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++ Sahar Family Foundation (SFF) along with some families of MEK members met with Albanian officials in the Interior Ministry of Albania. Officials told SFF that there are now around 240 former members who have left the MEK. One official said that in addition, tens of families have come to Albania and that his department has tried to put them in contact with their loved ones. ‘Some we could, others not’, he told SFF. He also said that the MEK has insisted on moving its members to a closed camp outside Tirana. ‘In one way, this is good for the Albanian people. They don’t like to see them on their streets because their behaviour is weird and anti-social and they are afraid of them. On the other hand, there are official reservations about the creation of a new closed camp which is inaccessible and operates outside the law. We don’t want that’, he stressed. He assured the families that on the issue of formers, relations between Sahar Family Foundation and Albania’s government are ongoing.

++ Reports from inside the MEK say that Maryam Rajavi has finished extracting signatures from members to promise they will stay with the organisation. A phase is now underway to separate those who did sign from those who refused and will not be taken to the new camp. Some members have already been sent to the new camp which, like Camp Ashraf in Iraq, is isolated and closed. The members are given an ultimatum that ‘if you don’t go to the camp you will no longer be considered a member of the MEK’. [This is not the same as being expelled from the MEK polity, these people will still be under MEK jurisdiction but treated as sympathisers not members.] This is the same situation which pertained to the TIPF in Iraq which ran parallel to Camp Ashraf. The TIPF was created to get rid of people who might ‘infect’ the others with their disaffection and complaints. The TIPF allowed the Americans to remove 800 dissidents from Camp Ashraf and then drip, drip them out to get rid of them. This was so they wouldn’t all leave together and talk publicly as a group. The MEK need this arrangement again because of growing disaffection. The person in charge of making this happen is the former head of the Albanian Intelligence services, Fatos Klosi. He has been placed by the CIA to do this. As a notorious gang leader who has allegedly killed in the past, the government and their officials are afraid of him. He is reportedly putting direct pressure on the Interior Ministry to do his bidding and they can’t say no. The people who report this have said that for MEK members who manage to stay in Tirana and not go to the new camp, even though their life in the short term will be difficult, there is a glimmer of hope that one day they will be able to escape the MEK. But for anyone who goes to the new camp there is no hope. It is not like Camp Ashraf, this is controlled by the CIA and is inaccessible. They will never get out.

In English:

++ Breitbart reported that Iran’s parliament voted almost unanimously to increase spending on its missile programme and the Revolutionary Guard. “The Iranian parliament also bans visas for American officials who have met with an Iranian dissident group called Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK)… Contacts between American officials and the group, which has been listed and de-listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government over the years, have long been controversial.”

++ Guido Fawkes in the UK exposes a British MP who declared that his trip to Paris was “was paid for by an Iranian exile group which has been described as the front organisation for a ‘bizarre cult’. Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins accepted £800 worth of accommodation, meals and transport from the France-based National Council for Resistance (NCRI) in Iran for a two-day trip in July.”

++ Laura Rozen of Al Monitor’s report that several of Steve Bannon’s allies have been removed from the National Security Council indicates (without saying so) that the MEK’s chances of White House sponsorship are severely diminished.

++ Habilian Association writes an article criticising Senator John McCain as “called ‘hawkish’ even by his [own] party”. “McCain has a long record of backing unsavory and vicious people that happen to support regime change or that share his hostility to certain other governments. He was a cheerleader for the KLA during the Kosovo intervention, he was a fan of the rebellion in Libya from the start despite the presence of jihadists in their ranks, and he has been one of the most outspoken advocates of sending weapons to rebels in Syria on the pretense that they were ‘moderates’. In addition to misjudging the ‘moderate’ rebels, McCain has been a leading advocate for a policy that has sent weapons into Syria when they have been seized by Jabhat al-Nusra or ISIS. Those are just the most obvious examples of McCain’s terrible judgment. McCain doesn’t discriminate when it comes to choosing allies of convenience in pursuing unwise and reckless goals, so it was probably just a matter of time before he started associating with the MEK.” The article then describes McCain’s relations with the MEK and links this with an unprecedented move by a 23-member bi-partisan group of senior former US officials who “signed a critical letter and delivered it to President Donald Trump. The letter suggested new policy options regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran and the need for the US to open up a meaningful channel of communication with the Iranian opposition, namely the coalition, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).”

