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ASILA protest outside the Albanian immigration and border police

Members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) held a demonstration outside the Albanian immigration and border Police in Tirana. The gathering was held on Thursday, December 1st, to protest against the arrest of six members of the association. The Iranian and Albanian members of Asila voiced their protest against the unreasoned detention of these people, expressing solidarity with them.

Hassan Heyrani, Mehdi Soleimani, Ali Hajari, Hassan Shahbaz, Ehsan Bidi and Gholamreza Shekari, defectors of the Mujahedin-e Khalq and members of ASILA have been kept in isolation in a camp in Kareç, the detention center of Albanian foreign nationals, without any reason to be mentioned by the Albanian immigration Police.

In this gathering that lasted for an hour, the director of Asila, Dr. Dashamir Mersuli called for the release of the association’s arrested members and also asked the Albanian Immigration Police to at least state the reason for imprisoning these people. “These Iranians have their own families here and some of them are going to have babies,” he said. “We are determined to pursue the reasons of such a decision asking for their release.”

The protesters, including the wives of four of the detained members, carried placards with photos of their husbands on, complaining about the unlawful detention of these former members of the MEK.

Lirije Abazi, the wife of Gholamreza Shekari, married a few months ago, said, “Regardless that we are married to Iranian men, we are Albanians who ask the Albanian immigration and border police to respond our appeal.”
Other members of the Asila Association, including Hamid Atabai, a recently escapee from the MEK’s camp located in Manez, in north of Tirana, asked for the release of their colleagues and friends in ASILA. “Our friends are not problem makers,” Atabay said. “They just work hard to provide their families.”

Rahman Mohammadian, who has lately published the book, “From Prison to Prison”, his memoirs of involvement in the MEK in Albanian language, called for liberation of his friends. He wants a reason for the arrest of his friends asking the Albanian authorities, “Isn’t it a hoax played by the MEK?” he asked. “That is why you have not given us any reason for their isolation.”

“We are here to express solidarity with our friends whose detention is unjust and unreasonable,” said Khalil Ansarian, MEK defector and a member of ASILA.

December 3, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK, a case study on mind manipulation at Salford Uni – Part one

As a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq and a researcher on destructive cults, Massoud Banisadr, PhD, presented his study on “Mathematical Model of Mind Manipulation”, in a one-day seminar as a guest speaker at University of Salford, Manchester. On November 3rd , 2022. Dr. Banisadr was hosted by Dr Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, a counselling and clinical psychologist and a senior lecturer in Psychology of the School of Health and Society at Salford university.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Meetng/Banisadr-MEK-202211-1.mp4

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Dr. Banisadr has been a regular contributor to the program since 2009. He earned a PhD in chemical engineering and engineering mathematics at Newcastle University in 1981. Dr. Banisadr joined the MEK in 1979 and served as its representative in Britain from 1990-96. He left the MEK in June 1996. He wrote a memoir of his experiences entitled, “Masoud: Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel”, published by SAQI Books, London in 2004. In 2014, he also published a book called “Destructive and Terrorist Cults: A New Kind of Slavery”. He has been active in exploring and explaining cult manipulation and has written many articles in Persian about cults.

His recent presentation was based on the model that he has created to explain mind manipulation and undue influence, excessive persuasion that causes another person to act or refrain from acting by overcoming that person’s free will. In order to explain his model, he uses his own experience as a defector of the MEK, also known as the Cult of Rajavi.

In the first part of the seminar, Dr. Banisadr presents an general description of a human mind and the way it is gone under undue influence. Using several examples of his own account of being involved in the MEK, he helps us understand how our mind works, what are the weak points of mind and how it can be manipulated. Based on his studies, our vulnerabilities are the open gates in our minds toward which we can be recruited by destructive cults. He presents a list of these open gates and a series of needs that give mind manipulators necessary apparatuses to manipulate us.

According to Dr. Banisadr, mind manipulators do not want us to use our conscious mind, which he calls system 2. They just use our conscious mind, in the first stages of recruitment, to create new beliefs for us. They use our will power, make it stronger and then through the next stages of mind manipulation, when we become zealot supporters of the cult, the driver of our will power is not system 2 anymore, but our unconscious mind, system 1 has been substituted.

