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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

On my brother’s abduction or disappearance

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Greetings and best regards,
Regarding my brother Mustafa Nourishad, son of Morteza, I Mojtaba Nourishad lodged a complaint against the Albanian government with the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances under the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, of which the Albanian government is a signatory.

After a long time, I was given forms that I filled out and sent along with the required additional documents.
I then received a reply that the subject of my complaint had been referred to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) for further investigation, and they concluded that there was insufficient reason for the Albanian government to be responsible for my brother’s abduction or disappearance.
According to the following information:

The identity of the person forcibly disappeared: Mustafa Nourishad, son of Morteza

Mostafa Nurishad

When he disappeared: About 15 years ago, when he was 19 and a university student, he left home and there was no news of him. An advertisement was published in the newspaper at the time for his disappearance. After years of ignorance, it became known through some former members that he was in Camp Ashraf in Iraq in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO), with whom it was not possible to have any contact.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, we were able to travel to Iraq and approach Camp Ashraf, but the officials of the organization did not cooperate. In Iraq, we also went to the UN office, which did not help and they did not help either. We were then informed that the organization, along with all its members, had been transferred to Albania and had been stationed in a remote and isolated camp with no contact with its members.

Where he disappeared: He first disappeared in Iran, but we later learned that he had been tricked into Iraq and joined the MEK, and then transferred to Albania with this organization.

Country responsible for his disappearance: Certainly, based on the evidence obtained, the MEK is responsible for his disappearance, which is now fully supported by the Albanian government. It should be noted that according to the UN Convention, governments supporting organizations responsible for a person’s disappearance should be questioned.

Complainant’s identity and relationship: Mojtaba Nourishad, brother of the missing person

It is necessary to emphasize a few points:
Since we received information that Mustafa Nourishad is in the MEK camp in Albania, we and hundreds of other families have sent numerous letters to various officials in the country, including Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is also the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, but did not receive any response.

The families of the MEK members prepared a 550-page petition addressed to the Albanian authorities with more than 11,000 signatures and submitted it to the Albanian embassy in Paris, requesting an opportunity to find out about their missing loved ones, to which no response has been received so far from the Albanian government.

We and other families tried to obtain Albanian visas to travel to Albania and seek information from our missing loved ones through local authorities, but unfortunately we learned that the Albanian government has gone so far to support the MEK that at the request of this organization, it refuses to issue visas to Iranian citizens.

Therefore, as a last resort and reference, we complained to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances. It should be noted that our complaint is not against the MEK, but against the Albanian government, which supports this organization and leaves them openhanded to forcibly keep our loved ones in captivity.

Hundreds of families in Iran and in other countries are in a similar situation to us, and the United Nations should step in and ask the Albanian government, which is currently in charge of the MEK, to allow us to communicate with our missing loved ones in Albania. Therefore, I request that our complaint be re-examined and the information provided be taken into account.

Thanks in advance and I look forward to your response.
Mojtaba Nourishad
Karaj – Alborz Province – Iran

February 15, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Mahtab Nayeb Agha

She was born in Saint Diego, the US, in 1980. Her father Hassan Nayeb Agha and her mother Mitra Yusefi were sympathizers of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO, MEK, PMOI, Cult of Rajavi). Then, the parents took Mahtab and her brother Shahab to Camp Ashraf, Iraq to join the MEK.

It was difficult or almost impossible to live a family life in Camp Ashraf. Members of the families lived in separated bases and they were just allowed to meet each other in the weekends. In one of these family visits, the eight-year-old Mahtab was asked by her mother if she is happy with that life style. “Soon her shiny eyes became teary and she wanted to hide it,” her mother Mitra writes in her book.

Mitra recalls the day that Mahtab was hospitalized in the camp’s clinic because of an illness. “The girl asks mommy will you stay with me or you go?” Mitra writes. “I replied: Oh, honey! of course I stay. Trying to make her understand our relationship, I said: I am you mother.”

However, the life in the organization distresses Mahtab with sadness and grieves of other children; she has friends who have lost their parents in the group’s operations. Now, they have “fake mothers” whom they do not love, as Mahtab tells her mother who replaces the term with “ideological mother” in the book.