++ Nejat Society says that the North Korea/America stand-off reminds us that the MEK was founded on an intensely anti-American platform. The group went on to murder several Americans. “However, American supporters of the MKO rarely mention the group’s violent and anti-American past, and portray the group not as terrorists but as freedom fighters with values just like them, as republicans and warmongers of Trump administration are ready to serve as vanguards of regime-change in Iran. In addition, some of them acknowledge that they know little about the group before they were invited to its events or to their trips to France or Albania but the fee the MKO pays them is good enough to forget or ignore the entire anti-American and violent background of the group.

“Definitely, American friends of Maryam Rajavi should be concerned about her as if they are concerned about Kim Jong Un. Camps of the MKO are run by an authoritarian cult-like system very similar to the one ruling North Korea. MKO members just like North Koreans are ‘raised to be soldiers’ with the sole purpose of serving their great leader.”

++ In an interview with Habilian Association, Dr Seyed Hossein Mousavian spoke of the MEK’s nature as a terrorist cult. After describing the erroneous thinking of real and potential patrons of the MEK among anti-Iran elements, Mousavian concludes that “France is playing a hypocritical and destabilizing game by hosting the MEK, a group that has no place in any democratic or civilized society. If France wants to signal to Iran that it is serious about its intention to improve its political and economic relations with Iran, it must stop allowing the group to operate on French soil.”

++ An article by Belen Fernandez in Middle East Eye ‘Does Albania have an America problem?’ describes the problems for the country as a client state of America. The MEK is apparently just one of the many destabilising problems foisted on the country by the USA.

Iran Interlink, August 25 2017

August 26, 2017 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

US using MKO terrorists as anti-Iran leverage

Pye ian, an independent political and economic researcher, has advised iranian officials to watch out for potential terrorist attacks in the wake of a recent meeting between several senior us senators and the head of anti-iran terrorist mujahedin-e khalq organization (mko) maryam rajavi.

US using MKO terrorists as anti-Iran leverage

Since “Washington and its allies have nothing otherwise to be able to have any sense of leverage within Iran or with Iranians,” the American politicians are “utilizing this terrorist group for terrorism,” Ian warned in an interview with Press TV on Monday.

The delegation of Republican Senators Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, and Thom Tillis had a meeting with Rajavi in Tirana, the capital of Albania, on Saturday.

“This latest meeting in Albania is yet another tactical one and thus Iranian security forces can expect another terrorist incident or incidents within Iran’s borders or on Iranian interests anywhere in the world,” because the June terrorist attacks in Tehran came right on the heels of a meeting between Maryam Rajavi and a group of American neo-cons.

Back in June, Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) and the Mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, became the target of coordinated attacks. 18 people lost their lives and nearly 50 others sustained injuries in shootings and blasts for which Daesh claimed responsibility.

August 22, 2017 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The MKO, the essence of North Korea

The tensions between North Korea and the United States have escalated in the past days. The United States is preparing for all options, including a “preemptive war,” to stop North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. President Trump has stated that the US will not tolerate “North Korea being able to threaten the United States.” On the other side, North Korea says it will not give up on its nuclear deterrence unless Washington ends its hostile policy toward Pyongyang and dissolves the US-led UN command in South Korea. Thousands of US soldiers are stationed in South Korea and Japan. This preventative actions by the US government were taking place while some of its Congress senators were visiting with the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO, MEK, the Cult of Rajavi) that is a small North Korea, itself.

The MKO, the essence of North Korea

The delegation, Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference, and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees; John Cornyn, the Majority Whip, and a member of the Judiciary, Select Intelligence, and Finance committees; and Thom Tillis, a member of the Armed Services, Judiciary, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs committees held a meeting with the head of the MKO cult, Maryam Rajavi, in the Albanian capital, Tirana.

As a matter of fact, the MKO was first established on an intensely anti-American platform. The group has murdered several Americans and is considered by certain human rights and international bodies such as Human Rights Watch to be an anti-democratic cult. After joining Saddam in his war against Iran during the 1980s, what Iranians almost universally regard as an act of treason, the group lost essentially all its popular support. [1]

However, American supporters of the MKO rarely mention the group’s violent and anti-American past, and portray the group not as terrorists but as freedom fighters with values just like them, as republicans and warmongers of Trump administration are ready to serve as a vanguards of regime change in Iran. In addition, some of them acknowledge that they know little about the group before they were invited to its events or to their trips to France or Albania but the fee the MKO pays them is good enough to forget or ignore the entire anti-American and violent background of the group.

