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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The forth group of MKO hostages’ families arrive at Camp Liberty Gate

A group of 111 family members whose loved ones are trapped in Camp of Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq; Camp Liberty arrived at the Camp’s Gate this morning.

The families are from different Provinces of Iran. They have risked the dangers and troubles of travelling to the war-torn country of Iraq in a hope to have a short visit with their loved ones. The right which they are denied of, now for many years.

The families gathered in front of Camp Liberty and called their children. Though they are not allowed to use loudspeakers, the families screamed their basic right of visiting their loved ones.

The Rajavi’s brainwashed elements’ reaction was to nervously swear at families.

Mr. Ashur Varshi’s brother was also among the families who have traveled to Iraq. The two brothers saw each other after nearly three decades and the scene was so impressive. The Varshi brothers met at Mohajer Hotel in Baghdad where Ashur resides in accompany with other survivors of the MKO Cult. He is the most recent defector of the Cult.

Translated by Nejat Society

February 25, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A MKO hostage’s mother: I will seek my son until my last breath

Ms. Nedaei is the suffering mother of one of the MKO Cult hostages. Her son was a prisoner of Iran-Iraq war when the Mujahedin-e Khalq elements deceived and recruited him by their false propaganda.

Ms. Nedaei has recently traveled to Iraq, Camp Liberty in a hope to visit her dear son. She narrates her sufferings:

I am old and it’s difficult for me to travel. However, I have several times traveled to Iraq to meet my dear son; Fereydoun. My son didn’t know the MKO. He was a loyal soldier of his country. He was imprisoned during the Iran-Iraq War. Then under the brainwashing methods of the MKO Cult mercenaries he joined the group. I am a mother and will seek my son till I take my last breath.

This time also the Rajavis’ Cult leaders didn’t allow me to visit my son. I shouted Fereydoun’s name as much as I could and I will do this again.

This time the MKO Cult leaders had brought some members to swear at families. Though their faces were covered, still I recognized my son; Fereydoun. He had stood among the other members. He was calm and didn’t curse. He just was looking at me.

The Cult leaders couldn’t tolerate our visit. I just wanted to see my son and hug him after so many years.

I am a mother. I will strive to reach my son. The Rajavis are the final losers…

February 24, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Another group of families to picket at MKO Camp Gate

On Monday February 22, another group of MKO hostages’ families traveled to Iraq, Camp Liberty.

They want to have the right to visit their beloveds. The suffering families’ loved ones are held captive by the Mujahedin-e Khalq destructive cult leaders now for many years. They are worried about the destiny of their children and their family members at MKO Camp.

The families are determined to liberate their loved ones from the mental and physical barriers of the Cult.

They call on Unites Nation’s secretary General and all human rights bodes to help them liberate their loved ones.

This is the fourth group of families to hold stake in front of Camp Liberty.

February 23, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

US admits Mojahedin Khalq are their terrorists, moves to protect them

US Praises Albania for MEK Resettlement

TIRANA, ALBANIA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has used a visit to Albania to thank the government for resettling members of an Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedin e Khalq, or MEK.

Over the past two years, Albania has taken in about 1,000 members of the MEK and has committed to resettling an additional 2,000, said a senior State Department official. Most lived in U.S.-backed camps in Iraq.

Ahead of Kerry’s Sunday visit to Tirana, the official said Kerry would not talk publicly about the resettlement effort, which remains a sensitive issue.

The U.S. has assisted Albania in its efforts to resettle the MEK, a group that has supported the U.S. in military operations in the Middle East and in its fight against terrorism.

The U.S. assistance includes a donation of $20 million to the U.N. refugee agency to help resettle the MEK, said the State Department official. The U.S. has also provided Albania with security and economic development assistance, to help the country build up its physical capacity to house the refugees.

Support for Albania’s justice reforms

Kerry’s visit comes at a time when Albania is trying to adopt judicial reforms, as part of a wider effort to combat corruption. Kerry praised those efforts in his public remarks in Tirana

The country is considering legislation that would bring Albania’s judicial sector more in line with U.S. and European norms. The measure would also create an entity similar to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The U.S. and European Union provided advice to help Albania draft the provision, which would create a special anti-corruption force.

