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Interview with Alireza Einakian, MKO former member- Part1

Mr. Alireza Einakian could manage to run away from Camp Ashraf after midnight of September 7th 2010. His escape was successful due to his courageous innovate plan. The following is the interview with Mr. Einakian by Sahar Family Foundation:

SFF: what does an MKO member do in a typical day in camp Ashraf?
Mr. Alireza Einakian could manage to run away from Camp Ashraf after midnight of September 7th 2010.
Mr. Einakian: There are some general programs to plan the members’ daily schedule so there is so little time left for members’ personal affairs. Since the wake up time in the morning – which changes according to the season – until lunch time, you have to work continuously. After lunch there is a short break time, then you should attend the meetings in the afternoon. Then its exercise time and then the members should have dinner. After dinner, members might attend meetings again otherwise they have to listen to special tapes. Thus, at the end of a working day, you are so exhausted that you just fall asleep. There will be a great problem if you are supposed to stand guarding at night! The mentioned schedule is carried out on weekdays but in the weekend (Thursday and Friday) the plans change. The members believe that the weekends’ schedule is worse than that of weekdays because they have to attend numerous meetings held one after the other. It is so bothersome.

SFF: How about manipulation meetings and the reports members are supposed to write?

Mr. Einakian: Everyday when you attend Current Operation meetings, you should write about at least three or four sins you committed before attending the meeting, during the day. If you write nothing or very few facts about yourself, you will be criticized by your peers in the meeting.
The "layer meetings" are held every other day.
You should attend them while you have certainly written a report. In case you haven’t written a report, you will be the subject of the meeting; you will be insulted and at the end you will have to sign an engagement letter to promise that you will bring a report for the following meeting.
On Thursday afternoon, they usually hold a weekly brainwashing meeting in which members of the same rank should attend. Every individual should read his sexual moments [moments of sexual thoughts]for his peers and make a conclusion. I usually tried not to listen to the others’ facts after reading my own ones because while listening to their sexual thoughts I myself would have sexual thoughts too.

SFF: in order to prevent members from escaping the camp, what obstacles have the organization imposed?

Mr. Einakian: To bar the members from runaway, they control all departures and arrivals to the complex at night. You cannot simply leave the building. On the other side, the commandants have some control systems to control members, especially low-ranking members. The control is particularly heightened in collective ceremonies. There are also some patrolling cars to control all trafficking in the camp. When the Iraqis are closer to the members, they increase guards to stop the members from joining Iraqi forces. The male commandant of each unit is constantly present to prohibit any escape.
They have highly restricted trafficking in street 100 in order that they can prevent escaping from the cult. Members should traffic in groups of at least two people. They have forbidden trafficking at night.
In the collective meetings where Massoud speaks to the audience, he claims that anyone who leaves MKO is the regime’s spy who breaks the saint oath so he will turn in to pig. He actually tries to frighten the members.
They say that the defectors are taken to Hotel Mohajer which is a center of corruption and in which IRI’s intelligence agents wait for them to turn them into spies. That way they frighten the members and put them under pressure. Thus the members are always in an internal, mental fear of leaving the camp.

SFF: how did it go on July 28th and 29th 2009 when the group’s members encountered Iraqi forces?

Mr. Einakian: Generally when something is signified as "Red Line" in MKO, it means that you should never pass the Red Line. Last year, on July 28th and 29th , the entry of Iraqi forces to the camp had been defined as "Red Line". Iraqis arrival in the camp was like a taboo. On the other side, there were Iraqi forces that were determined to enter the camp in order to install their police station. The authorities of Camp Ashraf didn’t want to let them come in the camp. They didn’t want them to know about what was going on in Ashraf.
That was the start of clashes. When the members were ordered by their commandants to prevent Iraqi forces from entering the camp, the clashes began and lasted until night and ended with the death of eleven residents of Ashraf.
In my opinion the only person who is responsible for the death of those people is Massoud Rajavi since the main line of such a reaction [to Iraqi forces] was under his order. Female commandants of Ashraf including Mozhgan Parsaiee control various sect of the camp. They analyze those incidents saying that they have to stop Iraqis from getting into the camp otherwise they can install everywhere in the camp and we cannot deter their influence.
Actually, they were afraid of the member’s easy access to Iraqi police. They even forbade the members to go out of their units when Iraqis finally were able to arrive in the camp. They forbade any contact with Iraqi forces.

