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25th session of the trial court of the MEK held in Tehran

MEK rial The 25th court session was held to hear the charges against 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), as well as the nature of this organization as a legal entity.

The 25th court session examining the charges against 104 high-ranking members of the MEK as well as the organization’s nature as a legal entity, was held in public on Tuesday at Branch 11 of the Criminal Court of Tehran province, presided by Judge Amir Reza Dehghani.

At the beginning of the session, Judge Dehghani asked the plaintiffs’ lawyer to take the stand and make his statements.

Lawyer Kazemi said: In the last session, we talked about a topic called “engineering operations”. After the measures taken in February 1981, a large number of team houses and high-ranking individuals of the organization were identified and arrested, the organization felt danger and accordingly sought a solution to stop this process. The members of the organization executed engineering operations. Engineering operations mean carrying out intelligence work so that they can understand the reason for the leaking in the organization, so they changed their approach from assassinating individuals to collecting information.

Kazemi added: “At first, they started collecting information from the people at the community level, but they found out that they were not getting any results, so they came to the conclusion that they would kidnap people who they thought were affiliated with the Islamic Republic and obtain information from them by torturing them to find out where they were being penetrated. This was considered the engineering operation.”

Kazemi continued: “Explanations were given in the previous session regarding the execution of the engineering operation and the crimes committed against Abbas Effat-Ravesh, one of the victims of the group. In this session, we will discuss the various aspects of the MEK’s acts of kidnapping, torturing, and assassinating two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili, in the operation known as the Engineering Operation.”

He added: “According to the confessions of the arrested members of the NEK, the group’s central leadership, following the successive blows to the organization’s body that had led to the arrest of a large number of its members, and also in order to identify the perpetrators of the blows, took action to identify, kidnap, and torture individuals with religious appearances to gather information.”

The plaintiffs’ lawyer said: “The core members of the organization made sure that their team houses were ready for the purpose of torturing individuals, as well as providing them with the tools and equipment to torture. When they wanted to torture individuals, they would identify specific houses and equip them, for example, they would prepare a house so that no sound could escape from it.”

He quoted from an arrested member of the group, the defendant Mehran Asdaghi, one of the military commanders of the MEK at that time. In his statements justifying these actions, Asdaghi said that the regarding the announcement of the torture agenda by the group’s leaders and central cadres, the torture line was not separate from the rest of the organization’s agenda. It was a continuation of the same lines of conflicts after the 22th of July (the start of the group’s armed struggle against Islamic Republic), assassinations and burning of houses and killing of government officials, and ultimately this same process of torture.

Based on Asdaghi’s confessions, in their justifications, they said that we are torturing now, but when we come to power, we will no longer torture. In this regard, the members of the organization, taking up the torture line, attempted to kidnap Abbas Effat Ravesh, a shoemaker, Khosrow Riahi, a teacher, and three members of the Revolutionary Guards named Taleb Taheri, Mohsen Mirjalili, and Shahrokh Tahmasbi, arguing that these individuals had a religious appearance and so were probably trying to identify the organization’s team houses.

Kazemi added: On August 6, 1982, the two great martyrs Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Committee, were standing on Karun Street near a team house belonging to the group’s members. The team house security force became suspicious of them and, after coordinating with the headquarters, searched them on the street, then forced them into a car and transferred them to the team house where they were tortured.

The lawyer quoted the statements of the arrested defendants: Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili were subjected to the most heinous tortures from the moment they arrived at this place, such as burning their bodies with an iron and boiling water, severe blows to the face and mouth, and teeth extraction by members of the organization. Then, when their torture failed, they were shot and killed by injecting cyanide into their bodies. Then, their bodies were wrapped in blankets and taken to Nizamabad and handed over to the defendant Khosrow Zandi, another member of the organization in the engineering department. They also transferred the bodies to a place in Bagh-e-Fayz that they had prepared in advance.

“The images of this incident are clear and will be made available to the court,” the lawyer said. According to these images, Taleb Taheri and Mohsen Mirjalili were two members of the Guards who were suspected by the MEK and were kidnapped, tortured and finally killed. Taleb Taheri was only 17 years old at the time.

Sedaqat, a legal expert, then took the stand and provided explanations on the subject of the engineering operation, its origins, factors, and effects. He said: “As an expert, I must have an analytical view of this incident. It must be investigated why such actions were taken and why these tortures were carried out.” According to the confessions of one of the leaders of the group and the head of their military branch in Tehran, which were read by the defense attorney, these tortures were very brutal and similar tortures cannot be found even in the Middle Ages. This amount of brutality and misconduct is unprecedented in history.

