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Report on the 29th court session of the MEK’s trial

The 29th court session examining the charges against 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as well as the organization’s nature as a legal entity, was held on February 18 in branch 11 of the Criminal Court of Tehran Province, presided over by Judge Amir Reza Dehghani.

The judge announced the opening of the court saying: Given the presence of the prosecutor’s representative, the lawyers of the plaintiffs and defendants, and some of the plaintiffs in the session, and the formality and openness of the court, in compliance with all the formalities of the Criminal Procedure Code, especially Articles 2, 3, 5, 7, and Articles 296, 297, 315, and 382 of this law, we will begin the continuation of the first session by declaring it official and public.

The plaintiff’s lawyer, Masoud Maddah, said: “Regarding the terrorist crimes of the MEK, in the previous session we applied the legal dimensions of this issue to the crime of leading a criminal group and its organization with engineering operations.

In this session, I will apply the examples and material elements of the crime of leading a criminal group, the subject of Article 130 of the Islamic Penal Code, to one of the most pivotal crimes that the MEK committed, which was the discussion of team houses and repeated assassinations and torture.”

According to lawyer Maddah, it is not necessarily the case that the leaders of the MEK themselves are directly involved in criminal operations. It is not the case that in the bombings, assassinations, and tortures, need to be present in the crimes and carry them out.

Presenting some examples of the MEK crimes, the lawyer said, “At one point in time, the MEK took actions such as assassinating civilians to demonstrate its existence, as I presented the confessions of a MEK member named Mehran Asadeghi in the previous session. He stated that the organization ordered us to carry out these terrorist acts if 30 out of every 50 people were ordinary people so that the organization would survive and demonstrate its existence. They reproduce numerous pamphlets and distribute them among their members in team houses.”

Massoud Khodabandeh, a defected member of the MEK who had been a member of the group for 16 years, appeared on the stand and swore to tell nothing but the truth in court.

Khodabandeh said in court: “I became acquainted with the organization a few years before the revolution, and then I went to England and became a member of the organization, and I was in Iranian Kurdistan for 2 years. After that, I went to Iraq with Massoud Rajavi. I traveled to Iraq and Europe. I took Maryam Rajavi from Iraq to France. In France, I decided to leave the organization. I had 2 passports, which I handed in and went to London, and I have been in contact with the MEK since 1998. With the help of my wife, I wrote 3 books about the MEK. During this time, I also participated in a court as a witness. I appeared in this court today. I confirm all the books and pamphlets introduced in the court.”

The former member of the MEK, said: “I was in the organization for 15 years. I was present in England as a supporter. We established the Committee to Support the People’s Mojahedin in London with the help of Dr. Reza Raisi. Then I went to prison. After my release, I went to Paris. I was assigned to take Radio Mojahedin to the Sardasht region, where I was in this region for 2 years. After that, I went to Iraq and Paris. In Paris, I was responsible for protecting Bani Sadr’s daughter. After Massoud Rajavi’s divorce from Bani Sadr’s daughter, I was with Maryam Rajavi. I was on the team to take over Camp Ashraf and develop it. Sometime later, I left the organization and since then I have been collecting materials related to the Mojahedin.”

Massoud Khodabandeh said: “The process of producing a person who straps a bomb to himself and detonates it is already in his book. They named people as leaders, they tortured these people and ordered others to torture them. I took Mehdi Abrishamchi and took him to Kurdistan. When this person came, he was different from the person who tortured him later, just like Massoud Rajavi, whom we saw earlier, was different from the Rajavi who went to Saddam. Ugliness gradually happens and an ordinary person cannot suddenly become a torturer.”

He said: “In meetings, men were forced to curse their wives and divorce their wives. One of these people, named Commander Kamal, was in that meeting and refused to accept it, so they took him out and half an hour later they said he had set himself on fire. In fact, Massoud and his apparatus claimed that they were doing these things against me and that these people should be eliminated in a way that their voices would not be heard. There is a voice of Massoud in a meeting saying how much money to take and carry out a terrorist act.”

Khodabandeh continued: “During Saddam’s era, if I wanted to implement a project, they would pay for it, but this has not happened for years and they cannot invite someone from, for example, Canada, pay for his accommodation and other expenses to participate in the MKO gatherings, so they use people from within the same country. An American senator told me that when someone is attacking the Islamic Republic, we do not become enemies with him.”

