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Mahnaz Bazazi mother
Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Complaint to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances

UNMs. Manzar Sharif Aqili, the suffering mother of Mahnaz Bazazi, whose daughter is being held in the MEK camp in Albania, sent a complaint to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances with adequate explanations of how his daughter had disappeared, and called for an immediate investigation into his daughter’s condition in the acute situation of Covid-19 in Albania.

Mahnaz Bazazi mother

The text of Ms. Manzar Sharif Aqili’s complaint is as follows:

Greetings and Regards,
I am Manzar Sharif Aqili, a resident of the city Kordkoy, Golestan province. My daughter, Mahnaz Bazazi, has been a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) for more than 35 years. She was first taken to their camp in Iraq by deception as well as false promises, and then the organization moved to Albania.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, I followed the situation of my daughter through various international channels, and due to the fact that I am blind, I followed up through my children and contacted various human rights organizations and other related bodies.
Unfortunately, I did not receive any answer until I realized that the MEK with all its members had gone to Albania in 2016. After that, on several occasions, I asked the Albanian authorities to help me meet my daughter Mahnaz Bazzazi; unfortunately they did not pay any attention to my legitimate and humanitarian requests.

Now, considering the outbreak of a deadly and dangerous disease caused by the Covid-19 virus in the world and in Albania, which has infected many people inside the MEK camp and even led to the death of more than 17 of them in less than a month, I am very worried about my daughter’s physical and mental condition. So I urge you, respectful officials, to determine my daughter’s condition as soon as possible and inform me and my family, as well as to make arrangements to communicate with my daughter.

Thanks a lot,
Manzar Sharif Aqili Mahnaz Bazazi’s mother captured in MEK camp in Albania
Kordkoy – Golestan – Iran

Cc:
UN Work Group of the Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID)
UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

January 28, 2021 0 comments
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NYT photo of the Ashraf3 CAmp of MEK in Tirana
Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mujahedin leaders do not allow me to contact my father

Ms. Zahra Shahbaz Mansouri, daughter of Reza Shahbaz Mansouri, based in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) Camp in Albania, wrote a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Albania expressing concern about her father’s health and calling for an investigation.
The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the WHO in Albania
Greetings and best regards,

I am Zahra Shahbaz Mansouri, daughter of Reza Shahbaz Mansouri.
My father is currently in the MEK camp in Albania. He left Iran years ago to find a job and more income. We later found out that he was deceived by the forces of the MEK and transferred to Iraq.
In all these years, we have not met him or even heard his voice, and it is the ultimate wish of every child to be able to communicate with his father and be informed of his condition.
You know that even in the most dreadful prisons in the world, and in the case of the most dangerous prisoners, families are allowed to contact the prisoner. But we are also deprived of this minimum possibility of meeting.
Who can help us deprived families? To which international body should we take our grievances to support us? Does anyone in the world pay attention to our rights?
Most importantly, my father has the infection of Covid-19 virus at the MEK camp in Albania and he is in critical condition. The sanitary facilities inside the camp are not so good due to the closed group life and many deaths have been reported so far.
I desperately ask you not to neglect any action that can be taken to alleviate my and my family’s worries, so that news of my father reaches us and allows us to communicate with him.
Surely you know how much a child worries about his father when he is sick. Please understand the feelings of me and my family and do not hesitate to pursue this issue.

Thanks and best regards,
Zahra Shahbaz Mansouri
Mashhad, Iran

Copy to:
Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

January 27, 2021 0 comments
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World Health Organization
Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Morad family letter to the president of WHO

Mr. Mohammad Morad has written a letter to the head of the World Health Organization and the Albanian government regarding his brother Ali Morad, who is being held in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, requesting information about his condition and relieving family concerns.

World Health Organization

Honorable President of the World Health Organization
Greetings,
I am Mohammad Morad. My brother Ali Morad has been in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) for more than thirty years and is currently living in the organization’s camp in Albania. During these years, my brother was not even allowed to call to relieve my family of worries.

Now, my family and I are very worried about the outbreak of the Coronavirus in the MEK camp in Albania and the deaths of several people in the last few weeks.

As the president of the World Health Organization, I also ask you as well as the Albanian government to intervene in the situation of the spread of the Corona viru in the MEK camp in Albania and to examine their health status.

As you know, the coronavirus can spread rapidly in closed environments and in the group living such as in the MEK camp in Albania, which inflicts irreparable damage.

I also urge you to ask the officials of the MEK to allow my brother to contact my family.

Thanks,
Mohammad Morad
Babol – Mazandaran – Iran

January 26, 2021 0 comments
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Camp Ashraf 3
The cult of Rajavi

Is MEK Being Dismantled ?

The Rajavi cult based in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez is experiencing a crisis situation, which could possibly lead to the dissolution of this former terrorist organization. Mass infection with Covid-19 among cult members is causing relentless casualties, greatly undermining the morale of the members.

MEK members are increasingly coming to realise the dog’s life they live in Camp Ashraf. They are being punished by their commanders for very banal reasons such as, communicating via the “Telegram” app with their Iranian friends who no longer believe in Maryam Rajavi’s tales of a quick victory and that “regime change” in Tehran is very close.

The members of this cult, who are being ordered by Maryam Rajavi and her “henchmen”, to become spies and “denouncers” of their friends, or even of their Albanian friends, or else they will be cut off from the cult, prefer to preserve their honour and dignity rather than spy on their Iranian and Albanian friends and comrades.

By the direct order of Maryam Rajavi, two of them had payments of 30,000 Lek per month cut off and were thrown into the street.

