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Letter to Albania’s deputy interior minister Rovena Voda

Albania’s deputy interior minister Rovena Voda,

Greetings and wish you success in your work and life and the best wishes for the nation with the culture of Albania. I am

Mohamed Razzaghi, a former member of the People’s Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization,

Who is now called the Rajavi terrorist and Mafia cult.

I spent nearly twenty years of my best life in the camouflaged camps of the accursed Saddam as a prisoner of the physical and mental captivity of this denomination in the organization’s relations with the sect, and enough knowledge of the past to criminal ends; the mercenary home of this I also know the extent to which the presence of the leaders and members of the sect in a country can be dangerous for the people of the country hosting the leaders and members of the sect.

Mrs. Rovena Veda : Do you know, for the first time, and the founder of this suicide bombing in the Middle East.

The leader of this cult, in particular, Maryam Rajavi, who is famous among Iranians for Maryam Ghader-e-Islami, is in Taher with expensive clothes and professional repetitions like: freedom, equality, democracy, and … always trying to deceive public opinion and politicians. But know that the leaders of this cult change their colors for the sake of their own interests! The time of the anti-royal revolution within Iran has made itself the greatest enemy of imperialism. Now, with the cooperation of the warring members, we are co-workers and allies! The leaders of this sect have been supporting Saddam Hussein for years and days with dollars received against the people and the interests of the Iranian people for Saddam Hussein, whose undeniable documents are available on the channels and Internet sites. In this sect other than the leader of the sect, no one has the right to marry and the only leader of this sect knows his right to have a woman and a child, and the rest of the members must live without a woman. Members of the Right Sect

Mrs. Rovena Veda: What I wrote briefly in this letter is a summary of the inhumane and inhumane relations of this cult, which Maryam Ghajar- Da’ashi,

Under the nickname of Maryam Rajavi, travels to Albania along with other leaders of this sect, in his black paper

I will give you the opportunity to see me and friends from this cult for the sake of you and the Albanian people and people in direct seeing and experiencing the relations of this sect. I am confident that your awareness and Albanian authorities of the black and criminal record of this cult will greatly help you and the people of Albania, in particular the people of Albania, to gain a good understanding of a dangerous sect so that the future and the future Your nation and your nation will be prevented, as well as land so that the captives in this cult will be abandoned by the Albanian government’s principled measures of captivity.

Thanks ,

Mohammad Razzaghi, former Member of the Rajavi cult

Transcript

Transcript: Ministry of Interior of Albania

Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of Albany

Ministry of Justice of Albania

Embassy of Albania in France

Mohammad Razaaghi, Paris

February 17, 2018 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Testimony of three Mojahedin: The truth about the MEK

Fiks Fare addresses the problem of 200 members who escaped from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI aka MEK, Rajavi cult), three thousands of whom were transferred here from Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq.

These Mojahedin, disillusioned with their organization, have left the camp and now live without any economic aid or social support. Without immigration status, without any ID and no income, they cannot return to their country or to the MEK camp.

With their testimony to Fiks Fare, they shed light on what is actually happening in the Mojahedin camp, which is being built in Manzë in Durres under a decision by the National Land Council.

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Albania accommodated about 3,000 Iranian Mojahedin in Albania between March 2013 until September 2016, when the last 280 arrived from Camp Liberty in Iraq.

In September 2014, Prime Minister Rama met with Secretary of State John Kerry at the NATO Summit in Wales and discussed the hosting of the Mojahedin. In April 2015, this issue was revised again in Washington between Bushati and Secretary Kerry.

At the beginning of 2016, Prime Minister Rama agreed to accommodate all of the 1,970 Mojahedin still in Baghdad. This agreement was made during the visit of Secretary of State John Kerry to Albania in February 2016. On 10 September 2016, the UN said it had completed the transfer of all Mojahedin from Iraq to Albania. At that time, US Senator John McCain welcomed completion of the mission to transfer the Mojahedin to Albania.