In 1990, Mahtab and her brother were separated from their parents and were sent to Europe together with hundreds of other MEK children. Mahtab and Shahab were adopted by a couple, Soheila and farhad, who were friends of their parents, in Sweden.

After the MEK leaders forced members to divorce Mitra started conflicting the leaders and asked to leave the group. It took her a year to leave Iraq and join her children in Sweden, in 1991. She began to write the book of her life experience of which a large part is about the complications and the troubles the MEK imposed on her and her family.

In page 314 of the dairy book, Mitra Yusefi writes about the nightmares that Mahtab suffered from as the consequence of the years of separation from parents and loneliness. “Mahtab sometimes get angry and cries about the stress she suffered during those years,” she writes.

In Mahtab’s nightmares, everyone has left Iraq except her who has been left there alone. Besides, somewhere in the book Mitra cites Mahtab as saying “I dreamed that you had to leave us to get back to Iraq”.

The mother, Mitra, tried her best to convince her husband, Mahtab’s father, Hassan, to leave the MEK and join his family in Sweden but she failed. The only result of her efforts was that the MEK media call her the agent of the Islamic Republic. Hassan is still a commander of the MEK and is not allowed to contact his family.

“I wish she was wise enough to choose another life, an accessible life,” Mitra writes about Hassan and grieves of Mahtab and Shahab in the absence of their father. “I wish he preferred a normal life that would not impose that much suffering and pain on his children.”

February 14, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

MEK terrorists against diplomacy

Tehran has summoned the Belgian ambassador to protest the 20-year jail term handed down by an Antwerp court against an Iranian diplomat on baseless charge, stressing that the Islamic Republic does not recognize the ruling, which violates international law.

The Belgian envoy was called in to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday to file Tehran’s “strong representations” with Brussels over the unlawful verdict issued in the case of Assadollah Assadi.

At the meeting, the Foreign Ministry’s director-general for Western Europe slammed the ruling as a violation of international law, which disregards Belgium’s commitments to the Islamic Republic.

Earlier this month, a court in the Belgian city of Antwerp handed down the 20-year jail sentence to Assadi, claiming that he had plotted a supposed attack against a gathering of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) anti-Iran terrorist cult in Paris in 2018.

Tehran has rejected the verdict and said it was a result of Belgium’s falling under the influence of the anti-Iran MKO terror group, which is freely active on Europe’s soil.

Assadi’s arrest, trial and sentencing is a breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and thus lacks legitimacy, the official added.

The detention and the ensuing judicial process was in line with the plots hatched the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group with the goal of harming Iran-Europe relations.

He said even statements by certain Belgian authorities and the judicial process were clearly reflective of the terror outfit’s rhetoric.

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The Iranian official further asked the Brussels government to respect humanitarian rules in dealing with Assadi and swiftly free the diplomat.

In turn, the Belgian ambassador said he would submit Tehran’s note of protest to the government in Brussels.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has slammed the “unlawful” jail term issued in Belgium against an Iranian diplomat as a “clear violation” of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, saying Tehran is making all-out efforts to clear him of the charges and secure his release as soon as possible.

“Iran regards the arrest, the legal procedures and the verdict issued against Assadollah Assadi as unlawful and a blatant violation of international law, specifically the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” the ministry’s Public Relations Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

The ministry said it had pursued all political, intelligence and legal channels to secure the freedom of the Iranian diplomat and has protested to the governments of Germany, Austria and Belgium over the illegal detention and holds them accountable for the repercussions of the arrest.

“The Foreign Ministry reserves its right to follow up on the issue through legal and diplomatic channels and, on this basis, [necessary] measures are being taken,” the statement said.

In June 2018, Belgian authorities said that the Belgian police had intercepted a car carrying homemade explosives and a detonation device, claiming that Assadi had handed the materials to two people in Belgium earlier.

Assadi, himself, was apprehended in Germany the next day and told he could not apply his diplomatic immunity.