Mr Mansour Barahoui, having been a soldier in the ranks of the ‘Artesh’ – the regular Iranian army – was captured as a POW and taken by MEK soldiers who fought alongside the troops of Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, against their Homeland Iran. Mansour, from the day he was taken prisoner until 5-6 days ago, i.e. for almost 32 years, has been a member of the MEK. Suddenly, he was deprived of a monthly payment (alms) of 30,000 Lek, (240 Euros) by the MEK. He was not only deprived of this payment, but also ordered to leave the apartment immediately, where he lived in Tirana with another member of the MEK. In the midst of winter, in these rainy days, an almost 53-year-old was forced to sleep under the bridge on the banks of the Lana River. After almost 32 years in the ranks of the MEK, Mansour was left with only the clothes he was wearing!

What was Mr Mansour’s crime for which he was being punished so severely by Maryam Rajavi? According to MEK commanders, Mansour had refused to make statements in front of cameras, in which he would curse and slander his friends and comrades who had already left the Rajavi Cult. Mansour had committed another sin: He refused to report (spy on) his Iranian comrades as well as Albanian acquaintances and friends. In the following, we will deal in more detail with this “hobby” of the Rajavi cult to carry out espionage activities in the territory of the Republic of Albania.

Readers should be informed that the payment of about 240 Euros per month does not come from the pockets of Maryam Rajavi, but it is money that the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), according to the agreement signed with the Government of the Republic of Albania, should pay to the individual Iranians who were transferred from Iraq to Albania.

So, Maryam Rajavi, after using these people as slaves for 30 years, or at least as serfs, now manages to steal the alms that the UNHCR has granted to these unfortunates. This is the real face of Maryam Rajavi! A petty thief, who even steals under the guise of “comrade” of the ideology, a thief, who steals 5 lek from her subordinates, with whom she would supposedly change the regime in Tehran and free the Iranian people from the yoke of the mullahs. An ordinary thief who has also removed from us a revolutionary and a saviour of the people of Iran. Shame and cowardice! For more information, readers can consult the photos and accompanying documents, which illustrate the case of Mr Barahoui.

Mr Khalil Ansarian is a 62-year-old man who at the age of 18, being a soldier in the ranks of the Iranian regular army (Artesh), was captured by the troops of dictator Saddam Hussein on the third day of the Iran-Iraq war (September 25, 1980). Mr Ansarian spent several years in the prisoner-of-war camps of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime. Since he had completed medical high school in Isfahan and since Arabic was his mother tongue, Mr Ansarian served as a nurse in the POW camp. He became part of the MEK Organization after being promised that, if he joined this organization, he would have the right to go to Europe if he did not like the organization.

Khalil Ansarian

In fact, for about 30 years Mr Ansarian became a slave of the MEK organization, serving as a nurse and even as a dentist at Camp Ashraf. He was also part of the MEK’s foreign relations bureau, as he was a “native speaker” of the Arabic language (classical and contemporary Arabic). In another post we will introduce the reader to some interesting facts about the MEK’s relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime and the people of Iraq in those years!

The same as Mr Mansour Barahoui, Mr Ansarian was also asked by MEK commanders to spy on their Iranian and Albanian comrades. He was also asked to make public statements to camera, in which he should curse and slander his friends. Mr Ansarian, as a man of dignity, did not accept such a humiliating offer. The MEK responded by cutting the monthly payment of 30,000 Lek (approximately 240 Euros). Already Mr Ansarian lives with sweat on his forehead in Tirana. Of course life is not easy for him. Resuming your life after you turn 60 is a very special challenge, but still Mr Ansarian is optimistic about the future because he is a free man in Tirana. He is no longer one of the thousands of serfs of Maryam Rajavi, the head of the MEK Cult. After almost 30 years, Mr Ansarian, after leaving the ranks of the MEK (then located on the outskirts of Tirana), had the opportunity for the first time to talk on the phone with his elderly parents and 5 brothers and 6 sisters. During the time that Mr Ansarian was the slave of the couple Masoud and Maryam Rajavi, his brothers and sisters grew up, got married and now Khalil has 36 grandchildren in Iran. The Rajavi cult stole 30 years from Mr Ansarian, but he is optimistic and even happy that he is finally managing to live a new normal life after 30 years of nightmare in the ranks of the former terrorist organization MEK.

Does the Albanian SHISH have a duty to fight foreign intelligence networks in the territory of the Republic of Albania?!

In both the cases which we reported above, the Rajavi Cult asks its members, who live in Tirana, for informative reports on other Iranians as well as Albanians. This is a very serious fact. We emphasize that the agreement of the Albanian Government for the transfer of MEK members from Iraq to Albania does not provide that these persons, who enjoy the status of protected persons, have the right to organize espionage activities in Albania. As an Albanian patriot, my hair stands on end out of anger and shame that my Homeland has failed to take action when a former terrorist organization like the MEK sets up an espionage network that even collects information about Albanian citizens within the territory of the Republic of Albania, as if it were a godless land.

It is a great shame that we Albanians pay taxes, among other things, so that SHISH protects us from such activities by foreigners, moreover, that we are dealing with members of a former foreign terrorist organization! SHISH (Albanian Intelligence Service) has a legal obligation to conduct counterintelligence activity. I publicly ask both the homophone Greek-speaking man and Bahri’s lover what SHISH has done to put an end to what is known to be the openly illegal activity of the Rajavi Cult in Albania?! How do they justify the salary, which our SHISH operatives receive, but who do not perform counterintelligence duties for which they are obliged by law?! Creating such an espionage network in Albania, does it harm the national security of my Homeland or does it hang up the bag of national security, that this former terrorist Rajavi is regarded as a good woman with VIP friends and former international VIPs?! Such a cowardly and miserable attitude of our SHISH certainly lowers the prestige of my Homeland (and theirs) in the eyes of other NATO member countries, our honourable allies. When some old men and women of the Rajavi Cult graze as they please in Albania, how likely is it that SHISH will carry out the tasks assigned to it by the law in the field of counterintelligence in respect to revelations about unfriendly countries toward Albania? How likely is it that this kind of SHISH will protect us, the Albanian citizens, from the espionage activity in Albanian territory of the rankings of BIA, EYP, GRU, etc. etc?!

