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Heidarzadeh: the MEK are like dinosaurs in Iran

Parviz Heidarzadeh, former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq left the group after it was relocated in Albania in 2016. He lived independently in Albania for five years and he returned to his family in north of Iran, a few months ago. He spoke on the MEK’s cult-like suppressive atmosphere, in a meeting with a group of families of members of the MEK who are still mentally and physically banned under the group’s propaganda and cult system in Albania. “The MEK’s propaganda about its public support in Iran is totally false,” he said. “They are like dinosaurs here. They are extinct. The youth do not know them at all.”

Heidarzadeh emphasized that the determination to leave the MEK system requires courage. He said, “I just advise my ex-comrades in the MEK not to be afraid of the group’s disinformation about the outside world. Just make your mind and release yourself.”

Parviz Heydarzadeh

About the atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajavi, Heidarzadeh stated, “Members are forced to work hard. Under severe forced labor, they never find a chance to think about their families. At night, they are so exhausted that they are not able to think of their own personal affairs.”
He explained about the conditions of MEK members in the Albanian territory, “Members are ordered to spy on each other. They have to report on their peers to the group’s commanders. If they see other defectors in the streets of Tirana, they will not be allowed to talk to them, instead they have to report everything they saw to the group.”

Regarding the families of MEK’s hostages, Heidarzadeh emphasized that in contrast with MEK members, families have access to all human rights bodies and international organizations. He told families, “You can take many actions in order to liberate your loved ones from the MEK; you can write letters, you can contact the International community to call for aid.”

According to Parviz Heidarzadeh, the MEK is in decline. “The group’s youngest members are in their forties,” he said. “No new generation has been born in the MEK in the past years. The youngest members who were children of Mujahed parents left the group immediately after it was settled in Albania. Thus, The MEK leaders are just making efforts to maintain the current forces.”

June 21, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Amir Parvizi’s family call on the Albanian prime minister for help

According to the sources in Albania, Amir Parvizi’s attempt to escape the Mujahedin-e Khalq was obstructed by the group’s fraudulent collaboration with Albanian Police. His family from Zanjan, Iran took action to protest against the MEK’s suppressive attitude against Amir.

Amir Parvizi who wanted to flee the group under the cover of a doctor’s appointment in a hospital in Tirana was arrested by the Albanian Police and handed over to the MEK. The MEK commanders have forged documents to convince the police that Amir suffers mental disorder.

Amir Parvizi

Amir’s family are seriously concerned about his life-threatening condition. His brother has published a video message asking the Albanian Prime Minister to immediately intervene in the case of Amir. He stated that the Albanian government is responsible for the consequences of the MEK’s inhumane attitude toward Amir.
Amir Parvizi joined the MEK in Iraq, in 2006 when he was 26 years old. He has not been allowed to leave the group until now that he is 43.

June 19, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Khodam Golmohammadi collapsed under suppression of Rajavi’s cult

Khodam Golmohammadi was from Azarbaijan, Iran. He was taken as a war prisoner in the Iran-Iraq war in which he was a soldier of the Iranian army. The Mujahedin-e Khalq recruiters in Iraqi POW camps succeeded to convince Khodam to join the group. However, the suppressive cult-like system of the group made him regret his decision after a short time but he had no way out.

In 1995, Massoud Rajavi declared that “exit is forbidden”, so Khodam and many other dissident members had to stay in the Cult of Rajavi. In 1999, he was injured in a clash between the Iranian border guards and the MEK forces. He was hospitalized for about a year. When he got back to his unit, he was not able to walk well. He was under too much physical pressure in the Katyusha unit. Thus, in 2001, he asked the group leaders to allow him to leave.

His demand was not only ignored but also, he was repressed for his willingness to leave the MEK. “His direct superior, Hamid Adham, even did not accept Khodam’s written request for exit,” Iraj Salehi, former member of the MEK writes.

Once he declared his demand, the organizational and peer pressure began against him. He became the subject the manipulation meetings where his commanders and peers shouted at him, humiliated and insulted him. Mohammad Reza Goli witnessed two of these suppression meetings. “He was awfully under tyranny,” Goli writes. “His commanders and some of his comrades were constantly insulting him, when I arrived in the eating place… The scene was so bad that I could not stand watching and I left the hall.”

