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What is it like being child of an MEK member?

At the age of five, Atefeh Sebdani from Iran was put on a bus with her little brothers. They ended up in Gothenburg and grew up in a Mujahedin affiliated family. Her autobiography is unimaginably dark – but also very readable, GP’s Nina Morby thinks.

“All my childhood I thought that the word death was equated with the word martyr in Persian”, writes Atefeh Sebdani in his autobiography “Min hand i min”, which stands out in the large range of I-literature that dominates contemporary Swedish prose. The reader soon becomes aware of what the book is not: namely, another auto-fictional depiction of middle-class boredom and existential misery.

Sebdani’s story begins in Iran, a few years after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The mullahs have overthrown the monarchy and installed an authoritarian, Islamist republic with little tolerance for dissent. Her parents are affiliated with the People’s Mujahedin, the Marxist-Islamist opposition group that desires a secularized and democratic Iran. The father is convinced that fighting for the Mujahedin is the only right thing, the mother is politically uninterested but has no other choice.

Atefeh Sebdani

Believing it is the best for Atefeh, the mother puts her and the younger brothers on a bus with an unknown destination. After many agonizing days and nights, they finally end up in Gothenburg, with another Mujahedin-affiliated family who is running the fight from Sweden. Atefeh is asked to call the adults mom and dad, and the other children siblings. At the age of five, she herself has already assumed the role of parent to her little brothers.

It is clear from the beginning that Sebdani’s autobiography hides a darkness, but exactly how dark it is cannot be imagined at first. The years that come after arriving in Sweden are a struggle to fit in and to stay above the surface. Atefeh’s foster mother forces her to do household chores while disapproving of her entire existence. During the dinners, she asks the family to openly air what bothers them with Atefeh, who is puzzled by how it all fits with the Mujahedin’s feminist ideology.

Ultimately, “Min hand i din” is a story about the author’s own upbringing, but through it also emerges the image of Gothenburg in the 1980s, as it could appear from the eyes of an immigrant girl.
Even worse, however, is the foster father’s constant abuse, his sexual harassment, the relationship she is then forced into with her foster brother. She feels like “A body that only existed. A body that obeyed the other body in the room. A body that was a maid. A nuisance. A body to have sex with”. Dejected, she takes out a razor blade in the shower, ready to end her life. Then she remembers the promise she made to her mother: to take care of her younger brothers.

Despite all the darkness, the book is pleasant to be in, thanks to the author’s flexible language. Atefeh Sebdani, who by day works as an engineer and lecturer, writes matter-of-factly and with a clear forward movement where every sentence is carefully formulated.

Here and there the story is interspersed with italicized, shorter and more poetically written texts that resemble diary extracts. There, Sebdani writes about the longing for the mother, about the memories from the first years in Iran and Iraq. As a reader, you become greedy for these small excerpts, which offer another layer closer to the author’s innermost core. They could have been more.

But it’s a parenthesis. Overall, “Min hand i min” is a very readable autobiography that provides insight into what it is like to escape from one country and grow up in another, and what it means to be a woman in an environment where male desire rules.

Reading it is like being welcomed into a girl’s room, getting to share the author’s many secrets, and being lulled into the belief that most things will, in the end, be good.

By Nina Morby – Goteborg Posten – Translated by Nejat Society

October 1, 2023 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Atefeh Sebdani on the escape, the cult-like movement and the new book

Atefeh Sebdani was only five years old when she boarded a bus in Iraq that was to take her to Jordan.
She had her two little brothers with her.
Their mother was left behind.
- The little child Atefeh died there and then and at the same moment I became an adult.

As the bus began to roll, the terror within Atefeh grew. She saw her mother, who had just urged her to be good, to take care of her little brothers and promised to see them again soon, standing outside.

Atefeh and her two brothers

- Mother was my breath, identity and great security who did everything for us children, but then and there my anchor and all my security disappeared. With my mother, I left parts of myself that became difficult to find again.
Atefeh wanted to scream, but sat quietly so as not to worry her little brothers.
The bus was to take them from the Iraqi military camp they lived in to Jordan. When they got a piece of bread on board, Atefeh divided it in two and gave each piece to her brothers even though she herself was hungry.

- My youngest brother was still breastfeeding and tried to breastfeed all the grown women we met on the road, says Atefeh when we meet in connection with the release of her biography Min hand i min.
Before the farewell at the bus, the family had been on the run from Iran for two years. They slept in the open and sometimes sat on the streets begging. Potatoes became their only food.

– Boiled potatoes with salt, potato wedges, mashed potatoes and fried potatoes. Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. It was more or less the only thing we ate, we couldn’t afford anything else.
The family managed to get to a military camp in Iraq where people had fled a regime that was hunting them for their involvement in the People’s Mujahedin resistance movement. Atefeh’s parents joined the growing group of young Mujahideen followers and were promised a home, security, education and a vision of a united, free and democratic Iran. But they were also introduced to weapons and plans for coups.