Dimitri de Beco, the Iranian diplomat’s defense lawyer, said back then that the plaintiffs were turning the case into a political trial on behalf of the MKO, the most hated terror group in Iran.

The MKO has conducted many assassinations and bombings against Iranian officials and civilians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It notoriously sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 war that he had imposed on Iran.

February 13, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Regime changers love to think Iran is always on the ‘brink of collapse’

February 11 marks the 42nd anniversary of the Iranian revolution of 1979, which ousted a despotic monarch and ushered in what many Iranians hoped would be the independence and freedom they had fought to attain for so long. These hopes were not fulfilled, however, and under the Islamic Republic, Iranians have had to continue their fight for freedom.

Their efforts have at times been undermined by outside pressure, driven by the false narrative propagated by opponents of diplomacy in the United States that the Islamic Republic is on the brink of collapse.

Despite the decades-long political struggle of Iranians — from the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, to the nationalist movement of Mossadegh in the 1950s and the various opposition groups that the Shah repressed in the 1960s and 70s — the world was still shocked by the overthrow of the monarchy. Less than 14 months before the revolution, President Carter infamously called Iran “an island of stability.” In retrospect, it seems, this was more the wishful thinking of people with a geopolitical stake in Iran’s future, than careful analysis of the reality in the country.

In the 42 years that have followed, commentators and analysts — often those with their own political motives — continue to fall for the same trap, conflating their own desire for the collapse of the Islamic Republic with the facts on the ground. If the lessons of 1979 teach us anything, it is that such lack of understanding should not inform American foreign policy decisions.

One of the most notable figures to lead this charge has been the eldest son of the fallen Shah, Reza Pahlavi, who declared himself the rightful king of Iran in October of 1980, three months after his father’s death. Mr. Pahlavi has made a name for himself among anti-Iran hawks and neocons in Washington for his persistent claim that the Islamic Republic is on the verge of collapse, an idea echoed by monarchist supporters in the Iranian diaspora.

Speaking to an audience at Georgetown University in 1989, Pahlavi stated, “I have no doubt that the Iranian people are taking the first steps to dispose of the Islamic Republic. Many Iranians now believe that the Khomeini regime has reached the end of its life.” 32 years after his confident assertion, the Islamic Republic still stands.
But the idea that the Islamic Republic is on its last legs is not an idea that can be attributed to Pahlavi alone.

Another dissident group — and formerly U.S. designated terrorist group — with a wildly different vision for Iran, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), has also promoted this narrative while appealing to U.S. officials to put pressure on the Islamic Republic. What both the MEK and diaspora monarchists have in common is their disconnect with Iranian people and society, which has evolved significantly over four decades. These groups often ignore the political movements and actors inside Iran, or the fact that millions of Iranians — encompassing the majority of the voting population — participate in Iran’s elections because the outcome impacts their daily lives.

In the case of dissident groups it is plain to see why they would promote the idea that the Islamic Republic is weak and close to falling. These groups have, in fact, for years helped prevent American diplomacy in favor of sanctions and military threats based on the premise that the regime is perpetually on the “verge of collapse” and diplomatic engagement would throw it a lifeline.

In June 2019, when asked if the U.S. and Israel would have to intervene militarily in Iran, Reza Pahlavi went as far as saying, “if the proper pressure does not exist at this time to force this regime to collapse, then of course it would become unavoidable to consider other options.” All of this is to say that the narrative they espouse fits their own political objectives.

American foreign policy decisions, however, should not be based on the political agenda of any group, especially one that does not have the best interests of the U.S. and the American people in mind. In order to make informed policy decisions, we must separate ideological aspirations from facts on the ground. Despite four years of “maximum pressure” on Iran under the Trump administration, which included unprecedented sanctions, extrajudicial assassinations, sabotage, threats, and belligerent rhetoric, the Islamic Republic continues to stand — as it has done in the face of enormous pressure over several decades — and the domestic movement for human rights in Iran has been weakened. And while sanctions have brought unjust hardship to millions of ordinary Iranians, Iranian officials remain unscathed.

