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A Cult in Heart of Republic, a book on France’s ties to MKO terrorists

Iran has unveiled the Persian copy of a French book that reviews the grisly crimes committed by the notorious anti-Iran terror group, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization.

A Cult in the Heart of the Republic is the title of the book written by a member of the French Senate, Nathalie Goulet. In her book, she shines a light into the formidable anti-Iran terror group, known as Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, or simply the MKO.

The author tries to warn her fellow Senate members that a full-scale terror group exists in the heart of the French Republic.

A Cult in Heart of Republic, a book on France’s ties to MKO terrorists

In Iran’s city of Qom, political thinkers and activists have gathered to unveil the first Persian translation of the French book.

Iran says the MKO has killed over 12,000 Iranian civilians and statesmen, including former President Mohammal Ali Rajaei and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar in 1981. The group also fought alongside Iraqi forces against Iran during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

In 2012, the US and Europe delisted the group as a terror organization. The MKO was then relocated from an American military base in Iraq to Albania and France. Since then, the US and Europe have been taking part in the MKO’s annual summits in Paris.

Nathalie Goulet’s book tries to highlight the criminal track record of the MKO, while warning France that it’s making a big mistake by supporting the terror group.

In 1988, Iran executed the remnants of the terror grouping in Iran. The MKO is currently led by 68-year-old Maryam Rajavi, who is facing pressure from French human rights entities as a “smear” on France’s record of human rights advocacy.

Aside from warning France of the security threats posed to the country by the MKO, the French author says capitalizing on the terror group is a waste of time and money. She argues that the MKO is viewed as an obsolete killing machine in the minds of Iranians and has no place in Iran’s sociopolitical structure.

Yusef Jalali

March 15, 2022 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Massoud Rajavi beat and kicked Mehri to force her to stay in his cult

Mehri Musavi a female member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization was killed in 2003 after she asked to leave the group.

Born in 1961 Mehri Musavi was a student in her twenties studying in a university in the United States when she decided to join the MEK in Iraq. There, she worked for the group’s political unit as a translator and interpreter. Eventually, she was raised in the hierarchy of the cult of Rajavi and was nominated for membership in the group’s Elite Council which included only female members.

To remain a member of the Elite Council, Mehri had to stay in Iraq. She was not allowed to leave Iraqi territory according to the regulations of the Rajavi Cult. She had to promise that she would stay in the group for her whole life and Mehri could not admit such a harsh ruling. Thus, she asked for leaving the group.

Mehri Musavi’s grave

Mehri’s determination to leave the MEK was faced with a process of suppressive sessions. The main session was a trial for Mehri which was held by Massoud Rajavi, himself. Maryam Sanjabi, former member of the MEK, worked in the same unit as Mehri did. In her testimony about the killing of Mehri Musavi, she writes about the trial:
“Massoud Rajavi called on her to speak. Mehri repeated her request for leaving the group calmly and courageously. Instigated by Massoud Rajavi, the whole audience started shouting at her as if she had committed the most terrible crimes! Rajavi who was mad with her told her, ‘You can kill yourself swallowing your cyanide capsule!’…He explicitly told her that as a nominee of the Elite Council she was sentenced to death penalty because she wanted to leave.”

The meeting did not end by Rajavi’s ultimatum. Female commanders and peers of Mehri also tried their best to show off their obedience to Massoud by humiliating, insulting and threatening Mehri to death. Eventually, Mehri was asked if she had changed her mind. Her answer was “No”. “I never forget what happened then,” Maryam Sanjabi writes. “It was a new act of violence and cruelty played by Rajavi.”

Sanjabi describes the scene:
“Very irritated and nervous, Rajavi asked Mehri to come up to the stage to talk to her in person. Immediately after Mehri went to the stage, he, Maryam Rajavi and a few of high-ranking commanders took Mehri to the corridor behind the stage. A few minutes later, there were terrible screams and cries. About an hour later, Mehri was brought back to the hall. She had been terribly beaten. Her whole body was bruised. Her hair was messy and pulled out.”

It is said that Maryam Rajavi had pulled Mehri out of under the Massoud Rajavi’s fist and kick. She had talked to Mehri trying to persuade her to retract her words, at least in front of the audience. Sanjabi recalls, “Having a lump in her throat Mehri finally addressed the audience, ‘I was wrong. I will stay.’ “
After the trial session, Mehri was no more employed in political unit. She was sent to kitchen. “This was a systematic punishment in the MEK,” Sanjabi says.

“Mehri Musavi was ultimately forced to swallow her cyanide capsule in May 2003,” Sanjabi writes. “It was after the invasion of the US forces to Iraq.” The MEK leaders told members that Mehri had killed herself to protest the entrance of the American forced to Camp Ashraf. “She asked for permission and we allowed her to kill herself so we name her a martyr”. This was read by a commander in a meeting for the Elite Council.

Nobody could believe such an argument for the death of a dissident member. Maryam Sanjabi worked in the personnel department of the organization, at the time. Some time later, she came across with a classified document. It was an order issued and signed by Massoud Rajavi. “Regarding the presence of the American forces at Camp Ashraf and regarding Mehri Musavi’s fluency in English and her problematic organizational conditions, Rajavi had stated that her being alive is troubling and she had to be eliminated,” Sanjabi writes. “This was a fact to prove Rajavi’s crimes and treasons against his own members.”