Translated by Nejat Society

October 16, 2010 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Letter of Miss Babaee Nezhad to the International and humanitarian organizations

In the name of God

I am Maryam Babaee Nezhad, daughter of Ja’far, 21 years old, living in Gazvin in Iran.
My mother was three months pregnant when my father who was a soldier in the Iran-Iraq war was captured by the Iraqis and became a prisoner of war. Many years past and I had no news from my father.

My grandfather Ali-Akbar became my guardian. After a while we were informed that my father has disappeared and following that we learned that he became a martyr.

For years whenever I wanted to talk to someone, I used to look at my father’s picture and I used to talk to him for hours. I had accepted the fact that I am an orphan.

Two years ago the Nejat Society in Iran contacted my grandfather and informed him that they have learned from the ex-members returning from Iran that his son (my father) is still alive and living in the Ashraf garrison the base of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq.

That day when my grandfather came home I noticed that his eyes are full of tears. I asked instantly: “Oh grandfather! For God sake, please tell me what has happened”. He hugged me and then said: “My dear daughter, your father is alive”.

When I heard this from my grandfather I felt like a fireball. All I remember is that I screamed and I started crying and fall into the arms of my grandfather.

Oh God what is it that I am hearing? Is it true? Is my father alive? And I used to repeat these words continuously.

I told my grandfather why he is siting and doing nothing. I ask him to go and see my father immediately. He sighed and said: “I wish he was still a prisoner of war in the hands of Iraqis. As they say he is now with the MKO and Saddam Hussein gave him to them and apparently he is not allowed to see his family. As it appears in their cult even passing letters or contacting the family or anyone outside Ashraf garrison is forbidden”.

My grandfather said that he would do his best to approach Ashraf garrison with the hope that they might let him to visit his son.

Since I learned that my father is still alive and I cannot even call him I have cried day and night. After long waiting I eventually came to the gate of the Ashraf garrison along with my grandfather 5 months ago.

For two months I cried on a closed gate day and night and I called for my father, but the commanders of the garrison refused to let me see my father for even one hour after 22 years. I got sore eyes and had to return to Iran to undergo an operation on my eye.

I could not tolerate being away from my father. I had no motivation to study and I was ever so anxious to see my father. I insisted my grandfather to take me back to Iraq with the hope that may be this time they let us see him.
When my grandfather saw that he cannot calm me he took me back to Iraq to the gate of Ashraf garrison. This time I saw that many other families are picketing there.

Ms. Sorayya Abdollahi embraced me like her own daughter and asked about my eye. I asked her if they have let the families to see their loved ones. She said with sorrow: “No my daughter. But during this time several members have managed to escape. I hope that your father be able to escape one day and cuddle her loved one”.

During this time in front of the gate of Ashraf garrison I called my father several times from the loudspeakers. I do not know if they allow my father to hear my grief.

The doctors say that if I keep crying my other eye would be infected too and that is the case at the present time. Now that Massoud Rajavi (leader of MKO cult) does not allow me to see my father I prefer to go blind and not see anything at all. A girl in my age needs a father but my father is seized by a cult.

I call upon all international organizations and humanitarian activists in Europe and in America. Come and see how Rajavi is playing with the emotions and destiny of a 22 years old girl whose wish is just to see her father.

I call upon all those who claim they fight for human rights and yet support Rajavi and his cult. Come and see how this group is dealing with its own members and their families.

I long for my father. Who should I say this? Mr. Ban Ki-moon? Mr. Obama? The Iraqi authorities? The Iranian authorities? Who?

