“Who are Mek cult?” is the title of an inside report for the first time presented by the defected high-ranking member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), Davod Baghervand Arshad.
The video content covers the answers to the following issues about the MEK, the notorious Cult of Rajavi:
Who assassinated the Americans in Tehran?
MEK and spying for Russia
Did CIA destroy MEK-Russia spy net?
How the MEK retaliated?
Seizure of US Embassy in Tehran?
The MEK’s Islamist Revolutionary Courts
The MEK and the Children in the combat
The MEK and Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Saudi Arabia
The MEK as Assassinators
Who is the head wife in the MEK Leader’s Harem?
Have they changed?
How does Maryam Rajavi deceive the western world?
How does the MEK’ terrorism differ from ISIS and Al Qaeda’s terrorism?
Why is the MEK more dangerous?
Use of 10-year-old children in combat by the MEK.
Who are the wives of the harem of the Caliph of the MEK?
MEK’s planed courts and justice for their Islamic State describe by its Calipha.
How can the world protect itself against the threat of terrorism by the side of the MEK?
Assassination of Americans, hostage taking in US Embassy in Tehran under the MEK’s support.
Reports
The book tour of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) was held in Përmet, Albania. Members of ASILA exhibited the books published by the association.
In order to develop cultural relations between Iran and Albania and to enlighten Albanian citizens about the true nature of the Mujahedin-e Khalq , ASILA members including their Albanian director Mr. Dashamir Mersuli traveled to Përmet to donate the books to the citizens.
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As an active member of ASILA, Miranda Mersuli the wife of Dashamir presented explanations about the books and introduced the authors of two of the books who are former members of the MEK, Rahman Mohammadian and Khalil Ansarian. They eventually would sign their autobiographies and donate them to the visitors.
Posters of tourism attractions of Iran and its historical monuments were also exhibited by the side of the book stand. Erisa Rahimi and Dashamir Mersuli explained about them for the visitors and gave them information on the activities of ASILA and its missions.
Përmet is a city and municipality in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. It was the sixth city in which ASILA hold book fair.
The Albanian Publialb channel covered members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) visiting Frashëri museum.
ASILA members went to Frashër on their way to Përmet where they were supposed to hold their book fair. In Frashër, they visited Frashëri museum.
Carrying the flag of Albania and ASILA, they entered the museum where Erisa Rahimi interpreted the explanations of the museum guide for the Iranian visitors who are former members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq and current members of ASILA.
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Frashëri museum was actually the house where the famous Frashëri brothers (Abdyl, Naim, Sami Frashëri) of the Albanian National Renaissance were born and raised. After the original house was ruined in 1892, it was newly overbuilt and in 1974 it was declared a museum and a place of important cultural heritage. It has 10 rooms and represents interest in terms of scientific, aesthetic and artistic level
“From Tirana to Tehran” is a documentary based on the stories told by families of members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). The documentary depicts the grieves and suffering of families of those who are taken as hostages by the MEK leaders in Camp Ashraf 3, in Albania. The accounts of these families are narrated through a trip from Tirana to Tehran. The travelers are three Albanian members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA).
Gjergji Thanasi, Dashamir Mersuli and Vladimir Veisi are the Albanian members of ASILA who were invited by Nejat Society to visit Iran on the last days of Spring, 2022.
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They arrived in Tehran on June 9th and began a journey of listening to parents and siblings who open up, reassuring them to aid them in order to end the imprisonment of their loved ones isolated in the Cult of Maryam Rajavi.
During their trip to Iran, they visited a few cities including Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad where they had meetings with heart-broken families of members of the MEK who have been looking forward to contact their loved ones barred physically and mentally in the group.
From Tehran to Tirana portrays the efforts of Nejat Society and ASILA along with anguishing families of MEK members to aid the hostages’ release from Ashraf 3.
The trailer released on Thursday for the documentary movie “From Tirana to Tehran ” is so powerful in its message about the MKO and its practices that it leaves no room for doubting why every defector that has managed to flee, insists on calling it a cult where members are required to demonstrate complete devotion to its leader.
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The movie is inspired by a book of the same name written by a defector who managed to escape the camp two decades ago and who has dedicated his life to raising public awareness about the truth about this cult.