“Your country is moving in the right direction,” said Secretary Kerry during an appearance with Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Kerry added that he was “encouraged” by the judicial reform package under consideration.

“Without the support and advice of the United States, Albania would not have managed to make so much progress in its reforms, said Rama.

The judicial reforms could also benefit Albania in its bid for EU accession.

Kerry traveled to Albania from Germany, where he participated in the Munich Security Conference and an International Syria Support Group meeting.

He received a robust welcome in Albania, that included a column of U.S. and Albanian flags lining the streets along his main routes and onlookers who crowded street corners to catch a glimpse of his passing motorcade.

In addition to meeting with the country’s prime and foreign ministers, he met with opposition leaders and civil society groups.

February 23, 2016 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

After years of devotion to Rajavi, I was threatened to death

Mr. Ashur Varshi, 46, is the most recent defector of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO). He escaped Camp Liberty a few weeks ago. He is residing in a hotel in Baghdad now, in company with other survivors of the MKO. He is in contact with his family.

Varshi joined the MKO 27 years ago. As a 19–year–old teenager his ideal was the overthrow of the Islamic Republic through armed struggle. But ultimately, the totalitarian and manipulative system of the group made him leave it. ”After 27 years of companionship with the group, I was threatened to death (by Alireza Budaqchi under the pseudonym of Ahad) just because I had said that the leader’s arguments were not realistic,” Varshi writes. “He [Ahad] used to pressure me to praise the leader’s words.”

Ashur who was labeled an anti-leader agent, was eventually supervised all the time. ”There was an absolutely suppressive atmosphere,” he recounts.” I was repeatedly summoned by them; and I was faced with mental torture in order to stop criticizing the group.”

As a dissident member of the Cult of Rajavi, Ashur was brave enough to question the leaders for their dishonesty but the answer was more punishment. ”with each punishment, I got more assured that the MKO was not the same group I once had joined for struggle, so I admitted any danger and pressure.’’

He paid a heavy price for the disagreement he voiced against the group leaders. ”I preferred to be bombed, to be attacked by missiles everyday instead of talking with a bunch of brainwashed torturers,” he states.

Ashur Varshi warns the Iranian youth to be careful about Rajavi’s propaganda.”Now, I see that what I’ve been told in the group was not the truth,” he regrets the years he lost inside the bars of the Cult of Rajavi.

But, he is hopeful. “I’m free now”, he writes.” I do my choirs and I’m in contact with my family. I want to leave the past behind and begin a new life.”

February 22, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq 's Terrorism

Elimination Projects in the MKO – Mehdi Katiraei

The second part of the series on the assassinations committed by the MKO authorities, contains the elimination of another high-ranking member of the group named “Mehdi Katiraei” whose pseudonym was “commandant Sasan”.

Former member of the MKO, Mohammad Karami introduced Mehdi Katiraei in his interview with Mardom TV: “He was the deputy commandant of the June 20th protest which marks the start of the MKO’s armed struggle against Islamic Republic. He was then in charge of training partisans in Iraqi Kurdistan.”

After the so-called ideological revolution that turned the MKO into a destructive cult, Katiraei was a member of the group’s political office. Like Ali Zarkesh, he was opposed to the establishment of the National Liberation Army. “He was strictly against the establishment of the NLA so Massoud Rajavi was very angry with him,” says Mohammad Karami.” Because of his critics against the group’s strategy, he was demoted to rank and files.”

Then, Mehdi was brought to trial and sentenced to death by Massoud. He was imprisoned in the SouthWestern side of Camp Ashraf. Later, Massoud Rajavi launched his Eternal Light operation against Iran. It was a great opportunity for him to get rid of dissatisfied members such as Ali Zarkesh, Majid Hariri, Mehdi Katiraei and many others.

During that catastrophic operation, Mehdi was shot to death from behind.

February 21, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

My father is a captive of Mojahedin-e Khalq Cult

Her eyes fill with tears when she talks about her father. 35 years has passed, she still is awaiting the return of her father.

