Mr. Alamdar Shaygan escaped the MKO terror group on 24th April, 2010 and joined the families behind the Ashraf gates.
Mr. Alamdar Shaygan who had been forced to spend 22 years of his life behind the bars of Rajavis’ cult managed to break away from this notorious cult by reaching himself to the main gate of Ashraf Garrison and joined the families behind the Ashraf gates.
Hereby we congratulate all genuine human rights activists and especially Mr. Shaygan’s family on his release.
There is a significant implied point in the recent message of Masoud Rajavi despite all his quibbles and paradoxical statements. There, he has acknowledged the fact that after three decades of blind activities, victimization, wasting time, indetermination, and misusing all levers and means for achieving political power, he has to return to a zero point initiating his struggle anew. In other words, the organization has to accept the assumption that nothing has happened so far and the past and all its events are to be cleaned and replaced with a new phase. It is a bitter truth to be admitted by Rajavi and his organization, yet he is well aware that he has no other choice but submitting to the existing conditions. Therefore, he has to ignore the past and play a new game like those children who cannot bear failure and feel ashamed to pursue it yet their childish perversity refrains them to quit so they insist on playing again.
The motivation of this true confession is that the child is to prevent the psychological effects of the humiliating failure, refreshing his mental and psychological potentials to set up another game. Some children even cannot bear continuing a lost game but stubbornly disturb it and declare the end of the game they have lost to provide the grounds for another one. Suppose that the egotist failed child steps in a new game with the same potentials and mental and physical abilities. The more games restarted, the more failures will results. The psychological state of the failures make them refrain to submit to any defeat and reflect upon its causes and effects. Perhaps, they cannot do so due to their childish self-will.
However, the psychological analysis of Rajavi at the time being reveals that he is similar to the child who fails repeatedly yet his perverse insistence and stubbornness give solace neither to him nor to his followers and advocates. He never learns lessons of his past nor does he investigate the basis of his failures in himself; he prefers to restart a new game occasionally based on his outdated cliché ideology.
There is another point in his message that is a novel delusion. Though he is consent to return to a zero point, he concentrates on an optimistic childish view based on his old delusion of overthrowing the Iranian regime. He is to initiate a long play. He has come to the point that allying with Saddam and then with the West due to their opposition to Iran has been fruitless since he suffers from the lack of public support in Iran, a fact referred to by the West repeatedly. Now, Rajavi knows that he has no option but supporting Reza Pahlavi, the descendant of Pahlavi’s regime in Iran, offering him the presidency of Iran in the future to win the consent of the West too. What is surprising, he has also become unconcerned of a past sensitivity for the hegemony of Mojahedin over the Iranian opposition.
During the last three decades, Rajavi never consented to be in such a full retreat. It has its roots in his pathological delusion and simplistic political views. He is not aware of the fact that all his challenges are not due to his wrong and cursory decision makings yet his ignorance of the internal conditions of Iran and the public view that is the main challenge met by MKO. Any amount of flexibility and submission on the part of Rajavi toward the west may solve a trifle portion of his problems. His basic challenge is the lack of public support in Iran so he is doing his best to attract the attention of the Iranians. Anyway, this is a childish game based on the delusion of winning the legitimacy of outsiders as well as insiders. This new approach is in fact the maintenance of his past policy in the recent decades; it differs in the point that he has to return to a zero point and at the same time resort to new illusions and fantasies.
Terrorism and Destructive Cults – speech by former MEK member Massoud Bani Sadr
This year’s FECRIS annual Conference was hosted in London by The Family Survival Trust (UK) on 16 April 2010. 
FECRIS (European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism) was founded on 30 June 1994 in Paris following the Congress on Sectarianism in Barcelona in 1993. It is a non-commercial association under French law. It declare itself politically, philosophically and religiously neutral as stated in article 2 of its statutes.
Dr. Massoud Bani Sadr, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq cult, was a speaker at the meeting. He talked about the links between terrorism and destructive cults such as the MEK.
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Back to terrorism; let me give you an example: Although MEK that I was member of born with an ideology based on Islam and Marxism and recruit with anti Imperialism and anti Zionism and social justice slogans; and later after the revolution, when I along tens of thousands more students of schools and universities joined it, used any ills, any injustice or lack of freedom to recruit; but after it changed into a terrorist organisation and then into a destructive cult, its survival, its internal strength had nothing to do with either of causes of its existence, its original slogans, or what was happening in Islamic world or in Iran. To survive and to fulfill the leader’s dreams, contrary to their nationalistic slogans; during Iran-Iraq war, they collaborated with Sadam Hussein and hand in hand with Iraqi army they fought with Iran. Sadam’s generous assistance to MEK; financial help, free land to build their bases in, sophisticated armament etc; didn’t mean that MEK will be loyal to their host, when they saw American army, they announced their readiness to help Americans and fight along side of new victorious army[i]. All said it doesn’t mean that MEK now is going to be loyal toward American; because cults are not loyal to any partner or friend, ideology, policy, slogan, agreement but only those that help their survival and their goal’s advancement.