In order to focus on their task, a divorce was required of all spouses. They would be loyal to their supreme leaders, Maryam and Massoud Rajavi, but they would also be forced to leave their children behind.
Life in the camp became everyday life where the children went to school, bathed, sang in the choir and took part in various activities.

- It was like a paradise in the middle of the desert. But in 1990, the political situation became increasingly uneasy, says Atefeh.
Bombs fell and Atefeh remembers the adults covering the ears of the smallest children after they threw them into the shelters. Once back up, they were met with enormous devastation. At the same time, as long as she had her mother, she felt safe.
- It was no longer safe to stay in the camp and that’s when the fateful decision was made to send us children to Europe, says Atefeh and tells us that she is one of 800-1,000 children who were separated from their parents during this the period.

So the children were used as tools in the movement

The bus journey continued further away from mother. Strange adults, whom the children would call aunts or uncles, whisked them across national borders.
- I did everything for my brothers and became their mother. I cried silently to myself when the boys had fallen asleep. I had promised to be good and was constantly carrying a fear that they would separate us, says Atefeh.

In 1991, the siblings came to Sweden. Here they were met by “Aunt Marzieh and Uncle Ahmed”.
Atefeh and her brothers were forced to call them mom and dad. They were supporters of the same movement as Atefeh’s parents and told the authorities in Sweden that they were relatives, which was the only way they would be allowed to stay.
- From that day we officially became refugees in Sweden, says Atefeh.
From the very beginning in the new family, where there were two other foster children as well as a biological one, Atefeh was taught not to ask for her mother.
- We were not allowed to ask, feel or think anything. The days turned into weeks which in turn turned into months and I heard nothing from my mother. We children were used very strategically in their politics and one of their strategies was to keep saying that we would be reunited with our parents. That way they could keep us within the movement and use us as tools.
At regular intervals, Atefeh had to take part in various demonstrations. She was told that they were part of the fight for a free Iran and that the sooner the country became free, the sooner she would see her late mother again.
- All free time and even during lessons we skipped, we focused on politics in the form of demonstrations, manifestations, meetings with decision-makers and the like, says Atefeh, who describes in his book how it could look:
“‘Death to the terrorist regime in Iran! Death to the terrorist regime in Iran!’
With their fists in the air, the members screamed so loudly and often that by the end of the day we had no voices left. We children imitated the adults and pumped our fists just as intensely and shouted even louder with our bright voices. The adults loved watching us do what they did. They smiled and patted us on the head. We would probably make good freedom fighters as well.”

The time went by. Once a year, mother called, but there were no happy moments because they were eavesdropped and the calls also disturbed Atefeh’s survival mechanisms.
- When you live in the reality I did, I needed to find ways to cope with my everyday life. There was only room for missing my mother in my bed at night. The days were just about fighting through. I had been thrown into a sea of sharks and was constantly trying to find ways to cope. So when those calls came, it was like tearing down all the protective mechanisms I had built up, says Atefeh.

She gets upset when she thinks about everything that went under the radar.
- I’m pissed off that nobody today takes responsibility for all the children who were torn from their parents. We children were never allowed to question, we were shuffled between different aunts and uncles.
She further believes that no one has taken responsibility, instead they have chosen to back the organization and keep the Mujahedin behind their backs. Atefeh has been told that she lied about everything or that they didn’t know what happened, even though all the signs were clearly there.
- It’s completely bizarre. Hundreds of adults who agreed to so many children being separated from their parents. No one has questioned except those who are no longer followers.
The headquarters of the Mujahedin was in Auvers in Paris. Atefeh says that it was their Mecca, a dream destination that everyone strove to get to, not least to meet the president of the movement, Maryam Rajavi.
– Being allowed to visit our headquarters was something that only selected people were allowed to do. Including me, says Atefeh and tells about the occasion that made her feel disgust rather than fascination.
- When I saw Maryam in all the luxury and care, I was struck by the feeling of the Emperor’s new clothes. Why would she be doing so well and be so celebrated while my mother remained in Iraq, became a soldier, was short of food and had to make the worst sacrifice a mother can make?

