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Albania’s Prime Minister: Tirana will take in 1900 more MEK members by the end of 2016

The Albanian Government will take in 1900 Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization members who currently reside in refugee Camp Liberty near Baghdad, Iran Didban Website reported from Agenzia Nova.

The MEK member’s relocation in Tirana is based on an agreement between the governments of Albania and US during Senator Kerry’s last February visit to Tirana.

Kerry, returning to the United States from a four-day trip to Germany, made a brief stop in the Albanian capital Tirana to urge the government and opposition parties to support a major package of judicial and legislative reforms.

“While the reforms are needed for their own sake as well as E.U. membership, they also were key to Albania’s fulfilling a commitment to relocate thousands of members of the exiled Iranian Mujahedeen-e-Khalq opposition group”, AP quoted U.S. officials traveling with Kerry at the time.

June 11, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Former MKO member cautions France on the threat of terrorists

A former high ranking member of Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult cautioned France of the potential threat of terrorists’ presence at the Cult’s annual rally in Paris on July 9th.

The same as every other year the group is busy recruiting paid audiences to participate the rally.

Mr. Issa Azadeh who spent 30 years within the Mujaheidn-e Khalq Cult affairs, in an open letter to the French Interior Minister writes:

” …..Through social media I founded out that the Cult of Rajavi is due to hold a gathering on the occasion of the anniversary of the group’s armed struggle as well as Maryam Rajavi’s – the cult leader ; Massoud Rajavi’s wife – release from prison in France. So as the MKO is going to transfer a large number of Arab refugees to Paris by Bus.

I warn you according to my human duty that the dangerous terrorists of ISIS can take the opportunity to enter Paris through the MKO rented buses.

The Cult of Rajavi smuggles people without any certificate card or passport from European refugee Camps into France. The MKO employs these people as rent-a-crowd to pretend it has a popular base in Iran in order to attract the attention of reporters and European states. Conversely, the reality is that this dangerous cult has no support in Iran due to its anti-Iranian and terrorist nature. The group has just some agents who are active on socal networks in exchange for money…."

June 9, 2016 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Mr. Babapour reunited his family after 27 years

Mr. Ali Asghar Babapour joined his family after 27 years of captivity within the destructive cult of Mujahedin-e Khalq.

Babapour family as well as cult defectors and families of MKO hostages welcomed Aliasghar at Nejat Society office, Mazandaran.

Mr. Babapour said:”I should thank my family who came to Camps Ashraf and Liberty several times to visit me. I am very joyful that I managed to liberate myself from the damned Cult of Rajavi and returned to my family. I also thank you accepting me within Nejat Society families’ meeting. I wish to see all hostages of Rajavis’ criminal Cult, being free.”

Mr. Babapour reunited his family after 27 years

June 7, 2016 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The Cult of Rajavi has all criteria of Modern Slavery

According to Walk Free Foundation – movement to end modern slavery – near 46 million people of the world are trapped in modern slavery. The foundation which is in Australia defines slavery as “situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, and coercion, abuse of power or deception.” According to the foundation, in modern forms of slavery, a person is forced to work for free. It also includes, child slavery, forced marriage, domestic servitude and forced labour in which victims are made to work through violence and intimidation.

For those who have experienced living in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, the above mentioned characteristics of modern slavery looks very tangible and familiar. They can even add more traits of modern slavery in the cult of Rajavi including forced marriage, separation of parents and children, sleep deprivation and a lot of other examples of human rights violations. RAND report commissioned by US Department of Defense found that the MKO is a cult that utilizes practices such as mandatory divorce, celibacy, authoritarian control, forced labor, sleep deprivation, physical abuse, and confiscation of assets, emotional isolation, and the imprisonment of dissident members.

While the MKO claims to be opposed to “any kind of exploitation of human by another human”, the truth of the life inside this cult–like group proves the opposite.

According to the Walk Free Foundation half of the victims of modern slavery are girls and women and 1/3 of detected victims of slavery is a child. As for the MKO Cult about 900 people out of its near 3000 victims are female and a large number of children of the group members have been also victims of its destructive cult-like system.

Based on testimonies of former members of the group such as Nadereh Afshar and Manizheh Habashi, children in the MKO camps were kept separated from their parents and forced to work. After the first Gulf War, children were sent to Europe where they were forced to beg on the streets to raise funds for the group. Forced begging is considered by Walk Free as an example of modern slavery in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America and in the Middle East. The foundation states that kids “are forced to beg on the streets by criminals.”