After these rhetorical questions I close my article with the Latin phrase: “O tempora o mores”!!!!! (Oh the times! Oh the customs! – Cicero)

By Gjergji Thanasi (Translated by Iran Interlink)

January 25, 2021 0 comments
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Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 278

++ The MEK’s click farm in Albania has removed all pro-Trump posts from their sites and magically transformed into human rights advocacy as if they are supporters of Biden now. To the point that Heshmat Alavi has now become a deeply humanitarian human rights advocate. MEK are now giving advice to Biden, whereas before they were totally against him. Members outside the click farm have been instructed not to talk about politics in spite of all the things that have happened in America. MEK leaders have scolded the members saying ‘we’re not in Tehran because you are not ideologically committed enough. Ideological classes and discussions have begun in which members are told about ‘how at the start of Islam, the people sacrificed themselves for prophet Mohammad and how you haven’t sacrificed enough’. Basically, members are told: ‘It’s your fault we’re not in Tehran now. Your leader did everything they could, but you are not doing what is needed. Some of the older members have got it and understand that every time the leaders don’t succeed, they introduce some new lecture to bamboozle the members. Some members are asking ‘what else can we give? We gave our kids, our families, our time, energy, our thoughts and emotions, we have nothing left’. Alongside these grumblers are those who don’t buy it at all and who question ‘why, we were promised that if we stay for four years Trump will start a war and we will win’. That didn’t happen so the leaders are keeping these critics separate because they don’t submit to the leaders’ commands. They are being threatened that ‘there is no vaccine out there if you leave, just wait, we will soon have the vaccine and then you can go’. But as critics point out, since 2003 they have been creating false deadlines to prevent people leaving.

++ Outside the camp, MEK are putting pressure on some members who don’t want to live with MEK but are getting paid to stay on the sidelines as supporters. MEK has agreed with the Americans, Albanians and UNHCR to be responsible to pay for their members. Now they have corrupted officials in Albania to not only not mention this agreement, but to also deny dissenters ID cards and work permits if they leave MEK, and to put all kinds of obstacles in their way so they don’t contact their families for support. Now they have cut their money as well. Last week we heard about the latest victim of the freshly humanitarian MEK’s treatment of its members. Mansour Barahoui is a MEK member living outside the camp. Nobody knew he was out until MEK denounced him in an official statement on their sites. MEK declared ‘We asked him to take a stance against the agents of the regime (his family who have been trying to contact him), he hasn’t said anything therefore we have cut his allowance (around $200 per month in LEK). In a matter of only a few short weeks, Barahoui has gone from publicly labelling the BBC as “agents of the Iranian intelligence services” for reporting about Saddam’s POWs in MEK, to now being labelled an agent himself for refusing to denounce his own family who want to contact him. Commentators in Albania say MEK are withdrawing payments because of panicking that the Biden administration won’t put pressure on the Albanian government like the Trump administration did. They are in the process of pulling themselves together to face an uncertain future. Inside they conduct ideological brainwashing work, outside they pressure dissenters to come back to them. Meanwhile over the past few weeks, every 2-3 days someone escapes the camp and in spite of their difficulties – they say they thought they would come out and die – they have announced their separation from MEK. Also, every 2-3 days a death due to COVID-19 is announced. But those who are escaping the camp say that MEK don’t announce even a third of the deaths. They bury them inside the camp, and there are many more than they say.

++ Behzad Moezi, the pilot who flew the Shah out of Iran and then went back and later took Massoud Rajavi and Abolhassan Bani Sadr to Paris, died last week. Massoud Rajavi (if he’s alive) praised him as a ‘top member’. ‘Moezi came back for us as we asked him to’, claims Rajavi. This has led to people asking ‘if he was your member why did he take the Shah, and why did the CIA take his family to America before he came out with you? It more likely that he was ordered what to do by the CIA. And that means you were cooperating with the CIA before coming out of Iran. Describing this scenario has been a big gaffe by MEK. In Albania Maryam Rajavi has been advertising his death with her enthusiastic praises. Two days ago, however, his daughter Maryam Moezi posted Tweets in English and Farsi announcing that: Contrary to what MEK say, he never supported them, as the whole family didn’t support MEK. As far as we know our father didn’t support them but had nowhere else to go. If he were alive, he would hate what they say about him. From Maryam Rajavi’s unwanted praise to the ridiculous claim that he was good at playing the violin – he never touched one in his life.’

1: My father, #Behzad_Moezi died of acute leukemia on January 10th. Neither me, my younger sister, Fatemeh, or older brother Ali had the chance to make it to our father’s bedside because of the travel restrictions imposed by Covid-19.

— Maryam Moezzi (@maryam_moezzi) January 16, 2021

++ Homeira Mohammadnejad – a former MEK member now in living in Germany – wrote about the situation of COVID in camp. She explains that members are dying because of the lack of distancing, lack of attention to illness, and lack of medical help etc. While Maryam Rajavi sheds crocodile tears for people in Iran over COVID, Mohammadnejad gives statistics – comparing per thousand cases in populations around the world with the situation in the MEK camp. She concludes that the MEK camp is worst by far in the whole world per population. In a population of 80m, the deaths in Iran are about a hundred per day. MEK’ population is around 2000 individuals and 2-3 are dying per week. Mohammadnejad then talks about her own memories. “When I was in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, I became ill and they took me to their ‘hospital’ there. I was there among other seriously ill people, all in one room. I remember that in front of us the orderlies were counting how many calories per day we were consuming and discussing whether we were worth it in relation to our lack of ‘productivity’. ‘They are not giving anything to the leadership’ they said, ‘these calories belong to the leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi so being ill is anti-leadership, they are a waste of calories’.”

