Ali Ekrami
Former members of the MEK

From Victim to Victor, Ex-Member in the Trial of the MEK leaders

Ali Ekrami, a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and the current head of Nejat Society’s office in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, participated in the 11th hearing of the MEK’s charges. Ali Ekrami was a victim of the MEK’s cult-like system. He left the group 18 years ago. He was a member of the group for 25 years.
During the court, the lawyer of the plaintiffs, Hakimzadeh Hosseini introduced Ekrami, as a person who is informed about the case, to the court. Under the order of the judge, Ali Ekrami got in place. H testified about the MEK’s spying activities against Iran during Iran-Iraq war.

Ekrami began his life story by saying: “Influenced by the slogans of the organization in 1979, I joined the MEK while I was a student of oil university.”

He continued: “After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, I was an idealist young boy with a poor family. I worked and studied at the same time and I felt that the MEK was the key to the happiness of the Iranian nation.”

The former member of the MEK added: “After the group announced armed struggle in 1981, I did not join it, but once again I was recruited by the group in 1986. I went to Iraq through Pakistan and I became a member of the 56th rank of the group’s central council.

Based on his testimonies, in 1987 Ekrami was charged with foreign policy and relations with Iraq in the MEK’s central council. Ath the time, the office of the headquarters was located in Baghdad. Ekrami was a member to coordinate the relations with Iraq and part of the Iraqi intelligence.
He added: “I was one of the coordinators for the meeting between general Haboush [former Iraqi intelligence official who served under the regime of Saddam Hussein] and Massoud Rajavi. The video was taken by Iraqi intelligence.”

The former member of the MEK said: “We collected intelligence from inside Iran and provided it to the Iraqi intelligence and the Ba’athist regime through telephone hearing and spying. 400 military advisers were trained at the Camp Ashraf. And, mainly in all MEK-run operations, the ammunitions and military equipment were provided by Iraqi Baa’th regime.”
Referring to Iraq’s bombings of Iranian cities during the Iran-Iraq war, he said: “The MEK leaders ordered the members whose hometowns had been bombed by Iraq, to contact their families and seek information about the amount of demolition and fear of the people, while in the MEK, members were banned from communicating the family. In fact, the group asked its members to get information from their families under the cover of expressing concern about them.”

Ali Ekrami is a victor now. He has built his self-confidence. He is stronger than he was in the past, under the cult-like structure of the MEK. Unlike when he was a victim of the Cult of Rajavi, he now recognizes the influence he has over his circumstances. Thus, he participated the trial of his former leaders and commandants.

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trial of MEK leaders
Iran

The Judge called on Albanians and International bodies to take action against the MEK

Judge Dehghani called on People and Albanian government to extradite the defendants of Tehran court who reside in Albania. He also asked the international bodies and other countries hosting individuals out of the 104 accused ones to take action in order to bring them to justice.

As the heading official who presides over court proceedings of the trial of the leaders and 102 high-ranking members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), began the recently held court session by addressing the international organizations and certain countries that host the MEK leaders: “

“From this position, I plea the international organizations and some countries that host the defendants of this indictment. The people of those countries should take action and ask their governments and institutions to extradite these people and submit them to the court in order to show up in court until the decision is made and final verdict is issued for the defendants.”

“There are 104 defendants with indictments issued in the court,” he continued. “They are accused of crimes that are more than one murder. How is it that when some people are suspected of murder and the police or competent institutions are informed of their presence in their countries, but they do not take any action?”

“Now, 104 people who are accused of burning people alive and bombings,” judge Dehghani added. “shouldn’t the hosting countries take the initiative and demand their competent institutions the extradition and departure of these people from their country? so that those accused with these charges can be tried in the court? A court where the defendants have the right to freely choose a lawyer.”

The head of the court expressed hope that these governments, by prioritizing the interests and the security of their people for extraditing the defendants, just like any other accused group, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, will take measures according to their national interests.

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Atefeh Sebdani
Former members of the MEK

Atefeh Sebdani’s autobiography to be translated in Persian

Atefeh Sebdani’s autobiography will be published in Persian. The Former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), Atefeh Sebdani announced on her Facebook account that her book will be published in Persian soon.