The judge asked: When did these statements come from?
Khodabandeh replied: “Four or five years ago. Currently, the MKO has changed shape. At one time, this organization, centered on Saddam and Massoud Rajavi, only carried out military terrorist operations. This military terrorist apparatus became an information and propaganda apparatus after Turki Faisal (who announced Massoud Rajavi’s death without coordination). The core of this organization was also entrusted to Turki Faisal and Maryam Rajavi. After Saddam’s death, there was no place for Massoud Rajavi in this organization, so he had to be put aside, dead or alive. I tried many times to speak in the Brussels court, but they did not allow me to do so.”

February 19, 2025 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The Children of Camp Ashraf streaming on Vimeo

The children of Camp Ashraf can be seen by the audience out of Sweden now.
Vimeo, the worldwide video platform streamed the documentary on February 11th. This is the first time that the Swedish documentary directed by Sara Moein is streaming with English subtitle.

Vimeo reviews the plot of the Children of Camp Ashraf by this brief summary:
Parwin and Amir grew up in a military camp. As toddlers they were sent away by their parents who wanted to focus on fighting the Mulla-regime of Iran. 30 years later they are still hoping to reunite with their mothers. Will they ever succeed?
An untold scandal involving around a thousand children worldwide, addressing the most urgent issues of our time: exile, identity, radicalization and our inability to see the needs of vulnerable children.

The documentary “Children of Camp Ashraf” is based on the life story of four Swedish citizen whose parents were members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The film was directed by Sara Moein and produced by Linda Mutavi. Since January, 2024 it has been screened in two Swedish festivals, Goteborg film festival and Tempo Documentary Festival. It was first aired by the Swedish TV channel SVT, in June, 2024.

February 16, 2025 0 comments

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A Ukrainian’s account of attending the MEK demonstration

The anti-Iranian demonstration that the MEK organized in Paris on February 8th was, as always, scandalous.

In addition to the numerous Ukrainian flags that showed the presence of hundreds of Ukrainian refugees at the event, there were also reports of the dissatisfaction of these deceived participants.

The image that was viewed the most on social media and was circulated was a tweet from a Ukrainian participant who expressed his dissatisfaction with the service provided by the organizers of the demonstration and blamed Iranians based on the fraudulent performance of the MEK.

This Ukrainian participant wrote in his tweet: “Iranians are deceitful and liar. Yesterday, an Iranian organization invited me to a demonstration against Russia and for support my country, promising hospitality and a tour of Paris, but then I realized that it was a lie and at the beginning of the ceremony they took my country’s flags from me. These same fraudsters are allies of Russia.”

A Ukrainian’s account of attending the MEK demonstration

This is while the National Council of Resistance, as the MEK’s propaganda vitrine, has claimed in its reports that Ukrainians have joined their anti-Iranian demonstrations in a spontaneous wave.

For example, the Euronews report mentions a 37-year-old Ukrainian nurse who now lives in Germany, as “one of the people who came to Paris to join the Iranian protesters.”

For a war-torn Ukrainian who has settled in European countries with thousands of hardships, a tour of Paris could be a dream trip that can be realized by the MEK buses. It may be that a little political motivation and shared anti-Iranian sentiments are also the spice of this Paris friendship, but apparently the MEK’s blunder during the demonstration and reception has caused a scandal.

This is not the first time that the Cult of Rajavi has sent vulnerable refugees and displaced persons from all over Europe to Paris with the promise of lunch and sandwiches and a tour of Paris.

By Mazda Parsi

February 11, 2025 0 comments

Iranian judiciary's notice to MEK members

Former members of the MEK

Defeat of the MEK agents in another court

Mohammad Reza (Ray) Torabi, a former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), informed that the complaint of one of the MEK agents against him was defeated in court.

In 2017, after 18 years of membership in the MEK, Mohammad Reza Torabi left it and a while later, along with a number of other MEK children, shed light on his experience within the cult-like and violent nature of the group. They speak out about the atrocities of the MEK leaders against their own members.

On January 31, 2025, he announced on his account on the X social network that the complaint of one of the MEK supporters against him in a court in Germany was declared closed:
Some time ago, I announced that the MEK filed a legal complaint against me in an attempt to silence me. Today, the prosecutor declared the case closed due to the lack of necessary evidence from the plaintiff. This complaint was filed very cleverly by an MEK sympathizer in Germany. He had stated that I had publicly “slandered” him and declared him as “an MEK sympathizer”, when in fact he was not and the MEK is a “terrorist organization.” Therefore, the German police and prosecutors were obliged to seriously pursue the case. However, with a little searching, it became clear that this foolish supporter had forgotten that he himself had declared on his official account that “I am a Mujahed”. His real name, which was only revealed to me after the police received his official complaint, was also among one of the signatories of some MEK statements and declarations. With my submission of these documents, the entire case was declared closed in less than a month.