68 % of slaves around the world are subjected to forced labour. About the cult of Rajavi, approximately all members are subjected to forced labour. They have to work long hours of the day. They always suffer sleep deprivation. Former members of the cult of Rajavi describe exhausting working schedule in the MKO as useless tasks that was supposed to keep them busy. Zahra Mirbaqeri recalls that she was forced to carry a heavy bag of stones from a place to another. She had to run while carrying an 80-kilo-weight bag.

The Walk Free Foundation also clarifies that in modern slavery systems, victims are kept behind closed doors. Members of the Mujahedin Khalq are not allowed to call or contact anyone outside their camps. They are barred from using phone, and the Internet. The news of the outside world is filtered by the group authorities. They are only fed with the group’s propaganda media.

Victims of the MKO are kept in the group’s camps in Iraq, Albania and France. They are living under the most tyrannical supervision system. Those who succeeded to escape the MKO actually risked their life because Massoud Rajavi has told them that the group has no exit door – see Human Rights Watch report on the abuses in the MKO titled “No Exit”, published in 2005. The walk Free Foundation says, “Victims say those who are caught trying to escape can be killed or thrown overboard. “

Sexual labour is another example of human rights abuse that is taken place in modern slavery, according to the foundation. This crime has been widely committed by the MKO leader, Massoud Rajavi. He is the only person in the cult who has the right to get married and to have sexual relationships. So, he authorized himself to have sex with a number of female members of the so-called Elite Council of the cult. Batoul Soltani who is a defector of the MKO Cult revealed Massoud Rajavi’s sexual crimes.

The Walk Free Foundation presents statistics and information on slavery around the world such as Thailand, UK and etc. It tries to inform the world on the huge human rights violations that are committed today in modern societies. Victims of the Mujahedin Khalq cult should be considered as part of the bog population who suffer modern slavery. The case of the MKO victims seems to be more critical because of the pro-democratic gesture of its leaders and its propaganda. In fact, members of the MKO Cult are exposed to the most horrible human rights violations despite the group’s propaganda claims for democracy and freedom.

By Mazda Parsi

June 6, 2016 0 comments

Camp Liberty

MEK leaders in Camp Liberty admit conditions and security are well above basic standards

Charlotte Leslie Conservative, Bristol North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the human rights situation in Camp Liberty, Iraq.

Tobias Ellwood The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

We remain concerned about the residents of Camp Liberty. Our Embassy in Baghdad regularly raises this issue with the Government of Iraq and we support the United Nations’ calls for more to be done to protect residents. We are working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to relocate all the residents to safe third countries.That being said, Monitors from the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) regularly visit Camp Liberty and issue daily reports which provide an update on the situation there. Their assessment remains that the provision of life support systems such as water, electricity and food continue to be well in excess of basic humanitarian standards. They have reported that the relocation of protective bunkers and installation of additional protective concrete walls, to increase the security and safety of the residents, has been completed. Iraqi government officials have reported that diesel tankers and trucks containing food and other supplies continue to routinely enter the camp, that residents continue to be referred to hospitals and that the clinic remains in operation. Residents’ representatives have confirmed this to be accurate.

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June 5, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MeK’s claims of freedom, democracy is an insult to humanity

Perhaps one can indubitably argue that such words as “democracy” and “Freedom” are very strange to the MeK’s ears. They are the words they have been uttering at each and every point for more than four decades, and with which they have been using to achieve their purposes and deceive a lot of people even non-Iranians. Although being at the end of their rope and facing great failures one after the other, the MeK has not extracted lessons from its experiences and keeps threatening its critics not in Saddam’s Iraq but in European countries!

These intimidations of the critics and ex-members in European countries again suggest that MeK is an anti-democratic group. Because if they consider themselves as an alternative to the Iranian government and if they emphasize on the freedom of expression in their statute of council, they should just walk the talk and accept the criticism coming from anybody or deal with them gracefully just as they claim.

But to gain power, these liars not only trample the laws and regulations they have set but they give their dissidents death threats. They also put all their efforts to use every machination to represent their dissidents as the Iranian spies in European countries and if failed they pay hush money to their critics.

But who the MeK really are that Iran send its agents to spy on them in the Europe?

We have repeatedly read in the news that Iranian hackers have successfully attacked US Department of State or even Pentagon servers. So, is it difficult for such a regime which infiltrates the US Dept. of State to attack the MeK computers? Of course it is as easy as falling off a log for them to attack the MeK’s cyber system as the State Department is secured and maintained to the highest cyber security standards.