The whole day, Mohammad Reza Goli was preoccupied with the scene he had seen. The next day he observed a similar act. “I heard a noise from the dormitory,” he recalls. “I got curious to know what was going on. I saw Khodam circled by a group of members who were bullying him. He just asked, ‘Is it a blasphemy that I want to leave?’ The scene was so heart-breaking.”

It did not take so long for members of the MEK to hear that Khodam set himself on fire in the parking of Camp Ashraf. “If I had not seen those sessions, I would not believe that Khodam committed suicide,” Goli writes. “I just believed his bitter fate when I recalled those scenes of mental torture.”

Iraj Salehi recounts the incident: “We got the news that some one was on fire in the parking. We rushed there for help. The MEK commanders, in particular Mashood Dianat, called Siamak, prevented us from getting close to the scene. He ordered us to get back and to keep silent about the incident.”

Khodam was taken to a hospital in Baghdad and he was not seen in the MEK, anymore. Years later, the rank and file of the MEK came to know that Khodam died in Baghdad. The location of his grave is not known. “Whether he was killed by the MEK agents or he killed himself, the Rajavis are responsible for Khodam’s death,” Salehi states.

June 18, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

The day I realized MEK tortured my little daughter

Esmat Vatanparast called mother Esmat, defected the Mujahedin Khalq after she realized that the group agents tortured her small daughter. Mother Esmat was an active member of the MEK. She lost several members of her family for the group’s cause but once she found out that the group’s leaders are dishonest, she defected.
Jennifer, the youngest child of mother Esmat was a teenager when she was separated from her mother, kept in Camp Ashraf, Iraq where she was forced to obey the rules of the cult-like military system of the Mujahedin. “In the MEK’s school, my daughter faced a thousand issues,” Mother Esmat says in an interview with Siamak Naderi.

Esmat Vatanparast

The MEK’s school in Camp Ashraf was a place to train hundreds of children of Mujahed parents under the ideology of Massoud Rajavi before they were separated from their parents and smuggled to Europe. Jennifer and her peers were under the horrendous training of a couple, Soheila and Rashid. “Jennifer still sees nightmares of Soheila and Rashid,” mother Esmat says. “They cut her ponytail with her scarf on it… She was beaten several times just because she had told her commander that she did not want to be a Mujahed.”

“Soheila threw pepper in the face of Jennifer because she was not able to fabricate lies about seeing Imam Ali in his dreams,” mother Esmat testifies about what her daughter endured in the MEK’s religious extremist cult. “If the kids said that they had seen Imam Ali in their dreams, teachers would give them a necklace as a gift!”

Mother Esmat was not informed about what was happening to her child and other children of the MEK until she heard some of them opening up. “When I was in Sweden, I was still active supporting the MEK,” she recalls. “That day, I had invited seven children of MEK parents, friends of my daughter. I went out for shopping and when I got back, I overheard them talking about their horrific memoirs under the rule of the MEK.”

Mother Esmat was shocked to hear those heart-breaking stories of teenagers whose parents had dedicated their whole life to Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. “Oh my God! What beasts we served! I asked myself,” she recounts. “They oppressed our own children this way.”

That teen party made Mother Esmat determined to defect the MEK completely. She stopped serving the group. Today, she blames Massoud and Maryam Rajavi as the main accountable personalities for her family’s misery.

June 15, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Deconstructing the Couple within the MEK

“Family, I hate you”. This citation from André Gide, the French author and 1947 Nobel Laureate can be described, with no exaggeration at all, as Massoud Rajavi’s motto. After all, the People’s Mojahedin sacrificed everything for their revolution.
In order for the individual to give himself up body and soul to the cause, the MEK intervened directly in its militants’ daily lives. This was to enforce the arbitrary decisions of the ‘Great Teacher’.
As Figaro reported:
“Founded on the cult of its spiritual leader, Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, the Mojahedin organisation has often been compared to a sect by former members, forced to divorce and break with their family to join the ranks of fighters”.

Mitra Yusefi , her husband and children

Mitra Yusufi, a long term member of the MEK, and a victim of this policy of enforced divorce, breaks the silence:
“I traveled a long road. I underwent a real brainwashing and I have to be alert all the time. The Iranian people detest Rajavi and I hate him. My story is simple. I was a young newlywed when it all started. My husband was a popular man; since he had played for the Iranian National Football team. This was the team that qualified for the World Championship in 1978 and played in Argentina. We were living in England when the revolution happened.
We returned to Iran before going to the United States. In the Eighties, we had heard bad news about things that happened to our friends. In fact, at the time, we were very cut off from the realities of Iranian society. Rajavi wanted to use my husband’s name. We agreed and we were moved to Greece to organize the movement. When Rajavi, after his divorce from Banisadr’s daughter married his comrade’s wife, Maryam, we were shocked. My husband then took a strong position, saying that you cannot take another’s wife. Two days later, though, they convinced us of the opposite.We were such fools…”.

