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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

An awaiting mother seeks help from the Albanian government

Mansoureh Mahboub, the awaiting mother of Mohammad Keshmiri trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, wrote a letter to Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama requesting him to find her missing son in that country and let her to contact him.

The text of the letter, a copy of which has been sent to various UN and European Union bodies and made available to the media for public information, is as follows:

Mohammad Keshmiri mum

Excellency Mr. Edi Rama
Honorable Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
I am Mansoureh Mahboub, the mother of Mohammad Keshmiri. My son was born in 1967. He was captured by Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq War in 1989 and transferred to a POW camp. He was in the POW camp in Iraq for a year and a half, during which time he sent regular letters through the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, and we were aware of his condition and gave him letters. But after this period, his letters were not received. We later learned that my son had been deceived by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) and taken to their camp in Iraq.

POWs returning home after the Iran-Iraq ceasefire told us that the conditions in the POW camp in Iraq were extremely difficult, and then MEK envoys appeared as Iranians who had come to help the prisoners, and some who did not recognize them were deceived with the promise of going to Europe and having a job and a prosperous life, and they went with them and ended up into Ashraf garrison, where there was no way to go back.
We were unaware of my son for many years, until after the fall of Saddam Hussein, we learned through detached members that he was still in Camp Ashraf. With a lot of difficulties, we managed to go to Iraq and approach to Camp Ashraf. My husband, my younger son, and I were there for a week. Mohammad came to see us sometimes. In no way did they leave him alone with us, and there were always two officials among us. Mohammad always wore a military uniform and boots. I said to him,”My son, why did your letters come while you were in the POW camp, but we did not hear from you after that?”He hinted us that they were not allowed to have contact with their families in the MEK camp.

The officials of the organization were always among us and constantly talked to us and tried to recruit us. They asked us for money to help the MEK. I refused to donate and said I had no money to give you. I brought some bags full of souvenir for my son. At the moment of farewell, they did not let me hug and kiss my son. They did not allow us to get too close to him at all. They have been trying to recruit my little boy for so long. We were asked to cooperate with them in intelligence and financial way when we returned to Iran. Then I understood why they had agreed Mohammad to meet with us.

After we returned from Iraq, the members of the organization called my little boy and asked him to work for them in Iran and eventually join the MEK in Iraq. But my son refused to have contact with them. The MEK initially agreed to meet with their families in the presence of the organization’s officials in the hope of attracting families and gaining manpower and financial resources, but when they saw that they could not get anywhere this way, they completely banned any contact with the families.

Years later, I learned that the MEK had gone to Albania. Of course, my son also must have gone with them and now lives in the isolated and remote camp of this organization in Albania. We have been unaware of my son Mohammad for many years. His father, who is very ill, and I are always worried about him and we beg God that our child has a good future after all this suffering of captivity and years of separation. Mohammad’s father had a stroke and underwent heart surgery. I’m sick too and we’re just hoping to see our loved one alive.

I have been informed that the Albanian government is one of the signatories of the”United Nations International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance”. According to the convention, the Albanian government is responsible for the actions and behavior of the MEK, which is based in that country, to the “Working Group of the Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances”, the “Committee on Enforced Disappearances” and the “UN High Commissioner for Human Rights”. Meanwhile, your government does not grant visas to Iranian citizens at the request of the MEK, and therefore we are not able to travel and follow up on the issue in your country.

My son is a forced and involuntary disappeared person who can be traced and contacted only through the MEK and by the government and officials of the Republic of Albania. Mohammad’s Father and I desperately urge you, the head of the Albanian government, to provide maximum assistance in this way and to provide a way for us to get in touch with our loved one to find out about his condition, especially in the current situation of the Covid-19 virus pandemic.

Attached are photos and particulars.
Thank you for your efforts
Mansoureh Mahboub
Tehran Iran
1 – 2 – 2021

February 7, 2021 0 comments

Albania

Albania detects 1st case of UK Virus Variant in MKO camps

Albania, which hosts the anti-Iran MKO terrorist group, has reported the country’s first case of the UK Virus Variant in the camps of the terror group.

A doctor at Tirana’s Mother Teresa Hospital told the national news agency in Albania that a member of the anti-Iranian terror group of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) had been admitted to the hospital after contacting the UK Virus Variant as the first case detected with the new more transmissible variant in the country.

Corona in Albania

According to the report, the doctor had said the MKO terrorist’s condition was deteriorating.