The followers set themselves on fire in protest

Atefeh began to question the whole system and found everything uncomfortable.
- It was in connection with the supporters starting to set themselves on fire in a protest that I started to feel really bad. It was such a grossly inhuman incident, but the members praised their actions.
But it was when Atefeh learned that her foster brother Hamid, who had gone to Iraq to become a soldier, had been killed that she began her fight to get her mother out of the sect.
- It’s still painful to talk about, Atefeh says and falls silent for a while.
- I got to see a film on YouTube that showed an execution of my brother, a film that was used as propaganda. They had sent Hamid completely defenseless, straight to the bullets to die. I realized that this is the same kind of propaganda I have seen about other so-called martyrs. Now it was about my brother and it was only then that the chips were down, their deaths were part of an elaborate propaganda machine.
Now Atefeh realized that it was a merciless organization she was dealing with and began to think about the criteria of what a cult is, and began a long process to get her mother out.

Today Atefeh lives with the love of her life Max, together they have three children

This is how Atefeh lives today

Today Atefeh lives with the love of her life Max, together they have three children.
- He became my reason to want to continue living and I felt for the first time really loved, again. And with his simple questions, I understood my warped reality.
Atefeh sees how the Mujahedin work hard lobbying at a high political level. But her desire to encourage others to help where she sees children in harm’s way has been greater than the fear of what the Mujahedin might threaten her, as a defector, with.
- If you see signals or have a gut feeling, you should trust it. I hope that you as an authority will realize what responsibility you have.
She wants to tell about what she has been through also for her own sake, for the little child whose hand was torn from her mother’s over thirty years ago.
- I have always loved the power of words, both in written and spoken form. But I’ve never had to give space to that side because I’ve been so controlled. As a child I had no dreams, I never planned to grow up. Today I want to take my place and am proud of myself. I choose to tell the little girl who managed despite everything and who now gets to live out a dream she didn’t even know she had.

By FRIDA FUNEMYR – Femina; Sweden’s largest magazine for women – published in Swedish, Translated by Nejat Society

September 30, 2023 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Listen to Atefeh, the little girl smuggled to Europe by the MEK

“My Hand in Mine” is an autobiography authored by Atefeh Sebdani. She was born to parents who were members of the Mujahedin_e Khalq. Atefeh and her two brothers were residing in the group’s headquarters, Camp Ashraf, Iraq, until the group’s leader Massoud Rajavi ordered to smuggle all children from Iraq to Western countries. Atefeh and her brothers were smuggled to Sweden.

Atefeh Sebdani’s inspiring story was published in Swedish language and by the Swedish publication Albertbonniersforlag. This is the publisher’s description about the book:
A little girl clings to her mother, but grown hands pry her from her mother’s arms.

Later, the girl sits on a worn-out bus driving along dusty roads towards an unknown destination. She has her arms around her little brothers and comforts them with her mother’s last words: We will see each other again soon.

Why do you abandon your children? Atefeh is five years old when she and her brothers are smuggled to Europe. The parents are soldiers in an Iranian resistance movement and remain in the organization’s military camp. In a stroke, the five-year-old is the mother of her brothers.
“Min hand i min” is a story about growing up with no one to hold on to but yourself, about abuses that are skillfully cleaned up and about a society that fails to see the vulnerable child. But it is also a story of a stubborn burning vitality, and of the courage to finally break free.

Atefeh and her two brothers

This is a review on the book published by the Swedish newspaper Gothenburg Post:
“Despite all the darkness, the book is pleasant to be in, thanks to the author’s supple language. Atefeh Sebdani … writes matter-of-factly and with a clear forward movement where every sentence is carefully formulated … a very readable autobiography that gives insight into how the is escaping from one country and growing up in another, and what it means to be a woman in an environment where male desire rules.”

The number of children of the MEK members who were smuggled to European and North American countries mounts to 700. Many of these children –about 300– were later sent back to Iraq under the pretext of visiting their parents but they were recruited by the MEK’s army as child soldiers. They were forced to wear military uniform and to receive military trainings.
The stories of MEK child soldiers are distressful. Several of them were killed in the MEK. A number of them could manage to leave the group. A few of them dared to speak out in the news media and social networks, like Amin Golmaryami, Amir Yaghmai, Zhina Hosseinnezhad and Ray Torabi.

Of those who were lucky and were not sent back to Iraq, a few have written their autobiographies. Hanif Aziz, 40, now a Swedish police officer, is the son of Mujahed parents too. He published his tragic autobiography of an orphan who strived in Sweden, in the early 2021, in Swedish language. The book was titled “Suburban snout”.

September 27, 2023 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

In the Cult of Rajavi, Shopping is a Disaster

As a destructive cult of personality, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ Cult of Rajavi) has isolated its members in its headquarters in Albania, called Ashraf 3. Members of the group are subject to entrapment, isolation from friends, family and the mainstream culture. The rare times that they are allowed to get out of the camp are for shopping. According to the defectors of the group, shopping turns to a disaster for an MEK member.

Rafigh Dehghan and Reza Mazginezhad left the MEK a few years ago. Living in Tirana, they are now members of Nejat Society Albania. In their memoirs about the suppressive atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajavi, they talk about shopping as an activity that was a tool for mind control and manipulation.

