Maryam Rajavi is not a democratic opposition leader but she is the evil hand to run the dictatorship of her husband’s cult of personality
Soheil Khattar, nicknamed Sasha, was a young boy when, in 2001, he went to Iraq to join the Mujahedn Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). A relative of theirs, from Netherlands, had advised Soheil and his cousin Mehran to immigrate to Europe via the MEK in Iraq.
However, they were forcedly recruited by the MEK and taken as hostages in Camp Ashraf. Soheil was mysteriously killed in the Camp, a few years later.
It took his parents, Teymour Khattar and Afsaneh Minayee, a while to learn about Soheil’s death. They went to Camp Ashraf in March, 2008. They wanted to take Soheil’s body but the MEK leaders only showed them the grave.”They gave us a very short time to visit Soheil’s grave”, his father says.”We complained and warned them that we would sue them in Iraqi judiciary.”Consequently, the parents filed a lawsuit against the MEK leaders in Iraq but it did not bear any fruit.
At least three former members have so far given testimony that Soheil was killed by the MEK commanders in Camp Ashraf. Bizhan from Iran, Keyvan Radbin from Canada and Majid Rouhi from Europe acknowledged that Soheil (Sasha) was a dissident member in the MEK system and wanted to leave the group. They affirmed that he was killed by three bullets shot in his head and back.
“When I was in Ashraf Camp I made friendship with Soheyl Khattar (Sasha),”Keyvan Radbin writes.”He also had same problems as mine and he also had been tortured. He tried to escape but eventually he was killed by his person in charge (called mas’ul) when he was in the Iraqi base (feylaq). Actually the doctor who was called Hassan Aref told me that because he was witness there when Sasha`s dead body was brought to the clinic.”
Nevertheless, the MEK leaders first announced that he was shot unintentionally by himself when he was cleaning his gun. After a while, the group listed Soheil Khattar as a”martyr”killed by American bombings in Iraq.
Soheil’s parents are still demanding the trial of MEK leaders for the unjustified murder of their son. They have recently written a letter to the supreme court of Albania –where the MEK is located now— asking for the punishment of the group leaders, compensation and the return of Sasha’s body to Iran. They believe justice has to be served.
The NCR, as the political arm of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) considered Facebooks’s report as”ridiculous and absolutely false”, after the Associated Press reported that the platform has removed 300 of fake accounts linked to the group calling it a troll farm in Albania.
Mojahedin-e Khalq did not respond to questions from the press, but constantly began to criticize Facebook for the action. Ali Safavi, the MEK’s propaganda figure called Facebook’s statement as”Iranian regime’s lies about”troll farms”.
If Safavi is right, what’s the benefit for social media platforms to be”agent of the Iranian regime”?
Actually, the MEK leaders seem to be unaware of the regulations of the social media. They should know that in the digital age, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is constantly renovating social media, from augmenting user experience. When users log on to their social media accounts and upload picture, notice an interesting advertisement, or comment on a post, they should keep in mind that with the help of AI, data about their activity is continuously being compiled and analyzed — and will impact what they see and engage with in the near future. Thus, AI is a key component of the popular social networks we use every single day.
Today, consumers constantly interact with social media and eventually companies are very eager to take advantage of their continuous engagement with platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. As a result, a growing number are incorporating AI in social media to better connect with potential customers.
Moreover, researchers have been studying these online social networks to see the impact they make on the people. They warn about the malicious accounts that are used for purposes such as misinformation and agenda creation. Detection of malicious account is significant. The methods based on machine learning-based were used to detect fake accounts that could mislead people. These methods are determined by various. Therefore, it seems quite simple and at the same time essential, for Machine Learning algorithms of Facebook, Twitter or other platforms to detect fake accounts of the MEK troll farm.
The owners of the platforms do not risk their property by letting states or groups to contaminate their space. Fake accounts like the ones of the Cult of Rajavi can help trend and spread Fake News and opinions, creating confusions and potentially, spreading rumors. Filtering the spam users allows you to listen to unbiased opinions of the users about a topic and filter the noise created by spammers.
While the NCR officially denies that any accounts affiliated with MEK have been removed and denies that there is a troll farm in Albania affiliated with them in any way, Facebook presents detailed information based on calculated results of its machines with numbers, dates, hours, names and locations.
This is not the first time that Facebook removes fake accounts from all over the world. In October and November 2020, Facebook removed 1,196 accounts and 994 malicious accounts from Instagram, along with 7,947 Pages and 110 Groups involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
The MEK and its propaganda vitrine, the NCR, has the notoriously known habit to deny every single fact on the group’s violent past and deceitful present as the”Regime’s lies”. No matter how firmly documented, investigated and calculated the fact is.