The doctor added that based on the tests carried out on the patient, he had been diagnosed with the UK Virus Variant.

As many as 20 aging members of the terrorist group have died of COVID-19 so far and are buried in the local Manez Cemetery in Durres, Albania. Their burials have sparked protests by local people in the area where the terror group camps are located. The Albanian citizens are outraged with the presence of the group in their neighborhood and their access to water and electricity free of charge.

So far, as many as 80,000 people across Albania have been infected with Covid 19 and 1,400 have died. The Durres region, which is home to the MKO terrorist group, is the second largest city in the country after Tirana which has has the biggest number of deaths due to the coronavirus. The increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 in this Balkan country has reached a very worrying level.

The MKO, which does not allow journalists and doctors to enter its very large base on the outskirts of Tirana, treats its infected members without caring about necessary health measures set by the World Health Organization and the Albanian health officials. This has raised concerns about the large mortality rate of the group’s members, most of whom are in their seventies.

With the arrival of the UK Virus Variant to this base, there could be a humanitarian catastrophe in Tirana that could endanger the health of hundreds of thousands of people in this region and neighboring areas.

February 6, 2021 0 comments

Iran

MEK-Mossad mutual plot against the Iranian diplomat

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that the Islamic Republic strongly condemns Belgian court ruling against Iranian diplomat.

Saeed Khatibzadeh made the remarks on Wednesday, noting that the Islamic Republic strongly condemns the 20-year prison sentence given to Iranian diplomat Assadollah Asadi by a court in Antwerp, Belgium.

Assadollah Asadi

He went on to say that Assadollah Assadi was tried while his detention was illegal and against the rules and procedures of the international community and the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention.

He added that Belgium and some European countries have adopted such a measure under the influence of the MKO terror group, noting that Tehran will resort to all diplomatic means to safeguard the rights of the diplomat and hold European countries accountable for this gross violation of international law.

In violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a court in Belgium has sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years behind bars on the charges that Iran had previously rejected.

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.

The Iranian government believes that the plot against Assadi was initially designed by the Israeli Mossad.

The Iranian diplomat was convicted Thursday of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against the exiled MKO terror group, which has brutally assassinated and killed more than 12,000 Iranian officials and civilians since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

February 6, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Ms. Akhlaqi Azadpour expressed concern over the health of his son in the MEK camp

Ms. Effat Akhlaqi Azadpour, the suffering mother of Mohammad Tavakkoli, who is trapped in the MEK camp in Albania, wrote a letter on behalf of herself and her daughters to the World Health Organization in Albania, expressing concern about her son’s health and calling for the removal of obstacles to receive his health conditions.

Mohammad Tavakoli Mum

The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the World Health Organization in Albania

Greetings and respect,
I am Effat Akhlaqi Azadpour, the mother of Mohammad Tavakkoli, who is now in a closed and remote camp of Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Albania with no connection to the outside world.

Mohammad’s sisters and I have not seen or contacted him for many years, and we have not even received a message from him, and this always hurts us severely.

But now the news worries us a lot, and that is that my son is probably infected with the Covid-19 virus and is living in a severe condition, and the health conditions inside the camp is also unfavorable.

As a mother, I have no dreams at the end of my life other than hearing my son’s voice and hearing about his health. I am not able to travel due to old age and illness, and of course Albania does not allow me to do so. But why is it impposible for the MEK members to make a phone call or send a letter?

I ask you not to neglect any action that is conceivable and fruitful in order to allay the concerns of the old mother and the expectant sisters of Mohammad Tavakkoli, so that news of him reaches us and communication is possible.

There must be fathers and mothers among your staff who are always worried about their children and asking about their condition when they are sick. So you know very well how a mother or a sister feels about this. Is it justified to prevent members of the MEK from contacting their families?

With respect
Effat Akhlaqi Azadpour, Akram and Fatemeh Tavakkoli
Iran, Mashhad

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

February 3, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

To the WHO representative in Albania: save my son’s life

Honorable representative of the World Health Organization in Albania

I am Fatemeh Peykani, the mother of Morteza Ghadimi, who has been imprisoned in the Mojahedin camp for nearly 4 decades and currently lives in Albania.

Morteza Ghadimi Mum

The leader of the Mojahedin sect endangered my son’s life by spreading a new virus without observing hygienic principles, and a number of members lost their lives due to the new virus.

Unfortunately, the Albanian government and EU officials have turned a blind eye to the MKO crime inside the camp.