Mohammad Reza Torabi, who had previously received death threats from MEK agents, had firmly declared in a video to the leaders of the group that the more they threatened him, the more he would raise his voice and was willing to sacrifice his life for the truth so that the true nature of the MEK would be revealed to the Iranian people. He also announced in the continuation of this complaint that he would continue to fight against Massoud Rajavi’s cult:

But now it is my turn to file a complaint. Because he officially lied to the police in his complaint, and this is considered a serious crime in Germany. The irony of the matter is that he himself had used the hashtag #Please_Court in his tweet!

In his recent post, Torabi also explained the hypocritical tactics that MEK agents use on social media to attract users:
Finally, I will say from experience that someone swearing at the MEK and even calling them “terrorists” is not fundamentally proof that he is not a Mujahed or a supporter of the group. The MEK and their supporters are very hypocritical and far-fetched.

February 11, 2025 0 comments

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Report on the 28th Session of the Court Investigating the Charges of the MEK

The twenty-eighth session of the court investigating the crimes of the Mujahedin- Khalq (MEK) was held on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, presided over by Judge Dehghan.

Maddah, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, told the court that the leaders of the MEK prioritized advancing their own goals and did not care about the lives of the people. Quoting from Mehran Asdaqi, the arrested member of an MEK team house, he said, “When we entered the new team house, we saw that they had made lead objects for us and taught us to hit people on the back of the head with these objects to quickly knock them unconscious; they had equipped the bathroom in the house and the bathroom was insulated so that if we wanted to torture them in it, the sound would not escape, and they had already sent teams to dig graves so that we could quickly bury the bodies.”

Mahmoud Asemanpanah, a former member of the MEK who appeared as a witness in court, explained his 17-year involvement in the terrorist group MEK.

He said that in 1988, after being deceived by the MEK terrorist group’s propaganda, he went to Ashraf through a difficult path.

Asemanpanah’s account of his journey to join the MEK, his life in the group, and his efforts to leave and return home to his family is interesting, but even more interesting is the concern of this defected member for his friends who are still members of the group.

He said that he is doing everything he can to discredit the MEK and encourage his remaining friends in Ashraf to return to the country.

Telling the story of his carefree return to the country, Asemanpanah said: “I am now working as a painter; I have my own family and life, and I want to inform those who remain in Ashraf that everything the group says about the consequences of returning to Iran is a lie.”

Ardeshir Darvishi, another defected member of the MEK, was also present at the 28th court session.

Darvishi said: “When I joined the group, I touched and felt some realities and realized that what the organization had told the world about itself was completely different from what I was observing; the group ruined our understanding, intelligence, or humanity; it took away our emotions.”

Darvishi spoke of the suffering and psychological pressure that had plagued him since 2004, when he separated from the MEK terrorist group.

This defected MEK member said: “When I escaped from the group, the mobile phone that is available to everyone was unknown to me; I was deprived of having a phone or even a radio; in Camp Ashraf, which was built with the help of Saddam and the Western world, they had cut off our connection with the outside world.

Then, the lawyer mentioned the two major crimes of the terrorist group, the MEK, in the 1980s, namely the bombing of the Prime Minister’s office and the Republican Party. Jafar Khoramdal, the committee’s operations officer and a member of the Central Committee, also took the stand to explain.

While providing details about the incidents, he made some points regarding the torture committed by MEK members, saying: “I was given the responsibility of identifying the people who had been tortured by the MEK agents; the condition of some of the victims was so bad that no one was willing to accept this responsibility.”

Ahmad Karimpour, head of the country’s bomb check and neutralization unit, also attended the stand and provided specialized explanations about the explosion of the Republic party building.

He pointed out an important point and said: The bomb used had a complex system and the four countries, England, Germany, America, and France, had the ability to manufacture that bomb, but we were unable to determine which country the bomb was manufactured in.

In response to Judge Dehghani’s question about the possibility of purchasing this bomb on the black market, Karimpour stated: “The type of bomb was not such that it could be purchased on the market.”