The movie also highlights the new methods of recruitment through social media platforms by the MKO’s so-called “keyboard warriors”—a group of about 300 MKO members who run fake social media accounts.
This is not the first time the MKO is using social media to advance its agenda… previous reports by other TV channels had also revealed their strategy.
The Mojahedin Khalgh Organization or the MKO is a known terrorist organization. It has killed more than 17,000 Iranians over the past 43 years and now it is actively involved in the riots in Iran instigating the younger generation through social media to carry out acts of vandalism. The best way to counter this terrorist organization is to raise public awareness and this is the main focus of the movie.
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Considering that Mujahedin-e Khalq is a destructive cult of personality, former member, Hamid Agh Atabay give a simole but clear description of the life style in the MEK. Although, there is no single description that fits the lifestyle of every destructive cult out there, there are some common characteristics.
Many ex-cult members depict a type of isolated, moment-to-moment existence in which repressing fear and anxiety forms the ruling atmosphere. Chanting slogans, self-criticism and mind control become major coping mechanisms in this regard. Cut off from family, friends, homeland and the outside world, their old life becomes like a dream. This is what Hamid Agh Atabay, the most recent defector of the Cult of Rajavi describes in his Facebook post on October 25th.
Born in North of Iran on the coast of the Caspian Sea, Hamid Atabay writes of a heart-breaking scene when he visited the beach of Adriatic Sea in Albania after his defection from the MEK. He speaks of the six years he was isolated in the MEK’s camp in Manez north of Tirana only is 25 kilometers from the sea. He was never allowed to go to the beach freely.
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“The MEK never allowed us to go to the beach unless there were no people there,” he writes. “They just took us there in winter and in groups of 200 members.”
Hamid Atabay was a soldier fighting in Iran-Iraq war when he was taken as prisoner of war by Iraqi forces. He was then recruited by MEK agents and this was the start of 35 years of imprisonment in the group. He was insulated by the Cult of Rajavi in Iraqi deserts for 29 years and in the Albanian village for 6 years. He left the group a few months ago and joined the free world.
Life in a destructive totalitarian cult is typically characterized by tight control. There is very little freedom in daily life: The leader prescribes what a member can and cannot do for every minute of the day. This includes what food he can eat, what books he can read, whom he can talk to, what he can wear, where he can go and how long he can sleep. The leader makes decisions, and the followers do as they are told.
This is what you can find in the simple words of Hamid Atabay: “Today I do not have to tell anyone that I want to go to the beach but when I was in the MEK, supervisors would always watch us even for a 20-meter distance inside the camp.”
Members of the Association for the Support of Iranians living in Albania (ASILA), visited the Bektashi supreme Dervish in Korçë, a city in eastern Albania. As several members of ASILA are Muslim Iranians who defected the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), visiting the leader of an Islamic movement is considered an act towards closer religious and cultural interactions between Iranian and Albanian nations.
Iranian founders and members of ASILA who are former members of the MEK are dedicated to support defectors of the group in order to live a normal life in the Albanian society. In order to accomplish their mission, they are supposed to build cultural relationships with the Albanian society. Respecting the culture of the host society including Bektashism, as a Shia Islamic Sufi Order in Albania, leads to more efficient and effective efforts of the activists of ASILA.
The Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) hold their book fair around Albanian territory. Last week, both Iranian and Albanian members of ASILA set up book stands presenting the books published by the association’s publication in Pogradec and Korçë.
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The books included the autobiography of Rahman Mohammadian, former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). In his book, he explains how he was taken as a POW by Iraqi forces and then he was deceived into the MEK and was taken as hostage in the MEK’s camps for over 30 years.
The main objective of ASILA is to aid the rank and file of the MEK who can manage to escape the cult-like atmosphere of the group, get deradicalized and build a normal life outside the group. Moreover, the book stands run by ASILA is aimed to create cultural exchanges and closeness between the Iranian and Albanian nations and to illuminate Albanian public about the threat of MEK cult in their country.
ASILA’s previous book fair in Duress region, north of Tirna was attacked by agents of the MEK.
Agents of Maryam Rajavi attacked a book fair in Albania. The book fair which has been set up in the garden of Hotel Arvi, Durres, Albania was attacked on 17 August 2022 by several members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ Cult of Rajavi). Their target was a stand run by the publication of ASILA, Association for the support of the Iranians Living in Albania.