So the MeK tarnishes its critics with such tactics in order to find a way out of its self-created deadlock and to make its members understand that the same future will happen to them if they want to defect from the organization.

Such anti-humane activities of the MeK suggest that they simply trample their own laws and regulations. Another point is the psychological and mental abuse targeted against the captive members and their family members who did whatever they could to visit their children. The MeK’s approach during the past 4 decades was not in accordance with the human rights and the laws of God in Abrahamic religions. They were more like the laws that Rajavi set at each point for achieving his own purposes. From the forced marriages to its opposite i.e. forced divorces or compelling members to worship one person to forcing members into self-immolation in public in the heart of Europe through brain washing methods which was extremely disgusting and from the Europeans’ view an extremely savagery act.

These were only a part of the MeK’s activities which claims freedom and democracy, but change it color each day in order to mislead the public opinion so that it may continue to live for a few while and get rid of its critics and former members.

Taking a glance at the MeK’s activities from past to present, one can firmly say that MeK’s claims of freedom and democracy is an insult to the human rights and humanity.

Edward Termado, Personal weblog (translated by Iran Didban)

June 5, 2016 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 146

++ Criticisms about the case of Behzad Alishahi have continued this week with several pieces saying that whilst Rajavi was aggressively pushing his own agenda and paying others to do the same, he resorted to inventing any old lies about Alishahi. Now the MEK has been exposed in this lie, the group has fallen silent and pretends no such thing ever happened.

++ Several comments talk about the continuing transfer of Camp Liberty residents to Albania and praise the UN for getting them out safely and efficiently. Some have commented that the people who arrive in Albania are not revivable in a cultic sense. They are too damaged and unfit to recover. Put simply, when Iraq is emptied of MEK, Rajavi is finished.

++ Comments about Maryam Rajavi’s annual Paris based Villepinte rally on June 9 expose the group’s ongoing activities to recruit a paid audience. They point out that the speakers are typically retired US generals who take their fee to repeat the same message each year. Nader Naderi says in his blog, ‘we demand that, as Rajavi uses Paris as a refuge to glorify the launch of the MEK’s armed struggle, this year she should allow Iranians to attend alongside the Polish and Africans. And also that, after two decades, she should allow Iranians to ask a couple of questions at the rally’. Others criticise Maryam Rajavi for promoting her so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) which apparently comprises her and Rudi Giuliani and John Bolton, etc. ‘She can’t say it’s national, she can’t say it’s a council, nobody knows what they are resisting and they are certainly not Iranian’.

++ Condemnation arose from every side when films and photos showed masked MEK operatives attacking the families who had visited Camp Liberty in Iraq hoping to have contact with their estranged loved ones. Arash Rezai from Nimnegah website put together a collection of videos, pictures and analysis discussing why Rajavi is worried about any MEK member meeting with their families. This issue represents his first and last red line. Rezai gives an explanation of cult culture to show why this is so. He concludes that it would be a simple matter for Rajavi to ask his members to go and tell their families to leave. And they would leave. But he can’t do that. To demonstrate why, we see that in one film one of the MEK members tries to follow the families and run away, but the other MEK quickly go and grab him and pull him back into the closed camp.

In English:

++ Mazda Parsi writes a thoughtful and revealing analysis of ‘Why is the MKO so terrified by a gap in the curtains!?’ Based on film and pictures taken of a visit by families to find their loved ones in Camp Liberty, Iraq. “When one of the family members of a Liberty resident tries to squeeze his hand through a hole in the curtain to take the hand of her brother’s comrade, the cult members get so terrified that they cannot control their vehement reaction. Although their faces are covered with masks or scarves, panic is evidently seen in their behavior.”

++ Nejat Society: ‘Former Officer: Cooperating with SAVAK, Rajavi saved his [own] neck’. “Iraj Mesdaghi, author of “Neither Living Nor Death” and the internal critic of the Mujahedin e- Khalq Organization who has several times criticized by the group for exposing Massoud Rajavi as the group leader published an interview with a former SAVAK (Pahlavi regime’s security and intelligence organization) officer… Parvis Motamed said: ‘…I took Massoud Rajavi to show me the addresses. He disclosed the address of Mohamamd Hanifnejad and Mohammad Hayati [ who lives in Liberty Camp]. I can remember the exact color of the home door. I was involved in the arrest of Hanifnejad. Such cooperations along with SAVAK authorities’ attempts led to reduce of Rajavi’s punishment [death penalty].’”