In English:

++ While many foreign policy experts and commentators have been keen to advise President Biden to go back to the JCPOA as a way to manage Iran, Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh have written a piece suggesting an alternative response. The article outlines the situation of Iran now after four years of an American ‘state of war’ against the country. Iran is now more militarised, and the Middle East less safe for Americans and Israel. Biden must accept that Iranians blame America for their woes, not just Trump. And he must demonstrate that his administration will be different. The authors write that a quick and effective policy win would be to go back to the agreement under the Obama administration to de-radicalise the MEK in Albania and return them to civilian life and their families. “By dismantling and deradicalizing the MEK, Biden can score easy wins in a variety of arenas. In Albania it would free around two thousand members from conditions of modern slavery, allowing them to reintegrate into normal society and be reunited with their families. It would relieve the Albanian government and security services of the headache caused by MEK crime, corruption and impunity in their country. For Iranians who universally regard the MEK with loathing as traitors and cultists, it would send a clear message that America will not tolerate terrorism or human rights abuses in pursuit of its foreign policy aims. Iran’s people would view dismantling this terrorist group as a goodwill gesture; building a modicum of trust that may sway some voters in June to have faith in the efficacy of diplomacy with the west.
“But the most significant win for Biden would be to start tackling the corruption inside America which facilitated Trump’s belligerent agenda and that of his backers. Dismantling the MEK would stem one of the hidden conduits for the flow of foreign money and false narratives into America.”

++ Daniel Larison in The American Conservative reviews a book by Philip Gordon, a former Obama official, which examines ‘Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East’. Larison outlines the book’s main argument: “Regime change leads to long-term costly failure even when it initially ‘works’ at bringing down another government. Toppling a foreign government always causes more instability and costs more than its advocates expect. Both the U.S. and the affected country end up being worse off than if the old government had been left in place, and any ephemeral benefits that might come from overthrowing the government are soon far outweighed by the losses that follow.” But in conclusion, Larison says: “While Gordon makes an overwhelming case that regime change is not worth doing because of its long-term deleterious consequences, he does not rule out the option entirely. He allows that there might be occasions when a government is sufficiently dangerous or atrocious in its treatment of its own people that regime change is worth considering, but he qualifies this immediately by saying “such cases will be rare to non-existent.” That being the case, it isn’t clear why Gordon feels the need to leave the door to regime change open even a little bit. Just as there are certain tactics that the U.S. refuses to employ because they are inherently illegitimate and wrong, we should be able to rule out regime change for good.”

++ Robert Fantina, Global Research, outlines why ‘The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) Intrusion in Albania, Threatens Regional Stability in Middle East and Balkans’. Fantina writes that during the Civil War in Albania in 1995, military depots were looted and masses of weapons were stolen by various criminal groups and the Kosovo Liberation Army. “And now an Albanian journalist, Ebi Spahiu, an independent analyst on Central Asian and Western Balkan Affairs has sounded the alarm about weapons being in possession of anti-Iranian terrorists. This journalist expressed her concern about the possibility of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization’s (MKO; sometimes referred to as MEK) having access to these weapons and the danger of rearming themselves.” The article concludes: “Indications of future violence are in clear evidence; even Twitter briefly restricted the group’s activities, and suspended the leader.

“Beyond the MKO, the presence of jihadist extremists, especially in southeastern Albania, bring widespread activities of arms and drug trafficking. Adding the presence of the Mujahedin-e Khalq into this already-deadly mix further jeopardizes the safety of the citizens in this country and further destabilizes the entire region.

“The support that the United States currently offers to the MKO must end. Without that support, the MKO would be unable to continue its operations in Albania, and the risk of further terrorist activities by its members would decrease significantly.”

++ Mazda Parsi of Nejat Society asks ‘Who is mercenary? MEK or Critics? The question arises because MEK have accused an Albanian historian, Olsi Jazexhi, and Albanian investigative journalist, Gjergji Thanasi, of being ‘mercenaries for the Iranian regime’. The pair produced an indignant riposte which demonstrated the fallacy of MEK’s stance. Parsi examines this in more detail and turns his scrutiny back on to MEK and its brazenly mercenary behaviour and activities. He concludes “The expenses of maintaining thousands of members in the group’s camp in Albania and those large amounts of fees they pay their western supporters to speak on behalf of them, require the MEK leaders to work harder as mercenaries. To all those facts on MEK’s mercenary work, you may want to add the allegations about trucks of gold bars and Rolex watches that were donated to the group by Saudi Arabia.”

++ Iran Interlink reported on a protest by local residents of Manez after land which had been earmarked for the expansion of their overcrowded cemetery somehow got sold to MEK for burial of their rapidly increasing dead. MEK’s response was to label the townsfolk as ‘agents of the Iranian regime’ who have been manipulated by Iran to threaten MEK. The article points out that the MEK have complete disregard for the dead unless they can turn a profit from them – such as publicity. “This kind of gaslighting and misdirection practiced by the MEK is not new. It is their modus operandi; to deflect investigation, criticism, and prosecution. But this reaction over such a sensitive issue as a cemetery only shows there is no bottom to the depths the MEK will go.”

++ Nejat Society continues its activities in campaigning for the families to be re-connected with their loved ones in MEK. Nejat is also appealing to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to investigate and pursue justice for the ‘disappeared’ MEK members.

Jan 22, 2021

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US advicated of MEK Terrorists
Iran

Sanctions imposed on US officials affiliated with the MEK

Iran slapped sanctions on outgoing US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo along with several current and former members of the outgoing administration for their role in terrorist and inhumane actions against the Islamic Republic and Iranian citizens.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry “added a number of American individuals to its sanctions list for committing terrorist crimes, promoting and supporting terrorism, which is a serious threat to regional and international peace and security, and for violating basic rules and fundamental principles of international law, including human rights,” Saeed Khatibzadeh, the ministry’s spokesman, said on Tuesday.

He said Iran’s measure was taken under a law titled “Countering America’s Human Rights Violation and Adventurous and Terrorist Actions” passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2017.

He said the sanctioned officials include Trump, Pompeo, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, CIA Director Gina Haspel, former national security adviser John Bolton, former US envoy for Iran Brian Hook and his successor Elliot Abrams, and chief of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Andera Gacki.

