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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The MEK has deprived us from visiting our children

Mr. Jafarpour, the father of Ali Askar Jafarpour, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), stated at the nationwide online conference of the Nejat Society held in August 2021:

Thanks to Mr. Khosropour and Mr. Moradi of the Nejat Society office in the Province of Lorestan, who have worked hard over the years. They have guided and have helped the families to follow their children’s case.

The father of Ali Askar Jafarpour

I support the complaints of 42 former MEK members against the MEK leaders.

We have been requesting to meet with our children for years. But unfortunately, the MEK has deprived us of this meeting.

I thank God for the return of this number of separated members and I hope that they will be able to make a living in Iran without any problems.

I thank you all for your efforts.

October 4, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Women Burned Alive to Save MEK leader

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) has a dreadful record of using women and girls as a tool to achieve its purposes. As a concrete example, the killing of two female members of the group in 2003 in Paris can be noted.

On June 17, 2003, French counter-intelligence forces stormed the MEK’s headquarters in Paris, seizing over $8 million in cash and detaining 159 people, including Maryam Rajavi, the group’s ringleader.

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

Following the arrest, a number of brainwashed members of the group were forced to set themselves on fire in public. MEK members mobilized throughout Europe in order to hold demonstrations and then the victims carry out a series of forced self-immolations. The self-immolations had been staged publicly by 16 members of the group one after the other in Paris, Rome, Berne, London, Ottawa, Athens, and Nicosia.

Among the victims of the forced self-immolations, the names of three women stand out: Seddiqeh Mojaveri, 40, Neda Hassani, 26, and Marzieh Babakhani. The first two lost their lives and Babakhani was severely burned.

The poor women were used as a tool to pressure the French public opinion and legal system to free Maryam Rajavi. They may have been told that there was no cause to worry and the firemen would intervene to extinguish the fire soon after they set themselves ablaze. But they were duped and burned to death before the TV cameras to influence the court’s ruling. MEK leaders got their wish and the court, concerned that the immolations might be repeated, ordered Maryam Rajavi’s release on bail.

photo: The raid of the MEK’s Paris compound in 2003, which prompted acts of self-immolation by some of its members.

Following the awkward incident and the media reaction to it, the French officials highlighted various aspects and dimensions of the cult-like activities of the MEK. French Government spokesperson, Jean-Francois Cope, considered these self-immolations as “obviously, extremely dramatic”. He added, “Alas! It also tells us a great deal about the mindset of their leadership”.

The self-immolations were so unexpected for the French officials that they barred all the MEK gatherings “until further orders” and police banned the sale, transport and use of all inflammable products in certain parts of central Paris.

These are the women who are to be burned in the cult of MEK to save the life of the group’s leader and be used for further political leverage and to show their absolute loyalty to public opinion.

October 4, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The Rajavis are terrified of a meeting between me and you

Hajar Yaqubi was never a political person but she has been in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) for near four decades. “She fell in the trap of the MEK just because her husband was a sympathizer of the group,” Mohammad Yaqubi, Hajar’s brother says.

Hajar is from Neka, Mazandaran, Iran but she has not seen her hometown for forty years. “Our village has become modern and more beautiful than the past,” Mohammad says. “I know that my sister has no access to the Internet otherwise she would be able to see its pictures on the net.”

Mohammad sends open letters addressing his sister, to Nejat Society, from time to time. “Whenever I look at the photos of you, I wonder what I should do to be able to meet you,” Mohammad writes to Hajar in his last message published on the website of Nejat Society.

Hajar’s brother has taken various actions in order to visit his beloved sister. He traveled to Iraq several times when the MEK was located there. Mohammad picketed in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty holding a placard with the name of his siter on it, calling her to leave the MEK and get back to the family.
Mohammad Yaqubi has also written several letters to the international human rights bodies and the Albanian authorities calling for their aid to families of those who are taken as hostages by the leaders of the MEK.

“The Rajavis are terrified of a meeting between me and you,” Mohammad writes to Hajar in his recent open letter. “They are terrified that you get aware of what is going on around you and you leave the group.”

He continues, “My lovely sister! I know that you think of us in your privacy and this would be a good turning point for you to get determined to leave the group and begin a new life. Please contact us. Hearing your voice will be so cheering for me and the family.”

October 3, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 295

++ This week marked the 40th anniversary of the turning point in the 8-year Iran-Iraq war when Iranian forces took Abedan and forced the Iraqis into retreat. Several media outlets in Iran reminded their readers that at this exact time when Saddam Hussein began to lose the war, Massoud Rajavi ordered the MEK inside Iran to go all out in Tehran to intensify and maximise their indiscriminate terrorist attacks. Rajavi later admitted that ‘we knew that these attacks (armed gangs attacking anywhere and anyone) would not succeed, but we had to try’.

