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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mother of the MEK hostage longs to hug her son after 40 years

Roghayeh Farazian, mother of Fereidoon Nedayee attended the sit-in of families of Nejat Society in front of the office of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Tehran.
She has been looking forward to visiting her son for about 4 decades. The years of separation from her beloved son has left her with grieves and pains. Fereidoon was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces when he was a soldier of the Iranian army fighting in Iran-Iraq war.
The MEK recruiters deceived him to join the group, and this was the start of a long-term break-up from his family. Roghayeh Farazian’s cries for help in front of the ICRC office is very distressing.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Nedaei-Fereydoun-Mum-en.mp4

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May 24, 2023 0 comments

Albania

The message of the CEO of Nejat Society to the statesmen of Albania

The CEO of Nejat Society, Ebrahim Khodabandeh, sent a message to the respected Albanian statesmen and made it available to the Albanian authorities and media through the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA), for information and possibly appropriate measures. The text of the letter is as follows:

Respected Statesmen of Albania
Since 2016, the honorable government of the Republic of Albania has hosted the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), apparently for humanitarian reasons. According to the agreement that has been announced many times by Albanian statesmen, including Prime Minister His Excellency Edwin Rama in his recent interview with the New York Times newspaper, the condition for accepting this group in Albania is the absence of any political and propaganda activities towards the Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to what was directly and publicly announced by the MEK media and recorded by Nejat Society, during the year 1401 AH (March 21, 2022 to March 20, 2023), this organization carried out a total of 3,742 actions inside Iran, promoted, organized, directed, and reported from the territory of Albania. These measures include the following:
2734 propaganda and political actions including wall painting, installation of photos and banners, sound broadcasting
936 acts of violence, including setting fire to private and public property, throwing hand-made grenades
68 explosions and bombings, including throwing homemade mortars
4 armed action using firearms

According to the numerous reports form MEK members in Albania, a part of the Organization is active titled Interior Headquarters under the charge of Sediqeh Hosseini. The members of this headquarters are active in relation to what are called the members of the rebel centers inside the country and provide them with financial and logistical support. The members of these rebel centers are socially damaged people, who are unaware of the history of this group, and therefore the MEK has provoked them with deception and trickery, considering the economic conditions in Iran, and they are pushes moving towards harmful and operational activities.

On May 7, 2023, the media of the MEK announced the hacking of the online systems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran with its sign and logo, and while accepting responsibility for this action from the territory of Albania, it published in the media the documents obtained.

Iran International Network reported in the following link:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202305079860
Hacktivists Target Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Leak Trove of Data
Sunday, 05/07/20233
Author: Iran International Newsroom
An Iranian group has hacked into the Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry servers, disabling 210 sites and online services and leaking a large batch of documents.
The hacktivist group ‘Uprising till Overthrow’, affiliated with the Albania-based opposition Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) group, released hundreds of identification documents, minutes of meetings, the ministry’s correspondence, phone numbers of ministry officials, and the names of 11,000 employees of the foreign ministry, among others.

Also, during this period, political measures against the Islamic Republic have been carried out in the isolated and remote headquarters of this organization in Albania, including numerous meetings with Albanian and non-Albanian officials, and active communication with Albanian authorities from the mayor of Durres and members of the Albanian Parliament to the media and various international organizations have been in progress.

It can be boldly said that the hands of the MEK now in Albania is far more open than it was in Iraq during the war with Iran under the rule of Saddam Hussein, and it can be clearly seen that the Albanian government has taken a step beyond Saddam Hussein in supporting this terrorist organization.
Iranians have a proverb that says: If a stone is thrown from your yard to the neighbor’s yard, there can be an expectation that a stone will be thrown from the neighbor’s yard to your yard. Apparently, according to the available evidence, the Albanian authorities feel that their country is immune from any foreign threats, thinking that they are a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and under the protection of the United States.

The authorities of each country know their own best. But one of the consequences of such events usually affects the Iranian refugees inside Albania, that is, those who did not want to be with the MEK anymore. My concern as the representative of the families of the members trapped in the MEK camp and the supporter of the former members of this organization in Albania is that later, according to the current method of these years, whatever happens, the Albanian authorities will retaliate against a number of Iranian refugees, who were expelled from their country for any reason, right or wrong, and were deceived by the MEK and brought to Albania unwillingly.

