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German Magazine, 24 facts on child abuse in the MEK

On October 27th, 2021 the German magazine, Die Zeit, published a fact-finding article based on an interview with a former child soldier of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ NCR/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) Amin Golmaryami.

The Zeit’s article has developed at least 24 accusations against the MEK as the group that had recruited Amin Golmaryami and a large number of other Mujhed child soldiers to join the group’s base in Iraq, Camp Ashraf. Out of the 24 facts on the true nature of the MEK, 20 have been testified by Amin Golmaryami and the rest have been investigated and asserted by the journalist Luisa Hommerich.

Amin Golmaryami

The followings are the cases of human rights violations in the MEK that are accessible in the article:

1. The destruction of family’s structure; The MEK leaders separated children from their parents.
2. The illegal transfer (human smuggling) of hundreds of children from Iraq to Europe.
3. Maintaining children in team houses of the MEK; The group’s agents in Germany kept 150 children in a team house in Cologne without the supervision of the German Youth Welfare Office.
4. Poor health and living conditions of the children in the team houses.
5. Verbal and physical abuse of children by the MEK agents or individuals associated with them.
6. Fraud against the German social security office in Cologne; the MEK operatives received the child benefit, a monthly payment given to all parents in Germany.
7. Establishing front organizations to raise funds under the cover of child aid charities.
8. Employing attorneys to intervene in the activities of the Youth Welfare Office and the German Police under the cover of advocating for children rights.
9. Manipulating the children’s minds. The MEK commanders deceived the children to take them to Iraq promising them to visit their parents in Iraq and get back Europe after a short time but in practice, once they were moved to Iraq, they were not allowed to get back any more.
10. Banning children from education. At least 40 cases of MEK children who resided in Cologne were transferred to Iraq with the promise of visiting their parents and eventually they were unable to continue their education during the next years that they were forced to stay in the group’s camps in Iraq.
11. Kidnapping. In at least 40 cases of the MEK children were disappeared at schools in Cologne; they were illegally transferred to France and from there to Iraq. The legal custodians of the children and the German Youth Welfare Office were not informed about the transfer.
12. In contrast with the promises made by the MEK commanders, the children were not delivered to their parents in Iraq. In case of Amin Golmaryami, he visited his mother after two weeks in the presence of some other Mujahed women. For families, there was no possibility for free visits or living together, inside the MEK bases. Visits took place only twice a year, in public ceremonies.
13. The child soldiers had to wear military uniforms immediately after they arrived in the MEK’s camp. They eventually received military trainings. Thus, they were child soldiers.
14. The children such as Amin Golmaryami were forced to stay in Iraq. They were prevented from returning to Europe. They were kept in Camp Ashraf under severe mental and physical pressure.
15. Although these child soldiers were friends since their childhood in Iraq and Germany, they were not allowed to socialized with each other after they brought back to Camp Ashraf as child soldiers.
16. At least, one of the child soldiers, a girl named Alan Muhammadi committed suicide due to the cult-like pressures by the MEK commanders.
17. Members of the MEK have no free access to TV, radio, newspapers, the Internet and telephone.
18. In the MEK, members have to attend daily meetings in order to report their sexual thoughts.
19. The regulations of the MEK are cult-like.
20. Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the MEK intimidated the dissident members and those who were willing to leave the group. They were threatened to be delivered to Saddam Hussein’s prison, Abu Quraib, where torture was expecting them.
21. Members of the MEK are coerced to spy on each other.
22. Amin Golmaryami was not able to contact the representatives of the UN in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, because of the suppressive ruling of the MEK.
23. The Gestapo-like control in the MEK. In the only one time that Amin Golmaryami succeeded to call a person in Germany, the phone call was monitored by the commanders and consequently Amin was punished.
24. Permanent psychological injuries. Being separated from parents, being smuggled to Germany, experiencing improper living conditions, being moved to Iraq and working as a forced soldier of the MEK have caused Amin and other former child soldiers many mental injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, adjustment disorders and anxiety.

Among the above-mentioned cases, only the cases 6, 7, 8 and 19 were claimed by the journalist, Luisa Hommerich, the rest are all testimonies of Amin Golmaryami, as one of nearly eight hundred children who were separated from their Mujahed parents in 1991 and more than 300 child soldiers who were brought back to Iraq between 1996 and 2000.