++ This week, schools in Iran opened. Maryam Rajavi called on schoolchildren to take up arms and undertake an uprising. She didn’t say how they could achieve this. Commentators wrote that Rajavi is so nasty that she can’t even bear to see children being educated. Some compared her to the Taliban.

++ Over the past few weeks, Iran has been in the news for various reasons, political, social and economic: Iran became a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; the US agreed to withdraw combat troops from Iraq (something Iran’s leaders vowed to make happen after the illegal killing of general Soleimani, deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and eight others); Iran’s naval commander highlighted the navy’s various successes; Iranian fuel successfully arrived in Lebanon to ease shortages there; Ali Landi, a 15-year-old boy who heroically rescued two women from a fire, died of severe burns; Iran’s women’s football team qualified for the AFC Women’s Asian Cup; Iran’s volleyball team beat Japan to win the 21st Asian Volleyball Championship. Maryam Rajavi and the MEK maintained complete silence over all this news, pretending none of it happened at all. Not even a word of criticism or scorn. Nothing. Just sliding rapidly into irrelevance.

++ In Albania, news about the Swedish court case has reached the media as several members of the MEK cult travelled to Sweden to give evidence. Commentators point out that this in itself throws the case into question – members of a terrorist cult giving testimony against their sworn enemy. One social media post pointed out that it would be equally possible to ‘find’ fifty witnesses to present exactly the opposite evidence based on their memories of that time.

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++ Swiss media and the MEK’s own sites reported that the investigation into the assassination of Kazem Rajavi in 1990 has been re-opened. Last week, Massoud Khodabandeh wrote a lengthy piece outlining the various stages in which Massoud Rajavi and his family were slowly but surely ousted from their leadership of and involvement with the MEK. One of those stages was this assassination which, according to Khodabandeh, could only have been performed with inside knowledge of Kazem Rajavi’s security. The re-investigation was initiated by Saleh Rajavi last year. Perhaps he too felt that his family had been ignored and pushed aside too far and for too long. Prescient.

++ During a meeting with his counterpart Ann Linde on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian mentioned the ongoing trial of an Iranian national which features witness testimony by the MEK. Amirabdollahian characterised this as a ‘fabricated case’ and that ‘all evidence and allegations presented to the court, are fabricated by a group, which is known to engage in falsification and deceit’. He added, ‘this demonstrates that the court process lacks validity and is politicized’.

++ Iran Front Page reported that the Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, warned the IAEA not to allow terrorist groups (MEK) to use it as a plaything. The comments came while the AEOI chief was in Moscow for talks with Russian nuclear officials. Press TV also reported on Eslami’s remarks indicating that the MEK manipulates the IAEA through fake news.

September 02 2021

October 3, 2021 0 comments

Iran

Don’t be duped by false reports of Mujahedin Khalq terrorists

Iran’s nuclear chief has advised the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) not to be duped by false reports concocted by a Europe-based terrorist group against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

“The Agency should not play into the hands of terrorist groups,” head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said in an interview with Sputnik News published on Thursday.

Eslami made the remarks when asked to comment on the IAEA chief’s call on Iran to explain the presence of uranium particles at several undeclared sites.

“This is once again one of the stories of the counterrevolutionary and terrorist group that is living in a safe haven in Europe and is financed by them and constantly influences the Agency by producing fake news,” he said, making a veiled reference to the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), an Albania-based terrorist outfit.

He explained that the terrorist group hoodwinks the IAEA by showing fabricated papers, fake satellite images and false evidence as part of its threadbare tactics which have proved invalid.

Earlier this month, Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN atomic watchdog, called on Iran to provide explanations for the presence of uranium particles at several undeclared sites.

“I remain deeply concerned that nuclear material has been present at undeclared locations in Iran and that the current locations of this nuclear material are not known to the agency,” Grossi told the IAEA board of governors in Vienna on September 13.

Iran hit back at the time, voicing concerns over the “aggrandizing of few insignificant old issues” by the IAEA chief.

‘All countries entitled to peaceful nuclear energy’

Eslami said all countries are entitled to use up-to-date technology, especially in the field of nuclear energy.

He said under its Statute, the IAEA is obliged to encourage all countries to develop their nuclear energy projects and to assist them in using peaceful nuclear energy.

“Iran believes that all countries have the right [to use] nuclear energy and nuclear weapons must be banned for all countries,” the top nuclear official stressed.

In a veiled reference to Israel, which has questioned the peaceful nature of Iran’s program and threatened to target its nuclear facilities, Eslami said it is shocking that an entity that owns nuclear weapons and is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) raises such claims against Iran.

“The Iranian people do not welcome the language of force,” he said, “We have acted honestly and these hostilities will not affect the Iranian people and they have to realize that they must abandon this wrong approach and stop harming the interests of the Iranian people.”