Definitely, American friends of Maryam Rajavi should be concerned about her as if they are concerned about Kim Jong Un. Camps of the MKO are run by an authoritarian cult-like system very similar to the one ruling North Korea. MKO members just like North Koreans are”raised to be soldiers”with the sole purpose of serving their great leader.

“Their lives were completely mapped out according to the great leader,”the journalist, Suki Kim — who spent six months undercover in North Korea in 2011– told CNN.”Any information from outside is forbidden and not shown to them in any way. It’s really a system of absolute control.”[2]

According to the CNN, Kim described how computer majors in the university didn’t even know the Internet existed and how her students had to attend weekly meetings to report on each other,”so there’s a surveillance system.”[3]

Actually, Suki Kim’s account of the life in North Korea recalls two articles authored by the New York Times journalist Elizabeth Rubin in July 2003 and August 2011 in which she describes her first-hand account of visiting Camp Ashraf, the MKO’s then headquarters in Iraq.

“When I arrived at Camp Ashraf, the base of the group’s operations, in April 2003, I thought I’d entered a fictional world of female worker bees,” Rubin writes. “Everywhere I saw women dressed exactly alike, in khaki uniforms and mud-colored head scarves, driving back and forth in white pickup trucks, staring ahead in a daze as if they were working at a factory in Maoist China. I met dozens of young women buried in the mouths of tanks, busily tinkering with the engines. One by one, the girls bounded up to me and my two minders to recite their transformations from human beings to acolytes of Ms. Rajavi. One said she had been suicidal in Iran until she found Ms. Rajavi on the Internet.” [4]

As Suki Kim describes North Korea as “a system set up solely to serve the country’s leader, in which citizens have access to only one newspaper and one television station dedicated to teaching them about their leader”, [5] Elizabeth Rubin describes the parallel system ruling Camp Ashraf where “3,400 members of the militant group reside in total isolation on a 14-square-mile tract of harsh desert land. Access to the Internet, phones and information about the outside world is prohibited. Posters of Ms. Rajavi and her smiling green eyes abound. Meanwhile, she lives in luxury in France; her husband has remained in hiding since the United States occupied Iraq in 2003.” [6]

Suki Kim believes that North Korea is “the saddest place in the world”. She asserts,”The country is nothing like we’ve seen before. It’s a nuclear power that is also absolutely enslaving its citizens for the sake of this really one-man nation.”[7]

It seems that Kim has not heard of the Cult of Rajavi, before; eventually she does not know that this cult advocates regime change in Iran and claims to be the alternative of the current Iranian government. The saddest place in the world is also seen in the world inside the MKO. “Friendships and all emotional relationships are forbidden,” reveals Rubin. “From the time they are toddlers, boys and girls are not allowed to speak to each other. Each day at Camp Ashraf you had to report your dreams and thoughts. If a man was turned on by the scent of a woman or a whiff of perfume, he had to confess. Members had to attend weekly ideological cleansings in which they publicly confessed their sexual desires. Members were even forced to divorce and take a vow of lifelong celibacy to ensure that all their energy and love would be directed toward Maryam and Massoud.” [8]

Therefore, who can promise that a future Iran ruled by Maryam Rajavi would not turn into a nuclear power? The existence of communities like the Cult of Rajavi and North Korea is indeed “devastating problem”. As North Korea is considered a threat by the US politic men, Rubin warns the MKO sponsors: “Mujahedeen Khalq is not only irrelevant to the cause of Iran’s democratic activists, but a totalitarian cult that will come back to haunt us.” [9]

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] Human Right Watch, “No Exit”

[2] Mahtani, Melissa, North Korea is ‘a cult’ to Kim Jong Un, undercover reporter says, CNN,

August 12, 2017

[3] ibid

[4]Rubin, Elizabeth, An Iranian Cult and Its American Friends, The New York Times, August 13, 2017

[5] Mahtani, Melissa, North Korea is ‘a cult’ to Kim Jong Un, undercover reporter says, CNN,