The narrative of imminent collapse has been part of the discourse on Iran since the revolution of 1979. But like the story of total stability before the revolution, this analysis appears to be driven more by the political interests of a few than an objective examination of the Islamic Republic’s internal security.

If we wish to grapple with the many issues the Iranian government poses, most notably the repression of its own people, we must do so with a strategy grounded in reality. Though anti-Iran hawks in Washington and some dissidents in the Iranian diaspora may be willing to go as far as war to collapse the Islamic Republic, that is certainly not the will or desire of the American people. After decades of failed pressure-only policies, the Obama administration achieved a historic détente with Iran. Now, with the total failure of Trump’s maximum pressure, it is time to try something new: maximum diplomacy.

Written by Assal Rad – Responsiblestatecraft.org

February 13, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The Mojahedin-e Khalq in Post-Trump period

led by Maryam Rajavi, the Organization (MKO) is going through a very difficult situation that can be called the post-Trump period. On the other hand, the Corona virus is killing the members of this group one after another, while the wishes of Maryam Rajavi, John Bolton and their former leader Donald Trump, to celebrate the overthrow of the Iranian government in Tehran’s Azadi Square have faded.

With rising of criticism and dissatisfaction among the MKO members concerning its leadership, a number of them have recently split from the group; an issue that has been admitted by the MKO ringleaders.

Rajavi and Trump

The group’s commander knows that the situation differs from what they experienced in in Iraq, where they were supported for many years by Saddam Hussein’s regime. They know very well that space is much freer in Albania, and they cannot control their members as easily as they did in Iraq. The issue of controlling the members who lived in this dark tunnel for 40 years and are now seeking freedom and exit has become a problem for Maryam Rajavi and her companions.

Therefore, the continuous contradictions and the gradual death that has overshadowed Rajavi’s group, has entered its final stage with the collapse of Trump. Maryam Rajavi is well aware that the policy of deception, lying and brainwashing, which were carried out by her missing husband and then by herself is no longer useful to persuade the members of the group to stay.

Rajavi sought to prevent separation of the group’s members by this deception that the government in Iran would be overthrown by entering of Trump to the White House. She had promised her members that this goal would be achieved if they used all their best. In the same way, Rajavi’s husband used to force the members to work eighteen hours a day in order to deprive them of the opportunity to think about their future.

At the end, nothing new was happened. The analysis and prediction of Maryam Rajavi and some of her American supporters was nothing but an illusion. For this reason, the leadership of this Iranian group has difficulty in convincing its members to stay. In the time of Saddam Hussein and with his support for Massoud Rajavi, members could be somehow controlled, but now it is very difficult for Rajavi to act in the heart of Europe, and to be able to deceive the members of the group as before.

By Ahmad Jafar Alsaedi – Translated by Habilian

February 13, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Why the Albania gov. do not give the MEK members’ families visa?

Mohammad Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam expressed concern about the health of his brother Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam

Mr. Mohammad Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam, brother of Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam, trapped in the MEK camp in Albania, wrote a letter to the World Health Organization in Albania expressing concern over his brother’s health.

World Health Organization

The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the World Health Organization in Albania
Greetings and best regards
I am Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam, brother of Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam. My brother is now in a closed, remote camp of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania with no connections to the outside world.
It is needless to say that my family and I have not seen or heard from my brother for many years, and we have not even received a message from him, and this always bothers us.

Now the news worries us a lot, and that is that on the one hand my brother is probably infected with the Covid-19 virus and he is in a very severe condition, and on the other hand the health conditions inside the camp are extremely unfavorable.

We, the family of Mahmoud Haddadi Moqaddam, have no desire other than hearing his voice and learning about his health. Of course, Albania does not give us visas in support of the MEK and does not allow us to travel. The MEK does not even allow a single phone call to its members.

I urge you not to neglect any action that is conceivable and fruitful in order to alleviate the concerns of me and my family, so that news of my brother reaches us and communication is possible.

You must know very well how a brother feels in such a situation. Is it acceptable to prevent MEK members from communicating with their families in these circumstances? Isn’t this a clear violation of basic human rights?

