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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

The aged father of MEK member expressed concern about the health of his daughter

Mr. Ahmad Haeri, the suffering father of Shahin Haeri, a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) in Albania, wrote a letter on behalf of himself and his wife to the World Health Organization (WHO), expressing concern about their daughter’s health.

The text of the letter is as follows:

Representative of the WHO in Albania

Greetings and best regards,

I am Ahmad Haeri, the father of Shahin Haeri, who is now in the isolated and remote camp of the MEK in Albania with no communication with the outside world.

It goes without saying that my wife and I have not seen our daughter for so many years and we have not heard her voice on the phone and we have not even received a message from her, and this has always bothered us. But now the news that worries us the most is that our daughter has the disease caused by the Covid-19 virus and is living in an acute condition, and the health conditions inside the camp are also unfavorable.

My wife and I are both over 90 years old. As Shahin’s parents, we have the desire at the end of our lives to hear her voice and hear about her health. We are not able to travel due to old age and illness, and of course Albania does not allow us to do so. But is it impossible for her to make a phone call?

I ask you not to neglect any action that is conceivable and fruitful in order to alleviate the worries of the old and elderly mother and father and let the news of our daughter to reach us and to provide the possibility of communication.

There must be fathers and mothers among your staff who are always worried about their children and asking about their condition when they are sick. So you know very well how a mother and a father feel about this. Is it justified to prevent members of the MEK from contacting their families?

Ahmad Haeri

Iran – Yazd – Contact Number 0098-9131566480

Copy to:

Office of the Prime Minister of Albania

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

December 22, 2020 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Saeed Khoshhal

In 1985, Saeed was only one year old when his parents took him to Iraq, after a year of clandestine living in Iran. They crossed the Iranian border through Kurdistan Mountains to join the camp of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO, MEK, PMOI, Cult of Rajavi) in Iraq. His mother Zahra Hosseini was not a member of the MEK before she got married with his father Mehdi Khoshhal, but the precarious marriage trapped the entire family in the cult-like structure of MEK.

Saeed Khoshhal - son of Mehdi

The life of Camp Ashraf required severe systematic violations of human rights. Couples were allowed to visit each other once a week for only one day and night. Zahra was unhappy with the regulations of the organization. She wanted to be with her husband and her son all the time. But, an organizational order forced her to even get separated from her four-year-old son.

Saeed had to stay in the children’s unit of the camp so that her mother can be more active and productive for the MEK. Two years later, the six-year-old Saeed got much farther from his parents. In 1990, Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the group ordered the transfer of seven hundred children of the group members to Europe.

Years later, Saeed was interviewed by the writer of a book about MEK children. He was at the age of 20 and was living in Wiesbaden, Germany. “We were living in dust,” Saeed says about the dark days of leaving his parents behind in Iraq. ”I was six years old, at the time. I recall those years of war. I remember the sound of aircrafts. We were about fifty kids who got on two buses and we were repetitively taken from one hotel to another one. We were taken from Iraq to Jordan and from there to Cologne. I was then taken to Hamburg to live with two sympathizers of the MEK.”

Although Saeed tries to think about the life ahead and not to get obsessed with the bitterness of his childhood, he states some facts about the MEK and their approach concerning children: “When I was in the MEK, I always had the feeling of being abused; I was used as a tool by them. When a child does not get kindness and attention, you can realize that there is something wrong with the environment. Mujahedin paid no attention to children. They just trained children to use them in future, just like training donkeys and cows in barns.”

Nevertheless, Saeed was luckier than most MEK children because he was not sent back to the MEK camp in Iraq. The main reason was his father who defected the group after Massoud Rajavi ordered members to divorce their spouses. Mehdi Khoshhal endured prison as a result of his opposition against Massoud’s order, but finally he could manage to leave the group. However, he was not allowed to see his wife who was shockingly brainwashed by the group. Zahra was not allowed to visit Mehdi because according to Massoud Rajavi’s order they were not married to each other anymore. So, Mehdi went to Germany to look for his son, Saeed.