Better not going shopping

In a video message, Reza Mazginejad, a former member of the MEK, talks about the strict structure of confession and self-criticism meetings in group. He, who is now a member of the Nejat Society Albanian branch, remembers that when he was trapped in Ashraf 3, leaving the camp and shopping in the streets of Tirana meant for him to count the facts that were in the MEK system, were known as the “Jim” facts, an MEK-built term referring to sexual thoughts. With bitter humor in his words, he explains that sometimes his mind was so busy counting and remembering Jim moments that he forgot to shop.

Reza Mazginejad; MEK former member in Albania

Every night, members of the Cult of Rajavi should report in self-criticism meetings, the cases that they experienced “Jim moment” during the day. This means that every moment they think of the affairs of normal life such as an opposite sex, they should confess it as a sin before their peers, because according to the group leaders, these moments are considered “sexual” and so that person should be punished.

In the MEK, self-criticism sessions are held seriously, persistently and regularly every night at Ashraf 3. The atmosphere of repression and peer pressure in these sessions is so intense that the members try to have something to say among the crowd every night in order to get out from under the blade of repression as soon as possible. In order to get cleansed they should be suppressed, verbally and even physically abused.

Women wearing pants dangerous for Mujaheds

Rafiq Dehghan, the other former member of the MEK, talks about his distressful memories for a simple shopping trip outside Ashraf 3. He, who is now an active member of Nejat Society, talks in a video message with a sad and frustrated tone about his strange memories of brief appearances in the free world.

According to the testimonies of this former member of the Cult of Rajavi, every time going shopping for MEK members is equal to a flood of questions about the “Jim” moments they might have experienced. Dehghan, who is nervous of recalling these memories, mentions some examples of the questions that the commanders would ask him after returning from shopping:
“How many women did you see? How many moments? Tell me who wore pants?!…”

Rafiq Dehghan

These questions are repeated every night in the self-criticism sessions called “Night cleansing”, which distort the memoirs of the isolated space of Ashraf 3 every time. Members are forced to have answers to these questions, to confess their so-called sexual moments. To bear the criticism and oppression of the commanders and peers and finally to express regret for what they have seen and thought about.

Actually, destructive cults disregard life and even harm life. They use isolation, and phobia indoctrination to overwhelm cognition of their members. In Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality, the commanders control who you talk to, who you see in the streets, what you read and what you watch. They victimize ordinary life in favor of their bizarre cult activities like daily self-criticism sessions called Night Cleansing. One of the MEK’s darkest practices is aimed to control sexual thoughts.

Members of the MEK are constantly under an abusive, manipulative and suppressive controlling system. The international Human rights bodies and Albanian authorities must take urgent action to stop the group leaders from violating the human rights of those who are residing in Ashraf 3 as the group’s hostages.

Mazda Parsi

September 26, 2023 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Ali Asghar Zamani announced his defection from the MEK

Ali Asghar Zamani, officially announced his defection from the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK). Zamani escaped from the group’s headquarter Camp Ashraf 3 near Tirana, Albania.

Ali Asghar Zamani left the MEK on Thursday, September 14th, 2023. In an opportunity that his commanders lost control over him, Zamani escaped the group and turned himself to the fourth station of Tirana’s Police. He then joined his friends at Nejat Society Albania.

Zamani was born in Tehran, in 1959. In 2003, he joined the MEK together with his family –his wife, son and daughter—because the MEK agents had promised him to transfer them from Iraq to Europe and help them find a good job and a happy life there.

“Some time after we got there, I realized my mistake and I realized that I was deceived, that the MEK does not provide us with any possibility to go to Europe and get asylum there,” he writes in the statement to announce his official defection from the group.

At the time, Zamani’s son was 17 years old, a good target for the MEK’s child soldier army. “They separated my son from me,” he states. “They had taken him as a hostage. I was not allowed to talk to him.”

As a soldier of the MEK’s army, his son was forced to wear military uniform. He was intimidated and indoctrinated with fear that his return to Iran will end with his arrest and death penalty. “Indeed, they had kidnapped my son,” Zamani writes.

Zamani was ordered to divorce from his wife. He did not accept. Zamani, his wife and their daughter could manage to return to Iran but without the son. In 2005, Zamani got back to Iraq to rescue his son, but he fell into the MEK’s trap once again.

“At that time, I had no choice,” he recounts. “I had to tolerate the condition. I wanted to take my son with me in any way. But even though my son was not far from me, I was not permitted to visit him in those inhumane conditions that prevailed there. They didn’t show my son to me, and if I happened to see him, I would be under Rajavi’s control; we couldn’t talk or contact each other. Because every family contact was considered against the organization’s ruling.”

