World Red Cross Day is observed every year on May 8. A number of parents of members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist group have taken the opportunity to attract attentions to the fact that they have not been able to visit their loved ones for a very long time. They held a sit-in in front of the ICRC office in Tehran demanding the International Committee of the Red Cross to step in.
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Gisoo Misha Ahmadi
Today, on St. George’s Day, the ASILA association distributed brochures to the residents of “May 5” street.
The brochures had such a content that the people who read them understood that many injustices were committed against the 6 Iranians imprisoned in the Kareç camp and are still being committed in the Mujahideen camps.
Injustices such as: closing them due to the interests of the Mujahedin Khalq group, leaving their families, leaving the Albanian territory for Iran where they risk being killed or even leaving them from the bosoms of the families created by them in Europe.
the ASILA association distributed brochures to the residents of “May 5” street.
The brochures were distributed by their own wives and by their Iranian friends.
Many residents of the area who received these brochures confirmed that this was an injustice, and that justice today is politics, some others consoled themselves by wishing the best for these 6 people and that one day soon justice will be served.
But there were also those who did not understand how this so-called democratic group (the mujahedin) did not have any rules that belong to the 21st century.
the ASILA association distributed brochures to the residents of “May 5” street.
Many mothers said that it is impossible for my child to be banned. There is no access to electronic devices in this world of internet and technology. Well, miracles happen in the Mujahedin organization.
Tomorrow, Monday, May 8th, on the occasion of the ICRC Day, considering the responsibility and role and position of this international organization, the families of Nejat Society in Tehran will hold a rally in front of the main headquarters of the ICRC.
The families hope to be able to convey their rightful and legal requests for follow-up to this institution and other international organizations as well as the media and the world public opinion.
The demanding gathering of the families of Nejat Society on the day of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC in Tehran
Simultaneously with this program, which will start at 14:00 Iran time, the former members of the Rajavi terrorist cult, members of ASILA in Albania, will also hold a similar rally in solidarity with the families of Nejat Society in front of the ICRC headquarters in Tirana.
The news of the gathering and the text of the statement and request of the families will be announced as soon as possible after the program is implemented.
Mosayeb Rashidi was taken as a war prisoner in 1980. He was a young newly married soldier of the Iranian army. Iraqi Baath forces trapped him in Iran-Iraq border in the early months of the war. He was in Saddam Hussein’s notorious POW camps for 9 years.
Mosayeb’s wife was pregnant when he was taken as a POW. Their daughter was born a few weeks later and eventually she grew up in the absence of his father. The little girl turned into an adult, got married and had children.
Mosayeb Mazaheri and other POW’s at the Baath Regime prisoners’ camp
She has not seen her father since her birth. In 1989, Mosayeb was recruited –in better words was taken as a hostage– by the agents of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who collaborated with Iraqi officers in POW camps.
Since then, Mosayeb’s family have not been able to contact or visit him. When the group was in Iraq, they traveled to Iraq and picketed across the gates of the MEK camps, asking for permission to visit their beloved Mosayeb but the leaders of the Cult of Rajavi did not allow them to visit him and did not let Mosayeb know that his family had come to visit him.
He is now in the MEK’s camp Ashraf 3 in Albania, and he is still isolated from the outside world, having no access to his family, his daughter and his little grandson.
Former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) speaks of imprisonment of children in the group. He writes about kids who were in custody in the MEK’s prisons because their parents wanted to defect the group.
Samad Nazari was a former member of the MEK who defected the group more than three decades ago. He returned to Iran and then he became one of the founders of Nejat NGO. His auto biography titled “Footprint of the Evil” was focused on the years of his membership and imprisonment in the MEK and defection from the MEK. Nazari passed away in the Fall of 2014.
In 1991, at the time of the first Gulf war, Samad Nazari was jailed in solitary confinement in the MEK’s Debes prison (Askarizadeh camp) near Kirkuk, Iraq. He was punished for his decision to leave the Cult of Rajavi!
Samad Nazari
In two parts of his memoirs of custody inside the MEK, he notifies that women and children were also imprisoned in Debes prison.
He was jailed in his dark and dirty cell in Askarizadeh when the coalition forces bombarded the camp. “I heard the loud noise of 5 bombs that hit the area,” he writes in his book. “A thick suffocating dust entered my cell which was in the basement. I could hear the cries of women and children from the upper floors of the camp. I realized that there were other guests in that prison, those who were willing to leave the group.”
