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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Letter from Mr. Ali Akbar Gholami Khairabadi to WHO

Mr. Ali Akbar Gholami Khairabadi, the brother of Gholamreza Gholami Khairabadi, who is being held in the MEK camp in Albania, wrote a letter to the World Health Organization in that country, expressing concern about his brother’s health and calling for an investigation.

Ali Akbar Gholami Khairabadi

The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the World Health Organization in Albania

Greetings and best regards

I am Ali Akbar Gholami Khairabadi, brother of Gholamreza Gholami Khairabadi.

My brother is currently stationed in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania. He was captured many years ago in the Iraq-Iran war, and we later learned that he had been transferred to Camp Ashraf by MEK forces.

We have not met him in all these years, we have not even heard his voice and we have not received a letter from him. This is the ultimate wish of everyone to communicate with his brother and be informed of his condition.

You must know that even in the most horrible prisons in the world, regarding the most dangerous prisoners, families are allowed to communicate with the prisoner. But we are deprived of this minimum possibility.

Who can help us, the deprived families? To which international body should we take our complaint to support us?

Most importantly, it is possible that my brother in the MEK camp in Albania has contracted the disease caused by the Covid-19 virus and so he is in a difficult situation. The health facilities inside the camp are not good, and this disease has caused many casualties in the camp so far. Worst of all, the camp environment is completely closed and they have a group life. The individuals are not allowed to communicate with their families, and the Albanian government does not grant visas to Iranians to come and apply for assistance.

I desperately urge you not to neglect any possible action in order to alleviate the worries of me and my family, so that news of my brother will reach us and we will be able to communicate.

Please understand the feelings of me and my family and do not hesitate to pursue this issue.

Thanks and best regards

Ali Akbar Gholami Khairabadi

Torbat Jam – Khorasan Razavi – Iran

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Office of the Prime Minister of Albania

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

January 20, 2021 0 comments

Albania

MEK leaders regard the dead as commodities to be exploited

Albanians shocked at MEK disregard for their deadAs the number of deaths in the MEK camp at Manez in Albania due to COVID-19 continues to rise, the MEK have appropriated a section of the local cemetery to bury their dead.

Albanian protesters

This week, residents of the town protested that a piece of land which had already been designated for expansion of the cemetery for their community had been sold to the MEK. The cemetery in Manez is already close to capacity so this piece of land was of vital importance to the residents. Residents protested that they are already forced to bury two family members in one grave due to lack of space. This is not fair or dignified.

Residents point out that there is land available to the MEK for burials near their camp and that locals are willing to sell that land to them. There is no justification for using land dedicated for expanding the town cemetery. This total disregard for the rights, feelings and needs of others is a horrible characteristic of the MEK.

In Iraq, the MEK graveyard was a tragic mess. When investigators opened graves to locate lost relatives, they found graves where the interned body did not match the name of the headstone, some graves were empty, some graves had a single named headstone but contained two or three bodies. In Paris, a MEK member stole flowers from a local cemetery to adorn Maryam Rajavi’s camp. It should come as no surprise to those familiar with the MEK. The cult leaders regard the dead as commodities to be exploited.

After arriving in Albania, the MEK used the cemetery in Tirana for some members. But after building their extrajudicial, extraterritorial camp in Manez, the MEK buried one of their dead in the local cemetery without permission. The residents were outraged, pointing out that they barely had enough space to bury their own families. They were angered that a foreign group could do this. The MEK was made to exhume the body and intern it elsewhere. Residents complain that recent burials have caused disruption as the MEK block roads for hours for their processions, disregarding local needs and rights.

The MEK response to such sensitive issues has always been to lie and obfuscate, ultimately blaming the innocent victims of their crimes and misdemeanours. In this recent case, the MEK accused the residents – whom they condescendingly referred to as ‘peasants’ – of being organised by “elements working for the Iranian regime”.

MEK issued a press release saying, ‘This is a false accusation, and this small rally was provoked and organized by some elements working for the Iranian regime’. Surely the residents of Manez would be amazed and angered by claims that they are a “security threat” to the MEK members there. The fact is, the MEK poses a severe security and health threat to the residents themselves.

This kind of gas lighting and misdirection practiced by the MEK is not new. It is their modus operandi; to deflect investigation, criticism, and prosecution. But this reaction over such a sensitive issue as a cemetery only shows there is no bottom to the depths the MEK will go.