In a note that Atefeh posted on Facebook platform on April 23rd, 2024, expressing her pleasure she explained about the publisher and the time of the publication:
Nothing makes me more proud and happy, than to announce that my book will be translated to Persian and this, already this year. It’s through eminent Baran Publishing and I feel honored to be part of their fantastic authors.

To even get the chance to write a book to begin with, and that for Albert Bonniers Förlag, was never anything I took for granted. Now, another wild dream is coming true which is to get the same book translated into my mother tongue.

So many have asked for this which I’m so humbled by and now we can let you know that sometimes during fall, you will be able to get your hands on your Persian version.
Thank you @nashrebaran for this opportunity and thousands of thanks to my fantastic agency @grandagency.se whom made efforts beyond the regular to sign me with an exile publisher. You are a true gem and I knew it from the start.

Now a Swedish citizen, Atefeh Sebdani was born to Mujahed parents. Under the order of the MEK leader, Massoud Rajavi, the five-year old Atefeh and her two younger brothers were smuggled from Iraq to Europe, together with at least 900 other children of the Mujahedin.

Last summer Atefeh published her biography, “My hands in mine”, in Swedish. The book is the story of a five-year-old girl who turned into the mother of her brothers. My Hand in Mine is a story about growing up with no one to hold on to but yourself, of abuses that are skillfully covered up by the MEK’s ruling system and a society that fails to see the vulnerable children. But it is also a story of a persistent burning energy and the courage to finally break free.

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second round of courts for the trial of the MEK leaders
Iran

Trial of MEK leaders in Iran | Report of the 11th session

A new round of courts on charges of 104 high-ranking members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as well as the group as a legal entity began yesterday, April 23rd, at the 11th Branch of the Tehran Province Criminal Court. The court was presided by Judge Dehghani and his counselors Morteza Turk and Amin Nasseri.

The judge began the session by explaining that the defendants’ lawyer has the opportunity to present his statements in the court, and the court hears private plaintiffs, their complaints and their lawyers.

Judge Dehghani addressed the international bodies and the countries that host the accused: “People of those countries themselves must be the pioneer to call their governments and the international organizations to extradite these individuals in order to attend the court until the trial is finalized and the verdicts are issued.”

According to the indictments the defendants are accused to a lot of crimes including murder, burning the victim alive, bombings and shooting against civilians. “How is it that 104 people are suspected of murder, police or competent institutions re informed of his or her presence but the hosting nation does not demand their competent institutions to extradite these individuals?”, judge Dehghani asked the audience.

He added, “I announce to the people of Albania and certain European countries that indictments have been issued and they have the right to choose lawyers to defend the allegations. It seems that they have not been informed by their hosting governments.”

The head of the court expressed hope that these governments would take actions in favor of their national interests by prioritizing their people’s security extradite the defendants of the court, like any other accused groups, to the Iranian government.

Subsequently, the Judge ordered Seyyed Maysam Hakimzadeh Hosseini, one of the lawyers of the plaintiffs, to stand before the court to present his statement.

“Given that today is the first meeting that I have had the opportunity to express defense, the text of the bill will be submitted to the court,” the lawyer told the court.

The lawyer continued, “The previous incidents have shown that there have been crimes that anyone who defines crimes would not use not a word other than that, in terms of the public conscience of the media, their task is to reflect the crimes.

As we can see today, the public conscience has been awakened about Gaza crimes, and everyone takes stand against them.”
“What happened in Iran by the MEK for the past 40 years is not less important than what we see in Gaza today,” Hakimzadeh Hosseini said, “We are dealing with people who have committed the highest level of crime and betrayal against their own country and their national interests.”

The lawyer introduced two people to the court, a researcher and a former member of the MEK in order to present their statements. Safaedin Tabraeian, the researcher is the author of a book on the MEK history. Ali Ekrami, former member of the MEK and a member of Nejat Society attended the court as an informed person.

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MEK trial
Iran

Iran begins second round of proceedings against MKO terrorists

Iran has begun the second round of legal proceedings against members of the infamous terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).

The second round of the trial of 104 members of the MKO was presided over by Judge Dehghani at a court in Tehran on Tuesday.

During the court session, Dehghani called on the people of Albania and some other countries that host members of the terrorist group to demand the extradition of the terrorists from their country.

The high-profile trial of the ringleaders and members of the MKO kicked off in Tehran on December 12, 2023.

