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Amir Yaghmai published this video on his youtube page:

An Open letter from me Amir Yaghmai from Sweden requesting to contact my mother Akram Habibkhani with the pseudonym Marzieh Aminia in the MEK organization currently based in Albania outside the Tirana.

The camp is called “ Ashraf 3” and is heavily guarded by armed Albanian security forces. Any approach to the base camp is forbidden and vehicles that slow down in the nearby road is confronted and averted by the armed guards.

May 13, 2020 0 comments

Albania

Coronavirus gives Albanian PM Edi Rama unique opportunity to control MEK

A petition addressed to Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama has reached over ten thousand signatures. The petition was created by estranged families who need help to contact their loved ones trapped in the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) cult’s closed camp ‘Ashraf 3’ in Albania. The families are demanding that PM Rama ensures they get this contact. Now with the global coronavirus pandemic affecting Albania as elsewhere, they are even more urgently concerned to have news about the fate of their loved ones.

Nejat Society families' petition

http://chng.it/GCPbBfFPGr

The families have tried for decades to find ways to have news of their relatives – including taking the dangerous journey to the gates of MEK’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq after the 2003 defeat of Saddam Hussein. The MEK’s policy of forced divorce and separation of families has meant this has not been possible. It was hoped that the move to the more open western country Albania might give the families a better chance to visit their loved ones. Unfortunately, after 2016, the Trump administration allowed the MEK to corral the ordinary members back inside a closed and isolated camp in Manez, Durres county, where they are kept incommunicado.

In addition to the Trump administration’s support for the MEK, the government of Albania also capitulated to the MEK leaders’ demands, turning a blind eye to the conditions of modern slavery which characterise this group. Indeed, although they are said to be refugees, neither the government of Albania nor the UNHCR take any responsibility for the MEK members. Ex-members appealing for help are told by the UNHCR and the Interior Ministry that their existence in Albania is governed by an agreement that allows the MEK to take charge of all the people transferred from Iraq; they are entirely reliant on support from the MEK itself. This suits leader Maryam Rajavi very well. It is imperative for her to exert total control over the members since she has re-purposed her former combatants in Iraq to keyboard warriors in Albania where the MEK now runs a notorious click farm. Rajavi does whatever she can to prevent the members from leaving, no matter their state of health or willingness to work.

In the petition, the families – the elderly parents, siblings, cousins and children of the members – have appealed to Edi Rama to be granted visas to travel to Albania to search for their loved ones.

These have so far been refused. But preventing the members from having contact with their families is just one element in a panoply of tactics designed to prevent defections. The MEK members have been denied the identity papers, travel documents and work permits which would enable them to live independently. This means that those who have managed to leave the MEK cannot work, cannot get a driving license and cannot even open a bank account to allow their families to transfer funds to cover their basic sustenance. These conditions of forced dependence are all part of a deliberate scheme to close every possible door to help from outside the MEK.

But the blatant human rights and justice implications of hosting a slave camp on its territory that has been largely swept under the carpet by corrupt politicians and media in Albania, has now become an urgent matter because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The MEK members did not choose to live in Albania but were brought en masse under an agreement between the MEK, U.S., Albania and the UNHCR. Once in Albania they were herded into the camp and kept isolation there. In Albania, there is a refusal at government and local level to acknowledge them as individual people and grant them rights – they are dealt with only as a group.

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According to investigative journalist Gjergji Thanasi, who reports from Durres county where MEK is based, and where the worst of the coronavirus outbreak has been recorded, the Albanian Ministry of Health “deals with Camp Ashraf 3 as if it does not exist. There is not a single line in the Durres Municipality health officials’ paperwork written about the camp and its residents. No Albanian health official has ever entered the camp.” The group is therefore inaccessible and unaccountable. This means that no matter how hard epidemiologists may be working to trace the contacts of positive cases throughout the country, the MEK will not submit to allow Health Ministry staff inside the camp to test or treat the individuals there. Based on its past behaviour, the MEK is also unlikely to register deaths inside the camp as COVID-19 related as this would itself force the involvement of the local health authorities. This makes the group an unsafe entity for the general citizenship of Albania and in particular the residents of Manez and the greater Durres county, the epicentre for the virus in that country.