In the agreement it was decided that the Iranian Mojahedin would be housed in a special camp built by the Albanian government in co-operation with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Initially, the Mojahedin were given residences in two areas of Kashar.

They were seen together for the first time in March 2017, when a super organization of three thousand members of the Iranian opposition MEK, under conditions of total secrecy, celebrated the Persian New Year, otherwise known as Nowruz, at the Palace of Congresses in Tirana.

The leader of the Iranian resistance, Maryam Rajavi, who lives in France, was engaged in this organizational activity. She stayed in Albania for several days, where she met with not only her supporters, but also with some Albanian politicians.

In October 2017, the National Land Council approved a construction permit for the special camp, which had already begun construction in Manzë in Durres. The transfer of Mojahedin to the new premises is already well underway. This camp is being built by ‘FARA’ association.

Fiks Fare approached the Court of Tirana to inquire about this association which turns out to have been registered by court decision No. 5538 on 08.02.2017.

What is the Mojahedin organisation?

The Iranian Mojahedin is an opposition movement in exile, aimed at overthrowing the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is also known as MEK. The movement was founded in 1965 by a group of left-wing students and the goal was to overthrow the Shah of Iran. When the Shah fell, another clash began: between the Mojahedin and fundamentalist supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini, who took power.

By the end of 1981, many of its members and supporters fled abroad and their main location of residence was France.

In 1986, the movement moved its base of operations to eastern Iraq, but the situation changed with the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. US forces attacked them as targets but reached a ceasefire agreement with them and afterwards came disarmament. It was decided the MEK would be held in Camp Ashraf, the former Iraqi military base.

But after the American withdrawal from Camp Ashraf in 2011, acts of violence erupted between the MEK and Iraqi soldiers. Then later that year they were moved to Camp Liberty, outside Baghdad. Because of lack of security for the MEK, the need for their relocation from Iraq to other countries, including Albania, was born.

Testimony: MEK is an organization comprising many highly trained war-ready soldiers

The Fiks Fare show has managed to find some former members of this organization – 3 of the 200 defectors from MEK. All three respondents claim that the Mojahedin hiding in Manzë camp are warriors very well-prepared for battle.

According to them, the MEK imposes very stringent conditions on members, whereby any communication with families is strictly forbidden. Today the three live in some UNCHR-paid flats, but they will soon reach a crossroads because they do not have any identification documents, neither migrant status nor political refugee status.

Interview with Sadollah Seifi, former MEK member, who left the organization 8 months ago

I am Sadollah Seifi, I was born in Iran in 1969. I become part of the Mojahedin organization aged 21.

Why did you become part of this organization?

When I lived in Iran there were many problems in the country, especially economic problems. For this reason, I joined this organization hoping to bring a better future for my people.

How did you become acquainted with this organization?

They have a radio and spread propaganda in Iran. I heard on the radio that they had some bases in other countries such as Turkey and that they were preparing to fight against Iran. I connected with this base in Turkey and went there.

When you were part of the MEK, what happened inside?

In the early days when I was there, they talked about freeing the people, about freedom. But then I realized that everything was a lie.

Why do you think they were lies?

Because they are a frightening organization, they have a lot of agents who force you to do what they want. And you have to do what they say. I went there of my own free will, but they forced me to do what they said.

Did you receive ideological lessons and what was said to you?

We were constantly undergoing ideological teaching. ‘You should not create a family. You do not have a family. You must do what the leader of your organization says’.

When you came here to Tirana, how long did you stay in the organization and when did you leave?

I’ve been here for 8 months and it’s been three months since I left the organization.

Why did you decide to leave the organization?

Because they told us only lies, and when we were in Iraq I was not able to leave. It was just like a prison there.

Is Manzë similar to Camp Ashraf?

From what others have told me it is like in Ashraf. When I came here I thought here is my chance for freedom and I was gone from there.

With what money do you live here?

During these three months some friends have helped me live and my family sent me money.

Your friends are with the Mojahedin?