“Maryam Rajavi has sent her #FreeIran2022 thugs in cities of Albania to attacks cultural events,” according to the Albanian news agency, Gazeta Impact. “The mujahedin attacked and threw on the ground the Quran, the book of Karbala etc. The mujahedin were later detained by Albanian police.”
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Interviewing Dr. Ggergji Thanasi, the journalist, university lecturer and an Albanian member of ASILA, Euronews Albania reported, “Journalist Gjergji Thanasi was part of the incident that happened at the Summer Book Fair in Durrës on Wednesday afternoon, where a group of mujahedin protested and demanded the removal of the stand set up by him.”
Euronews Albania states that ASILA has been registered in the court as an Albanian NGO so it is a legal entity. “Having Participated in the Durrës fair, we took advantage of this opportunity for a modest stand with 5 books,” Thanasi says. “In the morning, I was drinking coffee when a group of mujahedin together with an Albanian who claimed to be the chief of security in Manza, asked me to leave.”
In the afternoon, everything was fine, the first visitors to the fair began to arrive when the MEK agents attacked the fair, with placards in their hands. They were gathered in front of the “Asila” association stand, based on Thanasi’s testimonies.
Agents of the MEK who are located in their notorious camp Ashraf 3 in Manza of Durrës, were equipped with banners demanding the closure of the Iranian stands. The coerced MEK agents turned their apparent protest into a largescale clash after they attacked the stands. Tearing the Albanian flag and ASILA posters, they threw books on the ground.
The numerous Albanian police forces prevented them from clashing with the Iranian book stand managers including some former members of the MEK. Ultimately, dozens of MEK agents were detained and escorted outside the fair in Police cars.
Mostafa (Milad) Beheshti announced his separation from the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Mostafa Beheshti born in 1983 was recruited by the MEK agents in Turkey in 2001 when he was only eighteen years old. He was actually supposed to join his brother in Turkey but MEK recruiters smuggled him to Iraq.

Mostafa Beheshti
“In Baghdad, I was taken to the MEK’s base where a woman named Parvin (Zohreh Shafai) talked to me telling me that I would be taken to Camp Ashraf before being sent to Europe,” Mostafa writes in the letter to announce his complete defection from the MEK. He was promised for a good life in Europe the same as many other young members of the group.
Zohreh Shafai the MEK commander promised Mostafa that he would visit his brother Morteza in the MEK. The two brothers visited each other after 20 days. “My brother asked me why I was there,” he writes. “I told him that I was waiting for him to get his documents for taking refuge in Europe. My brother did not say anything. He just looked down and kept silent. He looked so sad.”
In the MEK, Mostafa and Morteza were not allowed to contact their families in Iran. Their family especially their sister Narges used to travel to Iraq picketing in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf and then Camp Liberty calling on their names.
About MEK’s hostility towards families, Mostafa Beheshti writes, “During the years I was in the MEK, in Iraq, my family came behind the fences around Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty but they were never allowed to meet me and each time I had to take position against my family, sighing the scripts the commanders had prepared for me.”

Narges Beheshti behind the fences of Camp Ashraf
Morteza left the MEK in March 2021 although he had dissociated himself from the regulations ruling the MEK cult, one and a half years earlier. He insisted on his decision to leave the group and finally he succeeded to leave the group’s Camp Ashraf 3, in Albania. “I repeated my demand to leave the group several times, I insisted and endured too many difficulties to stay determined to defect the MEK,” he asserts.
After leaving the MEK headquarter, Mostafa had to get back to them every month in order to receive some money. The MEK commanders wanted him to spy on other defectors of the group in Albania in exchange for the money. “Each time they put a paper in front of me and asked me to sign what they had written,” he writes.
Mostafa is free now. He has joined the independent defectors of the MEK living in Tirana. “Although I suffered a painful life in the MEK for many years, I will build my life with the help and empathy from my family and friends,” he writes. “That nightmare has finished,”
Mostafa’s older brother Morteza Beheshti, was killed in the clashes between Iraqi forces and the MEK’s rank and file, in April 2011. At the time, Massoud Rajavi had ordered the unarmed members of his cult to make a human shield before Iraqi armed forces who wanted to settle a station in Camp Ashraf