++ Nejat Society: ‘An Iran-Iraq POW’s Brother pens letter to Iraqi Prime Minister Iraq’. “My brother, Ali Asghar Kalateh Seifari, was taken hostage by MEK cult on November 22, 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war and he was transferred to Camp Ashraf. He is now in Baghdad’s Camp liberty. During the past 27 years my family members and I, have made several visits to Iraq at the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty. However we failed to contact him even by a phone call. I would like to humbly ask you as the highest executive official of Iraq to help us meet with our brother even for a few hours under your supervision but without MEK members’ presence.”

++ Nejat Society: ‘Families’ presence at Camp Liberty gate gave me courage to liberate myself, Ex-member’. “I drew my escape plan. In the evening of a stressful day I came out of the container. I looked around and at a suitable moment ran into a gap within the concrete barriers of Camp Liberty. I was full of stress, anxiety, joy and hope. All of a sudden about 10 MKO members rushed after me. They invaded and beaten me. I shouted and asked for help. Fortunately an Iraqi soldier helped me and I went to the Iraqis guarding room at Camp Liberty gate. …. the Iraqis handed over me to the UNHCR representatives. Then I was transferred to Mohajer Hotel in Baghdad. I was very scared because of what I had heard about Mohajer Hotel. As soon as I arrived the hotel I was welcomed by the ex-members of the MKO who was residing there. No harassment, no torture. I could contact my family and Nejat Society head at Gilan; Mr. Purahmad.”

++ An interesting short piece by Edward Termado in his personal weblog concludes, ‘Taking a glance at the MeK’s activities from past to present, one can firmly say that MeK’s claims of freedom and democracy is an insult to the human rights and humanity.’

++ British Parliament – Questions: Charlotte Leslie, MP, Conservative, Bristol North West: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the human rights situation in Camp Liberty, Iraq.

Tobias Ellwood, MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs:

That being said, Monitors from the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) regularly visit Camp Liberty and issue daily reports which provide an update on the situation there. Their assessment remains that the provision of life support systems such as water, electricity and food continue to be well in excess of basic humanitarian standards. They have reported that the relocation of protective bunkers and installation of additional protective concrete walls, to increase the security and safety of the residents, has been completed. Iraqi government officials have reported that diesel tankers and trucks containing food and other supplies continue to routinely enter the camp, that residents continue to be referred to hospitals and that the clinic remains in operation. Residents’ representatives have confirmed this to be accurate.

June 03, 2016

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Former members of the MEK

Families’ presence at Camp Liberty gate gave me courage to liberate myself, Ex-member

Families of Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult hostages gathered together at Nejat Society office; Gilan Branch on Thursday 27, May.

Mr. Esmaeil Fallah Ranjkesh who has recently defected the Cult participated the meeting. He was warmly welcomed by the families. The families were so eager to hear Mr. Fallah’s experiences within the MKO Cult and the way he managed to liberate himself from the group.

Mr. Fallah said:” at first I should thank God for guiding me to be able to find my way out of a destructive cult after 27 years of captivity. I thank God for I can now live my life among my family members …. “

Mr. Fallah referred to the MKO leaders lies about the families and defectors of the group – being all agents of the Iran Intelligence service- and said when I stepped the meeting and among you I recalled those nonsenses.

Mr. Fallah then briefly recounted his years of captivity behind the bars of MKO Cult. He was a prisoner of Iran-Iraq War when the MKO agents tricked him into joining the group:

“ Rajavi had lost a big number of its members at the so called Eternal Light Operation and the remaining members were exhausted of the futile struggle. so as, in a dirty deal with Saddam Hussein, he tried to deceitfully recruit the Iranian prisoners at Iraq’s prison camps.

I had tolerated severe sufferings during three years of imprisonment at Saddam’s Camps. On the other hand I had no information about the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. Hence I was tricked into joining the group and along with some other POWs, I was transferred to Camp Ashraf first as a guest, as they told us.

Witnessing the realities at the group Camp Ashraf, most of the POWs who had joined the group asked to repatriate to Iran. Subsequently, the group shifted to another dirty trick:

Because of staying at MKO Camp for some time, you will be tortured and executed by the time you return to Iran, they told us. However if you insist on leaving the organization you will be handed over to Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence service and will be imprisoned at Abu- Ghoraib prison.

Though time and again I asked to leave the group, I forced to stay with them and tolerate the dictatorial, oppressive affairs of the cult. Finding no way out of the group, I lost several years of my life at MKO Camps.

Eventually, the families’ presence at Camps Ashraf and Liberty gates gave me enough courage and confidence to release myself from the Cult of Rajavi.