Nadereh Afshari

Nadere Afshari also lived inside the Mojahedin. She knows the reality:
“Rajavi used the family institution as an instrument at the service of his own power. To keep the men in the organisation, he forced them to marry. To do this, he used women as bait and ‘gave’ them to his most docile servants. Yet, at the slightest sign of disobedience, he took away their wives. Women were, therefore, objects passed from hand to hand.

Thus, a docile woman like Atefeh, who had the rank of Major, was forced to divorce four times, on the personal orders of Rajavi. Her comrade, Mahboubeh Jamshidi, divorced and remarried at least three times.
Rajavi considers the family as an integral cell in his organisation. He, therefore, feels free to intervene in the marital relations of members against their own will. The truth is that he dislikes the family which always posed a problem for his ‘regime’. This was for a very good reason: it is very difficult to keep ‘the light of love for the Leader’ burning bright.
From 1991 on, marriage changed its meaning. It became a barrier which kept the organisation’s members from loving their Leader”.

A third defector states:
“At this time, Rajavi also imposed on the leadership a fixed ceremony at the beginning of meetings: everyone had to place his hands on the table to make sure that no one was wearing a wedding ring, which he called ‘a slave ring’.”

Deconstructing the Family Of course, the MEK defended itself. The impact of these statements on its internal practices on international public opinion created a very negative impression. The National Resistance Council wrote, in its response to the American accusations:
“Further on, they claim that the Mojahedin had forced couples in Iraq to divorce and send their children to Europe and the United States. Here, it must be taken into account that the individuals who wrote this report were repeating, word for word, the allegations used by the Iranian regime and by the survivors of the Shah regime.
The National Liberation Army of Iran is based in the territory of a country where family-Iife in the camps became impossible during the unprecedented bombardments of the Gulf War and thereafter, because of the international embargo.

During the bombings, families, voluntarily and sometimes in writing, asked the organization for assistance in sending their children to Europe and the United States to live with their parents or our supporters. Despite many obstacles and risks, the movement spent millions of dollars to move these children to safe places. The alternative would have been accepting the possibility of numerous victims among them “.

The MEK children

The facts, however, are stubborn and the eyewitness reports are very precise:
‘in the terms of the ‘Second Ideological Revolution’, children had to be separated from their families and sent abroad. Rajavi made sure personally that this order was carried out case by case, finding militants or family members living in Europe or the United States who could take the children in. In the absence of family abroad, the children were sent to orphanages or special schools established by the Mojahedin in Germany and the Netherlands. More than 500 children were sent abroad this way: they were handed over to the organization during a special ceremony in which the parents recited a text affirming: ‘I give my child to Massoud and Maryam’.”

Yet the MEK justified itself by comparison with others:
“Moreover, this policy is not without precedent. During the Second World War, children were separated from their families and sent outside London during the bombings. If this way of doing things is unacceptable, the State Department should have published a declaration criticising Winston Churchill “. (219)
The People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran could have cited two other 20Ih Century precedents, ones more troubling indeed.

During 1936-37, the evacuation of the children of Spanish Republicans fighting Franco’s Nationalists is one. To protect them from the bombings which struck some cities very hard, especially Madrid, young girls and boys were sent by convoy to the Soviet Union. But once the Popular Front Government was swept aside and taken over by the Communists, these kids stayed in the USSR for an orthodox MarxistLeninist education.
The same scenario took place a few years later in Greece, during the civil war that immediately followed World War ii. There again, children kidnapped for the stated motive of putting them out of harm’s way remained in the USSR.

Kidnapping could also take place at home. The Hitler youth stole the minds and loyalties of children, turning them against their teachers and even their parents. The “Racially pure” S.S. breeding facilities were only a continuation of kidnap, but with the result of bringing thousands of parentless children into post-war Germany. Uprooted, far from their country and cut off from their culture, these children became wanderers without identity. They only had that given them by the movement or the organisation which took them in hand and led them where they wanted to for their own purposes.