When the MEK was relocated at Camp Liberty, under the supervision of the UN authorities, the son could manage to find an opportunity and ask the UNHCR to aid him leave the MEK. He succeeded to leave but the father was sick, hospitalized in Baghdad, under sever control of Rajavi’s agents.

Ali Asghar Zamani was not able to escape the Cult of Rajavi until two weeks ago after of writing several requests to the group leaders for leaving. Their answer was always no. As a dissident member, he was jailed in a room when the Albanian Police raided Ashraf 3 two months ago. “When the Albanian police came to the camp for inspection, they locked me in the proper room where I was living,” he writes. “Two members watched over me so that I could not go to the police and ask for asylum.”

“I could not trust them anymore and I knew that after a year they would come up with another excuse and not let me leave”, he writes about the leaders’ false promises. “Because of this, during a trip to Tirana for shopping while I was under the control of my supervisors, I managed to escape and turn myself to the Albanian police and apply for asylum.”

Ali Asghar Zamani is happy with the way the Albanian Police treated him. He is also pleased that he is free now but, he regrets the 20 years he lost behind the bars of the Cult of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. “After my release, I realized that my beloved mother has passed away and I cursed Rajavi a thousand times in my heart,” he writes with sorrow and anger.

September 25, 2023 0 comments

Gholamreza Shekari and his Albanian wife

The cult of Rajavi

Liri Shekari speaks of her husband’s tragic story as a MEK member – Part one

Lirije Shekari, the wife of Gholamreza Shekari, a former member of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK), tells about the bitter times of members caught in this cult. Lirije Shekari is an active member of the Albanian Nejat Society. Gholamreza Shekri married Liri after leaving the MEK cult in Albania, and unfortunately shortly after the couple got married, Gholamreza was detained in the illegal refugee camp of Karec. These days, Liri Shekari is waiting for her husband’s release from the illegal refugee camp of Karec, and she continues humanitarian activities along with other members of the Albanian Nejat Society.

Her recent message, published on the Facebook page of the Albanian Nejat Society, seems worth to read because an Albanian citizen who is married to a former Mujahed has written them:
I am Lirije Shekrai, the wife of Gholamreza Shekari, since I met Reza, I wanted to know the story of his life. Every time I told him why he had come to Albania, she told me: ” I will tell you my life story at an appropriate time”. A few months passed and one day he proposed to me. I couldn’t believe it when he held my hand and told me that I am ready to share my life with you.

After some time, we got married and one day he came over and said: “Do you want to know how my life was and why I came to Albania after so many years?” I replied that I wanted to know who he really was.

He started telling his memoirs from the time he was in the Iran-Iraq war. He told me how he entered Iraq with two other people from Iran and there they left him alone.
It was interesting that I had never heard the word, “Mujahid”, that I could not pronounce it. He told me his story of how the MEK agents tricked him and captured him in the war.

I just realized that after 37 years Reza has not been able to see his mother and even in Albania, he applied for a visa for his mother but it was not approved. It seemed clear to me what Reza says when he says the MEK is against the family.

September 23, 2023 0 comments

Ms. Naime Gjongecaj, a politician and activist of human rights and women's rights, as well as a candidate for parliamentary representation from the Democratic Party,

Missions of Nejat Society

Naime Gjongecaj visited the representative office of the Nejat Society in Tirana

At the invitation of the Nejat Society Albania, Ms. Naime Gjongecaj, a politician and activist of human rights and women’s rights, as well as a candidate for parliamentary representation from the Democratic Party, on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 6 pm, was present at the office of the representative of Nejat Society in Tirana as the first guest after the opening. While visiting the villa of the representative office, she discussed and exchanged opinions with the officials of this society.

In this visit, Mr. Sarfaraz Rahimi, Mr. Khalil Ansarian, and Mr. Ebrahim Moradi, as well as Mrs. Erisa Rahimi and Mrs. Mirlinda Ansarian were present and each of them gave detailed explanations. The message of Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society, was given a to Ms. Gjongecaj in this meeting, and in return, she sent a message that: “I will do everything I can to help you and the families and the former members, and I would never fail.” She promised to use all her capacities in parliament and other political and media circles to introduce the cause of the families.

Ms. Naime Gjongecaj at the Nejat office of Albania

In this meeting, Ms. Gjongecaj pointed out that she was greatly influenced by the speeches of Mother Soraya Abdollahi at the meeting of the Nejat Society held in Tirana on March 8 this year. She said that she was deeply affected by Ms. Abdollahi’s words, so that the tears in her eyes have not dried since that day.
Ms. Naime Gjongecaj added in the meeting with the officials of the representative office of the Nejat Society in Tirana that “with our cooperation, we can secure the release of the captives in the Manez camp and make the hearts of mothers and families happy.” She pledged to be the voice of the mothers and families as well as the trapped members of the MEK in Albania and bring it to the public opinion of the Albanian people.