Saeed grew up in Germany. He graduated from law school. His father joined him there but his mother only made one phone call in several years. “She asked some emotionless questions,” Saeed says about that only phone call. “A mother who calls her son after 13 years should be more passionate but that woman was so cool. She seemed to read her questions out of a book. She asked for my email and phone number to contact me again but she asked me not to tell my father about her. I told her that I did not trust her after 13 years of no news. I trusted my father and friends in Germany more than I trusted her.”

Saeed claims that he does not think about her mother anymore but his grandmother, the mother of Zahra Hosseini is still pursuing the case of her daughter in the MEK. In a letter to the Albanian authorities, she writes about Saeed too: “My grandson Saeed keeps in touch with his paternal family. He cannot speak Persian. We know that he has had no contact with his mother during the past years. I mean that the MEK leaders do not allow my daughter to have access to a telephone.”

December 21, 2020 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Covid-19 In MEK Camp – Needs Urgent Intervention

Honourable Director of Albania’s Immigration Office

We would like to inform you that we, a group of former members of the MEK Organization, are concerned about the situation of our former friends who are currently members of the MEK.

During the outbreak of COVID-19, the organization keeps its members in a closed area, which makes the conditions more dangerous for the spread of this disease among people.

You are aware that this organization has closed relations, a has all the characteristics of a mind control cult.

The people who live in this cult collective do not have access to the free world and medical centres. This raises our concerns about the health and wellbeing of the people living in the Manez camp.

In the current situation, with the threat of COVID-19, the lives of these people are in danger. Unfortunately, this organization does not care about the lives of these people.

Due to the dangerous conditions inside the camp and the irresponsible behaviour of the cult leaders towards the lives of the members, we issue this warning, and we call for the prompt intervention of the relevant authorities of your country and Albanian human rights organizations to take control in order to save the lives of these people.

Respectfully: A group of former MEK members

Hassan Heyrani

Abdolrahman Mohammadian

Ali Hajari

Reza Slami

Moosa Damroodi

Gholamali Mirzaei

Parviz Heydarzadeh

Reza Mezginejhad

Hassan Shahbaz

Malek Baitmshaal

Gholamreza Shekari

Ehsan Bidi

Bager Mohammadi

Copy to:

Honorable President of Albania

Prime Minister of Albania

Albanian Ministry of the Interior

Albanian Ministry of Health

RMSA Organization, Albania

United Nations Office, Geneva

Survivors of MEK in Albania, iran-azadi-albania.de

December 19, 2020 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK: Brainwashing members to achieve organizational goals

The Mojahedin Khalq Organization is a group from which ISIL and suicide attacks have emerged.

MEK is the first group to launch a suicide operation and calling themselves role models for terrorist groups, claiming that members of the organization sacrificed their lives for the organization without any expectations, and the leadership of this group sacrifices the lives of its members for their own desires.

photo: The raid of the MEK’s Paris compound in 2003, which prompted acts of self-immolation by some of its members.

Suicide operations are the least done by the members of the group, and in 1971, Ahmad Rezaei, one of the leaders of the organization, started the first suicide operation, during which 30 members of the organization were asked to sacrifice their lives and do this violent manner and end their lives.

MEK continued their bloody operations even after the revolution and assassinated the revolutionary figures of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but they wasted their lives in a dark and endless way.

MEK claimed human rights, but the lives of the members of the organization are too insignificant to them that they not only accepted responsibility for their suicide operations but also threatened to do so again.

Saleh Rajavi, Massoud Rajavi’s brother, says that: “when thousands of people are willing to sacrifice their lives for the organization and its goals, then let them call us terrorists, and how can thousands of people who sacrifice for the freedom of their people be called terrorists?”

Yes, when members are forced to obey the orders of the organization without any authority and by brainwashing, they are not able to make decisions. To the extent that they were given cyanide tablets so that they would not be arrested alive in operations so as not to disclose information about the organization.

