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I come from the land of pain and suffering – Part one

My name is Mohammad Hosein Sobhani. I am a former official and member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization central committee. My name and title appeared in the special Autumn issue of 1370{ year beginning on 21 March 1977} and became professionally involved with that organization on 22 Bahman 1357{11 February 1978}. At the beginning, I was working in MKO’s administrative and student departments until with my wife, Afsaneh Taherian, were dispatched to Iranian Kordestan. Prior to my transfer, I was in command of a resistance unit. After the opposition forces pulled back from the liberated territories in Iranian Kordestan, I continued my work at MKO bases in Iraq. I worked in the communication department of Radio Mojahed until 1364{year beginning on 21 March 1985} when I assumed my role as a unit commander at the training school for urban guerrilla warfare. And later I was out in charge of a department at the intelligence headquarters. I, subsequently, became the security commander at Ashraf Base and later became one of the commanders in charge of AM {security} and HE{protection}.

Mohammd Hussein Sobhani

Starting in 1371 {year beginning on 21 March 1992}, I began expressing my views about MKO’s strategy regarding its armed struggle and the organization’s presence in Iraq.
Subsequently I had two meetings with Massoud Rajavi,each lasting six to seven hours, during which he tried to change my views. I also met Maryam Azdanlu and Fahimeh Arvani a number of times during which I pushed my views forward, stood my grounds and expressed reservations about various issues. Finally at the start of Shahrivar 1371{August 1992}, Mr. Rajavi ordered a meeting attended by Ebrahim Zakeri and Seyyed Mohamamd al-Mohaddesin and a number of high ranking officials.
I saw behind Rajavi’s false façade for the first time. During this meeting those people who until yesterday were calling me brother were now using their hands, fists and gutter language as well as profanity trying to dissuade me from questioning the strategy of the organization. I , however, stood my ground and did not bend. After that, Ebrahim Zakeri who had presided over the meeting ended the session. Following that meeting, report of which was forwarded to Rajavi, I was put in Bengal { a small container} at Badie Base for 24 hours. The next day, before the start of the daily routine at the base, I was secretly moved by two Land cruisers and a group headed by Ebrahim Zakeri and Soheyla Sadeg ( at the time in charge of the organization’s jail and personnel headquarters). I was transferred to a new jail and put in solitary confinement located on street No 400 at Ashraf Base (at the center of Khales, 50 km north of Baghdad).

To be continued

April 21, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Heidarian family asks to visit their beloved Davoud at the MEK Camp in Albania

Davoud Heidarian captured by the Iraqi forces during Iran-Iraq War in 1080. As a POW, Davoud then was transferred to the MEK Camp Ashraf in Iraq on the contrary to the international war laws. The family have had no contact with him since then.

Ms. Masoumeh Heidarian; sister of Davoud on behalf of the family asks the Albanian authorities to facilitate their travel and meeting with their beloved Davoud.
She says: I have not seen my brother for 41 years and have had no contact with him.

April 20, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Victim of the Cult of Rajavi: I was brainwashed

As a passionate teenager, Ali Biglari fled home to go to the front of Iran-Iraq war. He dreamed of defending his homeland against the aggressive enemy. However, he soon was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces.
The recruiters of the Mujahedin Khalq succeeded to convince him to join their group after three years of imprisonment in Rumadi Camp, Iraq.

Ali Biglari

Once he entered the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, he found out that he had stepped in the wrong path but the brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi continued to keep him for many years.
Ali Biglari could finally manage to return home in 2003, after 14 years of imprisonment and mental and physical torture in the MEK’s cult-like structure. “The bitterness of freedom” is a recently-published book based on Ali’s life experience as a victim of the Cult of Rajavi.

Javad Kamvar; Writer of the book: bitterness of freedom, and Ali Biglari

“The title of the book implies that the central character of the book was freed from Iraqi prison but immediately after he was imprisoned in the MEK’s prison,” Javad Kamvar, the author of the book says. “He regretted but there was no way back. He could not accept the ideology of the MEK so he was under too much organizational pressure that led him to commit suicide. He survived but the MEK leaders handed him to Iraqi notorious prison, Abu Ghuraib.”