Based on the confessions of the arrested members of the MEK, Kazemi read details of the ruthless tortures MEK agents committed against the five victims of Engineering Operation to the audience.

December 25, 2024 0 comments

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Supporting the MEK, a Strategic Mistake by US senators

The U.S. Congress must scrutinize the strategic and ethical implications of supporting the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as an alternative to the Iranian government. Despite presenting itself as a democratic alternative, the MEK’s history of violence, ideological extremism, lack of domestic support, and cult-like behavior makes it an unviable and counterproductive choice. Aligning with this group would harm U.S. credibility.

The MEK’s Marxist-Islamist Roots and History of Violence

The MEK’s ideological foundation combines Marxism and Islamism, a mix that fundamentally conflicts with democratic principles. The group’s history is marred by acts of terrorism, including assassinations of U.S. military personnel and attacks on Iranian civilians. Although removed from the U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list in 2012, its violent past cannot be dismissed. Supporting a group with such a record risks undermining U.S. efforts to champion democracy and human rights while tarnishing America’s image in the region.

Unpopularity Among Iranians

The MEK’s collaboration with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War is a source of profound resentment among Iranians, who see the group as traitorous. This association has rendered the MEK irreparably unpopular within Iran, where it has no meaningful grassroots support. Backing such a discredited group would alienate the Iranian people, strengthen anti-American narratives propagated by the regime, and delegitimize broader U.S. efforts to support the Iranian opposition.

Cult-Like, Authoritarian Structure

The MEK functions as a closed, authoritarian organization, with numerous reports of coercive practices, suppression of dissent, and psychological manipulation within its ranks. Its cult-like nature and lack of internal democracy make it incompatible with the values of freedom and pluralism that the U.S. seeks to promote. Supporting the MEK risks replacing one authoritarian regime with another, perpetuating instability rather than fostering genuine democratic reform.

Manufactured Illusion of Support

While the MEK has cultivated a public image of being a powerful and organized opposition group, much of its influence relies on financial backing and lobbying rather than genuine grassroots or domestic support. The group has poured significant resources into courting politicians and hosting high-profile events, but these efforts do not translate to actual legitimacy or broad influence among Iranians inside Iran or the diaspora.

Lack of Grassroots Base

A truly powerful and effective political organization would rely on widespread popular support and activism within the country it claims to represent. The MEK, however, has virtually no grassroots presence in Iran, where it is overwhelmingly despised for its collaboration with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. Without domestic legitimacy, its perceived power as a lobby is limited to its external public relations efforts.

Dependency on Nontransparent Financial Resources

The MEK’s activities rely heavily on external funding, including contributions from wealthy donors rather than independent resources or support from Iranian communities. This lack of financial transparency undermines its claims of being a genuine, independent political movement. Instead, it portrays the MEK as a hired influence group, driven by external interests rather than representing the authentic aspirations of the Iranian people.

Shallow Political Connections

While the MEK has succeeded in securing the support of some high-profile figures, these endorsements are often the result of financial incentives, speaking fees, or a lack of understanding about the group’s true nature. Many policymakers and officials who initially supported the MEK later distance themselves after learning more about its violent past, cult-like structure, and lack of credibility.

Failing to Shift the Narrative in Iran

Despite years of lobbying and spending on international campaigns, the MEK has failed to significantly impact the narrative or political landscape inside Iran. This inability to resonate with the Iranian public, combined with its reliance on external lobbying, suggests that its perceived power is superficial and lacks real-world impact.

While the MEK may appear organized and influential on the surface due to its lobbying activities and financial resources, its lack of domestic legitimacy, grassroots support, and dependency on external sponsorship make it a weak and unsustainable political force. Its perceived power as a lobby is more an illusion created through financial investment than a reflection of genuine political strength or credibility.

December 25, 2024 0 comments

Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh & Amir Yaghmai mothers

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Motherhood in the MEK vs Motherhood in free world

On the occasion of Mother’s Day in Iran, the mothers of elderly members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) are longing to see their loved ones in person or even make a phone call, bearing the pain of years of separation. And the middle-aged mothers of the MEK within the walls of the group’s camp are bearing the pain of denying their maternal instinct and being away from their children. The cause of these two great sufferings is the cult of personality of Massoud Rajavi.
The first group, namely mothers who have been deprived of contact with their children for an average of three decades, have been full of maternal love all these years trying to get the slightest news from their imprisoned children. They have taken their complaint to international forums and have tried to make their voices heard by justice seekers through various means.

Mothers like Soraya Abdollahi, who are symbols of maternal love and resistance to the Rajavis’ blatant oppression, stand against the various vindictive labels the MEK puts on them and insist on their fundamental right to contact their beloved children.

