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Nejat Newsletter No. 93

Inside this issue:

– Journalist award “The staying power” for research on the MEK
The award goes to Luisa Hommerich April 30, 2022
Berlin (dpa) – The journalist Luisa Hommerich has been honored with a prize for her research into the
influence of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahideen in Germany.

– Tahereh Golrizan letter to her brother Abbas, in the MEK Camp in Albania
Tahereh Golrizan wrote a letter to his brother Abbas; captive at the MEK camp in Albania on the eve of the Persian new year. Some parts of the letter reads…

– My father is a prisoner of the MEK Cult
Leila was only two years old when her father left Iran. ”My father and I have never heard each other’s
voice”, she says. Leila has no memory of her father. Leila’s father; Rahim Kiukan who as a supporter of the MEK was brainwashed by the instincts of the MEK..

– The worst experience of being an MEK member
“When we were in Ashraf, one day I was on guard post in one of the sides, I noticed my mother and brother who had come to visit me, behind the barbed wires. They were not allowed to enter Ashraf.

– MEK; Virus of Corruption, Terrorism in Albania
It has been more than five and a half years since the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization has relocated to Albania, a small country in southeastern Eu..

– Albania – Citizenship for special merits
If u are a foreign citizen, are actually living in Albania and have a special contribute, you are a great candidate to win the Albanian citizenship. The news was made public on Wednesday by the Interior Minister, Bledi Cuci, who also unveiled that during the meeting of the Government was decided that this will be a good action to attract new talents.

– Khalil Ansarian honors his release from the MEK cult
The MEK former member: after 30 years of captivity, now I am a free man Khalil Ansarian, the MEK former member published a photo on his facebook page honoring the anniversary of his defection..

– Marzieh Babakhani set herself on fire to protest the arrest of Maryam Rajavi
“I do not regret what I did on June 17th 2003”, Marzieh Babakhani said in a conference held by the
Mujahedin Khalq (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/Cult of Rajvai) in Paris in 2014. This was not…

– Alireza Taherloo; burned alive under the order of Massoud Rajavi
On April 8th, 2011, Massoud Rajavi ordered his members to scarify themselves to stop Iraqi
forces from entering Camp Ashraf. Thirty-six members of the MEK were killed and hundreds were injured in the clashes between the MEK’s rank and file and Iraqi army. Iraqi police were supposed to return the lands in north of Camp Ashraf to their original owners, Iraqi farmers of the region.

– 33 years of the MEK crimes
Due to their intense anti-American approach,MEK killed many US officials, including three officers who had been military advisors under the Shah and three civilian contractors working in Iran. They also kidnapped the US Ambassador to Iran. They were the main elements for occupying the US embassy in Tehran, and when the embassy staff were released they called it a ”surrender”.

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May 5, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

The MEK Ex-member: We were remote controlled, like robots

Ali Qashqaei spent five years (1995-1998) in the organization’s camps in Iraq:
“I was in a difficult financial situation. I thought the organization could help me to get out of it. I was also attracted by the leaders’ message. They claimed they were working to give freedom back to the people and to create democracy and social justice. I left Iran for Istanbul (Turkey) and from there, entered Iraq where movement officials welcomed me. I received military training to use a number of weapons, but I was never involved in operations against the Iranian army. I only took part in reconnaissance missions inside Iran”.

“From the time I arrived in Iraq, the atmosphere of suspicion in the camps shocked me. Our leaders asked us for total devotion, heart and soul, to the organization. They remote controlled us, like robots. They told us, “if you have sexual fantasies, even a dream, you must report it in writing in order to exorcise it”. In a speech repeatedly broadcast in video, Maryam Rajavi told the Mojahedin: “80% of your energy should be used in the fight against your sexual instincts”. Many of the organization’s officers, who protested against this sudden authoritarian and sectarian change of course, paid a heavy price for their insubordination. They were humiliated, tortured and imprisoned.one, named Hassan Rashedi who now lives in Iran, went insane, because of this. I knew him in prison, along with Beijan, from Kermanshah. Houshang, from Eilam, Ali Reza, from Tehran and Mahdi Eftekhari, who before his demotion, had been in charge of organizing Rajavi’s travel”.

Ali Qashqaei spent four years in prison, two months in the movement’s jail in the Ashraf Camp and the rest in the foreigner’s wing of an Iraqi penitentiary. He particularly wanted to share this eyewitness account: “in prison, I knew Parviz Ahmadi, a young man from Kermanshah. He had held senior positions in the organization. Because he refused to support Rajavi’s new ideological line, he was brutally tortured and then killed. Twenty of us were witnesses to his execution. He was only 36”.

