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Two other MEK members defected the group in Albania

Hassan Heirani announced the separation of Mehdi Mazloumi and Ali Asghar Kalateh Seifari from the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Albania.

In a video link with some of Nejat society families of Zanjan, the head of ASILA, Hassan Heyrani, reported these two members’ defection from the group. The online meeting held on Saturday,Dec.25.
The newly established ASILA has the duty to support the Iranians who defect the Cult of Rajavi and the families of those who are still taken as hostages in the group’s camp Ashraf 3, in the region of Durres in North of Tirana, Albania.

The families efforts to free the MEK cult hostages along with the ASILA activities provide more incentive for the cult hostages to liberate themselves.

December 26, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The birthday boy in the MEK; Mother blows out the candles in Tehran

Soraya Abdollahi blew out the candles on the birthday cake of her son, Amir Aslan who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq (the MEK/ the Cult of Rajavi) for 20 years.
Amir Aslan was born on Yalda Night which marks the winter solstice in the Persian calendar. Since 2002, every year at Yalda Night, Soraya blows out the candles and cuts the birthday cake of Amir Aslan in his absence.
Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh was only 19 when he fell in the trap of the MEK recruiters in Turkey. During the 20 years that he has been behind the bars of the Cult of Rajavi, his mother has been endeavoring to find a way to contact Amir Aslan.

Soraya Abdollahi

“My dear Amir Aslan! I blew out the candles of your 39th birthday as every year in these past twenty years,” Soraya said addressing her beloved son. “I am still hopeful that you will be with me next year.”
Weeping tears while cutting the cake, Soraya talks to her radicalized son in the MEK’s camp in Albania. “I hope that you will be able to make a decision to find your way to freedom,” she tells Amir Aslan.

In order to visit her son, Soraya Abdollahi has taken various actions but she has not been successful yet. She traveled to Iraq several times when the MEK was located there. She picketed in front of the gates of MEK’s camps in Iraq but the group authorities never allowed AmirAslan to visit his mother. Soraya also traveled to the UN’s office in Geneva to appeal to the UN special rapporteur on human rights. She has written so many letters to the international community and the Albanian authorities. She is now the head of an association for mothers of MEK hostages.

December 25, 2021 0 comments

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Iranians outside MEK’s camp celebrate Yalda Night in Albania

Former members of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) celebrated Yalda Night in Albania.

The Iranian residents of Albania, who have defected the MEK’s cult-like group, celebrated the winter solstice, known as Yalda in Persian culture, in Tirana, on December 21.

At Yalda Night, Iranians celebrate the arrival of winter, the renewal of the sun and the victory of light over darkness. Families gather together, stay up all night, eat red fruits, nuts and special dishes. They tell stories, read the poetries of Iranian poets like Hafez and speak of the good that can overcome evil. However, all these family activities are forbidden in the MEK as a so-called Iranian group.

A few of former members of the MEK who got married after their defection from the group, attended the celebration together with their families. Other defectors of the MEK who have not married yet or are far from their families in Iran, try to keep in touch with their friends through such occasions.

MEK defectors celebrated Yalda in Albania

These free Iranians living in Albania who have recently established the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) gathered together to keep the ceremonies of Yalda alive in Albania. As one of the missions of ASILA is developing cultural interactions between Iranians and Albanians, some Albanian friends of ASILA members attended the party.
The event indicates the determination of MEK defectors to live a normal life maintaining all traditions that link them to their homeland and family, despite years of being deprived from a normal family life in the MEK camps.

December 25, 2021 0 comments

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Good News From Albania – Family Visits May Go Ahead

In a summit held on December 20-21, hosted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the Albanian capital Tirana with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, a raft of deals were signed that will lead the way to further links between the countries. Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia launched the Open Balkan initiative in October 2019 to promote ties with the aim to establish a single market to pave the way for EU membership.

“Our goal is that the Balkans have no more borders for people, for the movement of goods, capital, and services — four European Union principles,” Albania’s prime minister said.