Maryam Babaee Nezhad
The long waiting daughter

October 13, 2010 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Iraq evacuates Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf)

FCO answers Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) lobby in U.K. Parliament

Asked by Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent assurances they have requested and received FCO answers Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) lobby in U.K. Parliament from the Government of Iraq about the rights of refugee members of the Iranian resistance at Camp Ashraf. [HL1668]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Howell of Guildford): Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials in Baghdad visited Camp Ashraf on 24 July 2010 to clarify whether any of the residents qualified for UK consular assistance. During their visit they met with the Iraqi army, which confirmed that food and medical supplies were permitted to enter the camp.

Our ambassador in Baghdad met with the Iraqi Human Rights Minister on 20 May 2010 and underlined the need for the Iraqi authorities to deal with the residents in a way that meets international humanitarian standards. The Iraqi authorities have told the residents that they can no longer stay at Camp Ashraf but have given assurances that no residents will be forcibly transferred to a country where they have reason to fear persecution or where substantial grounds exist to believe they would be tortured. We continue to discuss Camp Ashraf with the Iraqi Government, the EU, the US and the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

In July 2010, FCO officials in Baghdad received a report from the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry into events that took place at the camp in July 2009. We are discussing the contents with interested partners. We will write to the noble Lord with further details.

We have not received any information about the Government of Iraq denying visas to relatives and friends of the residents.

October 13, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Salahuddin province tribes meet with the picketing families of Ashraf hostages

On Monday October 4th, 2010 a number of Iraqi tribal nationals from Salahuddin Province including Doctor Nafe’ and Ms. Dm-i-Ali offered their sympathy to families who are on strike in front of Ashraf gates. Iraqi journalists were also present at the meeting that lasted a few hours.

Mrs. Abdullahi [a mother of an Ashraf resident] representing the Iranian families told the visitors:”we have been here on strike for nine months, suffering the worst situation. Our single request is visiting our loved children of whom some have been captive in Camp Ashraf for two decades. The cult of Rajavi refuses this small wish to fulfill, since it is contrary to its cult-like substance.”

The tribe’s deputies said that they had had no idea of the families strike at Camp Ashraf and MKO had abstained to respect such a reasonable right.
They promised to pursue the case in Iraqi judiciary and media. Some of the visitors were so impressed by Mrs. Abdullahi’s words and her words brought a tear to their eyes.listening to her with tearshat they couldn’t help their tears.

During the visit a few recently defected members of MKO also spoke to the audience by clarifying the current atmosphere ruling the cult. Their descriptions caused extreme wonder among the attendees. Iraq Salahuddin province tribes meet with the picketing families of Ashraf hostages

October 12, 2010 0 comments

MEK Camp Ashraf

MKO Asks for US, Israeli Help to Stop Defection

The ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have appealed to the US and Israeli security firms to help them bar defectors from escaping MKO’s main camp in northern Iraq, a report said on Saturday. Following several successful escape plans, the MKO leaders inked an agreement with the US Black Water security firm to block defectors' escape

According to a report released by the Habilian Association, an Iran-based human rights group, despite all fences, barbed wires and other kinds of barricades built around the camp and adoption of strict measures to control the camp residents, a number of members of the terrorist group have found their way out to the free world.

Following several successful escape plans, the MKO leaders inked an agreement with the US Black Water security firm to block defectors’ escape and tighten control over the camp, the report added.

Those MKO members who have succeeded in fleeing the notorious camp have disclosed that the terrorist group’s ringleaders have created a gruesome atmosphere in the camp, specially for women, and have even threatened the female members with rape and other forms of tortures.

The MKO has been in Iraq’s northern Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraq’s security forces took control of Camp Ashraf and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group last year. The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.

Before an overture by the EU, the MKO was on the European Union’s list of terrorist organizations subject to an EU-wide assets freeze. Yet, the MKO puppet leader, Maryam Rajavi, who has residency in France, regularly visited Brussels and despite the ban enjoyed full freedom in Europe.