As the matter of fact for me as for almost all members, after MEK’s ideological revolution (the name they gave to their brain washing techniques[ii]), Iran and Islam where not important anymore; or at least not nearly as important as the existence and success of the organisation and its leader. Then in a letter to the leader I explained this change in myself and other members by admitting that if they ask us to choose between happiness and success of Iranian and Muslims in one hand and victory of our leader anywhere around the world even if he becomes president of Zimbabwe, we all will choose the latter one. Of course then our logic was based on this assumption that if our leader finds a foothold anywhere in the world, soon he can expand his influence and can save the whole world and change the history. Yes MEK was and still is using any ills that might exist in Iran to recruit, for propaganda purposes and for legitimization of its existence, but for its members what is happening in Iran or as matter of fact in the whole world outside, is not slightly as important as their internal relations, their absolute loyalty and obedience toward the leader
FECRIS Conference, London
DIALA – Twenty Iranian intelligence officers entered Iraqi territories to head for Camp Ashraf of the anti-Iran group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in Diala, a PMOI source said on Saturday.
“Twenty Iranian intelligence officers arrived in Camp Ashraf with the aid of the Iraqi government and are residing inside caravans parallel to the camp walls in al-Azim, al-Khalis district, (15 km) north of Baaquba,” Mahdi Aqbaie told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“Those officers, who are being protected by the Iraqi security forces in charge of the facility security, were brought near the camp in order to press its residents to leave Iraqi territories,” Aqbaie added.
Meanwhile, an official security source in Diala dismissed the reports.
“The camp is void of any elements belonging to the Iranian intelligence otherwise this could be deemed as violation of national sovereignty,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
The PMOI, also known by the abbreviations MKO and MEK, is a militant socialist organization that advocates the overthrow of Iran’s current government. Founded in 1965, the PMOI was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, capitalism and Western imperialism.
The group officially renounced violence in 2001 and today it is the main organization in the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an “umbrella coalition” parliament-in-exile that claims to be dedicated to a democratic, secular and coalition government in Iran.
The PMOI has had thousands of its members for many years in bases in Iraq, but they were disarmed in the wake of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and are said to have adhered to a ceasefire. Its armed wing is, or was, called the National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA)
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein dedicated Camp Ashraf in Diala province, northeast of Baghdad, to host the PMOI members since the 1980s.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
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a. Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
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On July 28, clashes erupted at Ashraf in Diyala Province when the ISF attempted to establish a police presence inside the more than 3,400-person compound of the terrorist Iranian dissident group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The clashes resulted in the deaths of 11 MEK members and injuries to 30 ISF officers. The government credibly claimed the MEK provoked the clashes by staging a violent demonstration to block the ISF from entering the compound.
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d. Freedom of Movement, Internally Displaced Persons, Protection of Refugees, and Stateless Persons
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There were allegations during the year that some of the 3,400 members of the MEK terrorist organization located at Ashraf were denied the right to leave under threat of reprisal from MEK leaders. These allegations were corroborated by several former Ashraf residents who had fled the camp. Individuals claimed to have been subjected to psychological and physical abuse, including threats of reprisal against family members and solitary confinement in Ashraf to discourage defections.
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Of the wonders is that in MKO, considering itself the prototype of a utopia and the perspective of a favored society, women are exploited as maidservants who have to feel proud of the endowed virtue. More surprisingly, of the main slogans of the organization is freedom of women from historical injustice and oppressions they have long been suffering through a variety of phases in the framework of a strategic and ideological struggle. This is possible only in an ideological organization like MKO and under the leadership of a person like Masoud Rajavi.
In Maryam Rajavi’s delivered message for the woman’s day (March, 8), an old habit to voice her cliché slogans of defending women rights and freedom, she repeats the old words while according to all separated female members of MKO, women are suffering from the worst sexual, mental, and physical abuses and oppressions inside MKO. Perhaps, before the split of those like Batool Soltani, a member of the Leadership Council of Mojahedin, no one could even imagine the wide aspects of the medieval inequalities and oppressions imposed on female members inside the organization. What is referred to in the statements made by these women is that the organization practices a kind of modern and systematic slavery system.
