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Victims of the MKO Need Help

Mostafa was visiting the headquarters of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) in Auvers sur d’Oise, Paris when he was beaten up by some of the thugs of the group. He was violently encountered because he was asking the group leader to allow him to meet with his daughter Somayeh. After travelling to the group’s camp in Iraq for several times, Mostafa, finally took his case to the group leader, Maryam Rajavi. Due to severe beating Mostafa was hospitalized overnight. He was accompanied with his other daughter Hooriyeh who was also injured by the MKO agents in Auver.

Somayeh is an example of many people captured in the cult of Rajavi (the MKO), separated from family, friends and society. “Family Survival Trust” that is a foundation formed by volunteers who are concerned for people, families, communities and societies who are abused by totalitarian cults. Some of the members of this foundation are volunteers whose children, parents, siblings, friends or colleagues were recruited by cults. Their task is very similar to ours at Nejat NGO that is specifically focused on the salvation of the victims of the MKO cult.

This article refers to Family Survival Trust as a reliable and informed source on the cults since they professionally deal with a large number of case studies being abused by different cults. FST’s website proposes, “What damaging cults have in common is their vindictive abusiveness and their dissociative totalitarianism”.

The above mentioned fact about destructive cults is definitely witnessed by a large number of members of the MKO (the Cult of Rajavi).

Ghorban Ali Hossein Nezhad is a former high-ranking member and interpreter of the group. He also has a daughter taken as a hostage in the MKO’s Camp Liberty, Iraq. As a disassociated member, he is not allowed to meet with his daughter Zeinab by the group leaders. “Cults are dissociative, separating members from families, friends and colleagues,” FST proposes.

The horrifying events that are happening inside the cults are the main reasons that the cults’ leaders are able to keep members out of reach for a long time. Ebrahim Khodabande, a former member of the MKO and cult expert describes how a cult victim is indoctrinated by the cult system:

“Cults have no unchangeable principal; they have only one fixed principal and that is: Everything must go around the leader’s interests and will. Maryam Rajavi told us:” You are not good enough unless you recognize Massoud’s interests and will and then you try to fulfill them”.

According to FST, Cults recruit members by various forms of enticement or deception, demanding total submission and adoption of the ideas by members. Free thinking is not allowed.

Khodabandeh’s testimony absolutely confirms the above characteristics of cults: “In cults, lying and deceiving is formulated and indoctrinated by the system. Everything is based on lie and deception. The hierarchy tells lies from top to bottom.”

He admits that he was deceived and then was recruited by the MKO. ”Then I was brainwashed under the mind-control system and I was manipulated to tell lies about the group’s cause as if it was a secular pro-western organization,” he says.

The MKO’s pro-West and pro-democracy gesture has an external function for the leaders. This way they can gain the support of western politicians, particularly Zionist warmongers of the US Congress. ”At the same time, to gain acceptance from wider society, cults lobby politicians and the public, using the same ideas of freedom of expression which they deny their members,” FST states.

In contrast with the MKO’s slogans for human rights and democracy, the Human Rights Watch report titled “No Exit” offers testimonies of numerous cases of human rights violations committed in the Cult of Rajavi. Besides, there are a lot more interviews and memoires of ex-members of the group who were victims of its cult-like structure (most of them are available at Nejat NGO website).

“Cults tend to be psychologically manipulative or abusive in order to exploit and control members commercially or sexually,” according to the FST’s description of cults. ”Some cults can also be physically abusive”. The No Exit report confirms that members of the Cult of Rajavi are mentally and physically tortured and at least in one case a man named Parvis Ahmadi was killed under torture in the group’s jail in Camp Ashraf. Parvis’s case was approved by some other defectors of the group.

Furthermore, as FST proposes, cults are abundant and deceptive and the reason for concern is clear. “The separation from loved ones, whose personalities may become unrecognisable after cultic recruitment, causes a great deal of grief and upset to families and friends,” the website says. “Seeing changes in, or hearing of the abuse suffered by, cult victims – or sometimes having to deal with an individual’s disappearance – can cause a great deal of stress, anger and upset in the home.”

The common grief of the two fathers Hossein nezhad and Mohhammadi made them to take an action near the MKO’s headquarters in Auver Sur D’Oise, Paris. They tried to inform citizens of Auver Sur d’Oise about the violent, cult-like nature of the MKO. They distributed flyers, brochure, images and CDs to inform the citizens that the cult has kidnapped their daughters.

Khodabandeh believes that it is essential for the family of the victims to be involved in order to speed up the process of liberation. He suggests that the salvation of the MKO hostages is possible if they are supported from outside of the cult, such as the family members and other philanthropists. “That’s why the cult leaders forbid and control any contact with families,” he says. All cult victims need help, no matter how they have been involved or harmed, according to FST.