Nejat Society Albania

September 20, 2023 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Ali Zamani escaped the MEK and joined the Nejat Society Albania

We are pleased to inform the respected families and the general public of Iran that another of the children trapped in the MEK was able to be rescued from the captivity of this terrorist cult and regained his freedom.

Ali Zamani at the office of Nejat Society Albania

Mr. Ali Asghar Zamani Varkaneh, a former member of the Rajavi Cult, was able to escape in a brave situation on Thursday 14th of September 2023 and introduced himself to the Tirana No. 4 Police Station and subsequently joined his friends.

Tirana No. 4 police station

The Nejat Society Albania would like to first of all express its gratitude to the authorities of the government and police of Albania, especially the officials of Tirana No. 4 Police Station, and secondly, to congratulate all the families on the rescue of Mr. Ali Zamani and his joining the great family of Nejat.

Nejat Society Albania

September 20, 2023 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Opening of the Nejat Society Albania in Tirana

Some time ago, a group of former members of MEK in Albania, and their Albanian companions, who were working under the title “Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA)”, sent a letter to the CEO of Najat Society, requesting to continue their activities under the title “Nejat Society Albania”.
The text of this letter is as follows:

Mr. Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of Najat Society
Greetings and regards

From the beginning, the activities of the Nejat Society in Albania, under the title “Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA)”, have been under the unhesitating support of the Nejat family members in Iran. Families in Iran fully supported their children in Albania, and on the other hand, those who separated from the Rajavi Cult in Albania, and their Albanian companions, have used their efforts to fulfill the human rights demands of the families.
But in our opinion, at this point in time, especially after passing the turning point of June 20, 2023, in line with the pursuit of the goals of the Nejat Society and the wishes of the families, some people created disturbances and disruptions, whose actions were against the principles of the association, and therefore ASILA has no capacity to fulfill the human rights demands of the families. Currently, we can safely say that we could not achieve the desired results in this forum.
Therefore, after coordination with the police and the Ministry of Interior of Albania, we request to agree to the new constitution and with the same goals of the human rights of families in the Nejat Society, and as the official representative of the Nejat Society in Albania. In this new form we can continue our activities to reach the desired results as soon as possible.
Many thanks
List of signatures:
(including 25 signatures)

Subsequently, the CEO of the Nejat Society sent the following letter to the former members of the Rajavi Cult in Albania.

Dear friends
Greetings and may God bless you all

On behalf of the expectant families of members trapped in the Rajavi Cult in Albania who have always supported their children, and on behalf of the board of directors of Nejat Society, I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude for your sincere activities during this time.
If you do not see any obstacles or problems, and the necessary arrangements have been made, your activities under the proud banner of the great Nejat family, which has been working for the human rights of suffering families, both inside and outside Iran for two decades, is our privilege.
I hope all of us can, with a correct understanding of the turning point of June 20, 2023, which brought families much closer to their human rights goals, take more effective steps towards the satisfaction of God and our dear and respected families.
Sincerely
Ebrahim Khodabandeh

Office of the Nejat Society in Tirana

After receiving this letter, the Nejat Society Albania announced its presence in a new villa in the center of Tirana, which the address and location will be announced later:
The text of the declaration announcing the opening of the Nejat Society Albania is as follows:

Respected families, dear compatriots
With great pride and ultimate pleasure, we would like to announce the opening of the activities of the Nejat Society Albania in the center of Tirana.

As we mentioned in the letter to the CEO of Nejat Society, the previous form of our activity, namely the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA), was not compatible with the type of our activities at this time, and there were many cumbersome obstacles in terms of the statute and management which slowed down our activities.
Therefore, it was decided that with the permission of the Nejat Society, these activities will continue within the framework of a new constitution and goals under the title “Nejat Society Albania” as the official representative of the Nejat Society in Tirana to support Iranians.
We pledge to expectant families to advance our efforts and activities in this new form, without any hindrances, with multiple acceleration to realize the rightful wishes of the families.

Nejat Society Albania
September 20, 2023

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Smuggling Medicine from Germany and Italy by the terrorist group of MEK

How are the Medicines of the Terrorist Group of the MEK supplied?

The terrorist group of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, was on the list of terrorist groups in the United States and Europe from 1997 to 2012 due to the killing of 17 thousand of innocent people, after leaving the FTO list in 2012 and with extensive consultations between the United States and Albania, finally entered Albania in 2016. This terrorist group, which has a record of more than 40 years of killing and torturing innocent people, has now lost its operational capacity and is passing its old age. According to the statistics taken from these people upon entering Albania, it shows that more than 70% of the members of this terrorist cult are between the ages of 70 and 80, and with a simple calculation, it can be understood that a person at this age is facing many diseases that require considerable medical services.

