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Left homeless, poor and sick after over thirty years of serving the MEK

Barani Dehghani, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) officially declared his defection from the group.

Barani Dehghani, from Fars province, was a soldier of the Iranian army in Iran-Iraq war in 1987. He was taken as a hostage by MEK forces in the front, in March 1987. As he was not registered as a war prisoner, he was intimidated to stay in the Cult of Rajavi in Iraq.

“They convinced us to stay with them by threatening and deceiving us,” Barani writes. “We were constantly told that ‘if we got back to Iran we would be arrested and tortured by the government’.” Barani was deceived by the fraudulent tactics of the MEK leaders and became a member of the cult.
“During all those years of membership we had to listen to long-time arguments in meetings in order to accept that the MEK is the best place to stay in,” he describes the brainwashing sessions.

Barani Dehghani

After the fall of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and the disarmament of the MEK by the US military, the group was no more welcome in Iraqi territory. With the assistance of the US government and the UN High Commissioner of Refugees, the group was relocated in Albania. Barani was transferred from Iraq to Albania in the fourth group of MEK members in 2016. Barani explains about the living conditions of MEK members in Albania:
“In Albania, we were taken to a base called Giti. Cult-like pressure by the group leaders kept on in Albania and even worse than when we were in Iraq. Although the UNHCR paid for housing, food and welfare of the MEK members for two years, we were deprived of all facilities the MEK leaders. Even the appliances that the UNHCR has given to us were confiscated by them.”

Therefore, Barani decided to leave the MEK but it was not simply feasible. “When I wanted to leave, they forced me to sign a large number of documents and I signed just because I was determined to leave,” he writes.
“I was told to sign an engagement to confirm that I would stay a sympathizer of the group and in exchange they would help me financially”, he writes about the preconditions of leaving the cult. “They asked me to report everything I get to know about other defectors of the group. I had to give the reports to the office of the MEK. I was asked to monitor both defectors and current members of the group when I see them in the streets of Tirana.”

Thus, Barani was still under the cult-like pressure of MEK commanders although he had left the group. Eventually, he decided to leave Albania. He asked the group to provide the money but they did not contribute. However, he moved to Greece on his own but after a while he was again stuck in financial difficulties. He asked the MEK for help. “The conditions were the same,” he says. “Their donations were little and late but I had no choice.”
Homeless and moneyless he moved to Serbia last year. Once more, he asked the MEK for money but they did not pay attention. Following his illegal journey in the Balkans, he went to Bosnia and then to Croatia where he was arrested and sent back to Bosnia. He was jailed in the capital of Bosnia.

He is now sick and poor, residing in a refugee camp after serving the MEK for over thirty years. “Now that I am writing this, I am in a terrible situation,” he writes. “I am sick. I am living in camp trying to make a living as a street vendor but I believe that being linked to the notorious MEK is more disastrous for me. The group has nothing for me except misery and despair. The farther I am from the MEK, the more comfortable I am.”
Ending his statement, he declares his complete dissociation from the PMOI. He states, “From now, there is no link or relationship between me and the group. The group that cheats on its own nation and cooperate with the enemies of the Iranian nation does not deserve support.”

March 9, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Deja Vue for MEK Over Bread Shortages in Albania

As the world wakes up to the realisation that more than a quarter of the world’s wheat exports come from Russia and Ukraine, the MEK ( Mujahedin e Khalq ) are in familiar territory. During the MEK’s four decade stay in Iraq (1983-2016), they had to learn how to exist under the various U.S. sanctions on that country. While Albanian media is warning of price rises and shortages of bread due to the current conflict in Ukraine, the MEK will no doubt be quickly scrambling to ensure its own supplies via mafia gangs.

In Iraq, under extreme sanctions, the MEK used its privately sourced bread supply to recruit new members. There is no doubt they will try to use the situation in Albania for the same end. Already the MEK has positioned itself alongside the Albanian police and immigration services to deceptively recruit Iranian, Afghani and other vulnerable asylum seekers as they arrive in Albania. The shortage of bread can only offer even greater leverage.

The fact that the MEK is still trying to recruit new members should sound alarm bells. In spite of the problems the MEK faces due to its ageing and ailing membership, the cult is still actively working with Albanian and Italian mafia gangs. The MEK’s skills in money laundry, military logistics, intelligence and spying and human trafficking could all be utilised during the Ukraine crisis. With its history of mercenary work for Saddam Hussein, Israel, the US and others, the only question is, ‘how much is any side willing to pay?’

March 8, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Former MEK’s Terror Operative Speaks of Rajavi’s Kingdom

Born in a Mujahed family, Amir Nematolahi was enthusiastic to fight the Iranian government. When the 21-year-old Amir joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization in 1994 he was motivated by the young “thin” Massoud Rajavi whom he had seen in the MEK’s early videos and photos of Massoud speaking in the meetings. “A few years later, in more films of Massoud Rajavi which were taken after the death of Musa Khiabani and Ashraf Rabiee, he looked like a king,” Amir Nematollahi says in his recent interview with Siamak Naderi. “Massoud had become a fat man who was living like a king spending the money that was given to him in the name of fighting for the Iranian people.”

