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State officially responsible for protecting Iranians sheltering in Albania

Between 2013 (in the last days of the Berisha Government 2) and 2016, several thousand Iranians arrived in Albania on the basis of an agreement never made public between the Albanian governments and the international community.

These Iranians were part of a former terrorist organization (until 2012 it was also listed as a terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department). The organization is known by several names or as part of other umbrella organisations such as MEK, NCRI, PMOI, etc. These Iranians sheltering in Albania are also known as members of the Rajavi Cult. With the arrival of this organization to Albania from Iraq, a series of desertions from its ranks were recorded. Men and women members deserted and left, either when the Iranians had settled on the outskirts of Tirana or when they were transferred to Manez in the so-called Camp Ashraf 3.

After Albania was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, desertions increased in Camp Ashraf 3 as well, because this virus spread significantly in the camp leaving many dead and many affected by it. (For more see this link:

In recent days, in addition to the continuation of desertions, even of family groups, there have been serious human rights violations of these former members of the Rajavi Cult. Such violations of human rights constitute at the same time criminal offenses which carry prison sentences according to the articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania. The Danafar family tragedy occurred in late November when the Danafar family decided to leave the Rajavi Cult. The father of the family and his two sons, Navid Danafar and Shahpour Danafar, asked their Rajavi Cult superiors to allow them to leave the Manez camp and live in the city of Tirana like many other former members of the cult. The commanders of the camp on the direct order of Maryam Rajavi, the cult leader, refused to allow the family in question to leave the camp in Manez and settle in Tirana.

Suicide attempt

One of the sons, Shahpour Danafar attempted suicide by cutting the veins of his wrist. Shahpour was hospitalized in QSUT Hospital (University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”). Albanian state bodies are keeping a dirty silence over this case of attempted suicide.

The police of Durrës and Tirana have not mentioned such a case in their press releases at all. The QSUT directorate, gripped by the fever of changing its head, has also kept a total silence. We remind the police, doctors and leaders of the Rajavi Cult that inciting suicide is a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment. To the leaders of the police in Durrës and Tirana as well as the director Gledis Nano, we bring to their attention what is written in article 99 of Law no. 7895 dt. 27/1/1995: “Causing the suicide or attempted suicide of a person, as a result of systematic ill-treatment or other systematic behaviour which seriously affects their dignity, committed by the person on whom they are dependent or by the person with whom they have a family or cohabitation relationship, is punishable by imprisonment from three to seven years.

Navid Danafar

All those police officers and medical personnel who have kept their mouths shut in the face of such a crime – which is punishable by up to 7 (seven) years in prison – should ask themselves if it is worth going to jail to fulfil the criminal whims of an old woman; former apolitical and stateless terrorist (no homeland), like this Maryam Rajavi?

Unfortunately, even now, when we are writing this article, the violation of the human rights of the victim, the survivor of the suicide attempt continues! From the amateur mobile phone videos made secretly in QSUT, it transpires that 2 (two) male guards, members of the Rajavi Cult, are constantly posted next to the victim. I remind the new director of QSUT, Mrs Albana Fico, that the stationing of two such guards next to the victim all day is in flagrant contradiction of the provisions of the Basic Regulation of the Functioning of QSUT of v. 2015. The presence of two such “full time” guards is nothing short of constant psychological torture of the victim Shahpour Danafar.

Such a flagrant violation of the law means administrative but also criminal penalties for all those Albanians who, by violating the law and the bylaws in force, have joined the Rajavi Cult in violating the human rights of the victim Shahpour Danafar.

I remind the police officers that the brother-in-law of director Fico, currently Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Albania, after the incident with the police, who deliberately pushed the journalist and cameraman into the abyss, did not hesitate to sell the police officer in question. After this scandal of an information blackout of the suicide attempt of a foreigner, who is in Albania as a person protected by the Albanian state (Article 27 and Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention), the police of Durrës and Tirana cannot be silent; most hopefully Minister Cuci this time will not sell his subordinates! I publicly call on former terrorist Maryam Rajavi to clarify the fate of the mother of the two sons Shahpour and Navid. The lady is still in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez. It is not known, whether she remains in the camp voluntarily, unlike the other 3 family members, or she is merely a hostage in the camp. In the second case, I remind the Albanian police that the head of the cult, Maryam Rajavi and her subordinates have committed beyond any reasonable doubt the criminal offense of unlawful deprivation of liberty of a person.