August 12, 2017

[6] Rubin, Elizabeth, An Iranian Cult and Its American Friends, The New York Times, August 13, 2017

[7] Mahtani, Melissa, North Korea is ‘a cult’ to Kim Jong Un, undercover reporter says, CNN,

August 12, 2017

[8] Rubin, Elizabeth, An Iranian Cult and Its American Friends, The New York Times, August 13, 2017

[9]ibid

August 21, 2017 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Toby Perkins, Labour, Chesterfield MP’s trip founded by a bizarre Iranian terrorist cult

A Labour MP’s trip to Paris was paid for by an Iranian exile group which has been described as the front organisation for a ‘bizarre cult’. Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins accepted £800 worth of accommodation, meals and transport from the France-based National Council for Resistance (NCRI) in Iran for a two-day trip in July.

Toby Perkins, Labour, Chesterfield MP’s trip founded by a bizarre Iranian terrorist cult

The NCRI is widely considered to be the political front for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), who oppose the Khomeinist regime in Iran, and were a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK until 2008. Though the MEK has been praised for its opposition to Iranian theocracy, the methods and precise motives of the group have split Western opinion, with the US government describing it as a ‘cult’. Michael Axworthy, former head of the FCO’s Iran Section, said:

“[The MEK] is a bizarre organisation. As it is today, it resembles a kind of religious cult, brainwashing its adherents, taking their money and property, and separating them from partners and families… It originated in the 1960s as a violent Marxist-Islamic group opposed to the Shah; in the 1970s, it killed US servicemen in Iran, among others. It gave significant armed support to the revolution in 1979, but lost out to Khomeini’s supporters in a bloody power struggle thereafter, was forced into exile, and later was based in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Because it fought on Saddam’s side against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, it has since then been completely discredited with ordinary Iranians in Iran. No one with any claim to sound judgment, let alone high office, should have given [the MEK] their backing.”

Guido Fawkes, UK,

August 20, 2017 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

How can these lawmakers sleep at night and where is the media!

How can these lawmakers (Senator Roy Blunt, Brad Sherman, Joe Lieberman, Dana Rohrabacher, Ed Royce….) sleep at night and where is the media to expose them!

The Iraq War Resolution of 2002 was not only based on Saddam’s alleged possession of WMDs. The Resolution also claimed Saddam had links to terrorism and both Congress and President Bush named People’s Mujaheddin Of Iran (MEK) then based in Iraq as proof that Saddam was harboring terror groups (see photos1-2).

15 years later thousand of $$$ have been spent on lobbying by MEK and the same lawmakers (many now in the private sector) that voted for the Iraq Resolution (see photos 3-6) AND even “experts” that called for the vote that sent 6,000 US soldiers to their graves and over 30,000 inflicted with life long debilitating injuries are now actively promoting the same MEK as the “freedom fighters” US needs to install in Iran via regime change !

Who is looking out for America?

Doug Applegate

Congressman Joe Kennedy III

Congressman Jerry Nadler

Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Congressman Adam Schiff

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris

By Houman Fakhimi, Facebook page,

August 19, 2017 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

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++ There have been many different interpretations of the visit by four American senators to Albania, during which they also met with Maryam Rajavi. One group have explained that the MEK are lying again because they tried to claim the senators had gone specifically to see them. Habilian published a piece titled ‘the lies which are quickly exposed’ which lists the various lies and posturing of the MEK which nobody buys. A second group refer to the fact that the Americans are bluntly and openly supporting terrorism. And although these may be has-been terrorists, the aim behind this support is to try to prevent rapprochement between the rest of world and Iran by creating hatred and resentment among Iranians. Other people refer to the current chaos in US politics alongside the deep-rooted corruption in high level American political life. They refer to the MEK’s past and the documents of US politicians and officials cheering for the killers of their own people for money. Others simply say how daft the MEK are because while some people are mercenary by nature, others know they will die themselves but still continue selling themselves such as Saddam Hussein and Massoud Rajavi. When the Americans don’t want you, they get rid of you.

++ In Albania, formers and disaffected MEK members have been posting letters on social media. These mostly complain about the deeply corrupt government of Albania. They say the country is run by MOSSAD and the CIA and that the Albanian people are hostages to them. Even the UNHCR staff admit privately that they cannot act because ‘they’ will put us in our place. Further reports reveal that many of these formers have been beaten up for talking and that instead of protecting them from gangs and the MEK, the police are complicit too.