She looks out for at least a news of her father’s well-being. She awaits her father’s release from the bars of MKO Cult.

Ms. Fatemeh Alimirzaei was a little girl when the Rajavi’s mercenaries tricked her father, Reza into joining the Cult. Now she is married and has a little beautiful daughter.

Ms. Fatemeh Alimirzaei came to Nejat Society office in accompany with her elderly mother to get a news of her father. They wanted to know if Reza was among those Camp Liberty residents who have recently transferred to Albania.

They said:” Why no human rights body do probe our pleas as suffering families of deceived members of the MKO Cult?!

Why don’t they help us with visiting our beloved family members?!Why do the MKO Cult leaders discriminately select some members to be relocated in Tirana?!Why do the Cult leaders have left alone my father and other members in the insecure country of Iraq?!

February 18, 2016 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Elimination projects in the MKO – Ali Zarkesh

In a dictatorship maintaining of absolute power requires one important action: elimination of opponents. As a totalitarian cult of personality, the Mujahedin Khalq Organizaion (the MKO) could not survive for over three decades without eliminating the opponents and critics inside the group. According to various reports and testimonies, there have been numerous cases of assassination of dissident members of the Cult of Rajavi. Some of these assassinations were then reported by the group’s media as suicide or even martyrdom.

These series of editorials will cover certain cases of internal eliminations in the MKO which are more significant in the group’s history and have been confirmed by several witnesses although there must be many more secret murders in the cult that few people might know about them.

Ali Zarkesh Yazdi in prison before revolutions

Ali Zarkesh might be the most important figure in the MKO whose removal from the group has been very controversial. Ali Zarkesh was the second person of the MKO and actually Massoud Rajavi’s rival. In 1986 Zarkesh was sentenced to death penalty by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.

. Mohammad Hossein Sobhani, former member of the MKO, wrote a book on his life in the MKO, titled “Dark Days of Baghdad” in which he recounts the case of Ali Zarkesh in details. According to the book, Zarkesh’s death sentence was then reduced to imprisonment.

As Massoud Rajavi wrote in a letter to one of the group’s high-ranking member, Saeed Shahsavandi, Zarkesh was punished because he had “repositioned”! What kind of repositioning deserves death punishment?

Based on the testimonies of former members the answer was never revealed. But again based on facts witnessed by former members, Zarkesh criticizes Massoud Rajavi’s armed struggle policy for it doesnot result in the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. He is against the establishment of the so-called National Liberation Army (Saddam’s Private Army) because he sees it as a mistaken failed strategy.

Despite his opposition against military invasion, Ali Zarkesh is treated as an ordinary soldier in the MKO’s military operation across Iranian borders “Eternal Light” (Forough Javidan). He is simply killed in that disastrous operation in which a large number of the group forces were sent to death.

February 17, 2016 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 133

++ Propaganda photographs depicting MEK demonstrations against Rouhani in Paris were carefully choreographed. The non-Iranian rent-a-crowd were surrounded by MEK activists and Iranian-type people to disguise the true make-up of the attendees. Local police told Iran Interlink their estimation of numbers was between 1-2,000. The MEK claimed tens of thousands. MEK pictures with the Syrian Free Army and Saudi backed Arab groups showed deliberately provocative placards swearing at Shiites as ‘Safavis’ in Arabic. Other placards claimed the Persian Gulf as the Arab Gulf, and that Ahvaz is a separate country. This last promoted a flurry of reaction from Farsi commentators who are very sensitive to this issue. They asked ‘how low can the MEK get that they line up alongside the most wicked incitement against Iranians’.

++ Former MEK member Mirbagher Sedaghi who lives in Switzerland has a note warning ex members and families. He says “everyone knows I’m trying to rescue my brother and that he has now been moved to Albania. But the MEK called my mother in Iran saying ‘we are your brother’s friends and he is in Camp Liberty and is ill so please send money’.” Sedaghi says “the MEK obviously haven’t been able to force my brother to call himself so they had to do this themselves. But clearly he’s also not free to talk to me himself.”