By Mazda Parsi

August 17, 2015 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 108

++ The Mojahedin Khalq likes to pose to an English speaking audience as a political opposition group, but even a cursory glance into its murky Farsi world reveals the cultic quagmire which more accurately reflects its actual state. One of the major problems for the MEK are its numerous critics. These include what we call ‘internal critics’ who are still enthralled by the MEK but believe they are capable of constructive criticism of the organisation, its leadership and its policies. Several Farsi outlets reported on an appearance by internal MEK critic Iraj Mesdaghi on the Youtubed TV programme Andishe. In answer to his critics Mesdaghi declares “not only do I not regret being with the MEK, but I am proud that I have been and still am a supporter of the MEK.” In response, some people wrote open letters and comments criticising Mesdaghi for supporting a plethora of crimes from the past three decades. They question whether Mesdaghi really is criticising the MEK or in fact working for them to annoy the ex-members.

Iran Interlink as usual published these items with the sources in the Persian section. After a week, Mesdaghi suddenly responded to this on his website (affiliated to the MEK) by swearing at Iran Interlink and specifically saying that this is the website of the Intelligence services of Iran and claiming that Massoud Khodabandeh has planned all the things he has said himself in coordination with the people in Tehran and that they have made a plan to attack me because I write about thirty years ago when I was in prison in Iran. Iran Interlink published the whole of Mesdaghi’s writing as an example of how Mesdaghi answers his critics. After that several people both overtly and indirectly criticised Iran Interlink for even engaging with him as he is notorious for being ‘mentally disturbed’ and because he has ‘nothing better to do than swear at everyone and everything under the sun because he believes he is better than he really is’. Massoud Khodabandeh copied the attacks Mesdaghi used against him on his Facebook with this explanation: the point that every now and then he attacks me for any old reason is because he thinks that if he attacks me he will be attacked less by the Rajavis – which shows he doesn’t know Massoud Rajavi at all. He doesn’t know that contrary to what he believes about himself he is a very weak person and is so afraid of Rajavi that he tries to placate him by attacking me. I pray that all those internal critics who still think there is a chance to stay inside the MEK and criticise Rajavi will one day wake up and join the real world.

++ When Hadi Ta’ali, who was just over sixty years old, died this week in Tirana, Maryam Rajavi was quick to claim him as her martyr and the ‘best of the best’, blaming the Iraqi government and the UN for his death because of lack of medical attention. Each of the authorities in Iraq have repeatedly made it clear that it is the MEK leaders there who don’t allow their critics to have medicine. Over this week at least twenty ex members have written to say that they knew him and that everyone inside the MEK also knows that Ta’ali was actually held captive there and had at various times been taken to the MEK court and subjected to beating and imprisonment. These writers express profound contempt for Maryam Rajavi’s opportunism; after killing him she claims him as her martyr.

++ A two part programme made by BBC Farsi has attracted controversy through its mention of the MEK. Some of the stories featured people who have been in prison in Iran. One of guests was ex member Saeid Shahsavandi. This prompted the MEK to again start attacking the BBC; labelling it “Ayatolllah BBC”. However, another such person is Saleh Kohhansal who is still in prison in Iran. The MEK claim he belongs to them and has published a letter supposedly from him against the BBC. The letter, written with the typical nervous MEK language of hatred, swears at everyone and praises Rajavi, has prompted reactions from internal critics as well as ex members saying that Maryam Rajavi is clearly trying to get him killed, but the point is that no one believes this letter comes from him unless you believe that a prisoner in Iran has access to satellite TV to watch BBC Farsi (satellites are illegal for ordinary citizens), and that he is free to not only write a letter swearing at the highest people in Iran and accuse them of anything he likes, but nobody even stops him sending it. Ironically they point out that nobody inside the MEK can watch satellite and for even getting close to insulting Rajavi you will, as a minimum, be severely beaten up if in Europe and if in Iraq then God help you.

++ The UN has reached an agreement with the MEK to send 203 Camp Liberty residents to Albania. This number is broken up into a group of fifteen or sixteen every week. The individuals in the first two groups have been named by Haghighat Association so that families know their loved ones are in Tirana. The new arrivals have said that the reason only fifteen per week has been negotiated by the MEK is because with this agreement we are seeing the end of Camp Liberty and the MEK sees this clearly as well. Rajavi is afraid that if a larger number come they will all revolt. The MEK is rapidly trying to buy properties in Tirana to disperse these people quietly so it will not look as though they have left all at once.

In English:

++ AlMuraqib alIraqia, Baghdad refers to the testimony of a former member of the MKO, Gorban Ali Hussein Nejad who served as the Arabic interpreter of the group leader, Massoud Rajavi, to expose financial corruption among some political parties in Iraq in relation to the Mojahedin Khalq.

++ Nejat Society in Tehran published an interview with cult expert Ebrahim Khodabandeh in which he describes how the Mojahedin Khalq used deception and psychological manipulation to get him to tell lies to further the cult leader’s agenda.

