In an interview with martyr Lieutenant Gen. Sayyad Shirazi’s Son, reporter of Terror Victims information base, posed some questions in order to explore his assassination from a new angle..From four years ago this case is being followed in an international impartial court in France. At the beginning of this year, in early Farvardin [March] I had a one-week trip to France in order to set forth my family’s complaint and to explain the details ..
Anne Singleton on the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK/MKO): Mark Dankof’s America on RBN Radio .. Anne Singleton covers the history and ideology of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) for two hours on Mark Dankof’s America on the Republic Broadcasting Network…
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – a précis of parts 31-32).. that the organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] is entirely depended on Ashraf for a range of pivotal political, strategic, social, propaganda and even fundraising concerns. For the insiders, Ashraf would be depicted as a strategic bastion where resistance could be fully interpreted, not because it below life into the organization but as it was located in the proximity of Iran’s soil..
… Much has been said about MKO/MEK/PMOI as a terrorist organization that once conducted attacks against American citizens and is suspected of collaborating with pentagon and the Israeli intelligence in espionage activities against Iran. In a two hour radio program, Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote, covers the history and ideology of the organization on Mark Dankof’s America on the Republic Broadcasting Network.
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 30)..none of the information would be circulated among the rank and file and there was a strict hierarchical discipline with no leak to the lower ranks..Massoud and Maryam Raajvi always insisted on the exigent priority of the Leadership Council and were of the opinion that information had to be restrained within the council. The lower ranks of MKO/MEK/PMOI had to only carry out the orders of the top even if the day came when a mass suicide was inevitable ..
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 29)..The members of the organization are encouraged to either kill or be killed and there has to be necessarily justifications to convince them choose the either way. ..it is crucial to know why the organization, unlike other similar political or armed groups, cultivates homicidal tendencies with an emphasis on suicidal ones in a struggle to counter its adversaries and exclusively invest on the tactics that highly risk the lives of the insiders. .
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – a précis of parts 27-28)- The human shield was one of the opted options; mass suicides could effectively frustrate any effort that aimed at dismantling the integrity of Ashraf. It included any other threat like forced entry of American or coalition forces to temporarily close or deactivate the camp. Our first choice to resist against intruders had to be using non-firing weapons; needless to say that the organization actually made no resistance against the American forces and succeeded to take the control and hegemony of the camp in its own hands..
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 26).. … To talk of my acquaintance with her, we were once on the same team-work in Camp Ashraf before the US invasion of Iraq and when Maryam (Rajavi) was still in Ashraf. However, Neda left for the Europe simultaneous with Maryam’s relocation to France…
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 25).. the term ‘pardakhtgar’ can be defined; that is to say, a member of the organization sacrifices his love and affection for the family and associates so they may transcend the limits of the material world and achieve the sphere of an unconditional love and affection that could include not only the beloved around them but the humanity in general. His struggle and immolation is to stop people paying for the attention and affection they receive and to purify the atmosphere ..
(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 24).. their daughter had committed suicide and they could change nothing for her loss. Then, the organization put two choices before them; to move in parallel with the organization’s scenario in glorification of their daughter’s death or take an opposite side and spoil everything and sully their daughter’s name