It is not too late for the Albanian officials to stop their criminal cooperation with the former terrorist Maryam Rajavi and stop the violation of the human rights of the poor “serfs”, who are kept locked up in Camp Ashraf 3. The troubles are not over for the former terrorist Maryam Rajavi – the haemorrhage of members from Camp Ashraf 3 continues. The Rajavi cult ranks are being abandoned not only by ordinary members but also by the high-ranking members of this cult. In the past two weeks, another member of the cult, a very famous Iranian singer named Farshad, left the camp in Manez. This singer, just like Mr Shahpour Danafar, does not ask for anything except that the former terrorist Maryam Rajavi allow him to live in Tirana as a free man and not as a “serf” in the Manez camp. I take this opportunity to call on the Albanian police to take care of Mr Farshad, because he is under constant psychological pressure from the cult commanders. You can expect everything from the former terrorists of this cult, so I pray to God that the Albanian police protect Mr Farshad.

MEK member Esmaeil Mortezaei aka Javad Khorasan; the group’s torturer living in Albania

A brief investigation which I conducted revealed to me that a commander of the Rajavi Cult with the nickname Javad Khorasan (his real name is Morteza Ismail) has exerted extreme psychological pressure on Mr Farshad. I hope that the Albanian police will take care of Mr Farshad thus avoiding any extraordinary event such as murder, suicide or even murder disguised as suicide. I appeal to the Albanian police to protect the lives of these Iranians, because the Albanian state, in written agreement in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, bears responsibility for protecting the lives of these Iranians as internationally recognized protected persons. The U.S. military, since 2003, has categorized these Iranians as protected persons. I strongly believe that both the Albanian police and the Albanian secret service, in accordance with the written commitment of the Albanian government and following the example of the U.S. allied military, will take every measure to protect the life and health of these Iranians, who have abandoned the Rajavi Cult and Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez.

Gazeta Impact, Tirana, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

December 6, 2021 0 comments

Albania

The MEK members in Albania Arrested for Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling

Members of MEK, the exiled Iranian opposition group that has been granted refuge in Albania since 2013, have been arrested for drug trafficking, people smuggling, and money laundering, according to an official document seen by Exit.
The document, addressed to a foreign diplomatic recipient, bearing the signature and stamp of the Director of the Criminal Police Department in the State Police, gives details of a serious rap sheet of offences, reportedly involving MEK members.

It states that two members of MEK, along with Albanian and Greek accomplices, were apprehended for direct involvement in human trafficking. On 11 July 2021, police stopped a car carrying Syrian, Iraqi, and Kurdish citizens. Further investigations led to the arrest of the main gang members.
According to the document, it was discovered that between 2019 and 2021, the same smuggling gang attempted to transfer some 400 members of MEK from Albania to France.

But that is not all. On 18 July 2021, a consignment of drugs was seized by police and two MEK senior officials—Narges Abrishamchi and Hassan Nayeb-Agha—were arrested. It is reported in the official document they confessed to playing a pivotal role in organising and transporting a shipment of drugs to Italy.
This pattern of criminality, according to an official source who wished to remain anonymous, told Exit, dates back to 2015. The documents and the source claim that information on these crimes has also been handed over to the US Embassy in Tirana.

Exit contacted the US Embassy to comment but no formal response has been given.
MEK, otherwise known as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, is a political-militant Iranian opposition group that advocates overthrowing the current regime and installing its own government. Although the designation has since been lifted, it was previously considered a terrorist organisation by the EU, Canada, the US, and Japan. They now enjoy widespread support and even protection by the EU and the US.

In 2013, the US government requested the group, in exile, be settled in Albania, but MEK initially rejected the offer. They eventually agreed to relocate 3000 members to the country, and the US donated $20 million to the UN refugee agency for the cause. In 2016, a further 280 members moved to Albania to a heavily guarded compound in Manze, Durres County.
Few journalists have been allowed inside the compound, but you can read a detailed account from 2019 here.

Alice Taylor, Exit, Tirana Albania

December 5, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 303

++ In Albania, the Iranian-Albanian aid association ASILA was legally registered in response to the issue of ID cards to non-Albanian residents. This was followed by news of several high-ranking individuals leaving MEK this week. On the surface the MEK have been silent, but news has emerged that behind the scenes they are vigorously trying to recruit lawyers and others to help. They are also trying to find ex-members who are vulnerable and need money, to counter this association.

In a Facebook post, Hassan Heyrani says: “We know clearly that they [ex-members] are being approached by MEK with large amounts of cash to get together with the lawyers and others to discredit our Association. We warn Maryam Rajavi that this is not Iraq, and your organisation MEK, which is legally non-existent in Albania, trying to work against a registered organisation for helping Iranians will not turn out well for you. We will take you to court and expose you.”