Ali Biglari never became an official member of the MEK’s army but he was coerced to stay in the group. “I had no idea that Camp Ashraf was a camp surrounded with barbed wires,” he says. “I thought it was a city in which I would have a normal life but as I arrived in Ashraf, the exit was shut for me for 14 years. I was brainwashed there.”

April 18, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Marzieh Babakhani set herself on fire to protest the arrest of Maryam Rajavi

“I do not regret what I did on June 17th 2003”, Marzieh Babakhani said in a conference held by the Mujahedin Khalq (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajvai) in Paris in 2014. This was not her first time to speak in an MEK-run event. She is often considered as the symbol of a devotee to Maryam Rajavi by the group’s propaganda.
Marzieh Babakhani joined the MEK when she was a young girl. She was soon elevated in the hierarchy of Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. When Maryam Rajavi was arrested by the French Police on June 17th, 2003, in Paris, Marzieh was 40 and a member of Maryam’s security team.

Marziyeh Babakhani

Marzieh was one of the ten MEK members who set themselves on fire to protest the arrest of the third wife of their disappeared leader, Massoud Rajavi. Two MEK female members, Neda Hassani and Sedigheh Mojaveri were killed in fire.

“I set myself on fire not to kill myself but for the freedom of my people,” Marzieh said. “Dear Maryam, you have several times told me that you disagreed what I did but as a human being I chose and I decided to do it because I think the Police raid on June 17th was a raid to terminate a legitimate resistance.”

In contrary to Marzieh’s claims, the MEK was not a legitimate entity. It was on the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union at the time and Maryam Rajavi had been arrested under terrorism charges. About nine million dollars were discovered by the French Police in Maryam Rajavi’s headquarters in Auver Sur d’Oise
There are a lot of evidences to prove that the Mujaheds who self-immolated after the arrest of Maryam Rajavi were coerced by the group to do so. “According to an organizational ruling issued by Massoud Rajavi, members of the MEK had been asked to set themselves on fire in France and other European countries,” Javad Firouzmand, a defector of the MEK writes. “This way, the group wanted to put pressure on France to release Maryam Rajavi.”
In an organized act, ten members of the MEK set themselves ablaze before the eyes of the citizens in France, Switzerland, Britain and Canada. Marzieh Babakhani set herself on fire in the morning of June 19th in front of the building of French intelligence and security department (DST).

photo: The raid of the MEK’s Paris compound in 2003, which prompted acts of self-immolation by some of its members.

On the proper day, the French newspaper, Le Parisien, stated that the spokesperson of the foreign committee of the National Council of Resistance (NCR) had called cellphones of some of its journalists to announce the name of the self-immolator. The same newspaper also reported, “After the fire was extinguished, one of the Mujaheds offered a journalist better and nicer photos of the self-immolation ceremony!”

MEK members self-immolation

Marzieh Babakhani is a victim of a manipulative system that coerced its members to commit what it wants. The French author, Nathalie Goulet states evidences of on such a system in her book:
“In October 2007, two Iranians Mahmoud Alami (55) and Hossein Amini Gholipour (51) were charged in a court in Paris, for encouraging Sedigheh Mojaveri to set herself on fire on June 18th 2003. The two men were members of the MEK who had been arrested in a protest run by the group in front of the DST headquarters. The two men were filmed while they were buying a gallon of petrol in a gas station. They eventually handed the gallon to Sedigheh Mojaveri.” (Goulet, Nathalie, “PMOI: How a political cult transformed to a democratic party”, page 32)
About Marzieh Babakhani, the case seems to be the same. Moreover, Marzieh was security guard for protecting Maryam Rajavi. She was always by the side of Maryam carrying a colt to protect her. Alef Abbasi, an MEK defector says, “After the arrest of Maryam Rajavi, Marzieh was under too much pressure by the group. ‘Sister Maryam is in Jail and you are still beathing,’ she was constantly told. She was continuously asked by the Cult of Rajavi: ‘What should have you done to prevent the arrest of Sister Maryam?’ “

She finally had no way out except to “decide” to pour petrol on her body and light the fire in order to stop the arrest of Sister Maryam or at least to stop the organizational pressure on herself.