This is a thorny issue for PM Rama. On one hand he must kowtow to the demands of the Trump administration which continues to support the MEK. President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo have been happy to use MEK disinformation and propaganda emanating from the troll farm in Camp Ashraf to boost their anti-Iran agendas.

On the other hand, Albania’s aspirations to join the European Union are hampered in part by the MEK presence there. The EU’s tolerance of the MEK ran out in 2018 when an alleged bomb plot brought the MEK’s conflict with Iran to the heart of Europe, forcing France, Belgium, Denmark and Germany to look afresh at the security implications of allowing the MEK a free rein in their countries.

As a result, MEK leader Maryam Rajavi was obliged to relocate to a new headquarters in Albania, and MEK activities in the EU were severely curtailed, particularly public demonstrations and gatherings. As long as the MEK remain in Albania, the EU will not accept them returning through the back door by allowing Albania to join the union.

In a strange way then, the pandemic offers an opportunity for PM Rama to address this issue once and for all. To deal with the MEK not as a political or terrorist problem but instead as a social problem. The petition of the families points to an obvious solution to this problem: allow the families of MEK members to make contact with them and help them individually. But this relies on the acknowledgement of government that MEK poses a threat to Albanian society, along with the willingness to deal decisively with them. This is possible. But will PM Rama have the courage and wisdom to take this opportunity?

iranian.com

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Due to MEK’s secretive attitudes, we have no news of my brother

Prime Minister Edi Rama,
I am Abbas Bidari, Mahmoud Bidari’s brother. Mahmoud has been in custody in the Mujahedin Khalq Organization for about 30 years. The authorities of the group have not allowed him to contact his family all through these years.

Abbas Bidari-Mahmoud Bidari's brother

Your Excellency Rama,
The COVID-19 pandemic in your country as well as other parts of the world has made us worried more than before because we have no news of my brother’s health due to the MEK’s secretive attitudes. We, together with other families have recently took action to sign a petition. The campaign has reached over ten thousand signatures that indicates the concerns and sympathy of the public opinion over the case of our loved ones in the MEK. We ask Your Excellency to cooperate with us issuing visas for us to come to Albania to visit our loved ones in the MEK’s Ashraf 3 camp.

Sincerely Yours,

Abbas Bidari
Khuzestan, Iran

May 12, 2020 0 comments

Nejat Publications

Nejat Newsletter No.71

Inside This Issue:

– Join Nejat NGO Families Petition
Urging Albanian government to let the families to contact their loved ones in MEK camp – Petition

– Open letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the Prime Minister of Albania
You are aware that the members of this organization are billeted in a camp in Manëz in Durrës County, western Albania. The camp is completely controlled by the organization’s leader – Albanian officials have no authority over it. The MEK organization is run as a destructive mind control cult …
One week ago, a petition was created for the families, addressing the Albanian government, and by the time I write this letter to you, more than 800 of them have signed it. Link below:
http://chng.it/GCPbBfFPGr

– MEK guilty of spreading Covid-19 in Albania?
This situation is worsened with the knowledge that there are more than three thousand members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in Tirana. Most of these MEK members are all considered to be administrative retirees, but are confined to work in the MEK’s terrorist camp. Many elderly men and women are spending their senior years behind computer systems in the MEK camp, using media accounts on social networks, to
Terrorists do not need visas; they are already welcomed in Albania
This has, of course, alarmed the MEK since like all other destructive mind control cults, the
leaders are scared to death of the families of the cult’s members. They know that familial emotions will counter their brainwashing practices on the members. A few days after the campaign

– Nejat Society urges the IRI to raise a complaint against Albania at the UN
On behalf of the families I request the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Supreme National Security Council note the situation of Enforced Disappearance of their loved ones in Albania and launch a lawsuit to complain to the responsible UN Committee against Albania according to the relevant international regulations which that country has signed up for.