On the other hand, their children are under pressure from the cult-like dictatorship of the group leaders to forget their family, to consider their family as enemies, and even to consider their mothers –who cry out with tearful eyes to see them– as mercenaries. These Children were even brought in front of the group’s TV cameras to curse their mothers.
The second group are mothers who are now in the group and whose children live in different parts of the world. In this group, there are mothers whose children are also in the MEK’s headquarters but there is no mother-child relationship between them. These children were child soldiers who were smuggled from Iraq to Europe and North America, and then smuggled back to the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq as teenagers. These mothers and their MEK children have no contact with each other except for one or two official visits a year.

After forced divorces, Mujahed mothers were forced to hand over their children to the smugglers of the MEK. Many of them are unaware of the fate of their children after long years of separation. Some have also been faced with their children’s revelations about the Cult of Rajavi. On the order of the group leaders, they have denied any maternal affection for their children. Amir Yaghmai and Mohammad Reza Torabi are among the child soldiers whose mothers have denied them in the group’s media and labeled them as mercenaries of the Iranian government!

The MEK, headed by Massoud Rajavi, is the defining line between being a mother and not being a mother. Today, if any MEK member leaves Camp Ashraf 3, they are welcomed with enthusiasm by their mothers, but each of the child soldiers who have left the group and whose mothers are still trapped in it, have been so much disliked by the side of their mothers that they could accept that there is no maternal love from them.

Mazda Parsi

December 23, 2024 0 comments

Mirlinda Zharri and women of Nejat Albania

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

In the MEK thinking about mother is considered a crime

First of all, on the occasion of Mother’s Day, I would like to wish all the mothers of the world, especially Iranian mothers, a happy day!

I wanted to write a few lines for the future mothers who have children captive in the Manze camp! In our current era, which is the era of technology and information, the members of the Mujahedin organization, especially in the Manze camp, are deprived of everything! They cannot even contact their families, thinking about their mother is considered a crime in the Rajavi’s organization and anyone who asks members to contact their father or mother will be punished and forced to force the members! They have no feelings in their relationships with their parents and family, and if any member remembers his mother for a moment, he must be punished in the meeting and tell why he remembered his mother!

With Respect Mirlinda ZHARRI !

December 23, 2024 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Raise Awareness about rights of MEK members on International Migrants’ Day

On International Migration Day, members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) are deprived from their human rights as Iranian migrants in Europe. Their rights are actually violated by the group leaders rather than the host countries.

Each year, International Migrants’ Day is observed on 18 December. Designated by the United Nations General Assembly on 4 December 2000, in response to increasing migration around the world, the day aims to draw attention to migrants’ human rights and highlight their contribution to host societies.

However, the UN and other international human rights bodies neglect the disastrous situation of over 2 thousand MEK members who are taken as hostages in the MEK headquarters in Manez, a village near Tirana, the capital of Albania. They have no legal status in Albania. They are not considered as refugees or asylum seekers or migrants. Their identity is only defined by their membership in the Cult of Massoud Rajavi (MEK).

It is important to understand that, MEK members residing under the isolating system of the Cult of Rajavi, should be entitled to have all their human rights protected and respected, regardless of the status they have in Albania. The International community as well as the Albanian government must protect all MEK members as migrants from violence, exploitation and forced labor.

According to the UN documents, On 4 December 2000, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) designated 18 December as International Migrants Day, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants in the world. Through its resolution A/RES/55/93, the UNGA invited Member States and others to observe the Day through the dissemination of information on human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants, the sharing of experiences, and the design of actions to ensure protection of migrants.

The UN claims that by supporting regular pathways for migration, they can enable opportunities for migrants, better protect their rights, and contribute to greater prosperity while hostages of the MEK can never think of future and prosperity. They see no regular pathway for leaving the mental and physical bars of the Cult of Rajavi. They will succeed to escape the group’s camp if they are lucky enough to accomplish their escape plan.

The rights of the MEK members are violated by the group leaders every day. They are subjected to forced celibacy, forced labor, forced clothing, forced hijab, gender segregation, mind manipulation, isolation from the outside world including their family and friends. They need urgent help from the outside world because it is quite difficult to break through all the chains that MEK leaders have tied around them.

The UN says, “Together, one step at a time, we can continue building a world where migration is safe, orderly, and beneficial – for everyone.” In order to achieve such a valuable objective, the UN officials must pay attention to the calls from the families of hostages of the MEK. They have been longing for a phone call or face to face visit with their loved ones who have been barred by the group leaders for decades.