It is worth mentioning that the annual meeting of the MEK will be held in the headquarters of Albania and a video link will be established with a similar meeting in Paris, and Maryam Rajavi will give a speech and threaten the Islamic Republic according to the current method of previous years. The MEK has invited many Albanian personalities, including MPs and political figures, to participate in this meeting. This action will definitely be considered as a hostile gesture from within the territory of Albania against the Islamic Republic, considering the clear violation of the Prime Minister’s words.

Also, just for giving information, the MEK has established a large number of bunkers and shelters inside its headquarters. The reason is that this organization takes retaliatory measures more seriously than the Albanian authorities and prepares itself in advance. The MEK is trying to bring Albania into a war with the Islamic Republic, while the two countries did not have the slightest problem with each other before the presence and activities of the MEK in Albania.

On behalf of the families of the members of the MEK and on behalf of the former members of this organization in Albania and abroad, I request that the Albanian statesmen and security bodies do not vent their grudge against the refugees who are in short supply everywhere. And don’t cause them more trouble and allow them to have a peaceful and comfortable life after years of trouble in the Rajavi Cult.

Ebrahim Khodabndeh
CEO of Najat Society
Tehran, Iran
May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

How Ahmad Heidari was tortured to death by the MEK commanders

Former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), Samad Nazari recounts the story of Ahmad Heidari, a victim of the group who was tortured in its prisons.

Samad Nazari was a former member of the MEK who defected the group more than three decades ago. He returned to Iran where he later founded Nejat NGO. His autobiography titled “Footprint of the Evil” was focused on the years of his membership and imprisonment in the MEK and defection from the group. Nazari passed away in the Fall of 2014.

In 1991, at the time of the first Gulf war, Samad Nazari was jailed in solitary confinement in the MEK’s Debes prison (Askarizadeh camp) near Kirkuk, Iraq. He was punished for his decision to leave the Cult of Rajavi!

Samad Nazari

During his breath-taking process of defection, Samad witnessed imprisonment, torture and killing of many of his peers. In a part of his memoirs, he writes about a man named Ahmad Heidari. He was jailed together with 5 other members. He recalls that Ahmad Heidari was brought to the cell in the weekend:

“He was badly beaten, with wounded and bruised head. His clothes were torn and his mental condition was not normal. He was Ahmad Heidari who had been irritated by Rajavi’s ideological revolution and since then he had started dissent against Rajavi.”

In the meeting that he was told to divorce his wife, he was so shocked by Rajavi’s order that he cried insults against Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and Fahimeh Arvani.
Nazari writes, “Ahmad had committed a huge crime, so he was attacked by some of the commanders. He was beaten and jailed in solitary confinement. He went on a hunger strike. In that mental state, he constantly cursed Rajavi, Maryam and Fahimeh.”

After a week Ahmad was brought to the office of Majid Alamian –the notorious torturer of the MEK. “Ahmad was so disgusted by the commanders that again started shouting insults,” Samad Nazari writes. “Majid beat his fist on Ahmad’s head. Ahmad was shocked and eventually silenced. Majid went out and Ahmad walked through the corridors around the office. He soiled the building and the sleeping equipment there.”

The torturer, Majid Alamian, comes back at lunch time and throws Ahmad in solitary confinement again. Ahmad pooped and pied all over the cell. “Majid tied his feet and hands and beat him harshly,” Nazari recounts, “He kicked Ahmad’s chest so much that she lost consciousness and fell into a coma.”

This was the daily routine of Ahmad for a few days. Nazari writes, “When we opened his arms and legs, he was shaking for an hour and could not stand.”

Majid Almaian and other commanders presumed that Ahmad had no mental problem, so they put pressure on him to confess his sins (insults against the leaders of the cult). Samad Nazari does not know much about the fate of Ahmad. He was taken out of the camp a few days later and nobody could know about his whereabouts anymore.

May 20, 2023 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The MEK a cult with cartel culture

The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is also Known as the Cult of Rajavi. It is considered a cult because it meets all criteria of cults. The MEK is a fanatical armed group, which until 2012 was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.