– MEK guilty of spreading Covid-19 in Albania?
Many MEK members are over 60, because the organization wanted total dedication to the cause, which its leaders expected to be quickly successful, and therefore discouraged them from marrying and having children, which would have distracted them from their illegal and immoral goals. This has made the Mojahedin camp like an isolated nursing home, and in many countries it is nursing homes where the virus has hit the hardest.

– MEK members run online information operations from France, Albania: Murtaza Hussain
The Intercept’s Murtaza Hussain says members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, an exiled Iranian militant group better known as the MEK, are tasked all day to run the cultish group’s propaganda campaign against the Iranian government.

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Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

Terrorists, Cultists, or Iran’s champion of ‎democracy? ‎

They fought for the Iranian revolution – and then for Saddam Hussein. The US and UK once condemned them. But now their opposition to Tehran has made them favorites of Trump White House hardliners.
Mostafa and Robabe Mohammadi came to Albania to rescue their daughter. But in Tirana, the capital, the middle-aged couple have been followed everywhere by two Albanian intelligence agents. Men in sunglasses trailed them from their hotel on George W Bush Road to their lawyer’s office; from the lawyer’s office to the ministry of internal affairs; and from the ministry back to the hotel.

The Mohammadi’s say their daughter, Somayeh, is being held against her will by a fringe Iranian revolutionary group that has been exiled to Albania, known as the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, or MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). Widely regarded as a cult, the MEK was once designated as a terrorist organization by the US and UK, but its opposition to the Iranian government has now earned it the support of powerful hawks in the Trump administration, including national security adviser John Bolton and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.

Somayeh Mohammadi is one of about 2,300 members of the MEK living inside a heavily fortified base that has been built on 34 hectares of farmland in north-west Albania. Her parents, who were once supporters of the group, say that 21 years ago, Somayeh flew to Iraq to attend a summer camp and to visit her maternal aunt’s grave. She never came back.

The couple have spent the past two decades trying to get their daughter out of the MEK, travelling from their home in Canada to Paris, Jordan, Iraq and now Albania. “We are not against any group or any country,” Mostafa said, sitting outside a meatball restaurant in central Tirana. “We just want to see our daughter outside the camp and without her commanders. She can choose to stay or she can choose to come home with us.” The MEK insists Somayeh does not wish to leave the camp, and has released a letter in which she accuses her father of working for Iranian intelligence.

Mostafa Mohammadi: MEK holds my daughter hostage, assaulted and terrorized me in Tirana

“Somayeh is a shy girl,” her mother said. “They threaten people like her. She wants to leave but she is scared that they will kill her.”

Since its exile from Iran in the early 1980s, the MEK has been committed to the overthrow of the Islamic republic. But it began in the 1960s as an Islamist-Marxist student militia, which played a decisive role in helping to topple the Shah during the 1979 Iranian revolution.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/IMPAKT_Mohammadi_201807_p1.mp4

Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-American, MEK fighters killed scores of the Shah’s police in often suicidal street battles during the 1970s. The group targeted US-owned hotels, airlines and oil companies, and was responsible for the deaths of six Americans in Iran. “Death to America by blood and bonfire on the lips of every Muslim is the cry of the Iranian people,” went one of its most famous songs. “May America be annihilated?”
Such attacks helped pave the way for the return of the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who quickly identified the MEK as a serious threat to his plan to turn Iran into an Islamic republic under the control of the clergy.
Following the revolution, Khomeini used the security services, the courts and the media to choke off the MEK’s political support and then crush it entirely. After it fought back, killing more than 70 senior leaders of the Islamic republic – including the president and Iran’s chief justice – in audacious bomb attacks, Khomeini ordered a violent crackdown on MEK members and sympathizers. The survivors fled the country.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Soap_Box_MEK_201811.mp4

Saddam Hussein, who was fighting a bloody war against Iran with the backing of the UK and the US, saw an opportunity to deploy the exiled MEK fighters against the Islamic republic. In 1986, he offered the group weapons, cash and a vast military base named Camp Ashraf, only 50 miles from the border with Iran.

For almost two decades, under their embittered leader Massoud Rajavi, the MEK staged attacks against civilian and military targets across the border in Iran and helped Saddam suppress his own domestic enemies. But after siding with Saddam – who indiscriminately bombed Iranian cities and routinely used chemical weapons in a war that cost a million lives – the MEK lost nearly all the support it had retained inside Iran. Members were now widely regarded as traitors.