No, they have left the organization.

You do not get the [MEK] money?

No, they have never given me any since they accused me of having links with other defectors and they have called me a traitor.

Where you live now?

The UNHCR pays for the house where I live and gives me a food package per month. Here there is no future for us, all is darkness. The MEK, the Albanian government, UNHCR and the US government brought us here on the basis of an agreement, but we have no status. We do not have residence permits, the right to work. I’ve been to many of your country’s organizations, but no one helped me because they told me you have no status here and we do not accept refugees here. I do not know what I can do here …

Are there many who left this organization?

As far as I know, there are about 200 people who have left. If you are part of this organization, they impose some rules to keep people inside. Here in Albania, the rules changed so they cannot force people as they did in Iraq. But there are some rules that make it difficult for people to leave. One is this situation, that if you leave you do not have money to live, since you have no status here, you cannot work. So, the situation is such that people find it difficult to escape.

Do you fear for the future? What are you going to do here? You have no documents and have no status.

I want to leave this place, but I cannot get any documents to escape. Here I have no future. Your Government, the Interior Ministry, does not give us any opportunity for me to stay here. When I’m in the street, the police can stop me and ask, ‘who you are?’ During these three months, I tried to get a residency permit, but your government tells us that they lost our documents. While only a few days ago they said they were going to create our documents to give us residential citizenship, but we have not received anything so far. Our demands are at least to allow our families to come here to help us.

Interview with Ehsan Bidi, former member of the MEK

There was war between Iran and Iraq. The MEK gave information about Iran to the Iraqi government and the government of Saudi Arabia. They are paid by them. They worked for Saddam Hussein’s intelligence and Saudi Arabia.

Do you have family, wife, children?

No, I do not. It was not my choice but because this organization is a sect (cult). When you are their victim you cannot have a wife, you cannot have children, you have to be alone.

Why did you make this sacrifice?

It was not my choice and it was not my sacrifice because they forced me to choose between life and death. If I wanted to be alive I had to give up everything, it was not my choice. During all these 15 years I was a victim. I was not allowed to have contact with my family and call them. Everything was forbidden to us.

At what age did you join this organization and why did you become part of it?

At age 24. I was a long-time sympathizer in Iran. When I realized that they were lying to me and that they were terrorists, I didn’t want any further connection to them. I left and started working as a mechanic in a private business. They sent some sympathizers to visit me who told me that ‘the government is asking after you, many of your friends are in prison. You have to leave the country immediately because the Iranian government will kill or imprison you’. I left, not for myself but for my family and I went with this organization. After I left Iran I went to Turkey; I did not have a passport to travel with. The organization took me in and gave me a fake document to go to Iraq.

What role did you have in this organization?

I did not give them any kind of information after I realized they were lying to me. They did not lie to me alone, but they lied to everyone. Many people were in Turkey. They came and told us you have to go back to Iraq and stay for 3 months, and then we will take you to whatever place they want in Europe. But everything was a lie because you see that everyone is now in Albania. If you go to that organization with their documents, you are as a prisoner because you have no other choice, no way to leave.

How does this organization work?

We have lived armed. We are separated into groups and classes to take theoretical ideological lessons. They told us how we were better than the Iranian government.

You have an Albanian driving license, but do not have a passport?

Yes, but it is in the process. First. I will be given an identity card then the passport. This organization has made this place a prison for us. No one supports us.

What did you do in practice, who ordered you to do attacks?

The Organization. It created special groups and sent them into Iran to attack by setting off bombs.

In the organization I learned everything about weapons and how to kill people. Many of these people that you see here are not people, they are war machines.

Interview with Manouchehr Abdi, expelled by the MEK

When I was 42 I became part of this organization and I’m now 55 years old. So, I’ve been a victim of this organization for 13 consecutive years. When I was living in my country of Iran, there were many problems and the situation was not good in both the political as well as the economic sense. I had many dreams about the freedom of my country and I joined this organization. But then I realized that this organization was a big lie. They lied to us, they are a sect (cult), I could not immerse myself in it.