February 5, 2022 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 308

++ Massoud Khodabandeh was interviewed by Iranic TV. Khodabandeh covered a variety of subjects starting with the source of MEK money – Saddam Hussein, Saudi gold and money laundering. He said the MEK are still involved in money laundering, but now, instead of being alongside military/terrorist activities, they are now being paid for click farm propaganda activity and intelligence work for anyone, including paid work for Zionists against Europeans. Khodabandeh talked about the recent renewed interest in the case of child soldiers, rapes and sexual abuse and women in the MEK. He talked about the assassination of general Soleimani and how this put an end to the west’s hopes for regime change. He concluded by talking about the MEK’s situation in Albania where they act with impunity – as above the law as they were under Saddam Hussein – with the backing of Israel in particular. Khodabandeh stressed that the Albanian authorities are not happy with this situation at all.

++ Exit News in Albania, which previously reported the arrest of two high ranking MEK personnel on charges of drug and human trafficking, is continuing to report on the crackdown on criminal activity in Albania. This time involving unauthorised cryptocurrency labs, fraud and hiding income. Commentators ask in Farsi why the authorities turn a blind eye to the MEK’s criminal behaviour. Why the two arrested MEK officials are not being prosecuted and why the authorities refuse to investigate well-evidenced allegations of modern slavery and human rights abuses in Camp Ashraf 3.

++ The MEK are placing fundraising ads on their TV channel. This is in spite of the fact that everyone knows the MEK is paid for by the anti-Iran coalition (US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and UK). As several commentors pointed out, the MEK’s main job is money laundry for the purposes of propaganda and dissemination of false and misleading information.

++ Maryam Rajavi was delighted to pose with some non-Iranian former politicians and personalities presumably in a bid to win over the hearts and minds of Iranians. It was deliberately unclear whether these photo ops were made Albania or France, though Rajavi is trying hard to pretend she is living in France. Responses pointed out that the Rajavi Cult is more and more irrelevant to Iran and that observers expect the group to morph into the Cult of Qajar in Paris headed by Maryam’s daughter and her niece (her brother’s daughter) who are both French citizens by birth.

++ Hackers managed to hack an Iranian TV channel for a few seconds last week, placing photos (over 30-year-old) of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi on screen. This prompted a hashtag storm with # down with MEK in Farsi from everywhere. Social media found the stunt ridiculous. Nobody cares about MEK and those who did simply laughed at how desperate MEK is to prove it actually exists at all.

In English
++ Gjergji Thanasi wrote about the trafficking activities of MEK being revealed in Greece which are a repeat of the drug and human trafficking which led to the arrest of two high ranking members in Albania. Thanasi wrote that Greek police and journalists have raised concerns about the long term activities of Mehdi Mazloomi and Bahman Rahimi, both MEK members, in Greece. The fear is that MEK is causing problems in the EU and in NATO countries. Thanasi suggests that the US embassy should help Albania to end the Rajavi cult.

++ In a joint broadcast between ASILA in Albania and Nejat Society in Iran, Albanian journalist Gjergji Thanasi told families of the entrapped MEK members that things are changing for the better. According to the Albanians there is now an alternative for the inmates, to have a normal life in Tirana; Thanasi stressed that new legislation allows them to find a job. He said everyone should work together to help the MEK members as the alternative could be that they die of COVID 19 due to negligence.
++ Nejat Society published the story of Mahvash Jahanbanian whose husband Ali Ebrahimi was taken as a PoW during the Iran-Iraq while serving as an officer in the Iranian army. In spite of being registered with the ICRC, Ebrahimi’s letters stopped in 1989 and his wife had no news of him until an anonymous note revealed he was with the MEK. After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 Jahanbanian, with other families, visited Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty four times to find her husband. They had rocks thrown at them. Later, former MEK members who knew him told her that he refused to comply with MEK demands that he denounce his wife as an agent of Iranian Intelligence and was punished for this. Jahanbanian is continuing her efforts to contact her husband and called on the Albanian authorities to help. Meanwhile, she sent a direct message to him on her video with Mardom TV: “Ali! I still love you and respect you the same as I did the day you left. We will warmly welcome you whenever you come back home.”

February 04 2022

February 5, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Manez based Mujahedin and human trafficking in Albania and Greece

Human trafficking is an operative tool that serves several purposes for terrorist organizations. It facilitates the recruitment and retention of their recruits and provides a support mechanism for them. Leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ NCR/ Cult of Rajavi) have managed their forces with the most complicated techniques of human smuggling around the world, in particularly form Iran to Iraq and from Iraq to Europe and etc. The group’s illegal trafficking has continued since its relocation in the Albanian territory.