Isolated inside its Iraqi base, under Rajavi’s tightening grip, the MEK became cult-like. A report commissioned by the US government, based on interviews within Camp Ashraf, later concluded that the MEK had “many of the typical characteristics of a cult, such as authoritarian control, confiscation of assets, sexual control (including mandatory divorce and celibacy), emotional isolation, forced labor, sleep deprivation, physical abuse and limited exit options”.

After the US invasion of Iraq, the MEK launched a lavish lobbying campaign to reverse its designation as a terrorist organization – despite reports implicating the group in assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists as recently as 2012. Rajavi has not been seen since 2003 – most analysts assume he is dead – but under the leadership of his wife, Maryam Rajavi, the MEK has won considerable support from sections of the US and European right, eager for allies in the fight against Tehran.

In 2009, the UK delisted the MEK as a terror group. The Obama administration removed the group from the US terror list in 2012, and later helped negotiate its relocation to Albania.

At the annual “Free Iran” conference that the group stages in Paris each summer, dozens of elected US and UK representatives – along with retired politicians and military officials – openly call for the overthrow of the Islamic republic and the installation of Maryam Rajavi as the leader of Iran. At last year’s Paris rally, the Conservative MP David Ames announced that “regime change … is at long last within our grasp”. At the same event, Bolton – who championed war with Iran long before he joined the Trump administration – announced that he expected the MEK to be in power in Tehran before 2019. “The behavior and the objectives of the regime are not going to change and, therefore, the only solution is to change the regime itself,” he declared.

The main attraction at this year’s Paris conference was another longtime MEK supporter, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, now Donald Trump’s lawyer. “The mullahs must go. The ayatollah must go,” he told the crowd. “And they must be replaced by a democratic government which Madam Rajavi represents.” Giuliani also praised the work of MEK “resistance units” inside Iran, that he credited with stoking a recent wave of protests over the struggling economy. “These protests are not happening by accident,” he said. “They’re being coordinated by many of our people in Albania.” (Giuliani, Bolton and the late John McCain are among the US politicians who have travelled to Albania to show support for the MEK.)

Meanwhile, back in Albania, the MEK is struggling to hold on to its own members, who have begun to defect. The group is also facing increased scrutiny from local media and opposition parties, who question the terms of the deal that brought the MEK fighters to Tirana.

It would be hard to find a serious observer who believes the MEK has the capacity or support within Iran to overthrow the Islamic republic. But the US and UK politicians loudly supporting a tiny revolutionary group stranded in Albania are playing a simpler game: backing the MEK is the easiest way to irritate Tehran. And the MEK, in turn, is only one small part of a wider Trump administration strategy for the Middle East, which aims to isolate and economically strangle Iran.

May 12, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

My brother is kept hostage in your country by the MEK

Mr. Edi Rama, Honorable Prime Minister of Albania
Hello: I would like to inform you that my brother Ali Sadeghi is currently kept hostage in your country, under the control and brainwashing of Maryam Rajavi, in the Manza village camp.
As a family and as a human being, we have the right to meet our brother.
We ask you to help us in this humanitarian act.
Sincerely,
Ali Sadeghi’s family from Zanjan Province, Iran

Ali Madad Sadeghi Family

May 11, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

I love my country and I consider MEK a national security threat, says Albanian journalist

“I have chosen to do my bit for my country regarding the MEK threat to Albania and Albanians,” said Gjergji, who lives in Durres county near the MEK camp. “I am proud of myself as what I continue to do is not simply journalism. It is patriotism, too!”

The following is the transcript of the interview:

Mr. Gjergji Thanasi, Albanian author and human rights activist

Balkans Post: What is going on with the MEK since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus?