Shortly after his arrival in the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Amir received trainings for operating explosives and launching bombs. He was then ordered to cross the Iranian border to launch a terrorist attack in Tehran’s Police headquarters. “I was told that the building was only for Police authorities but when I went there, I saw something else,” Amir says. “I saw about a hundred of young innocent soldiers as old as I was.” Amir quit the operation and returned to the MEK’s camp in Iraq. “I told lie to my commanders, I said, ‘the bomb did not explode and I don’t know why’.”

Siamak Naderi and Amir Nematollahi;the MEK ex-operative

This was the jerk of his hesitations about the MEK and its leaders. He found the group’s main leader as a despotic dictator who wanted the absolute obedience of his followers. “Under the name of struggle, there was an oppressive atmosphere in the MEK,” he recalls. “Two people were not allowed to sit next to each other in the eating place, twice in one single day. They were immediately accused of planning conspiracy against the group. They called it Mahfel.”

As the MEK is a “No Exit” establishment, dissident members of the group are never allowed to simply leave it particularly when the group was located in Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein. “Every one who entered the MEK, his passport was confiscated by the group,” he explains how members were locked up in the MEK. “His arrival was not registered by Iraq government so he was considered an illegal person in that country.”

This was the leverage to suppress the person who wanted to leave the MEK. He had to go to the Iraqi’s notorious prison, Abu Quraib for eight years. Before that he had to stay in the MEK’s quarantine –actually jail– for two years. And prior to all these imprisonments he was coerced under long hours of brainwashing meetings in order to get convinced not to leave the group. Amir Nematollahi explains how the meetings went on: “Everyone who wanted to leave was supposed to attend a meeting where he was put under harsh peer pressure. Commanders and even peers humiliated him insulting, spitting on him and even beating him.”

However, the public meeting was not the end of this violent procedure. “If he was not convinced to stay in the group, he was taken to a smaller meeting where a dozen of commanders tortured him,” Amir states. “These actions were taken systematically under the direct order of Massoud Rajavi.”

Amir states the names several MEK members who got victims of the totalitarian structure of the Cult of Rajavi. Ali Tabrizi is one of the members he recounts his heartbreaking fate in the MEK camp:
“Ali was a young boy from Tabriz. He had been a sympathizer of the group and he had legally traveled to Turkey and then to Iraq but shortly after he arrived in the group, he declared that he did not want to stay there. The group leaders seized his legal passport and handed him over to Iraqi intelligence. He was eventually jailed in Abu Quraib where terrible living conditions caused him to get infected by tuberculosis. He was almost dying when an Iraqi doctor helped him to get treatments in a hospital. Having become so desperate, Ali wrote a letter to the MEK and asked them to let him get back to the camp. However, when he returned, again he asked for his passport. He told the group leaders ‘it is your duty to send me back to Turkey’. Later, he was disappeared. He was my friend but I did not see him in the meetings anymore.”

Amir recalls Maryam Rajavi’s words saying “Massoud has come to save the world”! The former bomb maker of the MEK terror teams says, “The Rajavis do not provide the expenses of dental treatment for a young member of their cult but they run their kingdom with the funds they were offered by Saddam Hussein and Saudi Arabia.”
Amir Nematolahi speaks out about the human rights violations committed by the MEK leaders twenty years after his defection from the MEK. “I kept silent for over twenty years,” he argues. “Today, I am speaking because I want my testimonies to be recorded in the history. The MEK leaders must be tried in a fair trial for what they did.”

March 7, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

You saved my life? child soldier asks the MEK

Former child soldier of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) writes about several questions his mind was flooded with during the years he was kept under the rule of the Cult of Rajavi. Under the order of Massoud Rajavi, Mohammad Reza Torabi and 800 children of the MEK were separated from their Mujahed parents in 1991. He was smuggled to Canada where he had to stay with MEK agents in their bases in Toronto or he was forced to live with families who were linked with the group. This is his Facebook post on his concerns as a child whose basic rights were violated in the MEK:

The main question that has come to my mind all these years after being sent from Iraq to Canada was why not even one of my parents accompanied me? Wasn’t it their goal to save my life, as they said? Why did my mom let me be handed over to a family in Toronto that constantly assaulted me, even when they were mad at their other kids? A family with a psychotic mother and a revengeful father who hated the MEK and projected his hatred for Massoud Rajavi on me. Why was it allowed to be sexually assaulted by one of Rajavi’s full-time supporters at the age of 11 at the MEK’s base in Toronto? Why?! Wasn’t it their duty to protect my life?

I got the answer when I wanted to leave the MEK in 2017. When Zahra Seraj (my biological mother) gave me an ultimatum saying, “If you leave the Mujahedin, you are no longer my son and I will no longer have a relationship with you.” And I proudly left the Rajavi worshiping cult. Yes, Rajavi’s dirty ideology has brainwashed these fathers and mothers that they are ready to prefer the organization and its disappeared leader over their children not once but a thousand times. They have become so brainwashed that now in the German court they write false testimonies against us. The bitter humor of the story is that they consider it their honor!

History will make harsh judgement on these fake revolutionaries. The winter will go and the blackness will remain in the charcoal.
The Mujahedin Organization, the trial is ahead.
Tick tok tok!