What is mainly focused by separated female members of MKO is the paradox between the outside slogans of the organization on women and the ideological reality that threatens women inside organization with victimization, exploitation, and slavery much worse than the medieval exploitative and abusive relations. While in the old times they prepared a breeding ground for women’s sexual and physical exploitation of the most unenlightened variety, in MKO relations, they are misused in many more modern and novel forms of mental and psychological mistreatment. The fact is that the concept of freedom is defined by the organization in a way that fails to differentiate between men and women. According to Rajavi, freedom for a Mojahed, male or female, is not materialized unless s/he undergoes an all-out obedience, submission, and slavery toward the leadership.
This viewpoint is to be investigated from two angles. First, the ideological aspects of this idea turn a free individual to an ideological and aggressive lever in the hands of the ideological leader and secondly, it may make a member as the slave of another one like Rajavi. The first state remind us of those like Neda Hassani who set herself on fire and the instances of the latter are the female members of the Leadership Council. These two seemingly different strata are in fact the upshot of the same ideology which has its roots in full obedience and indetermination toward leadership. How MKO as an amalgam of the most oppressive reactionary systems and the most complicated and modern slavery systems based on brainwashing can claim to be the pioneer of defending women rights is not clarified. The fact is that Rajavi makes use of the apparent instances of inequality and oppression of women in modern as well as underdeveloped countries and makes eye-catching slogans toinitiate a propaganda blitz to attract the attention of outsiders who consider him as a defender of women.
Unfortunately, the westerners usually resort to what is stated overtly rather than what is done covertly by Mojahedin. Perhaps, they can never imagine that behind the laughing and friendly visage of Maryam Rajavi as well as her popular slogans on the women rights, there is a monster who looks at human, and women in particular, as crones for misleading others. They may never believe that Rajavi regards woman as an obsession that is to be controlled by reminding her of her historical past. The ideological leadership of Mojehedin considers women as worthless beings to be exposed to suffering and hard training to the point that their sex cannot be identified; it is only their appearance that differentiates them from their male comrades, inside they are rough people losing natural, womanish delicacies altogether. Unlike the western campaigners, Masoud Rajavi is not after defending women’s rights; He is to eliminate the freedom leftover for women and replace it with an ideological model fully obedient to his self-fabricated ideology. Surprisingly enough, Rajavi believes that the rights given to women so far are in fact barriers that distance them from their ideological potentials that turns them into ordinary beings. Her ideal woman has to submit to Rajavi ignoring all her social achievements in recent centuries.
Following the arrival of a number of foreign journalists and reporters to cover the report on the conference to address nuclear disarmament held by IRI in Tehran, they traveled to Shiraz on April 20th, 2010 a number of victims of Mujahedin’s terrorist activities and some members of Nejat Society Shiraz branch visited the journalists.
During the visit, the families of victims of Rajavi’s cult offered their testimonies describing the crimes MEK committed against them. They asked the journalists to voice the Iranians’ call to protest against Western support for MEK. They condemned the West’s double standard towards the terrorist MEK Cult.
The members of Nejat Society described the manipulative techniques used by the cult to deceive their family members or their ex-comrades in Camp Ashraf. They seriously condemned the MEK’s crimes and the Western politicians who support MEK.
During the visit the journalists were invited to watch some videos on MEK crimes which impressed them seriously so that they offered their sympathy to those victims of terror .
On Friday, April 16, 2010 the news published on the MKO websites mentioned prior clashes in Camp Ashraf. Once again, the MKO is using a propaganda campaign to spread an expired pretext—that MKO residents are "Protected Persons" under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Previously the MKO used this argument following the 2009 clash in which the MKO clearly exhibited their deep rooted terrorist tactics by using Molotov cocktails and rocks to execute hostilities against the Iraqi forces led by the legitimate Iraqi government.
The claim made by the MKO about their "Protected Persons" status and whether or not the status applies to Camp Ashraf residents is up for debate. Article Four of the Fourth Geneva Convention defines "Protected Person" as “those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.” Article Four furthers that, “Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention are not protected by it.
Nationals of a neutral State who find themselves in the territory of a belligerent State, and nationals of a co-belligerent State, shall not be regarded as protected persons while the State of which they are nationals has normal diplomatic representation in the State in whose hands they are.” [1]
Earlier in the decade, in July 2004, In July 2004, the MKO forces in Ashraf were declared by the US to be ‘protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (rather than military personnel under the Third Geneva Convention), because they had not been belligerents during the Iraq War. The Fourth Geneva Convention protects civilians who, as the result of an international armed conflict or of occupation, find themselves in the hands of a country of which they are not nationals. It states that in no circumstances shall a protected person be transferred to a country where he or she may have reason to fear persecution for his or her political opinions or religious beliefs. In the case of occupied territory, the Convention continues to apply for a year after the general close of military operations, and partially thereafter if the occupying power continues to exercise the functions of government. The occupation of Iraq formally ended on 30 June 2004. [2]
In addition, the ICRC noted that, due to UNSCR 1546, the conflict in Iraq would no longer be a war between states; hence, the Geneva Conventions would no longer apply. It argued that customary international humanitarian law govern non-international conflicts; hence, continuing to apply the Geneva Conventions to the MKO would be legally incorrect.[3]
On February 9th, 2010 in a debate in the House of Lords of the UK Parliament on the case of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, Barroness Falkoner of Margavine asked her colleague if the Minister will confirm that these people are not non-protected persons under the Geneva Convention. Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead responded [to] the question by insisting that "any claim to protected persons status by Camp Ashraf residents under the Fourth Geneva Convention has ceased to apply. That view is shared by the United Nations. The Camp leadership have been given that information. [4]
Notwithstanding, the MKO still tries to deceive public opinion by the fake claim that Ashraf residents are “Protected Persons” under the Geneva Convention, and yet all significant international bodies believe that the rule does not apply to MEK members anymore.
