For the past weeks, the propaganda arm of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) has resorted to every means to derail the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the world powers. The MKO is not alone in its crisis mongering policy. It is widely supported by American Neo-cons, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The MKO’s consensus with enemies of the Iranian nation and government is mainly seen in its regime change policy which is the dream of Israel, American warmongers and even Saudi Arabia. Their ultimate ambition is Bombing Iran.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK), an MEK supporter, has claimed that bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities can be done easily in only “a few days.” Cotton has also called on the President not to cooperate with Iran because “it has blood of hundreds of Americans on its hands,” whereas it was in fact the MEK that assassinated American advisers in Iran in the 1970s, according to Muhammad Sahimi of the Antiwar.com. [1]
Earlier in May 2015, the GlobeMoslims reported that Mojahedin-e Khalq voiced readiness to help Saudi Arabia in Yemen. “MKO Leader Maryam Rajavi in a meeting with Saudi Ambassador to Paris Mohammad Al Sheikh said that the grouplet is willing to cooperate with Riyadh to carry out its attacks against the Yemeni nation,” the report revealed. [2]
Including the tools Israel uses to demonize Iran to prevent the likely nuclear agreement, Muhammad Sahimi suggests, ”A forth way of demonizing Iran is by claiming that Iran is similar to the Islamic State and “1000 times worse” and “bigger.” He clarifies that making this absurd claim has been Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s way of preventing the nuclear agreement. “This is while Iran has been fighting the IS in Iraq, and in fact many experts believe that only Iran can defeat the IS, “he adds. “At the same time, Israel has been working with Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda branch in Syria, in an attempt to defeat the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad.” [3]
Sahimi introduces the MO as “an Iranian armed opposition cult that sided with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and acted as his internal security forces against his regime’s opponents”. Thus, it seems quiet natural that the MKO helps anyone who is in line with its ambitions, just like the way it aided Saddam Hussein against its own countrymen during the eight years of Iran-Iraq war.
“In advancing this narrative, Netanyahu has been helped by the Mujahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MEK, also known as MKO) and its lobby in the United States,” writes Sahimi. He refers to the harmony between the both edges of the Iranians’ enemy: “The MEK leader Maryam Rajavi has made the same claims as Netanyahu’s, calling the Islamic Republic the IS’ “Godfather”. She even testified via satellite before a congressional subcommittee, repeating the same nonsense.” [4]
About the MKO propaganda machine, Muhammad Sahimi explains, “Parallel to Israel, and perhaps even coordinated with it, the MEK lobbyists in the United States have been making the same type of claims, advocating that the US should help the MEK to topple the regime in Tehran, even though the cult is universally despised in Iran”. 5]
While the nuclear talks are reaching the final compromise sooner or later, the MKO harder beats on the war drums to flatter its sponsors.
Mazda Parsi
Sources:
[1] Sahimi, Muhammad, Demonizing Iran To Prevent the Nuclear Agreement, Antiwar.com , July 05 2015
[2] GlobeMoslims, Mojahedin-e Khalq Voices Readiness to Help Saudi Arabia in Yemen , 28 May 2015
[3] Sahimi, Muhammad, Demonizing Iran To Prevent the Nuclear Agreement, Antiwar.com , July 05 2015
[4] ibid
[5] ibid
The relocation of members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) from Iraq to Albania has raised concerns among European countries, particularly the Balkans that are already faced with various crisis in their 
region.
As the residents of the temporary Transit Location, Camp Liberty are transferred to Tirana, the risk of using the new base as a camp of preparation for fighting against the Islamic republic is increasing day after day.
Joudith Nourink Dutch journalist and the correspondent of Kurdish Website RUDAW reports that the MKO has bought land and properties in Albanian capital. She refers to Iraqi newspaper Assabah Aljadeed citing sources in Paris who claim that the alleged plans are leading to a political storm in Tirana.