Mazda Parsi

December 18, 2024 0 comments

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The hashtag “MEK terrorists” is trending again

The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and Maryam Rajavi were once again the subject of Iranian anger and hatred at the top of Iran-related hashtags. Iranian users used the hashtag “MEK terrorists” tens of thousands of times within a few hours.
Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Massoud Rajavi, in a message of congratulating the “heroic people of Syria,” referred to the Syrian government’s opponents as “rebel vanguards” who came to power for “freedom, justice, and a democratic revolution.” The Syrian rebels, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, bear many similarities to the MEK.

Like once the MEK was, HTS is designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council and is on one of the European Union sanctions lists due to its links to Al Qaeda. The US and UK governments have also included the group on their lists of foreign terrorist organizations.

In his message of December 8, Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the MEK clearly declares that the Syrian rebels are counterparts of the MEK and their so-called resistance units in Iran, and promises the early overthrow of the Iranian government – a promise that has been repeated for nearly five decades.

These similarities have not gone unnoticed by the MEK’s warmongering American supporters in the Republican party and their media outlet Fox News. It speaks of the opportunity of the fall of Bashar al-Assad to force Iranian regime change.
The Fox News article mentions some US Republican senators who support the MEK, who we have previously seen on the list of speakers at MEK rallies. These senators consider Maryam Rajavi to be the counterpart of Mohammad al-Jolani and the National Council of Resistance of Iran to be the counterpart of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham for changing the Iranian government.

The Fox News article is the beginning of the story. A Twitter storm broke out when Fox News published the article’s title on its X social media account, along with a photo of Maryam Rajavi. The post was met with intense anger from Iranian users across the political spectrum, and eventually the hashtag #MEKTerrorists trended on X English and the hashtag “Maryam Rajavi ate shit” on X Persian. Some of the comments and replies to Fox New, on the most popular pages are noteworthy. These posts, reposts or replies are a few of the contents that contain #MEKterrorists:

Mohammad Reza Torabi, a former child soldier of the MEK:
Down with Fox News and a bunch of money-loving Republicans and anyone else who promotes the Mojahedin or Rajavi. The reality is that this old woman and her criminal husband, who occasionally issues announcements from his mouse hole and has become a homeless rooster, have long been considered dead to the Iranian people. Nothing can bring them back to life. Today is the best time to say once again #MaryamRajaviateshit.

Salome Seyednia, host of Iranian TV channel, Manoto:
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is a terrorist group that has no credibility or support in Iran! They are very despised and have no standing among the Iranian people! Don’t waste your time on them!

Tina Ghazimorad, editor-In-Chief at manoto TV Newsroom:
That Fox News is promoting the MEK, a terrorist sect rooted in Marxist-Islamic ideologies, is completely absurd and beyond comprehension. Not only does it discredit you, it also insults the memory of Americans who once died. Before glorifying the leader of a sect with blood on their hands, do your homework and check the historical facts. No matter how much money they spend to sell themselves as “freedom fighters,” or how skillfully they parrot what you want to hear, their history of terrorism and betrayal is undeniable.

Sarah For Trump, Iranian-American X user:
What the fuck is this shit?
The #MEKterrorists are a bunch of Islamist-Marxist, undemocratic as*holes who force women to wear hijabs in their fucking cult. Their crap ideology screws over the U.S, Israel, and the Iranian people hate their guts.

Sarah Raviani, Iranian American X user:
The MEK is a terrorist organization that chanted “Death to America” and celebrated the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Tehran after Iran fell to Khomeini.

Ali Hamid, Iranian documentary filmmaker:
To clueless U.S. politicians:
The MEK, which you support and normalize, killed dozens of Americans, including these servicemen. If Iranian lives don’t matter to you, respect your own victims’ families. Shame.

MEK killed US personel newspaper

Niyak Ghorbani, UK-based Iranian user:
Supporting the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), (OIAC Iran) is akin to supporting the terrorist organisation Hamas 30 years from now—a group that has always been an enemy of Israel and the Jewish people. The MEK, allies of Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat, and responsible for the killing of thousands of Iranian soldiers and civilians, will have no place in a free Iran of the future. Instead, they will be brought to justice for their crimes against the Iranian people.

Saeed Ghasseminejad, Iranian economist:
MEK is a Marxist-Islamist cult with American blood on its hand.

Hillel Neuer International human rights lawyer, writer, Executive Director of United Nations Watch:
Because I occasionally appear on FoxNews, I need to inform them: this woman Maryam Rajavi and her Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) are a cult. Not a credible voice at all.
Mazda Parsi

December 16, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

December 10, Day of Shame for Human Rights Violators

International Human Rights Day, December 10, should be a moment of pride for human society, but for many oppressed individuals and groups, this day is just another reminder of the injustices they suffer every day. For an organization like Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which claims to fight for freedom and justice, the irony is bitter: they themselves are the violators of the rights of their members, keeping them in solitary confinement and denying them the most basic freedoms.