January 18, 2021 0 comments

Albania

Protest against MEK in Albanian city, Manza

A number of residents of the city of Manza in the Albanian province of Durres went out to protest against the members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran who use this city as their camp called Ashraf 3, which is witnessing an outbreak of the Coronavirus.

Albanian protesters

Albanian news sites reported, Thursday, that”residents of the city of Manza went out today in a protest in the city against the existence of the MEK because of the organization’s occupation of the public cemetery.”

The protesters demanded, according to what was reported by the Ashraf News correspondent, the Albanian authorities to stop the violations of the MEK’s leadership and its exploitation of the public

One of the protesters said in an interview with Ashraf News,”This space (the cemetery) should be available only to the indigenous people and not to those who came from Iran.”

In a related context, and as usual, the MEK claimed that”the protests that took place in the city of Manza against it were small and that they were instigated by members working for the Iranian regime.”

The organization claimed, through one of its leaders, that”the coexistence between the MEK members and the residents of Manza is very friendly, but certain people in the village are being abused by the Iranian regime,”considering the protest stand as a security threat to the MEK members.

Albanian media sources informed the correspondent of Ashraf News in Tirana, that the leadership of the MEK exerted pressure on the”Aura News”channel to delete the news of protests against it in the city of Manza.

The sources associated with Aura News said,”The MEK managed through exerting heavy pressure to delete the news regarding the issue of the cemetery in the Albanian city of Manza,”adding that”the channel bowed to the leadership of the MEK and removed the news from its official website.”

January 16, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Anti-Iran Terrorist Group Mojahedin-e Khalq’s Ties to Iraqi Army in 1980s

Below is an interview with Mr. Yaghout Meraji, a former member of the anti-Iran terrorist group the Mojahedin-e Khalq MEK, conducted November 24 and 25, 2020.

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Robert Fantina: The participation of the MEK in the joint operation with Saddam Hussein has been one of the most controversial disputes between the Mojahedin-e Khalq and their opponents. You claim that you participated in 1988 the Mojahedin-e Khalq military operation from France. Can you explain the facts of this war?

Yaghout Meraji: Our main reason of presence in Iraq was the total collaboration with Saddam’s army against Iran during the war between the two neighbor countries.

Each MEK military action was completely dependent on the Iraqi army, including all authorization. Unfortunately, we betrayed our country by participating with the Iraqi army in the war against the Iranian regime and it’s an unforgivable sin forever.

RF: The opponents of the Mojahedin claim that there are many strict requirements regarding the separation of men and women, brainwashing, etc. Is this true? What information do you have in this regard?

YM: When you are an MEK member you don’t have any right to think of anything else; just the two leaders. Every other thought is strictly not allowed. You must obey as they order to do.

In fact, I can consider the MEK as a brainwashing factory.

RF: Do the security forces of the Mojahedin Khalq control the members and their behavior?

YM: I think have answered this in previous question; however, they control all.

RF: Some opponents of the Mojahedin Khalq claim that its leaders are violently opposed to other groups opposed to the Iranian government, especially the monarchists. Can you discuss this?

YM: Yes, it’s true. In each big general meeting, Mr. Rajavi used to start his speech by attacking the other opponents for saying that MEK is a unique alternative to the Iranian regime; he couldn’t ever support the other opposition groups.

RF: You say that you were present at the Zaerian residence. Do you know Mr. Amir Saadouni, who is currently participating in the vandalism case in Villepinte? Who was in charge of him and what were the duties and missions assigned to Saadouni by the Mojahedin Khalq Organization?

YM: Yes, I’ve seen Mr. Saadouni two or three times in Zaerian, when MEK needed help; generally, several people came from different European countries and Amir Saadouni was one them. His stay lasted one or two weeks. He was in charge of driving and transporting the food and any other foodstuffs to different residences of MEK. He has a very good relationship with the official members, such as Mr Abrishamchi etc.

RF: Which of the officials and cadres of the Mojahedin Khalq have you been in contact with and what have been your main duties and responsibilities in this group?

YM: The official cadre who was directly in contact with me was Mohsen Jarari (Issa) and in Zaerian Hossein Pourheidari.
US Officials Speak at Iran Regime Change Conference

My duty was mainly that of a translator.

RF: Were you involved in the financial transactions of the Mojahedin Khalq in France? How much money were transferred to the accounts related to the group?

YM: This question is very difficult to respond to, but in Zaerian I saw two financial transfers two times monthly from England.

