The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and NCRI) terror cult recruit people through deceitful offers and advertisements.
Nasrin Ahmadi was in her early twenties when she joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) in 1992. She did not survive the group’s regulations so long. She was killed only three years later.
Khalil RamezaniNasab, a former member of the MEK recalls Nasrin as a young girl (age 25) driving BMP tank in Camp Ashraf. “Soon after her arrival in Ashraf, she was fed up with the undemocratic atmosphere of the group”, Khalil says about Nasrin. “She was disappointed with the maltreatment of commanders against the rank and file. So, she started dissent; she wanted to leave the group.”
Nasrin Ahmadi
As it is expected in any destructive cult, departure from the cult of Rajavi was forbidden. Mahvash Sepehri the top commander of Nasrin called on eight of her sub-commanders including Khalil RamezaniNasab to work on Nasrin in order to convince her to stay in the group. “Mahvash Sepehri ordered to hold a meeting for Nasrin,” Khalil recalls. “Mahvash and other commanders tried to dissuade her from leaving the group. The meetings lasted eight hours. Nasrin was determined to leave the group. She said that she was not willing to stay any more and she wanted to leave the group as soon as possible.”
Nasrin Ahmadi
That was Nasrin’s last word. Khalil witnessed that Mahvash Sepehri got extremely angry and began to beat Nasrin with a metal stick. Khalil says, “I was terribly frightened by watching the scene. I was shocked and speechless looking at the dead body of the girl.”
Mahvash Sepehri
Mahvash orders the men to take the Nasrin’s body out. “Two hours later, Mahvash Sepehri called on us again,” Khalil recounts. “Nasrin died because of a brain stroke!” She told us and warned that nobody should speak about how Nasrin really died.”
As an Iranian Arab, Taleb Farhan left his home town in South of Iran for the United Arab Imarets, in 1999. Soon, he could find a job as a driver because he could speak Arabic fluently. He resided in the Iranians’ dormitory where his fate was ruined by the agents of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi).
Farhan had planned to immigrate to Europe and the MEK recruiters promised him to give him a political case as a member of the group in Iraq and then he would move to Europe through Iraq. They took him to their team house in Dubai.
All day long, videos of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi’s speeches and the MEK army in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, were shown to Farhan and other Iranian youth who wished to go to Europe via Iraq.
Farhan and the others were taken to an Iraq port by ship. They were then transferred to Baghdad by a few MEK representatives. The trip ended up by reaching Camp Ashraf. A few weeks after entering the camp, Farhan found out that exit is forbidden. He asked the MEK authorities why the do not keep their promise to take him to Europe. “There is no way out,” they answered. “As you came to Iraq illegally, we will deliver you to Iraqi forces and they will imprison you in Abu Quraib for at least ten years.
Farhan was stuck in the cult-like system of the MEK. He had to attend long brainwashing and self-criticism meetings. He was victim of forced labor in response to his passiveness in the organizational regulations.
He endured oppressions until 2003 when the US invaded Iraq and eventually disarmed the MEK. He moved to the camp that the American military built for MEK defectors, called TIPF. From there, he could finally manage to return to Iran.
He lives in Abadan, Khuzestan province, now. “Damn Rajavi and the authorities of his cult who ruined the life of a large number of Iranian youth,” he says.
No Mather dead or alive, Massoud Rajavi is politically dead
Kamran Bayati was born in 1963. He was a young boy when he joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). In 1998, he was mysteriously killed in the group’s headquarter in Iraq, Camp Ashraf.
Ex-members of the MEK, GhorbanAli Hosseinnezhad, Foad Basri, Mohammad Karami and Iraj Salehi approve Kamran’s bitter fate as the result of the group’s cult-like suppressive ruling.
Mohammad Karami had organizational cooperation with Kamran when they were both in Iran. In Camp Ashraf, they were close friends too. Karami remembers that Kamran had married a woman named Fatemeh just a month before Massoud Rajavi ordered members to divorce their spouses. Based on a cult jargon, called Ideological Revolution, the entire members of the MEK had to divorce their spouses.