Mazda Parsi
January 19, 1981, when Musa Khiabani’s team house, the headquarters of the terrorists of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) in Tehran was attacked by the security forces, Khiabani, the top man of the group in Iran, Ashraf Rabiei, the first wife of Massoud Rajavi, and about 20 others members of the group at that house, were killed.
All the residents of that house were killed in the operation in Zafaraniyeh, Tehran and eventually the group’s terror acts in Iran stopped because of the disappearance of the command room. But that operation also had a survivor! A young child who had been born that year. The son of Massoud Rajavi and Ashraf Rabiei: Mostafa Rajavi.
A few minutes after the end of the operation, the Tehran prosecutor, Lajevardi, while hugging the same child, described the operation in front of the camera and addressed the grandfather of the child, the father of Massoud Rajavi, to go the Prosecutor’s Office to take the baby.
Very soon, Mostafa Rajavi was handed over to his grandfather in Mashhad. Then the group’s operatives secretly transferred him to France. Mustafa became known as Mohammed Rajavi after entering the MEK’s headquarters in France. He studied there for a while until he was transferred to the Camp Ashraf in Iraq with his father’s command.
After the disastrous Eternal Light operation against the Iranian border, which left the MEK with huge casualties, Massoud Rajavi began a series of cult jargons under the title “Ideological Revolution”. He forced married members to divorce. Eventually, During the Kuwait war, he separated children from their parents under the pretext of the danger of the war, and smuggled them to Europe. Years later, the group authorities returned these children to Camp Ashraf.
Mostafa Rajavi was transferred to Camp Ashraf Iraq together with a large number of other MEK children who were all at their teen age.
The presence of Mohammad Rajavi in Camp Ashraf had a great use for Massoud Rajavi, which allegedly showed his devotion. But Mohammad was not happy with living in Camp Ashraf. He began dissent and therefore commanders placed him in a separate house to conceal his discontent with the sectarian relations within the MEK and the disagreements with his father. They provided all kinds of facilities to keep him silent.
Although Rajavi tried to induce his forces that there is no exceptions in Ashraf, Mostafa enjoyed a better living condition which only Massoud and Maryam and some of the upper classes enjoyed. Meanwhile, other parents were banned from meeting their children in Camp Ashraf. All teenage members had to attend”passing the family”classes daily while Mostafa could see his father whenever he wanted to.
However, Mostafa Rajavi, who studied and grew up in Europe, considered the entire organization as a prison. Despite having at least six security guards, he tried to escape. With several friends of his age, he hit the barbed wire with a heavy military vehicle overnight but he was arrested by one of the guards while he was trying to flip over the truck’s roof over the barbed wire. Mostafa’s companions were all jailed in solitary confinement where they were beaten and tortured. But Mostafa was only transferred to his place of residence and was held there.
After the collapse of Saddam and the entry of Americans into Iraq, the Americans began to reach Ashraf and its inhabitants in order to get informed of both the status of the Camp Ashraf and the capacity of its inhabitants to be employed in Iraq. According to former members of MEK, the Persian translator of the American army repeatedly called for an interview Massoud Rajavi’s son but the request was faced with severe opposition by the side of the group commanders each time. The leaders of the group were struggling to hide Mostafa’s positions against his father’s organization.
Muhammad Rajavi moved to Liberty after the shutdown of Camp Ashraf, and he was removed from Iraq during the transition to Albania and sent to Norway. Mostafa was no more a teenager who could be silenced by the commanders but he was afraid of the organization’s decision to eliminate him, which was not far from mind –Muhammad was familiar with that technique because of his life experience in Ashraf.
His criticisms made the organization provide him an easier condition in Norway. It was told that a salary of several thousand dollars a month and the expenses of his education in one of the prestigious universities in Norway were the costs the MEK paid to silence Rajavi’s son.
However, Mostafa Rajavi did not keep silent as the MEK leaders desired. In August 2020, he was interviewed in a Persian-language TV show hosted by Zina Tehrani a monarchist figure. During the Phone interview, Mostafa criticized the Mujahedin Khalq Organization and particularly his father Massoud Rajavi.
In April 2021, Jack Turner of Geopolitica reported that Mostafa Rajavi is still under the pressure of undemocratic approaches of the MEK leaders. He published parts of a law suit signed by Mostafa Rajavi against the MEK. His statement begins with this: I want to reveal about a dirty and illegal ransom to put pressure on me.
Maryam Rajavi is not a democratic opposition leader but she is the evil hand to run the dictatorship of her husband’s cult of personality
Families of the captured members at the MEK camp in Albania wrote a letter to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, expressing concern about the health of their loved ones seeking help to gain information about their family members.