According to the criminal court, some 104 members of the terrorist group as well as a legal entity (the MKO) are sued in the trial for committing inhumane crimes.

The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks in Iran against ordinary people and officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, killing thousands of people over the past four decades.

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Maryam Rajavi
Maryam Rajavi

Why is Maryam Rajavi so hated by Iranians?

These days, admire and hope for the women of Iran is viral but not because of Maryam Rajavi. Given the history of the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), the group is extremely unpopular. It is hated by both pro-Iranian govt people and anti-Iranian govt people. Basically, everyone in Iran hates them.

Maryam Rajavi, and her husband, Massoud Rajavi, are the joint leaders of the MEK also known as the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Which all sounds very promising but the true nature of the group and its resume prove the opposite.

In 1979 the MEK supported the Islamic Revolution, only finally falling out with the Islamists a couple of years later. Whereupon they decamped to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and fought alongside the Iraqi Army against Iran during Iran-Iraq War (1980-88).

Thereafter, until Saddam’s defeat in 2003, they conducted a terrorist campaign in Iran. They surrendered to US troops in 2003 who found themselves in the slightly awkward position of fighting a War on Terror while having to protect MEK which was, at the time, proscribed as a terrorist group by the US government and the European Union. The US interned MEK at camp Ashraf, Iraq and disarmed them. The Iraqi newly established government was determined to expel the MEK which considered an accomplice of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The UN eventually arranged for MEK to be relocated in Albania, Europe.

The MEK itself was and remains a weird and cult-like group, best known for a cult of personality around the Rajavis and imposing celibacy on its members, separating children from parents, isolating members from the outside world and many other cultlike attitudes that violate the rights of MEK members.

Maryam Rajavi wears hijab. Compulsory veiling (forced hijab) is one of the many rules of her cult. Removal of veils is forbidden under the rule of Maryam Rajavi although in her so-called ten-point plan for the future of Iran she claims to stand for freedom of clothing. She does not believe in free clothing. A look at the pictures her female followers who are isolated in a camp in Albania verifies that female mujaheds are not allowed to choose for their clothing.

The MEK is Islamist (with a dash of Marxism thrown in for good measure). It is not democratic. By all accounts, it once had a good intelligence network in Iran, but that was when it was based next door in Iraq, which it has not been for nearly two decades now. They might well be by now just another group of exiles, odder than most, with no particularly deep understanding of what is going on in Iran.

Mazda Parsi

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MEK declining
Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Baluchi separatists, MEK’s last resort to survive

Ignored by the Iranian society, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) have to resort to any force which may help them survive on the Iranian political scene. Their propaganda focuses on the activities of their so-called resistance units and the latter focuses on Baluch separatists. The evidence can be seen in the MEK’s TV channel and websites.

The group’s propaganda websites routinely propagate the news of the resistance units in Sistan and Baluchestan province. The turbulent region where Jaish al-Adl extremist separatists operate and particularly, Zahedan. As the central city of the province, Zahedan is the MEK’s favorite location to recruit forces in order to launch violent acts.
What the resistance units are supposed to do is that they set fire and handmade bombs near religious, governmental and social buildings. Zahedan is the keyword they use when they talk about the activities of their resistance units.

The region is really hazardous. On December 15th, 2023, France 24 reported that at least 11 Iranian police officers were killed in a jihadist-claimed attack overnight on a police station in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. Aljazeera, also reported that the province, which lies on a major opium trafficking route, has seen occasional clashes between Iranian forces and Baluch separatists, as well as drug traffickers. And, according to the Associated Press, The Sistan and Baluchestan province borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, and has seen previous attacks on security forces by ethnic Baluchi separatists.

The MEK has been neglected by the Iranian protesters and oppositions too. The “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement never embraced the MEK and its female leader, Maryam Rajavi, because they notice her undemocratic attitude inside her group despite her democratic gestures for the outside world. Iranians see that forced hijab is one of the many forced regulations of the Cult of Rajavi like forced celibacy, forced labor, prohibition of contact with the outside world and many other cult jargons.

Thus, the dictatorship of the Rajavis that rule the MEK has proved that “life” is not an option. Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have deprived their members from all aspects of a normal life. That is why they have changed the famous slogan of “Woman, Life, Freedom” to “Woman, Resistance, Freedom”. The message is very clear: The MEK does not support the aspirations of the Iranian nation. The group does not value the territorial integrity of Iran as it once sided with Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictatorship who invaded Iran and imposed eight years of a bloody war.