Mohammad Ebrahim Haddadi Moqaddam
Torbat Heydariyeh – Khorasan Razavi – Iran

Copy to:
Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

February 11, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

I am concerned over my son’s health conditions at MEK Camps

In a letter to the head of the WHO and the Albanian government, Mr. Motaleb Babaei Chamazkati expressed concern about his son Houshang Babaei Chamazkati, who was detained in the MEK camp in Albania, and asked him to contact his family.

mek in labania and the coronavirus

Honorable President of the World Health Organization
Greetings
I am Motaleb Babaei Chamazekti, the father of Houshang Babaei Chamazekti. My son has been a prisoner of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) for more than thirty years and now lives in the organization’s camp in Albania.

I do not have any information about my son’s condition because the MEK does not allow my son to call his family and we are now unaware of his health.

This is a matter of great concern to me and my family, given the widespread wave of the Coronavirus in the MEK camp in Albania and the deaths of several people in recent weeks.

As the WHO Official I ask you as well as the Albanian government to intervene in the situation of the MEK camp in Albania, because this organization does not allow anyone to enter the camp, and this is very worrying. You are aware that the coronavirus can cause many casualties in closed environments and in public life, such as the MEK camp in Albania.

I would also ask you to enquire the officials of the MEK to allow my son to call his family so that after a few decades we can hear his voice and be informed of his health.

Thanks
Motaleb Babaei Chamazketi
Ghaemshahr – Mazandaran – Iran

February 9, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Family appeal for supervision over health conditions on MEK camps

To whom it may concern,
I, Ahmad Rezaei Torghi, have not heard of my brother Hojjat Rezaei Torghi, for the thirty past years. He is a member of the Mojahedin Organisation and is currently a resident of Camp Ashraf 3 based in Albania. In the current circumstances, where visas are not issued to Iranians by the embassy of Albania, we can not be informed of my brother’s health and well-being personally.

Following the collective follow-up of the families, the complaints raised to the officials of the Albanian government, regarding the follow-up and surveillance of this matter, we have not been able to receive an answer so far and we have no way to contact my brother in Albania to find out about his condition. With the sabotage and opposition of the leaders of the Mojahedin Organization to connect the members with their families and preventing the supervision of the Human Rights Organization and the World Health Organization to solve these problems, it has created many concerns for us.

We recently learned that following the outbreak of the corona virus, people living in Camp Ashraf 3 of the Mojahedin Organization, are suffering from corona disease and some of them have died. Due to the large population living in that base, which apparently due to lack of proper ventilation, their collective life in terms of health, are at risks of disease outbreak and death.

Therefore, we are worried about my brother Hojjat Rezaei. Therefore, we ask the relevant authorities to follow up on the residents of the camp with the necessary investigations, so that we can be informed about the health of my brother Hojjat by phone or video communication.
We will be grateful if you respond to the concerned families of these people.

Wishing the release of all the residents of Ashraf 3 base in Albania and thanking all the ones who help us in this humanitarian matter.

Sincerely,

Ahmad Rezaei Torghi
Iran – Mashhad

February 8, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Utilizing MEK terrorists against diplomacy

A former U.S. Senate candidate casts doubt on a presumption that the new American administration under Joe Biden’s presidency would have better performance in regard to Iran and Israel.

“Any presumption that the Biden-Harris team will be an improvement on the Trump-Pence team on issues of Israel, Iran, war, and peace, is precisely that–an illusion,” Mark Dankof tells the Tehran Times.

Mark Dankof

While some political analysts in America expect Biden to adopt a rather wise foreign policy in comparison to Trump, critics rule out a fundamental shift in Washington’s foreign policy approach.

Dankof says Philip Giraldi, an American commentator and security consultant, predicts in an essay for the Unz Review, that”Tony Blinken replaces Mike Pompeo and Israel’s friends will enjoy four more years in power.”

The American analyst recommends Iran “to refuse to negotiate any ‘return’ to the JCPOA treaty where Biden and Blinken will attach all sorts of new, untenable conditions.”