During the past two months, there have been two reports on the MEK’s involvement in human trafficking in Albania and Greece. On December 5th, 2021, Alice Taylor of the Exit reported on the arrest of two commanders of the MEK, Narges Azdanloo and Hassan Nayeb Agha by the Albanian police. Gjergji Thanasi of Gazeta Impakt wrote of the group’s background of smuggling two men in Greece, on January 30th, 2022. Referring to the violent background of the MEK, Thanasi warned the Albanian security services to verify the case of these two people in the MEK’s camp in Manza, north of Tirana.

Trafficking is a tactic of warfare to intimidate populations and reduce resistance just as enslavement and rape. Terrorist groups appear to grow human capital, tactical adaptability and ideological reinforcement for their organizations by employing trafficking acts and means to exploit vulnerable adults and children for a variety of purposes, including sexual exploitation, forced labor and slavery, and even war. The recent testimonies published by former child soldiers of the MEK prove that leaders of the group, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have committed all of these crimes against their own members, just as the ISIS did against their female and child recruits and the Yazidi women.

MEK human smuggling

Although the case of MEK’s human traffickers and their victims have hardly ever investigated in the media and scholar communities –due to the group’s propaganda or Western political interests—the threat of the residence of two thousand radicalized members of the MEK in a European country should not be neglected.
The important argument here is that victims of trafficking by terrorist groups are too often being punished instead of protected. States fail to identify and protect victims, often because of their alleged association with terrorist groups and their illegal immigration. This makes the victims to resort to their predator again for the alleged support. This has frequently happened to members and ex-members of the MEK.

The Albanian authorities and the Human rights bodies should take into consideration that the majority of the MEK’s rank and file are victims of the group’s cult-like oppressive system. They have been radicalized under Rajavi’s cult of Personality. They have been terrified of the outside world by the group’s propaganda. Thus, the Albanian state must support them to get deradicalized in order to join the life outside the MEK’s camp.

The second step is to protect the defectors of the MEK to begin their new life in the free world. The Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) seems to be ready to accomplish the second step. However, the first step is certainly possible if the Albanian authorities take proper action to do their national and humanitarian responsibility to aid residents of Camp Ashaf 3 release from the bars of the cult of Rajavi.

February 1, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The Albania based MEK and threat of clandestine trafficking

The handcuffing for drug trafficking and human trafficking, made by the Albanian police to the two senior commanders of the Iranian mujahedeen sheltered in Manza (Durrës), unfortunately did not stop the former MEK terrorists locked in Camp Ashraf 3 Manza. ( Https : //exit.al/en/2021/12/05/iranian-exiles-in-albania-arrested-for-drug-trafficking-and-human-smuggling/ ).

The intervention of American diplomats in Tirana before the Albanian judiciary to close this affair of the MEK with drugs and trafficking in human beings, apparently served the MEK as an incentive to continue the profitable trafficking of human beings. For more, you can consult the public statement of the prominent analyst Andi Bushati.

I learned from my fellow Greek journalists that the Attica Prefecture police as well as EKAM (Greek special anti-terror police) were very alarmed when they learned from operational sources that the former terrorist organization MEK based in a camp near Durrës trafficked two members of the organization from Albania to Greece years ago.

It is about MEHDI MAZLOOMI and BAHMAN RAHIMI. The Greeks, given the proverb that the leopard cannot change the fur stamps (the wolf changes the hair, but does not forget the habit) fear the participation of these two mujahideen in terrorist acts in the territory of the Hellenic Republic or the use of this territory to undertake terrorist acts in other EU countries or in allied countries of Greece (NATO member countries).

According to Greek journalists, these 2 members of a former terrorist organization are trying to contact structured Afghan criminal gangs in Athens to obtain forged European identification documents. Greek colleagues had only one photo of many years ago of Mehdi Mazloomi, with his mother. This photo is attached to my post for illustration.

Mehdi Mazlumi and his mother

The continuation of trafficking by MEK members and commanders in Albania opens additional troubles for my Homeland and creates problems with the EU and NATO allies. As a journalist, but also as an Albanian patriot, I call on the director of the State Police, Mr. Gledis Nano (former director of anti-terrorism), to urgently verify, whether the above two persons are still in Camp Ashraf in Manez, or have cracked the thorn and Greek journalists are right, who give the alarm for trafficking in human beings (active members of a former terrorist organizations)?