Kamran was not able to get along with forced divorce. He was in love with his ex-wife. He was sad and depressed but he worked hard. “I work hard to forget my grieves”, he told Mohammad Karami. Therefore, Kamran was under severe supervision by the commanders. He was forced to attend long brainwashing meetings. His commanders, Afsaneh Shahrokhi and Fahimeh Mahuzi and etc. put horrible mental pressure to coerce him into the cult regulations.
“Why don’t you leave the group?” Mohammad asked Kamran. “If I say I am out, I will no more be alive. They will restrict and control me more and more, that will be like death to me.” Kamran told his friend.
The last day of his life, he was supposed to attend a meeting again. “Mahimeh Mahuzi went mad and began shouting at him,” Mohammad Karami recalls. “At night we went to the eating place for dinner but Kamran didn’t come. Nobody knew where he was.”
“We were ordered to look after him in the armors parking,” Iraj Salehi writes in an article about Kamran’s death. “We found him dead in the corner of a room there”.
His comrades think that Kamran had swallowed a cyanide capsule but the group authorities declared that he had a heart attack because of too much smoking!
Former members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) hold iftar party in Tirana, Albania.
A group of defectors of the MEK who live in Tirana, gathered together in the coffeeshop, belonged to Hassan Heirani, to break their fast. Reza Mezgi, Khalil Ansarian, Musa Damrudi, Hassan Shahbazi, Azim Mishmast are some of these defectors. The Albanian Christian journalist, GJergji Thanasi also joined them at the party.
Since they got released from the Cult of Rajavi, the defectors have cherished most of their Iranian and religious traditions. They have had parties for Persian new year, Yalda night and other occasions since they entered the free world.
Family is a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption constituting a single household interacting and inter-communicating with each other. Leaders of destructive cults tend to break all these ties, interactions and intercommunications of families of their followers. This is exactly what the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) committed against the concept of family during its entire history.
After the 1979 revolution of Iran, Massoud Rajavi took over the group in the absence of main leaders of the group who were executed by the Shah’s security forces. The rule of Massoud Rajavi over the MEK ruined the total center of family in the MEK.”Rajavi liked having women around him and overhauled the command structure to replace the men with women — this time calling it a ”constitutional revolution.”, Elizabeth Rubin wrote in June 2003 after her visit to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. She had been allowed by the MEK authorities to enter their camp covering a report about the Mujahedin in Ashraf. However, her investigative report titled”the Cult of Rajavi”, turned out to expose horrible facts about the cult-like relations inside Camp Ashraf.
Rubin states that the MEK leaders”like to boast”that”the Mujahedeen is a family affair”. She quotes the cult leaders saying”We have three generations of martyrs: grandmothers, mothers, daughters”. Then Rubin tries to shed light on how the third generation was involved with the MEK affairs. She investigates about”a dozen young women commandos who trotted with their Kalashnikovs on a scrubby field, camouflage leaves and twigs bouncing on their helmets, their faces blurred by green paint.”
“Most of the girls I was meeting had grown up in Mujahedeen schools in Ashraf, where they lived separated from their parents,”Rubin writes about the life of children at Camp Ashraf.”Family visits were allowed on Thursday nights and Fridays. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, many of these girls were transported to Jordan and then smuggled to various countries — Germany, France, Canada, Denmark, England, the United States — where they were raised by guardians who were usually Mujahedeen supporters.”
To realize why these girls”decided”to get back from Europe to Iraq, she refers to the testimonies of the first female defector of the MEK, Nadereh Afshari. She was one of the teachers and instructors of Mujahedin children in the group’s school in Iraq and then in the group’s pension for children in Germany. She was also one of the group’s officials to transfer children from Iraq to Europe.
“When they were 18 or 19, many of them decided to come back to Iraq and fill the ranks of the youngest Mujahedeen generation,”Rubin asserts.”Though ”decided” is probably not the right word, since from the day they were born, these girls and boys were not taught to think for themselves but to blindly follow their leaders.”