RF: Maryam Rajavi and some of the group’s cadres have gone to Albania from France for nearly two years and have not returned to France. What is the reason for this non-return?

YM: After widespread transfer of the MEK from Iraq to Albania, all members of the group were living downtown with the population. In this case the new lifestyle has changed the vision of a large number of the MEK members and this action caused them to separate from and abandon the MEK. This situation was seriously hard, for which Maryam Rajavi understood that if she doesn’t move to Albania immediately, MEK will be finished.

This program was very interesting for the French government and it was the wish of the French government that the MEK leave France definitely without any eventual return.

RF: Have you ever been with the group’s delegations to the European Parliament? How are these programs coordinated, and what were the goals of the group during these meetings?

YM: Yes, each opportunity to speak with European countries is important just for showing that MEK and its political branch, NCRI, are alive. The MEK foreign relationship organized the meeting with EU and into two groups, one to support Mrs Maryam Rajavi; this group was present in the meeting room just to applaud her speech, and another group outside of EU parliament for lunch and slogans. Ultimately, it was useless as usual.

RF: Are the contents presented by the supporters of the Mojahedin Khalq on Twitter, Facebook, etc., based on personal analysis and political views of the members of the Mojahedin Khalq, or do the group officials order the posting of these articles by their supporters?

YM: When you are a member of a cult you don’t have any one to talk you out of the MEK goals so you become like a robot and have to execute everything they demand. This is exactly the same situation for the supporters who are very active in the social media.

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RF: Did the Mojahedin-e Khalq also commit fraud against the French government and the French people? What were the details of these actions?

YM: Unfortunately yes, specially the members of NCRI. Those who received the wages monthly in cash didn’t report to the tax authorities. That is the same situation for the foreign workers.

RF: As you know, the Mojahedin massacred more than 12,000 Iranians since the 1990s, and then assassinated people like Sayad Shirazi, nuclear scientists, etc. in Iran; however, the group was removed from the European and American terrorist lists. What do you think was the reason for these removals?

YM: Yes you’re right, it’s a political game to put them on terrorist list for pressing Iranian regime to come to the negotiation table and remove MEK from the same list trying to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

RF: Until a few years ago, the organization had more than 500 members at its headquarters in France, and if we assume that it spends € 500 per month per member, more than € 250,000 would be the monthly cost of the headquarters of Auvers-sur-Oise. Were the incomes of the organization enough for these costs and were taxes paid to the French government?

YM: MEK had obtained sufficient financial means from Saddam during the time he was in power. Because of that abundant financial aid, the MEK is able to continue. In 2003, French security forces during a search discovered more than € 8 million cash in their office.

RF: Do you have any information about the arrest of Mrs. Rajavi by the French police on charges of money laundering in France?

YM: Early in the morning, MEK members called me to tell the news about this and asked to go to the front of security French forces office in 15th district near the Eiffel tower. A few minutes after gathering in this place, I saw a man burning in the flames.

RF: According to the US State Department in 2011, the MEK has no social base inside Iran, but abroad they declare themselves as an alternative to the Iranian government. Is the organization unaware of this or does it just intend to deceive the thoughts of European and American political elites?

YM: That is right. Since 1981 MEK hasn’t had any legitimate prestige in Iran for a simple reason, collaboration with Iraqi invading army. For the Iranian people that is unforgivable forever and for this reason was forced to link its existence to foreign forces.

RF: One of the methods of assassination the organization used was suicide operations, such as the method used in the assassination of Martyr Madani, who was assassinated by a member of the Mojahedin with an explosion. How does the organization convince its members to carry out such operations?

YM: Yes correct, this terrorist action has never existed before, MEK is founder of this kind of terrorism in the world.

RF: Saadouni, a member of the Mojahedin and close to Abrishamchi, was arrested in Belgium for carrying explosives and falsely stated during interrogation that he had received the bomb from an Iranian diplomat. Is this part of the organization’s new suicide operation, established with the intention of damaging the international image of Iran?

YM: As you know, survival of the MEK is absolutely essential in these circumstances, so sacrificing the other members as Saadouni or anyone else is very simple and crucial. And it may be mainly to attract the attention of the media as was done in the beginning of this year regarding the rumor of Maryam Rajavi’s death.

By Yaghout Meraji and Robert Fantina, Global Research,

January 12, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Fatemeh Akbarinasab

Fatemeh (Negar) Akbarinasab was born in 1979. His father Morteza Akbarinasab was a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI). He took Fatemeh, her mother Khadijeh Niknam and her two brothers Yaser and Musa across Pakistan border and then to the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq.