What did you do in the camp, did you learn to use weapons, did you have military training?

At the beginning, we did ordinary work just as all people do. During those years Iran had many problems, especially economic. The MEK organization had many cells and sympathizers in Iran and they promised many young people that if they went to Iraq and became part of it they would benefit from a lot of money.

Was it hard to escape from the MEK?

Yes, it was very difficult. Because we had no connection with the life outside. We did not know anything about it. We had no phone or internet knowledge, we had no contact with our family. I came here afterwards with this organization because it had an agreement between the government of Albania and the US government. The UNHCR brought me here and now for 8 months I’m out of the MEK and live alone.

Why did you decide to leave when you came here?

Because when I was in Iraq I tried to make contact with my daughter, but they did not allow me to. There were many families who came to Camp Ashraf to meet their family members, but this organization forced the members to reject being their children and actually attacked those families.

Is the camp in Albania the same as in Iraq?

They are creating something similar.

I asked to see my daughter, but they have made an agreement with your government not to allow our families to come and see us. So, if you are a part of this organization you cannot have any connection with your family, it is forbidden to you.

Here some groups of MEK are linked to people, with young people in Iran, via the internet, social media, and they teach them how to fight, how to kill others in Iran.

When I was part of the organization I was part of a group that virtually connected with a group of young people in Iran and taught them how to fight. Because you should know that everyone in this organization knows how to fight to kill. So, we are prepared militarily, we know everything about weapons. We teach young people in Iran through Skype. I did not need to undertake military training because before I joined the organization I had been in the Iranian army.

You do not have any status here, you are not allowed to work. On what income do you live now?

Some friends, who have also escaped from this organization, help me. Many of them receive money from the organization. I did not because they declared me an agent of Iran [because I contacted my family and they expelled me]. But others receive money based on an agreement between your government and the organization so that whoever leaves the organization, the latter pays for them to live in Albania.

Maryam Rajavi, the leader of this organization, lives in France and often comes here and holds meetings. At one of these meetings, she said those who have left the organization in Albania are traitors and they should be killed.

What will you do now?

I cannot do anything. I do not have a passport because this organization does not allow your government to give us one. I have no status. It’s just like a prison. For the past three months I have lived in an apartment paid for by the UNHCR. So, I came here to tell you about this situation. My family cannot send money because they are under economic hardship. My friends do not have the means to help me. This is not just my problem. Even the people who received the MEK money already have been contacted and told that if you leave, we will pay you for three months and then you have to sign a document to say that you agree to refund the money again and that you no longer need any money. This is the problem for all those who leave.

Why are you in Fiks Fare today?

You know that every political refugee has that status in every country in the world. We do not. We are simply residing in Albania without status. We have all been brought here with no documents or status. I have suffered a lot as a victim of this organization. Now that I have left, do I not have the right as a human being to live like everyone else. I cannot work. This is the problem for all of us.

Top Channel TV, Translated by Iran Interlink

February 17, 2018 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Gulf war: fake pretext for Rajavi to separate children from their parents

When Saddam Hussein invaded his small, oil-rich neighbor in the summer of 1990, the Country Department faced its first full-scale post-Cold War international crisis. Bush’s foreign policy team forged an unprecedented international coalition consisting of the NATO allies and the Middle Eastern countries including of Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt to oppose Iraqi aggression. The US-led coalition’s effective air campaign in January 1991, which was followed by “Operation Desert Storm,” a 100-hour land war, expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait. However, this short-term operation offered Massoud Rajavi the opportunity to run his cult-like regulations over the members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO, MEK, PMOI, the Cult of Rajavi).