The former member of Mujahedin-e Khalq suggests that the manipulators – cult leaders—have to change their victims’ beliefs to change their personality. They affect old beliefs by freezing time. What he considers as alteration of character takes place through creating new emotions and beliefs and by prolonging the process.
As said by his own experience in the MEK, he was influenced to admit that he had new responsibilities. According to MEK manipulators Massoud’s new responsibilities were more important than his family, his children and other personal affairs of his life. “This way, they neutralize your conscious mind and manipulate your unconscious mind,” he asserts.

Having gone through such a system, an MEK member would go up to fight for the organization and to be killed for its cause. The big image of the group’s upcoming victory was one of the tools that MEK commanders use to convince embers to do anything the leaders ask them to do.

November 30, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Open letter by families of MEK hostages to Albanian authorities

Families of members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq signed an open letter to the Albanian government of the event to launch the new documentary produced by Nejat Society. On the sidelines of the opening ceremony of “From Tirana to Tehran” the families whose loved ones are taken as hostages by the MEK in Albania and former members of the group signed the letter calling on the Albanian authorities to aid them release their beloveds from the group.

Recounting some of the human rights violations committed by the MEK leaders against their own members, the signatories of the letter declared their concerns over the situation of their loved ones isolated in the MEK’s camp called Ashraf 3 in Manez, a village in north of the Albanian capital, Tirana.

Open letter by families of MEK hostages to Albanian authorities

The families who have been looking forward to contact their loved ones in the MEK for many years now, ask the Albanian government to prevent the MEK leaders from violating the most basic rights of their members including their right to contact their families freely, to marry, to express their opinion and to live a normal life.
Expressing their support for Nejat Society, of which the mission is to aid save the MEK members, the signatories of the letter condemn the MEK’s attitude to violate the rights of its own members. “By signing this petition, we expect the Albanian government and the international human rights bodies to pursue the case of our loved ones and to be responsive to our demands,” they write.

They mention the misinformation launched by the MEK’s propaganda against families. However, they emphasize that the emotional bond with their loved ones is unbreakable. They state, “We are still longing for liberation of and visiting our loved ones despite the MEK’s poisonous propaganda, insults and accusations against us.”
Families of the hostages in Camp Ashraf 3 underlined their determination to keep on their efforts to break through the mental and physical bars that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have built around their loved ones. In order to achieve this goal, they highlighted the necessity of being accompanied by enlightened and open-minded and unbiased persons, organizations and media.

The letter notifies the case of at least 200 residents of Camp Ashraf 3 who have declared their defection from the group but they have not been allowed to leave the camp. Instead, they have been quarantined by the group commanders. “We have serious concerns on the mental and physical conditions of these people and we warn about the outcomes of the MEK’s maltreatments against them asking for their immediate release,” it put.
According to the families who signed the letter, regarding the recent incidents in Iran, the MEK has gotten more isolated among the Iranian public opinion than it was before and this indicates that the group can not be considered as an alternative to the current government in Iran. Therefore, the group should not be granted the opportunity to abuse the most basic rights of its members anymore.

Reviewing the MEK’s atrocities and acts of terror in Iran and its treasonous siding with Saddam Hussein during Iran-Iraq war, the signatories warn the Albanian authorities about the MEK’s claims for properties as it claimed for possession of its headquarters in Iraqi territory. “In our opinion, the history is repeating itself,” they state. “We are witnessing MEK’s building another headquarters imposing pressure on the host country. What we deeply perceive is the victimization of the Albanians’ national security and interests by the MEK’s evil policies.”

The letter was signed by the families of MEK hostages and former members of the group who had attended the event for the first public presentation of the documentary “From Tirana to Tehran” held by Nejat Society. It was also supported by those families of MEK victims who could not manage to take part in the event. Their messages of support are published on Nejat Society website.

November 29, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

From Tirana to Tehran

“From Tirana to Tehran” is a documentary based on the stories told by families of members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). The documentary depicts the grieves and suffering of families of those who are taken as hostages by the MEK leaders in Camp Ashraf 3, in Albania. The accounts of these families are narrated through a trip from Tirana to Tehran. The travelers are three Albanian members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA).

