++ cibloggers.com has an online analysis of MEK activities. Among these activities, cibloggers.com lists the various blogs, Facebook pages and websites created by the MEK as deceptive clones of genuine internet places. Ironically many of these clones are of ex-members sites – in particular the MEK is using the name ‘Iran Interlink’ for these clones. Cibloggers describes this as ‘Rajavi’s Desperation’ and says that all this effort is just so that people might mistakenly visit their sites instead of genuine ones like Iran-Interlink.org. That is their maximum expectation.

++ The MEK have begun a campaign to publish a series of articles and pictures to show that the residents of Camp Liberty are holding demonstrations. Farsi commentators point out that this is a place to which even UNAMI officials have restricted access, let alone any press, media or families. They ask, “How can you call this a ‘demonstration’ when there are no media or officials to witness and report it?” Others have highlighted the MEK’s misuse of women’s rights by publishing pictures of a handful of women posing for pictures holding banners written in English. Several people have said, “We know these women, some are known dissenters and in any case none of them speak English. Their faces show they are under pressure. Rajavi is trying to position women at the front of the organisation, but the reality of their situation is obvious from this picture.”

++ News has emerged that Mojgan Parsai is in Tirana. Many people who knew her as a notorious torturer under Saddam’s Iraq condemn the fact that she is now freely walking around in Albania.

++ Ebrahim Khodabandeh has published part 8 of the ongoing articles in which he reveals what MEK insiders divulge to him about what is happening inside the cult. In this article Khodabandeh says this coming week marks the 50th anniversary of the MEK and Massoud Rajavi is on overdrive to spend money to uphold the past (nobody in the MEK still thinks they are continuing the original path of ant-Imperialism). Rajavi will shortly announce who he has appointed as the new MEK leader and will start a new series of Ideological Revolution sessions. According to people inside the MEK, this is his last effort to keep it together and stop it disintegrating. The reason is that nobody believes in it anymore and the MEK is falling apart. The most common doubts and questions which are being raised, and are being suppressed through physical and mental means, are:

– Rajavi always said after Maliki we will move back to Camp Ashraf, but everyone sees that even Camp Liberty is being closed and everyone is being moved to Albania.

– Second, how long does a man live that he is in hiding for 12 years? What’s the point of him?

– Third the NLA and military capability is finished, so what happened to the armed struggle which Rajavi still insists we must believe in? How does that work?

– There are many question about the recent nuclear deal and the fate of Camp Maryam in France as the French are saying more and more clearly that the MEK are no longer – have never been – welcome there.

– There is a huge amount of questioning and uncertainty about the fate of the people in Albania. There is clearly no plan. What is Rajavi’s strategy or tactic for them?

– The main question which frightens the MEK more than any other and which is gaining momentum is, ‘Can anyone give an example of the MEK doing anything for themselves, any independent action or strategy it has followed that has not been dictated by Saddam Hussein, America, Israel or Saudi Arabia?’

In English:

++ Two main threads this week. One is criticism of the MEK in the political context of the nuclear agreement. The other are reports concerning the ongoing human rights violations of the MEK, particularly the efforts of the Mohammadi family whose search for MEK hostage Somayeh has been met with violence in the streets of the small tourist village of Auvers-sur-Oise by the MEK.

++ A good news story from Nejat Bloggers: Fereydoun Ebrahimi, who had been forced to remain in the MEK’s cult camps for 15 years, managed to escape Camp Liberty in 2014 by approaching the UN officials and asking for help. Fereydoun had no contact with his family from the time he was recruited by the cult. He called his family as soon as he stepped back into the free world. He then went to Turkey. In Turkey he was able to meet with his mother and other family members after 15 years, though unfortunately his father had passed away. Ebrahimi now lives a free life in Germany and is due to repatriate to his homeland to join his family. The MEK Cult leaders prevent any family contact and consider family relations as their cult’s enemy. According to the reports of defected members of the group, most of those residing in Camp Liberty are willing to leave the Cult.

++ Fars News reports that according to an informed source in Bahrain “The Al Khalifa regime has recently asked the MKO terrorist group to cooperate with the Manama government to confront Iran”. He noted that the Bahrain intelligence service believes that Iran is the main supporter of the Manama government’s opponents and for this reason it supports the MKO as an armed opposition group which has assassinated over 12,000 Iranian citizens and officials. “The Manama government has sent Bahraini lawmaker Jamal Bouhassan to Paris to meet MKO leaders to the same end,” the source said. The source also revealed that Bahraini journalist Hani al-Fardan has been arrested for publishing an article against MKO. Al-Fardan has been arrested over an article during which he criticized Bahraini lawmakers for supporting the MKO terrorist group. Al-Fardan, the Arabic-language Al-Wasat journalist, was interrogated over his article that criticized the Salafist Member of Parliament, Jamal Bouhassan, who attended the MKO meetings in Paris, and disclosed how Bahrain and its Parliament support the MKO terrorist organization’s activities against Iran.