At the time, the MKO forces were located in Camp Ashraf, 62 kilometers from Baghdad. Members of the group and their families including children used to live in the camp too. Children got involved in the cult of Rajavi because their parents belonged to the cult. Defectors of the MKO such as Nadereh Afshari and Hadi Shams Haeri described the horrible situation of the children who were kept in the Cult of Rajavi, in isolated separated units located far from their parents, under a very abusive control that made them undergo severe sufferings. Ali Akbar Rastgou, former member of the MKO describes the conditions of Camp Ashraf after the US-led invasion of to Iraq in his book in Persian about the history of the group that was published in Germany.

According to Rastgou, Camp Ashraf was not targeted by the coalition forces while Baghdad was bombarded all the time. However, Massoud Rajavi had ordered to permanently relocate children in the bases of the group and hotels in Baghdad in order to allegedly move them out of Iraq. Baghdad was bombarded several times of the day. Practically, the children were in more danger than the time they were at Camp Ashraf.

Purposely orphaned children of the MKO

In February 1991, finally, about 900 children from 2-months-old to 18-year-old were smuggled to Jordan with fake IDs. They were then sent to European countries including Germany, Netherlands and Sweden where they were made adopted by European families and Iranian families who were sympathizers of the MKO.

In fact, absence of emotional balances makes cult children more vulnerable than children within the larger society that enjoy normal family relationships. The stories of the bitter fate of a number of these intentionally orphaned children are accessible in the worldwide media.

Now that kids were wiped off Camp Ashraf, Rajavi was prepared to launch the next phase in the process of turning his group in to a destructive cult. The next step was “forced divorce”. The parents whose children were detached from them had to detach from their last family link, their spouse. Eventually, almost all married members of the MKO divorced their spouses in order to give their exclusive love to their cult leader, Massoud Rajavi.

By Mazda Parsi

February 14, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

His eyes revealed everything

Mr. Asghar Mohammadi Kamyab was a 18- year old soldier at Iran-Iraq war fighting the invading forces and defending his countries’ soil. In 1986 he was captured by the Mujahedin-e Khalq forces.

Since then Asghar’s family succeeded to visit him just once in 2002 under the severe control of the MKO elements. Asghar’s mother says:” I couldn’t talk to my dear son alone, still his eyes revealed everything. He was full of anxiety, hopelessness and distress… . Though I could understand my son’s feelings, I could do nothing… ”

In July 2017, the Kamyab family went to the MKO Camps once more to visit Asghar or at least get a news of him. However the cult leaders did not let them meet.

This week Kamyab family came to Nejat Society Office of Zanjan Branch to be aware of the Cult members’ situation in Albania and how they could help them be released from the cult.

February 13, 2018 0 comments

Iran

Iran: France has turned in to a safe haven for terrorist Mojahedin Khalq

Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei said on Wednesday that France would hopefully make decisions on Iran independent from the US.

In a meeting with French Ambassador to Iran François Sénémaud on Wednesday, he referred to Iran’s stances on international developments, saying, “We expect Europeans to recognize the framework of the Islamic Republic and respect it. This is a new model and we propose the westerners not to run against this model and let cooperation continue.”

Referring to Iran’s large-scale campaign against terrorism, he said, “We have dedicated martyrs and many have been injured in the fight against Daesh and drug smuggling.”

If the operations against drug trafficking and terrorism did not exist, they would have made their ways to Europe, he said.

Referring to the activities of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in France, Rezaei said that today the country has turned into a safe haven for terrorists who have committed many crimes in Iran.

MKO has killed over 17,000 people in Iran and assassinated many statesmen, children and women and now they are freely holding conference in Paris and are seeking to carry out destructive acts in Iran, he said addressing the French ambassador.

As to Iran’s missile capabilities, he said that missile is the most significant deterrent weapon and a replacement for modern military planes such as Mirage, noting, “In the event of any attack, we will defend ourselves and this is not a very complicated issue.”

It seems that the Europeans are pretending to be unaware of these issues and instead have chosen to put pressure on Iran, he said.

“We recommend you not to play the US game and we will not give up the issue because it is vital,” Rezaei said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the SNSC secretary said that the Zionist regime and Saudi Arabia have inflicted huge costs on Europe.