Suicide: First and Last Resort for the MKO

In 2003, when Maryam Rajavi was arrested in France, a large number of people protested against her arrest, declaring that they were burning themselves, the Parisian newspaper wrote that: “Before and after the self-immolation, several reporters were contacted on their cell phones, and the foreign relation spokesperson announced them the name of the person who wanted to set himself on fire.”

Interestingly, after the self-immolation, one of the Mojahedin offers the reporter a better photo of the self-immolation, and the Mojahedin filmed and photographed these scenes and posted them on their site, but after a while, they removed them from the site page due to bad feedback.

The organization uses different names to impress itself in the public mind by deception, and this is the imposition of a lie on its audience, and the individual suffers from multiplicity in the mind.

MEK went so far that due to their unpopularity among the Iranian people and the opposition groups, announce themselves as representing the majority of the people to the point that they hired a number of foreigners to be presented at their annual conference and gave them the flag of MEK to show that their number of supporters is more than the reality.

Even regarding the self-immolation of individuals, two members of the organization, Mahmoud Alemi, and Hossein Amini Gholipour, encouraged individuals to carry out self-immolation operations.

The interesting thing is that out of the 10 people who set themselves on fire, three of them were members of the political branch not from the military branch that would be a definition of being a soldier that feels like it is his duty to burn himself.

In 1984, France deported a number of members to Gabon, where they went on a 40-day hunger strike until the French government had to return them.

What is very prominent among the MEK is the spirit of sectarianism, which is very outdated, and the Mojahedin even decided to carry out suicide operations because they do not care about the lives of the people and seek to do things that will make a noise in the world, they even decided to carry out suicide operations in Karbala and even trained the women of Camp Ashraf in Iraq to carry out suicide operations there.

A 2009 report stated that the MEK praised suicide and always carried cyanide tablets with a leather cover around their necks, and swallowed a pill immediately if caught on missions. Also Rajavi called all members of the organization living martyrs, and among all the actions they took, self-immolation was the most common type of suicide and self-immolation became a tool, and even when members of the organization were prevented from leaving, they set themselves on fire, and the cause of death of disobedient members who had been killed under torture was declared a suicide.

All this goes back to the tortures and brainwashing that were inflicted on members, otherwise who is willing to sacrifice his life, which is his most important and valuable asset, to achieve the worthless human desires of a man introduces himself as the leader of the group and a claimant of human rights.

One of the tortures was that members of the organization were locked in solitary confinement and given a leaflet declaring their support for Massoud Rajavi as the leader of the group, and the individual had to repeat these sentences to himself to never forget it. Can a cult that violated every kind of human rights call itself a democratic group?

Jack Turner, geopolitica.ru

December 17, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

The New Scandal of the MEK: Robbery of French Charities and Churches

Are Giuliani, Bolton, and the other speakers of the Mojahedin-e Khalq ceremonies involved in this case?

Rudy Giuliani and Maryam Rajavi

The cost of financing the speeches of Giuliani, Bolton, parliamentarians, etc. in the Mojahedin-e Khalq ceremonies, the cost of financial aid to parties such as the Spanish Right Party (Vox), the cost of some reputable media to cover the Mojahedin-e Khalq news, etc. raise an important question in the minds of many journalists that where is the source of financing these expenses, which cannot be afforded by many prominent and profitable companies in the world, and where does the MEK provide this money?

Although some journalists claimed Saudi Arabia and Israel had provided financial assistance to the group, even these actors could not afford the huge costs due to budget constraints.

Journalists were looking for answers in 2003 when the French security system arrested many of the group’s cadres, but the case remained closed for obscure reasons.

Now, two decades after the 2003 arrests, a member of the group, Yaghoub Meraji, announced on his Twitter that he had worked for the Mojahedin since the beginning of the Iranian revolution and returned to France after the joint Mojahedin-Saddam war against Iran and has been present in the bases of this cult, intends to refer to the French police and present his information and knowledge about the abuse of this group of French charities and churches of that country and money laundering of the group, and file a lawsuit against a group of which he was once a member.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Olsi-Meraji-MEK.mp4

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Meraji can now be a key figure in the financial case of Mojahedin-e Khalq and the individuals and parties that have received money from this group.