The True Face of Oppression

Inside the MEK camps, beyond the facade of the rhetoric of fighting tyranny, there is a dark reality. The organization’s members face an internal regime that violates every principle of human rights. They are kept in total isolation, deprived of contact with the outside world and, most importantly, with their families. In the name of discipline and dedication to the cause, these people are treated as property of the organization, not as human beings.
What is the difference between an authoritarian regime and an organization that imprisons the minds and bodies of its members? The answer is simple: none. The MEK, which claims to fight oppression, is itself a tool of oppression for those who constitute the flesh and blood of its organization.

Blatant Rights Violations

1. Total Isolation:
The MEK camps operate as open prisons. No member is allowed to leave without the approval of the leaders. This is a flagrant violation of the right to movement and self-determination, a right guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
2. Indoctrination and Mind Control:
Members are subjected to a continuous process of indoctrination, where any critical thought is suppressed and replaced with blind obedience to the organization’s leaders. This is a form of mind control that violates the right to free thought.
3. Denial of Family Life:
One of the cruelest violent tactics of the MEK is the separation of members from their families. Numerous reports testify to parents not seeing their children for years and people being forced to deny family ties for the sake of the organization. This is a blatant violation of the right to family and human relations.
4. Inhuman Treatment and Fear:
Those who dare to criticize or demand their removal face threats, psychological pressure and, in some cases, physical violence. This is the height of hypocrisy for an organization that claims to fight for rights and freedoms.

A Call for Intervention

Organizations like the MEK should have no place in a world that claims to support human rights. Beyond their political rhetoric, they are systems that foster isolation and violence against their own members. The international community must stop turning a blind eye to these violations. If the world truly stands for human rights, it must intervene and help those who are held hostage by these organizations.
December 10 cannot be an international day unless every individual is free and their rights are guaranteed. The MEK are living proof of hypocrisy and rights violations, condemning hundreds of people to isolation and loss of their identity. This day should be a call for justice and an end to violations, wherever they occur. Silence in the face of these injustices is complicity with oppression.

Violence in the MEK Camps

These acts of violence are not random; they are structured and orchestrated to maintain control over members.
1. Physical Violence as a Means of Intimidation
Reports from former members point to numerous cases where individuals have been brutally beaten by camp guards or other members on the orders of the leaders. This violence is used as punishment for those who try to leave the organization, criticize the leaders, or do not blindly follow orders. Cases include beatings to the point of severe injuries and prolonged isolation in inhumane conditions.

2. Psychological Violence and Emotional Torture
In addition to physical violence, members are subjected to ongoing psychological violence. They are forced to participate in “self-criticism sessions,” where they are forced to admit fabricated guilt and face public humiliation. This is a form of torture that aims to break them spiritually and make them obedient to the leaders. Feelings of guilt and fear permeate the daily lives of these people, leaving them without hope for the future.

3. Denial of Medical Treatment
Physical and psychological violence is often accompanied by the denial of medical treatment for the injured. Members who face health problems as a result of the violence are left without medical assistance or treated minimally, as an additional form of punishment.

Aldo Sulollari, Media manager of Nejat Society Albania

December 11, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK’s complex fraud scheme involving children and social benefits

Former child soldiers of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) have recently brought up a pretty crucial issue about the MEK’s fraudulent techniques to raise funds through children’s social benefits in European and North American countries. However, this was not the first time that the MEK’s fraud was revealed. It had been already discovered and investigated by security bodies like the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the German Police in 2001.

Several MEK members were arrested and put under investigation at the time. Susan Ghajar Azdanloo, the sister of Maryam Ghajar Azdanloo (Rajavi) was one of those members of the MEK who were arrested or subjected to investigation in December 2001 under a joint FBI/ Cologne Police Department operation.

On November 29, 2004, FBI published a detailed summary of information learned during criminal investigation of the MEK that was at the time a designated foreign terrorist organization. According to the 2004 FBI document, presented to the US Department of Justice, a year after the French Police released Maryam Rajavi, “Los Angeles investigation had determined that the MEK is currently actively involved in planning and executing acts of terrorism. The planning takes place at MEK bases in Iraq and at the Auver Sur Oise location in Paris, France. Los Angeles has consensually recorded numerous telephone calls in which MEK leaders at this French location discuss specific acts of terrorism to include bombings. Joint investigation with the French DST and the German Cologne Police Department has revealed similar findings from French and German wire taps.”