This is good news for ASILA, the association registered with the Albanian Judiciary whose aim is to support Iranians living in Albania. ASILA not only helps defectors from the Rajavi cult with their rights and living arrangements, it also hopes to reunite families estranged by the MEK’s anti-family policy. In a video link with some of these families gathered in Tehran, the head of ASILA, Hassan Heyrani, explained that the Open Balkan initiative would open the way to facilitate these visits.

Heyrani added that the ASILA Association also has the power to establish a travel agency in order to provide visitor visas for the Iranian families willing to visit their loved ones in Albania.

summit held on December 20-21, hosted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the Albanian capital Tirana with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev

Sources:

1- Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia Deepen Ties At ‘Open Balkan’ Summit
Radio Free Europe

TIRANA — Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia have signed a raft of deals and agreed to further their Open Balkan initiative to promote ties as the three countries’ leaders held two days of talks in Tirana.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama hosted the December 20-21 summit in the Albanian capital with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
The sides inked six agreements on the labor market, electronic identification, and the lifting of nontariff barriers for businesses, among other things.

They had previously decided to abolish customs controls from January 1, 2023.
Rama said the Open Balkan initiative’s goal is to establish a single market among its members and pave the way for EU membership.
“Our goal is that the Balkans have no more borders for people, for the movement of goods, capital, and services — four European Union principles,” Albania’s prime minister said.
The Open Balkan initiative, launched in October 2019, “is one of the biggest ideas in today’s Europe,” according to Vucic.
“The most important goal is to unite people who have been focusing more on the past rather than the future. It is important to connect people and their businesses,” the Serbian leader said.

According to Zaev, “Open Balkan is our way forward on the road to the European Union.”
The three Western Balkan countries are at different stages on the path to EU membership.
While Serbia has launched full membership negotiations, accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania have been delayed.
“We agreed that our three countries would not be held hostage to the failure of the European Union to unblock our European integration process,” Zaev said. “That process can be stopped in Brussels, but the Europeanization and implementation of European values in Northern Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania have no reason to be on hold.”

Officials of the three other Western Balkan countries seeking to join the EU — Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro — have expressed skepticism toward the Open Balkan initiative and rejected calls to join.
Vucic’s arrival in Tirana on December 20 triggered a protest by thousands of Albanians opposed to his visit and the summit.
The rally was called by former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who said the Open Balkan initiative was meant to “establish Serbian hegemony in the region.”
The next Open Balkan summit is scheduled for February in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje.

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2- ASILA: the way will be open for families of MEK hostages
Nejat Society

The head of the Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) spoke of the new options that are opening for the families of MEK members who are looking forward to visiting their loved ones in the group’s camp in Albania.
The newly established ASILA has the duty to support the Iranians who defects the Cult of Rajavi and the families of those who are still taken as hostages in the group’s camp Ashraf 3, in the region of Durres in North of Tirana, Albania.

In an online meeting between Hassan Heyrani, the head of ASILA, in Tirana, and a number of families of MEK members in the office of Nejat Society in Tehran, Heyrani promised to use all capacities of the association to pave the way for the families to travel to Albania.
“I assure you that the way will be opened,” he said. “The cult of Rajavi cannot prevent you from visiting your loved ones in a democratic European country. They have been supported by the US and Israel so far but they have not been able to keep their own children in their cult.”

In response to the heart-broken mother of Mijad Hajalirezai who was weeping tears languishing for her son, Heyrani said, “The Mujahedin cannot keep their members under pressure, mind control and intimidation forever. Half of their members have defected since the early 2000s.”
ASILA has been officially registered in the Albanian Judiciary department and its activities are closely supervised by the Albanian government.

December 23, 2021 0 comments

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ASILA: Good news for families of the MEK hostages

The head of the Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) spoke of the new options that are opening for the families of MEK members who are looking forward to visiting their loved ones in the group’s camp in Albania.
The newly established ASILA has the duty to support the Iranians who defects the cult of Rajavi and the families of those who are still taken as hostages in the group’s camp Ashraf 3, in the region of Durres in North of Tirana, Albania.

online meeting between Hassan Heirani, the head of ASILA, in Tirana, and a number of families of MEK members in the office of Nejat Society in Tehran

In an online meeting between Hassan Heirani, the head of ASILA, in Tirana, and a number of families of MEK members in the office of Nejat Society in Tehran, Heirani promised to use all capacities of the association to pave the way for the families to travel to Albania.
“I assure you that the way will be opened,” he said. “The cult of Rajavi cannot prevent you from visiting your loved ones in a democratic European country. They have been supported by the US and Israel so far but they have not been able to keep their own children in their cult.”