[1] "International Humanitarian Law – Treaties & Documents." International Committee of the Red Cross. ICRC, 2005. Web. 29 Apr 2010. <http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/full/380?opendocument>.
[2] Thorp, Arabella. " In Brief: Camp Ashraf and the Geneva Conventions”. LIBRARY HOUSE OF COMMONS: Standard Note 20 MAR 2009, page 2. Web. 29 Apr 2010.
[3] Goulka, Jeremiah, Lydia Hansell, Elizabeth Wilke, and Judith Larson. "The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum." RAND NATIONAL DEFENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (2009): P.21. Web. 29 Apr 2010.
[4] Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, Baroness Falkner of Margravine. "United Kingdom Parliament.” Parliamentary Business. UK Parliament, Tuesday, 9 February 2010. Web. 29 Apr 2010. <http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldhansrd/text/100209-0001.htm>.
By: Mazda Parsi
Film showing the violent reaction of Mojahedin-e Khalq to the families trying to visit their children who are being held captive inside the camp by the Rajavis.
This report is a short, logical addition to the mountain of statements which the MEK have issued in recent days. It has been published to further apprise those interested in this issue of what has taken place.
What was it that the MEK was after when they attacked the families?
One basic fact shouts louder than all others and that is, that for 66 days the MEK leaders have refused all access to the victims inside the camp. The MEK leaders did not let the families see their children even for a minute. It is also clear that the MEK began the attack and that they had planned and coordinated it with all the MEK’s systems ready to play their parts, in particular the MEK’s relentless propaganda system – resulting in the mountain of statements.
The families have been waiting for many weeks in front of the gates of the camp to see their children. The MEK leaders have obdurately refused them access. The families became so desperate to make contact that they started speaking over loud speakers so they would be noticed by the people inside. Their motivation has been to try to let their children know that they are there
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The MEK is facing a serious problem in keeping its members people under control. They are doing everything to stop them hearing the voices of the families, and to stop them from escaping.
After Iman’s escape, the leaders increased the checkpoints inside the camp and have implemented restrictive laws to prevent people from escaping.
The leaders now know that they can no longer control every disaffected person – and there are many, many of them in the camp. And they now know that the families have no intention of moving from the gates of the camp.
The families report that they are very happy to have news that Mojahedin leader Maryam Rajavi has been writing to the UN, so that someone there will be forced to take notice of their problems. They are waiting eagerly to see why it is that the UN does not take any action against the MEK’s hostage-taking terrorist leaders who are backed by some murderers in America and Israel.
The families have a clear message for all: They will not leave without their children. They also warn that other families are also on their way.
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Over 200 thousands of visitors have visited Habilian Association (families of terror victims) permanent exhibition over evil terrorist nature and the crimes Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (a.k.a MKO, MEK, NCRI, PMOI…) has so far committed in Iran and abroad.
This exhibition which was last year held by Habilian Association for the enlightenment of the visitors of MKO crimes draws to the attention of the viewers different aspects of MKO crimes in Iran and Iraq as well as many other countries around the world.
Revealing Mujahedins’ long history of violence and terror the exhibition also indicates their treasonous role during Iraq-Iran war and their alliance with Saddam Hussein while fighting against their own people. It also concerns with the cult-like lives of MKO members, their internal relations, complicated brainwashing and manipulation system within the cult, the rank and file members’ compulsory divorces, MKO propaganda system and their role in the after- the-elections unrests in Iran as well as a full list of over 16000 terror victims mostly assassinated by the MKO terrorist cult.
Another purpose of the exhibition is to keep alive the memory of Mersad operation in which MKO was severely defeated while trying to attack Iran and to make especially the youth know better their enemies.
After the acceptance of resolution 598 by Iran and in an operation the MKO called the eternal light the Mujahedin which were armed to the teeth and fully backed by Saddam Hussein’s regime invaded Iran regardless of international laws; but were mostly killed by the Iranian defense forces.