Cult is a term, considered pejorative by most people, for a relatively small group which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader, who excessively controls its members, requiring solid devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms of society. The MEK is a cult focused on the personality of Massoud Rajavi, the charismatic leader who has been disappeared since 2003 and his third wife Maryam Rajavi has been the self-appointed president of the group for about three decades.

Massoud and Maryam Rajavi

The Rajavis excessively control their members requiring them unwavering devotion to the group’s cause and ideology. They coerce members to work for them without being paid (forced labor). They require members to stay single forever. They coerce a layer of female members in the group’s hierarchy to sleep with Massoud Rajavi.

The MEK is a cartel too. It uses the resources of the enemies of the Iranian government to maintain its position within its members and sympathizers. This has formed a cartel culture around the MEK.

What is a cartel culture? Narcoculture describes the way of life and ideas of drug traffickers. Its existence depends on drug traffickers and drug trafficking maintaining a transnational network of production, transportation, and commercialization of illegal drugs.

Narcoculture in Mexico is a subculture that has grown as a result of the strong presence of the various drug cartels throughout Mexico. These cartels work like a cult. In July 2009, Reuters reported that a cult-like drug cartel was defying President Felipe Calderon in his home state in western Mexico by taking on security forces with a menacing mix of violence, pseudo-religion and gifts for the poor.

This drug cartel was called La Familia. It also wielded great power in local politics, making the organization harder to confront. What began as a means of comfort and protection among the poor and innocent in Mexico during uncertain times has found its way to becoming the foundation and justification for criminality and horrific acts of violence.

This is very similar to what the MEK does in Albania today. The group’s untransparent financial resources helps it launch huge charity campaigns, mobilizing doctors among poor citizens of Albanian villages, buying support among Albanian politicians and journalists. Meanwhile, the violent background of the group with thousands of innocent victims who were killed by the MEK’s terrorists make it very similar to La Familia.

Despite this paid support in Albania and some western countries, the group has almost no credibility in Iran. Houshang Shahabi, an Iranian-born professor of international relations at Boston University says, “They have been politically irrelevant in Iran since at least the mid-1980s and have little to no domestic support.”

As a matter of fact, the cartel culture ruling the Cult of Rajavi answers the question of why Albania would strain itself into one of the world’s most tense geopolitical standoffs, between the United States and Iran, by agreeing to host the MEK which until 2012 was designated as a terrorist group by the United States.

According to interviews conducted by The Guardian and the Intercept with MEK defectors, members spend most of their time working in the group’s troll farms demonizing the Iranian government and fomenting unrest among Iranian youth without presenting themselves as agents of the MEK.

MEK is a destructive cult which acts like drug cartels. It is dangerous because it is funded by hefty sources. Its power is based on money, cult and cartel culture. The Albanian government and international human rights body must take action to stop the MEK cartel grow in Europe.

Mazda Parsi

May 17, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mother of the MEK hostage calls for the release of her daughter

Mahin Habibi attended the sit-in of families of Nejat Society in front of the office of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Tehran.
She is the mother of Parvaneh Rabiee, a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. She has not met and even contacted her daughter for over forty years. The years of separation from her beloved daughter has left her with grieves and pains.
As a young girl, Parvaneh had immigrated to Germany where she was taken as a hostage by the MEK recruiters. Leaders of the MEK do not allow Parvaneh to contact her mother because they consider family as the enemy of their cult-like organization.
Listen to the heartbroken mother of Parvaneh.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Habibi-Mahin-RC-20230508-en.mp4

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May 14, 2023 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

What Nejat Families want on the Int. Red Cross Day

Members of Nejat Society used the occasion of May 8th, the International Day of Red Cross to call on the world for the release of their loved ones. Families of hostages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) are members of Nejat NGO who have been looking forward to visiting their loved ones in the group, for decades.

Since the establishment of Nejat Society, families have taken numerous actions to attract attention of the world to the humanitarian crisis that members of the Cult of Rajavi are faced with. When the group was in Iraq, families used to travel there to hold sit-ins in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty.