++ Saber from Tabriz writes for Iran-Interlink about the nuclear agreement. He describes the MEK’s ever changing position on this, and other issues, over the past few years. He says, first they said America should bomb Iran because we exposed Iran’s nuclear programme. Then, when the agreement was signed they claimed, ‘this is the end of the regime, they have hanged themselves’. Now with Trump in the White House they swear against Obama and say this is the worst agreement ever and Trump has to tear it up and attack Iran. We know you are mercenaries, says Saber, but even mercenaries have to be a little more convincing than this about their strategies.

In English:

++ Sahar Family Foundation warns about death threats against the families and former MEK members in a letter to the Albanian minister for Internal Affairs which was covered by several media outlets in the country. “Unfortunately, we are also witness to brutal behavior by the Albanian government and police towards the families. The families come to Albania to visit their loved ones. Where on earth is visiting loved ones considered a crime so that in your country these suffering families have been interrogated by the police and been treated as criminals after being beaten up by the cult’s mobs? The separated members of the Rajavi cult in Albania have complained to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to the UNHCR many times about the misconduct and criminality of the cult toward themselves, the members and others. The response so far, however, is for each to hold the other body responsible for neglecting their legal duty.”

++ A Facebook post by Houman Fakhimi asks how can US supporters of the MEK explain to families of the over 4,000 dead US service personnel killed in Iraq why they support a group which was named in a report published by the Bush administration as a reason for attacking Iraq in 2003. The report said, “Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several US military personnel and US civilians.”

++ Kastriot Myftaraj, Gazeta Impakt identifies that ‘Albania is virtually in a state of war with Iran and this is a very serious thing’ “The US Senators’ visit to Albania took place after the recent tensions in US-Iran relations due to the sanctions that the American Congress imposed on Iran, repudiating the Obama administration’s agreement with the country. Iran’s response was something that should bother Albania too and should have made President Meta hastily summon the National Security Council meeting, making Prime Minister Rama cut short his break.

“Iran’s Parliament, at the request of the President, decided to officially order Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to undertake anti-terrorist operations against subversive forces operating abroad for the overthrow of the regime in Iran, under the sponsorship of enemies of the Islamic Republic. The decision primarily targets the Iranian embryo-led government led by Madam Rajavi, and the military arm of this so-called government, the MEK.

“This means that Albania, which harbors them, is now officially the target for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard operations – one of the most specialized and dangerous forces in the world for covert activity.”

++ Zahra Alipour in al-monitor reviews the Iranian film ‘Midday Adventures’ which is based on a true story. The film was well received in Iran but former sympathisers of the MEK say it does not give full historical weight to the motivations of the group.

++ Gazeta Impakt criticises former head of the state Intelligence Services, Fatos Klosi, for changing his mind about the MEK, apparently after visiting Maryam Rajavi and enjoying her hospitality. In 2016, he proclaimed the MEK to be jihadist terrorists, now he says the are not terrorists.

August 18, 2017

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Iranian film sheds new light on security services

“This film is based on a true story. However, for security reasons, certain characters’ names have been changed.” The Iranian film “Midday Adventures,” directed by Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, begins in Tehran on June 19, 1981, 26 months after the Islamic Revolution and nine months after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.

A still taken from the Iranian film Midday Adventures (photo by YouTube/persian epic)

Narrating real events, the opening scenes show a busy street in the Iranian capital, with people chanting political slogans, some in support of the Islamic Republic and others in opposition. Amid the crowd, a woman climbs atop a vehicle to read out a political statement; then, suddenly, an angry man drags her down. Pandemonium breaks out. People set a vehicle on fire and continue to chant angry slogans.

A man who is later revealed to be an intelligence agent working for the nascent revolutionary government is seen taking pictures of the crowd. The story of “Midday Adventures” is the official narrative of an era in the history of the Islamic Republic that authorities still view as highly sensitive, blurry and violent. The film narrates events up until Feb. 8, 1982, portraying the violence perpetrated by members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), including bombings and assassinations, and intelligence agents’ efforts to identify and arrest the leaders of the group.