During the twenty-eight sessions of the court investigating the crimes of the MEK, numerous related books and films were introduced; although the films introduced were all about the crimes of the MEK, the books introduced covered a wider range of topics, from MEK approaches to legal debates.

It was around 1:00 p.m. when Judge Dehghani announced the end of the twenty-eighth court session and said the next court session would be held on February 18.

February 9, 2025 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Nasser Mohammadi’s family’s request to the head of Tehran Criminal Court

The Mohammadi family is among the families of victims of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), one of those families whose members were murdered by the group.

During the Iran-Iraq War, Nasser Mohammadi was captured by the Mujahedin-e Khalq forces, who were fighting alongside Saddam Hussein’s army against their homeland. He was then forced by pressure and threats to participate in the group’s cross border operation against Iran, named Forough Javidan (Eternal Light). Since Nasser did not want to take up arms against his homeland, he attempted to flee to Iranian soil near the border, but in the presence of eyewitnesses, he was shot in the back by the MEK agents and was killed.

Naser Mohammadi’ family in a protest gathering among other Nejat families

Nasser Mohammadi’s family followed up on this important issue as soon as they learned about his murder by MEK agents. Nasser’s brother Houshang Mohammadi, while in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, directly asked the MEK leaders for an explanation and requested evidence, but as usual, they distorted the truth and identified the Iranian government as the killer of his brother. This claim was not accepted by Houshang, and the issue even escalated into a verbal altercation.

Due to the existence of eyewitnesses to Nasser’s killing by the MEK, his family has been suing the MEK for the murder of their brother since those days. The Mohanmmadis are among the plaintiff families against the leaders of the MEK in the process of their trial. They are members of Nejat Society.

On Saturday, February 1st, this family met with other members of Nejat Society’s office in Zanjan Province. Pursuing the legal process against the MEK leaders and the group itself as a legal entity, through a short video message, they asked the honored head of Branch 11 of the Criminal Court of Tehran Province to consider their family’s complaint.

February 3, 2025 0 comments

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Anti-Iran former US Senator Bob Menendez gets 11-year jail term

Former US Senator Bob Menendez, known for his longstanding links to Zionist lobbies, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes in gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt.

Menendez was convicted of using his once-considerable influence in exchange for bribes. According to the indictment, Menendez and his wife Nadine “engaged in a corrupt relationship” with three New Jersey businessmen from at least 2018 through 2022.

His wife is set to be tried in March on many of the same charges.

US security agents reportedly found $480,000 in cash at his home, some of it stuffed inside boots and the pockets of clothing, along with gold bars worth an estimated $150,000, among other valuables.

The 71-year-old convict also met with Egyptian intelligence officials and helped Egypt gain access to millions of dollars in US military aid.

Meanwhile, the former senator’s friends paid $2 million to attorneys for defending him against federal bribery charges.

Menendez has a history of intimate relations with shady actors and groups.
31 US senators ask E3 to prevent expiry of UN’s anti-Iran missile bans
31 US senators ask E3 to prevent expiry of UN’s anti-Iran missile bans
A group of US senators have asked the UK, France and Germany to take action to prevent the expiration of anti-Iran UN bans set to end next month.

In April 2024, Menendez voted in favor of a $95 billion aid package for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

The former US Senator also created a legal defense fund by tapping into a nationwide base of supporters who backed his hostile stances, including his view on Iran.

Much of the cash in the fund came from New Jersey and New York donors with various business and political interests, including the real estate firm led by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

There were, however, other donors that packed Menendez’s fund with cash, including two individuals closely linked to the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).

About 15 percent of the people who gave Menendez money are said to be linked to the terror network, which was on the US list of foreign terrorist organizations from 1997 to 2012.

Menendez’s support for the group has persisted over the years. The senator met with its leader, Maryam Rajavi in May 2023, and praised the MKO at a 2022 Capitol Hill event organized by a group aligned with the anti-Iran terrorist group.

Throughout his career, Menendez consistently received financial backing from Israeli interests. He strongly opposed Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and repeatedly called for tougher policies against Tehran, advocating for severe sanctions.

In July 2023, he introduced a bill aimed at preventing the US from removing sanctions on Iran’s missile and drone program.

February 1, 2025 0 comments

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A poster that became a symbol of hypocrisy of the MEK

In recent days, a photo from a conference of the Mujahedin (MEK) has been circulating on social media, once again attracting negative attention from users.
This photo was taken from a recent conference of the so-called National Council of Resistance at the MEK base in Paris. Several Western officials and a number of MEK members, supporters and female members with forced hijab are at the so-called conference, but the main point is the poster that is installed at the end of the hall.