If Meraji’s statement is true, that part of the cult’s expenses was covered by the misuse of charities and churches, that is, the money that should have paid to the socially damaged individuals would have been the cost of travels and accommodations and speeches by prominent political figures such as Giuliani, this case seems to be much more important than the Mojahedin-e Khalq case of money laundering and fraud, and the entry of political observers of France and other European and American countries are necessary, which should examine why some politicians, despite political experience and sufficient knowledge of legal capacities of the parties and groups, with what justification, despite the many ambiguities about the financial activities of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, participated in the ceremonies of this group and received money from it.

All these answers are subject to the official comment of the French security systems on the veracity of Mr. Meraji’s statements and after that, the monitoring organizations would enter the field of investigating the dark and ambiguous activities of some parties and individuals related to MEK.

ahtribune.ca

December 16, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

POW Punished By MEK For Not Submitting

On Sunday, Ashraf News obtained a document issued by the MEK in Albania, ending the service of one of its members and cutting off financial support, under the pretext of not being in line with it in its positions towards the Iranian regime.

The document is signed by the so-called Hassan Nayeb Agha, representative of Ashraf 3 residents in Albania, and issued on December 2, 2020, it affirms that “Reza Maji, a prisoner of war (Iraqi-Iranian) joined the Liberation Army of the PMOI. He was transferred to Albania in 2016, and in 2017 he announced his dissent from the PMOI.

The document added, “During the past three years, Reza Maji obtained 913 thousand leik (the national currency of Albania) from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,” the amount is approximately 9 thousand US dollars.

POW Punished By MEK For Not Submitting- reza maji

According to the document, the termination of Reza Magi’s service and the cutoff of his financial aid came due to what it calls “refusal of taking a public stand with the inhuman enemy and the Iranian regime’s intelligence ministry, which contradicts his written obligations.”

According to this document, “As of this date (on December 2), any communication and financial assistance by the PMOI with Reza Maji will be cut off completely due to his suspicious situation.”

A representative of the residents of Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania and a member of the MEK Hassan Nayeb Agha sent a copy of this decision to the MEK’s legal advisor, the MEK representative, as well as the representative of this organization in the National Council of Resistance of Iran led by Maryam Rajavi.

The MEK leadership faces a problem in controlling its members who are in Ashraf 3 camp, which is located in the city of Manza near the Albanian capital Tirana, according to reports and information obtained by Ashraf News in recent months.

December 15, 2020 0 comments

Nejat Publications

Nejat Newsletter – No.78

Inside This Issue:

– COMPLAINS TO UN COMMITTEE ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES
I am Fatemeh Pourabdollahi, the sister of Hussein Pourabdollahi. Hussein served in the Iranian army in 1986.At that time, Iran was involved in the war with Iraq and Hussein was sent to war zones. There he was abducted and taken hostage by the MEK. In his letters to us, he expressed his nostalgia for the family and he wanted to return to his family as soon as possible. However the MEK cult kidnapped him and since then we have been deprived of seeing him now for
more than 30 years.

– Trial Or MKO Propaganda? False alarm in EU, Assassination in Tehran
In June 2018, Belgian authorities said that Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi
had been arrested in Germany over suspicions of plotting a bomb attack on a
meeting of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in Paris attended by US President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and several former European and Arab ministers. The authorities added that ….

– DENIED RIGHTS OF FAMILIES OF MEK MEMBERS
The Parents, wives and children who miss their loved ones in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MEK, MKO, PMOI, Cult of Rajavi) are probably the most ignored people in the mass media,although their case of human rights violation is one of the most critical ones. Their rights of contacting their loved ones in the MEK have been violated by the MEK leaders for over three decades.

– The MEK’s footprint in the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientists
The assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh once more draws
attentions to the long-time record of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO,MEK, PMOI, Cult of Rajavi) as a terrorist group that has been involved in numerous terrorist attacks against the Iranian political and military authorities and more recently the Iranian nuclear scientists.