However, they were never allowed by the MEK leaders to visit their loved ones. Through loudspeakers they called the names of their children and asked them to leave the group. This was the slightest chance to show their love to their loved ones who are mentally and physically barred from the outside world by the Rajavis. And this action worked in many cases. Several members of the cult eventually left the group during the next years. Their process of defection from the Cult of Rajavi had started after they had heard their names cried by their suffering family members through loudspeakers.

Today, far from the Iranian border, members of the MEK are still isolated in the group’s headquarters called Ashraf 3, in Manez, a village in north of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Families are not granted visa to travel to Albania due to the group’s corrupted links in the Albanian government. Thus, they must use every opportunity to make the international human rights bodies hear their voice for help.

Nejat families sit in ,in front of the ICRC office in Tehran

Yesterday’s sit-in by the heart-broken parents and grieving brothers and sisters of the MEK hostages in front of the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tehran was another step forward. They demanded the authorities to step in and aid them to contact and visit their beloved family members taken as hostages by the MEK leaders.

ASILA members’ gathering in front of the ICRC office of Tirana

Nejat Society has a complement in Albania. ASILA, the Association for the support of Iranians Living in Albania is somehow a branch of Nejat in Albania. ASILA was established by some of the Albanian citizens and former members of the MEK who previously left the group in Albania. On May, 8th, 2023, they also gathered in front of the ICRC’s office in Tirana.

Carrying placards and pictures of their loved ones and their friends, members of Nejat and ASILA asked the authorities of the ICRC to take immediate action to stop violation of human rights against members of the MEK, hostages of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.

Their demands include the followings:
They should be granted the right to contact and visit their loved ones in the MEK.
The right of MEK members to take asylum should be observed by the Albanian government.
The MEK leaders should be compelled to stop violating the human rights of their members.

May 10, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The demanding gathering of the families of Nejat Society

Tomorrow, Monday, May 8th, on the occasion of the ICRC Day, considering the responsibility and role and position of this international organization, the families of Nejat Society in Tehran will hold a rally in front of the main headquarters of the ICRC.

The families hope to be able to convey their rightful and legal requests for follow-up to this institution and other international organizations as well as the media and the world public opinion.

The demanding gathering of the families of Nejat Society on the day of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC in Tehran

Simultaneously with this program, which will start at 14:00 Iran time, the former members of the Rajavi terrorist cult, members of ASILA in Albania, will also hold a similar rally in solidarity with the families of Nejat Society in front of the ICRC headquarters in Tirana.

The news of the gathering and the text of the statement and request of the families will be announced as soon as possible after the program is implemented.

May 7, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mosayeb’s grandson looking forward to his release from the MEK

Mosayeb Rashidi was taken as a war prisoner in 1980. He was a young newly married soldier of the Iranian army. Iraqi Baath forces trapped him in Iran-Iraq border in the early months of the war. He was in Saddam Hussein’s notorious POW camps for 9 years.

Mosayeb’s wife was pregnant when he was taken as a POW. Their daughter was born a few weeks later and eventually she grew up in the absence of his father. The little girl turned into an adult, got married and had children.

Mosayeb Mazaheri and other POW’s at the Baath Regime prisoners’ camp

She has not seen her father since her birth. In 1989, Mosayeb was recruited –in better words was taken as a hostage– by the agents of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who collaborated with Iraqi officers in POW camps.

Since then, Mosayeb’s family have not been able to contact or visit him. When the group was in Iraq, they traveled to Iraq and picketed across the gates of the MEK camps, asking for permission to visit their beloved Mosayeb but the leaders of the Cult of Rajavi did not allow them to visit him and did not let Mosayeb know that his family had come to visit him.

He is now in the MEK’s camp Ashraf 3 in Albania, and he is still isolated from the outside world, having no access to his family, his daughter and his little grandson.

May 6, 2023 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Kids imprisoned in the MEK, former member testify

Former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) speaks of imprisonment of children in the group. He writes about kids who were in custody in the MEK’s prisons because their parents wanted to defect the group.

Samad Nazari was a former member of the MEK who defected the group more than three decades ago. He returned to Iran and then he became one of the founders of Nejat NGO. His auto biography titled “Footprint of the Evil” was focused on the years of his membership and imprisonment in the MEK and defection from the MEK. Nazari passed away in the Fall of 2014.
In 1991, at the time of the first Gulf war, Samad Nazari was jailed in solitary confinement in the MEK’s Debes prison (Askarizadeh camp) near Kirkuk, Iraq. He was punished for his decision to leave the Cult of Rajavi!