At the age of 16, the MEK agents promised Mohammad Reza to take him to Iraq to visit his parents. However, he was made sign a recruitment form to join the MEK’s army in Iraq, National Liberation Army! He was not told that his father had passed away five years earlier. He came to know about his father’s death just after he arrived in Camp Ashraf in 1999. During the 18 years that he was in the Cult of Rajavi, he worked hard serving the alleged cause of the MEK. He was never told how his father was killed under torture in the MEK’s internal prison. He was informed about his father’s killers only after he left the group in 2017. Today he lives in Germany enjoying the free world. He is writing his autobiography “A Ray of Light”.

March 6, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Message from a daughter to her beloved father in the MEK

Samira was only one and a half year old when her father left her and her mother behind to join the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK). She has not seen her father since then. Samira is 42 years old; she is married and she has two children who have no idea about their grandfather.

“When my father married my mother, he was both a teacher and a farmer,” Samira said. “I was one and a half years old when he left Iran to join the MEK. As far as my father was in France, he used to call my grandmother once a year but since he went to Iraq, we have had no access to him.”

Samira Shahsavar and her chidlren

Esmail Shahsavar, 69, from northern Iran, Golestan province, is still a member of the MEK. In better words, he is a hostage of the MEK who has been kept behind the bars of the Cult of Rajavi for forty years. He is residing in the group’s Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania, now. He has not been allowed to contact his family during these long years of separation.

When the group was located in Iraq, Ismail’s wife and his brother traveled to Iraq to visit him but they were not allowed by the group leaders to visit him. “My mother lives alone,” Samira told Nejat Society. “She has been expecting the return of my father in all these years. Her desire is the return of her husband.”

Samira has already published several messages to her beloved father in the hope that he will see them someday. This is a part of one of her messages to Esmail she sent two years ago:

“Dear father, I am your little Samira. I am 40 now and the mother of two children but I have never enjoyed the love of my father. What an ideology says that a father is not allowed to call his child? Dear father, I love you and I want you to get back to normal life, to enjoy life in free world.”

March 5, 2022 0 comments

Iran

12000 Iranian people killed at the hands of the MEK terrorists

out of the 17,000-plus people who have lost their lives in terror attacks, 12,000 of them were killed at the hands of the MKO terrorist group.

US violating every norm of international law, must be condemned by intl. community: Iran’s top rights official

Iran’s top human rights official says the United States is practically violating all norms of international law and its practices must be condemned by the entirety of the international community.

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs, made the remarks while addressing the 49th regular session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

Kazem Gharibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and the Judiciary chief’s deputy for international affairs

He said sanctions against Iran have prevented the country’s access to essential medicines and medical supplies and blocked the transfer of humanitarian aid to Tehran in times of natural disasters and the coronavirus pandemic.

“The United States, which acts as a global self-appointed police force, is violating all international rights and norms,” he added.

He emphasized that the international community should not accept such an illegal, unlawful and illegitimate approach.

“Given the predictable and costly consequences of sanctions, they should be viewed as a weapon and a means of aggression. Unilateral economic and commercial coercive measures are contrary to the aims and objectives of human rights and are in fact the collective punishment of ordinary people and should be considered a crime against humanity,” Gharibabadi emphasized.

The US unilaterally left the 2015 agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in 2018 and re-stored the sanctions that had been lifted under the accord. Washington’s European allies in the deal—France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—have been toeing the sanctions line closely by ending their trade activities with Iran.

The Vienna talks began last April between Iran and the remaining parties to the JCPOA on the assumption that the US, under the Joe Biden administration, is willing to repeal the so-called maximum pressure policy pursued by former president, Donald Trump, against Tehran.

Iran has repeatedly denounced the sanctions as an act of “economic war,” “economic terrorism,” and “medical terrorism,”

Iran one of biggest victims of terrorism

The Iranian human rights official said the Islamic Republic is one of the biggest victims of terrorism and thousands of innocent Iranian people have been killed or wounded by terrorist groups over the past 43 years.

He added that the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MKO) terrorist group has carried out the most acts of terror against the Iranian people which amount to crimes against humanity and noted that out of the 17,000-plus people who have lost their lives in terror attacks, 12,000 of them were killed at the hands of the MKO terrorist group.

Gharibabadi said that this terrorist group, with its dark history, has had administrative organizations in some European countries from the very beginning and their agents have traveled freely across European countries and the US without any restrictions or legal prosecution while some of these countries have become a safe haven for the terrorists.

He asked, “How can some countries that claim to advocate human rights and fight terrorism, call a group that has on its hand the blood of thousands of innocent women and children in Iran, Syria and Iraq … as defenders of human rights?! How can this contradiction be justified?!”

The Iranian human rights official called on the officials of European countries, the European Union, the United Nations and the Human Rights Council to address widespread crimes committed by the MKO and take serious action to prevent the terrorist group from operating freely in Europe and bring its criminal perpetrators and ringleaders to justice.

The anti-Iran cult was on the US government’s list of terrorist organizations until 2012. Major European countries, including France, have also removed it from their blacklists.

A few years ago, the MKO elements were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and later sent to Albania.

The MKO terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe and even hold regular meetings in which European and American officials make speeches.