Mazda Pasi

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Iranian judiciary's notice to MEK members
Iran

How important is the trial of the MEK leaders?

One of the important events in the past year was the historical trial of the leaders of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and a number of its high-ranking members by the Iranian Judiciary. The trial is considered a turning point in the history of the biggest cult-like terrorist group in Iran.

As it was expected, to respond the court sessions, the MEK accelerated its well-paid lobbying campaign to push its paid sponsors towards putting more pressure on Iran. While the tenth session of the court was held at the end of the Iranian Year, at the beginning of the Iranian new year, 8 representatives of the US Senate submitted a plan demanding the protection of members of the MEK cult in the camp called “Ashraf 3” near Tirana, Albania.

The MEK is a terrorist cult according to the international criteria. It has carried out thousands of assassinations before the Iranian revolution and after that. In the 1980s after declaring an armed struggle against the Iranian government, the group launched a large-scale terror campaign against Iranian civilians and authorities. The president, the prime minister and dozens of government officials were killed in only two bombings run by the MEK.

In 1982, by the beginning of the war imposed by Iraq, the MEK went to Iraq and sided with Saddam Hussein and fought against its own country-fellow men. They aided Saddam in suppressing Iraqi Shiites and Kurds’ uprisings, and after the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq, thousands of the MEK fighters entered the country through the border. They were logistically supported by Saddam Hussein’s weapons and equipment. The cross-border operation, called Forough Javidan, was a complete failure for the MEK. They lost more than a thousand of their forces.

After the collapse of Saddam Hussein, the MEK was expelled from Iraq and was relocated in Albania. Having become far from the Iranian border, they continued to help the enemies of Iran. They aided Israel by spying Iranian nuclear facilities, and their agents conspired with Mossad agents to launch sabotage in the country.

The MEK even participated in the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientists. By collecting information about these targets, and working as the operative arm of Mossad, the MEK agents accompanied Israel in committing the atrocious crimes against Iranian nation.

During the past decades, the true nature of the Cult of Rajavi has not been seriously revealed. The MEK terrorist leaders, the Rajavis, who committed bloody crimes in our country today take the gesture of defending human rights and democracy.
Holding a court to bring the leaders and commanders of the MEK to justice reminds people of the brutal crimes of the cult. The MEK has victimized innocent people and officials of Iran, those who could play a significant role in the construction and stability of the country.

Although the terrorist Cult of Rajavi enjoys the support of some political fractions in western countries, their trial provides an opportunity to review the cases of crimes and terrorist acts of this extremist cult. This trial reminds the public opinion inside and outside the country that Iran is the victim of MEK’s terrorism and that human rights violations in Iran were committed mostly by the MEK terrorist group. The world must understand how human rights have been violated in Iran with the assassination of thousands of Iranian civilians by the MEK terrorists.

The killing of each member of the Iranian nation by this terrorist cult could open a criminal case against its leaders and their operational teams. Now, by holding the court, these terrorists can be returned to the country under an extradition contract between Iranian and the hosting countries like France and Albania. Holding the trial for the MEK is a lawful and judicial action to pursue the rights of the Iranian nation. It is consistent with all international law conventions and could be executed according to them.

Mazda Parsi

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Aldo Solulari, media media manager
The cult of Rajavi

RTSH Interview with Nejat Society Albania’s media manager

The Albanian Radio and Television (RTSH) interviewed Aldo Sulollari. The morning show hosted by Angelo Shkreli, received the journalist Aldo Sulollari to talk about his latest projects.

The interview went on with a lot of humor but also spicy moments about the media and social projects that the journalist Aldo Sulollari has recently promoted to the Albanian public.

In some parts, it has been talked about the lifestyle of the famous journalist in the United States of America, but also a return to do media projects in the national media in Albania.
A very interesting point of this interview was Aldo’s professional anniversary, which this year marks 10 years of being part of the Albanian media, explaining that his professional life is constantly divided between the Albanian media and the focus on American platforms.