‘Ties with Saudi Arabia may have benefits for you, but this has expenses for you, too,’ he said, ‘European members of Daesh have been trained in Saudi-run centers.

Sénémaud, for his part, described the role of Iran’s Expediency Council as significant and said France is well aware of Iran’s counter-terrorism actions.

Daesh came into existence rapidly and France was quick at realizing that the issue would endanger its security on its soil, he said.

Iran’s missile capabilities can be evaluated at different levels, he said, adding that the first level is Iran’s defense doctrine which France understands. The French envoy said nobody tells Iran to have any missile at all.

The second level is regional tensions which must be taken into account and ways should be explored to reduce them, he said, pointing out, “We speak clearly with all countries.

The French president talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump over phone from time to time but he does not say pleasant words to him all the time, he said, noting that for example, two months ago, they discussed two points they disagreed upon.

“First was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which the US intends to scrap but we want to keep and the second was relocation of US embassy to Quds, to which French president is opposed on grounds that it would entail heavy consequences,” he said.

The French ambassador said that bilateral exchanges reached four billion dollars in 2017 and France is the first European customer to buy Iranian crude oil worth two million euros.

February 13, 2018 0 comments

Albania

Fatmir Kuci, builder of the Military base in Manez for Mojahedin Khalq

In his show, ‘This is Moscow’, Kastriot Myftaraj has addressed the issue of the Mojahedin (MEK) in Tirana. He identified businessman Fatmir Kuci, as being involved in the Iranian city of Kamza, as Myftaraj calls it.

Myftaraj: As we know, an organization called the People’s Mojahedin of Iran – who have been fighting and wandering around the world for about 40 years – has been given refuge in Albania, where they say they are fighting to overthrow the regime in Iran by force and bring their leader to power in Iran, even though they do not know where Massoud Rajavi is who claims to be the legitimate president of Iran.

On the other hand, his wife Maryam Rajavi – who has taken refuge in Albania – occupies the office of “president-in-exile” instead of the husband. This would be a real comedy, if there were no other consequences.

The Iranian Mujahideen, as we know, have been given refuge in Albania under the US excuse that they have been obliged to protect any possible opposition forces against the theocratic regime of Iran and, as they were left on their hands when Iraq drove them out, they brought them to Albania.

It is a very interesting point that this organization is now building its headquarters in Albania, Manëz military base in Durres.

It is about 20 hectares of land. The vehicles have the name of the construction company, Victoria Invest, written large on them. Which belongs to Mr. Fatmir Kuci, a businessman from Elbasan.

Ora News, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

February 12, 2018 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The MKO honored with the glories of terrorist Operation Great Bahman

As a general rule, most people support attacks against an occupying force as a defense tactic but this same publics find violence tactic unacceptable if directed against civilians and especially children. Among the victims of the Mujahedin khalq organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the cult of Rajavi) civilians are numerous.

From 1998 to 2001 the MKO was involved in more than 200 mortar attacks, bombings and hit-and-run raids on Iranian military units and government buildings and residential areas killing and injuring civilians and officials.

The MKO’s capacity to commit violent acts in Iran was so weighty that the US think tank Brookings Institution finds the group an appropriate proxy force for the US government to destabilize the Iranian Government. The Brookings Institution’s”Which Path to Persia?”report presents the MKO as one of the”Potential Ethnic Proxies,”page 117-118 (page 130-131 of the PDF). “More recently, the group has claimed credit for over a dozen mortar attacks, assassinations, and other assaults on Iranian civilian and military targets between 1998 and 2001,” the report asserts.

February 2^nd, 1998 signals a bombing in the waiting room at the entrance of Tehran’s Prosecutors Office in which several civilians including a nine-year-old boy named Milad Charvadari were injured. View the pics.

