In just one month, Iran was thrust into the global spotlight. Protests erupted. Chaos spread. Ordinary citizens stood against violence, restoring order in the face of terror.

But behind the unrest lay a hidden war; coordinated attacks, sabotage, and the deliberate targeting of lives, cities, and culture. This is the story of a nation tested, of resilience… forged in fire!

Mostafa Beheshti, former member of the MEK was interviewed by Press TV in this investigated report on the protests.
He explains how the group under the leadership of the US and Israel works against Iranian interests.

“At the top of the MEK, Israel and the US are giving the orders,” he told Press TV. “They issue the instructions and the terrorist group is just the executer.”

According to Beheshti, one or two months before these events the MEK began their work in the telegram groups using fake accounts. Then, they entered their operatives through western borders of Iran, those who are armed to commit acts of destruction and sabotage against civilians and security forces.

Beheshti said that paying the vandals is a longstanding tradition in the MEK. “They had also instructed their members that all activities should be done in person and that no messages should be sent on online platforms,” he explains how the MEK hires mercenaries. “They operated in three-person cells. I this set-up one person from outside the country contacted a three-member team.”

About the fee of violence, he adds, “We were paying around 200 to 300 million for arson and clashes with security forces using crypto currency and exchanging offices. In some cases, we had a separate method. The payment was hidden in trash bins in parks.”

Former member of the MEK finds a common aspect in recent incidents in Iran and the MEK’s acts of terror in the early years of the Islamic Republic. “If I want to put it briefly these events were very similar to what happened in Iran in the 1980s,” he states. “At that time, they needed to manufacture death and portrait themselves as victims in order to convince the public”
As a defector who spent 20 years inside the MEK, he has no doubt that the scale of killings carried out by the MEK has not even committed by Daesh. “These are done to demonstrate their loyalty and mercenary role on behalf of Israel,” he says.

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In part 3 of the interview, Khodabandeh describes the actions taken by Nejat society in order to warn the Albanian government about the presence of the MEK in their country. He suggests that the MEK has built a state in state with its autonomy at Ashraf 3.

According to Khodabandeh the MEK, Nejat Society’s goal is to rescue people: those who are stuck at Ashraf 3, Albania and those youngsters in Iran who are at risk of being manipulated by the MEK fake accounts on social media. He warns about the risk of MEK’s cyber army on the Internet.

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Ms. Abdollahi has been endeavoring to free AmirAslan from the hands of the MEK leaders, for over two decades. She has taken every kind of legal action to call on the international community for the release of their son.

She has met several authorities in Iran, Iraq, Europe and the United Nations. She has written so many letters to anyone who can do anything for them. She has founded an NGO called ”Mothers, Forgotten Victims”to help the voice of mothers of the MEK members to be heard. She has launched several campaigns to collect signatures to make Albanian government take action in order to help Ashraf residents choose for their fate.

In this video, Soraya Abdollahi recounts her ordeals with her only son captivated behind the bars of Ashraf 3 in Albania:

Amir Aslan; you left me alone for 24 years,
its been 24 years that I haven’t heard from you,
I don’t know where you are,
I don’t know how you live,
I don’t know how can you live without me,
How can a other tolerate 24 years of anxiety awaiting,
How can a mother live 24 years with just pictures and memories,
On what grounds?
For what crime were you imprisoned?
On what ground have you been imprisoned?
You can’t even make a phone call,
You can’t talk to me, …

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Asked about his activities as a member of the MEK, he explains how he served the group as foreign affairs agent who used to travel across the world. However, he was always under the group’s cult-like monitoring system.

Based on his testimonies, although he was not isolated at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, Khodabandeh was not allowed to visit his family including his daughter who was based in London.
He also told Tehran Times the process that ended with his arrest and extradition to Tehran and eventually his defection from the MEK. The foundation of Nejat Society was one of his achievements after he was released from Evin Prison. He explained about this humanitarian act.

The interview has been published in three parts on Tehran Times website. This is part two.

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Sheida Sabzehvari of Tehran Times introduces Nejat Society as “a Tehran-based entity with offices across Iran and Europe that assists families seeking contact with loved ones in the MEK.”