Beginning with a brief history of the group’s criminal activities, the FBI reported that its investigation had determined that the MEK was very active in fund raising. This was done through a complicated international money laundering operation that uses accounts in Turkey, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
The testimonies of former child soldiers of the MEK such as Atefeh Sebdani, Amir Yaghmai, Ray Torabi who has several times spoke about their fundraising activities under the command of the MEK offices in Canada, US, Sweden and France, confirm FBI’s investigations.

However, the fraud to exploit social benefits of the MEK’s children in western countries was only investigated by the Cologne Police. The report tells of a scheme organized by MEK where the group used children with multiple identities to collect social benefits in Germany, then used the money to purchase large quantities of night vision goggles and GPS systems to improve accuracy of mortar attacks in Tehran.

There were over a hundred of the children of Mujahed parents who had been smuggled by the group agents to Cologne, Germany where they were kept in team houses. Amin Golmaryami, former child soldier of the MEK, and his brothers were among those children. The group used the social salary that the German government allocated to the children while a large number of these children were then smuggled back to Iraq to be recruited in the MEK’s army. The German journalist, Luisa Hommerich from De Ziet investigated the case in December 2021, in an interview with Amin Golmaryami.

Maryam Rajavi’s sister, arrested in the joint FBI/Cologne Police operation

The FBI report offers details about those MEK members who were involved in the group’s fraud scheme in Cologne:
Susan Azdanloo, MEK member. Arrested in December 2001 in Cologne Germany in a joint FBI/Cologne Police Department operation. Involved in a complex fraud scheme involving children and social benefits.

Mohammad Ebrahim Moshiri, MEK member. Current joint FBI/Cologne Police Department subject. Fugitive from December 2001 joint FBI/Cologne Police Department operation. Involved in a complex fraud scheme involving children and social benefits. Was the MEK procurement officer for military equipment. Joint investigation showed that MOSHIRI used money from this fraud scheme to purchase equipment including night vision in Cologne Germany and then shipped it to United Arab Emirates where it was sent to MEK bases in Iraq.

Sepid Majid Salem, MEK supporter/member. Arrested in Cologne Germany during the December 2001 joint FBI/Cologne Police Department operation. A U.S. citizen claimed no affiliation with the MEK even though he was arrested in one of their houses in Cologne. Claimed to be Virginia resident. Provided 4300 Evergreen Lane #302. Annandale, VA 22003, as his last address in the US.

Bita Mahmoudi, MEK member/supporter. Current joint FBI/Cologne Police Department subject. Was arrested in December 2001 in Cologne Germany in a joint FBI/ Cologne Police Department operation. Involved in a complex fraud scheme involving children and social benefits. Recently applied for citizenship in the U.S.

Mohammad Karami, former member of the MEK explains that in 1993 and 1994 a number of charity organizations, schools and orphanages were established by the MEK agents in some western countries. According to him, Susan Ghajar Azdanloo, the younger sister of Maryam Ghajar Azdanloo (Maryam Rajavi), was also on the board of directors of one of these associations and a school that was established in the name of orphaned children, and they received funding from the government for this school.

There were definitely many other MEK agents who were involved in similar fraud schemes to confiscate social benefits of MEK children in other western countries including Sweden where Atefeh Sebdani and her brothers and a large number of other children were settled under an MEK fostering system. After the release of Atefeh Sebdani’s autobiography, the Swedish human rights and child care bodies were criticized for being so inconsiderate about such cases.

Mazda Parsi

December 10, 2024 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The International Human Rights Day and MEK victims

Tomorrow is the International Human Rights Day. A day to remind the world of each and every human being’s fundamental rights. International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity.

Thus, tomorrow is an occasion for recognize the human rights of thousands of people who are involved with the oppressive cult-like system of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).

Based on the United Nations’s definition, Human Rights Day, annually around the world on 10 December, commemorates the anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). “This landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being – regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”

The UDHR was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 and sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. This year’s theme is: Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now.

The UN explains this theme stating, “Human rights can empower individuals and communities to forge a better tomorrow. By embracing and trusting the full power of human rights as the path to the world we want, we can become more peaceful, equal and sustainable.”

A better tomorrow for victims of the MEK will not come unless the International human rights bodies respect their human rights as well as other humans. As the UN says this Human Rights Day should focus on how human rights are a pathway to solutions, playing a critical role as a preventative, protective and transformative force for good; the good of people whose rights have been violated by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, leaders of the Rajavi’s cult of personality.