The self-immolations committed by MEK members in Western capitals, are those of the darkest points in the history of the group. In western academic and political circles, self-immolations are regularly referred to in order to authenticate that the MEK has cult-like characteristics. Therefore, the MEK propaganda has to call on Marzieh Babakhani and other survivors of June 2003 to show up and declare that they tried to kill themselves with their own free will. However, every one agrees that free will is unheard of in destructive cults such as PMOI.

By Mazda Parsi

April 16, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Alireza Taherloo; burned alive under the order of Massoud Rajavi

Alireza Taherloo joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) after the Iranian 1979 revolution. He used to work in the political phase of the group. In 1982, a year after the MEK launched a bloody armed struggle against the newly established government of Iran, Alireza was arrested by the Iranian security forces.

He was freed in 1992 after he served his ten-year-long sentence. “He was looking for a job after he was released,” Alireza’s sister told Nejat Society. “Because of his criminal record, it was too difficult for him to find a job so he traveled to Turkey to find a good job.”

Alireza Taherloo

In Turkey, Alireza was once more recruited by the MEK’s active recruiters there. “He was no more interested in working with the MEK but they deceived him and took him to Iraq,” his sister said.
Alireza arrived in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, in 1993 but only one year later, he was jailed in Camp Ashraf under the accusation of being the agent of the Iranian government. At the time, a large number of MEK members had been accused of such allegations. They were imprisoned, violently interrogated and tortured by their own commanders in Ashraf.

Nasir Heidari who was one of the suspected members of the group recalls: “They took Alireza Taherloo to our cell. He had been terribly tortured. His mental and physical conditions were not normal. We all had to sign a paper to confess that we had come to Ashraf to kill Massoud Rajavi otherwise tortures would be continued.”
After months of imprisonment and torture, Alireza was released but he was not mentally balanced. He was kept in isolation because he usually opposed commanders’ orders.

On April 8th, 2011, when Massoud Rajavi ordered his disarmed members to attack Iraqi forces who were supposed to build a station in Camp Ashraf, Alireza was coerced to commit suicide.

Alireza Taherloo

Khodabakhsh Miri, MEK defector who witnessed the deadly clashes in the morning of April 8th, testifies about Alireza Taherloo’s killing: ‘’He was in a car sitting next to his commander, Kianoush Salahpour. The car stopped. Alireza was listening to the commander. He took off the car and went towards Iraqi forces and set himself on fire.” Alireza burned alive before the eyes of Iraqi forces and his commander.

On April 8th, 2011, Massoud Rajavi ordered his members to scarify themselves to stop Iraqi forces from entering Camp Ashraf. Thirty-six members of the MEK were killed and hundreds were injured in the clashes between the MEK’s rank and file and Iraqi army. Iraqi police were supposed to return the lands in north of Camp Ashraf to their original owners, Iraqi farmers of the region. The lands have been confiscated from the farmers and donated to Massoud Rajavi by Iraqi’s former dictator, Saddam Hussein.

April 13, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The worst experience of being an MEK member

“I saw my mother and brother over the fences of Ashraf but I did not bat an eyelid”, Musa Jaberifar, MEK defector said.
Defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization have so many times testified about the many examples of human rights violations committed by leaders of the group against their own members. The cases of violations include intimidation, humiliation, peer pressure, solitary confinement, physical and mental torture and even death.
However, the experience of Musa Jaberifar and many other MEK members might be considered as one of the worst memoirs of members of destructive cults like the Cult of Rajavi. These unpleasant experiences belong to those who found the chance to see their families on the other side of the walls of Camp Ashraf in Iraq but they were not allowed to meet them. Families used to picket in front of the gates of Ashraf in Iraq calling on their beloved children who were taken as hostages behind the bars of the cult.