In reaction, Maryam Rajavi has found someone among the 348 Senators to hire a room in the French Senate for propaganda purposes. A few people are sent to attend and watch a link to Maryam Rajavi speaking from Albania where she was deported to. In English, French, Arabic, etc the MEK advertise that Maryam Rajavi sent a message to this group. On the face of it, the meeting is about the JCPOA talks and is anti-Raisi. But in reality, what she has done in Farsi is advertised it as though she is actually in the meeting in France. Since she doesn’t have an audience in Iran and her only Farsi audience is MEK members, the only conclusion we can draw is that she is reacting to the loss of members because of the ID cards and wants to show to the members that she can still travel to France. What we call in English a big fat lie!

++ Mehdi Khoshhal in Germany wrote an article titled ‘The Phase of Court Cases’. He explains that MEK started with an armed anti-imperialist phase because their political predecessors were not radical enough. After the Revolution they started the political phase. Then after falling out with the new Khomeini regime went into military phase followed by a terrorism phase. That collapsed so they were reduced to a ‘cutting the fingertips of the regime’ phase. They moved on to a phase of eliminating all opposition outside Iran to leave them the only opposition group in case of regime change. The phase of everyone going to Iraq and the National Liberation Army phase faded when they lost half the forces in the Eternal Light operation. They then entered yet another ‘Internal Revolution’ phase (about 3 or 4 had already passed); this one added divorce and giving up children, giving up individuality and dreams etc. Then they came back to the phase of political lobbying, involving McCain, Bolton, Giuliani, etc. Between this, of course, they had a phase of self-immolation in Paris. Now MEK has arrived at the phase of court cases. Specifically, against an Iranian diplomat in Belgium and another against a former official in Sweden – which because of MEK has been moved to Albania where the knackered old people with Zimmer fames try to go and explain why they were not executed back in Iran and have now ended up in Albania. Khoshhal concludes that none of these phases are about what they are stated to be – not about Iran or regime change or human rights. This Swedish court phase is not about justice. It is obvious to all who know the MEK it is all about Rajavi. “All through the years I have seen these phases, they have been to support Rajavi against the ex-members. That is the fight, no one else is involved. I write this to promise that this court case will end, and this phase will end, but Rajavi will use it against ex-members not against Iran. Then use it inside the camp to say, ‘if you leave you will end up like them’.”

In English:

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest Mojahedin Khalq MEK NCRI Rajavi cult++ Following on from the interview with a former MEK child soldier in Germany by Luisa Hommerich, Mazda Parsi of Nejat Society has written about the memories of Zahra Moini – former MEK member and former ‘babysitter’ for the children who arrived in Germany during the First Gulf War. The treatment of these vulnerable children that she describes is harrowing. The cynical and brutal exploitation of them for financial gain and free labour is shocking, but not new. Others have written similar detailed accounts. A huge number of children, particularly girls, became victims of the Rajavi Cult in different ways.

++ Habilian Association in Iran has re-published some reporting from Germany about the MEK as a terrorist entity. One is titled ‘Rajavi’s Red Army’. Habilian writes: “Despite the publication of numerous reports by various intelligence services in Germany, why this intelligence nucleus is still present and active in this country still remains to be seen. After the disbanding of the Red Army Faction terrorist group, which had brought insecurity and violence for Germans for about two decades, the question is, what the Rajavi terrorist and leftist cult is doing in Germany? Terrorists are a time bomb wherever they are.”

Nov 26, 2021

December 5, 2021 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Families of Nejat Society online meeting with ASILA members

Families of members of the Mujahedin Khalq contacted founders of ASILA in Tirana from Nejat Society’s central office in Tehran.

On Tuesday November 30th, 2021, a video connection was set between Hassan Heirani and a few of other members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) from Tirana, Albania and a number of families of MEK members who are taken as hostages in the group including Soraya Abdohllahi the mother of the MEK member AmirAslan Hassanzadeh, the mother of Fereidoon Nedai and the parents of Majid Hajalirezai, the wife and daughter of Rahim Kayukan and the sister of Fereidoon Parvaresh.
The meeting was also attended by a number of former members of the Cult of Rajavi such as Bakhshali Alizadeh and Gholam Mirzai who are living with their families in Iran now.

Soraya Abdollahi, as the representative of mothers in Nejat Society congratulated Hassan Heirani on the establishment of the association. “The establishment of ASILA encourages families for the release of hostages from the bars of the Cult of Rajavi,” she said.
Hassan Heirani presented a brief report on the goals and missions and future plans of the association for his audience at Nejat office in Tehran.

