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Hierarchical administration of information within MKO

Nejat SocietyOctober 19, 20090102 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 30)..none of the information would be circulated among the rank and file and there was a strict hierarchical discipline with no leak to the lower ranks..Massoud and Maryam Raajvi always insisted on the exigent priority of the Leadership Council and were of the opinion that information had to be restrained within the council. The lower ranks of MKO/MEK/PMOI had to only carry out the orders of the top even if the day came when a mass suicide was inevitable ..

Primacy of death and violence in the ideology of MKO

Nejat SocietyOctober 17, 2009080 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 29)..The members of the organization are encouraged to either kill or be killed and there has to be necessarily justifications to convince them choose the either way. ..it is crucial to know why the organization, unlike other similar political or armed groups, cultivates homicidal tendencies with an emphasis on suicidal ones in a struggle to counter its adversaries and exclusively invest on the tactics that highly risk the lives of the insiders. .

Human shield in defense of Ashraf

Nejat SocietyOctober 12, 2009092 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – a précis of parts 27-28)- The human shield was one of the opted options; mass suicides could effectively frustrate any effort that aimed at dismantling the integrity of Ashraf. It included any other threat like forced entry of American or coalition forces to temporarily close or deactivate the camp. Our first choice to resist against intruders had to be using non-firing weapons; needless to say that the organization actually made no resistance against the American forces and succeeded to take the control and hegemony of the camp in its own hands..

Neda had been tutored from the childhood

Nejat SocietyOctober 10, 20090183 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 26).. … To talk of my acquaintance with her, we were once on the same team-work in Camp Ashraf before the US invasion of Iraq and when Maryam (Rajavi) was still in Ashraf. However, Neda left for the Europe simultaneous with Maryam’s relocation to France…

Defining an MKO organizational jargon

Nejat SocietyOctober 7, 20090116 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 25).. the term ‘pardakhtgar’ can be defined; that is to say, a member of the organization sacrifices his love and affection for the family and associates so they may transcend the limits of the material world and achieve the sphere of an unconditional love and affection that could include not only the beloved around them but the humanity in general. His struggle and immolation is to stop people paying for the attention and affection they receive and to purify the atmosphere ..

The members were coerced into dedicating themselves to Massoud and Maryam

Nejat SocietyOctober 5, 2009096 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 24).. their daughter had committed suicide and they could change nothing for her loss. Then, the organization put two choices before them; to move in parallel with the organization’s scenario in glorification of their daughter’s death or take an opposite side and spoil everything and sully their daughter’s name

Neda’s family feeling obligated to the organization

Nejat SocietyOctober 3, 20090334 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 23)..Now compare the organization’s indifference to Khata’s death and its manner and conduct with Neda’s family before and after her suicide operation. That is because Neda’s family lived abroad since long and they could push the organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] into real crisis if they wanted and reacted against her death. So the organization mobilized all its power to bring her family under its control ..

17 June immolations, orchestrated or willful acts

Nejat SocietySeptember 29, 2009099 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 22)..As soon as a member sets himself/herself on fire, the camera starts recording and it is exactly positioned where it had to. The big mistake made by the organization is that the scenes are all filmed by professional hand recorders rather than ordinary cameras or mobiles, which reduces the possibility of any random record. The used sophisticated equipments proved that it was also a simultaneously orchestrated operation.

17 June immolations and the test of commitment

Nejat SocietySeptember 27, 2009089 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 21)..A look at the organization’s[MKO/MEK/PMOI] own media at that time and later reveals that it had designated a big bulk of its propaganda space, both cyber and non-cyber, for the reflection of the relevant issues and news and did not spare to stick even at the trifles. The origin of these news was often the organization itself and most often used them quoted from other news agencies; as it benefitted the effect of media coverage on the incidents of 17 June immolations.

MKO Abuse of Neda and Sedigheh’s death

Nejat SocietySeptember 23, 20090192 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Parts nineteen-twenty).. … it was the attempt to mythicize their death and consecrate them as saints and legendry heroines. Multitudes of poems, elegies and songs as well as the already mentioned mystical dances were composed and manipulated to justify the wounded and the dead of the immolation operations … The function of art was converted here; to die for the ideals is evaluated a fair, worthy death, but to die for an egoist who believes in no humanistic ideal value ..