I drew my escape plan. In the evening of a stressful day I came out of the container. I looked around and at a suitable moment ran into a gap within the concrete barriers of Camp Liberty. I was full of stress, anxiety, joy and hope. All of a sudden about 10 MKO members rushed after me. They invaded and beaten me. I shouted and asked for help. Fortunately an Iraqi soldier helped me and I went to the Iraqis guarding room at Camp Liberty gate. …. the Iraqis handed over me to the UNHCR representatives. Then I was transferred to Mohajer Hotel in Baghdad. I was very scared because of what I had heard about Mohajer Hotel. As soon as I arrived the hotel I was welcomed by the ex-members of the MKO who was residing there. No harassment, no torture. I could contact my family and Nejat Society head at Gilan; Mr. Purahmad.

However I couldn’t believe what I saw, because of the false propaganda of MKO that I had in my mind. I still thought I would be tortured, imprisoned and executed once I return to Iran. Nonetheless coming back to my homeland, I was warmly welcomed by my family members and Nejat Society families.

Now I can decide my own fate. I live with my family members and in my own hometown; Astaneh Ashrafiyeh City.

The most glorious moment of my life was when I warmly embraced my family members and especially my mother after 27 years.

Every day I thank God for such felicity. ..

June 2, 2016 0 comments

Albania

40 more TTL residents left Iraq for Albania

Mujahedin-e Khalq members residing in Camp Liberty near Baghdad airport moved to Albania.

The residents moved in two groups of 20 individuals, Neday-e Haqiqat Website reported.

A total number of 254 Camp Liberty residents transferred to Albania in the last 12 groups of relocations since January 2016.

The first group:

Soudabeh Rahmanian
Almas Javanpour
Naser Amini
Ali Miryounos Haghi
Gholamreza Ghaderi
Ali Hussein Jamaati
Gholamreza Besharat
Bijan Gharib Dehkordi
Mosayyeb Rashidi
Hamid Dehghani Harati
Bagher Mofrad
Zohreh Samadi
Naser Mohammadian
Abdolhossein Soleimani
Darush Fattahiye
Hasan Besharat
Fazlollah Mazaher
Kamran Yousofi
Mojtaba Karami Afzali
Iraj Akhlaghi(Barazesh)

The second group:

Mahmoud Baghipour
Ali Jalilzaeh Masah
Ebrahim Hosseini Dahineh
Sahar Roheili (Yeganeh)
Azadeh Rafiei
Zohreh Saket
Mehrdad Soltani
Ali Shakouri
Touba Shahaboddin
Gholamhossein Salahi
Ali Alizadeh
Aazam Fatemi
Parviz Bazoft
Hossein Khademi
Fereydoun Kianian
Shahab Damgah
Khatoun Nazarpour
Tayyebeh Vahdatnia
Heshmatollah Hashemi
Habibollah Hemmatian

June 2, 2016 0 comments

Iraq

An Iran-Iraq POW’s Brother pens letter to Iraqi Prime Minister

Ali Kalateh Seifari, brother of Ali Asghar Kalateh Seifari, MKO hostage in Baghdad’s Camp Liberty, wrote an open letter to Iraq’s Prime Minister asking for his assistance to arrange a meeting with his enslaved brother.

The letter published on the Iraqi Website “Donya Alwatan*

In the Name of God

The Honorable Prime Minister of Iraq,

I, Ali Kalateh Seifari, am writing as your Muslim brother to ask you as the highest executive official of Iraq to help me.

My brother ; Ali Asghar Kalateh Seifari was taken hostage by MEK cult on November 22, 1987 during the Iran-Iraq war and he was transferred to Camp Ashraf. He is now in Baghdad’s Camp liberty.

During the past 27 years my family members and I, have made several visits to Iraq at the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty. However we failed to contact him even by a phone call. I would like to humbly ask you as the highest executive official of Iraq to help us meet with our brother even for a few hours under your supervision but without MEK members’ presence.

I wish you and your country’s victory over the ISIS . I hope the release of all captives under Rajavi Cult.

Sincerely,

Ali Kalateh Seifari

Brother of Ali Asghar Kalateh Seifari, held hostages by the MKO at Camp Liberty, Baghdad

Cc to

Iraqi President’s Office
Iraq’s Foreign Minister
Iraq’s Interior Minister
Iraqi Parliament Speaker
Iraqi Members of Parliament
Iraqi Media

Translated by Irandidban

* Alwatanvoice.com

June 1, 2016 0 comments

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