For more than 20 years we know exactly how the MEK has used these kids: easier to lead, because they are more docile than adults who have developed their critical faculties. This included abandoning them to their fate when times went bad:
“In Evin, the model prison of Iran, built by the ex-Shah, one section is completely devoted to the ‘curables’, who undergo a reeducation programme. There, we find a certain number of inmates who discarded their former masters, like Banisadr’s embody guard. But the overwhelming majority are children. They are the ones the Mojahedin threw into the street fighting, without any military or political training at all. These kids (13-15 year olds) cracked, naturally. They turned against themselves”.

From the book: Autopsy of an Ideological Drift by Antoine Gessler, translated by Thomas R. Forstenszer

June 14, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Ali Ekrami’s prison break, an account of escaping Camp Ashraf

Ali Ekrami former member of the Mujahedin Khalq recruited by a friend when he was a student of oil faculty in Abadan, south west of Iran. He left his hometown, his family and especially his sick mother behind to join the group in Iraq. After over 27 years of living under the rule of the Cult of Rajavi, Ali Ekrami decided to escape the group’s headquarters, Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

Following the collapse of the MEK’s main military and financial sponsor, Saddam Hussein, the group was disarmed by the US army. Ali Ekrami was already fed up with dishonesty, violence and suppression he was witnessing in the MEK. He was determined to escape the group but he was terrified because of the group’s disinformation about defectors and escapees of Camp Ashraf.

Ali Ekrami

Nevertheless, he made his mind that night after reviewing his entire experience as an MEK member. “I was on my guarding post that night in one of the guard towers on the eastern side of Camp Ashraf when I came to a conclusion of my past life and I tried to find a way to break through that situation,” Ekrami writes in his autobiography, published a few months ago.

As Ekrami reviews his own involvement with the MEK, he also evaluates the MEK’s history including its armed struggle against Iranians, the escape of Massoud Rajavi from Iran, the marriage of Massoud and Maryam in Paris and their taking shelter under Saddam Hussein, the enemy at war with Iran. “It was like a nightmare,” he writes. “I had reached the point of complete hatred and disgust. I thought I did not have anything to do with the MEK any more. I was more determined to leave the group as any time I was before.”

Thus, he looked for an opportunity to escape the Cult of Rajavi. As a trusted member of the MEK, he was offered a new position. He was appointed as the MEK’s deputy to negotiate with Iraqi university professors. “I thought it would be a good opportunity to escape Camp Ashraf,” he writes. “I expressed my agreement, signed a form and got out to pack my bag.”

The next day, Ali Ekrami was supposed to move to the university. He got on the jeep that a friend of his was driving to go there. “In the way, I looked closely to find an American Hummer to surrender myself to them,” he says. “Luckily, I saw one in the street 100 of Camp Ashraf. This was the chance I have been looking for since months ago. I told my friend, ‘Stop the car! I feel nauseous and dizzy’.”

His friend stopped the car immediately and gave Ekrami a bottle of water. He took the bottle, splashed some water on his face and rushed to the American car. He recounts, “I knocked the wind shield. The American soldier opened the door. I told him, ‘I need help. I do not want to stay in the MEK. Help! Help!’ The black soldier and his commander took me on their car and drove fast to their camp. My friend was shocked staring at me getting far from him and Ashraf.”

Looking back, Ali Ekrami started shouting, “Damn Ashraf! Damn the Mujahedin_e Khalq! Down with Rajavi! Down with fraudulent Rajavi! You betrayed the hope and trust of a generation.”

June 13, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MKO terrorists attack exhibition on their crimes in Stockholm

Members of anti-Iran terrorist group, Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization, have attacked the organizers of an exhibition held in Swedish capital of Stockholm on the group’s crimes.

The MEK terrorists slashed the banners with knives and splashed paint on them to hide their brutal crimes, while pelting the organizers with stones and eggs, in what was decried as a blatant affront to democracy and free speech, according to a report by Press TV, whose staff covering the event were also targeted.

According to Habilian, which organizes the exhibition on documents of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization’s crimes, the notorious terrorist group had called on its elements in Sweden to get together tasked with slashing the exhibition on Thursday night.

MKO terrorists attack exhibition on their crimes in Stockholm

Habilian added that the MKO elements attacked the organizers when they were busy hanging posters, banners, and documents, and tore apart a significant part of them.