The following is the text of the interview:

Q: Do you agree with former American president Donald Trump who branded the JCPOA as a catastrophe and claimed it undermined peace in West Asia?

A: I absolutely disagree with Trump and with anyone else who suggests that the JCPOA/P5+1 treaty with Iran was a”catastrophe.”My record on this is a public one, including my past interview with Tasnim News Agency on the subject. David Stockman has written several articles on the subject that underscore the treaty’s verifiability, and the compliance of Iran with the treaty terms.

The treaty should have been the basis of a complete re-establishment of a peaceful political, economic, and political relationship between Iran and the United States. Trump’s unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the pact is nothing more than an absolute illustration of the ownership of Trump’s foreign policy by Israel and its lobby in the United States as Stockman, Scott Ritter, Pat Buchanan, and Philip Giraldi have made clear repeatedly. The tragic thing is that the Democrats and Biden will prove no better when it comes to being the tools of Zionism and Greater Israel.

It is Giraldi who warns us in the Unz Review in an essay entitled,”A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead,”that dissidents like me in the United States are going to be targeted in more aggressive fashion than has ever been witnessed in the United States before. My consistent criticism of American aggression for Israel in the Middle East (West Asia), the role of Israel in the 9-11 event itself, Trump’s idiotic withdrawal from JCPOA, and the public role of the 45th President of the United States in the criminal extra-judicial assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, have earned me a place in the target folders of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith (ADL), the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Republican Jewish Coalition, and the Democratic Majority for Israel.

The launching of a false flag incident which would be penned on Iran as a prelude to a shooting war would be accompanied by the arrest and incarceration of those here who would continue to speak out publicly against what is clearly being plotted. David Baxter’s article for the Institute for Historical Review (IHR) entitled,”The Great Sedition Trial of 1944: A Personal Memoir,”serves as a primer for what the globalist, Zionist War Party has in mind in the future for those opposed to their New World Order. Real American nationalists who oppose foreign wars, Iran, Putin’s Russia, Assad’s Syria, Hezbollah, and China are all in the crosshairs of this cabal. This is why I will continue working with Iranian, Russian, and American Alt-Media for as long as I can possibly hold out.

Q: Nuclear-armed countries do not accept to say whether international law applies to their nuclear conduct. What is the practical solution to make these countries accountable?

A: I cannot tell you that I honestly have in mind a practical proposal to make nuclear-armed nations uniformly observe international law as the basis of their actions. In the case of the United States government, it is the only one in history to use these weapons against civilian populations. And yet it presumes to tell Iran it has no right to utilize its rights as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), even as Israel is armed to the nuclear teeth, is not a signatory to the NPT, and was itself involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as chronicled by both Laurent Guyenot and Michael Collins Piper. As far as the bilateral relationship between the United States and Iran is concerned, Operation Ajax in 1953, the shootdown of Iran Flight 655, the utilization of the MEK-MKO terrorist organization against Iran and its government, the Soleimani and Fakhrizadeh murders, and the imposition of wartime economic sanctions on Iran after the latter kept its end of the bargain with the JCPOA deal, all underscore that the American word of honor is sadly one of dishonor. This is not simply true with Iran, but with others including Russia, where the post-Cold War assurances to Gorbachev about American intentions and actions after the fall of the Berlin Wall have been routinely discarded.

Q: Do you think possessing nuclear bomb is a successful deterrent strategy to prevent war?

A: Let me answer this way: Does anyone truly believe that the Israeli regime would be threatening to attack Iran if the latter had a nuclear weapon?

Q: Only a few countries have nuclear weapons while they prevent others from possessing such arms. Is it acceptable?

A: No, it isn’t acceptable. The problem is identical to your previous question about making nuclear-armed nations uniformly observe international law as the basis of their actions. I don’t know how those who possess the weapons can be made to voluntarily surrender them since there is so much distrust between those nations themselves, not to mention the problem of their relationships with non-nuclear powers. I think a good place to begin would be the creation of a coalition of agreement among the non-American nuclear nations that Israel’s weaponized nuclear program must be brought into absolute international scrutiny and inspection. But it will never happen. Therein lies the problem.