In other part of his horrific memoirs of solitary confinement and torture under Massoud Rajavi’s ruling, Nazari writes:
“In my new cell, there were words written in a child-like handwriting: Mom died, Dad is in jail.” Nazari was curious to know that whose child was in prison. Later, a friend who had been imprisoned in the same cell, told him about the poor child. “The handwriting belonged to the kids of a man called Farhang. He wanted to defect the group in the summer of 1991. Soraya Shahraki, a commander of the group beat Farhang and jailed him. His two kids who were primary students were taqken from school and delivered to him in the cell. Their mother had been killed in the MEK’s cross border operation against Iran, Forough Javidan.”
This was only one of the testimonies of MEK defectors about violation of human rights against children in the MEK. There are numerous cases of children rights abuse in the MEK. The followings are just some of them:
– Nadereh Afshari, former member of the MEK writes in her book of new-borns who had been separated from their parents and had been smuggled to Europe. They were maltreated by a female Mujahed, named Azam who worked in the group’s team house in Coln.
– Mother Esmat, former member testifies about her younger daughter, Jennifer, whose knee was injured because of the military trainings inside the MEK school. Jennifer’s ponytail hair was also cut by the teacher because she had not wear hijab.
– Amin Golmaryami and Amir Yaghmai, former child soldiers testified about sexual harassments they experienced inside the MEK camps.
– Hundreds of child soldiers endured heavy military trainings and even were coerced to launch terrorist operations.
– Many child soldiers were killed in the group’s operations. Maryam Qeitani was only 15 years old when she was killed in Forough Javidan. Having been grown up in the MEK’s bases Asieh Rakhshani was in her twenties when she was killed by Iraqi armed forces because Massoud Rajavi had ordered his unarmed members to clash with Iraqi army.
– Alan Mohammadi and Yaser Akbarinasab were two teenagers who could not stand the dictatorship of the Cult of Rajavi and committed suicide.
To the list, add hundreds of children who were orphaned by the MEK leaders, left in foster families across Europe and North America and were never able to find their parents again.
Nejat Society was established as a non-governmental organization two decades ago. As members of Nejat NGO, families of hostages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) took numerous actions in order to release their loved ones from the cult-like terrorist group of Massoud Rajavi.
Traveling to Iraq for picketing in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf was one of the actions taken by the families. The following video shows mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who are crying the names of their loved ones over the walls of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, during the winter of 2010.
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Some of the hostages whose names are called left the group through the next years, mostly after the group was relocated in Albania. They might have heard the heart-breaking cries of their loved ones through loudspeakers over the gates of Ashraf. The mental bars around their minds might have been broken on those very days.
Since its relocation in Albania, the MEK has been downsized due to the increasing defections but there are still a few thousand people who are mentally and physically barred by the Cult of Rajavi. Now, the group’s new headquarters, Ashraf 3, is far away from the Iranian border. For families, traveling to Albania is a big challenge because the Albanian government does not grant visa to the Iranians. The reason is not rational but understandable.
As wealthy bribe payers, the MEK agents in the Albanian government make efforts to prevent families to come to Albania which is a semi democratic country in the soil of democratic Europe.
As a matter of fact, families of the MEK’s hostages never give up. They take actions, they write letters to human rights bodies; they send public messages to their loved ones in Ashraf 3 because they hope that the mental bars will smash someday and their beloved children will be determined to leave the Maryam Rajavi’s cult.
Amin Asadan was a young guy from North of Iran who was kidnapped by the agents of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ PMOI) . Amin is one of the hundreds young men who were taken as hostages by the MEK recruiters in Turkey.
Amin has not been allowed to contact and visit his family during the 24 years of membership (in better words, imprisonment) in Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. He has been deprived from access to the outside world in both headquarters of the group in Iraq and Albania.
The mother of Amin Asadan
Back in Iran, Amin Asadan’s family took actions in order to visit their beloved son but they did not succeed. “Amin was such a passionate young hardworking man seeking an ethical life,” Amin’s brother, Amir Asadan says. “In the early 2000s, he went to Turkey in order to find a better job. The whole family were happy with his decision, but we did not know that he would be a victim of Rajavi’s mafia. They had deceived him to join the MEK in Iraq under the promise of transferring him to Europe.”
This was the U-turn in Amin’s life. The start of a long-term separation from his family. “He has been taken as a hostage by Rajavi and he has not contacted us for 24 years,” his brother adds.
Amin’s mother sends a message to his beloved son in the hope that he will see it sometime:
Dear Amin. I miss you a lot. I am looking forward to your return. Yor father passed away and let me alone over a decade ago. My only hope is that you get back home before I die.
My beloved Amin. I need to have you more than any time. I insist you to call me, to return home so that I could hug you, kiss you and live by your side.