– WITH TRUMP GONE, IS THE MEK FINISHED?
Mr Parsa Sorbi moderated an online debate on Mardom TV on Friday 20th November (at
11am New York time, at 17pm Germany time, at 19:30pm Teheran time). Broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube, a panel of experts discussed the question.

– MEK in denial over Trump loss
American writers have sniffed out MEK’s interference in the country’s national interest like a bad smell. From the Michael Brooks show identifying that Trump pick for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, had supported MEK in the past – one victim of cultic abuse supporting another incidence of cultic abuse perhaps!

– MEK Invent Conspiracy Theories for Survival
For context adding, “the MEK are implicated in many violent incidents on European territory. In 2018, their presence finally became untenable. Sadly, Albania, under the American heel, is now forced to host this dangerous group.” In a detailed expose, Khodabandeh identifies MEK’s wild attempts to demonise and destroy critics among the former members.

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December 14, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families announce their readiness to send any possible assistance

Letter from the CEO of the Iranian Nejat Society to the representative of the WHO in Albania

Representation of the World Health Organization in Albania
12/12/2020

Greetings and best regards
On behalf of the suffering families of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCR, NLA), I would like to draw your attention to an emerging humanitarian catastrophe due to the spread of Covid-19 in the MEK’s closed and isolated Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Albania.

The alarming news coming from inside the camp indicates that many, estimated to be half the population, have contracted the disease and some are in a critical condition. According to these internal reports, prominent members such as Mahmoud Atai, Ahmad Hanifnejad, Javad Khorasan, Shahin Haeri, Ensieh Goldoust, Farzaneh Maidanshahi, Marzieh Hosseini, and many others who are elderly, are being kept in inappropriate conditions.

Reports emphasize that a very high level of fear and anxiety prevails in the camp. It goes without saying that after the defeat of US President Donald Trump in the U.S. elections and the bleak outlook for the future of the organization confronting the members, an atmosphere of panic and stress has developed, which intensifies the progress of the disease. The members’ lack of access to the outside world has greatly worried their families who are prevented from contacting them.

We also learned that some medicine had been sent from Germany specifically to the camp, which apparently was not enough and much more care was needed. Families are eager to find a way to help and send aid to members inside the camp.

Another issue is the MEK’s withholding of news about what is happening inside the camp, which adds to the concerns of families. It should be noted that between 2016, when the MEK transfer to Albania was completed, until 2019, an average of one person died in the camp every two months. But recent images of the MEK cemetery in Albania show that at least 10 people have died in the past five weeks.

According to information we have obtained, people such as Hassan Zarei, Hassan Salahandish, Gholamreza Pourhashem, Afsaneh Pichgah, Ruhollah Ramvaz, Khalil Hagh Hosseini, Mehdi Hagh Hosseini, Mohammad Qoli Ehsani, and a number of others have died in recent weeks from coronavirus.

A number of MEK members who have died in recent weeks from coronavirus.

A serious problem regarding the MEK camp is the crowded and intensive life and non-observance of health regulations, which greatly increases the speed of disease transmission. Also, the lack of monitoring inside the camp has further caused and accelerated the spread of the disease.

In this regard, it is necessary for the Albanian government and the World Health Organization to enter into the matter and investigate the issue and implement the necessary monitoring. It is also necessary to allow families to communicate with people inside the camp, which has been blocked by the MEK with the support of the Albanian government, so that families can be aware of the health and wellbeing of their loved ones.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO of the Iranian Nejat Society
Tehran