Fatemeh Akbarinasab

The situation in the group’s Camp Ashsraf in Iraq was stressful for the family but it became worse when the young mother of these three kids was killed in the MEK’s cross border operation against Iran in 1988. “The night before the operation my mom brought us a bag of chocolate,” Fatemeh says about their last visit. “She looked so sad, she kissed us so many times and told us that she would go to Iran and bring us souvenirs.”

The kids were not told about the death of their mother for some time. After the kids kept on asking about their mother, they were told that she was disappeared in the operation. Later, Fatemeh tells an Iraqi newspaper that her mother was shot in the back while she was escaping from the MEK forces towards Iranian border. Apparently, Khadijeh had a plan to leave the group during the operation.

In 1991, during the Gulf war, Fatemeh and her brothers were taken to Germany under the order of Massoud Rajavi. In Germany, They were kept in a team house under the command of Mujahed members. “Fatemeh was a naughty girl so she was under physical and verbal abuse by an aggressive female commander,” her uncle says. “She was frequently jailed by that woman so when she turned 18 she escaped the group camp.” She was legally old enough to manage an independent life in the German community.

She called her family including her uncle in Iran. She also could manage to take her brothers out of the team house to take a trip around the city just for a few times. However, she was shocked when she realized that the MEK had sent her brothers back to Iraq without informing her. She was told that they have gone to Iraq for a six-month training and visiting their father but the boys were actually captured in Camp Ashraf in Iraq for years.
Nine years later, the older brother Yaser was mysteriously killed in Camp Ashraf. The allegations about his death were never made clear. The MEK commanders did not explain whether he set himself on fire or he was shot mistakenly! Eventually, Fatemeh traveled to Iraq to visit Musa and her father Murteza but she was not allowed to meet them freely. She was not even allowed to see the tomb of Yaser.

Fatemeh Akbarinasab

While she was in Iraq she was interviewed by the Iraqi newspaper Alefba, on her visit at Camp Ashraf. “My father was accompanied by a dozen of MEK members and I just had ten minutes to talk to him,” she told Alefba. “They asked me to stay in Camp Ashraf but I did not accept so they, including my father, attacked me.” Since then Fatemeh was labeled as “the Iranian mercenary” by the MEK propaganda.

After the ineffective trip to Iraq, Fatemeh took legal actions to help her younger brother leave the group. Musa was finally able to leave the group and join her sister in Germany. They are both living in Germany right now.

January 12, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization Intrusion in Albania, Threatens Regional Stability in Middle East and Balkans

One can only imagine the risk when some citizens of a small country conceal hundreds of thousands of weapons and explosives. The nation becomes a powder keg, awaiting one small mistake to spark a deadly explosion.

This is the situation currently in Albania. During the civil war of 1997, military depots were looted, and more than 650,000 guns, 1.5 billion bullets, 3.5 million grenades and 1 million landmines were stolen from military warehouses by various criminal groups and the Kosovo Liberation Army.

MEK terrorists in Albania

The government has attempted to resolve, or at least reduce, this serious problem. Since 1997, it has announced three amnesty orders for the delivery of looted weapons (a fourth is currently proposed). Yet, only about 40% of the weapons have been returned (exact numbers are impossible to determine), and it is estimated that between 300,000 and 325,000 weapons are still in private possession, many of them possessed by criminals. Albanian media previously reported that some of the illegal weapons imported into Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Greece and Italy may have been from this stockpile, and they believe that even after more than two decades, these weapons are still being found and used in Albania’s neighboring countries such as Greece and Italy.

The Albanian people experienced war and violence in their country 20 years ago, which led to the deaths of over 2,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Citizens of that country, have no inclination to, once again, become a centre for crisis in the region and bear the political and security consequences which would result. This, of course, would negatively impact their goal of joining the European Union.

And now an Albanian journalist, Ebi Spahiu, an independent analyst on Central Asian and Western Balkan Affairs has sounded the alarm about weapons being in possession of anti-Iranian terrorists. This journalist expressed her concern about the possibility of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization’s (MKO; sometimes referred to as MEK) having access to these weapons and the danger of rearming themselves.
Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO): US-Israel Sponsored Terrorist Entity directed against Iran

The MKO is a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government of Iran and replace it with one that would certainly bow to any and all U.S. demands. The MKO is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iranians over the years. Now based in Albania, it was formerly headquartered in Iraq.