Such verification is not difficult at all, because during the dictatorship even the chickens of agricultural cooperatives had inventory. I believe that the Albanian police has an exact “inventory” of how many and who are the MEKs housed in Ashraf 3, so it is easy to find out if the two above-mentioned are still in Camp Ashraf 3 or ……

As an American philanthropist, I publicly ask DCM Demian Smith at the US Embassy in Tirana, to exercise all his influence with the good intention, that the Rajavi Cult stop any openly illegal activity that takes place in the territory of the Republic of Albania.

I am absolutely sure that such an action by DCM Smith would serve to strengthen the excellent Albanian-American relations. After all, the English proverb also applies to us Albanians: “A friend in need is a friend indeed”.

Now Albania really needs the Rajavi Cult to put an end to all the evil activities that it develops in the Albanian land, abusing the generosity and hospitality of the Albanians !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gazeta Impakt – GJERGJI THANASI

January 31, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Ehsan Shakeri a child soldier who was slaughtered by the MEK’s propaganda machine

Ehsan Shakeri was living in Sweden together with his mother and daughter when the recruiters of the Mujahedin khalq deceived him to join the MEK’s so-called National Liberation Army, in Iraq. He became a member of the MEK’s militia force –better said, child soldiers but shortly after, he came to know that the repressive ruling of the Rajavis over the MEK is not tolerable. He criticized the group and he was labeled as mercenary of the Iranian government. The labeling was continued by the MEK propaganda until Ehsan killed himself.

The young emotional Ehsan could not bear the military life in the MEK where he had to receive military trainings, he had to attend self-criticism sessions and he had to forget family life. He had missed his mother and sister. Thus, he began questioning the commanders and eventually he became the problematic element for his commander, Zhila Deihim.

“Ehsan asked to leave the MEK and go back to Sweden several times but in response he was punished by Zhila Deihim,” former member of the MEK Reza Gooran writes in his memories about his involvement in the MEK. “Zhila jailed Ehsan in solitary confinement in Street 400 of camp Ashraf, beating him and insulting him”. Reza Gooran was in the same unit with Ehsan after they both left Camp Ashraf and joined the American temporary camp for MEK’s defectors (TIPF), in 2004.

MEK defectors at the Temporary Internment and Protection Facility, which was built adjacent to Camp Ashraf and run by the U.S. military.

Ehsan was good in English, so the American forces employed him as their interpreter. However, Zhila Deihim did not leave Ehsan alone, in TIPT. She used to come there to visit Ehsan asking him to spy on the other defectors who resided there. Therefore, Ehsan was called spy by his peers and consequently the Americans fired him just because the MEK commander wanted him to work as their mercenary.

Actually, Ehsan was not a spy but Zhila Deihim wanted him to be. Ehsan just wanted to get back to his family. Reza Gooran tried to support him in TIPF but both of them were under pressure, previously in the MEK and now in TIPF. “Ehsan was like my younger brother, I really loved him,” Reza says.

Amir Yaghmai, former child soldier who had left the MEK too and was in TIPF at the time, confirms Reza Gooran’s account in the Club House room, attended by former members and former child soldiers of the MEK. He says, “I was in TIPF with Ehsan and Reza. Reza was so supportive to Ehsan. The American forces had jailed Ehsan in solitary confinement for one month. Then he was released and he went to Iran inevitably and from there he immigrated to Sweden. The MEK labeled him as a mercenary of the Iranian government publishing several announcements to accuse him of being the agent of the Iranian intelligence in its websites.”

Ehsan Shakeri was announced as the agent of the Islamic republic by the MEK just because he had gone to Iran and had stayed there for a short time before moving to Sweden. Based on the MEK rhetoric, returning to Iran equals with working with Iranian government which is the enemy of the group.

“In 2009, –I do not mean that it was just because of the MEK but—he was under severe mental pressure and finally, as what Reza said, we heard that Ehsan hanged himself by the neck in the jungles of Sweden,” Amir Yaghmai says. “He was a child of ours (Mujahedin); his father had been killed. His mother and sister live in Sweden. The MEK shot him by calling him “mercenary mercenary mercenary ! I was the only witness there. I saw what he endured. If I were in his shoes at the time, I might have gone to Iran too. Once he came to Sweden trying to build a new life, the MEK constantly published announcements against him.”

Ehsan was never a mercenary, neither for Iran nor for the MEK. He could not manage to endure such accusations. He committed suicide after enduring too much mental pressure by the side of the MEK propaganda.

January 30, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

In the MEK’s propaganda, you are cherished after your death

As marriage and having children is forbidden in the MEK, the rate of death is increasing in the group while no birth takes place there. On January 22^nd, the websites of the Mujahedin Khalq organization once more published the news of an elderly member named Nourmorad Kalejouyi Kalejouyi. They even published the news on their English language website paying tribute to him as “a symbol of defiance against two dictatorships in Iran”. Who was Nourmorad Kolajouyi?