Gjergji Thanasi: Well, it is difficult to offer a precise answer. The cult is very opaque. It is not that easy to get information (from the point of view of journalism, not espionage) of what is going in the Camp Ashraf 3. Before the outbreak some of the rank and file inmates were allowed to go to Tirana (capital city some 20-25 Km. away from the camp) to do some shopping, to pay respects to the graves of dead MEK members, to see a doctor etc. They traveled in groups consisting of minimum 3 persons. The commanders were allowed to visit Tirana and other towns more freely. The rank and file inmates used to go to Tirana using public transport, while the commanders used private cars (an old green painted SUV, a white painted SUV etc.). The commanders used a couple of motorbikes to travel to the center of the small town of Manez or to reach the nearby highway linking Tirana to Durres (the main port of Albania). Up to the end of 2017 the rank and file inmates every couple of months were allowed to have a half day pleasure trip by bus (50-55 seats buses) to different Albanian towns like Durres, Berat (An UNESCO protected town), to Kruja (the medieval capital of Albania) etc. The rank and file inmates were allowed to have an ice cream, to drink tea at local cafes, to buy things at local shops during such pleasure trips.

After the outbreak no rank and file members are allowed to go to Tirana, but for medical emergencies. The commanders continue to visit Tirana including the luxurious Tirana Hotel at Scanderbeg Square.

One can get info about the group only by observation from outside the camp, by tracing the Albanian owners of the registration numbers of different vehicles entering the camp or by asking questions to Albanians hired to work in the camp. The number of Albanians hired to do odd jobs in the camp is significantly reduced. Generally, they are not talkative at all. They are extremely reluctant to speak of their experience about their work in the camp. To pick up a conversation with them one should offer a beer, a cup of tea or coffee to them, proceeding cautiously with questions regarding their work within the camp. They offer very short answers to you questions always adding set phrases like: the Iranians of the camp are nice people. They are very good persons. They pay us well (1,000 leks per day some 8,3 Euros). During the outbreak the population of the camp receives food supplies regularly. Trash produced by the camp inmates is carried away by trash trucks as always. They held a rather lowkey celebration – what we call in Albania Sulltan Novruzin (Sultan Novrus Day), compared to the previous year.

Of course, any celebration, any religious activity (the Easter Catholic and Easter Orthodox, the Month of Ramadan) are still officially forbidden in Albania, but the rules, regulations and Albanian law cease to exert power at the front gate of the camp. The degree of the extraterritoriality the camp enjoys vis-a-vis Albanian law comes close to that of the Camp in Guantanamo Bay vis-a-vis Cuban law.

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BP: How is Albanian government dealing with the MEK in the age of coronavirus?

Gjergji Thanasi: Not dealing at all. The Albanian government, or I have better say our police, ordered by premier Rama seizes bikes and cars, issues heavy tickets to individuals who violate the lockdown rules and regulations (some of them highly illegal ones), but what is worth for the Albanians is not for the Iranians of Ashraf 3 Camp. The Health Ministry or its directorates in DUrres has nothing to do with the camp. I defy the Health Ministry to make public even one document issued by the ministry or its local directorates regarding Camp Ashraf 3 during outbreak. This camp with its over 2,000 inmates simply does not exist for our Health Ministry. I defy the ministry to produce a scrap of paper to prove that Albanian doctors has inspected the camp even one time!

The Municipality of Durres disinfected every school, health institution, kindergarten, military, police or intelligence facility in Durres including post offices, Port of Durres and its passenger terminal, etc. The personnel of the Municipality of Durres offered to disinfect Ashrtaf 3 Camp as required by the recent ordinance of Rama government. They were thanked by MEK representatives and in a very polite manner their offer was turned down. Below you can see photos of disinfection campaign in the Administrative Unit of Manez. Ashraf 3 Camp is in the area of Administrative Unit of Manez, yet no disinfecting work is done by Durres Municipality in the camp (as required by the Albanian law). In short, the Health Ministry or Durres Municipality have no say in implementing anti-outbreak measures in Ashraf 3 Camp. The camp is simply off limits to these central or local Albanian authorities.

BP: You’ve said “the MEK have their own doctors, nurses, and dentists. When they have seriously ill patients, they hire private ambulances to transport them to a public hospital in Tirana.” Could you tell us more details of the cultish group’s inside?