Some other ranking members of the MKO who have had a role in the assassination of a large number of Iranian citizens and officials are currently living in France.

The group started assassination of Iranian citizens and officials after the Islamic Revolution in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the Revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Many of the MKO members have abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so.

A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations.

According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms.

Numerous articles and letters posted on the Internet by family members of MKO recruits confirm reports of the horrific abuse that the group inflicts on its own members and the alluring recruitment methods it uses.

The most shocking of such stories includes accounts given by former British MKO member Ann Singleton and Mustafa Mohammadi — the father of an Iranian-Canadian girl who was drawn into the group during an MKO recruitment campaign in Canada.

Mohammadi recounts his desperate efforts to contact his daughter, who disappeared several years ago – a result of what the MKO called a ‘two-month tour’ of Camp Ashraf for teenagers.

He also explains how the group forces the families of its recruits to take part in pro-MKO demonstrations in the western countries by threatening to kill their loved ones.

Lacking a foothold in Iran, the terrorist group recruits ill-informed teens from Iranian immigrant communities in western states and blocks their departure afterwards.

October 11, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Interview with Mahmoud Dashtestani – Part3

Falling in a well called Ashraf

Interview with Mahmoud Dashtestani a recently defected member of Mujahedin Khalq Organization.

– You mean in your ideological meetings where you could discuss your problems and doubts, you couldn’t ask the question?

– No. when in 2003, Massoud went to conceal, they held 16 or 17 ideological meetings via telephone or the internet. We could only hear his voice. We were seriously scared to ask via which site we could hear the brother {Massoud]’s voice. We didn’t have the courage to say that it looked like the brother’s voice was coming from near hear.

You can never ask about two things in MKO. Money and Massoud Rajavi.

-did you ever see someone ask about Massoud? If yes, how did they respond?

You don’t have to ask or see anything. The psychological atmosphere ruling Ashraf has been created in a way that you never let such questions cross your mind.

In MKO, there is a hierarchy in its security structure, where small mistakes are discussed in lower ranks. There are also two security sections; internal security and intelligence security. There is also a section called counter-intelligence. When you ask about MKO’s financial resources and where Massoud is, you will deal with the counter intelligence section.

– Did they mention any reason for Massoud’s disappearing?

– In a large meeting held in 2003 after the disarmament of the group, Massoud Rajavi himself told us that he would conceal himself because he didn’t want more pressure on Ashraf and members.

Well, naive –minded people may believe this reason but the bottom line is that if anything happens to Rajavi whether he is arrested or whatever, his cult will collapse. He says that his successor is Maryam but I believe that Massoud Rajavi himself is the main axis of the cult. The entire group and its substance only depends on Massoud Rajavi.

But the truth is that Rajavi sees himself as more important than the organization.

– How do you analyze all the cult’s efforts to maintain Camp Ashraf?

– Good question! I don’t analyze. I say the fact I witnessed. In Iran they call Ashraf, “Camp” or “garrison” but in the group the cult it “strategic center of struggle”, that’s why they say even cleaning Ashraf streets is a holy fight. They claim that “Ashraf is the hope of heroic Iranian people!”

– Since I returned to Iran, I have hardly ever seen people who have little information about Ashraf. People do not know where Ashraf is and who mujahedin are? People don’t care about MKO or Camp Ashraf but in the group they claim that in Iran, at least 90% of people watch MKO TV channel. They claim that 90% of Iranians support MKO and hope that Ashraf will release them!

Suppose you are walking in a street in Tehran and you say “I am a Mujahed-e-Khalq” [a member of MKO], you will be hit and crushed by those Iranians of whom some might oppose the IRI.

Ashraf is a symbol in the Rajavi’s cult. MKO has based its activities on protection of this symbol, but the proper symbol links them to their terrorist background which was justified by “armed struggle”. After the disarmament of MKO and gradual defection of forces Ashraf symbol, turned into an abandoned prison.