Nourmorad was eighty-seven years old when he allegedly died due to heart failure and pulmonary complication. He was from Andimeshk, Khozestan a small town in south-west of Iran. He was a truck driver in the frontline in the early days of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980 when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. After 9 years of enduring Saddam Hussein’s jail, Nourmorad was recruited by the agents of the MEK who used to deceive Iranian POWs to join the Cult of Rajavi.

Nourmorad Kalejouyi

Nourmorad was taken to Camp Ashraf while he did not know anything about the MEK, its ideology and regulations. Since then, he was taken as a hostage in the cult-like system of the MEK for 32 years.

Nourmorad Kalejouyi was illiterate so he had his friends write letters to his beloved daughters when he was in Iraqi prison but after he joined the MEK he was not allowed to contact his family anymore. In the MEK, even thinking about his family was forbidden. In 1990, the representatives of the Red Cross took letters from Nourmorad’s family to Camp Ashraf but the group did not allow Nourmorad to show up.

Although, as an elderly, Nourmrad suffered aches in his back and legs, he had to work hard in the MEK camps. He was made do farming and other agricultural jobs. He had to attend self-criticism sessions every night. He was made read his sexual thoughts before his peers and commanders and he was even punished for his thoughts.

In Iran, Nourmorad’s daughters missed him; they were worried about him. They traveled to Iraq to visit their father in the MEK’s jail, several times. They called his name behind the gates of Camp Ashraf but Nourmorad was not allowed to visit them. The commanders told him that his daughters were his enemies, agents of the Iranian Intelligence!

His daughter kept on taking actions to visit their father writing letters to the International human rights bodies and Iraqi authorities. After the group was relocated in Albania, they wrote letters to the Albanian authorities to aid them visit their sick and old father in the group’s camp near Tirana. “As the highest authority of the Albanian government, I ask you to order the issuing of visa for us in order to come to Albania to visit our father,” Shahla Kolajouyi, the daughter of Nourmorad wrote to Edi Rama the Albanian President, in April 2020.

Most former members of the MEK remember Nourmorad Kolajouyi inside the Cult of Rajavi. They witnessed that Nourmorad was under daily mental and physical pressure during the entire years of his membership in the MEK cult, just like any other member of the cult.

Nourmorad is the symbol of an ordinary man who was deprived of an ordinary life by the Cult of Rajavi. He was not a political person; he was just a loving caring father who became the victim of Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. His family was ignored even after his death. In her so-called tribute for the death of Nourmorad, Maryam Rajavi offered condolences to the Mujahedin Khalq and their guru, Massoud, but not to Nourmorad’s family.

January 29, 2022 0 comments

families of Nejat Society in Lorestan video link with ASILA members

Missions of Nejat Society Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families of MEK hostages ask for the aid of ASILA

Nejat Families sought to contact their loved ones in the cult of Mujahedin Khalq in the video meeting with ASILA.
In meeting, between families of Nejat Society in Lorestan province, Iran and members of the association for the support of Iranians living in Albania (ASILA), in Albania, the case of hostages of the MEK was regarded as a humanitarian issue.

As the Iranian head of ASILA, Hassan Heirani started the meeting reporting that the actions of his society are accomplished under the regulations and protection of the Albanian government in contrast with the illegal activities of the MEK against its own current and former members in the soil of Albania. “The Albanian security service has come to know that the MEK is a dangerous entity that makes efforts to obstruct the activities of defectors.”

families of Nejat Society in Lorestan video link with ASILA members

A number of family members of MEK hostages who have been present in the meeting spoke of their grieves during the dozens of years of separation.
Weeping tears, the sister of Forouzaned (Zhila) Kakavand said, “We have had no news of my sister for 40 years. Based on which rule, religion or doctrine, contacting your family is considered a crime? The international human rights bodies just kept silent regarding the pains and grieves we have endured in these 40 past years.”
The brother of Abbas and Musa Faraji was on the verge of bursting into tears. “There is no convincing reason to prevent a person from contacting his or her family,” he said. Emphasizing on the sufferings of families of MEK members, he asked ASILA authorities to aid families contact their loved ones in the MEK’s camp in Albania.
Another sister spoke of the grieves of her family in the absence of Houshang Goudarzi who was an army soldier in the Iran-Iraq war and was deceived by the MEK recruiters when he was a POW in Iraqi camps. “I don’t know how the MEK agents deceived my young brother. We have been awaiting his return for 32 years,” she said.
The Albanian head of ASILA Dashamir Mersuli who is the advocate of the Iranians living in Alibania, also addressed the Iranian families in the room, expressing hope for the release of their loved ones who are taken as hostages in the MEK. “I love Iranians,” he said. “I hope that everything will go right for both defectors of the group and those who are in the group but are willing to depart. I understand the problem. It is a complicated problem that will be solved gradually.”