In response to the heart-broken mother of Mijad Hajalirezai who was weeping tears languishing for her son, Heirani said, “The Mujahedin cannot keep their members under pressure, mind control and intimidation forever. Half of their members have defected since the early 2000s.”
ASILA has been officially registered in the Albanian Judiciary department and its activities are closely supervised by the Albanian government.

December 22, 2021 0 comments

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New hopes for families of MEK defectors living in Albania

The CEO of ASILA reported of a new possibility for families of former members of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) to travel to Serbia and then to Kosovo in order to visit their loved ones living in Abania.
The head of the newly established Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) spoke of the good news for families of MEK defectors who are living in Albania.

Hassan Heirani – the head of ASILA Association

“The good news is that the president of Albania Edi Rama and the president of Kosovo signed an agreement, the day before yesterday, based on which the border between the two countries will be opened.” Hassan Heirani told families of MEK members in an online meeting. “Therefore, families will be able to take a flight from Iran to Belgrade, Serbia and from there they could come to Krishna which is 250 kilometers far from Tirana so we can go there to visit them.”
According to the statute of ASILA, the association has also the capacity to establish a travel agency in order to provide visitor visa for the Iranian families who are willing to visit their loved ones in Albania.

December 20, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

The MEK Failing to Win Support of Even Iran’s Enemies

Anne Khodabandeh, political activist, says the practice of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI and NCRI) terrorist group to pay huge amounts of money to former officials to speak at their conference proves that it has no support even among countries hostile to Iran.

In an interview with FNA, Ms. Khodabandeh said, “The MKO has been forced to create audiences by paying for students and refugees to attend these conferences. These individuals have no links to Iran and no interest in the issues presented.”

Anne Khodabandeh Singleton is a British expert in cultic abuse and terrorism. She was formerly an MKO member, leaving the terrorist group in 1996.

Ann Singleton

Below is the full text of the interview:

Q: How do you interpret MKO’s practice of having former officials of different country’s deliver speeches in the terror group’s annual conferences?

A: Every year, the MKO holds a lavish and gaudy conference to advertise its leader Maryam Rajavi and its agenda. This is because the MKO exists, particularly now, as a propaganda outfit rather than as a normal opposition movement. Over the years, because it has no support among Iranians – whether inside or outside Iran – the MKO has been forced to create audiences by paying for students and refugees to attend these conferences. These individuals have no links to Iran and no interest in the issues presented. This year of course the event was held online, so this issue was not particularly prominent. However, it remains the case that the MKO is also forced to pay for a variety of political and other officials to deliver speeches which replicate the MKO’s core message of regime change against Iran. The significance of this is that Maryam Rajavi has proven incapable of winning support even among the most strident of Iran’s enemies. It does not matter whether the speakers are of the calibre and prominence of individuals like John Bolton or Rudy Giuliani or are second-rate retired officials that nobody has heard of it is not authentic genuine support, it is paid for. The real problem for Rajavi, however, is that she cannot share the stage with any other Iranian. This is partly due to the toxicity of her bloody and treacherous past, but also due to her role as the sole leader of a mind control cult. She simply cannot be seen by her own followers to be allied to other Iranian opposition groups or personalities. In subtle ways then, these rallies are an admission of Rajavi’s weaknesses and desperation rather than the magnificent advertisements she thinks they are.

Q: MKO hires lobbying groups, pays tens of thousands of dollars to the speakers at their annual meetings, and pays to have meetings with officials of different countries. How is MKO funded?