++ Ali Gharib writes in Lobelog about ‘UANI, Joe Lieberman and the MEK (Mojahedin Khalq)’.

August 14, 2015

August 15, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The MEK and the Deal with Iran

AIPAC has been lobbying against the nuclear deal as one would expect, and this week they are touting the opposition of a handful of former military officers to the agreement. The first one that they cite is Hugh Shelton, who recently penned an op-ed objecting to the deal while praising the virtues of the “former” terrorist group Mujahideen-e Khalq’s political umbrella organization, the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran. It is telling that they edited the quote to leave out his reference to the latter, since they probably know it would discredit what Shelton says.

Shelton is a longtime MEK booster, and was cheering them on even before they were removed from the official list of foreign terrorist organizations. The MEK seeks to overthrow the Iranian government, as do the cult’s many American fans, so they are predictably opposed to any agreement with Tehran. Anyone that sides with this group is pushing a regime change agenda that is extremely unpopular among Iranians, and so shouldn’t be taken seriously on anything related to Iran.

As he has done before, Shelton presents the cult and its allies as Iran’s “main opposition,” but this is plainly false. The group is widely hated inside Iran and has almost no support in the Iranian diaspora. It is wildly unrepresentative of what most Iranians in Iran and elsewhere want for their country, and it is also at odds with what most Iranians think about the nuclear deal. Most Iranians support the deal, as do most dissidents inside Iran, so it is dishonest in the extreme to assert that the MEK’s rejection of the deal represents the wishes of “the Iranian people.” Shelton is recycling the propaganda of a fanatical exile group and trying to pass it off as something radically different in order to influence a major policy debate here in the U.S.

By Daniel Larison

August 15, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

UANI, Joe Lieberman and the MEK

I only have a few words to add to Jim’s post about United Against a Nuclear Iran naming Joe Lieberman as its new president. Those words are: Mojahedin-e Khalq. That’s the ex-terrorist Iranian opposition group, often known as the MEK, that has campaigned tirelessly for decades for regime change in Iran, and Joe Lieberman is one of their favorite advocates in Washington.

Here’s a bit of something I wrote in June about Lieberman’s positions on Iran and the MEK:

As far back as 2008, Lieberman was joking—yes, joking, as if this were a laughing matter—about the “appeal” of bombing Iran. In a 2010 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations that re-purposed many of the talking points Lieberman had used to push for the invasion of Iraq, he spoke of a six-month deadline—six months! in 2010!—for Iran to roll back its nuclear program before the U.S. had to seriously consider a military strike.

Lieberman’s been at it since then, too. In 2012, he said that a military strike could cause Iran’s nuclear program to “be delayed for enough years that we may hope and pray that there will be a regime change.” And that is the central point of Lieberman’s advocacy: he wants a U.S. policy of regime change. Just this month, he participated by video in a confab of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), the ex-terrorist Iranian opposition group that relentlessly pushes for regime change.

“Inevitably,” Lieberman addressed the MEK members directly, “as individuals you may ask yourself: Is it possible that we can bring about a change of regime in Iran? And I want to say to you that it is. I’m confident that it is and it will happen.” The US, he said, “should be working closely with your resistance group.” The event was even the subject of a “sponsored report“—whatever that means—from The Washington Times that helpfully categorized Lieberman’s statements as “American support for regime change and the Iranian opposition.”

I mention this because of the raft of deal opponents who just won’t stop insisting that actually they don’t want war with Iran, they just want a “better deal.” If that’s the case, they ought to stop naming Joe Lieberman to prominent positions in their organizations. As it stands now, the hawkish former Democrat holds positions in several major anti-deal groups in Washington. Jim noted his roles at theAIPAC anti-deal spin-off (which has also promoted MEK materials in its advertisements), the American Enterprise Institute, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, adding to that now his elevation from advisory board member at UANI to being its leader.

Fellow board members who actually support the Iran nuclear deal, such as Graham Allison and its Lieberman’s immediate predecessor, Gary Samore, might take note.

But hawkishness on Iran is a matter apart from support for the MEK. The group is reviled in Iran; it has launched terrorist attacks there; many impartial analysts have described it as a cult. Eli and I have already written about UANI’s targeting of legal humanitarian trade with Iran, and how it belies its professed solidarity with the Iranian people. Now, we can add UANI’s promotion of a pro-MEK hawk to that score. What’s worse, though, is the group’s elevation of a man who has such a cavalier attitude toward war with Iran and who wants official US policy toward the Islamic Republic to be regime change.

We’ve seen this move before with the Iraq war, and UANI seems determined to have Joe Lieberman, who, as Jim noted, was Honorary Co-Chair of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, return to star in the sequel.

Ali Gharib,

About the Author

Ali Gharib is a New York-based journalist on U.S. foreign policy with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia. His work has appeared at Inter Press Service, where he was the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief; the Buffalo Beast; Huffington Post; Mondoweiss; Right Web; and Alternet. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. A proud Iranian-American and fluent Farsi speaker, Ali was born in California and raised in D.C.