On February 5^th, 2000 Mortars struck a publishing house Saturday evening in central Tehran, near key government offices including the Iranian president’s office and Parliament. One man, Mohammad Alijani, a 29-year-old employee at the publishing house, died in the explosions and four others were injured. Windows of the Golban publishing house, located across the street from the Judiciary building and top policy-making offices, were shattered and its walls pocked and broken in areas.

On January 9^th and Feb 19^th, 2000 three people were killed and four people were injured in the attacks on Chalsara village in Ilam province near the Iran-Iraq border.

The MKO glorified all these attacks in its official journals –as victorious operations of the group against Islamic Republic. Actually, the normal pace of anti-Iranian operations increased during the Operation Great Bahman in February 2000, when the group launched a dozen attacks against Iran. The above- mention ones are just a few examples of thousands of innocent civilians who were targeted by the MKO agents.

February 10, 2018 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 221

++ The UNCHR has not paid any living expenses to the ex-members in Albania, in spite of its promises. UNHCR officials say they are trying to do this and will do so, but privately they admit that the MEK’s backers won’t allow them. They want the MEK to maintain a hold over everybody to prevent them talking publicly about the conditions of MEK members.

++ The 19th Bahman (8 February 1982) marks the day that leading Mojahedin members Mousa Khiabani and Ashraf Rabiei were killed in Iran by government forces. Several people wrote their memories of those events. They make the point that Rajavi wanted them to be killed because both of them were socialist and against any form of dictatorship. Some people have asserted that if Mousa – who was in the MEK’s 12 member ‘politburo’ with Rajavi – had been alive, the organisation would not have become a cult or ally with Saddam Hussein. Commentators assign this date as the most significant turning point in the history of the MEK. From this time, they say, the original MEK ideology is dead and the new ideology of Massoud Rajavi (cult ideology) replaced it.

++ Iraq’s list of most wanted terrorists was announced. Many of the MEK’s lobbyists and backers are in the list (over 8 known names) as well and Saddam’s daughter.

++ The NCRI (aka MEK) issued a statement in reaction to an article published in Italy. They again tried to connect ex-members to the Iranian Ambassador to Albania (who they claim is an intelligence officer specialising in the MEK). The MEK then crudely tried to connect Massoud Khodabandeh to him. Khodabandeh admitted he had never heard the name of the Ambassador and dismissed this as similar and as ridiculous as other MEK allegations against him. He said:

1- Rajavi is panicking and this is an attempt to politicise the issue so that the construction of a terrorist training camp in Albania would be side-lined and the abuse of ex-members and this issue of modern slavery would be side-lined;

2- All of Massoud Rajavi‘s life as MEK leader (and now Maryam’s) has been spent creating various mysterious powerful enemies to frighten his followers with. Now apparently, Massoud Khodabandeh is such a powerful enemy! According to Rajavi’s logic, the whole Iranian Intelligence ministry is devoted to the MEK, thousands of Iranian agents are deployed to the EU and US just to fight Maryam and etc. This scaremongering is primarily just to say that the enemy is too powerful hence all the failures of the past 35 years are not my fault.

In English:

++ Nejat Bloggers published a short information piece about Ashraf Rabiei, Massoud Rajavi’s first wife. Rajavi married Ashraf after they were both released from prison in 1979. Ashraf began promoting Rajavi’s rhetoric as though he were the only leader of the MEK. She and others including Maryam Qajar Azdanlou (now Rajavi) began actively recruiting female students. After Rajavi fled Iran to live in France in 1981 he left Ashraf and their one-year-old son in Iran. Ashraf was killed by government forces alongside Mousa Khiabani – MEK commander inside Iran – and other team members in a safe house in Tehran the following year.