Musa Jaberifar

Musa Jaberifar who has recently declared his total defection form the MEK writes this memoir as evidence for the inhuman experience he endured in his 13 years of membership in the MEK’s manipulative system:
“When we were in Ashraf, one day I was on guard post in one of the sides of Ashraf prison, I noticed my mother and brother who had come to visit me, behind the barbed wires around Ashraf. They were not allowed to enter Ashraf and I was not told that my family were there. I saw them accidently but as I was so frightened of the authorities and their humiliating sessions to oppress members, I did not bat an eyelid.”

Musa ignored his mother and brother while he had not seen them for years and he had definitely missed them. He had left them to immigrate to Greece but he turned out to be imprisoned in the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq. Nevertheless, ignoring his mother and brother was not enough for the cult authorities. His commander summoned him. He continues:

“After finishing my job, the authorities took me to the unit’s commander, a woman named Sheida. She said, ‘I called on you to tell me about your problems. We can talk about it and solve it.’ But I was afraid and already knew that if I said anything they would use it against me in their humiliating sessions. They might even label me with further accusations. So, I said, ‘No. I have no problem and every thing is OK.’ They did not say anything about my family’s coming to Ashraf.”

This was a brief account of the suppressive atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajvai. There are a lot of similar experiences exposed in the testimonies of defectors of the cult.

Gholam Ali Mirzaei

Gholam Mirzai was forced to speak in the MEK’s TV cannel to announce his hatred against his family who had come to Camp Ashraf to visit him. Years later, he could manage to leave the group and join his family in Iran after 40 years of separation.

Ms. Akafian – Ali sasani’s mother

Mohammad Ali Sasani is still in the MEK. His mother Mahnaz Akafian recalls how MEK members were forced to shout at their parents because they had come to Ashraf to visit them. At the time, she realized that his son did not come to visit him because he did not want to be rude to them.
This is the truth of People’s Mujahedin of Iran. It is a destructive cult that coerces members to ignore, insult and accuse their own parents only because they miss their children.

By Mazda Parsi

April 12, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

53 years of the MEK crimes

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (People’s Mujahedin of Iran also known as MEK, MKO or PMOI) was formed on the basis of Marxism and Islam; later Islam was removed from MEK’s doctrine . This group, established in 1965 in a bid to overthrow the Shah, harbored an anti-Western and anti-U.S. ideology. They also formed alliances with other Iranian Marxist groups such as the Organization of Iranian People’s Fedai Guerrillas.

But both of them had a marginal role in the Shah’s overthrow during the Islamic Revolution which was mainly fought by the supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini. MEK leaders were mostly imprisoned by the Shah’s security apparatus and couldn’t play a direct role in the 1979 Revolution.

Due to their intense anti-American approach, MEK killed many US officials, including three officers who had been military advisors under the Shah and three civilian contractors working in Iran. They also kidnapped the US Ambassador to Iran. They were the main elements for occupying the US embassy in Tehran, and when the embassy staff were released they called it a”surrender”.

MEK 33 year of Crimes

The MKO has also made numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the terrorist group’s acts of terror.

Based on these facts, US State Department put the MEK on their list of international terrorist organizations on October 8, 1997. Since 2010, this terrorist group’s henchmen have assassinated four senior nuclear scientists in Iran.

Later, it was revealed by a 2012 NBC News report that MEK’s brutal assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists has been committed via”training and arming by Israel’s secret service”. The report also conveyed that what was being said by US officials confirmed the same”charges leveled by Iran’s leaders” about the Israeli involvement in the killings in Iran.

Later it was revealed that the US was also behind these terrorist assassinations by provided intelligence to the MEK. Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh revealed in an interview with Democracy Now that the Bush administration secretly trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group when it was still included on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists. Writing for The New Yorker magazine, Hersh reported that:

“The US Joint Special Operations Command trained operatives from Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, at a secret site in Nevada beginning in 2005.”