”Every morning and night, the kids, beginning as young as 1 and 2, had to stand before a poster of Massoud and Maryam, salute them and shout praises to them,” Nadereh Afshari told Rubin.”When the German government tried to absorb Mujahedeen children into their education system, the Mujahedeen refused. Many of the children were sent to Mujahedeen schools, particularly in France. The Rajavis saw these kids as the next generation’s soldiers. They wanted to brainwash them and control them.”
adereh Afshari and Elizabeth Rubin were two of the early people who denounced the MEK as the destructive cult of Rajavi that violates the most basic rights of its members especially the female ones. It did not take so long that other female defectors of the group revealed facts on the life of female members in the MEK. Batul Soltani’s famous testimony was like a bomb. She revealed the mass marriages of Massoud Rajavi with members of the Elite Council of the MEK. Batul, herself, was one of the victims of Massoud’s sexual abuse before she could manage to escape from the cult. The group authorities had forced her to divorce from her husband. They have separated her two children from her. Her daughter and son had been sent to Europe. She was not only deprived from a normal family life but also was forced to marry Massoud Rajavi as well as many other women of the group.
Consequently, several former female members of the group including Nasrin Ebrahimi, Zahra Mirbagheri, Zahra Moini, Maryam Sanjabi came out to put emphasis on testimonies of their ex-comrades. Their memoirs, articles, books and testimonies are all accessible. The evidences they present seem enough to bring the leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq to trial.
Mazda Parsi
Farhad Tahmasbi joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) in Iraq, in 1990. He was killed in the prison of Camp Ashraf, in 1994.
At least four former members of the MEK confirm that Farhad was killed in the prisons of Camp Ashraf, the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq. Foad Basri, Hadi Shabani, GhorbanAli Hossein Nejad and Mohammad Razaghi list him among those rank and file of the MEK who were killed, eliminated or disappeared in the MEK.
Foad Basri recalls Farhad as one of his comrades. They were in the same martial unit. “Farhad had a sense of humor”, Basri writes about him. “He could not stand the way the authorities treated members so he used to talk against them in our private groups.”
Farhad had asked to leave the group but he had not been allowed by the commanders. Instead, he had been put under severe pressure. “Farhad’s spirit had become very low,” Basri continues. “He had gone on hunger strike to oppose the leaders.”
However, the hunger strike did not work. “One day, he was taken to the commander’s office,” Basri writes. “He was beaten seriously and then they moved him to another place. I did not see him anymore until the day I was in Ashraf.”
Mohammad Razaghi, the ex-member of the MEK asserts that in 1994, Massoud Rajavi ordered the imprisonment and torture of more that 500 miserable members of the rank and file of his cult. “Farhad Tahmasbi was one of the prisoners who was killed under the brutal tortures by commanders of the cult of Rajavi,” Razaghi reveals. “But, in 1996 the group propaganda published the name of Farhad Tahmasbi as a martyr in Mujahed journal.”
Farhad Tahmasbi is one of the long list of MEK members who were eliminated in the organizational hierarchy of the group.
Massoud and Maryam Rajavi : Full-fledged mercenaries
Fereydoon Nedayee is a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi). He is now residing in the group’s camp in Albania.
Fereydoon is not an original member of the MEK. In fact, he was recruited by the group’s agents in Iraqi prisons where Fereydoon was kept as a war prisoner of the Iran-Iraq war.
In 1980, Fereydoon was an Iranian soldier fighting in Iran-Iraq war. Very soon he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. He endured the miseries in Iraqi POW camps for eight years. In 1988, the two countries agreed a ceasefire but it took them almost two years to exchange the war prisoners.
The time was enough for the MEK recruiters to launch a propaganda campaign in POW camps among Iranian soldiers in order to convince them to join their group. They promised them better life conditions in Camp Ashraf rather than the ones of Iraqi camps and also opportunities to immigrate to Europe.
Fereydoon and some other Iranian POWs were finally deceived by the MEK authorities so as they fell in the new trap that they have not been able to get released from, for over thirty years. Evidently, His parents have not seen Fereydoon for over forty years.
His father, MohammadReza Nedayee passed away a few days ago. His mother, Roghaieh Farazian is still trying her best to contact her son. They traveled to Camp Ashraf, Iraq several times but they were not allowed by the MEK leaders to visit their loved son.
After the group’s relocation to Albania, the Albanian government did not offer visa to families of the MEK members so they could not travel there. Instead, they took legal actions by writing letters to Albanian authorities and to the international bodies asking for humanitarian aids to help them contact and visit their children in the MEK isolated camp in Albania.