August 13, 2015 0 comments

Italy

Ali Akbar Rastgou Open letter to Giulio Terzi

Open letter to Italian ex FM

Dear Mr. Terzi,

In your interview with “Il garantista” from 6/17/2015 the “National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)” is described as a “coalition of Iranian organizations, groups and Democrats residing abroad”.

Accurate would be to designate the NCRI as a political arm of the People’s Mojahedin “Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK / MKO / PMOI)”. Although after its foundation in 1981 in addition to Abulhassan Bani Sadr, a former president of the Islamic Republic, also the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (DPKI), followers of Mohammad Mosaddeq founded National Democratic Front and various Stalinist groups joined the NCRI, but in 1982 Bani Sadr already left the NCRI. Like him many other groups not being satisfied with the absolute leadership style of Rajavi and the dominance of the MEK in the NCRI, followed him till the 1984th.

Furthermore, it is said, the NCRI combines “representatives of ethnic and religious minorities, such as Kurds, Baluchis, Jews and Zoroastrians “.

Also in the Iranian parliament, according to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic, there are reserved five seats for representatives of religious minorities. Even Article 13 of the Constitution recognizes Iranian citizens of Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian faith officially as religious minorities, who determine their personal status and religious education even after the corresponding own religious rules. Should we therefore call the Islamic Republic as a prime example of religious freedom and democracy?

What matters is how this apparent openness for minorities and other opinions and ways of life is implemented in reality.

Mr. Terzi, in the interview, you talk about the demand of young Iranians “… for more freedom in the school, in information, in everyday life …” But can such a claim at all to be implemented by an organization that keeps its members under strict supervision in the camps since decades, prohibiting them from access to information and independent media, controlling and directing all social contacts?

You point out, the fight against the Islamic State is “hopeless” when Islamic fundamentalism will further be “fueled by Tehran”. The “Shiite sectarianism” be the “trigger” for the “radicalization of large parts of the Sunni world.”

How can you seriously believe that an organization with such a strong personality cult around its leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi and such cultish structures based on a radical indoctrination of its members against all dissenters could make a contribution to the pacification of this regional and religious powder keg? An organization that has always been calling on Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the regime, only to take itself to power as a “transitional government”.

So worthy of support the demand for the inclusion of other refugees from Camp Liberty in Italy may be, you should look carefully whether the organization you designate “…The only solution for the future of Iran…”, can deliver what it promises, or whether the many dropouts and critics, human rights organizations and aid workers as well as nearly all those who have taken a critical look with the MEK apart, are right when they accuse the organizations cultish structures, the leader cult , indoctrination and oppression up to the ill-treatment of members, foreclosure of the world and reality, and a very idiosyncratic understanding of democracy.

You cannot fight the fact that you support an organization with a more radical and more fundamental ideology of fundamentalism and radicalism.

You cannot fight terrorism and bloodshed, by supporting an organization that has been practicing this for many years and still takes the view, “liberation” of Iran can only be possible through a (violent) overthrow of the government.

As nice as moderate and western-democratic the facade of the MEK may seem, viewing behind the facade reveals its true face fast!

Best regards,

AAWA Association e.V.

Dipl. Ing. Ali Akbar Rastgou (Chairman)

[2] http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/09/iran-s14.html.

[4] http://othes.univie.ac.at/18784/1/2012-02-29_0948167.pdf , S. 6.

[6]NCR

August 5, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

Who is the Finance Director of the MKO?

Mohammad Tarighat Monfared alias Yaser is a high ranking member of Mujahedin-e Khalq who commutes within Europe under the alias Lolakiyan.

He is from Tehran. In 1982 he escaped Iran. He now resides in Berlin, Germany. Tarighat Monfared is a veteran member of the MKO. From 1979 he has been the financial director of the group.

As the financial supervisor of the group, one of his most important operations has been receiving financial aids from Saudi Arabia, Israel and Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi collapsed dictator; Saddam Hussein had allocated 3 million oil barrels per month to the Mujahedin-e Khalq. The MKO received the oil share in coupons which then were sent to Europe to be changed in to dollars and to be invested.

Tarighat Monfared was tasked with operating as Rajavi’s representative in receiving the monthly 3 million oil barrels coupons and supervising the finances.

In 2003 he left Iraq for Europe in accompany with Maryam Rajavi. From then on he lives in Germany and organizes the money laundering operations of the group.

Most recently three members of the MKO traveled to Germany from Albania under the command of Yaser (Tarighat Monfared). They were tasked with transferring a huge sum of money. The three members arrested by the Germany Police and imprisoned.