I ask you to help us and save my son’s life regarding the inaction of the cult leaders.
Thanks in advance,

Fatemeh Peykani Iran – Zanjan

February 2, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MEK atrocities against the Iranian people

A member of the European Parliament blasts her fellow lawmakers’ rush to brand Iran with alleged interference in the European Union, saying a special hearing held to assess the EP’s meddling allegations had come by nothing against the Islamic Republic.

“Armchair warrior MEPs desperate to tar #Iran with the Foreign Interference brush,” Irish MEP Clare Daly, an independent and a socialist, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

Armchair warrior MEPs desperate to tar #Iran with the #ForeignInterference brush. But in the @ep_democracy hearing there was nothing to talk about, apart from Iran getting its point of view across. We’re really through the rabbit hole now. @DublinIran @IranMissionEU @IRIMFA_EN pic.twitter.com/zPL5yBu6Qw
— Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP) January 27, 2021

The legislative body has instructed the European Commission and the EU’s members to “counter Iranian interference on the European soil.”

The EP issued the directives after passing a controversial resolution against the Islamic Republic on December 17.

The resolution imposed sanctions on a number of Iranian officials. At the same time, it voiced support for certain “human rights defenders” — a reference to the anti-Iran terrorists and activists, whom the EU has either given asylum to or awarded with a prize.

Among them were Rouhollah Zam, a recognized Western-affiliated anti-Iran propagandist and terrorist, who used to engage in extensive subversive measures against Iran’s Islamic establishment and people. Zam, who used to live in Paris thanks to asylum awarded to him by France, had been executed earlier after being convicted for numerous terrorist crimes.

Iran has slammed the resolution and the subsequent “anti-interference” instructions as a clear instance of Europe’s meddling in its domestic affairs.

The majority of Iranian lawmakers strongly condemn the European Parliament’s recent anti-Iranian resolution.

It has reminded Europe of the atrocities that have been carried out by the very “human rights” campaigners that the continent supports and provides with refuge.

These include members of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist cult, responsible for killing about 17,000 Iranian people and officials throughout the group’s dark history, and members of separatist groups such as al-Ahwaziyah that staged a terrorist attack in southwestern Iran in September 2018, killing 25 people.

The groups’ members roam freely about the EU, with the MKO throwing lavish conferences in the French capital each year.

The Islamic Republic has also underlined that the continent barely qualified to lecture others on the issue of human rights, while itself cooperates closely with the United States in imposing Washington’s unilateral and illegal sanctions against Iran, including those that bar medicinal exports to the country.

An Iranian rights official hits out at the European Parliament for passing a resolution against what it calls “human rights breaches” in Iran.

Daly, meanwhile, showed how a hearing held by the EP’s special committee on foreign interference had yielded nothing to substantiate the allegations of interference that the parliament levels against Tehran.

At the hearing, ”there was nothing to talk about, apart from Iran getting its point of view across. We’re really through the rabbit hole now,” she wrote.

February 2, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK grows Khashoggis in Ashraf 3 or VIPs of Albania?

Following the shutdown of the MEK camps in Iraq and their expulsion from Iraqi territory, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization were relocated in Albania in 2013. The resettlement was the outcome of an agreement signed between the US administration, the Albanian government and the International Red Cross of the United Nations. The relocation process of several thousand MEK members was agreed to be accomplished in three years. In 2016, the entire MEK forces were settled in Tirana, Albania.

The group leaders could manage to buy a piece of land in Manza, a small town in the North of Tirana and there, started constructing the new headquarters of the group in the midst of the Albanian society. They began rebuilding their cult-like establishment over there. Having been settled in the heart of Europe, the MEK was more likely to be under the focus of the European journalists, particularly the Albanian ones.