While the organizers had gained the necessary permits to hold the event, the Swedish police failed to guarantee the security of organizers by their arriving in the scene late, allowing the terrorists to destroy a major part of the exhibition and assault the Press TV correspondent and his cameraman covering the exhibition there.

the Sweden’s police beefed up security around the event

According to the Press TV website, the Swedish police finally had to arrest nine of the attackers following the confrontation and released an unspecified number of them afterwards. One of the organizers said some of the terrorists came back and resumed assaults despite police warnings.

Swedish police finally had to arrest nine of the attackers

In response, the Sweden’s police beefed up security around the event.

The exhibition is held near the court where Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri is on trial based on the evidence provided to the court by the MKO.

June 12, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Annual Meeting of the Mujahedin-e Khalq: Rental Audiences

The propaganda meeting of the terrorist group of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) known as the Kahkeshan meetings (meaning Galaxy), led by Maryam Rajavi, is held every year in June or July, with false statistics of the fake Iranian fans who support this group. Most Iranian political observers, meanwhile, say the MEK has the least support in Iran and has been widely hated for its use of violence and its close ties to Israeli intelligence. As it is clear from the Western media coverage of the previous conferences of the group, the terrorist group of MEK, in order to pretend that a large number of Iranians support them, try to attract a large number of needy foreign students and asylum seekers every year with different nationalities by widespread invitations, and even attracting homeless people with the promise of free travel to Europe and free meals and even paying money, encourage them to attend these conferences.

The images and information of these gatherings show that people with significant populations and non-Iranian citizenship participate in these conferences as supporters of the MEK who are unaware of the goals of these programs. Due to unemployment and poverty, these people are said to be hired by the MEK cult to make a living by participating in these gatherings, so displaced people, asylum seekers from African countries and the gypsies are brought to the gatherings to fill vacant seats. “Most of those present at the MEK’s rally in Berlin were brought to Berlin by a group of schools from Poland and the Czech Republic to fill the seats in the hall,” the Associated Press reported. According to the report, some of the participants in the gathering also told the Associated Press reporter that they had come to that place with the promise of traveling to Berlin and staying in a hotel. Also, the videos released from these gatherings show that non-Iranians have a significant population compared to Iranian participants (MEK members).

News agencies have previously released a video showing that the vast majority of participants are non-Iranians and, as separatists say, are supplicants collected from some African, Asian and some European countries, and came to the ceremony with the promise of “a few hot meals” and “some financial aid”.

Alina Alimkova is a Kyrgyz girl who attended a MEK conference in Paris

The French newspaper Le Monde published a report in which several participants in a conference of the MEK were interviewed. Alina Alimkova is a Kyrgyz girl who attended a MEK conference in Paris. This person also says that she does not know a single Persian word and does not know much about issues related to Iran, but she decides to travel to Paris with a good offer to attend a conference for a few days sightseeing in Paris. She says all the passengers on the eight buses from Prague to Paris with him are young, and most of them are students and all of them, she says, somehow hired via the internet. According to the Kyrgyz student, no one knew exactly what the purpose of the trip was.

Of course, the MEK acted a little more selectively and in the following years, and instead of the people of color who were found in the ceremonies every year, they turned to people with faces from East Asia, West Asian Arabs, and Afghans and Pakistanis to make more ordinary faces for the ceremonies.

The group of MEK is known for paying very high prices. Details released so far from the meeting indicate that each refugee will receive around € 30 to € 50 a day plus food, and that each person who can bring 20 to 30 people to the meeting will receive around € 1,500.

In the most optimistic case, if we consider half of the participants in these meetings to be people of Iranian nationality, according to the Guardian in connection with one of these meetings, the other half of them include a set of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Germans and Syrians were impatient to respond to the Facebook campaign that promised travel, food and accommodation in Paris for only 25 euros. Hundreds of Syrian refugees based in Germany also attended the meeting. Many of these people were napping under the trees during the ceremonies.

“We saw the deal on Facebook and agreed to go on holiday,” said a young Syrian mother with her two young children, sitting on the conference floor. I have never seen Paris and I do not know anything about the MEK.

In the last year of the meeting before the Covid-19 epidemic, with a fake scenario they accused an Iranian diplomat for bombing the meeting and despite the Corona epidemic, in previous years the meeting was held online, which due to the display of duplicate images on the screen It can be said that very few members of the MEK were present at these meetings. However, if this conference is online, you can see new duplicate images of members who have been forced to attend the event, or if the event is held in person due to coronavirus vaccines, perhaps we will see rented spectators and same repetitive speakers of previous years with the same stereotype themes again.