Members of the Mujahedin, believed to be in possession of some of the weapons looted from Albania in 1997, also stole arms from Iran. After the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, they carried out numerous attacks on barracks, police stations and military bases and stole a large number of weapons, which they used to increase their assassinations of Iranian citizens and officials.

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It took at least three years, from 2013 – 2016, for the Iraqi government and political-social activists to oust the Mujahedin from Iraq. Few countries were willing to shelter the Mujahedin. However, with the support of the United States, they relocated to Albania. This was an interesting development, because the MKO is a semi-militant organization which was forcibly disarmed by the United States in 2003 after the occupation of Iraq. In addition, 16 military bases and heavy weapons such as tanks which were previously provided to the MKO by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein were all recaptured and handed over to the Iraqi military. The U.S. only began supporting the group as its hostility to Iran increased.

In addition, the MKO was housed in a military camp called Ashraf after 2003, in the Diyala province of Iraq, which was one of the main strongholds of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. The Mujahedin were able to establish close contact with foreign extremist terrorists who had entered Iraq and provided them with a great deal of intelligence. They also used part of Camp Ashraf as a site for military and combat training for terrorists.

With so many weapons in the hands of Albanians, there is a high risks that the MKO, with its long history of conducting military operations, could gain access to illegal weapons in that country and use them in pursuit of their goals. While their ability to achieve those goals is slim, they could still cause tremendous suffering as they attempt to reach them.

Adding to the risk is the fact that Albania is a center of arms smuggling in the Balkans; thus, buying large quantities of weapons is not difficult for the MKO since the organization is now headquartered in that country.

The MKO’s interference in Iraq during the period of Saddam Hussein, and then intervening in post-Saddam Iraqi political tensions, indicates the threat that it can be, and therefore it must be carefully controlled by any country where MKO members have a presence. Any violent actions by the group could have a negative impact on the security of this region of the world.

Indications of future violence are in clear evidence; even Twitter briefly restricted the group’s activities, and suspended the leader.

Beyond the MKO, the presence of jihadist extremists, especially in southeastern Albania, bring widespread activities of arms and drug trafficking. Adding the presence of the Mujahedin-e Khalq into this already-deadly mix further jeopardizes the safety of the citizens in this country and further destabilizes the entire region.

The support that the United States currently offers to the MKO must end. Without that support, the MKO would be unable to continue its operations in Albania, and the risk of further terrorist activities by its members would decrease significantly.

By Robert Fantina, Global Research

January 11, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Who is a mercenary? MEK or those who criticize them?

“Mercenary“is one of the most repeated words in the propaganda media of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) and its leaders’ speeches. Analyzing the content of their arguments, one will find out that the connotation of the term”mercenary”includes anyone who criticizes, challenges or opposes the group’s attitudes. This is more clearly demonstrated in the group’s Persian-language propaganda.

As said by the MEK authorities, mercenary is a person who does not agree with them. Thus, this is the list of those who are considered mercenary by the MEK criteria: officials of the Iranian government, the Iranian people who hate MEK, members of the group who want to leave it or who have already left it, journalists, academics and politicians who have investigated the group and families of members who have appealed the human rights bodies and the Albanian government to help them contact their loved ones in the MEK camps.
Who is really a mercenary?

According to the dictionary definitions, a mercenary is”one that serves merely for wages”. A mercenary, sometimes known as a soldier of fortune, is an individual who takes part in military conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather than for political or ideological interests.

In the majority of cases, they are privately trained protection personnel motivated by financial gain, or, as in certain instances, professional soldiers hired to serve in a foreign army or militia, such as the French Foreign Legion. Unlike volunteers or conscripts, they have no political, religious or cultural affiliation to their employer and are simply offering their expertise on a professional basis just for monetary pay.

Two of the people who have recently labeled by the MEK propaganda as Iranian mercenaries are Dr. Olsi Jazexhi, the Albanian Canadian historian who is interested in the cases of families of the MEK members in the group’s camp in Albania and Gjergji Thanasi, a journalist who pursues the case of MEK’s illegal activities in the Albanian territory. Dr. Jazexhi has made efforts to voice the complications against families’ desire to visit their loved ones in the MEK.