Copy to:
President of the WHO
Representation of the WHO in Iran

December 13, 2020 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 276

++ The trial of Asadollah Assadi is underway in Brussels. The Austrian based Iranian diplomat was arrested in Germany and accused of passing a bomb to an Iranian couple who planned to attack an MEK rally in Paris in 2018. During the trial the MEK have tried their utmost to make themselves relevant. MEK representatives were not allowed inside the court room. Instead, they sent three high level, highly paid lawyers from France alongside Farzin Hashemi as Maryam Rajavi’s representative to stand outside court and give interviews etc. On the back of this the MEK placed paid articles in French and Belgian media. Maryam Rajavi, of course, is not allowed in the European Union. The MEK’s desperate efforts to make the trial about them has exposed their real role in the plot. The more they put themselves forward, the more it shows as a false flag operation. The sponsors of the plot did their job in 2018 to meddle in relations between Iran and Europe to prevent rapprochement. The MEK were paid at the time but are apparently now trying to get more out of this, even though their actions are against the interests of Israel. This is being done while the MEK were obviously involved in the assassination of Iran’s nuclear expert Dr Fakhrizadeh as the Farsi speaking part of the equation. This puts Albania in a difficult position as hosts to the MEK.

++ This week marks the Day of Students in Iran. This goes back to the time of the Shah when on the 16th Azar, the Shah’s troops killed three students during an anti-Shah, anti-imperialist demonstration. Today the MEK – famously anti-imperialist at that time – are still trying to celebrate the Day of Students and its anti-American martyrs, completely oblivious to the contradiction with their newly pro-American position. Commentators point out the irony. The MEK are now pro-American but can’t give up the past. They can’t let go of either position to the point that Maryam Rajavi presented the MEK’s book of anti-imperialist martyrs to Senator John McCain. It couldn’t get more ridiculous than this.

In English:

++ Reports reveal that ten MEK members have died of COVID-19 in Albania since the first week of November. This indicates an outbreak of the coronavirus in Camp Ashraf 3. In 2016, as they were given refuge on humanitarian grounds, the Albanian government gave assurances that the MEK would receive full medical care. Since then, the MEK leaders have imprisoned the members in the closed camp and do not allow Albanian authorities to enter. From the start of the pandemic, the MEK have refused to allow local health officials into the camp to help; there are no licenced medical staff in the camp. It is unclear how the virus was introduced into the camp, but leading members have used their Laissez-passer documents to move around Albania without hindrance, crossing road blocks with impunity. This week two of the MEK’s Albanian lawyers failed to attend court in a libel case against Behzad Saffari, brought by journalist Gjergji Thanasi, saying they have contracted COVID-19. This could be coincidental, but it has also been reported that the defendant Behzad Safari has also gone missing and has not been seen recently. Whether the virus could have been transmitted either way, from lawyers to the camp or the camp to the lawyers, it is clear from the number of deaths in Camp Ashraf 3 that there are many others suffering the illness.

++ After being ousted from Iraq and now the EU, the MEK could hope that they are safe in Albania. However, as the presidency of the US shifts in the next weeks, questions are being asked as to what the new Biden administration’s foreign policy will be and how this might affect the MEK. In an interview with Jacobin Magazine, Daniel Benaim – senior fellow at American Progress, researcher for US policy in the Middle East and visiting lecturer at New York University – gave his analysis of the pivotal topics of Biden’s foreign policy. In regard to the JCPOA, Benaim said, “My friends and I are of the view that a reduction in US support for MEK could be absorbing to Tehran. Albanian officials in bilateral meetings have expressed their concerns over the group’s illegal activities in human, drug, and arms trafficking. The Settlement of MEK in Albania and the coast of Adriatic Sea, along the European border is not necessary for a long period of time, and the group’s relocation to Ethiopia or Red Sea coasts such as Eritrea should be considered.” This raised two opposing views among observers. One view says ‘good riddance’ from Europe and let Saudi Arabia and the UAE use them in the conflict with Yemen. The other view comes from the families of enslaved, disappeared MEK members who would be further out of reach and again put in danger of death in a conflict not of their choosing.