The remarks came days after Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett claimed that Iran had crossed “all red lines” in its nuclear program and threatened to act alone if the world did not take action.

‘IAEA silence encourages terrorism’

Elsewhere during his interview, Eslami said due to mischievous and hostile acts against Iran by its enemies, the country’s nuclear program has been treated with a “political”, “selective”, and “discriminatory” approach.

He pointed out that the IAEA continues to have access to its surveillance cameras under the Safeguards Agreement, but added that Iran has decided to stop its “voluntary” implementation of the Additional Protocol by halting the Agency’s access to some of its cameras as a response to a gross non-compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement by the other parties.

“Iran had voluntarily accepted additional surveillance and the Additional [Protocol] in order to build trust and lift the sanctions,” he said, arguing that it would not make sense for Tehran to continue the implementation of the Additional Protocol after the US reimposition of sanctions on Tehran in 2018.

He made the remakes in response to a Sunday IAEA report that while Iran had granted access to its nuclear sites as agreed on September 12, it had prevented IAEA inspectors from visiting a workshop at the TESA Karaj complex, after it was targeted in a sabotage act in June in which one of four IAEA cameras was destroyed.

Iran has censured the IAEA for not condemning the “terrorist attack” at the complex, which Tehran has blamed on Israel. Iran has also blamed the Tel Aviv regime for another attack at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility in April.

“The Karaj site was attacked in a terrorist incident … and the Agency has not condemned the action. The site is being rebuilt and judicial and security authorities have opened a case on this site,” Eslami noted.

If they are truly law-abiding and sincere, the nuclear chief went on, “they have to acknowledge that the Agency’s failure to condemn a terrorist attack on an official [nuclear] site is a form of encouraging terrorism, which is regrettable.”

Eslami arrived in Moscow on Tuesday to meet with Russia’s senior officials and discuss a new framework for accelerating the implementation of nuclear projects in Iran.

October 3, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Grieves and sufferings of MEK member’s elderly mother

As a young man from the North of Iran, Golestan Province, Rasool Mahdloo Torkamani wanted to immigrate to Italy. He started learning Italian language when he was very young. He had decided to continue his studies in Italy.

Rasool was in love with Masoomeh, his cousin, the daughter of his aunt. They soon married in a simple romantic wedding party.The newly married couple traveled to Italy together. “We sent him money during the months they were in Italy,” his brother Mohammad Mahdloo Torkamani says. “Then they returned to Iran. They stayed here for a few months and again got back to Italy and this was our last visit.”

The Torkamanis have had no contact with Rasool and his wife, Masooneh Qiasi for almost forty years. They had joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). “A few years later, we learned from some defectors of the MEK that Rasool has been in the group”, Mohammad says. “He was supposed to live in Europe but he turned out to live in the deserts of Iraq.”

ShirAhmad Roozrokh who is a defector of the MEK and lives in Golestan, recalls Rasool in the group. “Rasool was called Torkman in the MEK,” ShirAhmad says. “He spoke Italian very well. He worked in the administrative unit of the group.”

“Rasool and Masoomeh live in separated units in the MEK’s camp”, ShirAhmad notifies. Couples are forced to divorce according to the MEK regulations. “Rasool used to love Masoomeh very much”, His brother says feeling pity for Rasool’s love life. “The MEK has ruined their romantic marriage, nothing is left of their love.”

Rasool’s sister cannot hold her tears while she is speaking of her brother. “I am the only one who have seen our mother’s grieves and sufferings during the years of the absence of Rasool,” she says. “Our father passed away while he was calling Rasool’s name. I wish mom could see Rasool as soon as possible.”

Rasool’s elderly mother, Nesa HemmatNia is sick and frail. He speaks to the camera of Nejat Society in Torkman language. “My Dear Rasool just come! I’d love to hear your voice in the last years of my life. I am always looking forward to your coming back. Every new year, I say to myself that you may come.”

October 2, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Father of an MEK member: I have forgotten the face of my daughter

Shokooh had just finished high school when she traveled to Turkey in the early 1990s. She was planning to immigrate to Europe via Turkey in order to study in a European university.
“In turkey, she called us a few times and told that she was getting prepared to travel to Europe,” her father, Mohammad Qasemi told Nejat Society. “After some time, we lost her track. Shokooh did not contact us anymore.”

Shokooh Qasemi had joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). “She was the commander of a tank unit in Camp Ashraf,” says Foad Basri, former member of the MEK. “I used to see her from time to time when I was there.”

Mohammad qasemi – father of shokooh Ghasemi

Mohammad Qasemi has not seen his daughter for over thirty years. He has not even heard her voice through a voice call in the years of Shokooh’s membership in the cult-like system of the MEK. He has made efforts to contact his daughter; he has written several open letters and has published text, voice and video messages on Nejat Society website in the hope of visiting his beloved daughter someday.