Based on the report of Hamidreza Bikas; former member of the group

August 5, 2015 0 comments

The MEK to launch Armed Struggle

On the Anniversary of MKO leader’s escape from Iran

Terror In The Name Of Democracy: Initiation of Armed Revolt

The eruption of riots was actually MKO’s first organized armed revolt to steer the country to the verge of anarchy

The eruption of riots was actually MKO’s first organized armed revolt to steer the country to the verge of a chaotic atmosphere and anarchy and it was followed by daily scattered clashes, bombings and terrorist atrocities. The ousted Bani-Sadr himself used as the pretext to trigger MKO’s armed revolt, encouraged the group to precipitate the created crises by a wave of violent activities including assassination of high-ranking statesmen and personalities. In her confessions after her arrest, Sudabeh Sadifi, an adviser to Bani-Sadr, asserted that Bani-Sadr after his dismissal in a message to Massoud Rajavi, MKO’s leader, urged him to “Start striking their heads. There is no other way.”

Plots to assassinate the key, influential heads in charge hatched just after Bani-Sadr and Rajavi’s hiding in the organization’s secret hideouts. The first perpetrated terrorist act was an attempt to assassinate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran’s Friday prayers at the time, on 27 June, 1981; a bomb, concealed in a tape recorder, exploded beside him while he was delivering an address in Abu Dhar mosque south of Tehran. He escaped assassination but suffered serious injuries that left his right hand handicapped. The terrorist agent was identified to be a MKO’s central cadre, Javad Qadiri.

Tehran was still under the shock of the attempt assassination when MKO stroke the successive terrorist blow the day after on June 28. Reportedly, two blasts ripped through IRP building as the chief Ayatollah Beheshti was addressing his regular weekly meeting. The death toll rose to 74 including Ayatollah Beheshti, Cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and members of Parliament. The perpetrator was identified to be an infiltrated agent of MKO, Muhammad-Reza Kulahi. It was so heavy a strike for the newly formed regime and both MKO and Bani-Sadr expected complete destabilization and overthrow of the ruling authority. However, the public reaction to such violent, immoral deeds was nothing more than a strong feeling of repulsion towards MKO.

On July 27, 1981, Muhammad-Ali Rajai won a landslide victory in Iran’s second post-revolution presidential election. Deeply disappointed, the sole option before the two fugitives living in secret hideouts was to immediately leave the country. On 29 July, Bani-Sadr accompanied by Rajavi, in disguise and by having shaved off his customary mustache, were driven to a Tehran military base and got on board of a hijacked Iranian air force 707 jet tanker around 10 at night. It seemed unlikely that they could have gotten to the plane and aboard without the cooperation of other military personnel and particularly the pilot who flew the plane to land it at the military airfield of Evreux near Paris. The pilot, Col. Behzad Moesi, was the personal pilot of the ousted Muhammad-Reza Pahlavi whom, along with his family, he had flown out of Iran to Egypt and then to Morocco in December 1978. Unexpectedly, Moesi had returned Pahlavi’s plane, Shahin, to Iran and received a warm welcome as a hero and a revolutionary. He had succeeded to win the trust of authorities and had been appointed to sensitive military positions.

It is reasonable to assume that his return to Iran was a scenario outlined by the states antagonizing the Islamic regime and directed by intelligence agencies to establish a direct contact with the active opposition groups to arrive at an agreement for a variety of collaborative programs to advance political policies and interests inside Iran. And his return aroused nobody’s curiosity in Iran to question controversial aspects of such an easy return; how had he managed to refuel the plane and flew it out of a heavily guarded military base and pass over a few countries’ air borders to make a heroic return?

The Second Terrorist Tragedy

The fugitives’ escape to France postponed MKO’s second appalling terrorist operation scheduled to be perpetrated the month after the explosion at IRP building. Being granted political asylum just after his arrival in France, Bani-Sadr said “we must try to find a quicker way of overthrowing the absolutists”, and Rajavi vowed to “organize the resistance” against the Islamic Republic from France. There they were granted the opportunity of conveniently planning, by abundantly offered external aids, for more destructive and successful operations. The quick way to success had to be involved a variety of violent options including suicide bombing; MKO had enough devoted infiltrated agents as volunteers for these types of operation. Massoud Keshmiri, the agent who detonated the bomb in the Prime Minister’s office, had already volunteered to be a suicide bomber if necessary although he succeeded in his mission without endangering his life and managed to escape through a well-planned trick played by his fellow-mate accomplices.
On August 30, 1981, Mohammad Ali Rajai, the Iranian President, and Mohammad Javad Bahonar, the Prime Minister, were burned beyond recognition by an incendiary that set fire to the Prime Minister’s office. The victims’ bodies were identified only through dental records. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing but there was speculation, proved later, that it was work of MKO. There still remains questions concerning the planted incendiary bomb that just burned the president and his prime minister but leaving others merely injured. The third victim, Abdolhussein Daftarian, the prime ministry’s authority, died of uncontrolled consequences of the blast. The fourth victim, Hushang Dastjerdi, the head of the national police, passed away 6 days later in hospital as a result of the injuries. The bomb was said to have been planted inside a briefcase that Keshmiri carried, but there was a different judgment that it had been planted inside a tape-recorder stationed before the victims. Col. Muhammad Mahdi Katibe, a member of the meeting who survived the blast, states that:
“I believe the appropriate container to plant the bomb inside was the tap-recorder that had a capacity for more than 10 pounds explosives. I think it was a hollow case inside which they had planted a TNT time bomb with alarm clock detonator. I doubt if there was a better vessel.”