Q: Regimes like Saudi Arabia and Israel are trying hard to hinder a revival of the JCPOA. Do you think that they can achieve their goals in the new American administration?

A: I believe they can and will. The articles continue to proliferate about the Biden foreign policy and national security policy selections with absolute ties to Wall Street, Israel, Central Banking, and the armaments industry. See samples from People’s Dispatch, the Texas Jewish Post, Reason, In These Times, Caitlyn Johnstone for Scoop, and especially Philip Giraldi’s essay for the Unz Review, entitled”Tony Blinken Replaces Mike Pompeo: Israel’s Friends Will Enjoy Four More Years in Power.”Any presumption that the Biden-Harris team will be an improvement on the Trump-Pence team on issues of Israel, Iran, War, and Peace, is precisely that–an illusion.

My recommendation to Iran is to refuse to negotiate any”return”to the JCPOA treaty where Biden and Blinken will attach all sorts of new, untenable conditions, and for Tehran to ensure that both President Putin’s Russia and the Chinese are ready to counter the Zionist Occupied Government (ZOG) of the United States when it comes to any Israeli aggression against Iran, especially where the use of the American military as a Janissary Force for Greater Israel and the New World Order is concerned.

By Reza Moshfegh

February 8, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 279

assa++ As though Iranians and Albanians have not already suffered enough simply from the existence of the MEK, they are now being victimised by an avalanche of Saudi funded American-style propaganda. Not only did Fox News invite Maryam Rajavi to give advice to President Biden based on the false narrative that ‘Iran is at its weakest point’, but now CNN in Albania has also broadcast a purely MEK funded and scripted piece designed to poison diplomatic relations between the EU and Iran, Albania and Iran, the UK and Iran and the USA and Iran. Iranians all over the world, not just in Iran, along with many Albanians and others who have wised up to the danger posed by this cult have condemned this propaganda campaign. MEK continues to attack ex-members in Albania and Europe. That puts them in danger. But it is the fiction spun from false flag ops, fake news and manipulated politicians that is the real danger. The message is ‘death to diplomacy’. It is extravagantly funded and the money flows through MEK to the heart of American politics. It is aimed at President Biden to force him to confront Iran rather than seek rapprochement. Thus, condemning Iranians, Americans and Albanians to years more needless conflict, deaths and suffering.

#MaryamRajavi can’t manage her own members and ex members. What was that about”Toppling the #Iranian regime”she was ranting alongside #Saddam and later #Saudi Sheikh? She is left with a bunch of old and disabled has been terrorists not even able to admit her husband is dead 😂

— Massoud khodabandeh (@ma_khodabandeh) February 5, 2021

++ In Iran, a fifty-part TV series called ‘The Safe House’ has become the most viewed TV series ever. It is not a documentary but is based on the real stories of retired intelligence officers. The series covers the history of different opponent groups in Iran over forty years, revealing their activities, including spying conducted by and for MOSSAD. Part of the popular series was about the MEK. The series attracted a lot of positive comments.

++ Last week another 3 people ran away from the MEK camp in Albania. The MEK are on overdrive to curse and denounce these people. On top of internal suppression, they are constantly attacking their external critics. They are attacking all ex-members. Observers say they are panicking because they lost their backers and cult control is breaking down.

In English:

++ Iran’s Tasnim News reported that “Iran slapped sanctions on outgoing US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo along with several current and former members of the outgoing administration for their role in terrorist and inhumane actions against the Islamic Republic and Iranian citizens.” Iran’s Foreign Ministry cited the assassination of anti-terrorism commander general Qassem Soleimani, supporting Israel against the Palestinians and for assassinating nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, cruel and illegal sanctions, support for suppressive regimes in the region and maintaining “active and full connection with the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group and provided it with political and cultural support, paving the way for several terrorist measures against the interests of the Iranian government and nation.”