++ Italian website Gli Occhi Della Guerra (Il Giornale) published a points of view piece by Giovanni Giacalone about the MEK in Albania. The piece exposes the MEK’s illegal activities in Albania, quoting investigative journalist Gjergj Thanasi who says he discovered an NGO called F.A.R.A. had applied for a construction permit in Manez for ‘a residential complex and services for the Iranian community in Albania’. “At that point I investigated this F.A.R.A which, strangely and contrary to Albanian law, was not registered with the Tax Office and did not even have a VAT number, which is prohibited in Albania. I then continued the investigation at the town planning office of the town of Durres (which I know very well having lived here for 52 years). There they showed me a written request from F.A.R.A. in which permission was requested for the development of a construction site (fence, water connections, electricity, containers, etc.) and it emerged that the Council had not issued any permit. The letter of request did not have a header, there was no address or telephone number.

“At this point I went to Manez (in the first week of November 2017) to see what was happening and found myself in front of a finished fence, an already installed electricity grid, and some trenches already under construction for the water network. There was also a container with offices inside the fence. Around the site there were also three guards and officers in the uniform of the State Police.”

Warning that the MEK “shares with the Wahhabi and Salafi groups the fight against Shiite enemies (primarily Iran)”, Giacalone’s piece concludes, “The presence of the MEK in Albania does nothing but further aggravate the delicate situation in the Balkans where other jihadist and Islamist groups are already present in force. It seems that the western Balkans area is becoming a logistics and transit zone in support of war policies in the Middle East.”

++ Families signing themselves as ‘parents from Nejat Society Markazi branch’ wrote an open letter to Albania’s foreign minister, Ditmir Bushati. Describing the struggles and suffering they underwent trying to visit their loved ones in Iraq, they ask for Bushati’s help in visiting Albania to meet with their offspring there as they are concerned about conditions of modern slavery there.

February 08 2018

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Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

What led to the bloody day, Bahman 19th 1360?

Backgrounds for violence

In the early months of the Iranian newly established government, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization found out that it could not manage to find a position in the leadership of the Islamic Republic via usual political methods. None of the MKO candidates for the Parliament elections were elected. Soon, they chose violent method so as to achieve power in Iran.

At the time, the organization was headed by both Massoud Rajavi and Mousa Khiabani. Once they were disappointed by Ayatollah Khomeini, they made efforts to negotiate with certain elements in the political scene of Iran including liberals and nationalists in order to create a coalition against the Islamic Republic. However, almost no person or group accepted to accompany them in their plan to overthrow the Islamic Republic. The MKO was losing its base in the public opinion because the Iranian community hardly ever wanted another revolution.

Therefore, the MKO’s master minds, Rajavi and Khiabani declared armed struggle against the Islamic Republic in June 1980. Young recruits –mostly high school and college students—were ordered to flow in the streets and launch chaotic clashes against Revolutionary guards where ever they saw them. The young mujaheds where told that once they launch the attack ordinary people would join them but practically the MKO forces were left alone in the streets committing too many crimes against civilians and revolutionary guards.

The group propaganda claimed that 500 thousand participated in the armed uprising of June 20^th 1980 but the Reuters reported that “about 3000 partisans of the Mujahedin Khalq blocked the streets of the Iranian cities.”

Violence go on

Later on, the group launched various terrorist acts and bombing against Iranian authorities killing the Secretary general of the Islamic Republic party, Ayatollah Beheshti and 70 of members of the party and the Prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the President mohammad Ali Rajaiee. However, these major violent acts of the MKO were followed by assassination of civilians such as a teacher, two students, a grocer, a salesperson etc.

Eventually the MKO lost its popular base in Iran. That was why Massoud Rajavi fled Iran to France and left his wife Ashraf Rabiei and their one year-old son Mostafa and his co-leader Mousa Khiabani behind. He then joined Saddam Hossein who was at war with Iran. In Iraq, Rajavi established “Saddam’s private army”.

Ultimately, on February 8th 1981 (Bahman 19^th 1360), the Revolutionary Guards and the officials of the General Prosecutor’s Office raided the MKO’s safe house in North of Tehran (Zafaranieh) based on an long-term investigated plan. Mousa Khiabani and Ashraf Rabeie together with 18 other MKO operatives were killed in the raid. Massoud and Ashraf’s son survived the deadly clash.

By Mazda Parsi

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