The spokesperson added that Iran placed sanctions on the US officials for their involvement in the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his companions in Iraq in January 2020, management of and support for acts of terror against the Islamic Republic, and creating, financing and training terrorist groups and providing them with weapons.

US advicated of MEK Terrorists

He said the US officials have been blacklisted for their full support for the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression against the Palestinian people, particularly the regime’s terrorist move to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

They have also been targeted for imposing cruel, illegal and unilateral sanctions on Iran and acting deliberately to create”specific living conditions for Iranians”by blocking their access to food, medicine, medical services and equipment, the official said.

The US officials have, furthermore, supported suppressive regimes in the region and their crimes against humanity and war crimes in Yemen, maintained active and full connection with the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group and provided it with political and cultural support, paving the way for several terrorist measures against the interests of the Iranian government and nation, Khatibzadeh added.

Based on principles of international law, imposing unilateral sanctions and unilateral bullying measures are either a clear violation of the fundamental principles of the international law mentioned in the United Nations Charter or run counter to humanitarian international law, which would prevent the materialization of human rights, he added.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves its right to adopt the necessary strategies to counter America’s international criminal acts in all fields,” the Iranian spokesman said.

He said Iran’s Foreign Ministry would issue a detailed statement about these American officials’ crimes as soon as possible.

In April 2019, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) slammed the US government as “supporter of terrorism,” designating American forces in West Asia, known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), as a “terrorist organization.”

The top Iranian security council said the designation came as a “reciprocal measure” against Trump’s “illegal and unwise” move to blacklist Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization.

January 24, 2021 0 comments
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Gjegi Thanasi-Olsi Yazeji
Albania

The latest deaths the MEK faces in Albania

Dr. Olsi Jazexhi discusses with Gjergji Thanasi the latest Covid19 deaths that the Mojahedeens, #MaryamRajavi cult – friends of #RudyGiuliani are facing in Albania. MEK is flooded with deaths but these deaths are not recorded or transmitted by Albanian authorities. MEK is burying their dead in villages of Tirana, Durres, probably inside their camp and now they are trying to set a new graveyard in the town of Manza, in Durres.

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However their new graveyard has sent the inhabitants of Manza to protest the illegal graveyard. They want MEK to bury their dead inside their paramilitary camp. On January 14 the inhabitants of Manza protested publicly the land grab by MEK. Many Albanian media transmitted the protest. However, two days later media and televisions like Ora News, DurresiLajm, Syri.net, were forced to delete their videos and news. The Mojahedens, #FreeIran gang which pretend to bring democracy to #Iran are supporting censorship and authocracy in Albania. They are colliding with the Albanian government which helps them to:

1. Have no check on mojahedeens who die,

2. Hide their dead,

3. Bury their dead illegally,

4. Blackmail Albanian journalists who report their illegal activities,

5. Use quisling Albanian media to attack Albanian citizens as agents of Iran when they protest against land grab and illegal activities that MEK does in Albania.

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The discussion of MEK’s attack against freedom of media and democracy in Albania is compared with the censorship that Big Tech is doing against #RudyGiuliani and #Trump in the United States. Olsi appeals to Rudy Giuliani to teach his good jihadi friend Maryam Rajavi to learn what democracy and human rights are. Rudy who complains about tech censorship in the United States must first ask his jihadi friends in Albania to not censor the Albanian media and not blackmail Albanian journalists.

An appeal goes to organizations like Reporters without Borders @RSF_inter who while they condemn China, Russia etc and their threats against journalists, they should do the same against the mojahedeens and their blackmails against media in #EdiRama’s #Albania.

Dr. Olsi Jazexhi and Gerjgji Thanasi, YouTube

January 23, 2021 0 comments
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Biden and Trump
Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Iranians Saw Trump As A Mad Man But Blame America For Their Woes

After enduring four years of President Trump’s hostile and belligerent policies and actions – the Muslim travel ban, extreme sanctions, incitement to violence, support for terrorist groups, assassinations of nuclear scientists and of general Qasem Soleimani – the Iranian people are entitled to conclude that America is waging a war against them. And Iran has responded; maximum pressure resulted only in maximum resistance. The sanctions, unfortunate as they have been for Iran’s economy, have not destroyed it. Indeed, evidence is emerging that Iran’s resistance culture itself has led to an entrepreneurial response to overcome the restrictions. Iran’s military opened a trade and security corridor through Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean coast. A dedicated port is under construction. The U.S. can no longer control Iran’s finances since it is no longer limited to trading through Dubai. The only way to stop that is using bombs; an actual declaration of war, which puts Israel at risk.

Biden Dilemma Iranians Blame America

Trump and his allies spent four years trying to crush Iran, to force regime change and failing that, threats to bomb the country back fifty years. They failed. The unintended consequence of that failure has been the militarisation of Iran. The Revolutionary Guards have become stronger and their power embedded in the wider region with allies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon. Commemorations to mark the January 3rd anniversary of the assassinations of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were titled ‘Martyrs Without Borders’ signifying their wider relevance. Although Iraq is in step with Iran to eject American forces from the region, the Trump administration failed to understand that Ayatollah Khamenei’s ‘harsh revenge’ could be achieved as much through regional soft power and international law as military strikes.

Furthermore, the assassination of Soleimani unified Iran in a way that no internal politics could have hoped to achieve as Iranians rallied round their flag. Back in 2016, Iran’s leaders were almost equally divided between western leaning moderates and revolutionary hardliners. Now we hear president Rohani echoing the speeches of Ayatollah Khamenei, and foreign minister Javad Zarif amplifying the role of the Quds Force in Iran’s foreign policy. National unity against the perceived external threat of America has now created grounds for military officials to be allowed to run for president in June’s elections. If the military prevail, it will make conflict more likely, not less. Iran says its missile program is defensive, that it does not want war, but with missiles in Iran and Lebanon trained on U.S. interests in the region, Israel is clearly less safe than before.