Victims of human rights violations of the MEK are categorized in the following groups:

-Members of the MEK who are isolated from the free world in a remote camp in Albania, deprived from any contact with the outside world, under a manipulative ruling system.

-MEK members’ families, especially mothers who have been languishing a long-life separation from their beloved children who have been taken like hostages in the MEK.

-Former MEK members who are still suffering the traumas of mental and physical torture inside the MEK. They should have been gone through a deradicalizing program before integration with free society.

-A thousand Children of Mujahed Parents who were once separated from their parents in Iraq, smuggled to Europe and North America, where they were raised in the MEK’s team houses in order to exploit their social benefits or were fostered by the MEK sympathizers who abused them in several cases. Most of these children have lost the track of their birth parents or are not allowed by the MEK to contact them.

-Former child soldiers of the MEK who are hundreds of those smuggled children. They were then smuggled back to Iraq in their teen ages and were recruited as child soldiers of the MEK’s army, the so-called National Liberation Army. Some of these child soldiers were killed in military operations and clashes. Some of then are still under the mind control system of the group.

-Survivors of the MEK’s terrorist acts who have been injured, paralyzed and/or have lost one or more family members in the terrorist operations of the MEK against civilians.

As the UN states, this year’s theme of Human Rights Day is a call to acknowledge the importance and relevance of human rights in our everyday lives. “We have an opportunity to change perceptions by speaking up against hate speech, correcting misinformation and countering disinformation.”

The leader of the MEK and the MEK-run media are actually propaganda machines that propagate hate speech, misinformation and disinformation. They suppress any voice that reveals their atrocities and even any voice that criticizes their attitudes. This is the time to mobilize action to reinvigorate a global movement for human rights of the MEK victims.

Mazda Parsi

December 9, 2024 0 comments

Iran

24th session of the trial court of the MEK held in Tehran

The 24th session of the trial court of 104 Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) members and the group as a legal entity was held in Tehran. The recent session was held at the 11th branch of the criminal court of Tehran province on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024. The court was presided by Judge Dehqani.

Reassuring the witnesses and informants who show up, the Judge announced that all members based in Albania and other members of the group who wish to testify in this court can contact consulates and international institutions linked with the Islamic Republic of Iran, under the protection of Iranian Judiciary.

According to the judge, international organizations must ensure the safety of witnesses, that is, any person from Albania or its affiliated members who approach them, in accordance with the UN Charter and the laws approved after 1993.
The lawyer of the plaintiffs, Mollai presented certain facts and documents on the MEK’s terrorist operations against civilians. He said, “In addition to carrying out terrorist operations against the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the group has murdered ordinary citizens, women and children as one of its main goals and in order to create fear and terror among the people.”

The lawyer referred to the torture and assassination of civilians such as workers, shoemakers, teachers and ordinary passers-by just because the group simply considered as to be religious. He spoke of Abbas Effat Ravesh, a shoe maker who was killed by the MEK agents only due to his appearance. He looked like to be a supporter of the Iranian government.

On August 8, 2018 at 10:00 PM, upon the order of the organization’s leader to kidnap Abbas Effat Ravesh, who was a shoemaker, the organization’s special operation team went to his. Since he was not present, they went to his workplace in Shemiran, Tehran. Disguised in the uniforms of Iranian Revolutionary guards, they took him. When they put him in a car, they tied his hands and eyes and took him to a team house where they subjected him to the most severe torture in order to get the information they wanted. When they did not achieve the desired result, after much torture, they killed him by injecting cyanide. They tied his hands and feet, put him in the trunk of a car, and took him to a predetermined location where they buried his body. They even did not know his name. The MEK agents just called him “shoe maker” in their confessions.

The lawyer cited from the confessions of two arrested MEK members who collaborated in the killing of Abbas and three members of revolutionary guards. Mehran Asdaghi was one of them. He was the military commander of the MEK terror teams in Tehran.

The lawyer read Mehran Asdaghi’s confessions: “Around evening, Mostafa Madan Pisheh shot Mohsen Mirjalili in the bathroom due to his shaking and we were forced to evacuate the house, so we decided to eliminate the guards and the shoemaker. We tied them to chairs, blindfolded them and stunned them with the same lead rods and then injected cyanide into their bodies, after which they started to snort. While they were still alive, we tied their bodies with ropes so that they could fit inside the trunk of the car.”

The plaintiffs’ lawyer told the court: “The MKO arrested the shoemaker simply because he had a religious face and they did not recognize him and only knew that he was a shoemaker.”

He continued, “When the shoemaker entered the house, he was tortured, and with the extensive torture that was inflicted on him, it became clear on the first day that he was unaware of everything and that what MEK commanders were saying was not true. Despite shoemaker’s begging that he did not know what you wanted from him, they continued torturing him because the people above had ordered it.”