The MEK base became notoriously known to journalists as a twitter troll farm. In September 6th, 2018, the international editor Lindsey Hilsum of the UK’s Channel 4 News and her team visited the rapidly expanding MEK camp outside Tirana, where they were immediately stopped by security guards, accused of being Iranian government spies and terrorists. They were forcibly prevented from filming the MEK camp. [1]

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Documentary/Channel4_Shadowy_Cult_MEK.mp4

to download the video file click here

Al Jazeera, also, made a comprehensive investigation at the extensive”troll farm”of the group that has enabled its leaders to engage in”social media manipulation on an industrial scale”. [2]

In November 2018, Arron Merat, the correspondent of the Guardian, published an investigative article on the human rights abuses taken place in the MEK camp with a special covering of the story of Somayeh Mohammadi, the girl who has been a hostage of the MEK and her parents”Mostafa and Robabe Mohammadi came to Albania to rescue their daughter”. [3]

“The MEK has not taken kindly to the presence of the Mohammadis in Albania,”Merat writes.”They accuse Mostafa – and any former member who has spoken out against the MEK – of being a paid agent of the”mullah regime”. On 27 July, Mostafa was hospitalised following an assault by four senior members of the MEK, which was captured on video by his wife. The attackers, who shouted”Terrorist!”at Mohammadi, were briefly detained by Albanian police. But, after a phalanx of MEK members arrived at the police station, the men were promptly released.”[4]

In the early days of 2019, the UK’s Independent published its enquiry into the MEK describing it as”darling of Washington”that has”created a state within a state in Albania”. The report argued that the MEK has a largely repressive nature. [5]

These were just a few of examples of the media coverage on the MEK’s presence in Albania as a threat for the region. The list of Western journalists who targeted the MEK as a cultist terrorist group keeps on, but among the Albanian activists and journalists two people are the most famous ones and meanwhile the most attacked ones by the MEK propaganda: Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi. They are accused by the MEK of being paid by the Iranian Intelligence for what they say against the MEK. However, the accusations do not work. The more the two Albanian activists are attacked the more they try to denounce the MEK.

Jazexhi and Thanasi have recently investigated the increasing death rate of MEK members in their camp near Manza. They developed the case as safety and security issue that threatens the wellbeing of the Albanian community in Manza and even the wellbeing of the members of the MEK inside the camp named Ashraf 3. They criticize the Albanian government, the municipality of Manza and the Police for taking the MEK’s unlawful activities for granted.

Cemetry in Albania

According to the reports by the MEK, the recently died members of the group were infected by the Covid-19 virus. Eventually the MEK buried a large number of deaths in the cemetery of Manza in a quite short time. This caused protestations by the residents of Manza who were concerned about the occupation of their territory by the MEK dead bodies. Moreover, the MEK commanders are not expected to report the accord of their deaths or Covid-19-infected members to any Albanian authority.”Albanian authorities do not keep track of people who are killed inside the MEK camp”. [6]

Seemingly, the MEK acts above the Albanian law.”That’s an apartheid,”Gjergji Thanasi says.”Breaking Albanian law is like chewing gum for them [the MEK].”
Referring to the group life which is the routine life in the MEK camp, Olsi Jazexhi states”These people do not keep social distancing.”Despite the fact that”the Albanian police do not let ten people grouping,”Thanasi states.”That’s the violation of the Albanian law.”[7]

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. [8]

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.

Mazda Parsi

References:
[1] Hilsum, Lindsey,The shadowy cult Trump advisors tout as an alternative to the Iranian government, Channel 4, September 6th, 2018.
[2] Al Jazeera YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKfSFa5tE_w
[3] Merat, Arron, Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK, the Guardian, November 9th, 2018.
[4] ibid
[5] Daragahi, Borzou, The ‘political cult’ opposing the Iranian regime which has created a state within a state in Albania, the Independent, January 7th, 2019
[6] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/11403
Olsi Jazexhi YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCVLEUI4RU
[7] ibid

January 31, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families ask the WHO to intervene in the MEK Camp in Albania

Mr. Farhad Ardashiri wrote a letter to the head of the World Health Organization and also to the Albanian government, requesting the involvement of relevant officials in the MEK camp in Albania, especially in relation to his brother Musa Ardashiri.

Honorable President of the World Health Organization

Greetings,
I am Farhad Ardeshiri, the brother of Musa Ardeshiri. My brother was captured by Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) forces during the defense against Iraqi offensives and transferred to Camp Ashraf in Iraq. He was kept there with deceit.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein, I went to Camp Ashraf twice to visit my brother. For the second time, I could not meet him and on the contrary the MEK officials ordered that the families as well as us be insulted and slandered. Since then my brother has not even been allowed to make a phone call until we found out that he has been transferred to Albania and is being held in the MEK camp.

Now, with the widespread pandemic of the Coronavirus in the MEK camp in Albania and the deaths of several people in recent weeks, this issue has worried us a lot.