President Joe Biden will only have months to make a difference if he wants to pursue a diplomatic route. He must demonstrate through policies and actions that Trump was a hiccup, not the way things will be. Trump was not America. If Biden wants to start talking with Iran he must accept where Iran is now, not what it used to be. Confrontation and containment cannot be the starting point for negotiations; there will have to be more carrots.

Iran experts are focused on re-joining the JCPOA. But this will not be enough on its own to recalibrate relations between the two countries. Not only will Iran expect sanctions to be lifted but will feel entitled to demand compensation for the financial losses suffered under extreme sanctions. People were denied medicine. Iranians saw Trump as a mad man, but they blame America for their woes. The damage done by Trump will take years to redress, but there is no reason why trust building cannot begin straight away. To start with Biden must treat Iran with respect. Acknowledge that assassinations and incitement to violence and terrorism are not how civilized countries behave.

Of course, the new presidency will be hampered by America’s internal problems. Biden inherits a deeply divided country. Yet, the decades long problem of Iran could very well offer a route to a new bipartisan consensus on a way forward. Although Trump has gone, the Adelson family, Neocons and Fox News will still be there; war is still on the agenda. Theirs is not a battle between Democrats and Republicans, but between warmongers and peacemakers. Their agenda doesn’t depend on who is the president. They want to defeat Iran. If Trump couldn’t do it, they will force the Democrats to do it. They want a war at any price. If Biden cannot prevent war, they will have won.

MEK mercenaries

In this respect, this expert would advocate a much easier, cheaper and effective course of action to start with. Biden should immediately restore the Obama administration’s plan to deradicalize the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) terrorist cult in Albania. The MEK are, of course, the darlings of both the anti-Iran cabal in the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and the hardliners in Iran. Both sides have used the MEK to destroy Iran’s indigenous opposition movement and to control the prevailing narrative on Iran in international politics.

By dismantling and deradicalizing the MEK, Biden can score easy wins in a variety of arenas. In Albania it would free around two thousand members from conditions of modern slavery, allowing them to reintegrate into normal society and be reunited with their families. It would relieve the Albanian government and security services of the headache caused by MEK crime, corruption and impunity in their country. For Iranians who universally regard the MEK with loathing as traitors and cultists, it would send a clear message that America will not tolerate terrorism or human rights abuses in pursuit of its foreign policy aims. Iran’s people would view dismantling this terrorist group as a goodwill gesture; building a modicum of trust that may sway some voters in June to have faith in the efficacy of diplomacy with the west.

But the most significant win for Biden would be to start tackling the corruption inside America which facilitated Trump’s belligerent agenda and that of his backers. Dismantling the MEK would stem one of the hidden conduits for the flow of foreign money and false narratives into America.

The MEK paid thousands of dollars for the likes of Rudi Giuliani and John Bolton to attend their rallies in Paris and Tirana to peddle the false narrative that the only way to deal with Iran is confrontation, regime change and war. The Heshmat Alavi scandal which exposed an industry of fake social media messages and accounts and a click farm in Albania, revealed that what had previously been covert activity had, under Trump, become mainstream.

In America, Professor Raymond Tanter has been tasked with creating a bi-partisan group to undermine the work of the new Biden administration. Funding for this project relies on the kind of corruption that has become embedded in the body politic. The example of MEK funding for the extreme right Vox Party in Spain reveals how the MEK use individual and fake association accounts to channel foreign funds into anti-Iran projects.

It is incumbent on the Biden administration to approach relations with Iran on a new page. Purging the old regime need not be as difficult as it first appears. The costs of erasing any traces of the MEK from that page are low, the benefits are great and many.

Anne and Massoud Khodabandeh,

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MEK after Trump
Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Mujahedin-e-Khalq After Trump

Among the many indicators of misdirection in the Trump administration’s policy toward Iran, one of the clearest was the fondness for the cult-cum-terrorist group known as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq or MKO.

For years, the group was designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department. But after an aggressive and well-funded lobbying campaign supported by a bipartisan cast of high-profile former public officials, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in September 2012 that the group would be removed from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.

However, in the State Department’s briefing on delisting of the MKO, a senior State Department official asserts that the Department does not overlook or forget the MKO’s past acts of terrorism, including its involvement in the killing of US citizens in Iran in the 1970s and an attack on US soil in 1992. He also pointed out that the Department has “serious concerns” about the MKO as an organization, particularly with regard to allegations of abuse committed against its own members.

The MKO’s worrisome track record has not deterred prominent Americans from endorsing the organization. In the months preceding the State Department’s decision to delist the MKO, dozens of well-known advocates—primarily but not exclusively conservatives—lobbied on behalf of the group. Vocal supporters included former CIA directors R. James Woolsey Jr. and Porter Goss, former FBI director Louis J. Freeh, as well as Tom Ridge and Michael Mukasey, both cabinet secretaries in George W. Bush’s administration. Other proponents included former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and the late Senator John McCain.

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Ties to the Trump administration

The MKO’s close ties to high-profile figures were clear after the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. The group saw Trump’s election as an opportunity to significantly influence US policy toward Iran.

On January 9, 2017, just days before Trump took office, a bipartisan group of 20 former US officials published a letter to Trump urging him to open a strategic dialog with the MKO. They reprinted a letter they published in 2015, calling much more firmly for a US-MKO strategic relationship.

In the following, we will take a look at the positions of several people close to Donald Trump who are among the supporters of the MKO in the United States.

John Bolton

John Bolton was Donald Trump’s third national security adviser. During the 2016 election campaign, Bolton broke with neoconservative pundits like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol in praising Donald Trump’s foreign policy.

There have been quite a few former officials, politicians, and retired military officers that have been cheerleading for the MKO over the last few years, but Bolton was one of their oldest and most consistent American supporters. “Bolton probably sees the MKO as a fellow traveler in the drive for regime change in Iran,” said Cliff Kupchan, chairman and Iran expert at Eurasia Group.