From the book: The People’s Mojahedin of Iran: A Struggle for what? “By Victor Charbonnier

May 2, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

I come from the land of pain and suffering – Part three

Towards the end of March 1997[Esfand 1376], I was transferred to Badie Prison. They used to take me to Baghdad once every month or 45 days in order to wipe away the effects of years of spending in solitary confinement.

However, Mr. Rajavi did not keep his promise and didn’t allow me to call my daughter in Denmark. They also refused to give me her letters and photographs. They only let me have two or three old letters and photographs from my daughters dating back to 1992 and 1993. They, however, remained silent when I asked why they had not let me to have the most recent letters and photographs sent to me by my daughter. I had drawn up an escape plan which I put to work on 24 Tir 1378[15 July 1999] when taken to Baghdad to get some air( I must explain that at least five or six Rajavi’s trusted officials driving two Land cruisers would guard and watch me on these outings). Not having good commands of foreign languages, I had memorized BBC radio’s [Persian section] telephone number, hoping to speak with a Farsi-speaking individual.

Unfortunately, I was not able to contact the station or my family for that matter. Instead, I went to UN headquarters in Baghdad on 25 Tir 1378 between 1200 and 1300 local time. I noticed that four members of the organization had been waiting for me in their land cruiser hoping to capture me. I started running and hit the UN building’s glass front door. The MKO members tried to grab me and force me into the car. I, however, resisted their attempts until the people inside the UN building came out. The police stationed next to the UN building came out. The police stationed next to the UN building came out. The police stationed next to the UN building began shooting in the air. The UN personnel took me away from them and placed me under their protection. But, unfortunately, as soon as the officers from Iraqi intelligence and Security Organization (Mukhaberat) arrived on the scene, I was turned over to them. I was transferred to the local police station after half an hour (UN office in Baghdad holds a file on this incident).

Iraqi intelligence and security officers moved me from the police station to Mojahedin Khalq Organization’s military base in Baghdad and handed me over to the office of Abu-Sayf [ A high ranking Iraqi intelligence officer who liaison between the government and MKO]. After the arrival of Ebrahim Zakeri and his discussions with Abu-Sayf, I realized that the MKO would like to take over my custody from Iraqi intelligence and security forces. Ebrahim Zakeri and a few other MKO members blindfolded and handcuffed me and pulled sheet over my head before taking me to the infamous “Hostel” to street NO 100 in Ashraf Base.

To be continued

May 1, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Journalist award “The staying power” for research on the MEK

Berlin (dpa) – The journalist Luisa Hommerich has been honored with a prize for her research into the influence of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahideen in Germany. She received the 1st prize in the “The long breath” award, as the DJV Berlin − Journalists’ Association Berlin-Brandenburg announced on Thursday.

According to the information, she researched for “Zeit Magazin” and “Spiegel”. Among other things, it is about a dropout who reports on his experiences with the group.

Luisa Hommerich

The “Staying Power” prize was awarded for the 15th time. It honors media professionals who conduct investigative research on socially relevant topics and courageously bring them to the public. The prizes are endowed with a total of 6000 euros. The prerequisite for a nomination is that you live and work in Berlin or Brandenburg.

Second prize went to reporters Adrian Bartocha and Jan Wiese from the ARD broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). They researched trafficking in Vietnamese children and young people.
The 3rd prize was awarded to Kersten Augustin and Sebastian Erb from the daily newspaper “taz” based in Berlin. They reported on cases of right-wing extremism in the Bundestag police. Only on Wednesday did it become known that the team of authors also received second prize in the daily press’ Guardian Prize for this research. The prize is one of the most renowned journalism awards in Germany and has been awarded since 1969.

Newsroom.de

April 30, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

I come from the land of pain and suffering – Part two

I was subjected to the most horrendous physical and psychological torture during my stay in solitary confinement. I was verbally abused; physically assaulted; psychologically tortured, starved, deprived of warm water in winter, denied air condition during the 50 degree centigrade summer days in Baghdad. My cell was infested with cockroaches and mosquitoes. I was subjected to general and localized torture for at least 13 times.

Sometimes in the middle of 1374{year beginning on 21 March 1995}, following my loud protests (complaining about the abhorrent prison condition and the fact that I was being prevented from seeing my wife and daughter), they moved me again from my cell in the middle of the night while the streets at Ashraf Base were deserted. They had feared that other inmates might recognize my voice. They tied my hands and blindfolded me. I was transferred to another secret jail on the same base. However, after nine months, I was transferred back to the original cell. They didn’t allow me to speak to my wife for four and half years. They finally letme to speak to my wife sometimes in Ordibehesht – Khordad 1375 [April-May 1996].