Gholam Mirzai emphasized the importance of the foundation of ASILA in order to aid defectors of the MEK in Albania.

Nejat Society members had prepared a cake to celebrate the official establishment of ASILA.
Other family members talked with Heirani and expressed their concerns over the conditions of their loved ones inside the MEK’s camp.

Dashamir Mersuli Albanian member of ASILA

Dashamir Mersuli and his wife who are the Albanian members of ASILA attended the meeting and hoped that better days would come and families would visit their loved ones.

December 1, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

In Memory of victims of the MEK – Abdolmehdi Baymani

Abdolmehdi Baymani was from Mahshahr, Khuzestan. Together with his friends Abdorasool Ghanavatian and Bahman Atigh, he was smuggled to Iraq by the Mujahedin’s human smugglers who deceived young Iranian on a promise of immigrating to Europe.
I saw Mehdi baymani in the reception section of Camp Ashraf, for the first time, in 1999. As we were from the same home town, he had asked to visit me. I visited Mehdi, Rasool and Bahman for dinner. He was pretty tall and looked so innocent and sweet wearing thick glasses that made him distinguished.
As I talked with him, I realized that he was not a political person at all and had no earlier information about the MEK. At that night, we talked about Mahshahr and our families. He recalled me of my family who I had no news of them for years. He knew about my past life because he had been a neighbor of my uncle and so a friend of my cousins.

Abdolmehdi Baymani; victim of the MEK

When I asked him about the reason of his coming to Ashraf, he told, “being jobless and the dream of living in Europe persuaded me to accept the suggestion made by one of my friends.”
“He introduced me a man whose job was human trafficking in the Gulf countries.” Mehdi said. “First, he was supposed to take me to Kuwait but after some time he said that the plan has been changed and I should go to Iraq! As I heard the word Iraq, I got surprised because we were at war with Iraq for several years. I thought that Iraq would not have a good relationship with Iranians and would not be safe for us. I was obsessed with the border line which was still full of undiscovered mines. However, the persistence of the man convinced me to go. I thought that it was my last chance for immigrating to Europe. I got the phone numbers of my close friends to call them immediately after I arrived in Europe.”

I felt pity for Mehdi. He was so naïve and honest. After the dinner, I said goodbye to Mehdi and his friends and I did not see him anymore. A year later, in 2000, the group announced that Mehdi had been killed in the Iran-Iraq border while he was returning from Iran to Iraq. I was shocked. I wondered what he was doing in the border line. I never thought that he would be sent for cross border operations because his eyes were awfully weak. He had serious vision problems at night. The next day, the MEK published an announcement to declare that Abdolmehdi Baymani had been sent to Iran to launch an operation.

The MEK commanders had not provided him with a safe house in Iran. They had forced him to use his family and their home to cover the operation and this way his family had been faced with security issues.
Abdolmehdi Baymani was killed at the age of 23 while he was a young man who just loved to live in a European country. He fell in the trap of the Rajavi’s terrorist cult. He was actually killed for Rajavi’s ambitions. He took his dream of living in Europe to the grave.
After the death of Mehdi, the inhuman Cult of Rajavi launched a propaganda to show off Mehdi as a hero who was in love with Maryam and Massoud Rajavi but the rank and file of the group regrated and felt sympathy for Mehdi’s heartbreaking fate.

Ali Ekrami, former member of the MEK

also read:
In Memory of victims of the MEK – Ahmad Tavakol
In Memory of victims of the MEK – Bahman Atiqi
In Memory of victims of the MEK – Mehran Gholami

November 30, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK baby sitter testify on violation of children’s rights in the group

Zahra Moeini, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ NCRI/ Cult of Rajavi) was in charge of taking care of the children who have been smuggled by the MEK agents from Iraq to Germany during the first Gulf war.

Zahra Moeini got to know about the MEK immediately after she married her ex-husband, a member of the MEK, in Iran. In 1987, the newlyweds, Zahra and her husband joined the MEK in Iraq where they received military trainings and were made to attend cross border operations against Iranian forces. Zahra was wounded in an operation. She was then sent to Europe where she worked in the MEK’s so-called “financial-social section”.
Their duty was to raise funds for the group in the streets of Köln and Berlin by showing pictures of alleged Iranian orphans. The fake charity organizations founded by the MEK was later condemned by German government but the MEK leaders could raise large amounts of money by deceiving both German authorities and citizens.
In 1991, when the coalition forces invaded Iraq, Massiud Rajavi ordered his commanders to transfer about nine hundred children of the Mujahedin to Europe. The children included from new-born infants to 14-year-old teenagers. “They made fake passports for the children and smuggled them from Jordan to Europe,” Zahra Moeini says in a recent interview with Mardom TV.