Nevertheless, Jazexhi and Thanasi published a video to respond the MEK’s allegations. They covered each and every detail of the MEK-fabricated article against them.”First, neither I nor Gjergji Thanasi are paid by the Iranian regime and no other regime to insult and slander against the MEK,”Jazexhi said.”Gjergji and I are not mercenaries like the MEK. For this we challenge the MEK and those behind it to prove their slander against us. We are ready that just like Mr. Thanasi who is facing trials with the mujahideen command that has made him an agent – so that I too can face to the end, in trials and police with these murderers and traitors of their country to prove their accusations against us. I have challenged Maryam Rajavi for a debate but so far she remains hidden and afraid of a public debate on their activity in Albania.”

In contrast, Dr. Jazexhi revealed some individuals who were paid by the MEK to denounce the efforts of him and Mr. Thanasi.”Second, after an internet search I learned that the name of the actor Erdit Asllanaj was used by MEK to write the article against us,”he says.”Actor Erdit Asllanaj who was contacted by me denied the authorship of the article. The article I am responding to may have been written by Maryam Rajavi, her first husband Mehdi Abrishamci, her second husband if Massoud Rajavi is alive, the bloodthirsty commanders Ferid Mahouchi or Ferid Tutunci, Behzad Safari, Jilla Deyhim, Ahmet Taba or any other jihadist who takes refuge in the Manza camp or even any Albanian mercenary paid by them.”

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Jazexhi was accused by the MEK that he has confirmed that he is receiving money from the Iranian government.”In none of my videos do I admit that the Iranian regime pays us,”he replies.”We are not like the paid MEK mercenaries in Albania. But we have been paid hotel and plane tickets by Iranian non-governmental organizations which have invited us, invite us and will invite us to the numerous conferences they organize. We are proud to be invited to Iran and for this we will not get permission from Iranian terrorists and we will go to Iran until Maryam Rajavi goes crazy. Thankfully we are free citizens and not hostages in the Ashraf camp in Manza.”

The MEK propaganda keeps on attacking the two Albanian activists as henchmen of the Iranian leaders. Dr. Jazexhi clarifies that in a democracy one can criticize others based on facts and investigations.”We criticize the MEK but also the Albanian government without order. We are not mercenaries like the MEK is,”he states.”Our criticism of the MEK is based on facts and Albanian legislation and for the good of our people.”

It is clear that none of these two Albanian citizens have committed crimes against the MEK and their Albanian countrymen. No antinational charges have been filed against them by the Albanian government. Contrarily, the MEK is still under criminal charges. Gareth Porter the American investigative journalist, has once more covered the”MEK-Israel role in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist”. The MEK propaganda may not be able to accuse Porter of being the mercenary of the Islamic Republic because his sources are quiet reliable.

Porter has from time to time published articles stating that the Israel intelligence service has fabricated documents on the Iranian nuclear program and then handed it to the MEK to justify the assassination of at least six Iranian scientists. Porter suggests that the recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an official of the Iranian defense ministry is also the outcome of an MEK-Israel teamwork.

MEK circulates Israel fake intelligence to Justify Iran scientists assassination

According to Porter’s recent article,”in their 2012 history of Israel’s intelligence service,”Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service”, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nisham Mishal pointed to Mossad as the culprit behind the appearance of the supposed Iranian nuclear documents. The writers recounted how Mossad gathered the personal information on Fakhrizadeh that was later released to the public through the MEK, including his passport number and his home telephone number.”

“This abundance of detail and means of transmission,”Bar-Zohar and Mishal wrote,”leads one to believe that… ‘a certain secret service’ ever suspected by the West of pursuing its own agenda, painstakingly collected these facts and figures about the Iranian scientist and passed them on to the Iranian resistance [MEK].”Porter asserts that this is”a pattern of assassinations justified by disinformation”.

Does the MEK help destabilize Iran for free?

Remember that the MEK was in the first place”Saddam’s Private Army”–the title of a book on the MEK written by a former member of the group, Ann Singleton. The MEK was literally paid hefty amounts of dollars for fighting for the Iraqi dictator against Iranian border as well as Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite protesters although it was an outsider to the conflict. After the collapse of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as it was revealed, it did not take the MEK so long time to turn into Israel’s operating arm in the terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists.

The expenses of maintaining thousands of members in the group’s camp in Albania and those large amounts of fees they pay their western supporters to speak on behalf of them, require the MEK leaders to work harder as mercenaries. To all those facts on MEK’s mercenary work, you may want to add the allegations about trucks of gold bars and Rolex watches that were donated to the group by Saudi Arabia.