March 14, 2022 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Refused to have sex with the MEK leader – They killed her

Minoo Fathali was killed by the MEK leaders because she did not want to sleep with the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi), Massoud Rajavi.

Minoo was a member of the MEK since her teen years. She joined the group at Camp Ashraf and soon she was elevated in the group’s hierarchy and became a member of the MEK’s Elite Council. In 1993 when Massoud Rajavi ordered Maryam Rajavi to go from Iraq to Europe, Minoo was one of the female members to accompany Maryam.

Minoo Fathali

In Europe, Minoo’s duty was raising funds for the MEK through charity activities for the so-called orphans of Iran. She had to serv the MEK fourteen hours a day in order to raise funds from European citizens. In 1998 she was ordered to get back to the group’s headquarters in Iraq. As she was a member of the Elite Council, she was expected to attend the special meetings for nude dancing of female members of the council before the eyes Massoud Rajavi. The meetings were named “Salvation Dance” which was first revealed by a female defector of the MEK, Batul Soltani. “Weeping tears, Minoo left the hall of Salvation Dance,” Batul writes in her testimonies. “This was the start of her dissent against the Cult of Rajavi.”

Female commanders including Giti Givechi and Faeze Mohabatkar, tried to convince Minoo to get back to the hall. “Maryam Rajavi came to them too,” Batul writes. “She tried to coerce Minoo by saying ‘You should take of your clothes of infidelity and hypocrisy and dive into the pool to unite with Massoud.”

Batoul Soltani

Batul recalls that Minoo was always reluctant to join Salvation Dance meetings. Minoo told Maryam Rajavi that she hated to get naked and dance in front of Massoud but she was still under pressure by the cult authorities to take part in the meetings. She was accused of being the agent of the Iranian government. Her organizational ranking was dropped.

Batul and Minoo were friends. They used to open up for each other secretly but after Minoo started to speak out her dissent the commanders changed her unit of serving so Batul could not see her regularly until the day she saw her in Camp Bagherzadeh. “She looked very desperate and frustrated,” Batul writes. “She told me ‘They have given me a hard time. I don’t want to have sex with Massoud but they want to force me to do so’.” Batul had no way to help her except praying for her. Batul herself was a victim; she had been already forced to sleep with Massoud.

In 2001, Minoo escaped the group with the help of one of the male members of the group. “We were suddenly summoned to a special meeting,” Batul says. “Massoud was shouting at female commanders who were crying ‘traitor should be shot dead’.” The horrific meeting lasted until the next morning!

Thirty to forty patrol teams of the MEK, escorted by Iraqi forces were mobilized to find Minoo and the man. Finally, they arrested them in a park in Baghdad. Zohreh Shafai was the commander of the patrol teams. In the following meeting, she reported to Massoud Rajavi about the way they found Minoo. “You were authorized to shoot her. Why didn’t you shoot her?” Massoud asked Zohreh.

Maryam Sanjabi

Maryam Sanjabi another female defector of the Cult of Rajavi has testified about the fate of Minoo Fathali too. She states, “I remember Mahvash Sepehri [or Nasrin, a female commander of the group] in a meeting saying that Minoo should have been killed because she was one of the women of Massoud who tried to escape the group and could have revealed the secrets of the Elite Council.” Since then, Minoo was imprisoned in the jails of Camp Ashraf, called Bengal. “We did not see Minoo anymore, “Batoul says.

In 2003, the US forces invaded Iraq. The MEK announced that Minoo was killed by American bombs. “When the war was over, we were shocked to see Minoo’s grave in the cemetery of Camp Ashraf,” Batul writes.
About the MEK’s claim that Minoo was killed by the coalition forces, Maryam Sanjabi argues, “Camp Ashraf had not been bombarded before they announced the death of Minoo. Most of the places were evacuated at Camp Ashraf. No body was killed in the bombings. The dead body of Minoo was not seen by anybody. Basically, all members knew that the death penalty had been issued for Minoo by the cult’s leader.”

It is worth to note that nude dancing by female members of the Elite Council was a precondition to get married with Massoud Rajavi. The chosen members were made marry the cult leader all together. They were then called to sleep with him from time to time. Massoud Rajavi practiced polygamy while all members of his called had to divorce their spouses and to engage in a mandatory celibacy.

March 13, 2022 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Massoud Rajavi should be convicted as Lubanga was

March 14th ten years ago, marked the day that Thomas Lubanga Dylio was found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15 years and using them to participate actively in hostilities. About a decade later, former child soldiers of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK/ PMOI) began speaking out giving their testimonies on how they were snatched and recruited by the agents of Massoud Rajavi.

In March 14th, 2012, the guardian reported, “The international criminal court has delivered the first verdict in its 10-year history, finding a Congolese warlord guilty of recruiting child soldiers. Thomas Lubanga was convicted of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers. He showed no emotion as the presiding judge, Adrian Fulford, read out the verdict.”