Zahra Moeini

Poor life conditions, forced labor
In Germany, Zahra Moeini was ordered to serve in a three-story house of the MEK in which 50 children were kept in four rooms. “There were only six rooms,” she explains. “Two of them were for the commanders of the base and the fifty children had to stay in the other rooms. They had to sleep on the floor too tightly next to each other. In the morning they had to stay in a long line to go to the bathroom.”
According to Zahra’s testimonies, the children of the MEK were kept under poor sanitary conditions and poor food hygiene. She says, “The bread was always stale. It was actually the stale bread that the bakeries wanted to send for animals that the MEK agents took them for free. We had to put the bread in the oven before feeding the children.”
The children were supposed to cooperate in the choirs around the house. “They were always tired,” Zahra says. “We had to take them to school by bus. The commanders intentionally enrolled the kids at schools far from the house. They fell asleep at school. Their teachers asked us about the reason. These children had to work hard at home. There was no washing machine. They had to wash their clothes. They had to help with preparing foods. For example, in the weekends children had to peel a lot of eggplants or other stuff.”
The children also had to work in the streets to raise fund for the MEK. They were actually workers of the financial-social section too.

Maltreatment
Children of Mujahed parents had to be trained as Mujahed. The leaders of the MEK had planned to train them as what they called “militia” so they were treated as young soldiers. They had to sleep alone. They did not have the right to miss their parents. They did not have the right to ask about their parents. The only letters they receive were from “Uncle Massoud” and “Aunt Maryam” –Massoud and Maryam Rajavi the leaders of the group.
Zahra Moeini recalls some of those kids who missed their mother and cried all night. “They asked me to sleep by their side but the commander of the base did not allow me to get closer to them. If I expressed affection for the kids, I would be punished for not being strict enough to them.”
These distressed children had different problems. One of the problems was bedwetting that resulted in verbal and physical punishments for children. “A woman named Razieh, was really cruel. She shouted at the kid, beat her in the hip and verbally abused her,” Zahra says about the 7- to 8-year-old girl who had wetted her bed.

MEK leaders stole Children’s money
The MEK leaders kept children under such poor conditions while German government has one of the most reliable care systems for children in the world. The child benefit is a monthly payment given to all parents in Germany, regardless of their income, to ensure that their children’s basic needs are covered. As Zahra Moeini presents the documents, at the time, the child allowance paid by German government was about 600 marks for each child but the money was confiscated by the MEK leaders. The children had no personal property.
“Every weekend a group of ten children were allowed to go shopping,” Zahra says. “We took them to a store. Each kid was allowed to shop something for only one mark! The poor child who was watching different snacks and foods, tried to choose something that she could share with her other friends at home. For example, she chose cookies because she could share it with other children who could not go shopping at that weekend.”
Based on Zahra’s evidences, no clothes were bought for the children. “Although the German government gives annual payments to families for buying clothes for children, the clothes of MEK’s children came from charity organizations or the Red Cross,” she says.

The testimonies of Zahra Moeini are nothing of new. A perfectly detailed account of the life of children in the MEK‘s team houses in Germany was written by another MEK defector, Nadereh Afshari, in the 1990s. Like Zahra Moeini Nadereh Afshari was also an unpaid teacher and baby sitter for the MEK’s children. The book written by the deceased Nadereh Afshari is titled “Love Forbidden”. It gives a huge number of cases of children, particularly girls, who became victims of the Cult of Rajavi in different ways.

By Mazda Parsi

November 29, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 302

++ A play called Baba Adam has been staged by the City Theatre in Tehran. The play charts the journey of the father from Iran to Iraq in search of his long-lost son who is a member of the MEK. On arriving at Camp Ashraf, instead of letting him know that his son is alive or not, fanatics of the MEK throw stones at him and break his head. Ebrahim Khodabandeh who was consulted by the writers as they created the work, attended the first performance and thanked the writers. The play was well received by Tehran theatre goers.

++ Rahman Mohammadian in Albania wrote that for the last four decades Massoud and Maryam have been telling us that all their critics are agents of the regime. The actual intelligence ministry of Iran has answered that in order to be legitimate, the members should be allowed to criticise the regime 80% and MEK 20%. Mohammadian argues that “this means Iran is more tolerant than you. At least allow your critics to do that. This could not be in favour of the regime.” But, asks Mohammadian, “would you allow 99% criticism of the regime and 1% criticism of MEK, or even just one question about you. You can’t tolerate even that. Why?”