Gjergji Thanasi, Dashamir Mersuli and Vladimir Veisi are the Albanian members of ASILA who were invited by Nejat Society to visit Iran on the last days of Spring, 2022.

https://dla.nejatngo.org/Media/Nejat/Tehran/Nejat-Tehran-Tirana.mp4

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They arrived in Tehran on June 9th and began a journey of listening to parents and siblings who open up, reassuring them to aid them in order to end the imprisonment of their loved ones isolated in the Cult of Maryam Rajavi.

During their trip to Iran, they visited a few cities including Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad where they had meetings with heart-broken families of members of the MEK who have been looking forward to contact their loved ones barred physically and mentally in the group.

From Tehran to Tirana portrays the efforts of Nejat Society and ASILA along with anguishing families of MEK members to aid the hostages’ release from Ashraf 3.

November 26, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Mother of an MEK hostage to slam Maryam Rajavi

“Mother Saadat” addressed the audience in the premier for Nejat Society’s new documentary, “From Tirana to Tehran”. Hamael Ghanizadeh called Mother Saadat is the mother of three members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who has not visited her children for over three decades.

Hamael Ghanizadeh aka Mother Saadat , a suffering mother whose children are at the MEK camp in Albania

Mother Saadat mourns in the absence of Mehri, Mahmoud and Nahid Saadat who left home to join the MEK in Iraq during the 1980s. This heart-broken mother used to be a sympathizer of the MEK but now she hates the MEK because she has come to know that her loved ones in Camp Ashraf 3 near Tirana, Albania, are kept there in ignorance from what is going on in the outside world.
During the movie premier, once she was up on the stage to take photos, Mother Saadat told the audience:

“I have not seen my children for 35 years. I raised them with difficulties and now I miss them a lot. They do not write letters and they do not call me. I am addressing Maryam Rajavi. Do you believe in another Islam? Are you allowed to get married with two husbands but our children are deprived from marrying and visiting their parents? I am an old heart-broken mother. I might pass away and never see my children.”

November 23, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Soraya Abdollahi: Our beloveds are barred by the monstrous cult of Rajavi

Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh, was a key speaker at the premier of the new documentary produced by Nejat Society. Last week, the first public presentation of “From Tirana to Tehran” was held by Nejat Society. The movie is a documentary based on the grieves of families of those held as hostages in the camp of the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Tirana, Albania. Soraya has been an active member of Nejat Society for the long years of separation from her son.

Soraya Abdollahi, who have been looking forward to contacting his son, hijacked by the MEK, addressed the audience: “Our beloved children are in captivity of the destructive cult of Rajavi and the monstrous Mujahedin. We, mothers, picketed in Iraq for 4 years only to hug our beloved children but they did not allow us.”
Expressing pleasure for those who have managed to escape the group in recent years she said: “My son has been taken as a hostage in the MEK for 20 years. I and other families have written a large number of letters to human rights organizations but there has been no response. However, we are still standing firmly calling for the release of our loved ones.”

Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh

Soraya Abdollahi has formed a foundation called “Mothers Organization”, members of which are mothers of those who are taken as hostages in the MEK’s headquarters in Albania. “Via our organization we have sent several letters to the International bodies asking for aid,” Abdollahi said.

The mother of Amir Aslan spoke of an intense and prolonged grief that cannot be spoken: the fact that a large number of mothers of MEK hostages are too old to wait for the release of their beloved children. “So many mothers passed away such as the mother of Hamid Atabay whose son has just left the group after 35 years but she is no more in this world to see her son,” she stated. “How do human rights bodies neglect such grieves?”
Amir Aslan Hasanzadeh is a member the MEK recruited by the group in 2002 (1381) when he was 21 years old. Now he is 42 years old. He is not married because as well as all members of the MEK, he has been kept in isolation as a jihadist by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. His mother Sorayah has made efforts to meet him but the MEK leaders have so far manipulated the international community and the Albanian government preventing her and hundreds of other Iranian mothers from contacting their children.

November 23, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

The MEK is NOT the voice of Iranian Nation

A petition was created on Change.org against an article on the National Post that promotes the Mujahedin-e Khalq as the alternative of the Iranian government.

On November 1st, the National Post published an article, titled “Tony Clement: Iran’s Pro-Democracy Resistance Deserves the West’s Support” in which the former Canadian federal politician and former member of Parliament claims to have issued a statement along with eighteen other former government ministers from Canada and the European Union urging Western Powers to recognize the MEK as a legitimate alternative to the current government in Tehran. The so-called statement calls for Maryam Rajavi to install a provisional government as a transitional president.