According to The Christian Science Monitor, Bolton along with Patrick Kennedy, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Steele have all received handsome speaking fees in the past from MKO-affiliated organizations. They were among a gaggle of former US officials, who lobbied the US hard in recent years to take the MKO off the State Department terrorist list. MKO expert Joanne Stocker asserts that the MKO likely paid Bolton at least $180k in “speaker fees,” making him more a lobbyist than a statesman.
Iran hawk Bolton admits receiving ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ from MKO
Iran hawk Bolton admits receiving ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ from MKO
Former US national security advisor John Bolton has admitted to receiving tens of thousands of dollars from the anti-Iran terrorist cult of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).

Rudy Giuliani

The former mayor of New York City was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, backing up his radical talking points, like the claim that President Barack Obama “founded ISIS.”

Giuliani was believed to be a likely pick for secretary of state in the Trump administration. However, on December 9, 2016, Trump announced that Giuliani had removed his name from consideration for any Cabinet post. On January 12, 2017, President-elect Trump named Giuliani his informal cybersecurity adviser.

For years, Giuliani has been one of the most prominent American officials to advocate on behalf of the MKO. The group has paid Giuliani handsomely for years—$20,000 or more, and possibly a lot more—for brief appearances before the group and for lobbying to have it removed from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), which occurred in 2012. A Treasury Department investigation in 2012 examined whether speaking fees paid by several MKO front groups to a long list of US politicians, including Giuliani, violated laws on Americans receiving money from designated terrorist organizations.

Newt Gingrich

The former speaker of the US House of Representatives and unsuccessful GOP presidential candidate was widely considered to be a potential running mate for Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, for which he reportedly actively lobbied the real estate mogul.

Gingrich supported Trump more quickly than many other establishment Republicans. After having consulted for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, Gingrich encouraged his fellow Republicans to unify behind Trump, who had by then become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Gingrich reportedly figured among Trump’s final three choices to be his running mate; the position ultimately went to Governor of Indiana Mike Pence. Following Trump’s victory in the presidential election, speculation arose concerning Gingrich as a possible secretary of state, or chief of staff, or advisor. Eventually, Gingrich announced that he would not be serving in the cabinet.

Gingrich has been especially enthusiastic about the MKO over the years, describing it as the vanguard of “a massive worldwide movement for liberty in Iran.” In 2017, Gingrich showed up along with former Democratic senator and former vice president nominee Joe Lieberman at a conference in Paris to laud the MKO. After speaking at another conference organized by the MKO, Gingrich said of them, the group “is clearly the largest resistance organization and deserves respect.”

Elaine Chao

The Donald Trump secretary of transportation spoke before an MKO conference in 2015 in Paris. She also had a seat next to Maryam Rajavi, the “president-elect” of the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political arm of the MKO. She also received a $50,000 honorarium from the MKO-associated Alliance for Public Awareness, according to a report she filed with the US Office of Government Ethics. Chao received another $17,500 honorarium for a March 2016 speech she gave to the Iranian-American Cultural Association of Missouri, which MKO opponents also link to the group.

The Department of Transportation said in a statement that Chao has a “strong record of speaking out in support of democracy and women’s rights in the Middle East,” but “has not spoken to MKO events.”

Michele Bachmann

The former member of Congress from Minnesota and founder of the House Tea Party Caucus was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump. In an interview with SiriusXM Progress, Bachmann, who serves on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board, described Trump as a “committed believer” of Jesus Christ and a “man of faith” who has “asked God for help and wisdom.”

Bachmann is a major supporter of the MKO. On November 17, 2010, she appeared at a press conference at a Freedom Watch symposium aimed at promoting regime change in Iran through military intervention and direct US support for the MKO. At the event, Bachmann voiced her support for the MKO, asking that they be removed from the US State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Jo Lieberman

Following his retirement from the Senate in 2013, Lieberman became senior counsel at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, a law firm in New York City whose notable clients include Donald Trump. In early 2017, Lieberman introduced President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee. On May 17, 2017, Lieberman was interviewed by President Donald Trump for the position of FBI Director, to replace recently fired James Comey.

On January 9, 2017, in a letter to Trump, the former Sen. Joe Lieberman along with other former officeholders, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and retired Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, wrote a letter to the incoming president and urged him to work with the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran. In December 2016, Lieberman also appeared at an event at the Capitol Hill organized by the MKO. At the event, Lieberman said the goal of increased pressure on Iran would be to elicit concessions from Iran by causing them to “begin to wonder about the survival of the regime.”

John Ashcroft

The former US attorney general endorsed Trump in September 2017, saying that he offers a new hope for the American people.

Ashcroft was a passionate supporter of the MKO when he was in the Senate. In December 1999, the US Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) agents arrested Mahnaz Samadi, a leading spokeswoman for the MKO, at the Canadian border. Hearing about the case from his constituents, the then Missouri Senator comes to the rescue and writes a letter on May 10, 2000 to Attorney General Janet Reno opposing Samadi’s arrest. In his letter, he calls her a “highly regarded human-rights activist.”

Ken Blackwell

The former mayor of Cincinnati and the Ohio State Treasurer and Secretary of State led appointment selections for positions involving domestic issues during the presidential transition of Donald Trump. He has defended his work on Trump’s Election Integrity Commission, and described Trump as “a transactional person.”

While describing the MKO as “The main Iranian opposition group,” “representatives of a moderate interpretation of Islam,” Blackwell has called the group’s ringleader “a devout and profoundly anti-fundamentalist Muslim woman leader.” Attending the annual rally of the MKO in Paris, Ken Blackwell tweeted a photo of himself and Gingrich at the gathering on July 9, 2016.