"The Albanian government fears that the camp will turn into something like Camp Ashraf in Iraq, which was previously the base for military training, planning and preparation for military operations in Iran and abroad," the Assabah Al Jadeed reported.
The threat of the MKO resettlement in Albania is then investigated by a Croatian writer, N.Babic of Alter Mainstream Info.com. He has a different point of view on the issue. His concerns about the controversial American backed terrorists of the MKO may not seem likely but it is realistic. The Croatian writer’s focus is mostly on the number of the Liberty residents mentioned in Portal of Iraqi Kurds RUDAW.
Nourink states in the report that Camp Liberty is home of about 1000 members of Mujahedin Khalq. Considering the aforementioned number, Babic points to another report published in December 2013 according to which 3000 MKO militants were supposed to be transferred to Romania. The writer wonders where the 2000 missing members of the group are.
The Croatian website cites from the British Daily Telegraph that on December 30, 2013 published the news of an agreement between the US administration and Romanian authorities to relocate the 3000 Liberty residents to the Romanian city Craiova on the border with Bulgaria.
The news was leaked from the conversation of two employees of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, who said that "the United States and the Romanian government are negotiating on the deployment of 3,000 members of the" former "terrorist organization Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) on the territory of Romania."
”Is it possible that between 1 000- 2000 militants MEK finally arrived in Romania, as the government in Bucharest totally dependent on Washington and seldom dared to oppose the then request?’’ Babic asks.
Since December 2013, when the contents of the conversation of the two Romanian diplomats were revealed, various scenarios that would make this group a "guest" for the Romanian government began to appear. Thus, regarding the consequences of the US support for Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan terrorist groups, the Croatian author warns about the presence of another US backed terrorist group in Balkan territory. He suggests, “This group is the ideal force to get closer to Moldova and Ukraine, two countries where Washington has implemented and carried out a policy of "controlled chaos".”
His warning gets sharper when he asserts,” It is clear that the MEK is not a pacifist organization, or opposition groups, and the evidence of this are numerous… Mujahidin-e-Khalq are all militant armed groups, like Al Nusra Front, or some other branch of Al Qaeda.”
He is concerned about their “future neighbors” because the arrival of these former fighters in Albania as a key factor of stability in the Balkans poses a serious threat to security. “The crisis in Greece, the situation in Macedonia, tensions in Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the polarization of the population that mimics the entry into NATO, while the other half is against it, are the reasons why this group would have to be away from the Western Balkans,” he explains.
He thinks that the MKO’s presence in their neighborhood should be closely monitored because of “many reasons” referring to the MKO’s history of terror and violence and its share in the crisis in Iraq and even Yemen. He investigates, “If until now the militants group Mujahedin-e Khalq were undesirable in Iran, Iraq, and many other Western countries, the question is why it now needs to be placed in Albania and where the "missing" two-thirds of the militants who were found at Camp Liberty near Baghdad in late 2013?”
By Mazda Parsi
Reference:
Babic, N., The remains of the "former" terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq-coming into Albania – where the 2013 2,000 of their militants "disappeared"? , Alter Mainstream Info.com, June 24, 2015
Mr. Karim Gholami joined the Mujahedin-e Khalq group in 1987 when he was just 16 years old. Within the organization he was not satisfied with the ideology and doctrines of the group.
During the Chelcheraq Operation he injured severely and forced to use wheelchair for about 24 years.
Within the MKO Cult he lost the track of his family since any relationship and any form of contact with the family members is forbidden in the Cult.
Finally in 2009 Karim managed to leave the Cult. He declared his defection from the group on January 2011.
In January 2015, the family of former MKO member Karim Gholami found him again after 25 years. The family recognized Karim from his writing on the internet along with his picture. He had published this to find his family. It worked and they are all now reunited, Iraninterlink reported.
A growing number of MKO members are leaving the Cult despite the group efforts to hold them in.