In his latest message, he says:
“I wonder how Rajavi speaks of freedom and democracy while he has kept my daughter behind the bars of his group for many years. Is my daughter free? If she is free then why don’t you allow her to call her family? This is so inhuman. Rajavi has taken my daughter as a hostage. I have not seen the face of my daughter for over thirty years. I have forgotten her face. I read that Rajavi wants to liberate Iranian people! Are Iranian people in prison?

They are living their lives despite their issues. I am telling Rajavi : ‘First liberate those you have imprisoned in your group! Let alone the Iranian people!’ Rajavi and his commanders are not human beings. I am looking forward to the day that my daughter will unshackle herself and get back to embrace her family.”

September 30, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

I hope we can meet our loved ones even for a few minutes in Albania

Mr. Ali Akbar Khatibi, brother of Mohammad Khatibi, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) in Albania, said at the Nationwide Online Conference of the Nejat Society held on August,2021:

Mr. Ali Akbar Khatibi, brother of Mohammad Khatibi

I am Khatibi. Greetings to all the friends and those who really work hard in this way. Especially the Lorestan Province Nejat Society, and Mr. Moradi and Mr. Khosropour, for whom I am very grateful.

I ask for those loved ones who have separated from the Rajavi Cult, salaries be considered in order to help them financially. God willing, there would be a way for us to go to Albania and have a meeting with our loved ones for even a few minutes, I do not mention a few days, and to be able to find out about their health, both physically and mentally. Because we are really disconnected from them and we cannot contact them in any way. We would just like to have a meeting where we can be informed about the health of our loved ones.

September 30, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Dear Bro; mum was obsessed with you until the last day of her life

Farzin Hashemi was born in Arak, Iran. He left Iran for England to continue his studies, in 1979. “He was a smart student in high school,” his brother Bahman says about him. “He was well-known as a hardworking student and a respectable guy in our neighborhood. He traveled to England immediately after he graduated from high school.”
Two years later he got back to Iran and stayed for a few months and again returned to England where he married a British girl and had two children. “He used to contact us from time to time,” Bahman recalls. “He used to post letters and present to us but after sometime we lost his track.”

It took Farzin’s family some time to get to know that Farzin had divorced his wife and left his children behind to join the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). As long as Farzin has been in the MEK, his family has not had any contact with him.

Ms. Ashraf Mahallati; Farzin’s mother

Farzin’s mother, Ashraf Mahallati, passed away a few months ago while she was awaiting his son’s return. In an open letter to Farzin, a few months before her death, she wrote:

“I am a mother. I never forget my beloved son. Did you forget me? Why did you ruin your life? You are jailed in the hands of some cruel people […] I don’t know how I can contact you. I am sure that he will regret someday. You destroyed your happy life with your wife and children. The cult deceived you. […] It is not late. You can still make an accurate decision and free yourself. I am still looking forward to your return.”

Although the mother died, Bahman has not stopped his efforts to contact his brother in the MEK. He has so far published several letters to ask his brother to release himself from the cult-like structure of the group in which Farzin is allegedly a member of the so-called foreign committee of the National Council of Resistance, the political vitrine of the cult.

Bahman Hashemi; Farzin Hashemi’s Brother

In his recent letter to Farzin, Bahman writes:

“I have written several letters to you but unfortunately you did not respond…As I know you are not of the rank and file so you have access to the Internet and you must have read my letters. I want to open up to you. I want to talk about our mother who was obsessed with you until the last day of her life.
“The way you chose ruined your life and your family. You forgot your mother. Let me speak openly. Your organization is in a cul-de-sac. The group’s ship is stuck in mud. There is no water under the ship to move it. My dear brother! Farzin! Release yourself and live a free life.”

September 29, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Meeting our loved ones is our least request from the International Court in The Hague

Mr. Faraji, brother of Abbas and Asghar Faraji, members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), stated at the nationwide online conference of the Nejat Society held in August 2021:

In the name of God. Greetings to all the loved ones and activists of the Nejat Society, especially the activists of the Lorestan branch. My request is similar to those of my dear brothers and our noble sister (sister of Aziz Kakavand and Mr. Khatibi).

Mr. Faraji, brother of Abbas and Asghar Faraji, members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization

Our request is that the complaints be dealt with and that, God willing, they arrange for us to have a meeting with our loved ones, which is the least we can expect from the International Court in The Hague.

Insha’Allah, the authorities should review the demands, and we should be able to meet them as we did once or twice in Iraq in the past, and we can fulfill our smallest rights and examine the complaints of the loved ones who returned home and their rights and youth were really lost.

The complaints of these individuals should be seen and dealt with.
Thank you

September 28, 2021 0 comments

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