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Over two decades ago, in October 1999, the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization Masssoud Rajavi assigned his third wife Maryam Rajavi as the chief commandant of the organization. This way, under the new title Maryam who was the co-leader –together with Massoud– of the group turned in to the second authority although Massoud pretended to have promoted Maryam’s echelon in the hierarchy of the cult.
As a matter of fact, the election of Maryam as the first authority elevated Massoud to a higher level which no one would reach. Since then, in his new position as the ideological leader Massoud was defined as so virtuous and immaculate that all followers had to worship him and devote their life to reach his virtues thorough Maryam!
But actually, the MKO members devoted their lives to fulfill Massoud’s ambitions. He became the absolute power of the cult who wanted absolute obedience. Immediately after the designation of Maryam as the chief commandant, divorce became obligatory. Spouses were forced to live separately. Systematic human rights violations officially began in the MKO.
Massoud Rajavi became the Guru of his cult of personality. To maintain members under the control of his cult structure, he had to control all aspects of members’ lives. According to the testimonies of former members to that date the arguments and speeches in the meetings that were held in the MKO were mostly political but after the new arrangement meetings turned into cult jargons in which sexual relationship was presented as taboos that was forbidden for members. However, it was entirely free and unlimited for Massoud Rajavi. It was later revealed by female members who defected from the cult that Massoud Rajavi had sexual relationship with a large number of women of his cult of personality.
This is just one aspect of the corruption of the MKO leaders and the numerous cases of human rights violations committed in the Cult of Rajavi. Human Rights Watch report on the MKO, titled” No Exit” might be a proper sources to study a part of human rights abuses that the MKO leaders commit against their members.
By Mazda Parsi
During the last week, 56 residents of Temporary Transit Location relocated in Tirana in three groups of 20, 19 and 17 individuals.
Following the non
international human rights bodies, the relocation process of TTL residents has accelerated. The moving process resumed after two months halt.
Ex- members of the group believe that the leaders of MKO Cult are determined to continue their manipulation practices on members in Tirana as they refuse to publish the names of those who are relocated.
The first group includes:
The second group includes:
The Third group includes:
Human Rights activists held a rally in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to denounce the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO). Honoring the World Day against Death Penalty, the participants of the rally who all used to be high ranking members of the MKO, carried pictures and placards to reveal the true face of the group.
These former members of the MKO were representatives of certain human rights bodies including “Zanan Iran” ,” Iran Fanus”,”Pen Association” and “Aawa Association”. They tried to draw the attention of people to their cause by asking questions on the MKO and its leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. So people got eager to know more about the action; they were provided with brochures and pictures.
The activists stated that Massoud Rajavi officially issued death sentence under the title “Revolutionary Execution” for a large number of civilians and officials.
Human Rights activists held a rally in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to denounce the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO). Honoring the World Day against Death Penalty, the participants of the rally who all used to be high ranking members of the MKO, carried pictures and placards to reveal the true face of the group.
These former members of the MKO were representatives of certain human rights bodies including “Zanan Iran” ,” Iran Fanus”,”Pen Association” and “Aawa Association”. They tried to draw the attention of people to their cause by asking questions on the MKO and its leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. So people got eager to know more about the action; they were provided with brochures and pictures.
The activists stated that Massoud Rajavi officially issued death sentence under the title “Revolutionary Execution” for a large number of civilians and officials.
In a report on the above-mentioned action, Pen Association asserts,”If governments are charged with elimination of death penalty , their so-called “Opposition” must care much more about it . However, in the history of the MKO there are hundreds of cases of human rights abuse. The MKO leaders even threaten their critics and their dissident members to death. Some of the group’s members were sentenced to death after being tortured in solitary confinement in Camp Ashraf.”
Today, with the failure of the MKO propaganda following the nuclear deal reached between Iran and the P5+1, the Cult of Rajavi is seeking another ray of hope to resort to. “Politically and strategically isolated, the only way left to the Rajavis is to officially denounce violence and armed struggle,” suggests Pen Association.
On the occasion of October 10th, World Day Against Death Penalty , the Mujahedin Khalq Organization’s propaganda arm, holds an alleged conference in Paris where its leader Maryam Rajavi claimed,” Our plan is an Iran without the death penalty”(!)
Meanwhile, a number of defectors of the MKO hold rallies, take actions and issue statements to denounce Rajavi’s claims. Besides, some of the former members posted their experiences and memoirs of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi as cult leaders who threaten their rank and file to death penalty.
Foad Basri is a defector of the MKO cult who hasn’t given up condemning the cult leaders in social networks. This is his Facebook status on October 11th, 2015:
“A video on the MKO website titled:” Tomorrow without Death Penalty” called a memory to my mind. I remember a meeting in Baharestan hall in Baghdad [when he was a member of the MKO]. Massoud Rajavi was walking on the stage, smoking a cigarette, when he said,”Anyone who wants to leave us, I mean in Baghdad, I myself issue his death sentence. In Iraq, we can do everything but unfortunately we cannot afford it, abroad. I allocate a place in [camp] Ashraf and I personally execute the mercenary renegades so that you do not think I’m kidding.” (!)