In the years leading up to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the MEK was the largest religious organization that espoused armed resistance against the shah’s regime. Upon the victory of the revolution in early 1979, it issued a message congratulating “the leader [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] and the people of Iran.” However, in the ensuing months and years, serious political and ideological disagreements emerged between the MEK and the rulers of the Islamic Republic.

In a conversation with Al-Monitor, the film’s director, Mahdavian, 36, said the film is the result of his fellow scriptwriter Ebrahim Amini and producer Seyed Mahmoud Razavi’s personal interest in the events that took place in Iran during the turbulent 1980s.

In addition to archives, official sources and publications of the Islamic Revolution Documents Center, the most important sources for Mahdavian’s research were the memoirs written by intelligence officials who were active during the 1980s. “I had a couple of reasons for deciding to narrate the story from the perspective of the intelligence forces. One is that I do not believe in armed resistance and do not consider it defensible. Therefore, when I narrate the story from the point of view of the intelligence forces, my mind is at ease since I know that they are agents of the law fighting against violence and insecurity,” he said.

“Midday Adventures” was screened at the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran in February and won Crystal Simorgh awards for best film, best costume design and best set design, as well as the audience award. In addition, it won a Golden Simorgh for best film with a national view.

On July 15, the Islamic Revolution Documents Center published an article about a meeting between the film crew and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The session, which reportedly took place on Feb. 19, saw Khamenei praising the film, saying, “All the components of this film were great. The directing was great, the acting was great, the story was great. The film was well made.”

Upon its launch, the film did well at the box office, with long lines of spectators and additional screenings scheduled in some theaters. However, at the same time, political prisoners who had been jailed in the 1980s, along with their families, strongly protested and criticized the film.

At an April 16 film critique session organized by the Islamic Association of Students at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, historian Hashem Aghajari stated that the “one-sided narrative” of the film makes it difficult to comment on it from a historical point of view. Aghajari, who was an MEK sympathizer until a few years before the revolution, noted, “Unfortunately, this film does not provide young viewers with any significant historical information. When we watch this film, we don’t learn why these events took place or why MEK members did what they did.”

Mahdavian responded to the criticism by saying that he does not believe cinema should be subservient to either history or politics, or that it should be their media. He emphasized that cinema has its own style of narration, saying, “My goal was to debate the issue of security and violence, and I used the events of the 1980s to do so. I believe that the audience left with an understanding about these issues. They might not care about who the MEK members were or what has happened to them.”

In the Islamic Republic’s official discourse, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, which literally means “Holy Warriors of the People,” is referred to as the Monafeqeen, or “Hypocrites.” The latter is a Quranic term used for people who have left the Islamic faith but continue to present themselves as Muslims. But why was this label stamped on the MEK?

Political and ideological differences between the leaders of the MEK and some prominent clerics affiliated with the Islamic Republic precede the revolution, when both sides fought the shah’s regime alongside each other. After the revolution, amid the continuation of these differences, the MEK boycotted the December 1979 referendum on the constitution of the Islamic Republic, which saw 99.5% of participants vote in favor.

A few months later, on the eve of Iran’s first presidential election, Massoud Rajavi, who was then one of the leaders of the MEK, was disqualified by Khomeini over his lack of commitment to the constitution of the Islamic Republic. Subsequently, the MEK shifted its support to Abolhassan Bani Sadr, the candidate endorsed by Khomeini. At the same time, the group continued to publicly criticize the policies of the Islamic Republic. In response, its cadre was forbidden from conducting political activities and MEK newspapers were banned while some high-ranking members were arrested.

Bani Sadr took office in February 1980. Soon, however, the president, the parliament and Khomeini started having differences regarding the makeup of the Cabinet. These differences eventually resulted in Bani Sadr’s impeachment. On June 18, 1981, the MEK issued a statement in support of Bani Sadr and called on its supporters to take to the streets. The day after, on June 19, violent demonstrations took place in various cities and numerous MEK members were killed and many others were arrested. The organization thus returned to its policy of armed resistance. Following the execution of some of its members, the situation quickly escalated, with the MEK launching a string of assassinations and bombings targeting prominent revolutionary figures. On June 27, a bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party, killing more than 72 officials, including the chief justice, four Cabinet ministers and 23 parliamentarians.