Translated by Nejat Society

October 11, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

No Aid from the West for MKO Cult

The MKO has launched a new barrage of propaganda to both impress those who support the group, and solicit pity from those who don’t know about their scheme. The MKO’s spokesman in the US, Alireza Jafarzadeh, who specializes in systematically swaying the West’s opinion with his numerous positive articles about the group he works for, told reporters that the people’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, MKO MEK, NCRI) has evidence that Tehran is building a uranium enrichment plant. [1]

Jafarzadeh has declared that the so-called site is certainly part of the Iran’s “secret nuclear weapons program" but a US government official speaking on condition of anonymity said that the US has known about the facility for years but has no reason to think it is nuclear. [2]

On September 9th, Jafarzadeh published his allegedly precise report about the nuclear site that his organization, the PMOI has supposedly detected.
His three-page report on the Behjatabad-Abayek site in Iran presents no hard evidence to support the assertion that the site includes a network of underground chambers designed to hold centrifuges to enrich nuclear material in violation of United Nations sanctions. [3]

It is not the first time that the MKO propaganda machine has tried to deceive public opinion with false allegations. In fact, the claims of MKO agents are taken for granted by US officials because "the NCRI had made similar claims in the past." [4]

Although the US government has always been suspicious about the nuclear program in the Islamic Republic of Iran, at least they think that people should be cautious about reaching conclusions. *Newsweek* reported that the “group’s announcement drew attention<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/
world/middleeast/10nuke.html>from a wide
range<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/09/
iran-watchdog-group-announce-findings-alleged-nuclear-site/>of media outlets, with reports noting that the group had released satellite photos showing what appeared to be an extensive tunneling operation in a hilly area. But nuclear-nonproliferation officials inside the U.S. government and independent experts on the subject say substantiation is lacking for claims that the tunnel project is nuclear-related. A leading private nuclear-weapons study group has also raised questions about the track record of the MEK, which in the past has claimed to be first with major public revelations about the Iranian nuclear program but has been accused of exaggerating the exclusivity and value of its information. "[5]

Iran’s top nuclear official, Ali Akbar Salehi responded to the MKO’s claim at a press conference, by saying, "No such nuclear installation with a specific definition exists in Iran which has not been declared…[but if the MKO is] really are aware of such an installation, perhaps they would like to tell us about it so that we can thank them." [6]

It’s difficult to believe that the MKO’s spying system is really more reliable than those of the most powerful and technologically advanced nations in the world. Alireza Jafarzadeh bases his recurring allegations on satellite photos that he presents. How can the MKO, a designated terrorist organization own a spying satellite and the US or other nations not know about it? Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell told Agence France Presse, "I don’t know if this site is one that they have discovered that our intelligence experts have not seen." He adds, “I find that hard to believe but we shall see."[7]

The MKO amplifies the idea that Iran harbors a nuclear facility. David Albright, head of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security told Reuters that the NCRI’s previous assertions have sometimes turned out to be "unsubstantiated, exaggerated, or wrong."[8] The allegations are simply a flop because the MKO-perpetuated news of Iran’s building a new nuclear site is not only dubious but ineffective as a tactic to achieve their goal of increasing the West’s meager support. According to Yossi Melman of haaretz.com, the MKO "clearly has a vested interest."[9]

This "vested interest" is mainly presented in Jafarzadeh’s report on the so-called new nuclear site. He suggests that "to effectively thwart Tehran’s nuclear drive, a two-pronged policy is imperative. The first is to impose comprehensive sanctions on the regime. The second is removing the barriers placed on the path of the opposition, particularly the main opposition, the PMOI. The terrorist label against the group has acted as a major impediment to democratic change in Iran."[10] The main barrier on the path of MKO is its foreign terrorist designation by the US State Department which limits the MKO’s activities in the West as well as Iraq and Iran.