National post article on Toney Clement comments

he petition considers the MEK “a deeply problematic group” that never presents the aspirations of the Iranian nation. It offers a brief history of the group atrocities and treasons:

So, what is the MEK?

MEK is a political-militant organization, described by critics as a ‘totalitarian cult’, currently led by Maryam Rajavi whose primary mission is to overthrow the I.R.I. According to an estimate by the United States Department of Defense in 2011, the guerrilla group has between 5,000-13,000 members, the majority of whom live in Europe and the US – with currently no support or relevancy in Iran.

MEK was designated as a terrorist organization by the US in 1997. The group has taken responsibility for many acts of terrorism over its inception in 1960s, including:
• Involvement in the killing of 6 US citizens in Iran in the 1970s
• Staged attacks against civilian and military targets across the border in Iran for over two decades
• Involvement in Sadam Hussein’s genocide against the kurds in 1991
• Attacking Iranian embassies in 13 countries including Canada and the US in 1992
• Assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists in 2012

After years of intense lobbying, MEK managed to reverse its designation as a terrorist organization across the western world. By rebranding itself as a pro-democratic group that advocates for gender equality, the MEK does little to hide its ties to the ultraconservative and autocratic government of Saudi Arabia. As Britain removed the group of its terror list in 2008, the European Union followed suit in 2009, followed by Canada and the United States in 2012 – allowing for MEK to lobby freely.

We urge the leaders of Canadian political parties to practice their solidarity and advocacy by listening to the demands of Iranian people; to condemn Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) and all of its fronts and campaigns; and to recognize that MEK is NOT the voice of Iranian people.

November 22, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

New documentary reveals truth about MKO

The trailer released on Thursday for the documentary movie “From Tirana to Tehran ” is so powerful in its message about the MKO and its practices that it leaves no room for doubting why every defector that has managed to flee, insists on calling it a cult where members are required to demonstrate complete devotion to its leader.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/PressTV-Tirana-Tehran-20221117.mp4

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The movie is inspired by a book of the same name written by a defector who managed to escape the camp two decades ago and who has dedicated his life to raising public awareness about the truth about this cult.

The movie also highlights the new methods of recruitment through social media platforms by the MKO’s so-called “keyboard warriors”—a group of about 300 MKO members who run fake social media accounts.

This is not the first time the MKO is using social media to advance its agenda… previous reports by other TV channels had also revealed their strategy.

The Mojahedin Khalgh Organization or the MKO is a known terrorist organization. It has killed more than 17,000 Iranians over the past 43 years and now it is actively involved in the riots in Iran instigating the younger generation through social media to carry out acts of vandalism. The best way to counter this terrorist organization is to raise public awareness and this is the main focus of the movie.

Gisoo Misha Ahamdi

November 20, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Timing to broadcast documentary: “from Tirana to Tehran”

The documentary “from Tirana to Tehran” will be broadcast by Press TV, on Tuesday.

The newly released documentary, “from Tirana to Tehran”, produced by Nejat Society, depicts the grieves of families of members of People’s Mujahedin Organization (PMOI, MEK, MKO) during the log years of separation from their beloved ones in the group’s camp.

documentary: “from Tirana to Iran”

The documentary will be broadcast by Press TV channel at 19:02 (15:32 GMT), on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022, for its first public presentation.

The premier of the movie was held by Nejat Society, on Thursday. A large number of families of the MEK members who have been taken as hostages by the group and its former members attended the event.

Addressing the audience, Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society emphasized on the necessity of being alert about the true nature of the MEK as a terrorist anti-human entity.

November 19, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Movie Premier for the documentary “From Tirana to Tehran”

The first public presentation of the documentary, “From Tirana to Tehran”, was held on Thursday, November 15th.
From Tehran to Tirana presents an account on the grieves of families of those held as hostages in the camp of the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Tirana, Albania. The movie premier was held by Nejat Society in cultural center of Water and Sewage Organization of Tehran where a number of defectors of the MEK and families of current members of the group gathered together. The event was covered by several journalists from news media.

The documentary has been produced by Press TV in order to enlighten public opinion about double standards of the West regarding human rights and to bring the voice of the suffering families to the world.