In spite of criticism, “Midday Adventures” has been better received than other films about the MEK. Mahdavian believes this is because his views on cinema and its audiences are different from other filmmakers. “I try to make a film for the public. My spectators are cinema lovers; they are not historians or political analysts,” he said.

Zahra Alipour, al-monitor

August 19, 2017 0 comments

Albania

Albania is virtually in a state of war with Iran and this is a very serious thing

Four US senators came to Tirana this afternoon and met with Maryam Rajavi in her self-styled capacity as the exiled President of Iran and leader of the political-military movement for overthrowing the regime in Iran called the Iranian People’s Mojahedin (MEK) organization. They talked with her as though she were the exiled head of the Iranian state and so she spoke to them. The senators were honored by Rajavi’s presidential guard of honor at her headquarters in Kashar, near the city of Tirana.

It is not the first time that this has happened. In April, Senator McCain has done the same thing. These visits by American senators to Kashar are sponsored by Saudi Arabia, which finances the MEK’s activity, due to its rivalry with Iran in the Persian Gulf.

The US Senators’ visit to Albania took place after the recent tensions in US-Iran relations due to the sanctions that the American Congress imposed on Iran, repudiating the Obama administration’s agreement with the country. Iran’s response was something that should bother Albania too and should have made President Meta hastily summon the National Security Council meeting, making Prime Minister Rama cut short his break.

Iran’s Parliament, at the request of the President, decided to officially order Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to undertake anti-terrorist operations against subversive forces operating abroad for the overthrow of the regime in Iran, under the sponsorship of enemies of the Islamic Republic. The decision primarily targets the Iranian embryo-led government led by Madam Rajavi, and the military arm of this so-called government, the MEK.

This means that Albania, which harbors them, is now officially the target for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard operations – one of the most specialized and dangerous forces in the world for covert activity.

The very way in which the decision was made by the highest state authorities in Iran presents an ultimatum for Albania in particular to remove the MEK’s political-military organization and the Iranian government in exile from its territory.

When a country provides refuge to members of a subversive organization, such as the MEK, it is for them to formally vow that they will cease their political-military activity in the territory of the host country against their state.

As a minimum this should have been enforced by the Albanian government when it agreed last year to accommodate all the members of the MEK (about 5000 people) in its territory. Unlike what the US agreement was in 2012, which was that our country would host a number of Mojahedin members according to the quota that would be in accord with their proportional division among NATO countries. This was a lie by State Department bureaucrats paid by the Saudi lobby, who had made plans to host all the Iranian Mojahedin in Albania together with the government in exile of their leader, Ms Rajavi.

The Iranian Mojahedin have not only not made formal commitments that they will cease their political-military activity while residing in Albania, but the Albanian government, in a secret agreement with their leader Rajavi, has undertaken to allow them to use Albania as a base for continuing their political-military activity against the government of Iran.

It is a fact that the agreement with which the Albanian government has accepted its obligations to give the Iranian Mojahedin refuge and what these obligations it has undertaken are have not been made public. But from the activity undertaken by Mrs. Rajavi in Albania it is understood what this agreement contains. Since March of this year, Maryam Rajavi, self-proclaimed Iranian President-in-Exile, who is at the same time leader of a political-military organization called the Iranian People’s Mojahedin, is using Albania as the center of her political activity. Until March, Mrs Rajavi conducted her business in France where she has asylum. But France has already stopped her political activity against Iran in its territory.

There is a rule known in international affairs. When a state hosts a political-military organization in its territory that acts for the forcible overthrow of the government in another state, this second state has the right to react by committing violent attacks on the territory of the first state. Albania is in this position in relation to Iran. Albania and Iran have diplomatic relations and in the basic documents describing bilateral relations the two countries have agreed not to harm each other. Iran has adhered to this pledge. Albania has not.

It is foolish to take this situation lightly, thinking that Iran will not dare to launch attacks on Albania because it is frightened of US punishment or because it is a member of NATO. First of all, no American President will undertake punitive military against Iran because the country has undertaken covert terrorist actions in Albania. Iran will not officially assert these rights, but even if its authorship is implied, the original fault will remain with Albania, which has acted in opposition to international law regarding the housing of political immigrants.