I urge you as the person in charge of world health, as well as the Albanian government, to intervene in the situation of the coronavirus in the MEK camp in Albania and check their health status, because, as you know, the coronavirus has many victims around the world. It is very dangerous to neglect this disease in Camp Ashraf in Albania.

I would also like you to ask the officials of the MEK to allow my brother, Musa Ardeshiri, to contact his family.

Thanks
Farhad Ardeshiri
Ghaemshahr – Mazandaran – Iran
December 2020

January 30, 2021 0 comments

Albania

Rajavi Summons Edi Rama To Stop Anti-MEK Protests

Less than ten days after the anti-MEK protest by the residents of Manez, the VIPs of Albanian politics flocked to the town. At the beginning, the town of Manez was visited by the mayor of Durrës, Mrs Sako, who promised to give attention and commitment to the problems and concerns of the inhabitants of Manez.

After that, the Minister for Infrastructure and Energy, Ms Balluku, accompanied by Mr Cela, the director of OSHEE, descended on Manez. They promised reconstruction of the 6 KW distribution network, reconstruction of electric cabins and the RRJET network. Their visit to Manez preceded and probably successfully neutralized the upcoming protest by Manez residents on the issue of: ‘Why does the Mojahedin camp enjoy 24 hours of uninterrupted light, while we are suffocated by black outs?’

As the icing on the cake today, Manez was visited by the Prime Minister Edwin Rama himself, accompanied by the Minister of Reconstruction, Mr Ahmetaj and the mayor of Durrës, Mrs Sako. In meetings with the residents of Manez, Mr Rama promised more attention to them as well as more government commitment to repair and rebuild their homes damaged or even destroyed by the earthquake of November 26, 2019.

Naturally, the question arises, why is our government so sensitive when Albanians protest against the MEK, while they have almost zero sensitivity, when Albanians protest for water and light, when students protest against the destruction of Albanian universities and when villagers protest for the missing subsidies in Albanian agriculture?! In the accompanying photos to this article, it can be seen that Shijak – a city with almost the same number of inhabitants as Manez and about 20 km away from Manez – was flooded today as the waters of the Erzen River overflowed its banks. The Prime Minister goes and meets the residents of Manez, who protested against the MEK some 10 days ago, but does not give a hoot about the concerns of the residents of the nearby town of Shijak, whose houses were flooded!

Apparently, in order for Albanians to attract the attention of VIPs in Albanian politics, they must protest against the MEK! If they do, Albania’s political VIPs turn into Santa Claus with a bag full of ‘gifts’, so that Albanians do not protest against the MEK anymore.

Sin! Shame on our compatriots that they act as second-class citizens in their own Homeland!
Gjergji Thanasi, Ashraf News, Translated by Iran Interlink

January 30, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Complaint to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances

UNMs. Manzar Sharif Aqili, the suffering mother of Mahnaz Bazazi, whose daughter is being held in the MEK camp in Albania, sent a complaint to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances with adequate explanations of how his daughter had disappeared, and called for an immediate investigation into his daughter’s condition in the acute situation of Covid-19 in Albania.

Mahnaz Bazazi mother

The text of Ms. Manzar Sharif Aqili’s complaint is as follows:

Greetings and Regards,
I am Manzar Sharif Aqili, a resident of the city Kordkoy, Golestan province. My daughter, Mahnaz Bazazi, has been a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) for more than 35 years. She was first taken to their camp in Iraq by deception as well as false promises, and then the organization moved to Albania.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, I followed the situation of my daughter through various international channels, and due to the fact that I am blind, I followed up through my children and contacted various human rights organizations and other related bodies.
Unfortunately, I did not receive any answer until I realized that the MEK with all its members had gone to Albania in 2016. After that, on several occasions, I asked the Albanian authorities to help me meet my daughter Mahnaz Bazzazi; unfortunately they did not pay any attention to my legitimate and humanitarian requests.

Now, considering the outbreak of a deadly and dangerous disease caused by the Covid-19 virus in the world and in Albania, which has infected many people inside the MEK camp and even led to the death of more than 17 of them in less than a month, I am very worried about my daughter’s physical and mental condition. So I urge you, respectful officials, to determine my daughter’s condition as soon as possible and inform me and my family, as well as to make arrangements to communicate with my daughter.

Thanks a lot,
Manzar Sharif Aqili Mahnaz Bazazi’s mother captured in MEK camp in Albania
Kordkoy – Golestan – Iran

Cc:
UN Work Group of the Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID)
UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

January 28, 2021 0 comments

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