- Nowruz Day 21 March
- Is Albania a Partner of the US in Supporting International Terrorism?
- The MKO in the Past One Year
- Albanian Media Fooled By MEK ‘Misdirection’
- Police Report on the Situation of the Iranian Mojahedin in Albania
- In Brief
Members of Nejat Society visited at the office of the Society in Sari, Mazandaran on Saturday March 17th.
The responsible of Sari office, Hadi Shaabani presented for the families, a review of the current situation of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) in Albania and the recent act of the UNHCR to pay the group defectors independently. He also recounted the recent acts of defectors of the group in the European Parliament.
Shabani stated that a large number of the rank and file of the group refused to go to the new camp outside Tirana “Ashraf 3”.
Farokhi, Salehi, Afghan and Sabet Rostami were some of family members of hostages of the MKO who attended the meeting. They were so eager to know the names of the recently defectors of the MKO.
The families who are members of Nejat Society several times traveled to Iraq to visit their loved ones but they were not allowed by the authorities of the MKO. Once the group is located in Albania they are hopeful that their loved ones leave the group by the aid of the UNHCR. They declared that they are ready to do anything possible to rescue their family member who is taken as a hostage by the MKO leader. The recent news about the defectors assured them that their efforts for salvation of their loved ones will bear fruit in the future.
Sabet Rostami asserted, “The evil Rajavi should know that if he builds a hundred “Ashraf 3” to imprison our loved ones, their families will not give up. We will keep on the good work to release our loved one. This is what Rajavi fears a lot.”
On the eve of the Iranian New Year, it is worth looking back at the MEK conduct in the past one year. The group leaders took mean actions to cope with their declining phase during the past year. Weather they were successful or not, the international community should be vigilant about the threats by the side of the MKO as a destructive cult.
Once they were completely relocated in Albania, the MKO authorities had to reconstruct the regulations of their cult-like organization because of the increasing rate of defection in the new community which was not as isolated as it was in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, Iraq.
The group authorities established a new base in a remote region outside Tirana and named it “Ashraf 3” in order to impose more limitations on members and to launch their cult-like practices more easily. Members were made to sign an engagement letter before being resettled in the new camp according to which they were committed to stay in the group until the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. The group leaders even confiscated the members’ properties that were given to them by the UNHCR.
Being isolated in the new camp, far from the normal life of the civil society and having signed the so-called engagement letter, members of the MKO are literally taken as hostages by their leaders. Fortunately, the UNHCR finally agreed to pay the monthly payments of those who defect the MKO independently. However, those who are still in the MKO camp do not know that they have the right to use the UN facilities once they leave the MKO because they are always told by the leaders that their defection from the group results in their homelessness and poverty. The UNHCR authorities should inform the members on their rights of living in a free community after their departure from the cult otherwise they are intimidated about living independently by the cult leaders.
The past year was also a challenge for the MKO leaders in their foreign relations. They had to enhance their lobbying efforts inviting American congressmen to their Tirana base where Maryam Rajavi received them in a huge propaganda show. The group’s members were made celebrate the reception of American lawmakers as if it was a big victory –they did not dare to ask their leaders what happened to the anti-Imperialist and anti-Zionist slogans of the MKO.
On the other hand, the US politicians have spent a large amount of money of the US taxpayers for the relocation and residence of the MKO in Albania contributing the Albanian government and the UN High Commissioners of Refugees. Regarding the MKO’s history of terrorist acts, suicidal operations and cult-like behaviors such as self-immolations, sooner or later the West will come to the conclusion that the Cult of Rajavi has more disadvantages than advantages for the West as they experienced it with Al-Qaida and ISIS. The terrorist extremist groups will often turn back to haunt their promoters someday.
Mazda Parsi
Two members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/MEK /PMOI / the Cult of Rajavi) left the group’s base in Albania.
According to Sahar Family Foundation, the two recently-defected people could manage to escape from the MKO’s new base called Ashraf 3 in the outskirt of Tirana and introduced themselves to the office of the UN High Commissioners of Refugees.