At this time, when there is ever greater danger of an outbreak of war between the US and North Korea, a new front against Iran cannot be opened. And Iran will take advantage of this situation to act freely against the country that harbors its main internal enemies. It would suffice for Iran to launch 50 fanatical suicide bombers to turn Albania into a chaotic bloody land. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard can mobilize entire divisions with fanatical suicide bombers. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has its own practice of preparing commandos that speak the language and understand the behavior of countries posing a threat to Iran for possible punitive actions against them.

So, for several years, Iran has been intensively preparing for suicide operations using commandos who know the Albanian language as well as the culture of our country. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has very good historical links with Balkan and Russian secret services. It is not difficult for Iran to bring its operatives to Albania. Albania is effectively in a state of war with Iran and this is something that should be taken very seriously. Above all because the Albanian government has violated the laws in force in Albania by allowing an organization that declares the violent overthrow of Tehran’s regime to make a base in our country. This in turn legitimizes Iran to act against our country.

By Kastriot Myftaraj, Gazeta Impakt,

August 16, 2017 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Warning about threats against the families and former MEK members

Ministria e Punëve të Brendshme

Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard, Tirana, Albania

Dear Mr Dritan Demiraj,

As you are aware, over 2,000 members of a terrorist cult known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA …) are residing in your country as UN refugees. These individuals are subjected to all kinds of cultic abuses and restrictions, including deprivation of family contact and visits.

To date, some 100 individuals have separated from this cult. They remain in Albania, but under an agreement made between the UNHCR and the MEK leaders, their UN refugee allowances are still paid directly to the Rajavi cult instead of to them as individuals. This diversion of the funds meant to cover their living expenses means that they remain under the control of the cult.

In addition, inside the MEK there are also some 100 individuals who we know want to leave but who are prevented from doing so due to the extreme measures of control imposed on the members. Some of these individuals are even kept in solitary confinement inside the cult.

Recently, Maryam Rajavi – the de facto leader of the cult after Massoud Rajavi’s disappearance – again made a trip to Albania to try to prevent members from leaving. In a meeting, she implicitly threatened those who want to leave. We know that her arrival in and departure from Albania is arranged to avoid her undergoing passport control procedures at the airport. During Rajavi’s visit, Ms Elona Gjebrea, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs responsible for anti-trafficking, participated in a cult meeting and expressed her full support for the terrorist group.

Lately an article was published in a website associated with the cult which threatens the families of members and the former members with death. Naturally, this caused a great deal of concern amongst them. In this article those who have left the organization and those who wish to visit their loved ones are defined as traitors and therefore, according to the cultic theories of this group, liable to summary execution. The Albanian government’s neglect and appeasement of this terrorist group has given them an open hand and has encouraged them to openly threaten people with death by assassination.

We also learned that the terrorist Rajavi cult has prepared facilities 27 kilometers outside Tirana so that it can move all the members to a remote and isolated place similar to Ashraf garrison in Iraq. There it is planned to hide them from external observation, inspection or intervention and deprive them of their liberty, basic human rights and prevent them from having any access to the outside world.

Unfortunately, we are also witness to brutal behavior by the Albanian government and police towards the families. The families come to Albania to visit their loved ones. Where on earth is visiting loved ones considered a crime so that in your country these suffering families have been interrogated by the police and been treated as criminals after being beaten up by the cult’s mobs?

The separated members of the Rajavi cult in Albania have complained to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to the UNHCR many times about the misconduct and criminality of the cult toward themselves, the members and others. The response so far, however, is for each to hold the other body responsible for neglecting their legal duty.

Sahar Family Foundation warns against allowing death threats against the families and the separated members and will hold the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the police and security forces responsible for the deeds of the cult’s elements and reserves the right to pursue cases through legal assemblies and international organizations.

Respectfully Yours,

Sahar Family Foundation

August 15, 2017 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

How do you explain this to the families of over 4000 US servicemen Killed in Iraq?

John Corny , Senator Roy Blunt and John McCain can you explain to the over 4,000 dead US servicemen and womens’ families whose loved ones lost their lives in Iraq because you wanted to attack Saddam for supporting terror groups like MEK ( photo) how you now promote the same terror group as freedom fighters in Iran? Have you no decency?!!

(Iraq shelters terrorist groups including the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which has used terrorist violence against Iran and in the 1970s was responsible for killing several U.S. military personnel and U.S. civilians)

Houman Fakhimi, Facebook

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