Gjergji Thanasi: It is very difficult to offer more details. They are experiencing difficulties in paying for the supply of utilities. Sometimes they are in arrears for a couple of months in paying the public companies supplying them with water (also sewage treatment) or electricity. In late August they complained to Valbona Sako (mayor of Durres at that time) of the high price of electric energy they are supplied with. Generally, they buy wholesale fuel for their vehicles, preferring to pay in cash, though technically this is against the Albanian money laundering law.

Lately, they have tightened the control over the rank and file members. For instance, they allowed a friend (she was a MEK member, too) of a deceased MEK member, a woman, buried in the local Manez graveyard to visit and pay respect to her friend’s grave only for a few minutes accompanied by two other MEK members (females). The graveyard of the small town of Manez is less than 300 meters away from the front gate of Ashraf 3 Camp!!!! At the beginning of the outbreak we were experiencing a shortage of face masks, alcohol and other disinfectants in Albania. Nobody knows whether Ashraf 3 Camp command bought or they produced in the camp thousands and thousands of masks, or they simply issued a very limited number of masks to a selected few MEK personnel, thus violating the ordinance (premier’s decree for the mandatory use of the masks in case of public gatherings, in shops, Chemists’, factories producing foodstuff, police or medical personnel, etc.). Nobody knows whether they have ever disinfected the buildings, the paths and the squares in their camp or not. Nobody knows (and the Albanian authorities never bother to get informed) what is the source of the money flow which covers the payment for food, utilities, internet, fuel, Albanian private armed guards of Ashraf 3 Camp. Nobody knows what kind of passes (which authority issued such passes) MEK commanders use to travel outside the camp even during the curfew hours. Whenever the commanders travel from their camp to Tirana, the army and police manning the roadblocks in at least two points on the highway check their passes and allow them to travel even during the curfew hours, when most of the Albanians are strictly prohibited even to get out of their homes.

BP: You have been recently attacked by the MEK, which described you as an “Iranian agent”. What’s your response?

Gjergji Thanasi: By Spring 2018, I was labelled as a stooge of the Mullah’s regime by MEK media. In Autumn 2018, I was upgraded to an Iranian spy. In April 2019, according to MEK media I was: Gjergji Thanasi is involved in espionage and dirty activities against PMOI members in Albania (Link: https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/the-letter-of-pmoi-s-legal-advisor-to-editor-of-chief-of-norwegian-dn/).

At the beginning of June, Behzad Saffari, a MEk commander, wrote a letter to the Editor in Chief of Norwegian newspaper DB, accusing me of being an infamous spy of the Mullahs’ regime and an affiliate of the Iranian Embassy in Tirana. Later a letter was sent to the minister of justice of the Kingdom of Norway, accusing me of being an infamous Iranian spy (quoting Behzad Safari’s letter). By late August 2019, I sued Behzad Safari for libel (Iranian spy story) at Durres local court. Up to COVID-19 lockdown, we had 9 hearings, the longest only 5 minutes long. The first judge resigned from my case and from serving as a judge to follow a career in the private sector as legal adviser.

In February 2020, the MEK not only accused me of being an Iranian spy, but also demanded from the Albanian authorities to prosecute me (The NCRI’s Committee on Security and Counterterrorism again underscores Thanasi’s involvement in espionage and terrorist offenses and calls for his prosecution and punishment by competent Albanian courts.) The link: https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/ncri-statements/notorious-agent-of-mois-tehran-embassy-in-albania-in-hotel-evin-in-iran/

It is very insulting to my personal pride of an Albanian patriot to have Albanian government take orders from a bunch of people, who came to Albania seeking shelter as persons in need of protection. Now these stateless (apolide and apatride) persons order about the justice organs of my country as if they are an occupation force dealing with justice system of an occupied country.