August 3, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The “Manufactured crisis” ended, the MKO left in Catastrophe

“After decades of tensions and distrust, 12 years of hope and fear and 22 months of intense, difficult, highly technical and political negotiations, we had finally made it,” write Mrs. Frederica Mogherini in her enlightening piece on the Guardian titled “The Iran agreement is a disaster for Isis”. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy believes that the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West will open a new chapter in the relations between the two sides. She explains one of the main reasons for her trip to Tehran concerns with the implementation of the agreement. Besides, she writes of another duty she and other sides of the agreement have to build on “the historical result” they have achieved in Vienna which is” an alliance of civilizations“ that according to her can be “our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror” and sectarianism in the region , particularly ISIS. [1] Mrs. Mogherini’s good will for peace making seems truly honest but why the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) condemns her trip to Tehran?

The so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran the propaganda arm of the MKO claims that the Iranian Government is in decline and Europe should not tie its future to it! As he claims Europe will lose the friendship with Iranian people in future!

The future the NCR tries to imagine for Iran is entirely based on the mirage its leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have been portraying for more than three decades. This is while Mogherini writes, “The Vienna deal tells us that we all have much to earn if we choose cooperation over confrontation”. She believes that hard work is needed to create peaceful mutual relationship but she points out,”We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran. Before sanctions began in 2005, cooperation between our parts of the world spanned many areas, from energy to trade. But our shared interests go well beyond the economy.” As she clarifies there is enough political will that “could open unprecedented possibilities of peace for the region”. [2]

The MKO leaders have other reasons to be mad at European countries. In the aftermath of the nuclear agreement, delegations of Germany and France also travelled to Tehran to expand economic and political relationships with Iran. “German business leaders landed in Iran with Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and have said they have high hopes to renew contacts”, reported DW. “Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s vice chancellor and economy minister, flew to Iran on Sunday, becoming the first top Western official to visit the country since world powers and Tehran reached a historic nuclear deal.” [3]

“On the first visit to Iran for 12 years by a French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius conveyed an invitation from President Francois Hollande to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to visit France”, reported Reuters . “Fabius met with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and was also due to meet Rouhani on his one-day visit, two weeks after a landmark deal under which Western sanctions are to be lifted in exchange for limits on Iran’s nuclear program.” [4]

Thus, the “manufacture crisis” made by the MKO-Israel alliance –as the famous historian journalist Gareth Porter investigated—seems to be ended.[5] The MKO now is endeavoring to ally itself with Zionist warmongers of the Congress to survive.

The two independent journalists Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton investigated the alliance between the Zionist lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that declared war on nuclear accord and the MKO: “AIPAC, Washington’s most influential pro-Israel lobby reportedly plans on spending $20 million over the next two months urging Congress to vote against the deal. But its efforts at a full frontal attack on the accord, inked by the P5+1 (the US, China, France, Russia, the UK, and Germany) and Iran is leading to some politically awkward alliances.” [6]

They affirm that an advocacy group called Citizens For a Nuclear Free Iran (CNFI) is an off-shoot of the AIPAC, “ Now that the campaign is taking shape, the AIPAC spin-off appears to be relying on a typical, if troubling, ally of American groups and individuals opposed to diplomacy with Iran.” They highlight the MKO’s part in this notorious alliance, ”Namely, two items on the website of Citizens for a Nuclear Iran, one of which was later removed, featured an exiled Iranian opposition group called the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK).” [7]

The MKO is publicized in the multi-million dollar advertisement made by the Zionist advocacy lobby CNFI. As Gharib and Clifton state, the ad “incorporates b-roll footage from a press conference held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which the State Department deemed the MEK’s “political wing” (earning it a corresponding terrorist designation). “ [8]

They add, “The footage in the Nuclear Free Iran ad shows Alireza Jafarzadeh, a longtime Washington-based MEK apparatchik, at the National Press Club using a pointer aimed at a satellite photograph.” [9] This must be one of the hundreds press conferences held by the MKO propaganda machine in which Alireza Jaafarzadeh, Sona Samsami, Mohammad Mohaddessin …or any other MKO agent repeats the repeated unproved claims of the so-called revelations on the Iranian nuclear program.