Mohammd Hussein Sobhani

This was meant to break me and bring me down to my knees. Rajavi allowed me to speak to my wife for only 10 minutes. In a letter, Mr. Rajavi, had asked me to forget the past and assured me that the regime [Islamic Republic of Iran] was about to be toppled!! I was kept in solitary confinement until Esfand 1376 [March 1996] when I received another letter from Mr. Rajavi. During this period, I was not allowed to call my daughter or even write to her. They did not even give me the letters or photographs she had sent me.

I received another letter from Mr. Rajavi in Esfand 1376 [March 1996]. Subsequently, I was taken to a meeting attended by Mahvash Sepehri,Mehdi Abrishamchi, Fahimeh Arvani,Mahbubeh Jamshidi,seyed Mohamamd Seyyed-al-Mohaddesin, Mohammad ali Tohidi and Mohammad Ali Jaberzadeh. I asked them to let me see my daughter. They agreed on the condition that I should stay anther three years at a so-called suitable place but in solitary confinement (prisoners called it Rajavi’s Hostel) they said that I would be allowed to visit my daughter in Denmark afterwards. I accepted but insisted that I must be allowed to either call my daughter or stay in touch with her through letters. However, right before transferring me from my solitary confinement at Ashraf to another jail in Badie, which by all accounts was a better facility, they asked me to sign a letter stating that I was willing going to spend three years at the so-called Rajavi’s military hostel. I refused at first which prompted them to delay my transfer for two weeks. However, at the end I signed the letter in hope of being able to speak to my daughter and exchange letters with her.

April 28, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Th MEK; Virus of Corruption, Terrorism in Albania

It has been more than five and a half years since the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (a.k.a. MEK, MKO, and PMOI) has relocated to Albania, a small country in southeastern Europe. A process, which took nearly three and a half years, indicates how difficult and complicated the expulsion of fewer than 3,000 members from Iraq to a third country was.

The MEK’s expulsion from Iraq and their acceptance by a third country had been a knotty problem for the Iraqi central government because of their criminal and anti-human rights record, which has been corroborated by numerous international reports, including the European Union.

Eventually, Albania, a small Balkan country, accepted the MEK members after signing an agreement with the United States. Many believe that Albania’s acceptance was because of the United States’ hegemony over Albania and its $20 million aid to the Albanian government, which had been revealed by John Kerry during his meeting with the Albanian Prime Minister in Albania.

Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania

However, Albanian officials, being aware of the sensitivity of their decision, insisted that their terrorist guests made pledges not to engage in any political activity and they had been accepted solely for humanitarian reasons. But the fact is that none of these claims of the Albanian authorities came true. The politicians of the Democratic Party who signed the agreement to accept the MEK members in 2013 did not adhere to the claim. And the Socialist Party and Prime Minister Edi Rama offered the strongest support to the terrorist group. The incumbent Albanian Socialist Party had previously accused the Democratic Party of taking huge bribes from the United States in exchange for accepting MEK members on Albanian soil. Strangely enough, the political leaders of both parties are now giving widespread support to the MEK. Members of the MEK were initially housed in buildings in the Albanian capital of Tirana. Gradually, they moved to a more remote site in Durrës County, western Albania, and constructed a highly fortified camp on 34 hectares of farmland when the country was struggling with unfavorable economic conditions.

Albanian officials have suspiciously stepped up their support for the cult of MEK. Forgetting his legal status, Albanian President Ilir Meta attends the MEK camp in Tirana to meet with the leader of the terrorists. Prime Minister Edi Rama spends a significant portion of his time at the UN General Assembly in support of the MEK. Albanian lawmakers have frequently visited the MEK camp and given speeches in their support. In November 2018, former Albanian MP Namik Kopliku said that his country’s politicians were united in welcoming the MEK. Given the serious disagreements between the Albanian political parties, the MEK’s drawing support from Albanian politicians should be seriously investigated as Albania’s political corruption has always been a hindrance to its EU membership. Popular narratives of MEK’s cutting fat checks for some Iraqi and US officials during the last years shed light on the reasons for the Albanian support and speeches in favor of the MEK.