I have sued the MEK (commander Behzad Saffari in person). I continue to investigate the MEK and its activities in Albania. I continue to collaborate with foreign journalists working with them in the capacity of fixer and translator/interpreter when their journalists and cameramen come to Albania. I continue to write about the MEK and the quisling segments in the ranks of the Albanian government as well as the Albanian opposition. I love my country and I consider the MEK a security threat to my country. I have chosen to do my bit for my country regarding the MEK threat to Albania and Albanians. I am proud of myself as what I continue to do is not simply journalism. It is patriotism, too!

balkanspost.com

May 10, 2020 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization

MEK reacts to the families’ petition

The petition addressed to Albanian PM Edi Rama has gathered over ten thousand signatures.
In response, MEK have put all their Farsi efforts into swearing at Ebrahim Khodabandeh and the families.
In response, some commentators have pointed out that MEK are becoming so wobbly that they are ‘vaccinating’ the members by making them write against their own families.
In their writings the MEK claim those who began the petition are not really families of MEK members, they are agents of the Iranian regime, and their intention in coming to the camp is “to attack us with missiles”!
Some people have commented, ‘Perhaps Albania can check at the airport that they have not brought missiles! Anyway, if anyone doesn’t believe they are related, they can do DNA tests!’

Iran interlink Weekly Digest

Ebrahim Khodabande- Nejat Society ceo
Open letter of the CEO of Nejat Society to the Prime Minister of Albania
More than 800 signatures after a week of families’ petition

Mr. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania

I am writing on behalf of hundreds of suffering families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, Rajavi cult) who have settled in your country. I would like to remind you that the families’ letters to the President’s Office have remained completely unanswered so far.

Ebrahim Khodabande- Nejat Society ceo

You are aware that the members of this organization are billeted in a camp in Manëz in Durrës County, western Albania. The camp is completely controlled by the organization’s leader – Albanian officials have no authority over it. The MEK organization is run as a destructive mind control cult which prevents its members from communicating with the outside world, especially with friends and relatives.

One week ago, a petition was created for the families, addressing the Albanian government, and by the time I write this letter to you, more than 800 of them have signed it. Link below:
http://chng.it/GCPbBfFPGr

The text of the petition, which calls on the Albanian government to provide conditions for families to communicate with their loved ones in the MEK camp in Albania, as well as the list of more than 800 signatories to the petition are attached.

Please answer why the Albanian authorities, in cooperation with the Rajavi cult, are preventing families from communicating with their loved ones? Why has the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered all its embassies not to issue visas to Iranians so that families would not be able to travel to your country?

The level of cooperation of the Albanian government – which aspires to join the European Union – with a terrorist cult, is shocking.

I look forward to hearing from you and, of course, I am sending this open letter to international, European and Albanian authorities, as well as to the human rights bodies and the media.

Many thanks, in anticipation, for your kind reply to this letter.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh
Nejat Society – CEO

May 10, 2020 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 271

++ The petition addressed to Albanian PM Edi Rama has gathered over ten thousand signatures. In response, MEK have put all their Farsi efforts into swearing at Ebrahim Khodabandeh and the families. In response, some commentators have pointed out that MEK are becoming so wobbly that they are ‘vaccinating’ the members by making them write against their own families. In their writings the MEK claim those who began the petition are not really families of MEK members, they are agents of the Iranian regime, and their intention in coming to the camp is “to attack us with missiles”. Some people have commented, ‘Perhaps Albania can check at the airport that they have not brought missiles! Anyway, if anyone doesn’t believe they are related, they can do DNA tests!’

++ On the subject of this petition, Mansour Nazari in Paris wrote a short piece in Iran-Interlink, pointing out that: “It is interesting for me there are some ex members or ex supporters that when it comes to supporting the families, they distinguish between those who live in Iran and those who don’t, as though those who live in Iran don’t have the same human rights as others. They talk about their own families and criticise MEK, but when it comes to those families living in Iran they shut up. If you ask them, they justify it by saying they have a red line between them and the Iranian government.” Nazari expands, saying: “Whether you do this deliberately or not you are saying in effect that Rajavi is right. Rajavi says they are agents of the regime and you are saying the same thing. You are politicizing the plight of the families. This is what Rajavi wants to do. Therefore, I suggest you go away and think about this. If you really believe Rajavi is right, then go back to them. If you think Rajavi is not right, then why are you sacrificing the human rights of the families because of your views of the government of Iran?”