families of Nejat Society in Lorestan video link with ASILA members

Families of Alireza Arjmandi, Zahra Qasemi and Mohsen Shojai asked about the conditions of their loved ones. Rahman Mohammadian, former member of the MEK and a current member of ASILA informed the families about their loved ones as far as he knew. “We see them in the streets of Tirana from time to time but they cannot get close to us. We just wave secretly to them. They are always under the supervision of their commanders and if they communicate with us, they will be interrogated by their commanders in the group. We don’t want them to get into trouble so we do not go near when we see them in the streets.”

The authorities of ASILA and Nejat Society office in Lorestan expressed their commitment to support families in order to pave their way to contact their beloveds in the Cult of Rajavi.

January 26, 2022 0 comments

Ali Ebrahimis Wife; Ms. Mahvash Jahanbani

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

She found a paper: Dont wait for Ali! He is in the MEK

Mahvash Jahanbani was pregnant with her second child when her husband, Ali Ebrahimi, was taken as a war prisoner by the Iraqi forces in the early days of the Iran-Iraq war. Their first son, Hossein was only two years old.
Ali Ebrahimi was an officer serving the Iranian army. As a war prisoner he had been registered by the Red Cross, so he was able to write letters to his family in Iran during the years of imprisonment in Iraqi camps. However, letters were suddenly cut off in 1989.

Mahvash who used to write about their growing kids, sending their photos to her husband, had no new of Ali anymore. The Iranian POWs were released in 1990 but Ali did not return home. The whole family were looking for him in the international offices of the RC but nobody knew about the whereabouts of Ali until the day that Mahvash found a paper in the yard of her house in which it was written: “Dont wait for Ali Ebrahimi. He is in the Mujahedin-e Khalq.”

Mahvash Jahanbani; wife of the MEK hostage Ali Ebrahimi

Ali Ebrahimi and dozens of Iranian POWs were deceived by the MEK recruiters who used to go to the camps to convince the POWs to join the group. As a member of the MEK Ali was not allowed by the leaders of the group, to contact his family in Iran.
Mahavsh has not been able to contact her husband since 1989. When the MEK was located in Iraq, she went to Iraq four times. “I and other families of MEK members picketed in front of the bars of Camp Ashraf and Camp liberty for weeks,” Mahvash told Mardom TV. “I called the name of Ali Ebrahimi in the loudspeakers. I am sure that they could hear us but they just threw rocks at us. We were never allowed to visit him.”
Weeping tears, she says, “I was only 24 when Ali left. I grew my kids by my own. I miss him. Whenever, I talk about him I cry.”

Offering sympathy to Mahavash, a number of former members of the MEK commented below the video of Mardom TV’s interview with her. “I remember that Ali was under too much pressure by the MEK commanders after his wife came to the gates of camp Ashraf,” a former member recalled. “They forced him to take position against his wife labeling her as the mercenary of the Iranian Intelligence but Ali did not agree to do so. In response, he was suppressed by the commanders.”

Mahvash Jahanbanian is still seeking to visit her husband after years of separation. She calls on the Albanian authorities to aid her have a private visit or even a phone call with her beloved husband.
In the hope that her husband might see her video, she addresses Ali through the camera of Mardom TV: “Ali! I still love you and respect you the same as I did the day you left. We will warmly welcome you whenever you come back home.”

January 24, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Former child soldier: Maryam and Massoud Rajavi must be tried

Amir Yaghmai, former child soldier asked for the trial of the leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq.

Amir is one of the first former child soldiers of the MEK who spoke out about his experience of living under the abusive system of the Cult of Rajavi. Very soon, a picture of his ID card was published on the MEK-run websites labeling him as the agent f the Iranian Intelligence. In 2021, two other MEK-born children who are now in their thirties spoke out.

Amir Vafa Yaghmaee

Hanif Azizi, a Swedish policeman now, published his autobiography, “Suburban snout” in Swedish recounting his childhood in the MEK’s military camps. Amin Golmaryami was the third child soldier who was officially brought to the lime light of the Western media. He was interviewed by the German newspaper Die Zeit. Their revelations on the horrific life of children in the Cult of Rajavi were eventually translated to Persian. The expectable consequence for both of them was the label of being mercenaries of the Iranian intelligence by the MEK propaganda.