In English:

++ Kourosh Ziabari writes in Asia Times, ‘Well-Funded Exile Regime-Change Outfits Are Hardly Paragons of Virtue’. He asks are “these kaleidoscopic opposition groups the ‘saviors’ that will cultivate democracy in Iran and put national interest above anything else when they rule the roost, including ideological dogmas, ethnic divisions and partisan interests? The answer is a clear, if not resounding, “no.” Among the groups he covers, MEK is prominent. Ziabari charts the MEK’s murky behaviours and activities – from collusion with Saddam Hussein to arguing for severe sanctions against Iran – as well as questioning its internal workings so that “it is so cryptic in its workings and so unethical in its conduct that the majority of Iranians reckon it to be a shadowy cult, leaving it with little to zero credibility among the populace it professes to be fighting for.” He offers us the example of his own treatment by the MEK after publishing a critical article. “ As soon as the story went viral, hundreds of Twitter accounts began slandering me – posting identically worded tweets – as an apologist of the Islamic Republic, and some of them went so far as to claim that I was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps!” As for the credibility of the opposition groups he concludes that the “alternative to a bad situation is not a parlous one.”

++ Jack Turner interviewed Robert Fantina, journalist and political analyst, about the MEK for Geopolitica. Concerning recent court cases against Iranian officials – in Belgium and the Swedish court case which has now moved to Albania – Fantina says it highlights double standards that western criminals such as the assassins of Soleimani are not prosecuted by the International Criminal Court and yet Iranian officials are being brought to trial in other countries.

“The MEK is a terrorist organization that seeks the overthrow of the legitimate government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their terrorist activities – the killing of innocent people – are well-known. Yet they receive support from some western nations, most notably the United States, because that nation’s government harbors an irrational hatred of Iran, and will support any organization, even a terrorist one, that opposes it.”
“The leaders of the MEK should be charged in the International Criminal Court with the many crimes they have committed.”

++ The MEK proudly advertised that UK MP Bob Blackman attended their ‘Free Iran’ rally in London this week. Blackman made an intervention in a parliamentary debate on the government’s treatment of asylum seekers crossing the channel in small boats. Blackman offered the example set by the Albanian government “who moved, satisfactorily, Camp Liberty from Iran into Camp Ashraf?” Iran? The MEK pays these people, yet they can’t even do their homework and get their facts right.

Nov 26 2021

November 29, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

German Journalist who troubles MEK’s propaganda

A German investigative journalist, Luisa Hommerich has irritated the propaganda media of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MEK). The prominent journalist Hommerich has pinned a thread of tweets on her tweeter account to state extra clarifications on her recent article on the MEK as a cult-like group, titled “Iranian Mojahedin Khalq – Struggle For Freedom Using Cultic Methods” 13608 :

Luisa Hommerich

An Iranian political sect is said to have controlled members in Berlin with psychotechnics. For example, they should have confessed to sexual thoughts, report defectors.
And, now it’s getting strange: Several German politicians (especially CDU) support the sect.
The organization in question is the Iranian People’s Mujahedin (also known as #MEK / MKO / PMOI / NCRI). They didn’t reply to an email with questions. On their homepage they described the allegations as “lies and slander”.

Hommerich continues the thread revealing the paid German politicians who attended MEK-run propaganda events:
New information includes:
– Norbert Lammert, @VriesChristoph
, @christophploss
and many more participated in a conference with the leader of the People’s Mujahideen
– People’s Mujahedin should make some payments to foreign Politicians settled through Berlin
– Donors are said to have been deceived

Gholamreza Shekari; Tirana; Der Spiegel

This is the third article authored by Luisa Hommerich. The first one covered the experience of an MEK defector named Gholamreza Shekari who had been deceived to join the MEK and had been tortured by the group commanders in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. It was published by Spiegle International on February 18th, 2019.

Amin Golmaryami

The second article was published on October 29th, 2021 on the Zeit Magazine, in which Hommerich went through the heartbreaking story of a child victim of the MEK Amin Golmaryami. The article was not only based on Amin’s testimonies but also based on unbiased sources and documents which proved that the MEK leaders violated the rights of at least 200 children of Mujahed parents who have been smuggled from Iraq to Germany.
Hommerich is labeled by the MEK propaganda as the agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran, although the group has never responded her questions on the cases investigated in the articles.

November 28, 2021 0 comments

Albania

Formation of the association for the support of Iranians living in Albania (ASILA)

Defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) who reside in Albania established an association to support the MEK defectors in Albania.
Hassan Heirani, former member of the MEK announced the establishment of the association which is supposed to help Iranians who leave the MEK’s camp in Durres, near Tirana. “The Association was registered as a legal institute to support those who defect the Cult of Rajavi,” Hassan Heirani said.