December 13, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MEK’s expertise in civil unrest and terror acts every where

It was just a few weeks ago that the disappeared leader of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi), Massoud Rajavi elaborated a message admitting the killing of seventeen thousand Iranians.”Approving the seventeen thousand casualties of the regime in the battle against the Mujahedin Khalq first of all indicates the longtime and continuing fight between the MEK and the religious fascism,”Rajavi addressed the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei who had criticized the French government for sheltering the MEK as a terrorist group that has had the blood of seventeen thousand Iranians on its hands.

It was just a few weeks after the alleged message of Massoud Rajavi in which he promised the killing of more Iranians, that the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in Absard, a town located in 40 kilometers east of Tehran. However, the terrorist attack was nothing of new. At least five Iranian nuclear scientists have previously been killed in terror attacks.

The Iranian authorities immediately claimed the attack was carried out by Israeli agents and eventually most Middle East experts confirmed the claim adding the cooperation of the MEK agents with the Israelis to the argument.”Israel has in the past, however, used operatives from the MEK — a cult-like Iranian exile group recently removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations — to conduct attacks in Iran,”Trita Parsi, former President of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) writes.”The MEK was the first group to introduce suicide assassinations to Iran.”[1]

Mohsen fakhrizade- iran nuclear scientists assassinated - israel - mek

As a well-organized military group with at least three decades of overt terrorist attacks inside and outside Iran that resulted in the killing of thousands of Iranians and non-Iranians, the Mujahedin Khalq has always been a dependable proxy force for the enemies of Iran from Saddam Hussein to Israel and American warmongers. The utilization of minority communities in Iran has become an instrument for attempted regime change in Iran. Most significantly, the US and Israel use the likes of the MEK and other terrorist organizations to attack Iranian nuclear scientists and military sites and also to create civil unrest in critical occasions.

Muhammad Sahimi, a Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles just a few weeks before the assassination of Fakhrizadeh warned about the notorious support of the US for the Cult of Massoud Rajavi from the era of George W. Bush. At that time some high-ranking officials of Al-Qaida including relatives of Osama bin Laden, had escaped to Iran and consequently were arrested and jailed by Iranian police.”In 2003 Iran proposed to the George W. Bush administration to exchange them with the leadership of the MEK, a cult-like group based in Iraq that opposed the government in Tehran and until 2012 was listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization”, he wrote on Antiwar Website.”Because of its collaboration with the Saddam Hussein regime during Iran-Iraq war, the MEK is universally despised by Iranians. In 2003 the MEK leadership was being protected by the US forces in Iraq after the Bush administration invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003. But the Bush administration rejected the offer, because the Iran hawks wanted, and still wish, to use the MEK against the regime in Tehran.”[2]

The MEK’s malicious attitudes can always be a big obstacle in normalizing and stabilizing relation between nations. That is why the President Biden’s ex-adviser on Middle East affairs, Daniel Benaim suggests the US’s next administration to relocate the MEK in Ethiopia or somewhere on the shores of the Red Sea in order to reduce tensions with the Iranian government. His argument is accurately based on the MEK’s expertise in a variety of illegal acts.”My friend and I share the suggestion that Iran could welcome a reduction in US support to MEK,”he suggests.”Albanian officials in bilateral meetings with American officials have declared that they are concerned over illegal activities of MEK such as trafficking of human beings, drugs or gun running. It is not necessary to shelter Muajhedin-e Khalq in Albania and close to EU borders for a long time and we can study the possibility of transferring them to Ethiopia or somewhere on the shores of the Red Sea.”[3]

Massoud Rajavi has substantially proved that he has formed a cult of personality that justifies any immoral, violent and bloody means to achieve his ultimate ends which is gaining power in Iran.

Mazda Parsi

References:
[1] Parsi, Trita, How the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist can sabotage diplomacy & start a war, Responsible Statecraft.org, November 27th, 2020.
[2] Sahimi, Muhammad, Killing al-Qaeda’s No. 2 Man Multiple Times and Using the IAEA Report as Excuse for Attacking Iran, Antiwar.com, November 19th, 2020.
[3] Sunkara, Bhaskar, President-elect Biden’s foreign policy, Jacobin Magazine, December 1st, 2020.

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