March 3, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Israel Using Mojahedin Khalq From Albania

Olsi Jazexhi: West, Israel Using MKO to Counter Political Islam

Olsi Jazexhi, Albanian historian and journalist, says Zionists in Israel, the US and UK are supporting Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI or NCRI) terrorist group to destroy Islam and Iran.

Speaking in an interview with FNA, Jazexhi said, “MKO is an Islamophobic and terrorist cult like ISIS, Al-Qaeda or Jahbat al Nusra… These cults denounce political Islam, the struggle for decolonization of Muslims, demand for the separation of religion from politics, ask for the secularization of Muslim societies and want to violently de-Islamize the Muslim world… MKO is the best terrorist and radical organization which can do such a horrible crime.”

Olsi Jazexhi, PhD, is a Canadian-Albanian university lecturer and historian who is specialized in the history of Islam, nationalism and religious reformation in Southeastern Europe.

Canadian-Albanian university lecturer and historian; Olsi Jazexhi

Below is the full text of the interview:

Q: We know Albania, like most of the Balkans, was historically anti-Israel, and rather pro-Palestine. Why do we see policy shift in Albania in the last two decades?

A: The reason why most Balkan countries were supporting the Palestinian issue and not Israel is very complex. The most important reasons were Ottomans and Socialism. Before World War I Palestine belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The British had not yet invented Israel and the activities of the Zionists to occupy the Holy Land were denounced by peoples of the Balkans. Palestine with Jerusalem were considered holy places by Christians and Muslims who used to go to Jerusalem for pilgrimage. 120 years ago – the idea that one day the British will invent a state called Israel and only for the Jews, was unimaginable.

After the Second World War most of the Balkan countries joined the Socialist Block headed by the Soviet Union. Having fought and won over Nazi Germany, the communist governments of Southeastern Europe could not support the newly invented apartheid state of Israel. For the communist/socialist governments and peoples of the Balkans Israel was perceived as racist and aggressor state and supporting it was morally unacceptable.

The war of liberation that Palestinians were making against Israel, reminded the people of Southeastern Europe to the war that they made against the Nazi occupation. Communism came to the Balkans as a liberation ideology. A major theme of the Marxist ideology was the national liberation of the oppressed people. The struggle for independence of the Palestinians was seen through Lenin’s advocacy of anti-imperialism and self-determination of all peoples who were suffering under the colonial rule in Asia and Africa.

During the era of socialism the Palestinian struggle was not seen as a fight between the Israeli theocratic regime and Muslim Palestinians, but as a struggle between a native colonized population and Israel which was depicted as a tool of Western imperialism against the Arab world.

However, after the defeat of communism and triumph of Western imperialism, most Balkan countries have been forced by the Americans to abandon the plight of the Palestinians and follow the Evangelical/Zionist religious dictate which does not allow the people of our planet to even question the crimes that Israel commits against the Palestinians.

After the fall of communism, Albania lost its independence and became an American colony. Albania today is like Iran in the time of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh or like Hungary under Soviet rule. No politician or political party, which does not obey the US Embassy dictates in Tirana can survive and enter the parliament. Albanian politicians, like our president Ilir Meta today, know very well that if they do not obey American dictates they might end like Imre Nagy in Hungary, Mosaddegh in Iran or Salvador Allende in Chile.

Unlike Iran where since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 the people of Iran have won independence and enjoy a free national democratic system, where foreign powers are not allowed to interfere in local elections, in Albania people are not free. The US Embassy in Tirana which behaves like an occupying power controls the whole political establishment of the country. It vets every politician who wants to enter in the parliament, every businessman who wants to invest in the country, every minister and even every Mullah for what they preach inside their mosques. People like Abdolnaser Hemmati, Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Mohsen Rezaee or President Ebrahim Raisi, if they were to run for elections in Albania, they would have not been allowed by the US Embassy to enter into politics. They would have been jailed since they believe in political Islam. The US Embassy of Tirana is not as tolerant as the Guardian Council of Iran which vets your politicians. While the Guardian Council vets Iranian politicians for their loyalty to Islam and the nation, the US Embassy in Tirana vets our politicians for their Islamophobia, disloyalty to the country and obedience to the American agenda. A condition to be elected as a parliamentarian in Albania is total obedience to American dictates. You have to say yes to their LGBT, pro-Israel, imperialist, anti-religious agenda if you want to enter into politics and became an important player of our society. These facts can be read in the Wikileaks section of Albania.

While Islam is the dominant religion of Albania, it is not allowed to play any role in our society. Americans and Israelis consider Islam a dangerous ideology. In Albania and Kosovo we have mullahs and believers who have been jailed for their Islamic political convictions. Political parties like Levizja Islame Bashkohu (the Islamic United Movement) in Kosovo have been closed and its activists and leaders jailed. American officials consider Islam a hostile ideology, since Islam does not accept the Zionist occupation of Jerusalem–al-Quds, rejects the international interest base monetary system, colonialism, imperialism, the LGBT agenda, etc.

However, while Islam is considered a “dangerous ideology”, we have many Evangelical Christians and priests who serve as deputies in the parliament, city mayors, ministers, TV presenters, etc. Their theological religious identity is promoted and appreciated by the Americans even though the Evangelicals are less than 1% of our total population. While they are promoted, if you are a believer of Islam, a Muslim cleric, etc. you are not allowed to work in state institutions, army and enter into politics. You are investigated by counterterrorism police as a potential terrorist, you are not allowed to create a Muslim political party and you cannot even post such ideas in your mosque or in Facebook. If you speak about political Islam, the rights of the Muslims, the plight of the Palestinians, etc. you will be immediately banned.

