the Albanian government to let them meet with their loved ones in Albania, or at least let them an audio and video communication. The Albanian authorities in support of the MEK did not pay any attention to the families’ demands. The photo and all the necessary documents were also sent to Albanian government officials and international organizations, but so far we, the families, have not received any response.

As a suffering mother, my son Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh has entered this terrorist cult with deception, and on behalf of all mothers and families, I urge you, as a European human rights official, to call on the Albanian government and ask them for what sin mothers are not allowed having any contact with their children.

Sorayya Abdollahi

“Mothers, the Forgotten Victims”

September 9, 2020 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The Mek and Children – Yaser Ezati

The MEK started training him as a cult member since he was four years old.

“We used to march in front of the portraits of the so-called martyrs of the organization. We were so manipulated that I did not miss my mother at all,”

Yaser Ezati told Mehr News Agency.

Yaser Ezati

His father was a high ranking member of the MEK and his mother was killed in the MEK’s deadly military operation against Iran “Forough Javidan”. Yaser was then sent to Germany together with hundreds of children of the MEK members in 1991. From there, he was transferred to Canada. He lived a challenging life with a number of MEK sympathizers in Germany and Canada.

In just one of his traumatic life experiences with MEK sympathizers, he recalls Forough, the mother of Neda Hassani – the 17-year-old girl that set herself on fire to protest the arrest of Maryam Rajavi by the French Police in June 2003. Yaser lived in Forough’s house in Canada for a period of time. He writes of Forough’s aggressive behavior against him:

“One morning in the winter, I missed the school bus. I got back home to tell Forough that I would take the next bus to school. All of a sudden, she stood up and grabbed me by collar and pulled me on the flour toward the garage where she started beating me. She kicked and bit me so awfully that I was not able to stand on my feet. At the time I was thirteen years old and Forough used to attack me at the slightest pretext.”

Yaser was returned to Camp Ashraf, Iraq a few years later in order to receive systematic organizational and military training. “The MEK forced me to stay in Iraq for seven years, I was kept in solitary confinement for fourteen months before I could leave the group,” he told MNA.

When he first asked to leave the group, they showed him a testament allegedly written by his mother in which it was written: “You should take a gun and follow my path”.

“Whenever I missed my family, may father would kick me in response”, he recounts.

September 9, 2020 0 comments

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