A: The MKO has gained a reputation among media and political commentators for spending huge amounts of money to stage events like their annual conference and to fund their lobbying activities among western politicians. While this has raised questions about the source of these funds, a glance at the beneficiaries of the MKO’s anti-Iran activities should give a clear enough answer to these questions – America, Europe and the UK and of course Saudi Arabia and Israel are all linked to the MKO’s anti-Iran agenda and activities. But since the MKO have apparently failed year on year to fulfil the promise of regime change, we should perhaps ask not who but why? The MKO of course was notoriously funded by Saddam Hussein for two decades up to 2003 in return for terrorist, intelligence and propaganda services. As a purely mercenary force, the MKO has currently been reduced to providing intelligence and propaganda services for its paymasters. Around 2,000 of Maryam Rajavi’s followers are imprisoned as modern slaves in a closed camp in Albania. Their role is to work in the click farm producing propaganda, misinformation and lies in relation to Iran. This is what Rajavi is paid for. But although this might appear to be the only purpose of the camp, there is a more sinister element to this mercenary group. The MKO members are mostly elderly, and many are sick and dying. But, as the saying goes, where is the best place to hide a book: a library – so it is possible to hide a small number of actively trained suicide terrorists among the 2,000 camp residents.

Q: As a Briton, do you believe attendance of ex-UK Parliament Speaker at the MKO conference would actually attract Britons and their politicians?

A: It would be an understandable mistake to believe that the flashy staging of Maryam Rajavi’s rallies and events might attract the equivalent media attention. But any actual audience for Rajavi’s shows is so small and narrowly drawn that in spite of employing a lobbying firm in America to advertise the event, it is almost certain that apart from the paid media and people whose jobs it is to keep an eye on such groups – intelligence officials and researchers – nobody else in the world paid any attention whatsoever except her own followers and supporters. As for Britain, we had a football match to watch.

December 20, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 305

++ To mark ‘Tree Planting Day’ in Albania, ASILA Association coordinated an activity in which several former MEK members got together with local people to plant trees. The event was warmly welcomed by the people.

++ Albanians have reacted to news that the US State Department Country Reports on Terrorism 2020: Albania, goes full out in support for the MEK “opposition group” against “Iran’s state-sponsored activity directed primarily” against the MEK, and that “On July 23 a suspected agent sponsored by Iranian authorities was declared ‘unwanted’ by the Government of Albania and subsequently expelled from the country”. Commentary points out that although in Albania, where members of the political class, judiciary, security services and media are openly for sale, this type of unfounded bias is to be expected, coming from the US the assessment has either been pushed by Israel or paid for by Saudi Arabia.

US Assessment Paid or Pushed

US Dept of State in its latest report on Albania defends the Iranian terrorist cult Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, an ex-terrorist cult which is involved in terrorism, drug and human trafficking, abductions. How can the @USStateDepartm1 expect to be taken seriously?https://t.co/KXfaL3sbdH

— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) December 17, 2021

If the above declaration is true it means that @USEmbassyTirana is directly supporting Narges Abrishamchi & Hassan Nayeb-Agha who were caught by Albanian police trafficking drugs to Italy! @GiulioTerzi does #FreeIran mafia works with you in these smuggling operations?

— Olsi Jazexhi (@OlsiJ) December 8, 2021

++ Albanian journalist Gjergji Thanasi wrote about a romance between two former MEK members who recently married in Tirana. Thanasi says that love is a great antidote to the effects of cult membership. He likens the couple to Romeo and Juliet with Maryam Rajavi as the wicked enemy of love. But this time there is a happy ending. Thanasi reports that the Albanian police – immigration directorate – will be issuing ID cards to Iranian former MEK members who live in Albania in December. The ASILA Association, which protects the interests of these Iranians, has undertaken to help the couple with their rights.

In English:

++ Nejat Society reports that a book by Hanif Azizi, one of the evacuated children from Iraq, has been well received by Swedish readers. The book is reviewed on Good Reads where several people comment on it as ‘important’, ‘both tragic and inspiring’. Azizi was taken to Sweden as a child and was fortunate to have been placed with a non-Iranian, non-MEK foster family. This allowed him to develop as a normal citizen – although at one point in his youth he meets his mother in Iraq and is almost persuaded to join MEK. After returning to Sweden, he finds his direction and becomes a police officer. His book describes these experiences, which for the readers who review the book, is an ‘amazing story’.