The Muslim majority of Albania but even in Kosovo live in apartheid like regimes. Islam is not allowed to have its say in the country.

Q: Why is Albania hosting MKO? Is hosting a terrorist group in the national interest of the country?

A: Albania is hosting the MKO on orders by the Americans. Israel is very happy with Albania hosting the MKO since it is one of the major enemies of Iran, Islam and Palestine. If you read the Israeli media, its think-tank organizations and politicians you will see that most of them support and sympathize the MKO. Maryam Rajavi and her fighters are staunch enemies of Islam, the Vilayat al Faqih and their dream is to remove Islam from Iran and the Middle East and massacre the Muslim clergy. The MKO hatred and policies against Islam in Iran are similar to those that the Soviets did in Central Asia.

The Israeli lobby, Zionist American and British politicians perceive the MKO and its totalitarian ideology as the extremist “Bolsheviks” that are needed to destroy political Islam once and for all in Iran and in the Middle East. People like John Bolton, Mark D. Wallace, Joseph Lieberman, Frances Townsend, Giulio Terzi who want regime change in Turkey and in Iran have a common thing in mind: the Muslim World should not be allowed to have Islamic political parties in power. That is why the West supports MKO against Iran and the Gulen movement against Turkey. Both these cults denounce political Islam, the struggle for decolonization of Muslims, demand for the separation of religion from politics, ask for the secularization of Muslim societies and want to violently de-Islamize the Muslim world. Western Zionists want to kill Islam like they did with Catholicism and the MKO is the best terrorist and radical organization which can do such a horrible crime.

For as long as Muslims practice political Islam, the theocratic regime of Israel will have problems to find a ‘final solution’ for Masjid al-Aqsa and its Palestinian population.

Q: How does MKO recruit Albanians?

A: MKO runs a paramilitary camp in Albania. It has a huge spy network and uses Albania as a base to attack Iran and political Islam. With American support it has turned Albania into a no-go zone for Iranians. Many Iranians who travel to Europe via Albania are arrested and jailed – since MKO claims that any Iranian who enters Albania – without the approval of Maryam Rajavi – is an Iranian spy.

MKO spends millions of dollars in propaganda. It hosts conferences to promote its image as a “democratic” and anti-Islamic movement that will finish once and for all Islam and the clergy in Iran. It sponsors many newspapers and portals in Albania and has a multi-million-dollar budget through which it pays politicians in USA and Europe to demonize Iran. Its major job for the time being is to incite Europeans and Americans to go to war with Iran and turn Iran into a second Libya, Syria or Iraq.

MKO is an Islamophobic and terrorist cult like ISIS, Al-Qaeda or Jahbat al Nusra. If you read and listen to the speeches of Maryam Rajavi you can understand that MKO’s dream is to destroy Islam in Iran, execute the clergy and turn Iran into an American–Israeli colony like Bahrain or Saudi Arabia. In the latest conference that Rajavi held from Albania – she and her American supporters revealed their plans to divide Iran into different states. They want to create a state for the Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis and other ethnic groups and divide Iran like Libya, Syria or Iraq.

Thanks to the American-Israeli-Saudi support, MKO like ISIS and Nusra in 2011–2013 has managed to recruit and radicalize many Albanians in its cause. Like ISIS which turned many Europeans into suicide bombers and terrorists who entered and destroyed Syria – MKO has radicalized many people in Europe, who one day might enter Iran and commit terrorist attacks. MKO uses the Syrian takfiri playbook to radicalize its supporters. They promise freedom, democracy, liberation and accuse the leaders of Iran as brutal rulers, dictators and butchers. Exactly what Daesh propaganda did in Syria. The end result behind MKO’s propaganda will be the total destruction of Iran and millions of Iranians who will die, abandon their country and seek refuge in Europe.

March 3, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

This Week; a Magazine that Fell Victim to MEK Violance

Although it was not common among the armed oppositions of the Pahlavi regime to attack the press, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, for the first time, hit a magazine titled This Week which was being published in Tehran. It was launched in 1965 in English and from 1970 to 1972, it was printed in Persian as well. This magazine was the only pornographic magazine in Iran.

The editor of this magazine was Javad Alamirdolou, an experienced press agent who was a reporter in Ettela’at newspaper and Journal de Téhéran, manager of the Jam-e-Jahan Nama magazine, representative of Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française, and reporter of the L’Express and Le Monde.

On May 2, 1972, the magazine’s office was exploded (Ettela’at newspaper No.13785, p4) which attracted a lot of attention. The blast led to the injury of 5 people (3 men and 2 women) (Political Studies and Research Institute, the case of This Week Magazine). According to one of the perpetrators of this attack, the MEK had selected a day when all editorial board members had gathered together in a meeting (Morteza Alviri’s memoirs, Islamic Development Organization, 1996).