“Rajavi counts among her supporters one of Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran’s advisory board members: former Democrat and former senator Joe Lieberman,“ Gharib and Clifton report. “Lieberman has made several appearances at MEK events, including this June when he appeared at a MEK confab in Paris.” [10]

There are a large number of warmongers who oppose any deal with Iran and support the MKO as an alternative for the Iranian government. On the MKO website you may see a list of people who had denounced Mogherini’s trip to Iran, from US lawmakers to Foreign Minister of the UAE. Good news for the MKO’s propaganda, skeptical lawmakers of the US Congress —some of whom induced by the MKO lobby and mostly backed by Israeli lobby — every day they challenge Secretary Kerry for not being firm on Iran. So what?

Seemingly, The MKO and its sponsors should understand that the aspirations of both sides of the agreement for peace and understanding are not easy to underestimate. It seems that the time for fabricating half-truths and false evidences about the Iranian nuclear program is over.

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] Mogherini, Federica, The Iran agreement is a disaster for Isis, the Guardian, 28 July 2015

[2] ibid

[3] DW, German delegation aims to renew trade ties on trip to Iran, 19 July 2015

[4] Naegelen, Jacky, Fabius, visiting Tehran, invites Rouhani to France, Reuters, July 29 2015

[5] Porter, Gareth, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, Amazon.com,

February 14,2014

[6] Gharib, Ali & Clfton, Eli, Anti-Iran Deal AIPAC Spin-off Relies on Iranian Ex-Terrorist Group

, lobelog.com, July 21 2015

[7 ]ibid

[8] ibid

[9] ibid

[10] ibid

August 2, 2015 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 107

++ The MEK’s publicity outlets have broadcast a message from Massoud Rajavi to the members. Before this, there had not been any video of his speeches since 2003. This time there wasn’t even an audio of Rajavi’s voice and the message was read by someone else. After the usual lengthy rant, the main message is from one side threatening revenge against the Europeans and Americans for doing a deal with Iran. From other side Rajavi ironically claims the deal signals the beginning of the end for Iran because the MEK will resume its terrorist operations and “you will hear about it in Iran; we will launch terrorist attacks soon”. Contrary to the MEK’s mask of peace and democracy in the West, the MEK has announced its resumption of terrorism from its satellite TV in London and its website from Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris. The general interpretation among MEK experts is that this mixed message demonstrates Rajavi’s panic as he sees Iran getting closer to the West and the gap he depends upon to exploit is closing up. On the other hand the absence of audio has introduced more mystery to the question of Rajavi’s whereabouts.

++ Some ex-members have exposed a plot by the financial section of the MEK in Europe. Using documentation, they show that Shirin Moini and Babak NikTale’an, who were brought to Tirana from Iraq, first defected in Albania and got married and were then re-recruited by the MEK not as members but as mules for money laundry. While in Tirana they were given a house and a car and other facilities to establish a smuggling business there. But recently they travelled to Germany where they were arrested at the airport and the large sums of money they were carrying were confiscated. The MEK instructed them to try to find someone not connected to the MEK to claim the money is theirs and return it to the MEK. Knowing that anyone who claims such a large sum will be investigated, the MEK has tried to set up some of its enemies and get them implicated. They advised the couple to find ex-members and trap them in this scheme and engage them with the police. The couple have been revealed to be connected directly to the head of the MEK’s money laundry section called Mohammad Tariqat Monfared, who uses the pseudonym Yasser and who uses various passports, one of which is Lolachian which is the name of some of the MEK’s bank accounts. The ex-members who have exposed this scheme have identified similar cases that have happened before and concluded that the MEK regard this couple as expendable mules since they already defected from the cult. The MEK know they will forever be under scrutiny and are no longer of any use. But before giving them up the MEK is trying to get its money back and set up its enemies.

++ On the anniversary of Forough Javidan many people have written memories of how Rajavi knowingly sent people to their deaths and used their blood to revive the MEK, describing it as his “insurance” for his future. Hamed Sarrafpour in particular has written a detailed memoir of all the people he knew from the highest ranks to the ordinary members telling their individual stories along with pictures of the event.

In English:

++ Nedaye Haghighat website reported that two groups of fifteen individuals were transferred from Camp Liberty to Albania in the past two weeks. The process of relocation to third countries by the UN was scheduled to take only six months after the transfer to the temporary transit camp in Iraq, but obstruction by the MEK leaders has slowed the process. Also last week, Mojtaba Bidaqi managed to leave Camp Liberty after 31 years of membership in the destructive Rajavi cult by handing himself over to the UN officials in charge of the camp. His brother Amir had defected from the group last year after being relocated in Albania.

++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Bloggers introduces the testimony of Manijeh Habashi who is a former sympathizer and member of the MKO. She gives first hand witness to Rajavi’s over-estimated Eternal Light invasion of Iran in 1988. In her detailed description she tries to portray the scenes she perceived, without judging or analysing the events. She believes that her expressive article is significant enough to enlighten the mind of her audience.