++ After the transfer process stalled in January there have are now been two groups of 22 and 20 Camp Liberty residents taken to Albania in the past two weeks. The real identities of these 42 confirms that Rajavi desperate wants to send wanted people with false names to Albania. Specifially Fahimeh Arvani, Roghiyeh Abbasi, Simah Vatankhah, Jaleh Mahramnia have all been sent to Albania with false identities. They are all wanted for various crimes. Critics and former MEK members have written to the Albanian authorities to ask for investigation into this matter.

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++ Tehran Times Art Desk reported ‘Mina’s Choice’ director Kamal Tabrizi says his main motive in making the film is to give warnings to families about the danger of Daesh (also known as ISIS, ISIL and IS). Tabrizi explained. “We experienced a type of Daesh in 1980s (referring to the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization) and I wanted to remind the new generation that our security lies behind having gone through those days, while today it is the country of France that is experiencing this process”.

++ Nejat Society published the names of the latest group of arrivals in Albania. However, several have been visually identified as “among the ‘most wanted’ by Interpol, [who] were to be moved under fake identities”.

++ Anne Khodabandeh wrote a personal response to the story of a father in America who managed to prevent his daughter and two other young women from travelling to Syria. The event reminded her of how the MEK tricked the parents of Neda Hassani into sending her to Camp Ashraf so she wouldn’t be affected by “bourgeoise Western corruption”. Sadly, Neda died as a result of self-immolation in Paris in 2003 following the arrest of Maryam Rajavi on terrorism charges. “But Neda’s death wasn’t even for the cause her parents believed in. They sent her to Iraq to struggle for the freedom of the Iranian people, not the freedom of a vain and cruel woman.”

February 15, 2016 0 comments

Albania

Albania to take in all Camp Liberty residents

US official: Albanians need reforms for themselves, EU membership as well as dealing with Mojahedin Khalq

US pushing Albania to enact judicial, legislative reforms

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday pushed Albania to enact a major package of judicial and legislative reforms, backed by U.S. money that also is intended to help the Balkan nation take in Iranian refugees from Iraq.

Kerry, returning to the United States from a four-day trip to Germany, made a brief stop in Albania’s capital to urge the government and opposition parties to support the package now pending in parliament. Kerry said the reforms represent a significant step forward in Albania’s bid to join the European Union.

The changes include the creation of an anti-corruption court and prosecutor’s office as well as a national investigative body similar to the FBI in the United States. The U.S. has provided $20 million in assistance to support the reforms and $5 million more is budgeted this year.

U.S Secretary of State John Kerry, right, meets with host Albanian President Bujar Nishani after landing at the International Airport Mother Teresa, Tirana, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016. 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. (AP Photo/ Malton Dibra)

U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said that 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.

Saddam Hussein had welcomed the Iranian group into Iraq in the 1980s, but Iraq’s current Shiite-led government considers their presence illegal. The group lost what had been its home for decades, Camp Ashraf north of Baghdad, and was moved to a former U.S. base in the Iraqi capital.

Over the past 18 months, Albania has taken in about 1,000 members of the group and has committed to taking 2,000 more.

Neither Kerry nor any of the Albanian officials mentioned the relocations.

After meeting Kerry, Albanian President Bujar Nishani said he had assured Kerry of “Albania’s determination against organized crime and corruption.”

Prime Minister Edi Rama said he expected the reforms to be adopted next month.

“I am very confident we shall do that and with the United States of America on our side there is optimism for success,” Rama said.

The package is the latest effort to clean up what was once one of Europe’s most dysfunctional governments. In December, Albania’s parliament approved legislation barring people with criminal records from holding public office or most civil service jobs. The new legislation gave three months to people currently in office or in most civil service jobs who have a criminal record to resign. After that they will be dismissed.

Kerry praised Albania for its efforts so far, but reminded Rama and his government that more must be done.

“In the end, only Albanians can enact the right laws and insist on their effective implementation,” he said. “Fighting corruption is hard but necessary work — and it is vital to Albania’s economic future and its ability to become one with Europe.”

While in Tirana, Kerry also thanked Albania for its contributions to the fight against the Islamic State group, saying the majority Muslim country was a leader in countering violent extremism.