When asked by the host about his social engagements, he explained that when social activities are centered on an individual, this initiative becomes very significant for the life of this person, but also for the community to whom these social activities are transmitted, but when these activities come from outside the country, they become more solid and important, but also very interesting for the Albanian public.

Aldo explains that he has been part of a social project of Nejat Society Albania for more than 2 years now. Aldo Sulollari explains about the project:
“We are creating everything from scratch, based on every normative legal provision. Nejat in Albania, which is known in Albanian as the “rescue” Society, as the name itself is directly twinned with the founding society located in Iran, which was created by mothers whose children are in the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization known as the MEK camp.

We were in another association with another logo, but the interest was to show in the most direct way that now is the time to save those Iranians locked in that camp and to show that life is beautiful and must be lived. In Iran, we are in the year 1403, while we are in 2024 here, and it is a pity to discuss that there are still such false democracies, where the family according to the MEK is the enemy and you should not communicate with it.

In the MEK organization, all human rights are violated, and moreover, they came to Albania with a humanitarian shelter status, where according to the law, by the Albanian institutions, that camp must be monitored to understand that there are many legal violations and the people are not living free.

There are many mothers who mourn every day for the fate of their children, who have joined a camp, to go to a European country for material benefits, promising that they will have a life with democratic principles, but they’ve been stuck there for years.”

Journalists asked Sulollari for more details about the projects of Nejat Society and how it operates in Albania for its members who have left the mujahedin-e Khalq:

Aldo Sulollari answered:
“I met them by chance, as you invited me to the show tonight, I went as a journalist 2 years ago for an interview, and since that day, they have become part of my professional and personal life. A boy named Mehdi, who spoke my language very well, made me understand that these people have come here to integrate, to get a job, create their families and live life from scratch. As before, and now we are creating activities grand and modest, all kinds of activities, we try to give our best, with a team of Iranians and a team of Albanians, united together, with the support of Albanian institutions, we are giving our best every day to integrate this community in our country, but also to bring the voice of parents in Iran, for whom they suffer every day the fate of not being able to contact with their children who are in Camp Ashraf3.

If you allow me, I want to say hello to a member of the Nejat association, who was previously a nurse, doctor, dentist, and when he came to our society, he even became a writer, writing his life story, leaving his mark through literature. Khalil Ansarian, an artist at heart, who loves life, work, and even his Albanian partner. He has told every detail of his life in the MEK organization, in his book.

Inspired by this, now the Nejat Society has made it possible for the Albanian public through 3 other Albanian writers, to bring to the Albanian readers 3 new publications which are different from each other, but with a single mission to leave a witness generation for this history that has been marked in the lives of these members and to make possible and transmit the voice of mothers in Iran.”

Furthermore, during the interview, there were many jokes, where the host of the program was sneezing, and Aldo asked him if he was allergic to the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization.
In this interview and Aldo’s statements, there was also the expectation for the near future to create a media program in the Albanian media this time, to be closer to the Albanian public.

The interview was closed with a great message for Albanian citizens and also for Albanian institutions.

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Atefeh Sebdani
The cult of Rajavi

The day my brother became a Mujahed martyr!

Exactly 13 years ago I started the day with terrible news.

In recent years I have begun to wonder what my friend who delivered the news was really thinking? How she felt when she decided to call me in the morning to “send her condolences” without first finding out if I was even aware of my loss.

Of course, she was (and is) a member of the cult. A cult that lives on sensationalism and propaganda of martyrs.

My older brother had become a” martyr” just hours before. In the hands of the sect. The witnesses I spoke to afterwards, without knowing what I suspected and experienced from a distance, confirmed it exactly as I thought. That my brother was ordered to run toward the shotguns to die. Who else films an unprotected, unarmed and terrified person his last seconds before getting brutally killed and puts it on YouTube?

In the promotion of the People’s Mujahedin sect, anything is done to get the attention of the outside world. ANYTHING.

13 years ago I had already taken a distance to mujahedin but, like most others even to this day, I had chosen silence. Chosen to just withdraw quietly and live my life in peace.
Today, I know that that friend who called me didn’t give a damn about my brother’s death or about me. She only cared about being the first to call so that she could post on Facebook with her back free, blaming my brothers murder on the Iranian regime and boasting about the Mujahedin as the answer to freedom and justice.
Without any thought about what shock she left me to deal with after we hung up.

Atefeh Sebdani

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