The text of the letter is as follows:
Dear Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Director General of the World Health Organization
Greetings and best regards,
Congratulations on the occasion of the 7th of April, World Health Day, to you and all your colleagues around the world and wishing a healthy and disease-free world on the year 2021 which is named”Year of the Health and Care Workers”, with the slogan of”Building a fairer, healthier world”.
We would like to inform you that:
Covid-19 virus disease has taken a heavy toll on the world body, and its impact on countries that were previously considered vulnerable before the pandemic has been far greater. These communities, which are more prone to disease, do not have access to adequate health care services and as a result, face many difficulties in controlling the virus.
Your Excellency,
You are well aware that one of these countries is Albania. A country that has housed about 2,500 members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in a remote and isolated camp outside Tirana.
Since the outbreak of the disease, there is no exact information about the health status of the people living in the camp, despite numerous letters and expressions of concern from the families about the ambiguous health status of the camp, as well as the news that several people died of Covid-19 virus.
On the anniversary of the establishment of the World Health Organization, we, the families of those stationed in the MEK Camp in Albania, are increasingly concerned.
Therefore, in line with this year’s slogan of the World Health Organization, we desperately ask you to help us families to contact and get information about the situation of our loved ones in Albania.
A group of families of members of the MEK from Yazd province in Iran
CC:
Honorable representative of the World Health Organization in Iran
Honorable representative of the World Health Organization in Albania
One of the cult-related issues is family. In a destructive cult like the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult Of Rajavi) the destruction of family intimacy is the result of the leader’s absolute influence on members. Members are not allowed to contact their families outside the group.
A large number of MEK members have not contacted their families for over three decades. Many parents have become sick or even died while their children in the cult of Rajavi have not been informed at all.
Roozbeh Atayee is a member of the MEK. His mother Giti Zartoshtian, from Esfahan, Iran, has not visited Roozbeh for twenty years. His father died 15 years ago and the mother is sick now. The MEK leaders dot not want Roozbeh to be aware of his mother’s sickness.
The MEK, very similar to many abusive groups, attempts to either eliminate or destroy emotional bonds between parents and children that might compete for loyalty with the emotional attachments that members feel for leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
Leila is the Youngest child of Rahim Kayukan. She was born in 1979, two years before his father, Rahim would leave the entire family behind to join the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, in September 1981. When Rahim left the family other siblings of Leila, Mozhgan, Mehran and Mosen were respectively, 13, 10 and 4 years old. At the time, their mother, Behjat Sediqi was 32 years old and since then she has never been contacted by her husband.
For four decades, Rahim Kayukan has been a member of the Mujahedin Khalq and is in the group’s camp in Albania now. He is one of the thousand Iranians who are kept under the cult-like structure of the Mujahedin Khalq. Rahim was a flight technician of the Iran National Airlines when he was recruited by the MEK. What has stopped Rahim from contacting his wife and children during these long years?
It may seem strange how intelligent people can get caught up in such a bizarre and dangerous cult like the MEK. But the fact is that cults target individuals throughout their life spans and across all socioeconomic groups and backgrounds.”Regrettably, it is impossible to quantify how many people are involved in potentially damaging cultic religions or similar ideological commitments,”Doni Whitsett & Stephen A. Kent assert in a paper on”Cults and Families”.
The authors of the article, referring to a large number of comprehensive books and researches on the issue, attempt to raise the awareness in ways that facilitate the ability of professionals to evaluate the impact of cults on some people who get trapped in these cults. They focus on both families within the cults and families outside of cults that are impacted by the cultic involvement of one or more of their members.
According to Whitsett and Kent,”A frequent consequence of cult involvement—and one that may have dramatic implications for diagnosis and treatment of former members—is the assault that these groups make upon family units among their adherents“. The evidence is officially published on the MEK-run websites from time to time, particularly after, each family member of the MEK adherents try to call on human rights bodies and file appeals against the MEK leaders.
In case of Leila Kayukan, her recent testimony in court made the MEK propaganda agents assault her family by accusing her of being dishonest about her father. This is an official position taken by the MEK vitrines in the social media which is exposed to the outside world. Not mentioning the way they treat members and their families inside the isolated camps of the Cult of Rajavi.
The authors of”Cults and Families”, believe that cult leaders use several factors to break the bonds between members and their families.”These factors include intensive resocialization into the new, deviant beliefs and behaviors; the demonization of people’s pre-cult lives; intense punishment and shaming regimes; restrictions on exogenous social contacts; heavy financial and time commitments; and constant demands to value group commitments over family considerations.”