Neday-e Haqiqat Website reported the defection of 4 Camp Liberty residents during the last three months.
According to the report the individuals managed to escape the cult and resided at Mohajer Hotel, Iraq.
The MKO ringleaders have prevented members of the group from meeting their relatives in a bid to prevent their defection.
Several family members of Camp Liberty residents have established a permanent picket in front of the Camp entrance since June. The families told Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights they would be satisfied even to see their loved ones at a distance of 10 metres and then they will leave. The Minister did intervene on their behalf and the MKO have again rejected it, Sahar Family Foundation reported.
Despite the group leader’s efforts to keep members behind the bars of the Cult, about 17 Camp Liberty residents could liberate themselves during last year.
Besides, in Albania about 120 members parted away with the group. The increased number of defections in Albania has caused the MKO leaders to hold the last group of transferees “in quarantine “, according to ex-members website reports.
Mr. Abbas Mohammadpur defected the Mujahedin-e Khalq group aka MKO/MEK/PMOI in Albania and returned to his homeland.
Mohammadpur was imprisoned during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 . He missed 27 years of his life within the Cult of MKO camps in Iraq. In 2014 he was transferred to Albania along with some other MKO members following the Albanian government accepted to receive some MKO members in Tirana under the request of the US.
In Albania he managed to liberate himself from the Cult boundaries. On Monday, June 15 Mr. Mohammadpur returned to his homeland and visited his family for the first time after about 27 years.
Nejat society Shiraz Province branch held a ceremony on the occasion of his return . Several members of NejatNGO including families of MKO hostages as well as ex-members of the group participated the meeting. The families included: families of Iranpur, Zare Mohazzabiye, Rahmati, Kuhpeyma, Amin, Chitsaz, Mohamamdi, Hushmand, Torabi Zakherdi, Delavar.
The defectors included Alireza Ghasemi, Kambiz Bagherzade, Mahmoud Dashtestani, Hamed Sarrafpur and Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri.
Mr. Siavosh Rastar declared his defection from the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in the statement he published.
Siavosh Rastar whose organizational name is Nader Afshar lived in the MKO for 14 years, from 2001 to 2015. 
He has been to Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, Iraq before his relocation in Tirana, Albania.
Mr. Rastar left the MKO to protest Massoud Rajavi’s undemocratic approach towards the group members and their families.
“In my idea, the only thing that never exists in Massoud Rajavi’s organization is freedom of speech and thought. In brief, absolute suppression and dictatorship rule it, “Rastar writes. If anyone criticizes Massoud Rajavi, he would be treated violently in various sessions held for this aim.”
Mr. Rastar has witnessed his comrades being tortured or killed by the group. He himself was one of the victims of the MKO’s mal-treatment against the rank and files.
“They didn’t allow me to take proper medical treatment,” he states. “Intentionally they gave me wrong medications. They didn’t let me go to Iraqi hospitals. They didn’t even give me the drugs Iraqi doctors had proscribed for me.”
When the Iraqi doctors finally examine him, they diagnose a serious illness telling that he will not survive over six months. “When the MKO leaders made sure that I would not live so long, they transferred me to Albania,” he reveals.
In Albania, Siavosh finds the chance to leave the group and submit himself to the officials of the UN High Commissioner of Refugees. They aided him to receive proper treatment in hospital.
However, the MKO agents did not give up annoying him. “They put pressure on my family. They called my wife and claimed that I got married and have children in Albania, they also told her that I am drug-addicted,’’ he writes.
In the statement to declare his defection, Siavosh Rastar offers sympathy to his friends who are still held as hostages in the MKO’s cult-like system. He hopes for their release and a free life in the free world.
Nejat Society reporting from Iran Azadi Albania
Disassociated members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) hold protest action in Paris.
While, National Council of Resistance led by Maryam Rajavi was launching its annual propaganda show in Villepinte Paris, dozens of former members of her cult of personality organized a protestation against the MKO at place du Chatlet, Paris.