This Week; a Magazine that Fell Victim to MEK Violance

Former mayor of Tehran and a member of the MEK at the time, Morteza Alviri who established the Fallah organization, played a role in the bombing incident. He was responsible for identifying and making a sketch of the magazine office. He writes in his memoire:

“A magazine titled This Week was being distributed in which sexy photos were printed. It was the only magazine with nude pictures at the time. I felt responsible to stand against this magazine. I talked to Vahid Afrakhteh in that regard and told him that such magazines would be detrimental to the youth- who are our future fighters- and that we had to stop this magazine from perverting their minds. If the magazine’s office were blown up, people would develop better feelings towards the MEK.”

Vahid Afrakhteh shared my idea with the organization and they agreed with it. Afrakhte asked me to locate the office. It was on Shah Street (currently the Jomhouri-eslami Street). I provided Afrakhte with the address.

Not more than a few days had elapsed when I read in the newspaper, “Office of This Week magazine has been blown up”. The MEK had picked a time when all members of the editorial board were present at the office.

On the following day, Vahid Afrakhteh asked me in our meeting to keep the bombing incident secret and be really careful. However, the newspapers raved and wrote extensively about it. Anyhow, the explosion created a positive reaction and that magazine was closed for good.

The news of the explosion spread in the newspapers like wildfire for a couple of days and heightened on May 6, 1972, after a trade of fire on Khorshid St. between security forces and two bombers. One police officer and one of the suspects were killed in the shootout and the second was arrested. Ettela’at daily’s report of the events was as follows: “following the last week’s bomb explosion in the office of This Week magazine and the British Overseas Airways Corporation office, law enforcement and security forces arrested saboteurs in their hideout. A police officer identified as Second Lieutenant Ala’eddin Javid was martyred. One of the saboteurs was gunned down and the second, trying to slip away, was arrested. The downed saboteur was identified as Ali Asqar Montazeri Haqiqi, one of the members of the so-called Liberation Movement whose ringleaders, apprehended with a huge cache of arms, had been tried, and convicted.” (Ettela’at, May 8, 1972).

Following the news of Khorshid St. gun battle, other newspapers published the news of a shootout on Farhang St. and named the dead saboteur as Habib Rahbari (Ettela’at, May 9, 1972, p. 1). What matters most is that the newspapers i.e. the Shah’s security service a.k.a. SAVAK placed the responsibility of the blast on the Mujahedin-e Khalq (a.k.a. MEK, MKO, and PMOI) or according to the newspapers the “Liberation Movement”.

Despite other armed attacks, MEK did not publish a statement taking credit for the bombing. However, Mahdi Rezaei stated in his defense in the District Court in September 1972: “Before I was arrested, we conducted an operation, including detonating a bomb in the office of This Week. […] I was not involved in the bombing and later I found out that five of the staff and directors of the magazine were injured.” (Ibid, pp. 76-77)

Attached is the then Information Ministry’s report of the exploded building and the injured.

This explosion should be regarded as a string of blasts started back in 1970s by some groups’ armed and guerilla war.

Following the Fadaian Khalq’s attack against the Siahkal Gendarmerie post on February 8, 1971, MEK planned to blow up a power station to disrupt the August 1971 celebration to mark the 2500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy. However, they failed and so many arrests were made. Some 70 members and leaders of the group ended up in Shah’s prison. Twelve out of 13 major leaders of the group as well as 9 other members were executed. According to General Nasiri, the then head of SAVAK, Massoud Rajavi’s sentence had been mitigated to life imprisonment due to his effective cooperation with SAVAK.

Following the execution of its leaders, MEK carried out a string of terrorist attacks, including raiding a Police station in Tehran in May 1972, exploding the office of This Week due to fostering the western culture in Iran, bombing the tomb of Reza Shah and the facilities of several US companies in Iran, including Pepsi Cola, General Motors, Shell Oil, Hotel International, Pan-Am Airlines, etc.
https://www.habilian.ir/en/202202074494/articles/this-week-a-magazine-that-fell-victim-to-mek-violance.html

February 23, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Kak Adel, thief, smuggler, torturer and murderer of the MEK

According to the Albanian journalist Gjergji Thanasi, the Albanian police have arrested former Iranian terrorist Mohammad Sadat Darbandi, nicknamed “Kak Adel” (in Kurdish language Brother Adel). He, along with some Albanian thieves, had terrorized small businesses in the Municipality of Kamez, breaking into some of them to steal. Thanasi warned the Albanian authorities about Kak Adel as “a real and present threat to the security, honor, life and wealth of Albanians.

Kak Adel is a notoriously known commander of the MEK whose name is heard in the testimonies of a large number of former members of the MEK. They recall him as the chief commander of the MEK’s internal prisons in Camp Ashraf. Seyed Mohammad Sadat Darbandi nicknamed KaK Adel was an interrogator and a torturer of dissident members of the MEK in 1994 and 1995 when Massoud Rajavi ordered the detention of at least 700 members of his own establishment.