Ebrahim Khodabandeh; the CEO of Nejat Society

The opening speech was delivered by the CEO of Nejat Society, Ebrahim Khodabandeh. “From Tirana to Tehran depicts the stories of defectors of the MEK,” he stated. “I believe that today it is vital to know about the group which has an active role in the chaos of protests. Members of the group target the Iranians’ Psychological security by the fake news they launch with their fake accounts.”

Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh

A heart-broken mother

Soraya Abdollahi, the mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh who have been looking forward to contacting his son, hijacked by the MEK addressed the audience: “Our beloved children are in captivity of the destructive cult of Rajavi and the monstrous Mujahedin. We, mothers, picketed in Iraq for 4 years only to hug our beloved children but they did not allow us.”
Expressing pleasure for those who have managed to escape the group in recent years she said: “My son has been taken as a hostage in the MEK for 20 years. I and other families have written a large number of letters to human rights organizations but there has been no response. However, we are still standing firmly calling for the release of our loved ones.”

Fatemeh Hosseini, the mother of Hassan Heirani, director of ASILA

A mother waiting for traveling to Albania

Fatemeh Hosseini, the mother of Hassan Heirani, director of the Association for the Support of Iranian Living in Albania (ASILA), spoke of her son: “My son was in the prison of the MEK for 15 years. Now that he has defected the group, he has been labeled by the group as terrorist! We requested the Albanian government for visa but they did not grant us. MyY son has founded ASILA in Tirana to help release other members of the group but the group makes efforts to disrupt their activities.”

A sister crying with one eye and laughing with the other

Narges Beheshti who had two brothers imprisoned in the MEK also addressed the meeting: “My two brothers were recruited by the MEK in 2001. My older brother was killed in the MEK in 2011 and my other brother Milad defected the group two years ago and he is now a member of ASILA.” Narges recalls the days she was picketing in front of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, by the side of other families. Expressing hope for the release of all captives of the MEK she said, “Despite all economical issues, we raise funds to send to Albania to support ASILA.”

A suffering mother to address Maryam Rajavi

Once she was up on the stage to take photos, Mother Saadat whose three children are in the MEK told the audience: “I have not seen my children for 35 years. I raised them with difficulties and now I miss them a lot. They do not write letters and they do not call me. I am addressing Maryam Rajavi. Do you believe in another Islam? Are you allowed to get married with two husbands but our children are deprived from marrying and visiting their parents? I am an old heart-broken mother. I might pass away and never see my children.”

Erisa Rahimi one of the Albanian members of ASILA

ASILA, a light of hope for families

Addressing the event from Albania, Erisa Rahimi one of the Albanian members of ASILA, spoke via a video connection. She is the wife of the MEK defector, Sarfaraz Rahimi. “Rajavi has built a hell here,” she said, “We appreciate your support for ASILA. You are in a difficult situation but I am sure your children will be liberated from this hell someday.”

Bakhsh Ali Alizadeh

Bakhsh Ali Alizadeh a defector of the group also delivered a speech. “I lost 27 years of my life in the MEK,” he said. “I finally could manage to escape the group in Albania and to return home to join my family. It is the MEK evil tactic to call all defectors as traitors. If the MEK members speak of their families, they will be severely punished. 200 members have demanded to leave the group. Instead, they have been faced with punishments and they are being held in isolated units, detached from others. Due to the oppressive atmosphere ruling the group so many people have so far committed suicide.
Hassan Heirani the executive director of Asila spoke to the families via a video connection too. He emphasized that Rajavi is terrified by ASILA. “The Cult of Rajavi makes efforts to impose pressure on us. This is while our association is a legal establishment founded by Iranian defectors of the group and some Albanian citizens. They want to break our resistance.”

families signed a petition to ask the Albanian authorities to aid them release their beloved ones imprisoned in the MEK

An appeal to Albanian government

At the end of the meeting, families signed a petition to ask the Albanian authorities to aid them release their beloved ones imprisoned in the MEK, Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. A part of the petition reads: “We ask the Albanian state to answer the numerous questions asked by the families. We are determined to rescue all captives of the Cult of Rajavi. Voicing our support for the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Tirana, we hope your government that claims for freedom and democracy ends the illegal imprisonment of our loved ones.”
“From Tirana to Tehran” was played for the audience in the hall. It will be first published publicly on Press TV on Tuesday, November 22nd, at 7pm.

November 19, 2022 0 comments

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