The MKO has already committed treason against the nation of Iran and with the nuclear smear campaign they bear the responsibility of fear mongering in their effort to destabilize Iran’s credibility as a way to substantiate their own. In his so-called revealing report on the Iranian secret nuclear site, Jafarzadeh claims that “the disclosure of the site will irreparably undermine the regime’s international standing and would have unimaginable repercussions."[11] The West’s reaction to the MKO’s report was a disappointment for the cult’s pitiful leaders because their cheap shot means aid is no longer a possibility.

By Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] Burns, Robert. "Dissidents Claim Iran Has Secret Nuclear Facility."
boston.com (online *Boston Globe*) 09 September 2010.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/
2010/09/09/dissidents_claim_iran_has_secret_nuclear_facility/
[2] ibid
[3] Quinn, Andrew. "Dissidents Claim New Iran Nuclear Site but U.S.
Skeptical." *Reuters* Online 09 September 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6884VK20100909
[4]ibid
[5] Hosenball, Mark. "Is There Really Another Secret Iranian
Uranium-Enrichment Facility?" *Newsweek* 13 September 2010: Web. 10 Oct
2010. <
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/2010/09/13
/another-secret-iranian-uranium-enrichment-facility.html>.
[6] Melman, Yossi. "Iran Denies Having Third Enrichment Facility." *
Haaretz.com* 12 September 2010: Web. 10 Oct 2010. <
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
iran-denies-having-third-enrichment-facility-1.313284>.
[7] Daragahi, borzou. "IRAN: Nuclear Chief Rejects Allegations of Secret
Enrichment Site." *Los Angeles Times* 10 September 2010: Web. 10 Oct 2010. <
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/
2010/09/iran-nuclear-salehi-secret-enrichment-iaea-.html>.
[8] Quinn, Andrew. "Dissidents Claim New Iran Nuclear Site but U.S.
Skeptical." *Reuters* 09 September 2010: Web. 10 Oct 2010. <
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6884VK20100909
[9] Melman, Yossi. "Analysis / Who Should We Believe? Is Iran Building a New
Nuclear Site?" *Haaretz.com* 12 September 2010: Web. 10 Oct 2010. <
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
analysis-who-should-we-believe-is-iran-building-a-new-nuclear-site-1.313291
>.
[10] Jafarzedeh, Alireza and Soona Samsam, "Weapons of Mass Destruction."
globalsecurity.org. *globalsecurity.org*, 09 September 2010. Web. 10 Oct
2010. <
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/
iran/2010/iran-100909-spc01.htm>.
[11] Ibid

October 11, 2010 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Destroy safe havens for terrorists

An Iranian lawmaker has urged the government to step up diplomatic efforts to deter terrorists in neighboring countries from hurting Iranian nationals.

"Officials should hold talks with neighboring countries in a bid to destroy anti-Iranian terrorist cells who have found safe havens over the border," IRNA quoted a member of the Majlis’ Foreign Policy Commission, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, as saying on Friday.

A pair of gunmen on Thursday opened fire on a police patrol in Iran’s western city of Sanandaj, killing four officers and a bystander.
The attack, which happened in the city’s main square, also wounded five other policemen and four civilians, one who remains in critical condition.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A ceremony commemorating the victims of the terrorist attack is scheduled to be held in Sanandaj on Saturday.

In September, a bomb explosion near a military parade in West Azarbaijan Province claimed 12 lives and injured at least 80 people.

Shortly afterwards, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said it had identified and killed all terrorists associated with the attack in an operation.

Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorists, the banned group PJAK — an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (also known as PKK) — as well as the Iraq-based Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) have all carried out deadly attacks against Iranian officials and civilians in the past years.

October 10, 2010 0 comments

Iran

MKO rallies in New York were puppet shows

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Washington has refused to comment on the fate of the eight Iranian prisoners held in the United States.

Mottaki said on Tuesday that he had given UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a list of eight Iranian prisoners to ask US officials about their release.

"When I asked him (Ban) about the list of eight Iranian prisoners… he said he had passed the list to US officials but unfortunately has not received an answer yet," Fars News Agency quoted the Iranian minister as saying.