On the first day of this group’s presence in Albania, it was found that about 3 thousand people from this group have settled in Albania from Iraq, now it can be concluded that the medical services of Camp Ashraf 3 alone, require more than a few hospitals in Albania. According to a simple assessment, an average surgery in Albania requires 2,000 euros, and post-operative costs such as medicine and daily medical care should be added to this amount. Now, with the lack of some medicines in Albania and also the lack of some medicinal items, the preparation of medicines is done at a high cost for those who do not have insurance. According to these cases, the question that is raised would be, considering the old age of members of this group, where would the cost of this amount of medical services be provided? Why do these expenses and the amount of money spent on these services by the terrorist group of MEK have no source?

According to the evaluation done by different physicians and researchers on elderly people between 60 and 80 years old, obtained results show that people of this age suffer from diseases such as blood pressure, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, immobility, rheumatism, neurological problems, and cancer. Now the question is that 3,000 people who are in an isolated environment that has a military status and according to the members separated from this terrorist group, there is no emotional feeling between the members and they are kept without spouses and in separate dormitories. How do they do their medical affairs? According to the information obtained from the Mother Teresa Hospital, which is located near the camp of MEK, it shows that none of the MEK members was admitted to this hospital even for a single day. It should also be taken into account that after the operation of Forough Javidan and the heavy defeat of the terrorist group of the MEK in the attack on Iran, which led to the destruction of thousands of people from this group, many of these people are disabled and have to spend the rest of their lives with a disability. As you know, disabled people must always be under medical care and use special medical equipment. In fact, Albania, with a population of about 3 million people, is not ready to provide this amount of medical equipment and special and expensive drugs for disabled people. How do these 3 thousand people get their medicine and medical equipment? Where do they perform their surgeries? In which medical service center are they hospitalized?

Two theories can be considered for this group, one is that medical equipment and medicines are not provided for the people inside the camp, and it isn’t logical that the members of this terrorist cult, who are busy with their activities and preparing fake news every day against Iran to continue their lives without medicine and medical equipment, because many of the diseases that have been mentioned before, without medicine and disease control, lead to the risk of death for people. The second case is that this amount of medicine and medical equipment be provided by the group of MEK and the companies established by this group in European countries. The second theory is more likely, because some time ago, the group of MEK organized ophthalmology services for the residents of the villages around the camp and provided contact lenses and glasses, and distributed a large number of prescription glasses to the people for free, and all these events happened inside the camp. Therefore, inside the camp, the terrorist group of the MEK has provided the possibility of medical services for its members and people living in the villages around the camp, in this case, the theory that the members receive their medical services inside the camp is proven, but members of the MEK need a large amount of medicine and it is not clear where this amount of medicine comes from. According to the review of the pharmaceutical system of Albania, it is clear that all imported drugs are distributed among pharmacies, and the interesting thing is that the MEK members did not use these pharmacies. So how do they get their medicines?

According to the information received from the Albanian customs, it was found that no medicine is allowed to be sent separately to the camp, and the medicines can only be distributed after being transferred to pharmacies and must be legally purchased from inside the pharmacy. So the main question arises: how do these 3,000 people get their medicines? The answer to this question can be expressed as, if you need medicine and you have to get it from the pharmacy and this action is not done, there is only one way left and that is to import the medicine into the camp. Since the camp of the MEK does not have any license to establish a pharmacy, the result is that the drugs needed by the camp of the MEK are smuggled into this country without the knowledge of the government of Albania, for this purpose, the government of Albania should be more sensitive to the amount of medicines smuggled into its country by the MEK.
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Second part

Smuggling Medicine from Germany and Italy by the terrorist group of MEK

Alireza Niknam

In the first article, it was mentioned that the terrorist group of the MEK, who were on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in America (FTO) and Europe from 1997 to 2012 due to the killing of 17 thousand innocent people, after leaving this list and with extensive consultations between the United States and Albania, finally entered Albania in 2016. This terrorist group, which has a record of more than 40 years of killing and torturing innocent people, has now lost its operational capacity and is passing its old age. According to the statistics taken from these people upon entering Albania, it shows that more than 70% of the members of this terrorist cult are between the ages of 70 and 80, and with a simple calculation, it can be understood that a person at this age suffers from many diseases that require many medical services.