Mohammad Sadat DArbandi aka Kak Adel; MEK torturor

In 1994, when Ghorban Ali Torabi died of torture in the cell before the eyes of other prisoners, Kak Adel ordered other torturers to invade the cell and beat the prisoners who witnessed Ghorban’s death. “You must not speak about the death of Ghorban Ali!”, he shouted at the detainees in the cell.
In April 2005, the name of Kak Adel was exposed by an international human rights body possibly for the first time. In the testimonies of Alireza Mir Asgari, interviewed by the researchers of the “NO Exit” report of Human Rights Watch, Kak Adel was introduced as a cruel agent of the MEK who did not hesitate to torture his own comrades inside the MEK:

Alireza Mir Asgari was a deputy director of one of the MKO’s military units in 1994 when he started to have concerns about the organization’s links with the Iraqi military. In January 1995, he was arrested and imprisoned. In June 1995, he was released after signing a contract promising to remain with the MKO’s forces. He was arrested again in 1998 and spent eight months in solitary confinement. In 2001, he arranged to escape, but his plan was discovered and he was imprisoned again until 2003, when he was turned over to Iraqi forces who then abandoned him along the Iran-Iraq border. He described his sudden arrest in 1995:

I was arrested without notice on January 29, 1995. I was told to go to a meeting with a team who were preparing for operations in Iran. These kinds of discussions were a regular part of my duties. I was taken to a room and told to wait. Hasan Mohasel, one of the MKO’s top intelligence officers, came into the room and put a note in front of me saying that I had been arrested because I was an agent of Iranian intelligence and had infiltrated the Liberation Army. I couldn’t believe what was happening; I thought it was a joke and started to laugh. But Hasan Mohasel cursed me and told me to stand against the wall. Suddenly two or three more people entered the room and began to blindfold me and to tie my hands behind my back. I was in total shock. They put me in a car and drove around for forty-five minutes inside the camp. I was taken to a building; I didn’t know where it was. Hasan Sadat Darbandi, also known as Adel, removed my blindfold and threw me into a cell with many other prisoners. I could not believe it; I thought there had been a coup inside the organization. Each day, a number of prisoners were taken for interrogation. They were beaten badly; after they were brought back, their heads and faces were tremendously swollen.

After a couple of days, it was my turn to be taken for interrogation. They asked me why I had joined the MKO. I told them I came here to fight Khomeini’s government, but they said that wasn’t true. During the first couple of days of interrogation, they beat me mercilessly. It was very depressing; I really wanted to commit suicide. I was only seventeen years old when I left Iran and came to Iraq to join the MKO. I had spent my entire adult life in their camps.

Eventually, I gave up and agreed to sign the forced confessions stating that I had ties to Iranian intelligence. I was taken to a meeting with Masoud Rajavi, who told me that if I stayed for another two years, they would release me and send me to Spain. Mir Asgari was released in June 1995. He spent the next two years waiting for the organization to release and transfer him to Spain. However, he was told that because of his wealth of information, he could not be released. His protests led to his imprisonment again:

On March 25, 1998, I was taken to a prison where my old case from 1995 was reopened. They said that based on my own confession, I was an Iranian agent and could not be trusted. I spent eight months in solitary confinement. During this period, I was told that my sister in Iran had been arrested and executed. Later I found this to be untrue.

After recanting his request to leave Iraq, Mir Asgari was released. Since the organization was not going to allow him to leave, he started to design an escape plan. His plan to escape was discovered, and he was arrested again. He was kept in solitary confinement for nearly two years, from 2001 to 2003. A few months prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in February 2003, Mir Asgari was turned over to the Iraqi forces who took him to the Iran-Iraq border along the Arvandrood River [Shatt al-Arab] and released him there. He is living in Europe.

February 22, 2022 0 comments

Human Rights Abuse in the MEK

Former child soldier of the MEK – They killed my father

Mohammad Reza Torabi (Ray Torabi) seeks the trial of the MEK leaders for the murder of his father under torture in the group’s prison. His father Ghorban Ali Torabi was killed in the MEK’s internal prisons in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, in 1994. As a member of the MEK, Mohammad Reza did not know about his father’s killing until he left the group, in 2017.

Mohammad Reza Torabi who is one of the former child soldiers of the MEK has recently began denouncing the MEK for violation of human rights, in the social media. He was also a victim of the MEK cult-like system. Unlike his father, he survived an 18-year-long membership in the group and could manage to leave it 4 years ago.
Mohammad Reza’s biological mother, Zahra Seraj, is still under the MEK’s brainwashing structure and denies him as her son because, as she says, “he is a traitor to the organization”. In his recent Facebook post, Mohammad Reza asks the MEK leaders to explain how his father was killed under the torture in the group’s prison.
“28 years after the death of my father, I just got to know about the whereabouts of his grave,” he writes.

“My Mujahed mother and aunts and those who killed my father did not tell me about it but I was told by witnesses of their crime. When I arrived in the MEK’s base in Iraq in 1999, I realized that my father had died 5 years earlier. I should state that I was just informed how and by who he was killed after 23 years when I left the MEK in 2017. My Mujahed mother and all those who call themselves unique revolutionaries lied to me for a long time.”

Mohammad Reza Torabi regrets all those years that he lived in close connection with the killers of his father. “I used to work with those who are responsible for the killing of my father in Camp Ashraf,” he writes. “I used to live with them, eat with the, kiss and hug them, look in their eyes while I did not know anything about what they did to my father.”

Mohammad Reza Torabi

Four years after his defection from the Cult of Rajavi, the son of Ghorbani Ali Torabi is now ready to receive any information on the murder of his father by the side of the witnesses. “I’d say that I am ready to talk to any individual receiving any document and testimony in order to find the truth about my father,” he writes.