While the Islamic republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia are at a high level of tensions that may end to a war, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) cannot conceal its pleasure of a disturbed relationship between Iran and its neighbors.
Once, the MKO leader Massoud Rajavi took a lot of advantages from the war between Iran and Iraq although he lost his least support among the Iranian public due to siding with their aggressive enemy. However, the MKO leaders have no way out except resorting to the old tool which is siding with the enemy of Iranian nation.
Having been disappointed with the nuclear deal, and therefore, a normalized Iran-West relationship, they were lying in ambush for another troubled Iranian relations with foreign countries. The disaster of Mina gave them the opportunity.
The group’s propaganda media garner their headlines with sponsorship for Saudi Arabia. In case of the heartbreaking tragedy of this year’s pilgrimage, the MKO leader and propaganda predictably disregarded the loss of a large number of their country-men, instead they played the part of attorney of the Saudis. Maryam Rajavi usually sends message of condolences for the least earthquake that shakes Iran –even if there is no death casualty—and always put the fault of casualties of the quake on the Iranian Government’s mismanagement but she never offers sympathy to the large number of survivors of the Mina disaster that was the direct result of mismanagement of the government of Saudi Arabia that is supposed to manage the most important annual event of the world of Islam.
The MKO’s propaganda covers the clashes in Yemen as if Islamic Republic is bombing civilians rather than Saudi Arabia! Yemen has turned into a humanitarian disaster, where thousands of bombs are being dropped, 1.5 million people are displaced and more than 90% of the population is in need of assistance, according to the Guardian. The Guardian views Yemen’s crisis as “the forgotten war”. But why the Western media forget it because “the US is one of the primary causes of the problem”. This reason is exactly true for the MKO media because Saudi Arabia is one of their military and financial sponsors as well as the US and Israel.
The West is actively assisting the Saudi monarchy while the country indiscriminately kills thousands of civilians in Yemen in what amounts to war crimes by almost anyone’s definition. To obey its western masters and to flatter its main sponsor in the region the MKO turns blind eye to the most horrific atrocities against humanity. However, it claims to advocate human rights and democracy for the Iranian people.
What counts for the MKO to make allies, is only money. As far as the group is financially supported by Saudis, the MKO media serves as their “fan Club”. This is one of many accounts of the Saudi’s sponsorship for the MKO that Press TV reported:
“A Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization defector says the terrorist group receives funding from Saudi Arabia and Israel, emphasizing MKO’s role in the suppression and massacre of Iraqis under the former Baath regime. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ashraf News website in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, Maryam Sanjabi said there is evidence about the relations and cooperation between the MKO and the Saudi kingdom. She added that the group has used the tactic of establishing relations with Jordanian lawmakers in order to expand their activities in Jordan with the help of Riyadh. She also called on the remaining MKO members in camp Liberty in Iraq to think rationally and take advantage of the Iraqi government and UN decisions about their re-settlement in another country. MKO members have now a better chance of escaping in the wake of their transfer from Camp New Iraq, formerly known as Camp Ashraf, situated about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, to the Camp Liberty, the former MKO leadership council member said. The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border. The organization is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The group has also carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.”
By Mazda Parsi
References:
[1] The Guardian, The Yemen crisis is partly our fault. We can no longer facilitate this war, 5 October 2015
[2] Press TV, ‘S Arabia, Israel fund MKO terrorists’, May 13 2012
While certain US lawmakers are betting on the dead horse of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MOK) in a recent hearing in the US Congress, critics of the paid advocacy for the group disapproved their deed as a shame.
Susan Nevens, the American political affairs analyst find John McCain’s support for the MKO as
“another example of America’s love affair with terrorism and terrorist group”. “These vermin were of course listed as a terrorist group for their alleged attacks on Americans decades ago, but were removed in 2012 following an unprecedented lobbying campaign, practically going from ‘terrorist’ to ‘freedom fighters’ over night, “she posted on her Facebook account.
She ironically denounces Senator Thom Tillis who urges the congress and likes to pressure the administration to speed up the resettlement of the MKO terrorists in the US, stating, “He is of course right America stands behind any terrorist group.”
“Why should the support for these vermin be delayed, and of course the State Department stated that it’s working diligently on the issue, “ Nevens implies the US’s hypocrisy on the issue of terrorism.
She concludes,”So here is another story of the US support for terrorist group, America and the US Congress never stop, IT IS A ROUTINE order of the day.”
Definitely, It seems that for the US warmongers the justification of regime change is enough reason to support terrorists like the MKO. The prominent Journalist Soraya Sepahpour Ulrich asks in her Facebook status,” Is there no end in sight for America’s love of terrorists?! Is there no shame left?”
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As soon as her supervisors turned their back, she opened the door next to the doctor’s room and ran through the long corridor. At the end of the corridor, there was another door opening to a hall where she rushed to a 
window. She was lucky that there was no bars on the window so she could squeeze through the window. She breathlessly ran again and again until she reached Iraqi forces guarding Camp Ashraf.