Mazda Parsi

January 10, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

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++ This week MEK announced the death of Saideh Shahrokhi of COVID-19 in Albania. Although aged over 60 years, the photograph used was from three decades ago. Every week a few members are dying and commentators who knew them express their condolences. But Saideh – along with her sisters Sedigheh and Hamideh – was one of the most hated people in MEK. She was notorious for the nasty treatment of members, including beating and swearing and issuing punishments. In her case, commentators have been pouring out their feelings of hatred and disgust and saying good riddance to her. Saideh was the wife of Abol Ghassem Rezai (aka Mohsen) who separated due to the forced divorces. Famously in a meeting she defended the divorces saying, ‘we got divorced, but soon we will rescue Iran and everyone there will get divorced, and then we will spread throughout the whole world and the whole world will get divorced, and you men who don’t want to get divorced will have nobody to marry anyway.’

++ Coronavirus has infected the whole of Camp Ashraf 3 – everyone has it. Instead of using quarantine to control the spread, Maryam Rajavi and a few of her inner circle quarantined themselves to keep safe. She and the few members who don’t have the virus are quarantined and have limited contact with a few safe layers outside. She and they are tested, but not the others. It is said she has paid for vaccine for herself and a few others and left the rest of the organisation to die. Rajavi likens the survival of the MEK to the survival of bees who depend on the survival of the queen, not the drones.

++ The 3rd January marked the anniversary of the assassination general Qassem Soleimani. As expected, the MEK have published things against him and broadcast an audio of Massoud Rajavi swearing at him. Zahra Moini from Germany has published a note which demonstrates that the audio is a hashed up edited version of Rajavi’s old voice. Whether he is alive or not these are not genuine audios. The irony is that MEK are publishing these rants on one side, and then editing their sites to remove everything that was in support of Trump. Commentators point out that it is not only MEK, all the other Iranians who were paid by Pompeo and the Neocons are now panicking – Biden might not pay them.

++ Gholamali Mirzai managed to return to his son and wife in Iran after three decades. He had been a POW in Iraq and managed to escape the MEK after he came to Albania. Mirzai gave interviews to the BBC, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and others, explaining how the POWs were handed over from Saddam to Rajavi and forced to work against their country. Ironically the MEK tried to whitewash his return by claiming that he was with them in Albania willingly and the moment he contacted his son and wife, he collapsed and became an agent of the regime. Stupidly however, after he escaped the camp but before he returned to Iran, they were already claiming he had been an agent of the regime when he was in Iraq. MEK have been doing a lot of work with the Albanian authorities to stop him leaving the country – preventing him getting documentation. With the help of the ICRC and UNHCR Mirzai persisted to force the Albanian government to give him papers, which they finally did.

++ Suddenly the MEK sites and TV are full of fundraising appeals. How come MEK suddenly decided they want to collect money? Apparently millions are coming in from every direction! Commentators have pointed out that this signals getting paid by Saudi Arabia. The money laundry machine has started up again.

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++ Nejat Society has published several articles describing the situation of the children of MEK members who suffered various abuses. In 1990 the Rajavis separated children from their parents who had already been forced to divorce the previous year. The children were dispersed, mostly to supporters of MEK living in Europe and North America. The ‘fortunate’ ones never had contact with their parents again. The ‘unfortunate’ ones were returned to Iraq as teenagers and trapped there as soldiers. Several ‘committed suicide’ (aka MEK murdered them) due to their dissent.

January 10, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mohammad Aq Atabay Complaint to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances

Mr. Mohammad Aq Atabai, whose brother Hamid Mohammad Aq Atabai is being held in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, has lodged a complaint against the Albanian government to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances under the UN Convention against the Protection of All Persons against Forced disappearance. While explaining his brother’s story, he asked the committee to find him and provide the possibility to connect him.

Mohammad Atabay

The text of the complaint is as follows:

Greetings and Regards,
I am Mohammad Aq Atabay, a resident of Gonbad kavoos city, Golestan Province in northern Iran. My brother Hamid Mohammad Aq Atabay was captured by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) more than 35 years ago during the Iran-Iraq War and was forcibly transferred to the organization’s camp in Iraq.

I went to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2013 to find and contact him along with a number of families whose loved ones had also been disappeared in Iraq. An official of the committee told me that they could not do anything for us because Iraq is not a signatory to the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and is not accountable to the committee.

It has been 4 years since the presence of the MEK in Albania, and most certainly my brother has been forcibly transferred to Albania with this organization. Albania is one of the signatories of the relevant convention and, according to the provisions of this convention, is responsible and accountable for the actions of organizations and groups such as the MEK, which are based in that country and are fully supported by it.