The video of Mehran Asdaghi’s confessions at the time of his arrest was then shown in court.
Confessions of Khosrow Zandi, the person in charge of burying the body of the deceased, and the officials who gave the order was also presented in the court.

The lawyer stated that the type of action taken by the MEK in killing the Effat-Ravesh and several others such as Taleb Taheri, Mohsen Mirjalili, and Shahrokh Tahmasbi, which the organization has named “engineering operation”, is different from the criminal title of murder. This action has the following characteristics: 1- Killing people in the category of engineering operations by applying the most severe tortures such as burning with an iron and boiling water, peeling and severe beatings, and finally killing them with cyanide injections while they had signs of life. 2- These actions were not motivated by personal motives and were completely organized and systematic. 3- Attempting to kill people and using people trained in torture and murder. 4- Creating terror and intimidation with the most severe torture and assassination.
The Lawyer asked the court to investigate the role of each of the defendants in the killing of Effat Ravesh, considering their organizational position in the structure of MEK.

Then a former member of the MEK, who stayed unnamed took the stand as a witness. He introduced himself as saying:
“I live in Germany and was a member of the MEK from 1981 to 1991. I had a political motivation for joining the organization, and in 1981 I joined this organization with a political goal, and I worked with this group inside Iran until 1991. Many of my close friends had also joined this organization.

During this time, we suffered a lot and were forced to do forced labor, almost like slavery. Massoud Rajavi trampled on all our political, social, and family issues. He crossed every red line and then provided evidence and proof, saying that I was a new prophet. He first placed Maryam as the ideological leader and then in the position of president, but he always saw himself as an untouchable person.”

About the cult-like nature of the MEK the eye-witness explained that there is only one ideological leader who can be the president. “Of course, later, when I went to Iraq, I was faced with these trends of ideological revolution, organization, forced labor, and austerity,” he said. “I saw that these had nothing to do with Iranian society or politics, they were all my inventions. Every day he would put his forces in a tight spot and besieged so that they would do nothing but obey, praise, and submit. Every day he would elevate himself one level higher and higher.”

He was a victim of the MEK’s violence too. He said: “I remember in 1981, a woman named Fereshteh Yeganeh, who was a high-ranking official, challenged me and asked me why did you come here? I replied that I came to fight, and that one word caused me to be thrown in prison the next day. We had different prisons. If I had said, for example, that I came for brother [Massoud], I might have been forgiven.”

In fact, he was imprisoned once more in 1988 in Iraqi Kurdistan. “A prisoner who had no choice in public and could not defend himself,” he recalls. “No one could eat with him, mention his name, or look at him.”

Asked by the judge about his organizational position, he answered, “I worked mostly in the intelligence department and I did not have a position. In this department, there were various tasks such as wiretapping and overhearing telephone calls. It was the work of the press and publications, and evacuation, and it was mostly related to wiretapping.”
“There is fear on your face. Have you been threatened?”, the witness was asked by the lawyer

The witness said: “Yes, I have been threatened. I have said a lot about the organization. I was once a guest at the European Parliament in Belgium. Maryam Rajavi was there that day. Maryam Rajavi’s bodyguards attacked me and beat me, saying that this person was a terrorist and that the Islamic Republic of Iran had sent him. I hired a lawyer about this matter and filed a complaint, stating that my family was being held hostage by the organization.”

The judge asked: Are your wife and children still hostage?
The witness said: “Yes. They separated my wife and I without informing us and without a religious order. Germany did not investigate this complaint and the court was not held. We and our families are always under threat. They call anyone who opposed them a mercenary…I went to Germany and legally freed my child, but my wife is still in the MEK’s prison.”

According to the witness who showed up in the 24th session of the MEK’s trial, In 1985, in order to justify that so-called “ideological revolution” and his disastrous marriage with Maryam Qajar, Massoud Rajavi sent a group of forces to Iran to carry out assassinations.

The witness said: “The terror teams were trained in the MEK’s camp and entered Iran through Kurdistan or other routes.”
The judge asked: “Was the torture of people part of this training?”

This defected member of the organization stated: “I spoke to many people who had been tortured. In 1997, the organization imprisoned more than 500 of its members. Mr. Reza Gooran wrote a book about his torture in Norway. I read in this book that a number of members died under torture. According to the author of this book, Parviz Ahmadi and several others were killed under torture. The names of the torturers are also given in this book. Their reason for torturing the members was that these people might later become critics of the organization. They would keep these people in custody or persecute them.”
The next session of the court will be held on Tuesday, December 10th.

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