Mottaki also touched upon Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks on the 9/11 incident during his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York and said the ambiguity mentioned by the president has surrounded the terrorist act since the day it occurred.
He underlined the 9/11 dispute has so far targeted three Muslim nations, namely Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.

"How many more Muslim nations are to become the targets of this incident (9/11) and fall prey to military, political and propaganda moves across the world?"

Mottaki further dismissed the rallies held by the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) during President Ahmadinejad’s stay in New York as ‘puppet shows.’

He further urged the P5+1 — Russia, China, France, the US, the UK and Germany — to attend talks over Tehran’s nuclear issue with ‘serious determination.’

Mottaki said in any future negotiations Tehran’s entitlement to civilian nuclear knowhow should be recognized.

October 10, 2010 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Interview with Mahmoud Dashtestani – Part2

Falling in a well called Ashraf
Interview with Mahmoud Dashtestani a recently defected member of Mujahedin Khalq Organization.

In their mind control system they had to prevent the members’ minds getting into sexual or emotional thoughts. If you think of your ex-wife, you should write it and then read your confessions in your brainwashing meetings where your comrades will attack you, insult you saying that “you are wrong”, “damn you”. “That woman is not your wife any more”. “She is your ideological sister”. “She belongs to the leader”. Interview with Mahmoud Dashtestani a recently defected member of Mujahedin Khalq Organization

The weekly brainwashing meetings are obligatory. You must confess a sin -a sexual one. It will be even worse if you do not confess anything. They take you to a place called Bengali where they talk to you for several days, putting you under too much pressure. They say that you definitely have some sexual thoughts that you are concealing.
Their arguments and sometimes quarrels in the meetings were justified as “human science”! What a human science! They call it monotheist “Anthropology” in which they use peer pressure as weapon. They say peer pressure is just like the leader.

They always label the members as “ogle”. For instance, when you watch CNN news on Mujahedin’s TV, they accuse you of watching the female speakers with sexual desires!
According to MKO, all the cults’ members are melted in Maryam’s revolution that was anti-bourgeoisie and anti –exploitation.

Her revolution begins with “the value of women”. So men should divorce their wives so that they are not exploited by their husbands any more. If they are really sure that all members have been melted in Maryam’s revolution, why are they so worried about any mistake made by members and they try to keep them under their control?

In Ashraf there are various security units such as street patrolling, regional protection, road security, gates security, Ashraf security,… if they claim that members have been unified with Maryam’s revolution, why these too many bars?

During the past six months, I travelled through half of Iranian territory, I was never asked a question but in Camp Ashraf if you want to go outside – to the streets in front of your unit- to do some exercise or to go for a walk, you have to ask at least three superior officials for permission and also you cannot go alone, you have to go with a superior member who monitors you.

We were about one thousand and 300-400 hundred people who joined Ashraf after the war[Iran – Iraq] ended and at the time of Gulf war. Today there might be less than 300 people who daren’t leave the camp because of their fear not because of being faithful to MKO.

When I escaped the camp and went to the hotel I saw some of those members that Massoud had told about them,” they were killed while escaping “or” they are now wandering in Iraq looking for a piece of bread to eat.” I saw them, living a normal life in the hotel waiting for their return to Iran or their immigration to Europe.

A few days ago, a family called me saying that they were afraid if their brother – who is in Ashraf – returned to Iran, he would be arrested. I told them that nothing would happen to him. I am living in Iran right now.

– Mr. Dashtestani, Massoud Rajavi has been hiding since 2003. Have the members ever asked where he wass or why he disappeared?

– You can never ask such a question in camp Ashraf, because you will be seriously tortured mentally and psychologically.”What do you mean?”,”Do you mean Massoud Rajavi?”,”Your brother?”,”Why do you ask such a question?”

My best friend was Akbar Mohebi. We were captured together in 1979. He is really my intimate friend but I didn’t dare to ask him the question even when we were both alone.

Translated by Nejat Society

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