++ Following the nuclear deal, Daniel McAdams in Global Research writes a scathing criticism of neocon Bill Kristol saying at one point: “And Kristol’s objection to foreigners with American blood on their hands is highly selective. The Marxist-jihadist death cult Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) has plenty of American blood on its hands, but Kristol’s own magazine joined other neocon voices in urging the US to remove the terrorists from the US list of terror organizations. Why? Because they are Kristol’s kind of terrorists: they infiltrate Iran to assassinate civilians and foment unrest, while passing off laptops with Mossad-fabricated data made to look like Iranian nuclear weapons activity.”

++ In a meeting with Elisabeth Guigou, the visiting head of the French National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who chairs the Iranian Parliament’s (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, criticized the European Union (EU) for removing the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations and urged the French government to reconsider its position. Boroujerdi said “the EU decision has enabled the terrorist group, which has the blood of thousands of innocent Iranians on its hands, to “freely operate” in European countries”.

July 31, 2015

August 1, 2015 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

What would Iran look like if the Mojahedin-e Khalq were its government?

Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The Website raised a query on Mujahedin Khalq.

Bellow you can read the question, a brief description on the topic inserted by the Quora and the replies of the website visitors:

What would Iran look like if the Mojahedin-e Khalq were its government?

They are quite controversial, and many documentaries and news sources describe this group as a cult, not just a militant political group. It also says it wants secularism, even though all its female members are forced to wear hejabs.

If you know the group well, do you think they would truly uphold democracy if succeeding in taking power in Iran, or would they attack and kill everyone with opposing viewpoints? Is this another of these types of groups that would make a country resemble North Korea if given power? What explains all the female members having to wear hejabs, including its leader Maryam Rajavi?

The answers to the question are as follows:

Sam Sinai who has introduced himself as a theoretical biologist who went to school in an Islamic country writes:

Bring Islamic Nazis to Iran? What? They are an absolute disgrace for anyone to associate with. Unfortunately western politicians occasionally do. (De-listing, refers to de-listing as terrorists). [1]

They are one of the most dictatorial, brutal, opportunistic, ideologically dangerous cults that exist in the 21st century. I don’t know of any organization that is more capable of replicating Nazis. I mean just look at their logo, it’s just an amalgam of extremes.

They have a self-appointed supreme leader, elected for life, a ‘president-elect’, that happens to be the wife of the supreme leader, also appointed for life. How did he marry her? He ordered everyone in the camp to divorce their wives, and then went ahead and hand picked the widow he was attracted to. Then he chose her as president, and they all call her the president-elect of the Iranian people! God bless the Islamic republic, at least we can half-elect someone there.

They helped Saddam Hussein, during the Iran-Iraq war, specifically providing information for the locations that Saddam used chemical weapons on. They then attacked Iran themselves, and lost.

They buy politicians in the west with HUGE sums of money that they force their members to pay. They collect homeless (by offering food) at their annual gatherings in NYC to aggrandize their perceived support.

Every member follows the instructions to the dot, without questioning. Those who don’t are bullied and abused, if not tortured. Those who escape the camps are never safe. They take orphan children to their camps and brain-wash them to use them as fighters. They refuse to leave their military camps in Iraq, because they want to keep the environment for their fighters isolated from reality.

Their ideology is communism and Islam tied together with a military flavor. Their game-plan is to overtake the government by military force, and their claim is that they will rule ‘only for 6 months’ to stabilize things, and then they would be open to elections (saying this to get sympathy from the west). No s***, why not just have an election to begin with? Because they won’t plan on leaving power.

If they were to rule Iran, the officials will look like this:

Doesn’t it remind you of North Korea-Saddam hybrid? it should, or I am not doing my job right.

Islamic laws would be interpreted and executed as the leader wished, much less collectively than in the Islamic republic. The communistic side means a huge, dictatorial style government. A huge blood bath, from every "traitor’s" blood.

The current half-democracy will turn into absolute tyranny. People will run for their lives and try to escape to other countries. Some areas will attempt to declare independence.

NO, just no, please. I don’t even want to imagine.

[1]John Bolton Shockingly Denies Being a ‘Terrorist Supporter’

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Another user of the Quora says:

Oh my !!!!!…. That would be the worst disaster and misery for Iran, even much worse than the current government. They believe they can do ANYTHING to reach their goals, no matter how many innocent people die or suffer. They united with Iraqis and attacked their own motherland!!!!!!!….. I believe they are absolutely terrorists. Besides, their system is dictatorship, even more strict and scary than the current government. I have heard that in Ashraf Camp in Iraq, they were not allowed to question anything or discuss anything or contact anyone out of the camp or watch TV or listen to Radio (except their own programs!) and they never were allowed to leave the camp or change their minds about staying there. Also men and women couldn’t( and cant yet) contact, even talk to each other.

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Farshid Palad, writes:

Something like the parts of Afghanistan that are in control of the Taliban. Life would have been terrible for Iranians.

Other examples include Iraq under Saddam’s rule or the current North Korea but less advanced.

You would definitely fear for your life. A different point of view? Killed instantly. No question asked.

Quora.com

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