This first meeting of the association was held on Wednesday, November 24th. A number of former members of the group attended the first meeting of ASILA. “As the issuing of ID cards to all non-Albanians has started in Albania, the association supports defectors of the cult in order to enjoy their civil rights, find a job, deal with their legal issues and have a family.” Heirani said. “We will try our best to aid defectors of the MEK to experience a new life, without fears, outside the bars of the terrorist cult of Rajavi.”

https://dld.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Asila-Albania-202111.mp4

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The issuing of ID cards for all non-Albanians in Albania was done under the pressure of the European Union is a good opportunity for those who are still taken as hostages by the MEK leaders in Camp Ashraf 3.

November 27, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Fictitious Courts: The Illegitimate Relation of MEK and West

As we have all heard, double-standard policies in the world are always adopted and enforced, and in many cases, these policies are simply overlooked by the international community and the media. In a general view, it may be possible to state that the main point according to this cliché that “the end justifies the mean”, which means, in some cases the reactions of Western countries in the face of two identical events that occurred in two different places are completely different and sometimes contradictory. In the present interview with Mr. Robert Fantina, we address a few questions about the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which are an epitome of these inconsistencies and dual policies of the Western political community and media.

Robert Fantina; Journalist

Mr. Robert Fantina is a journalist and political analyst, and an author of wonderful books that you can find on Amazon. He’s working for peace and social justice. He writes extensively about US foreign policy and the Middle East, which focus on Palestine, he serves on the board of Canadian voices for Palestinian rights and Canadian for peace and justice in Kashmir.

JT: As you know, in the war condition when two countries are in conflict, if someone betrays his or her country, in most countries of the world, this person is sentenced to death. Does this law also apply in the United States?

– As you know the MEK betrayed their country during the Iran-Iraq war and massacred a large number of innocent people in their country. They even massacred hospital patients in their invasion to Iran, this kind of action which is also prohibited by international law is known as a terrorist act. What do you think is the verdict of these people in wartime?

RF: yes, it does. Treason, the act of being a traitor, is dealt with severely in most circumstances. Some countries have outlawed execution, the United States has not, and this is an option if somebody doing that.

The MEK is a terrorist organization that seeks the overthrow of the legitimate government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Their terrorist activities – the killing of innocent people – are well-known. Yet they receive support from some western nations, most notably the United States, because that nation’s government harbors an irrational hatred of Iran, and will support any organization, even a terrorist one, that opposes it.

The leaders of the MEK should be charged in the International Criminal Court with the many crimes they have committed.

JT: As you know, the money of the MEK has led to the non-observance of international law in Western countries, and as we have seen in the case of Asadullah Asadi, an Iranian diplomat with political immunity, was illegally detained in Germany and in a Belgian court, he has sentenced to 20 years in prison that this verdict violates the 1961 Geneva Convention, and now Mr. Hamid Nouri has been arrested by the Swedish police on a sham complaint and is on trial. On his trial, he had repeatedly stated that he had not served in the Iranian judiciary at the time due to the pregnancy of his wife, and another point was that Mr. Nouri was not a decision-maker in the judiciary at that time, Do you think that a person who did not appear in the court and did not even a decision-maker can be condemned on behalf of a government?

– As you know, the courts issue the verdicts according to the judicial laws of the same country. Do you think that a court in a European country or any other country has the right to decide on the rulings of the Iranian courts? If that were the case, would it not be better to prosecute the US and Saudi Arabian court judges who sentenced people to death, or an American police officer who pressed his knee against the neck of George Floyd for 9 minutes for being black and suffocating him?

RF: This is another case of western hypocrisy. If an official of any country is accused of a crime, there are international bodies, such as the International Criminal Court, that are responsible for dealing with the situation. One must consider, for a moment, if a U.S. official, say, for example, former President Donald Trump, was visiting a European nation and was arrested for the murder of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Trump ordered his assassination, while the general was visiting Iraq. Several international laws were violated by Trump’s order. Yet he has not been held accountable. But if he were to be arrested for this crime when traveling outside of the United States, the U.S. government would condemn the nation that arrested him, issue sanctions, and possibly invade. Yet the U.S. supports the arrests and incarceration of Iranian officials outside of their nations. This double standard is typical of the United States. It also shows that the U.S. remains powerful, despite its decreasing influence on the world stage, because the ICC has not charged Trump or any else in the former U.S. administration for the general’s murder.