The dimensions of this poster and the angle of the shooting are such that, in the background of the actual crowd present at the meeting, it suggests the presence of a larger crowd in the hall.

This hypocritical portrayal of the MEK’s audience size was enough to once again make anti-MEK hashtags trend on social media.

However, more details about the MEK’s deceptive methods can be found in the posts of members who have defected from the group. In a post on his X account below the photo, Mohammad Reza Torabi, a former MEK child soldier, called the MEK’s tactic of inflating its audience size “a well-known method of manipulation” that is “frequently employed by the MEK.”

He then wrote about his first encounter with such a phenomenon in the early days of his involvement in the MEK:
In 1999, the same year I was recruited as a child soldier, the organization staged an event in Paris, claiming that 20,000 people had participated. At the time, the MEK often organized cultural events and concerts to attract supporters from the Iranian diaspora. However, the hall they had rented for this event—and the number of empty seats visible on camera—told a different story. It was evident that the attendance fell far short of their claims, sparking rumors among our unit, which consisted mostly of newcomers.

A few days later, Mahvash Sepehri, better known as Sister Nasreen, a senior MEK commander, held a meeting with us to address the issue. I still vividly remember her words as she furiously declared, “Of course there weren’t 20,000 participants! What do you think?! When it comes to our enemies, we have no ‘honesty and sacrifice’ (the MEK’s motto). We can and will inflate numbers!”

Torabi, who has been a member of the MEK for 18 years and has served in various social, political, and financial sectors of the organization, acknowledges that the manipulation of numbers and figures is a culture of deception that is “deeply embedded” in the organization’s organizational structure.
This former MEK member, who is today a staunch critic of the Rajavi organization and is trying to inform Western politicians about its nature, poses a fundamental question to his target audience, namely deceived and bribed Western politicians:

So, if the MEK is willing to use posters to fabricate larger audiences at their events, one must ask: how else—and where else—are they deceiving you?

Mazda Parsi

January 27, 2025 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The hypocrisy of MEK/NCRI supporters

THE INTRODUCTION

In general, you can divide MEK supporters into two categories.
The first, the majority, are those who never ever spent a day in the MEK ranks, especially during their time in Iraq at Camp Ashraf. I don’t mean fancy guest-like visits, where they were treated like kings and queens and wined and dined by MEK officials. I mean the real cult life, where they had to wake up at 5:30 AM every day, forced to pray and carry out other Islamic rituals, take part in cruel and inhumane self-criticism meetings and ideological teachings and being shouted at and ridiculed, 16 hour work days under the scorching summer heat, being completely disconnected from the outside world without access to internet and phones, not being able to freely see family members, even within the camp, being forbidden from connecting with family outside of the camp, being forced to worship the cult leaders like religious figures, and much much more. You get the idea. They didn’t spend a single day in the MEK!

The second group, maybe two handfuls, are those who were actually members of the MEK at a certain period of time. Almost all for a very short period of time. Yet very soon realized the reality of the cruelty and brutality of the cult life and escaped with promises of leaving and continuing support for the MEK from afar.

THE CONTRADICTION

If you ask the first group why don’t they join the MEK if they are so good and just and worthy of your support? You’ll get answers like:
– I didn’t have the courage to join, especially in a warzone like Camp Ashraf
– I am not worthy and competent enough to be an MEK member. They are the most honest and selfless individuals, which I am not (they don’t say the last part out loud of course).
– I have family and children and other personal obligations.
So the MEK is good, or “too good” for you to join and officially become a member? Got it.

If you ask the second group why they left the MEK, if they’re so good? You’ll get answers like:
– I couldn’t bear their organization and structure.
– That lifestyle isn’t for me and I can’t devote and sacrifice so much.
– I was scared and didn’t want to lose my life.
So again, the MEK is good, but you can’t bear the good or “too good” conditions and ultimately leave and go back to your normal life? Got it.

THE IRONY

The majority of MEK supporters haven’t spent a single day in the MEK, yet are all over social media “debunking” facts and harassing and attacking any individual, like me, who criticizes and speaks truth about this cult. They get their information from second and third hand sources while I stand here as a living witness to MEK crimes and willing to testify in any international or fair court.
The next time you come across one of them, simply just ask them why they don’t go and join the MEK if they are all that they claim they are?

Mohamamd Reza Torabi

January 25, 2025 0 comments

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