Just as the MEK, despite their enmity with the United States and even the killing of a number of Americans, forgot their long-standing enmity with the United States after the fall of Saddam and turned to what was doubly beneficial to them (during a large meeting in the camp Ashraf in Iraq After the fall of Saddam, Rajavi announced that the owner of our house had changed and we had to adjust to the new owner and we had to go with the tide). The United States has shown again and again that it is not a trustworthy country. For the United States, every group, organization, country, and even political authority is supported only as long as it benefits the country and then will be replaced very quickly and all US obligations to that group or country will be severed. As we have seen in previous year, the United States, in a shocking move in fighting the Taliban, left Afghanistan very quickly after 20 years at a cost of $ 1 trillion, left this country and its defenseless people alone. The Afghan army, which was under the direct training of the US military and had all kinds of military equipment, could not even resist the Taliban, who had simple military equipment, for two weeks, and suffered defeat.

Although the group has paid large sums of money to remove the organization from the list of American terrorist organizations (FTO), as well as for the presence of political speakers from this country in the meetings of the MEK, but it will definitely be supported as long as it serves their interests.

“I wonder why the United States works with organizations like the Mojahedin, because they are local and they are ready to work for us, we used to call them a terrorist organization, and of course they are still a terrorist organization! However, they are our terrorists now! and we do not hesitate to send them to Iran for routine intelligence activities, to monitor Iran’s nuclear program, to triangle targets for air strikes, and perhaps to set up secret camps to control military locations in Iran, as well as a bit of sabotage” Ray McGovern, a former CIA operative, spoke about the MEK. Also, Karen Kwiatkowski, a former member of Ministry of Defense: “The MEK is ready to do things that we are ashamed of and try to keep quiet about. But we will use them for such tasks!”

The presence of various terrorist groups in Albania and the recent acceptance that Albania has given the green light to accept Afghan refugees from Afghanistan in this country, indicates the presence of new forces instead of the group of MEK, that due to the old age, the members of this terrorist group, have lost their military effectiveness, and this issue can explain the significant reduction in the presence of political officials at their previous annual gathering, and also the closure of the MEK’s virtual accounts for propaganda and provocative activities against Iran by Facebook, an American company under the auspices of the US government, it represents that the bases for the United States to cut ties with the MEK in the near future is getting ready.

On the other hand, the financial and arms support of the Saudi intelligence service to most of the anti-Iranian terrorists have led to a sharp divide between these opposition groups instead of converging. In fact, a closer look at the organizational levels and the way these groups operate reveals that their lives are tied to be the opposition to the Islamic Republic. These groups receive money from Saudi Arabia and countries opposed to Iran in order to speak against Iran and inwardly they have no interest in harming the Islamic Republic one day, because then they will have no financial support anymore and why a group want to stop receiving these financial aids. The MEK are in the same situation, they consider themselves superior to other opposition groups and introduce other groups as elements of the Iranian government, which certainly even a child does not imagine that if one day in an imagination or an American dream the United States conquers Iran, it is impossible to hand it over to the elderly of the Rajavi cult. In fact, this cult has only tools and propaganda use for the United States.

If we take a closer look at the MEK group, we will see that this cult is alive only with the millions of dollars it receives from the Saudi Arabia and the United States, and it does not like to return to the military world again and they just limit themselves to put up a poster on a deserted street in one of Iran’s sparsely populated cities, or by giving money, it causes 20 people in Iran to march in a secluded park and chant anti-government slogans which no one can hear them.

The MEK are now safe inside their troll farm in the camp Ashraf, Albania, where they spend US-Saudi dollars in isolation and hold an annual propaganda campaign to mention that they are still alive, and are jeering at their financial suppliers and spend the last hours of their lives in the peace of a country in Eastern Europe, while they are going toward the dustbin of history.

by Global Times

June 12, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

June 17th, landmark date exposing the Cult of Rajavi

June 17th, 2003 is a landmark date in the history of the Mujahedin-e Khalq that exposes it as a cult of personality rather than an opposition group. The arrest of the she-guru of the Cult of Rajavi by the French Police created heart-breaking but at the same time enlightening scenes by which the world was able to observe the true substance of the MEK.