It is the dubious support of the Albanian authorities for the MEK that has led to the group’s freedom of action in the country, a situation that contradicts the initial commitments of the Albanian authorities. The MEK cult, according to the Independent’s 2018 report, has built a state within a state in Albania that implements its own laws. For example, for a large sum of money, it has set up a powerful telecommunication tower overlooking Tirana. “The organization appears to have strong connections to senior Albanian officials.,” the report said. “Pandeli Majko, a minister in the current Albanian government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, Fatmir Mediu, a former defense minister, and Elona Gjebrea, a former deputy interior minister, were with Giuliani in his visit to Tirana earlier this year for Persian New Year festivities hosted by the MEK.” The MEK’s influence among the corrupt Albanian politicians has been so overwhelming that, according to the Independent, even the Albanian police are not allowed to enter their camp. The Albanian Interior Ministry has no control over the compound, which has become a secret underground organization.

At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and the infection of a significant number of the MEK members which led to the death of a number of them, the Albanian Ministry of Health was not allowed to enter the camp to check the health protocols. In addition, at the heart of the energy crisis which has plagued the country, causing power outages in various parts of the country including Durres, it has been surprising and at the same time irritating for the locals to see the MEK’s camp lit by innumerable lamps.

Undoubtedly, the Albanian government’s different approach to the MEK has seriously raised suspicions of collusion and secret agreements of Albanian officials with this terrorist cult and perhaps its sponsors. In 2020, El País disclosed the MEK’s $1 million support for Spain’s far-right Vox party during its founding in 2013 and the payment of monthly salaries to the party leaders, as well as the payment of 80% of its campaign expenses in the 2014 European Parliament elections. It shows that the group’s tendency to attract foreign support and strengthen its lobby knows few bounds. It becomes highly dangerous if the support is drawn from officials of a small country faced with economic chaos like Albania whose politicians are involved in rife corruption.

Albania performed poorly in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 and ranked 104. Housing the MEK with numerous cases of money laundering and corruption is a threat to Albania and would endanger its efforts to join the European Union. The MEK spends huge sums of money to support the political authorities who support them the most. The political leaders, in return, will do their best to attract the attention of this terrorist group. It will be the Albanian people who will suffer from the presence of this terrorist group in Albania and will touch its effects, in the long run.

by Reza Alghorabi – Quds Online – Translated by Habilian Association

April 27, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Saeed and Mohammad Akhavan Hashemi

Saeed and his twin brother Mohammad were only three years old in 1988 when their mother was killed in Forough Javidan, the messy military operation that the Mujahedin Khalq launched from Iraq against Iran after the ceasefire was signed between Iraq and Iran.

A year later, the twins were smuggled out of Iraq together with seven hundred children of Mujahed parents who were separated from their parents under the direct order of Massoud Rajavi who saw the children an obstacle to the struggle. Saeed and Mohammad were smuggled through Europe to Canada.

Saeed and his twin brother Mohammad were only three years old in 1988 when their mother was killed in Forough Javidan

As well as other MEK children, the agents of MEK in Canada handed the twins to families who were mostly sympathizers of the group. They were grown up in Canada until their teen years.
When they got sixteen, the organization needed the child soldiers to extend its millitary force. Thus, Saeed and Mohammad were persuaded to get back to Iraq to join the group’s military arm, the so-called National Liberation Army (NLA).

They were first moved to the US where they were settled in the MEK’s base for a few months. They were indoctrinated to join the army to revenge the blood of their mother. In the US, Saeed was intrigued to take part in the anti-Iran protests run by the MEK.

After a few months of indoctrination in the headquarters of the NCR in Washington, when they were 17 years old, the twins were coerced to sign the membership forms of the NLA and eventually they were smuggled back to Iraq. They were given military uniforms and arms as child soldiers of the MEK’s army.
In the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Saeed and Mohammad like other child soldiers of the MEK were not able to go to school or university. Instead, they received military trainings.

In 2003, after the US invasion to Iraq, the MEK was disarmed by the US army and NLA was practically dismantled. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, main sponsor of the MEK had been collapsed and the newly established Iraqi government did not want the MEK in its territory but the MEK leaders considered themselves the owners of Camp Ashraf, the land that Saddam Hussein had confiscated from Iraq farmers and had donated to Massoud Rajavi.

In order to move the MEK out of Iraq, the group was temporarily relocated in Camp Liberty near Baghdad. The twins were separated. Mohammad was transferred to Camp liberty and Saeed was ordered to stay in Camp Ashraf.