The unreceptive response of the MEK leaders to their own children seeing them in the side of their enemy created a movement among other former child soldiers to speak out. In two sessions of speaking in a Club House room hosted by Amir Yaghmai, a large number of MEK’s former child soldiers confirmed the testimonies made by Amir Yaghmai, Hanif Azizi and Amin Golmaryami. This time all of the speakers of the room were labeled as the agents of the Iranian Intelligence by the MEK!

In an action to inform more people about the truth, Amir Yaghmai published the audio files of ten hours of spoken testimonies made by former child soldiers of the MEK in his You Tube channel. In the caption, he stated, “our accounts of living in the MEK go back to 15 to 20 years ago but this does not diminish the responsibility for the crimes of the group committed against us, former child soldiers.”

It is just a matter of time. Amir Yaghmai refers to worldwide examples like Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary, who in September 2021 was accused by a German court of contributing to the murder of more than 11000 people through her work at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945. Prosecutors argued that she was part of the apparatus that helped the Nazi camp function more than 75 years ago.

“We want the leaders of the MEK, Massoud Rajavi who is 73 years old and his wife Maryam Rajavi who is 68 now, to be tried in an international justice court for the rights of ours that they violated.” Amir states.
As MEK’s child soldiers, Amir and his friends are witnesses and victims of the atrocities and harassments committed by the group commanders. “We experienced a lot of hardship during our childhood in the MEK,” he writes. “A large number of us were sexually abused by the group members. We will present all of our testimonies in a proper place as two of my friends courageously testified, in the previous room in Club House, how they were sexually harassed at Camp Ashraf.”

January 23, 2022 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 307

++ News emerged that a data leak in Albania led the Rama government to sign a memorandum of understanding with an American company to “strengthen cyber security and increase the digital infrastructure”. The company, Jones Group International, is led by General James Logan Jones Jr, “a four-star General of the United States Navy Corps, former National Security Adviser, Commander of the Marine Corps, Commander of the US European Command, Supreme Allied Commander Europe”. This is the same General Jones who in November 2019 visited Maryam Rajavi in Ashraf 3 in Manez to support her regime change agenda. This knowledge led to a series of comments from Albanians who wonder how private their personal details will be once Jones gets hold of them.

The MEK, of course, is not in Albania to directly oppose the Iranian regime – that would be a ludicrous conclusion for anyone to make. Instead, it acts as a propaganda and intelligence tool for the anti-Iran coalition which includes the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia. The MEK is well known as a conduit for Mossad intelligence – a two-way street. With Jones’ company embedded in the security infrastructure and the corrupting, criminal MEK acting with impunity in Albania, who knows what real threat there may be to national security in that country.

What guarantee does Albania have that general Jones will not share Albania’s sensitive information with the Iranian mojaheden? pic.twitter.com/OSP2wqo4rE

— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) January 11, 2022

++ Saber from Tabriz answered an article by Iran-Efshagar, an MEK website built to attack critics and ex-members. The article claims that the name ‘Rajavi Cult’ was invented by Iranian intelligence to discredit Rajavi and is not true. Saber accepts that this name should not be used. Instead, he says, the name ‘Rajavi’s Destructive Cult’ is the correct terminology. He explains that only destructive cults do what Rajavi does – destroy their members.

++ Hamed Sarafpour, Iran-Interlink, wrote about MEK Money Laundering after Rajavi announced the “week of financial support”, a week when members are supposed to go all out to collect financial support for her cult. Every year she does this so that she can claim that the MEK is financed through people’s money. Sarafpour exposes the history of money laundry by the MEK from the deceptive Iran Aid bogus charity to the 3 tons of gold and food for oil, etc to the payments made to John Bolton, the Vox Party, and more. He also publishes the amount of money Maryam spends on makeup and shoes and decoration for her meetings and compares this with the situation of ordinary members – referring to modern slavery to explain why the money does not reach the members.