On the first day of this group’s presence in Albania, it was found that about 3 thousand people from this group had settled in Albania from Iraq, now it can be concluded that the medical services of Camp Ashraf 3 alone require more than a few hospitals in Albania. Another point is the medicines that this terrorist group needs and the history of these people’s presence in pharmacies has not been recorded so far. According to the information received from the Albanian customs, it was found that no medicine is allowed to be sent separately to the camp, and the medicines can only be distributed after being transferred to pharmacies and must be legally purchased from inside the pharmacy. So the main question arises, How do these 3,000 people get their medicines? The answer to this question can be expressed as if you need medicine and you have to get it from the pharmacy and this measure is not taken, there is only one way left and that is to import the medicine into the camp. Since the camp of the MEK does not have any license to establish a pharmacy, the result is that the medicines needed by the camp of the MEK are supplied and smuggled into this country without the knowledge of the Albanian government.

In this article, we have tried to express significant points about this terrorist group with field research from Albania and the previous country where the MEK lived, Iraq. The terrorist group of the MEK, according to the records obtained from them in Iraq, mostly have diseases for which medicines, according to the research carried out in Albania, are not available in this country. Among the common diseases that appear in the medical records of the members of the MEK group are Alzheimer’s, severe osteoporosis, diabetes, various cancers, digestive system problems, heart problems, and high blood pressure. Since the terrorist group of the MEK has always been a puppet or a military tool for the Western governments and for that reason, it has participated in military operations against its country and the people of Iraq, it has certainly received a lot of damage from these operations to the extent that after the operations of Forough Javidan, Anfal, Morvarid 1 and 2, a large number MEK members have suffered physical and mental disabilities and have to use rare medicines to control or treat themselves. According to research, most of these medicines are not available in Albania, and to supply them, they must be imported from the U.S., England, Germany, Italy, and India. According to the investigation of medicine import in Albania, it seems that this country has not imported medicines for these diseases due to the ban on the import of some medicines, so as a result, these items must be smuggled away from the eyes of the Albanian government, but how does the terrorist group of MEK import their medicines into Camp Ashraf 3 in Manza?

The answer is simple, under the guise of humanitarian measures such as importing contact lenses and eyeglasses for the residents of the villages and under the pretext of helping the needy people in the vicinity of the camp, this terrorist group has smuggled its medicine. Based on the investigation, the lenses and glasses sent to Albania were produced in China, and with a simple look at the glasses and medical lenses, you can see its brand as Wenzhow M&I Eyewear Co., LTD, and the country of their manufacture, but the shipment first went from China to Germany then to Italy and from there it entered Albania. Well, the question is why a shipment of medical equipment that comes from China should go to Germany, then to Italy, and then enter Albania? The answer is that the terrorist group of MEK has registered several companies and associations in Italy and Germany to provide medical and pharmaceutical equipment and send them to the Mujahedin-e Khalq camp in Albania. For example, the Association of Iranian Political Refugees living in Italy and the Association of Iranian Youth in Italy are two associations that use the guise of the association to do money laundering and finance the MEK to buy medical equipment. Previously, many money-laundering activities were carried out in Germany, England, and France, and many cases of these activities were revealed in these countries, examples of which were the identification of an orphanage in England, which used the guise of an orphanage to separate children from their families, who were members of this cult, then they transferred them to European countries such as England, Germany, France and so on. These charities received money from the government and international organizations and this money was sent to the headquarters of the MEK. Maryam Rajavi herself was arrested in her home in France for the crime of money laundering along with a large number of MEK members.

The terrorist group of MEK has proven many times that they will continue their terrorist and illegal actions in any way; it does not matter if the Albanian government restricts them or not, history has proven that they will continue their actions for years. a few years ago, by separating children from the members of this cult, they used them for money laundering in Europe under the guise of orphaned children, and now they smuggle their medicines under the guise of supporting the people of the villages around the camp in Albania. From the records of medicine smuggling by MEK, which was also included in the media, we can refer to the news of the Italian news agency LaRedazione with the title “I vaccini migrano via mare, il primo caso di fuga di Astrazeneca, da Bari verso l’Albania” on May 23, 2021, mentioned about the arrest of 2 of MEK members while smuggling vaccines to Albania by the Italian Coast Guard. These two people were 73-year-old Qasim Farhadi and 70-year-old Abdolrahim Orangi, both of whom were members of the MEK in Albania, who were at the sea border of Italy with Albania and arrested before leaving the border of Italy by the coast guard of this country along with the cargo of smuggled vaccines.

These are only a part of the chain of medicine trafficking by the terrorist group of MEK, which was mentioned in this article, and the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, and the anti-terrorism court of this country are requested to intensify monitoring the entry and exit of smuggling equipment to the headquarters of the MEK in Manza to prevent drug smuggling to Albania. Albania should know that the arrest of the MEK members who have political asylum in Albania, which is also on the borders of Italy, is considered a danger for this country, because every time the people of this terrorist group are arrested, Albania will be one step away from the European Union.

By Alireza Niknam – Geopolitika

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