In English:

++ Most of the articles and commentary about the MEK in English concerns the tragic situation of the members in Albania. The petition raised by families of these enslaved individuals has collected over ten thousand signatures. Prime Minister Edi Rama is yet to respond. An article by Massoud Khodabandeh titled ‘MEK cult in Albania poses public health risk’ published by Responsible Statecraft gives context to the families concerns. With the MEK unaccountable and unchecked in Albania according to investigative journalist Gjergji Thanasi, nobody knows whether the cult members are protected from coronavirus, or infected. Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi interviewed Anne Khodabandeh to discuss the issue. Any way it is looked at, there are so many questions that haven’t been answered by MEK or by Rama.

May 08, 2020

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Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

US supported MEK terrorists kidnapped Iranians as slave workers

Request for the Release of Workers from Captivity of Terrorism
…from the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT), Iran

[ Editor’s Note: This ADVT submitted piece slipped by me with all the virus news we were buried under.

We support ADVT because they aren’t quitters. They know the US and Western media will usually ignore them, so as not to piss off their respective Intel agencies, but the ADVT people soldier on anyway, just like we would.

Sure these unfortunate Iranians were grabbed back in Saddam’s day when he was the US’ good buddy, but nothing has really been done for them up to now. ADVT is needling the UN, but the UN is weaker now than it has ever been, with the US ignoring any agreement it has ever signed at the cue of our political gangster class (which BTW does not include all of them).

With the world turning upside down with the Covid scourge, and inside out with the impending global recession descending upon us, it will be even tougher to save the last MEK slaves in Albania.
It has already sold its soul on this sad event and does not dare piss the US off now and risk whatever gravy train it is getting to not interfere in MEK business … Jim W. Dean ]

The Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT) has called on the international community, International Labor Organization, and international organizations to help end decades of captivity of workers in the terrorist organization of the Hypocrites (Mojahedine-e Khalq – (MEK)).

For many years, the phenomenon of terrorism has gone beyond war, violence and killing people. Under the pretext of providing jobs and better lives in other countries, it deceives job seekers and enslaves them, which are other manifestations of modern slavery.

One of these violations of workers’ rights occurred during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, when Mojahedine-e Khalq terrorist group deceived job seekers by promising them to find new jobs, education and a better life in Europe. They told the workers that the office of the company is in Baghdad and transferred them to Iraq.

Then, the workers were captive in the organizational jail of the terrorist group and their identification documents were confiscated. So, the terrorist cult prevented them from leaving the camp and the captivity and slavery continued.

Bad social conditions and critical situations will lead to terrorist groups’ extreme abuse to recruit people. For example, in the current critical situation which has led to economic recession and unemployment of many workers, this process will increase.

UN Secretary-General said on Monday “extremist groups are taking advantage of COVID-19 lockdowns to intensify social media efforts to spread hatred and recruit young people who are spending more time online.”
Before the pandemic of COVID-19 he had said “One of every five young people was not getting an education, training or working, and one of every four was affected by violence or conflict. And he lamented that every year, 12 million girls become mothers when they are still children.”

Human rights organizations and international worker rights advocacy organizations have made great efforts to defend the rights of workers, but the issue of the damage of terrorism to the working class, especially deceiving them under the pretext of job placement, is still being overlooked.

Accordingly, International Labor Day will be an important opportunity for the relevant institutions to address this fundamental problem of the working class and other similar issues all over the world.

Commemorating International Labor Day and extending its sympathy to the families of those affected by terrorism, the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism calls on international, regional and national organizations and bodies to take the following measures to end the long captivity of the Iranian workers in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (the Hypocrites) terrorist organization in Albania and other similar cases in other parts of the world and prevent the recurrence of such deceptions.

ADVT calls on,
The International Labor Organization, in cooperation with other relevant bodies, especially the United Nations, to have a specific plan to release the captive workers in the terrorist cult of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (the Hypocrites) in Albania.
The International Labor Organization to take precautionary measures to prevent the recurrence of such frauds under the pretext of job replacement.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, to send a delegation to Albania to visit and ensure the health of the captive workers in the Mujahedin-e Khalq (the Hypocrites) terrorist cult in the critical situation of COVID-19 pandemic.

By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor – Veterans Today

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