During all these years, I have sent letters and messages to all the executive and relevant officials of the Albanian government requesting that my brother be found and that he be given the opportunity to meet or at least call me. But my efforts were completely fruitless and I did not receive any response from the Albanian authorities. It should be noted that the Albanian government does not grant visas to Iranian citizens at the request of the MEK, so it is impossible for me to travel to that country and pursue the matter with the judicial authorities there.
With the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus and the deaths of dozens of people trapped in the MEK camp in Albania in recent weeks, my concerns about my brother’s condition have doubled.

My request is that my complaint against the Albanian government, which should be held accountable for the actions of the MEK in its own country under the UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, be taken into account. My brother has involuntarily disappeared in Albania and I want him found so that I can connect with him and make sure he is safe.

Thank you in advance,

Mohammad Aq Atabay, brother of Hamid Mohammad Aq Atabay, captured in the MEK camp in Albania
Gonbad kaoos – Golestan – Iran

cc:

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

January 9, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Yaser Akbarinasab

Yaser was four years old when he left Iran together with his parents and his two siblings Musa and Fatemeh in 1984. His father Morteza Akbari nasab was a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI) but his mother Khadije Niknam had no organizational record. Three years later, the young mother –who was only 25– was killed in the MEK’s operation against the Iranian border called “Forough Javidan”; her three young kids were left behind in Camp Ashraf.

Yaser Akbarinasab

The failure of the MEK in Forough Javidan was a pretext for Massoud Rajavi to launch the so-called “Ideological Revolution”. According to the Ideological Revolution, Family was recognized as the obstacle against the group’s success in the operation. Therefore, couples were ordered to divorce and eventually children were dispatched out of Iraq, mostly to European countries.

In 1997, like a lot of other children of the MEK, Yaser 17 and Musa 14, allegedly under the invitation of their father Murteza, were sent back to Camp Ashraf from Europe. The trip was supposed to last six months but it lasted forever!

Fatemeh was lucky enough to find an opportunity to leave the group’s base in Germany and to stay in Europe but she did not succeed to prevent the MEK from taking her brothers to Iraq.

“Yaser and Musa had almost no sympathy for the MEK and so they began to protest against the group’s approach toward members, ”Reza Akbarinasab, the uncle of Fatemeh, Yaser and Musa, writes about his nephews.
Shahram Bahadori a former member of the MEK knew Yaser and Musa when he was in Camp Ashraf. “I was a friend of Yaser, we used to open up for each other,” He writes. “We used to insult the group leaders. Yaser could to get along with the group; he always opposed the commanders. The commanders were mad at him and eventually they scrutinized him all the time.”

However, Yasser keeps on protesting and complaining about the leaders’ attitudes. He writes numerous letters to the group leader Massoud Rajavi asking him to let him leave the camp. “Yaser had completely told me how he had been deceived by the group to bring him back from Germany to Iraq,” Shahram continues. “He used to beshrew the group leaders for they had ruined his future.”

Yaser Akbarinasab

Eventually, in the summer of 2006, Yaser’s valiant character against the MEK leaders cost him his life. “Finally in a summer day, after the members had lunch the smoke from behind the base number seven was seen,” his uncle recounts. “Commanders did not let members see the body of Yasser. It was not made clear that he was killed or committed suicide.”

His comrades were told that he had set himself on fire. “Suddenly we were summoned to Baharestan hall,” Shahram recounts. “Batoul Rajaiee who hardly ever used to handle our meetings was sitting in place of the commander. She looked nervous and aggressive. The atmosphere seemed to be horrifying. It was clear that something bad had happened.”

Batoul Rajaee declared the news of Yaser’s as this: “Yaser did not do a good job. He set himself on fire with tied hands in a trench! Nobody is allowed to talk about him outside this room.”

A few months later Fatemeh, Yaser’s sister and his uncle Reza went to Camp Ashraf to visit Morteza, Musa and the tomb of Yaser. But, they were not permitted to enter the camp, instead, they were faced with beating and insulting even by the side of Morteza. They were labeled as agents of the Iranian Intelligence. Normally, their request to get the medical files of Yasser’s death was not met. Later, the names of Reza and Fateme Akbarinasab were repeated from time to time as the agents of the Islamic Republic by the MEK propaganda media.

January 7, 2021 0 comments

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