++ Nejat Society comments on the MEK response to recent revelations by some of the evacuated children from Iraq, some of whom became child soldiers, and who, as adults, are beginning to speak out about their experiences. MEK typically denies their testimonies and says it is Iranian propaganda. However, in a Club House room with the topic ‘Accounts by former child soldiers of the MEK’, several of these former child soldiers met and revealed and confirmed accounts of abuse and mistreatment at the hands of MEK, including sexual abuse.

Dec 17, 2021

December 20, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

A letter to our brother Abbas Golrizan; hostage at the MEK Tirana Camp

Abbas was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war when he was taken as a war prisoner by the Iraqi forces.
“Abbas used to write letters to us from Iraqi POW camp via the International Red Cross from time to time but when the war was over and eventually the POWs were released by the Iraqi government, Abbas did not return home.”, his sister says.

Trying to find Abbas, the Golrizan family soon found out that Abbas had been transferred to the camp of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. Abbas has been in the MEK for over 30 years. When the group members based at Camp Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, the Golrizan family traveled to Iraq several times to visit Abbas. However, the cult leaders didn’t allow them. His family have no access to him. Their only resort is writing letters to the human rights bodies. They also write letters to Abbas and publish them on the cyberspace in the hope that Abbas would see and read them.

Abbas Golrizan sisters

The Abbas sisters have recently written another letter to him:

“Dear brother,
How long should we endure your being away? Save yourself from the trap you have fallen into. You are our only brother. We all love you and want you to be next to us. To live by our side.
We have sent you several letters during all these years. Why didn’t you reply to any of the letters? why don’t you contact us?
Dear bro, we know that you live in the closed camp of the MEK Cult. We know that you do not have access to the outside world. You don’t have permission to call us. We are sure that if you were free, you would have called us.
Please free yourself from the cult boundaries. We want you to live your own life freely. We know that you have had hard time living within the MEK Camps. We are waiting for you to liberate yourself and return to the family.”

December 19, 2021 0 comments

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Iranian Romeo & Juliet Versus Maryam Rajavi The Witch

It was in Tirana that the story of Iranian Romeo & Juliet, the couple in love, was repeated, like a production from Shakespeare’s “master” pen. This time, Romeo and Juliet are not from Verona but from Iran. Fortunately, the story of the loving Iranian couple in Tirana has a “happy ending” and not a tragic end like Shakespeare’s characters!

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi are the Iranian Romeo and Juliet in Tirana. The couple were previously members of the defunct terrorist organization Mujahedin Khalq, MEK, locked up in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Durres, Albania. They fell in love with each other thus violating one of the basic rules of the Rajavi cult (MEK): Love is “HARAM”! Love is forbidden because it prevents cult members from overthrowing the government of Iran! Those in the cult, however, have had forty short years, in which they have not yet overthrown the government in Tehran, even though they have declared “non grata” such a human feeling as love. Thankfully this time love triumphed over the wickedness of Maryam Rajavi, head of the Iranian cult of Manez. Sanaz and her brother Mehrdad were not intimidated by the threats of the cult commanders, nor were they seduced by the sums of up to 14,000 euros or the promises to be trafficked from Tirana to Europe, to Germany.

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq

We remind the reader that commanders of this cult were recently handcuffed by the Albanian police for human trafficking – we hope that the ‘007’ employees of the German Embassy in Tirana will take account of this trafficking of human beings destined for Germany.

Sanaz and her Romeo Bijan Khademi are finally living happily in Tirana. The couple even got married according to Islamic ceremony, a marriage performed by an Albanian imam. In December, the Albanian police (immigration directorate), despite the pressures and intrigues of the Rajavi cult, will start to provide ID cards to Iranians who live in Albania, but who have left the ranks of the Rajavi cult.

The ASILA Association, which protects the interests and rights of these Iranians, has undertaken to help provide our “Romeo and Juliet” with Albanian identity cards. Once provided with an identity card, the couple can complete the civil marriage formalities at the civil registration office in Tirana. Such action will provide the Iranian couple with all the necessary legal cover to protect themselves from any intrigue of the wicked woman Maryam Rajavi.

I am closing this post with my wish: Let Tirana inherit this Romeo and Juliet of Iran!

Gjergji Thanasi, Gazeta Impakt – Translated by Iran Interlink

December 18, 2021 0 comments

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