In the following video Olsi Jazexhi interviews Mr. Hassan Heyrani, an Iranian defector who has defected and denounced the Mojahedin cult since 2017. Mr. Heyrani has exposed to the world the crimes of the MEK cult. His exposure of MEK has turned Mr. Heyrani into the enemy number one of Maryam Rajavi and her Mojahedin command. Since 2021 the Albanian government has openly taken sides with the Mojahedin cult, and Iranian defectors and opposition to Maryam Rajavi like Mr. Heyrani have been persecuted and deported from Albania.
Mr. Heyrani was accused by MEK of being an Iranian agent and the Mojahedin sent counter-terrorism police against him. MEK pays and uses top US officials like Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and other retired US officials to personally attack Mr. Heyrani. MEK wants to silence its democratic opposition in Albania and for this they use even US officials.
The Albanian government which has failed to legally jail Mr. Heyrani and other Iranian defectors, have put them under illegal detention, removed their asylum documents and has forced many of them to leave Albania. Many Iranians who denounce MEK terrorism and human rights abuses have been illegally jailed, separated from their wives, deported from Albania. Their only crime is speaking the truth and explaining to the world the horrible human rights abuses which MEK does with Iranians in Albania.
Hassan Heyrani who was illegally jailed and forced by the Albanian government to leave Albania, is now safe and free. He has taken refuge in Greece.
In this video Olsi and Hassan address Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield and other payed supporters of MEK. They invite Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield and other US officials to a public debate over the notorious crimes of the Mojahedin cult of Maryam Rajavi.
The interests of Iranian citizens in Albania will be protected through an interests section at the Turkish embassy in Tirana.
The decision was made during a telephone conversation on Saturday between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, where they discussed a number of bilateral and regional issues, among others. According to the state news agency IRNA, Amir-Abdollahian also thanked the Turkish government for its support in this regard.
Representation of the interests of a third country due to the termination of diplomatic relations is provided for in the Vienna Convention. In article 45, point 3 of this convention it is stated that in case of interruption of diplomatic relations between two states, or if a mission is called definitively or temporarily “The sending state can entrust the protection of its interests and those of its citizens a third country acceptable to the receiving country”.
On September 7, Albania severed diplomatic relations with Iran. Prime Minister Edi Rama announced that there is irrefutable evidence that Iran financed the cyber attack, as after 24 hours the ambassador and the entire staff of the Iranian embassy left Albania.
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The Mujahedin-e Khalq is by every definition of the term a religious cult. The same as other religious cults, the MEK is committed to perform religious rituals. Rituals would include (but not necessarily be limited to) prayer, fasting, sacrifice, vowed offerings, processions and construction of monuments. Some degree of recurrence in place and repetition over time of ritual action is necessary for a cult to be enacted, to be practiced.
The MEK has all the criteria that other religious cults have. They have a unique group language, they require intense work schedules of members, their leaders will often deliver endless sermons, and they will restrict access to media. Members are directed not to ask questions, and professional help or healthcare and outside information are restricted.
The MEK leaders force members to perform religious rituals
Similar to other religious cults, for the MEK, religion acts as a kind of social “glue”. In times of rapid social change, existing rules, habits and beliefs no longer hold. This produces an environment ripe for exploitation – usually by a charismatic man –who is Massoud Rajavi– with all the answers to members’ problems.
This is the tragedy of cults and in particular the MEK that they exploit freedom of belief, freedom of association and freedom of religion – with often abusive and damaging outcomes. Musa Jaberi, former member of the MEK writes about the religious obligations he endured in the MEK, on his Facebook account. “The leaders of the Cult of Rajavi force you to say prayer”, he writes.
Musa Jaberi, former member of the MEK
Jaberi explains how the group commanders coerced him to perform religious rituals. “I told them saying prayer is an individual issue, but they paid no attention to my words,” he recalls.
The brainwashing sessions were started to convince Jaberi to perform the rituals. “I was forced to attend brainwashing sessions twice a week,” he said. “Not only one commander, but several commanders were supposed to manipulate me, each of them from an aspect.”
Finally, Jaberi began saying prayer but only when commanders could watch him. However, criticism started again. They would say, “We see your changes, and this is good progress but why don’t you say your prayer with your peers?” (Congregational Prayer)
Again, he resisted but he failed. He joined the congregational prayer every night because he did not want to undergo those hectic manipulation sessions once more. “Rajavi’s cult of personality does not care about your personal Individual desires.” Jaberi writes. “They impose their religion which is not a religion. It is a dictatorship.”