Saeed and his twin brother Mohammad

Although the brothers did not use to live together in Camp Ashraf – as none of family members are allowed to live together in the MEK—the last two weeks they spent more time together. “We used to talk to each other every night for the last two weeks,” Mohammad says. “The last day we said goodbye to each other. We exchanged our watches as memento.” This was their last visit.

Saeed was shot dead by Iraqi Intifada Youth who raided camp Ashraf on September 1st 2013. He was only 28 when he became the victim of Massoud Rajavi’s ambitions in Iraq. The whereabouts of Mohammad Akhavan is not clear. He might be still under the brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi in Albania to revenge the blood of his mother and brother, who both were victimized by the cult’s system or he might have left the MEK after the group was relocated in Albania, just like many other former child soldiers of the group.

April 26, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

My father is a prisoner of the MEK Cult

Leila was only two years old when her father left Iran. ”My father and I have never heard each other’s voice”, she says. Leila has no memory of her father.

Leila’s father; Rahim Kiukan who as a supporter of the MEK was brainwashed by the instincts of the MEK cult left his family in 1981 and joined the group in Iraq. The family have had no news of him since then.
A 10 cm family photo, is the only memory, Leila has of his father.

A court session has been held in Tehran in March 2021, to look into the complaints filed a by a group of the MEK ex-memebrs, who have managed to leave the group after several years of being under torture and oppression by the cult leaders. Leila participated the court session as a victim of the group. Here is part of the interview with Ms. Kiukan:

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Interview/Kiukan-Leila-2.mp4

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April 25, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

I come from the land of pain and suffering – Part one

My name is Mohammad Hosein Sobhani. I am a former official and member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization central committee. My name and title appeared in the special Autumn issue of 1370{ year beginning on 21 March 1977} and became professionally involved with that organization on 22 Bahman 1357{11 February 1978}. At the beginning, I was working in MKO’s administrative and student departments until with my wife, Afsaneh Taherian, were dispatched to Iranian Kordestan. Prior to my transfer, I was in command of a resistance unit. After the opposition forces pulled back from the liberated territories in Iranian Kordestan, I continued my work at MKO bases in Iraq. I worked in the communication department of Radio Mojahed until 1364{year beginning on 21 March 1985} when I assumed my role as a unit commander at the training school for urban guerrilla warfare. And later I was out in charge of a department at the intelligence headquarters. I, subsequently, became the security commander at Ashraf Base and later became one of the commanders in charge of AM {security} and HE{protection}.

Mohammd Hussein Sobhani

Starting in 1371 {year beginning on 21 March 1992}, I began expressing my views about MKO’s strategy regarding its armed struggle and the organization’s presence in Iraq.
Subsequently I had two meetings with Massoud Rajavi,each lasting six to seven hours, during which he tried to change my views. I also met Maryam Azdanlu and Fahimeh Arvani a number of times during which I pushed my views forward, stood my grounds and expressed reservations about various issues. Finally at the start of Shahrivar 1371{August 1992}, Mr. Rajavi ordered a meeting attended by Ebrahim Zakeri and Seyyed Mohamamd al-Mohaddesin and a number of high ranking officials.
I saw behind Rajavi’s false façade for the first time. During this meeting those people who until yesterday were calling me brother were now using their hands, fists and gutter language as well as profanity trying to dissuade me from questioning the strategy of the organization. I , however, stood my ground and did not bend. After that, Ebrahim Zakeri who had presided over the meeting ended the session. Following that meeting, report of which was forwarded to Rajavi, I was put in Bengal { a small container} at Badie Base for 24 hours. The next day, before the start of the daily routine at the base, I was secretly moved by two Land cruisers and a group headed by Ebrahim Zakeri and Soheyla Sadeg ( at the time in charge of the organization’s jail and personnel headquarters). I was transferred to a new jail and put in solitary confinement located on street No 400 at Ashraf Base (at the center of Khales, 50 km north of Baghdad).

To be continued

April 21, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Heidarian family asks to visit their beloved Davoud at the MEK Camp in Albania

Davoud Heidarian captured by the Iraqi forces during Iran-Iraq War in 1080. As a POW, Davoud then was transferred to the MEK Camp Ashraf in Iraq on the contrary to the international war laws. The family have had no contact with him since then.

https://dla.nejatngo.org/Media/Nejat/Alborz/Heidariyan-Davoud-Sis-202204.mp4

Ms. Masoumeh Heidarian; sister of Davoud on behalf of the family asks the Albanian authorities to facilitate their travel and meeting with their beloved Davoud.
She says: I have not seen my brother for 41 years and have had no contact with him.

April 20, 2022 0 comments

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