++ Albanian journalist Gjergji Thanasi asks ‘Is MEK Being Dismantled?” in a scorching piece exposing the MEK’s many current problems. Mass COVID-19 infection is causing internal distress so that “MEK members are increasingly coming to realise the dog’s life they live in Camp Ashraf”. Members no longer believe Maryam Rajavi’s “tales of a quick victory and that “regime change” in Tehran is very close”. Thanasi describes the plight of one member who, after 30 years’ service, has been thrown into the street penniless for the ‘crime’ of refusing to spy on ex-members and refusing to denounce his estranged family on camera. For the record Khalil Ansarian had not renounced membership of the MEK when this happened.

++ In piece of local reporting Gjergji Thanasi reveals that after local residents in Manez protested about ugly MEK activity in their town, Rajavi was so frightened that she summoned several top-level government representatives, including prime minister Edi Rama, to come and placate the populace and prevent further protests. MEK behaviour in host countries often defies belief as they act with complete impunity to the detriment of the local people.

++ Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh write in Iran Interlink that although Iranians saw Trump as a mad man, they blame America for their woes. The piece demonstrates that under Trump’s watch, Iran’s leadership has slipped out of reach from sanctions and military threats and taken the population with them to the point that the next elected president may come with a military background. This makes Israel and the region less safe than before. It also means that President Biden has only a few months to act if he wants to pursue a diplomatic relationship with Iran; “there will have to be more carrots”. The anti-Iran cabal in America, Israel and Saudi Arabia have already abandoned the Republicans and are now focused on forcing the Democrats to wage war on Iran. To avoid this, the authors suggest a quick and effective policy win would be to dismantle the MEK in Albania. Thus, cutting a source of foreign funding and fake narratives in the US and pleasing the Iranian people who universally hate the MEK more than any other group ever. Concluding that “It is incumbent on the Biden administration to approach relations with Iran on a new page. Purging the old regime need not be as difficult as it first appears. The costs of erasing any traces of the MEK from that page are low, the benefits are great and many.”

++ A member of the Nejat Society in Iran appeals to the WHO to intervene in the crisis in Camp Ashraf where her father is based. Other members followed suit, writing to the UN for help. The mass COVID-19 outbreak in the camp is not being investigated, monitored or treated and worried families are denied news of their loved ones, and have no way to help them. This dire situation is echoed in another post by Mehr News which reports that Albania’s first case of the UK Virus Variant has been detected in a MEK member admitted to Tirana’s Mother Theresa Hospital. This is unsurprising of course, because MEK members travel frequently without hindrance all over Europe and back. Except Maryam Rajavi who, according to Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi, has yet again been denied a visa to enter France after being expelled from the EU in 2018.

++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers points out that MEK’s relocation to Albania brought the cult into the focus of European journalists. Those who tried to investigate were confronted with MEK violence and defamation. Still the MEK base was exposed as a click farm disseminating false and misleading information and trolling social media accounts with their own fake personalities. More than any other European or North American journalists, Albanians Jazexhi and Thanasi have come under vicious attack by the MEK. It is they who have exposed the MEK’s behaviour in their country and their government and security services’ complicity. Parsi sums it up:

“The two Albanian journalists may have put a very accurate conclusion to all reports on the MEK cult-like establishment when they compare members inside the group’s camp to Khashoggi — Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi the Saudi Arabian dissident, author, who was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government. ‘Such a big increase in death rate shows that death is a routine in the [MEK] camp like eating breakfast or lunch’, Thanasi says. They assert that they are aware that most MEK members have no blood on their hands and they are just some ‘poor fellows who wastes their lives for thirty years or more’. It seems that the MEK as a mass entity is considered as a no-news and no-go zone for the Albanian authorities but members of the MEK are some forgotten individuals with no rights as human beings. Their health condition and wellbeing are being ignored by their cruel leaders and also Albanian officials.”

++ Iran’s reaction to the jailing of its diplomat Assadollah Asadi in Europe was reported by Mehr News. Iran believes the plot to frame Assadi was designed by Mossad. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that “The West’s support for the anti-Iran terrorist group of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq Organisation (MKO), showed once again itself in the form of convicting an Iranian diplomat by the name of Assadollah Assadi, on baseless charges to 20 years in prison.”

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