Zahra Mirbagheri, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization ( the MKO) left three sisters and a brother in Camp Ashraf after she was fed up with mental and physical tortures under the oppressive mind control system of the Cult of Rajavi ( the MKO).
She is now married in Iran but looking forward to the releasing of her siblings who are still taken as hostages by the MKO authorities. According to Zahra’s testimony, they had no family relationship in the Camp Ashraf due to the strictly scheduled and emotionless life in the MKO cult in which no one is allowed to think of love, family and friends. Zahra and her mother are waiting for their loved ones and hoping that they find their way out of the cult someday.
As a matter of fact, the rank and file of the MKO must dedicate their entire life to their leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi under a manipulation program that requires members to attend self-criticism meetings and to undertake cult jargons every day.
Zahra and her family are a few of thousands of the MKO’s victims. Finian Cunningham, a prominent expert in international affairs opens his latest article on the US sponsored MKO terrorists, with the bitter story of another victim of the MKO: Masoumeh. She was only six years old when MKO gunmen shoot her family members dead at home. “Masoumeh and other children in the house were spared in the massacre,” Cunningham writes. “But everyday of her life ever since that horror, she lives with the nightmare encountered that morning when she woke as a young girl.”[1]
“My mother was innocent,” she recounts with an abiding, heartrending disbelief that her beloved was so cruelly torn from her life. [2]
There are a lot of more families who were torn by the MKO either in its terror acts or as a result of the cult-like despotic approach by its leaders. By contrast, today Maryam Rajavi who speaks under the so-called title of “president-elect”, boasts of human rights and democracy that she could bring to the Iranian people.
Over a decade the MKO’s misinformation campaign tried to mislead the West about the Iranian nuclear program. However, the nuclear deal was finally reached between the West and Iran.
Defeated tactic pushed the MKO to take the next step. They took action to bold a new propaganda: human rights in Iran. Maryam Rajavi orders the West to empower her cult as dissidents of the Islamic Republic –perhaps like what happened in Syria and Iraq. She accuses Islamic Republic of launching “a war against its own people” by “executions, imprisonments, intimidation and repression.”
Maryam Rajavi claims that her cult can fulfill the desire of the Iranian people for democratic change while Iranian victims of the MKO mount to thousands of people who never forget the group’s atrocities against its own people. The MKO, as Fininnan Cunningham describes, is the most notorious group that has devastated Iranian families by acts of terrorism. [3]
Caleb Maupin, American journalist exposes the MKO as “a group of fanatics” who “has killed tens of thousands of innocent people since the Iranian revolution in 1979”. [4]
He states that the MKO turned into a destructive abusive cult after it was sided with Saddam Hussein against its own countrymen. “Hossein forces air-dropped bands of MEK fighters into Iran where, as the self-named “Iranian National Liberation Army”, writes Maupin.[5]
He mentions the MKO’s role in Iraq, as Saddam Hussein’s “personal goon squad” who slaughtered Kurds of Iraq. Thus, he ironically puts the subtitle “Mass murderers as Human Rights Activists” who chant slogans of democracy and human rights.[6]
The MKO agents follow Maryam Rajavi’s agenda in their recent masquerade show in front of the United Nations during its General Assembly. The few MKO agents who attended the so-called protest were “a group of elderly, agitated Persians” who tried to pass themselves off as “Human Rights Activists”. [7]
Caleb Mupin calls their show as a display of “insanity to the world by calling for greater hostility between the United States and the Islamic Republic.” Referring to the collaboration of the MKO and Mossad to kill the Iranian nuclear scientists, Maupin reveals the MKO as a supporter of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, too.
Considering the dark history of human rights abuses in the undemocratic Cult of Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi’s claim for democracy and human rights (that she promises to be fulfilled in Iran by the empowerment of the MKO) seems absolutely absurd.
By: Mazda Parsi
References:
1. Cunningham, Finian, Iran Key to Unlocking US Hypocrisy on Global Terrorism, Strategic Culture Foundation, September22,2015
2. Ibid
3. Ibid
4. Maupin, Caleb T, Annual Anti-Iran Terrorist Freak Show Is Back in Town!, Counter Currents, September 28 2015
5. Ibid
6. Ibid
7. ibid
Members of Iran Zanan Association attended meetings on human rights issues in Geneva.
The meetings were held to meet nations’ representatives. They also took an action to protest against human rights abuses, committed within the camps of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization(The MKO), in front of the United Nation’s office in Geneva.
Former female members of the MKO, Zahra Moie’ni ,Ms. Batul Soltani , Ms. Homeyra Mohammadnezhad were representatives of Iran Zanan Association who took an action on September 29th. Their action was aimed to expose the true face of the MKO as an undemocratic, anti-human rights entity.
The three independent women who succeeded to leave the MKO gave awareness to their audiences about the controversial issue of families of the MKO members who are not allowed to visit their loved ones taken as hostages in Camp Liberty, Iraq.
Iran Zanan delegation warned about the most basic human rights abuses committed by the MKO authorities .
The attendees handed out hundreds of flyers and brochures in order to inform people and nations’ delegations.
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