Following the arrest of Maryam Rajavi, the group commanders coerced members to protest against the act of French government against their leader. The excessive part of the protests was played by a dozen of members of the group who set themselves on fire to demonstrate their devotion to their arrested leader. 21 people set themselves on fire between June 17th to June 21st. Eventually, two of them were killed.

Neda Hassani and Sedighe Mojaveri who brainwashed by the MEK leaders into immolating themselves

Neda Hassani, 27, and Sedigheh Mojaveri 44 were the two ones who committed self-immolation to pressure French Judiciary to release Maryam Rajavi and did not survive their violent act against themselves. Their names were added to the list of the MEK’s martyrs. A number of other MEK members such as Marzieh Babakhani, Hamid Orafa and Nader Sani survived but are still suffering the wounds of that organizational order. They are always glorified as role models for other members of the MEK, by the group leaders.

Marziyeh Babakhani

To stop those horrific scenes in European cities, the French Police freed Maryam Rajavi. Since that time, the incidents of June 2003, have been celebrated by the MEK as a victory. In its numerous annual events, the group’s propaganda machine overvalues its victory to liberate Maryam Rajavi from French jail. However, important lessons have been learned by sensible entities since June 17th, 2003.

The cult-like violent nature of the MEK

Suicide and its intimate partner violence are both major notions that characterize destructive cults. They both show an extreme tendency towards an ideology. For half a century, violence of the MEK has been changing from one form to another. It started with homicide of the American military advisors in Iran during the 1970s, it went on in the post-revolutionary years in Iran by detonating bombs in public places killing civilians, it continued in the anti-national war, by the side of Saddam Hussein and the cross border terrorist operation and it has been working against the group’s own rank and file, either to suppress dissent or to coerce the brainwashed members to set themselves ablaze.

Money Laundering for terrorist activities

On 16 June 2003 the French well-known anti-terrorist judge Jean Louis Bruguiere and his team, following a 14 hours interrogation that had started at 15.30 local time on 16 June 2003, issued a detention order accusing the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the umbrella group of the MEK, at the time blacklisted as a terrorist group by the US, the EU of “terrorist activities, association with a terrorist organization and financing terrorist operations”. Shortly after 6 am on 17 June 2003 more than 1200 police forces launched a large operation to raid 13 MKO-run offices in Val-d’Oise and Yvelines, two quarters of the Parisian suburb. The main target was the office of the MEK at Auvers-sur-Oise. The Police arrested 164 suspected Mujahedin authorities as well as Maryam Rajavi, the NCRI’s self-nominated president-elect.

on 17 June 2003 more than 1200 police forces launched a large operation to raid 13 MKO-run offices in Val-d’Oise and Yvelines, two quarters of the Parisian suburb

The French Government said it was trying to stop the group from expanding its operations in France. Nicolas Sarkozy, the then French Interior Minister, said that the order to crackdown on the MEK was decided following two years of investigations on the network. He said that MEK “recently wanted to make France its support base, notably after the intervention in Iraq. We cannot accept that”. The head of France’s domestic intelligence service, Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, said the group was “transforming its Val d’Oise base … into an international terrorist base”.

The Police discovered and confiscated more than a million US dollars in 100 banknotes, 100.000 Euros, sophisticated communication equipment and computers. The sources of French Interior Ministry later reported that more than 8 million dollars in cash had been found in various offices of the MEK as well in the houses of its high-ranking officials throughout France.

MEK leaders and its high-ranking members fled Iraq after US invasion

In March 2003, following the collapse of the MEK’s main financial and military sponsor Saddam Hussein called by the MEK as Landlord, the group’s leaders and a lot of high-ranking commanders had secretly fled Iraq and settled in France within a few months. Thus, the news of the arrest of Maryam Rajavi and her comrades was shocking for members of the group in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. They could not believe their ears that Maryam and other commanders had left them behind, under the bombs of coalition forces. Maryam had departed Iraq even before the collapse of the landlord. Seemingly, she was looking for a new landlord.

Massoud Rajavi has disappeared since the date

June 17th, 2003 is the beginning of the two-decade absence of Massoud Rajavi. He has been never seen in public since then. Inside the group, nobody is allowed to ask about his whereabouts and outside the group, the journalists and researchers’ questions on Massoud Rajavi’s location or his being dead or alive will not be answered. The disappearance of Massoud Rajavi has amplified the aura of holiness around him, for the manipulated minds residing inside his Cult of personality. However, for those hostages of the group who endeavor to release themselves from the mind control system of the Cult of Rajavi, Rajavi’s absence has increased criticism and questions on his rulings and strategy.