++ Massoud Khodabandeh concluded the 9th hour-long podcast interviews with Bakhshali Alizadeh, a former MEK member now living in Iran with his family. In the series, Alizadeh describes how he went to the front line in the Iran-Iraq war as a conscript and was captured and imprisoned as a POW in Saddam’s camps. He talks about conditions in the camp and how he and others were given to Rajavi contrary to international law. He describes the situation of the MEK camps – forced marriages, forced divorces, the fall of Saddam, the Americans disarming the MEK, and the approach of the new Iraqi government. Alizadeh talks about internal conflicts inside the camp, why Rajavi resisted leaving Camp Ashraf, the transfer to Camp Liberty and how UNAMI behaved inside Liberty. Alizadeh was among those members transferred to Albania. Once there he had the opportunity to leave the MEK. This began another journey – from Albania to Germany where he was granted refugee status. He explains why he gave this up and returned to Iran where he got married and had a baby. In the concluding podcast Alizadeh touched on the importance of family in restoring his life – his father had previously travelled to the camp in Iraq to try to contact his son. He explains that in order to leave point A you need a point B to go to. The MEK cult, protected by benefactors, is denying people the point B, i.e. contact with family and society to prevent them leaving.

++ Ex members broadcast a touching video on YouTube of former MEK member Parviz Heydarian saying farewell to his friends as he returns to Iran from Albania. Heydarian was supported by the recently established ASILA association. The film shows Heydarian with other former members, who all look happy, healthy and relaxed in their new lives. The MEK have been on overdrive to denounce them all as agents of the Iranian regime. The reality is that both ASILA in Albania and Nejat Society in Iran are legally registered in their respective countries where they pay taxes and obey the laws. Unlike the MEK which has never registered anywhere, does not pay any taxes and certainly does not obey any laws.

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++ Mazda Parsi for Nejat Society writes about the MEK’s constant and futile habit of labelling all its critics as ‘agents of the Intelligence Ministry of Iran’. Parsi identifies three main groups which the MEK regards as enemies: former members, families of members and the child soldiers made to join MEK’s army in Iraq. The common characteristics linking these groups is their scathing criticism of the MEK and revelations of horrendous abuses and crimes. The MEK also singles out ASILA in Albania and Nejat Society in Iran to attack as agents. The simple reason is that these organisations effectively and persistently help and support all those groups.

++ Nejat Society reveals that the MEK’s policy of recruiting child soldiers has been known about in western political circles for some time. In a report on Iran published by the UK Home Office Border and Immigration Agency, it is stated: “According to the Child Soldiers Global Report 2004 ‘The MeK reportedly recruited members from the USA, Europe and Iraqi prisoner of war camps and jails. Children were said to be among MeK members in Ashraf camp, including 17-year-old Majid Amini who ‘was recruited to join the MeK in Tehran with promises of completing two school grades in one year and gaining a place in college’, according to his parents. There were reports that the MeK recruited children from Sweden.”

++ A Letter was sent from Nejat Society CEO Ebrahim Khodabandeh to the ASILA President outlining the problem that families have in gaining visas to visit Albania and seek out contact with their loved ones incarcerated in camp Ashraf 3 in Manez as modern slaves. The letter asks ASILA to petition the authorities to ignore Maryam Rajavi’s deceptive lies and grant the human rights of MEK members and their families.

++ Habilian Association in Iran published a second volume of its book ‘Mujahedin-e Khalq Uncovered 2, The Terrorist Group in the Eyes of International Media’. After Trump’s presidency ended, Habilian compiled media reports to update the latest narrative from western media viz a viz the MEK. “The book, published in 830 pages, vividly demonstrates that the MEK is still a highly dubious and notorious group in the West and despite the efforts to present a different image of itself among Westerners, it has not attained much success.”

++ Anne Khodabandeh in Iran-Interlink exposes the MEK’s deceptive recruitment of vulnerable Iranian asylum seekers arriving in Albania. The MEK has imposed its personnel on the police by offering to identify the Iranians among the refugees. Once recruited, they are taken to MEK camps and detained there as modern slaves. According to Khodabandeh, this practice of deceptively exploiting Iranian refugees has been going on for decades. This time, however, the Albanian authorities have a duty to detect and prevent it rather than facilitate it.

++ Geopolitica published an interview Jack Turner made with Dr Haniyeh Tarkian, an Italian Islamic-Studies researcher and geopolitical analyst, about different aspects of the MEK’s activities. Interestingly, the conversation continually returned to the issue of western double standards and hypocrisy in relation to the MEK over every issue.

++ Atefeh Nadilian, human rights lawyer, writing for Nejat Society reveals that the MEK’s sensitivity toward families has become worse in recent times. The MEK has tried to depict the families as dangerous agents of the Iranian regime. But this has backfired as most observers and analysts have realised that the MEK’s main enemy are elderly parents and siblings of the entrapped members languishing in Camp Ashraf 3.

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