JT: A while ago, the representatives of the Albanian government intrusively entered the camp of the MEK and fingerprinted the members of the entire camp to present the citizenship identity card. As you know, when a member enters the cult of MEK, he has to hand over all his identity cards to the superiors of the group from the first day, and he no longer has the right to take them back, and he somehow loses his identity. According to recent investigations, a large number of members of Camp Ashraf in Albania intend to flee the group but have avoided fleeing due to lack of identity documents, but now that new identity cards are being issued and due to electronic version of these identity cards, those documents can no longer be confiscated by the group. For this reason, a large number of people will be estimated to leave this cult. Now, considering this issue, how do you assess the future of the MEK if it loses a large part of its members?

RF: Reports indicate a great degree of dissatisfaction among members of the MEK. It is one thing to disagree with some policies of a government; it is another to want to violently overthrow it. U.S. officials often speak about any protest demonstrations that occur in Iran as indicating that the people there want a new form of government. Yet in the summer of 2020, when millions of people demonstrated in the streets of major U.S. cities across the country, these same officials didn’t see the situation quite the same way. Some MEK members disagree with some Iranian government policies; no government will ever exist that pleases all its citizens. But following their involvement in the MEK, and seeing the mental and physical manipulation that membership in it involves, the MEK’s numbers will likely see a substantial decrease now that electronic identity cards have been issued.

JT: As you know, Albania has been a safe haven for terrorists for several years, and it hosts ISIS, MEK, and other terrorist groups, and the Albanian government made separate camps formed for each of these groups. What do you think are the reasons why a country like Albania is willing to turn its country into a safe haven for US-backed terrorists?

RF: The reason is simple: the U.S. has ordered it to. When the MEK was forced to flee Iraq, the U.S. government forced Albania to accept its members. The U.S. wants its terrorists physically united so that when the U.S. government wants to mobilize them to destabilize some nation that refuses to do the binding of the U.S. or Israel, it can do so with ease.

JT: The MEK ceremonies are usually attended by former American political figures, who give speeches and receive large sums of money from this group. These speeches have been legal since 2012 due to the removal of the MEK from the list of terrorist organizations, but with the regard that the group has a history of killing six American advisers, does the community of political, cultural, and social elites tolerate the presence of their politicians in these ceremonies?

RF: This goes back to what I mentioned earlier, about the irrational hatred that U.S. government officials have for Iran. The Iranian people overthrew the brutal U.S. puppet, the Shah of Iran. The newly-formed government severed ties with the Zionist entity and has offered stalwart support for the Palestinian people. It must be remembered that it is very expensive to run a political campaign in the U.S., and many U.S. officials rely heavily on financial contributions from pro-Israel lobbies. So if Israel tells them to oppose the JCPOA and support brutal and illegal sanctions, they will do so. The lobbies, not the citizenry, are their constituencies, and it is from them, and not the voters, that they take their orders. The fact that the MEK is responsible for the deaths of U.S. citizens is not important to these people.

JT: As you know, the corruption case of some American figures has been investigated these days, and even the issue of the presence and receiving money by Rudy Giuliani from the group of MEK has been included in the case of his financial corruption, which is being investigated by the FBI. In another case, John Bolton attended and spoke at a time when the group was on a list of terrorist organizations, which is considered a crime under US law. Now the question arises that what are the motives of politicians to cooperate with American killers? Is it just about money or something else?

RF: It is partly money, but also partly ideology. Iran is a mainly Muslim country; there is a great amount of hostility towards Muslims by U.S. government officials. Also, many U.S. officials, especially those that have been appointed by the current president, or previous presidents, are avowed Zionists. They will, therefore, do whatever it is that Israel wants, and Israel seeks to be the only powerful nation in the Middle East. Its main competitor for that title is Iran.

Additionally, especially during the disastrous Trump administration, there were many members of the so-called Christian Right in positions of power; former vice-president Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were two among many. It must be remembered that the evangelical Christian movement has strayed so far from the teachings of Jesus Christ that he wouldn’t recognize them as Christian if he were to attend any of their meetings. These people support Israeli terrorism and see Islam as the arch-enemy of Christianity. I can assure you that that is not what true Christianity is about. Yet that is why many of these people embrace MEK and any and all enemies of the peaceful nation of Iran. This is a nation that hasn’t invaded another country since at least 1798; conversely, the U.S. has been at war for at least 227 years of its 245-year history, and most of those have been offensive, not defensive wars.

Officials of the U.S. government need to use diplomacy, and not discredited religious ideology in dealing with other nations in the world. This is a lesson they have yet to learn.

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