According to the article, cult leaders impose various regressive techniques on their members that interfere with their ability to critically assess their situations. Authors also assert that the most virulent forms of regression.This kind of treatment demonstrate the disordered personalities of the cult leaders. however, probably reflect the disordered personalities of some leaders. They present several examples of cult leaders who suffer from various forms of psychological dysfunction.
“Many groups attack the formation of parent–child bonds by geographically separating children from their parents,”they state.”For example, various Eastern-based religious groups operate educational facilities back in their home countries, and often Western followers send their children to these overseas facilities for schooling. Consequently, children and parents see each other very infrequently, as distant strangers assume child-rearing and educational responsibilities. The children, therefore, cannot rely upon their parents in times of need.”
In addition to children like Leila and her siblings, there have been many children who were taken to the MEK camps by their parents but later on they were separated from them. then distanced from them. The number of children who have been separated from their parents by the MEK leaders mount to over 700. In just one cargo, over 300 children were separated from their parents in Camp Ashraf and were transferred via Jordan to Europe in 1990. The horrible fates of these children should be considered as cases of child and teen abuse.
Moreover,”similar threats to those directed against parent–child relationships also exist against spousal relationships”. The authors of the paper suggest,“In highly restrictive groups, strong marriages challenge leaders’ ability to control and receive the constant attention of the two partners. Moreover, couples are likely to establish private confidences—to share intimate feelings, dreams, desires, and perhaps doubts—all of which threaten paranoid leaders and evoke envy in those who have narcissistic and borderline personality disorders.”Therefore, forced divorces and mandatory celibacy in the MEK are definitely the sign of Massoud Rajavi’s personality disorders.
Thus, Rahim Kayukan and hundreds of his peers are trapped in the Cult of Rajavi. They are not allowed to talk and even think about their family. They are under daily pressure to denounce any relationship with the world except with the orders of the leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. This is always mentioned in the testimonies of former members of the group and confirmed in the article too.
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“Often groups require members to reveal their supposed deficiencies and shortcomings in assemblies, meetings, or other public settings,”Whitsett and Kent write.”Members, therefore, are trapped in double binds. On the one hand, if they go public with doubts or private opinions, then others will attack and possibly expel them. On the other hand, if they withhold their private (and possibly negative) thoughts, then they likely feel deceitful and inadequate to the tasks of their groups’ missions. Thus, many members are locked in inner battles between self-protection and group solidarity. Because they are torn in these ways, it is exceedingly difficult for them to provide emotional and cognitive guidance to children (not to mention to other adults).”
It is clear that, members of MEK have no way out of the Cult-like system of the group. They are certainly live cases of human rights violation that the International community is responsible to rescue them before irreparable damage is taking its toll.
Mazda Parsi
As Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Araghchi left the meeting place in Vienna, a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) insulted him and tried to attack him, but to no avail, according to Mehr News Agency.
Intensive consultations between the various delegations are taking place in Vienna before the Joint Commission of the JCPOA which was held yesterday at 14:30 local time.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi who chairs the Iranian delegation at this meeting met Monday night with the head of the Chinese delegation and on Tuesday with the head of the Russian delegation.
Araghchi also met today with Enrique Mora, EU Coordinator and Chairman of the Joint Commission, to review the latest executive arrangements for the commission.
After this meeting, and when Araghchi was leaving the meeting place, a female operative of MEK insulted him and tried to attack him, but she was stopped by the security guards.
As expected, members of MEK gathered in Vienna to protest the talks in front of the hotel where the joint commission was being held.
The Iranian embassy in Vienna had issued the necessary warnings to the Austrian police to maintain the security of Iranian negotiators.
The 18th Joint Commission of the JCPOA was held in Vienna with the participation of Iran and the remaining countries in the agreement.
Previously, Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the session of the JCPOA Commission seeks to finalize measures required to revive the deal.
The mother and father of Majid Zand Dochahi a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), sent a complaint to the UN Committee on Disappearances against the Albanian government.
United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Greetings,
My wife Ninaz Salem and me; Davood Zand Dochahi have been unaware of our son Majid Zand Dochahi for 20 years.
We once learned that he is in Iraq and in the MEK camp. We went to Iraq several times and went to Camp Ashraf to visit our son, but we did not succeed, and each time the officials of the organization prevented us from meeting our son.
We are now informed that the organization has been transferred to Albania and is based in a remote camp where there is no possibility of contact with its residents.
We ask you, the International authority, to provide means for us to communicate with our son in Albania to ensure his health.
Thank you in advance for your efforts.
Davood Zand Dochahi
Iran – Qom