Later it was revealed that this training was held at Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, located about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Human rights abuses in MEK camps also included physical abuse, lack of exit options, forced celibacy, emotional isolation, extremely degrading peer pressure, forced labor, sleep deprivation, intense ideological exploitation and isolation.

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April 11, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Tahereh Golrizan letter to her brother Abbas, in the MEK Camp in Albania

Tahereh Golrizan wrote letter to his brother Abbas; hostage at the MEK camp in Albania on the eve of the Persian new year. Some parts of the letter read:
“
Dear Abbas,
Happy new year. The same as every Nowruz we sat at the Haft-Sin Table, remembering you. We wanted you to sit next to us at the Haft-sin table. We missed you a lot. I prayed for you to be near your family.
My dear bro, please release yourself from the cult of Mujahedin and make all of the family happy. This is all I want from you. I hope the new year to be the year of your liberation. “

Tahereh Golrizan ; Abbas Golrizan sister

Abbas was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war when he was taken as a war prisoner by the Iraqi forces. Abbas used to write letters to his family from Iraqi POW camp via the IRC from time to time but when the war was over and eventually the POWs were released by the Iraqi government, Abbas did not return home. Trying to find Abbas, the Golrizan family soon found out that Abbas had been transferred to the camp of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. Abbas has been in the MEK for over 30 years.

April 10, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Musa Jaberifar: I left the MEK because they are dishonest

“I defected the Cult of Rajavi because they are dishonest, unreliable and fraudulent,” he writes in his official announcement to denounce the MEK.

Born in 1980 in Tehran, Musa was 21 years old when he was kidnapped by the MEK recruiters and eventually was taken to the group’s base in Iraq. He recounts how he was trapped by them:
“A friend of mine, named Mehdi Rajabi was abroad. One day, a woman called me and said that she was an acquaintance of Mehdi. She said, ‘your friend is working in Greece. He cannot call you and he has asked me to call you to tell you to go to Greece.’ I had just finished my army service and I was jobless. I found it a good opportunity. The woman told me to go to Turkey from where she would help me move to Greece. By the way. I went to Turkey and called the woman. Someone came to take me to their safe house. I was told that Mehdi had sent me an email. I do not remember the exact words but he had written that I should trust them and do whatever they said. As I trusted my friend, I accepted everything they said. They gave me an Iraqi passport and took me to Iraq.”

Musa Jaberifar

This was the beginning of a thirteen-year imprisonment in the Cult of Rajavi for Musa jaberifar. He was not a political person so he had no idea about the Mujahedin Khalq. “In Iraq, I had no idea where I was going,” he says. “After I arrived, I gradually found out that I was completely wrong to trust my friend. During the thirteen years that I was in the Cult of Rajavi, I asked to leave several times but every time they coerced me to stay by holding brainwashing sessions.”

After the group was relocated in Albania in 2015, Musa finally left the group’s camp but he was financially dependent to the group until recently. In response, leaders of the MEK asked him to spy on other defectors of the group in particular members of ASILA (Association for the Iranians Living in Albania). “They had bought me somehow. I was their hostage. I was exhausted. It was like I was still in the cult,” he writes. Thus, he declared his total defection from the Cult of Rajavi and he joined ASILA a few days ago.

“I want to choose for and build my life, the life that was ruined in the cult,” he states.

April 9, 2022 0 comments

Albania

Albania – Citizenship for special merits

If u are a foreign citizen, are actually living in Albania and have a special contribute, you are a great candidate to win the Albanian citizenship. The news was made public on Wednesday by the Interior Minister, Bledi Cuci, who also unveiled that during the meeting of the Government was decided that this will be a good action to attract new talents.

Bledi Cuci

“We have decided to give the Albanian citizenship to all foreigners that have special merits. With this decision, apart from the fact that we treat in a special way personalities of education and science, we make it possible to use it as an instrument for the absorption of talents and record holders to represent Albania,” said Cuci.

Albanian Daily News

April 7, 2022 0 comments

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