The newly-established camp of the MKO is located in Durres region, 31 kilometers West of Tirana where members are more isolated than they were in Tirana.
SFF reported that following the relocation of MKO members in Ashraf 3 their discontent of the cult-like regulations of the group increased and once they were informed that the UNHCR pays their monthly payment independently –not via the MKO authorities- they are more motivated to leave the group as soon as possible.
On Tuesday March 6th, Albanian journalists were received at the central office of Nejat society in Tehran.
During the meeting that lasted several ours, three mothers of the hostages of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization in Albania talked with the Albanian journalists. Two former members of the group who have recently returned to Iran from Albania also attended the meeting.
The attendees recounted the stories of their involvements with the MKO asking the journalists to make their voice heard by the Albanian people and government. Their two main requests included first, the possibility to be provided for families to contact and visit their beloved in the MKO, second, the facilities to be provided by the United Nations under the international regulations for those who leave the MKO camps.
One of the journalists told Nejat representatives that he is an investigating journalist and has pursued the case of the MKO in his country but he had not been informed about the stuff he learned in the meeting at Nejat society. He asserted that the public opinion in Albanian do not have enough information about the true nature of the MKO and the way it treats its members. He said that the Albanian nation should be enlightened about the truth of the cult-like group.
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Nejat representatives at the Iran-Albania cultural event
Two representatives of Nejat Society attended the conference to commemorate the Albanian poet, Naim Frashër in Tehran.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Zahra Mirbagheri attended the event that was held to commemorate the Albanian writer and poet Naim Frasher who was the only European poet who to write Persian poetries. The conference was held with the help of Islamic Culture and Communication Organization, Teacher Training Faculty of Tehran University and some Albanian cultural centers.
There were also representatives of various countries such as Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Italy attending this event.
On the sidelines of the conference, Khodabandeh and Mirbagheri visited foreign invitees and journalists enlightening them about the current situation of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO, MEK, PMOI, the Cult of Rajavi) in Albania. They warned about the threats of the region is exposed to by the side of the cult-like Mujahedin Khalq.
Nejat representatives described the frustrations that families of the MKO members are faced with for visiting their beloved ones in the group’s camps in Albania. They also talked about the conditions of defectors of the group in that country.
Nejat delegation visited a number of academic figures of Balkan region including former president of Albania professor Rexhep Meidani , deputy chief of Albanian science academy professor Floresha Dado, Professor Ali Aliyev of the Macedonian State University, Professor Hamid Jaafari of the South-East European University of Macedonia, Professor Saeed Abedpour of science and research institute of Sarajevo in Bosnia and many other academics and journalists of the region.
Representatives of Nejat Society asked the Albanian government to facilitate the grounds for families of MKO members to travel to Albania in order to visit their loved ones who are taken as hostages in the MKO camps.
They invited a number of journalists to come to the office of Nejat Society and visit families of the MKO hostages and former members of the group. The journalists accepted the invitation.
The additional report of the meeting at Nejat Society will be published in a while.
On the occasion of the death anniversary of the death of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister of Iran, the leader of the destructive cult of the MKO, Maryam Rajavi’s narcissism leads her to claim to inherit the legacy of Mossadegh!
She does not hesitate to put the name of her destructive cult –People’s Mojahedin of Iran_ alongside the name of Dr. Mossadegh as the inspirers of the youth of Iran for her alleged freedom and democracy. Listing the achievements of Dr. Mosaddegh’s 28-month tenure, Rajavi accurately said about mosaddeq, “He was targeted from all directions for his cause which cherished independence, freedom, and an unwavering struggle against foreign colonialism, and against domestic dictatorship and fundamentalism.”