It is worth to know that the internationally documented testimony about the murder of Ghorban Ali Torabi was first published by the Human Rights Watch, in April 2005. The report was titled “No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps”. Even in the summary of the HRW’s report, the case of Torabi as a person who was killed by the MEK torturers was brought up:
Human Rights Watch interviewed five of these former MKO members who were held in Abu Ghraib prison. Their testimonies, together with testimonies collected from seven other former MKO members, paint a grim picture of how the organization treated its members, particularly those who held dissenting opinions or expressed an intent to leave the organization.

The former MKO members reported abuses ranging from detention and persecution of ordinary members wishing to leave the organization, to lengthy solitary confinements, severe beatings, and torture of dissident members. The MKO held political dissidents in its internal prisons during the 1990s and later turned over many of them to Iraqi authorities, who held them in Abu Ghraib. In one case, Mohammad Hussein Sobhani was held in solitary confinement for eight-and-a-half years inside the MKO camps, from September 1992 to January 2001.
The witnesses reported two cases of deaths under interrogation. Three dissident members—Abbas Sadeghinejad, Ali Ghashghavi, and Alireza Mir Asgari—witnessed the death of a fellow dissident, Parviz Ahmadi, inside their prison cell in Camp Ashraf. Abbas Sadeghinejad told Human Rights Watch that he also witnessed the death of another prisoner, Ghorbanali Torabi, after Torabi was returned from an interrogation session to a prison cell that he shared with Sadeghinejad.

GhorbanAli Torabi Qorban was tortured to death by the MEK

At the time, the No Exit report was expectably labeled by the MEK’s paid lobby a group known as Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI), comprising four Members of the European Parliament – Alejo Vidal Quadras, Paulo Casaca, Andre Brie, and Struan Stevenson, as “orchestrated by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence”!
Thus, in February 24, 2006, HRW published a “statement on Responses to Human Rights Watch Report on Abuses by the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)”, in which the testimonies about the killing of Torabi were once more confirmed:

Their responses, in the view of Human Rights Watch, confirm the credibility and reliability of their original testimonies in No Exit. The Human Rights Watch report contained allegations by witnesses that two MKO members, Ghorbanali Torabi and Parviz Ahmadi, died as a result of abuse suffered in MKO detention. The FOFI document challenged these testimonies.

With regard to Ghorbanali Torabi’s death, the FOFI delegation interviewed two MKO members in Camp Ashraf who disputed these testimonies. These two MKO members, Zahra Seraj, Torabi’s wife, and Masoume Torabi, Torabi’s sister, told the FOFI delegation that he had died of a heart attack, and not as a result of beatings at the hands of MKO officials. Neither of them claimed to have been present when he died. According to a communication to Human Rights Watch from Lord Avebury, who said he had interviewed Masouma Torabi by telephone on June 13, 2005, “Masouma saw Ghorbanali a week before he died.”

Human Rights Watch again questioned Abbas Sadeghinejad, one of Human Right Watch’s original sources on these events, about Torabi’s death. Abbas Sadeghinejad confirmed his earlier testimony, based on his experience of sharing a prison cell with Torabi. He again told Human Rights Watch that late one night, after Torabi had been taken out of the cell for two days, two men carried Torabi back to the cell, threw him inside, and locked the cell again. Torabi, Sadeghinejad said, was not breathing and his face showed signs of severe beating. He said that other cellmates examined Torabi more closely and believed that he had suffered broken bones. Sadeghinejad acknowledged that Torabi may have died of a heart attack, but maintained that the MKO had severely beaten Torabi, apparently during interrogation.

Alireza Mir Asgari corroborated the fact of Torabi’s detention and ill-treatment at the hands of the MKO, based on his own direct experience. Mir Asgari told Human Rights Watch that the MKO also detained him at the time Torabi was detained. He said that he knew Torabi well as a child in Iran, and that Torabi had recruited him in Tehran at the age of seventeen to join the MKO ranks in Iraq. Mir Asgari told Human Rights Watch that during his detention in 1995, he encountered Torabi face-to-face during an interrogation session. He said that the interrogators questioned them both about Torabi’s motivation for recruiting Mir Asgari to the MKO camps in Iraq and accused them of working for the Iranian government. Mir Asgari said that when he met Torabi during this interrogation, Torabi’s body showed signs of beatings and physical abuse.

Mir Asgari told Human Rights Watch that when he raised the subject of Torabi’s death with MKO leader Massoud Rajavi, Rajavi alternately responded that Torabi had committed suicide and that Mir Asgari and other prisoners had themselves killed Torabi because they suspected him of being an informant. He said Rajavi at no point claimed that Torabi had died from a heart attack.”

Besides, there are numerous testimonies presented in Persian by other former members of the MEK about the death of Ghorban Ali Torabi under torture. Mohammad Razaghi, Siamak Naderi, Alireza and many others who do not want their names to be exposed, testified that Ghorban Ali was brought to the cell where twenty other MEK members were imprisoned. He had bean beaten to death. It was just two weeks to the Persian New Year, in the winter of 1994.

February 21, 2022 0 comments

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