 August 28, 2015

++ The MEK continues to react to the nuclear deal. From the start until now the MEK have been dizzy. From one side they shout against the EU and US, repeating Netanyahu’s rants against the deal. On the other hand the Rajavis claim the deal represents ‘the defeat of Iran’ and ‘we forced them to sign this defeat’. Comments in Farsi say that Massoud Rajavi claiming such power as to have toppled Sarkozy in France, toppled Maliki in Iraq and that ‘we will topple Obama in the US’ is really ridiculous. Some say that although this is not the result of a sane mind and he really is delusional, but still this contradictory reaction shows that the MEK are really afraid they have lost everything they had since they had banked everything on the nuclear issue. However, from this week the MEK is officially moving from the nuclear issue to that of human rights, staging small pickets in Europe and North America to try to change the subject. The Farsi Commentariat identify the agenda of the MEK paymasters behind this rather than their own analysis and planning. The problem is that Western human rights organisations don’t want to be associated with the MEK because they have their own dirty history with Saddam Hussein and as cult. Instead the MEK has resorted to fabricating lies – using photos taken inside Iran of demonstrations and worker strikes and claiming these are MEK supporters inside Iran. Again, those who know them point out that this is not a new tactic, and say for example, this is how Iran Aid deceived the public into donating money; falsely claiming they were running refugee camps and saving all kinds of victims over the years. This activity is merely a symptom of the MEK trying to say they are still alive after the nuclear deal.

++ Nejat Association published a short two part interview with Byram Ali Mohammadi. In it he explains how, as a young teenager, he went to Turkey to find a job and while working in a car wash the MEK deceptively recruited him and took him to Iraq. Once there he found a way to run away but the MEK caught him and brought him back to their camp. As soon as he arrived in Tirana he escaped them and contacted his family who were able to help him and bring him back to Iran. He is the youngest and newest person to repatriate to Iran from Albania and there have been quite a few before him.

++ The MEK is still continuing its campaign of writing against the BBC using the names of various political prisoners in Iran. Farsi comments point out how ridiculous this is. It means that prisoners in Iran have access to satellite television to watch the BBC, then are then free to write a response using stock MEK invective and then post it to the UK! This means prisons in Iran are more open than anywhere else in the world. Other comments say that these nasty attacks on the BBC and Britain mean the MEK has given up after many years on the hope of getting a visa for Maryam Rajavi and have now childishly turned round to swear at the UK. Massoud Khodabandeh of Iran Interlink spoke with BBC Farsi about this issue. The producer said it was ‘unfortunate that when the BBC want to say something about the MEK and give them the opportunity to explain themselves, they always refuse, yet when we produce a programme which is irrelevant to them they come out and swear at us. However, the BBC understands its audience and their trust in us as well as their knowledge of the MEK and so it doesn’t affect us but only reveals the MEK’s madness.’

++ Following Mostafa Mohammadi’s activities in Auvers-sur-Oise to try to get his daughter back, the MEK continue to rant against him labelling him an agent of the Iranian regime. In addition this week the MEK have broadcast a video of Somayeh Mohammdi swearing at her family. It is clear from her behaviour that this is forced and that swearing at her own mother is not something she can easily do. The Mohammadi family are now back in Canada. Mostafa published an open letter to his daughter Somayeh saying that as we know you, we can see this does not come from your own thoughts and feelings and is forced. He continues, ‘however, me and your mother, your two brothers and your sister sat together and watched it over and over again. It made us very happy to see that you are OK. And we noticed that Maryam Rajavi has been forced to give you some civilian clothes to appear in. Although these are not exactly what she buys for herself from the Champs Elysees, we see it as a step toward your freedom that you have abandoned wearing military clothes.’ The letter continues, ‘if you do get to hear about this letter, my message is to maintain your hope and I promise we will meet again despite everything that Rajavi is doing and saying’.

In English:

++ In several articles promoting the nuclear deal, the MEK is cited as a deceptive and destructive element in opposing it.

++ An article by Mazda Parsi of Nejat Association discusses recent examples of the destructive and dangerous aspects of the MEK’s cult activities. He identifies the cases of Mostafa Mohammadi and Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad at Auvers-sur-Oise in which the MEK used public violence to try to silence them. The article refers to the Family Survival Trust as “a reliable and informed source on the cults since they professionally deal with a large number of case studies being abused by different cults. FST’s website proposes, ‘What damaging cults have in common is their vindictive abusiveness and their dissociative totalitarianism’.” Parsi links this with an interview with Ebrahim Khodabandeh who is a leading cult expert in Iran in which he says the MEK tells lies to recruit members then brainwashes them to tell lies themselves.

++ Iran’s Fars News Agency reported the visit of Iran’s Deputy Head of the Human Rights Headquarters for International Affairs Kazzem Qaribabadi to Baghdad. During meetings with officials from Iraq’s Judiciary and Human Rights ministries, Qaribabadi called for the complete expulsion of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization terrorist group members from Iraq and expressed Iran’s appreciation of Iraq’s stance toward the MEK. “He underlined the necessity for joint cooperation in fighting terrorism at international circles, hailing Iraq’s campaign against the terrorist groups, specially the ISIL”, the report said.

August 21, 2015