Mazda Parsi

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Former members of the MEK

Mahmoud Odehzadeh’s Prison Break, an account of escaping Camp Ashraf

Mahmoud Odehzadeh escaped the Mujahedin Khalq Organization after years of imprisonment in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He had been recruited by the group in 1993 when he was a teenager. He had left his family, his young wife and kids because the MEK’s recruiter had promised him a happy life and money in Europe.
However, Mahmoud turned out to be captured in the MEK’s destructive cult in Iraqi deserts, for eleven years. In 2004, after the group was disarmed by the US army, he could manage to escape Camp Ashraf and to join the US camp located by the side of Ashraf. The story of his escape seems to be inspiring for those who are still taken as hostages in the group’s camp in Albania.

Mahmoud Odezadeh

“After the US invasion to Iraq and the group’s disarmament by the US military, the rank and file of the group were frustrated,” Mahmoud writes in his memoirs. “They were angry with Maryam Rajavi and her high-ranking members who had fled to Europe immediately after the war broke out. They had left the rank and file under bombs and had fled to France. In Iraq, the remaining commanders made us work hard to deviate our minds from thinking to such serious issues. Everyone was exhausted and desperate, seeking a way to escape the organization.”

The American camp outside Camp Ashraf opened a path to Mahmoud’s mind that was already obsessed with escaping the Cult of Rajavi. “I made my mind to reach the American camp in any possible way,” he recounts. “Under the pretext of health problems, I went to the Ashraf’s clinic several times to investigate the escape route. I had already discussed my plan with a friend who was also determined to escape.”

That was a night of July, 2004 when Mahmoud Odehzadeh and his friend accomplished their goal. He recounts: “When I got back from the clinic, I set with my friend that we would leave after dinner. Dinner was not done yet; we apparently took the dishes to wash. We got out of the building from the back door and rushed to the other side of the embankment. On our way, an MEK guard stopped us, I told him that my friend was not feeling well and I was taking him to the clinic. Then we rushed to the American camp.”

The US forces were not so friendly with them but Mahmoud and his friend did not want to get back to the MEK in any case. He was even ready to be killed rather than getting back to the MEK’s prison. “We told them that we had fled the MEK but they told us to get back to Ashraf,” He writes. “I got out a cutter from my pocket and put it on my throat. ‘We will die here but we will not get back to Ashraf’, I said. The US forces had a Tunisian interpreter, he said, ‘they leave you alone just do not kill yourself!’.”

The Americans took the two defectors of the Mujahedin-e Khalq to their camp and imprisoned them in a cell for a few days. Then, they interviewed with them and ask them why they fled the group. “We told them everything clarifying the truth of the MEK for them,” Mahmoud writes. “Then they took us to the place that other defectors of the MEK had been settled. We were about twenty people. The US forces treated us like slaves.”

Therefore, Mahmoud decided to escape the US camp too. He was looking for an opportunity. He discussed a plan with nine of his comrades in the camp. The other night, a dust storm aided them to fulfil their plan. They crossed the barbed wires. They reached a village and found some food and water and finally could manage to reach the road to Baghdad in the early morning. “A car took us to Baghdad,” he recounts. “He was an Iraqi POW in Iran so he could speak Persian. He was so kind that he took us to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad.”

They introduced themselves to the guard at the gate of the Iranian embassy. He continues: “A few minutes later, an authority came out and listened to our story. He invited us inside the building and received us warmly. Two days later, they transferred us to Tehran on a flight.”

As Rajavi had told them lies about maltreatments of the Iranian government against MEK defectors, Mahmoud and his peers were very frightened and nervous about the likely imprisonment and torture in Tehran. “To our surprise, the Iranian authorities welcomed us warmly and took us to a hotel,” he recalls.

Mahmoud and his friends were delivered to their families three days later. “In contrast to what Rajavi had told us –that families of defectors insult them because they have left the MEK—my family received me really warmly. They held parties and celebrations to congratulate me on my return. When I recounted my story for them, they began insulting Rajavi.”

Mahmoud asked his wife and children to forgive him. “Fortunately, they forgave me and I tried to build a new life,” he says.

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