Defected members of the group were invited to take action by “Women Association” that organized the rally. Demonstrators protested the presence and activity of the MKO terrorist cult in French territory.
The panel provided French citizens with books, flyers and pictures on the violent, cult-like substance of the MKO.
They also revealed the group’s deceitful propaganda campaign of recruiting attendants for their annual gathering.
They declared their support for about 2000 people who are kept as hostages by the group in Camp Liberty, Iraq. They offered sympathy to families of Liberty residents who are picketing in front of the camp but have no access to their loved ones imprisoned in the camp.
As former members of the cult of Rajavi stated in their slogans, the Villepinte masquerade of the NCR/MKO elements has just one goal: maintaining the group victims in Iraqi critical situation in order to prevent the cult from collapse.
Disassociated members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) hold protest action in Paris.
While, National Council of Resistance led by Maryam Rajavi was launching its annual propaganda show in Villepinte Paris, dozens of former members of her cult of personality organized a protestation against the MKO at place du Chatlet, Paris.
Defected members of the group were invited to take action by “Women Association” that organized the rally. Demonstrators protested the presence and activity of the MKO terrorist cult in French territory.
The panel provided French citizens with books, flyers and pictures on the violent, cult-like substance of the MKO.
They also revealed the group’s deceitful propaganda campaign of recruiting attendants for their annual gathering.
They declared their support for about 2000 people who are kept as hostages by the group in Camp Liberty, Iraq. They offered sympathy to families of Liberty residents who are picketing in front of the camp but have no access to their loved ones imprisoned in the camp.
As former members of the cult of Rajavi stated in their slogans, the Villepinte masquerade of the NCR/MKO elements has just one goal: maintaining the group victims in Iraqi critical situation in order to prevent the cult from collapse.
Mohammadpur was imprisoned during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 . He missed 27 years of his life within the Cult of MKO camps in Iraq. In 2014 he was transferred to Albania along with some other MKO members following the Albanian government accepted to receive some MKO members in Tirana under the request of the US.
In Albania he managed to liberate himself from the Cult boundaries. On Monday, June 15 Mr. Mohammadpur returned to his homeland and visited his family for the first time after about 27 years.
The annual gathering of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) was held a few weeks earlier than the date that used to be held in the previous years. It used to be held on June 20th which commemorates the date that armed struggle against Iran started by the group. The change indicates that MKO is trying very hard to derail diplomatic engagement between Iran and the West before the end of June deadline. They use all means possible to prevent the agreement between West and Iran on nuclear issues.
The leader of the MKO cult of personality, Maryam Rajavi allegedly warned “the US and world powers to recognize Iran’s intentions in advance of the deadline on the interim nuclear framework agreement, that coms at the end of this month.”
During the gathering, the MKO propaganda is highly focused on nuclear talks although the group issue is not among the talks between West and Iran.
The controversial event on June 13th, in Villepint Paris, was a mess. There were a large number of people with different interests but they had a few aspirations in common: animosity against Iran, fear of a friendly relationship with Iran, Islamophobia and so. However, you can hardly ever find someone with true aspirations for democracy in Iran.
Indeed, democracy is in no way in line with the MKO’s ideology. The same is about freedom of speech and human rights. The Mujahedin Khalq is, according to many reports and documents a cult-like group that abuses its own members, forbids marriage and forces them to attend self-criticism sessions. Cult members are not allowed to question their leaders, and they have to lead their lives according to the Cult’s agenda.
Best critiques and facts about MKO are always provided by its former members during the interview by international bodies and media.
The above-mentioned issues are only a part of the modern slavery system in the MKO that has been widely revealed in the media. One should truly feel sorry for those who listened, believed and trusted the MKO disinformation campaign. The huge controversy in the Villepinte propaganda show and the true nature of the group demonstrates the group’s urgent need to save its survival on the planet!
By Mazda Parsi,