Presenting a summary of his involvement with the MEK, Khodabandeh tell Tehran Times about the group’s tactics to infiltrate the western governments, to buy the support of certain politicians and to raise funds in European cities. He also speaks of the cult-like attitudes of the group leaders who violate the basic rights of their own members.

The CEO of Nejat NGO explains about the activities of the NGO during the past two decades in order to accomplish its mission which is to aid the families of MEK members who are not allowed by the group leaders to contact their loved ones. According to Khodabandeh, cooperating with the international human rights bodies, Nejat NGO has taken a lot of actions to help families but in most cases the bodies have failed to provide adequate assistance in this regard.

The interview has been published in two parts on Tehran Times website. This is part one.

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On Saturday, March 8, 2025, Iranian and Albanian members of Nejat Society Albania tried to enlighten Albanian citizens about the MEK by presenting flowers to female citizens, holding a photo and poster exhibition, and distributing brochures about the violations of women’s rights in the MEK’s camp known as Ashraf 3, located in the remote village of Manz, north of Tirana.

Hamid Atabay, an activist of Nejat Society Albani, while celebrating International Women’s Day, explains that the purpose of holding the photo exhibition is to enlighten the audience on what is happening to women in the MEK camp. Bijar Rahimi speaks about the forced hijab and the deprivation of the right to marry and have children for female members of the MEK. According to these two former members of the MEK, women in this group do not have the slightest freedom.

Also, Ella Deda, Eltisa Billo, and Aldo Solullari explain to their compatriots about the nature of the MEK organization, its history, and its terrorist and cult-like activities.

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The ongoing trial aims to expose the full extent of the terrorist group’s atrocities, with victims’ families present to testify. Kidnapping, torture and detonating bombs in public places, which represent only a fraction of the group’s terrorist activities, were the focus of this hearing.

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What was the fate of us 800 children? No one will fully ever know because no one kept track. But many of us were transferred to foster families and homes where in many cases we were raped and abused. Sharing our stories is not easy, but a handful of us do because we found the courage within us to do so. A few hundred of us, including myself, were eventually lured back to Iraq “to find our parents” and ended up being recruited as child soldiers by the MEK, where we spent almost two decades within their ranks. I escaped and today I share my stories.

But the MEK will argue that their goal in doing so was to “save the lives of the children” and that they took them out of a war-torn Iraq during the first Persian Gulf War. And that they were sent to safe countries.
Then you should ask them:

– Why didn’t at least one parent accompany their child?
– Why didn’t the parents join their children after the war ended?
– Why are most of these children still separated from their parents after almost 35 years?

That is when you will come to the real answer that the MEK is an Islamic cult that has stripped its members of the most basic human rights and emotions. To the point where a mother, like mine, has no love for her son anymore and chooses loyalty to the cult and leader over family.
I will not we forgive. I will not forget. And I will continue writing and sharing my stories so the world can wake up to the evil the Islamist MEK cult represents.

Ray (Mohammad Reza) Torabi

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The Documentary is the story of the pain and sufferings of mothers and families of people trapped in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).  Aldo Sulollari, the media manager of Nejat Society Albania, together with Erisa Edrisi, the head of the NGO, had a trip to the Persian Gulf last summer, and visited Soraya Abdullahi (mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh) and Masoumeh Rezaei (mother of Saeed Farajullah Hosseini).

The sons of these two mothers have been taken as hostages by the MEK for years. Sulollari and Edrisi conducted meetings and discussions with the suffering mothers. They were closely involved in the pain and sufferings of the mothers and families of the members of the MEK who are trapped in the group’s camp in Manez, Albania.

The outcome of the meetings and conversations of several days on what these two languishing mothers explained on behalf of all mothers and suffering families, in addition to additional images from the records on the issue in Iran, is a 40-minute documentary, titled “Mother, Love, Separation” (“Nëna, Dashuria Ndarja” in Albanian language) which was directed by Aldo with the help of Erisa’s as the translator.

Documentary “Mother, Love, Separation

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Max Civili, Press TV, Rome

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