Clare Lopez

During the 2016 election campaign race and after Donald Trump won the GOP nomination, the right-wing conspiracy theorist Clare Lopez backed some of his misleading campaign claims, like that the United States paid a ransom to Iran for the release of US citizens. Since Trump’s election, transition team insiders had reported that Lopez was in consideration for deputy national security advisor in the Trump White House. Since Trump took office, Lopez proved a reliable ally.

Clare Lopez is a tough supporter of the MKO and has described this terrorist group as “the largest, the oldest, the best organized, the most dedicated of Iranian democratic opposition,” admitting that she already had participated in their annual rallies in Paris. In 2011, when the group was still in the US Department of State’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, she explicitly announced that the department must immediately remove it from the list. She also rejects reports from Official US agencies regarding the violent history of the MKO, including the assassination of several US military personnel and civilians in the 1970s.

Tom Cotton

This junior United States senator supported Trump during the 2016 presidential contest. He was mentioned as a possible candidate for secretary of defense in the Trump administration. Cotton frequently met with Trump’s staff during the transition period, and, according to Steve Bannon, he suggested John F. Kelly for the role of secretary of homeland security. In December of 2018, Politico reported that Cotton is a potential choice to replace Jim Mattis as US Secretary of Defense after Mattis announced his resignation for January 1, 2019.

In a Senate meeting room on May 6, 2015, Cotton joined a panel hosted by the so-called Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC), a front group for the MKO. According to the Lobe Log’s Eli Clifton, Cotton and the MKO share a common agenda when it comes to the nuclear negotiations with Iran. “Neither Cotton nor the MKO, in other words, thinks there should be any negotiations with the Iranian government.” Clifton wrote.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the US and Europe, as supporters of the MKO terrorist group, have the blood of Iranians on their hands.

Lee Zeldin

This member of Congress representing New York’s 1st district endorsed Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee On May 3, 2016. In 2017, Zeldin supported Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, saying it offered the FBI a chance at a “fresh start” to rebuild trust.

In a testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s panel on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade on April 29th 2015, the MKO ringleader Maryam Rajavi told lawmakers about regime change in Tehran. The hearing drew a crowd of MKO supporters, including Rep. Judy Chu, and Sheila Jackson Lee, who were not on the committee but stopped by to praise Rajavi. During the hearing, Freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin, left little doubt that he believed in MKO. “Because there are individuals like you, who are willing to rise up and take control of your country’s future,” he told Rajavi.

Walid Phares

Walid Phares is a right-wing conspiracy theorist and university professor who has worked for the Republican presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016. He worked as an advisor to presidential candidate Donald Trump and he was paid $13,000 per month by the campaign.

Phares has called the MKO as “the main Iranian opposition movement” and praised its role in the 2017–2018 violent riots in Iran. The Justice Department documents show that Phares met with the MKO on two separate occasions after Trump’s electoral victory in November 2016.

Lindsey Graham

This senator from South Carolina was an outspoken critic of fellow Republican Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy and repeatedly declared he did not support Trump. After a March 2017 meeting with Trump, Graham became a staunch ally of the president, often issuing public statements in his defense. His ambiguity concerning Trump has brought scrutiny from both the right and left. Graham is also an ardent supporter of Trump’s third national security adviser, John Bolton. Lindsey Graham is a supporter of the MKO and have appeared regularly at the group’s events.

Now, Trump’s defeat in the presidential election is causing the circle of lobbyists and supporters of terrorism to collapse. Extremists in the Middle East, such as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Mohammed bin Salman took advantage of Trump’s presidency to beat the drums for war more vigorously while diminishing opportunities for dialog and a world free of violence.

Trump’s defeat and the Capitol riots were not simply the failure of one candidate. They indicated the defeat of Trumpism. This bellicose and anti-peace ideology must not influence future developments around the world. Trump’s circle of friends and supporters are a threat to democracy, world peace and security. This anti-peace circle with its destructive ideology has no place in the post-Trump world.

By Reza Alghurabi

Reza Alghurabi is an Arab journalist who lives in Iran. He is a former researcher at the Beirut Center for Middle East Studies and an independent researcher and journalist writing in Iranian newspapers including the Khorasan daily.

(The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)

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Haj Sakhid Saeedfar
Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Complaint of Mr. Haj Sakhid Saeedfar to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances

Mr. Haj Sakhid Saeedfar, whose brother Haj Seyyed Saeedfar is a prisoner of war trapped in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Albania, has sent a complaint to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, with sufficient explanations about his brother’s condition and demanded an immediate investigation into his condition as well as a arranging a meeting with him.

Haj Sakhid Saeedfar

The script of Mr. Saeedfar’s complaint is as follows
Work Group of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID)
United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Greetings and Regards
I am Haj Sakhid Saeedfar, a resident of Bandar-e-Turkman, Golestan Province, in the northernmost point of Iran. My brother, Haj Seyyed Saeedfar, was captured by Saddam Hussein’s forces more than 35 years ago during the Iran-Iraq war, and then forcibly transferred to the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) camp in Iraq by the deception and pressure of the MEK leaders.

Saedfar Seyyed

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, I went to Iraq several times to find my brother, along with other families whose loved ones had been captured by the leaders of the MEK, but unfortunately the leaders of the organization prevented us against all international rules and regulations. They did not allow us to meet our loved ones in that camp.

Later, I found out that in 2015, the MEK, together with all its members, went to Albania. So I corresponded with the government of that country, but no attention was paid to my humane requests to contact my brother.

Now, with the outbreak of Covid-19 disease all over the world, especially in Albania and the MEK camp, where at least 17 of them have died in less than a month, I and all my family members are worried about my brother.

We urge the committee in charge to immediately take care of the physical and mental condition of my brother Haj Seyyed Saeedfar in the MEK camp in Albania, and we also want to contact him, who has disappeared involuntarily.

Thanks a lot
Haj Sakhid Saeedfar, Haj Seyyed Saeedfar’s brother captive in the MEK camp in Albania
Bandar-e-Turkman – Golestan – Iran

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