Nevertheless, Maryam Rajavi should be asked what the MKO has in common with Dr. Mosaddegh in both the achievement and the cause. While Dr. Mossadegh was the most prominent figure of the Iranian nationalism, the history of the Mujahedin Khalq –particularly its leader Massoud Rajavi—is full of anti-nationalistic acts. Siding with Saddam Hossein in the eight years of Iran-Iraq war and acting as the proxy force of the Israeli and American Intelligence services in Iran after the fall of Saddam, the MKO has nothing in common with the Nationalist movement of Iran.
Mosaddeq’s nationalization efforts led the British government to begin planning to remove him from power. In January 1953, the U.S. and Britain agreed to work together toward Mosaddegh’s removal. The plot, known as Operation Ajax, centered on convincing Iran’s monarch to issue a decree to dismiss Mossadegh from office. On the 60th anniversary of the coup against Mosaddegh, the CIA publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious coup in August 1953.
This indicates that, the Western Imperialism felt their interests threatened by the side of Mosaddegh as a nationalist anti-West leader who was democratically elected and cherished by the Iranian people. In contrast, the MKO leaders, Maryam and Massoud Rajavi and their followers have served as Saddam’s private army and the US-Israeli proxy forces in order to launch cross border terror acts against Iranian civilians including the Iranian nuclear scientist.
The legacy of Mosaddeq and the nationalist Movement is probably the most symbolic for the many Iranians of both religious and secular persuasions who favor political development toward a democratic society but the Mujahedin Khalq is a violent group detested by the majority of Iranians. However, the opportunist leaders of the MKO have always been seeking a chance to boost their declining establishment. The names of great leaders of the masses all over the world such as Mandella, Ghandi and Mosaddeq are used as the apparatuses for the propaganda machine of the MKO.
Mazda Parsi
Former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) was welcomed at Nejat Society office in Isfahan.
Mohammad Tourang has recently defected the MKO in Albania and returned to Iran. Families of Nejat Society visited him at the office of the NGO in Isfahan.
The executive director of Nejat Society, Ebrahim Khodabandeh addressed the families, giving an outline of the current situation of the hostages in the MKO camp and those who could manage to leave the cult in Tirana, Albania.
Mohamamd Tourang also described the condition of the captives of the MKO as disastrous. Most members are old, depressed and sick, he said. Based on Tourang’s testimonies, people in the MKO base in Albania have many questions in their minds. “Brainwashing sessions ends with quarrels between the rank and file and the senior members, “he asserted.
Tourang answered to many questions that the suffering families asked him about their loved ones who are still taken as hostages in the MKO.
Abdolkarim Karimi was a soldier fighting in Iran-Iraq war in 1988; his military service was supposed to finish in a few weeks when he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Iraqi army. His family was not aware of his whereabouts for a long period of time. Then they got to know that Rajavi has used him as bargaining chip in his treasonous deals with Saddam Hossein.
This time, their beloved son was sentenced to a long-life imprisonment in the Cult of Rajavi (the MKO/MEK/Mujahedin Khalq). He is still taken as a hostage in the group.
Mahmoud is Abdolkarim’s brother undergoing the long-time separation. “As an Iranian from Kurdish region, my brother has nothing in common with the Cult of Rajavi and its ideology,” he says. “My brother does not choose to live in the MKO by his own free will. He is just a prisoner and a hostage.”
Mahmoud feels pity for their father who died before he could visit her son Abdolkarim. Their elderly mother also suffers grieves awaiting to see his beloved son once more. In his visit to Nejat Society office in Kermanshah he asked his brother to contact their heartbroken mother and talk to her before it is too late.
Nurmorad is from Andimeshk; a county in Khuzestan province, Iran. During the Iranian 1997 revolution, Nurmorad was a sympathizer of the Mujahedin-e Khalq group. After the revolution he was tricked into moving to MKO camps in Iraq. From then on his family have had no contact with him.
Nurmorad brother says:” we haven’t had any contact with Nurmorad since he left Iran. Hearing that my brother is moved to Albania, we got happy. We are hopefully looking forward to hear from him.