Samad Nazari

In two parts of his memoirs of custody inside the MEK, he notifies that women and children were also imprisoned in Debes prison.
He was jailed in his dark and dirty cell in Askarizadeh when the coalition forces bombarded the camp. “I heard the loud noise of 5 bombs that hit the area,” he writes in his book. “A thick suffocating dust entered my cell which was in the basement. I could hear the cries of women and children from the upper floors of the camp. I realized that there were other guests in that prison, those who were willing to leave the group.”

In other part of his horrific memoirs of solitary confinement and torture under Massoud Rajavi’s ruling, Nazari writes:
“In my new cell, there were words written in a child-like handwriting: Mom died, Dad is in jail.” Nazari was curious to know that whose child was in prison. Later, a friend who had been imprisoned in the same cell, told him about the poor child. “The handwriting belonged to the kids of a man called Farhang. He wanted to defect the group in the summer of 1991. Soraya Shahraki, a commander of the group beat Farhang and jailed him. His two kids who were primary students were taqken from school and delivered to him in the cell. Their mother had been killed in the MEK’s cross border operation against Iran, Forough Javidan.”

This was only one of the testimonies of MEK defectors about violation of human rights against children in the MEK. There are numerous cases of children rights abuse in the MEK. The followings are just some of them:

– Nadereh Afshari, former member of the MEK writes in her book of new-borns who had been separated from their parents and had been smuggled to Europe. They were maltreated by a female Mujahed, named Azam who worked in the group’s team house in Coln.

– Mother Esmat, former member testifies about her younger daughter, Jennifer, whose knee was injured because of the military trainings inside the MEK school. Jennifer’s ponytail hair was also cut by the teacher because she had not wear hijab.

– Amin Golmaryami and Amir Yaghmai, former child soldiers testified about sexual harassments they experienced inside the MEK camps.

– Hundreds of child soldiers endured heavy military trainings and even were coerced to launch terrorist operations.

– Many child soldiers were killed in the group’s operations. Maryam Qeitani was only 15 years old when she was killed in Forough Javidan. Having been grown up in the MEK’s bases Asieh Rakhshani was in her twenties when she was killed by Iraqi armed forces because Massoud Rajavi had ordered his unarmed members to clash with Iraqi army.

– Alan Mohammadi and Yaser Akbarinasab were two teenagers who could not stand the dictatorship of the Cult of Rajavi and committed suicide.

To the list, add hundreds of children who were orphaned by the MEK leaders, left in foster families across Europe and North America and were never able to find their parents again.

May 3, 2023 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Years of struggle by families of MEK hostages

Nejat Society was established as a non-governmental organization two decades ago. As members of Nejat NGO, families of hostages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) took numerous actions in order to release their loved ones from the cult-like terrorist group of Massoud Rajavi.

Traveling to Iraq for picketing in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf was one of the actions taken by the families. The following video shows mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who are crying the names of their loved ones over the walls of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, during the winter of 2010.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Ashraf-Fa-20202-en.mp4

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Some of the hostages whose names are called left the group through the next years, mostly after the group was relocated in Albania. They might have heard the heart-breaking cries of their loved ones through loudspeakers over the gates of Ashraf. The mental bars around their minds might have been broken on those very days.

Since its relocation in Albania, the MEK has been downsized due to the increasing defections but there are still a few thousand people who are mentally and physically barred by the Cult of Rajavi. Now, the group’s new headquarters, Ashraf 3, is far away from the Iranian border. For families, traveling to Albania is a big challenge because the Albanian government does not grant visa to the Iranians. The reason is not rational but understandable.

As wealthy bribe payers, the MEK agents in the Albanian government make efforts to prevent families to come to Albania which is a semi democratic country in the soil of democratic Europe.
As a matter of fact, families of the MEK’s hostages never give up. They take actions, they write letters to human rights bodies; they send public messages to their loved ones in Ashraf 3 because they hope that the mental bars will smash someday and their beloved children will be determined to leave the Maryam Rajavi’s cult.

May 2, 2023 0 comments

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