Thomas Lubanga

Lubanga was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment. According to the ICC official website, on 15 March 2020, Thomas Lubanga was released after having served 14 years of imprisonment. Thomas Lubanga had used a rebel militia to dominate the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri region. “Children as young as 11 were recruited from their homes and schools to take part in brutal ethnic fighting in 2002-03,” according to the Guardian. “They were taken to military training camps and beaten and drugged; girls were used as sex slaves.”

Lubanga’s trick to coscript militia is very similar to that of Massoud Rajavi to recruit his Mujahed militia. About eight hundred children of Mujahed parents were first separated from their parents who were allegedly fighting the Iranian government in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. They were smuggled to Europe and North America where they were kept in team houses of the MEK or were given to fostering families, sympathizers of the MEK.

Today, after over two decades, former child soldiers have launched a campaign to defend their right to reveal their own experiences of being a child soldier in the MEK. Amir Yaghmai is one of the first former child soldiers of the MEK who spoke out about his experience of living under the abusive system of the Cult of Rajavi. In 2021, two other MEK-born children who are now in their thirties spoke out. Hanif Azizi, a Swedish policeman now, published his autobiography, “Suburban snout” in Swedish recounting his childhood in the MEK’s military camps. Amin Golmaryami was the third child soldier who was officially brought to the lime light of the Western media. His life story was published by the German newspaper Die Zeit in October 2021.

This was the start of a series of revelations by other child soldiers of the MEK. Sam, Mohammad, Ray, Arman, Saeed, Zina and other young defectors of the MEK who were once recruited by the group’s agents and transferred to Iraq, spoke out in the social media, in particular Club House platform. These former child soldiers were eventually labeled as agents of the Iranian government by the MEK propaganda.

Die Zeit’s journalist Luisa Hommerich who only investigated the cases of MEK children in Cologne, Germany, writes, “From the mid-1990s, some of their former teachers remembered that People’s Mojahedin children suddenly disappeared from Cologne. They suddenly stopped showing up in their classes, 14-, 15-, 16-year-old teenagers. A former teacher says today that he informed the Cologne Youth Welfare Office and the guardian Christoph Meertens about it.”

There were a lot more children, girls and boys who were smuggled from the United States, Canada and European countries to the MEK’s military headquarters in Iraq, Camp Ashraf. At least three hundred of the MEK’s children were coerced by the MEK agents to sign a recruitment form to join the MEK’s military force, called National Liberation Army (NLA), financially and logistically sponsored by Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi dictator. Their story is very similar to Lubanga’s victims. All of these children were under 18; they were whipped from school; they were forced to wear military uniform in Camp Ashraf; they were trained military trainings and even in cases they were forced to attend military operations or clashes. Former child soldiers of the MEK even exposed several cases of sexual harassment and child abuse by MEK agents.

Although former child soldiers of the so-called People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) do not seek to sue the group leaders for the time being, Massoud Rajavi and his commanders can be hold accountable for crimes against children under legal age they recruited for the NLA. Today, former child soldiers of the MEK are determined to tell the truth as a warning for other people who are at risk of being trapped by extremist groups and destructive cults like the MEK. However, the international community must take it into consideration that the crimes of Massoud Rajavi against his own members, particularly the children of his own members are definitely blamed by illuminated public opinion.

By Mazda Parsi

March 12, 2022 0 comments

Maryam Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi John Bercow – It Takes One to Know One

For those living in the UK, it should come as no surprise that among the many shoddy failures in the Westminster bubble, former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has been banned from parliament for life after a bullying inquiry found him guilty. In spite of his effectiveness in his role as Speaker, those close to him, professionally and personally, knew him to be a difficult, unpleasant individual. Among the panel’s findings were that he acted as a “serial bully and serial liar”, his behaviour was a ‘marked abuse of power and authority’, and that “there is ‘no doubt’ that victims were telling the truth”.

It should also be no surprise to observers of Maryam Rajavi and her tragic little cult, the MEK, that these are the characteristics her close associates will also recognise as hers: bullying, lying, abuse of power and authority. Also, that her victims are telling the truth. Maryam Rajavi’s vicious screaming hysterics are famous among her inner circle.

, former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow

Maryam Rajavi and John Bercow

What links these two is that the MEK was in the process of grooming Bercow to become the MEK’s lobbying replacement for the late David Amess in the UK parliament. Amess lined up among an anti-Iran cabal that included John Bolton and Rudi Giuliani.

The MEK has a long history of association with some very unsavoury characters. While not all of them share these personal characteristics, most have been forced out of their official positions or had reputations built on years of corruption and sleaze eventually exposed: Rudi Giuliani is only a recent example. After he was voted out as a Member of the European Parliament, Alejo Vidal-Quadras of Spain showed his extreme right-wing views as president of VOX. He channelled finance from the MEK money laundering system into the Vox Party.

The history of the MEK includes many, many of such people. It is true, of course, that Maryam Rajavi cannot pick and choose her associates because decent people will not get involved in her schemes and crimes, not for any amount of money. But certainly the role call of MEK supporters does prove that it takes on to know one as Rajavi’s nasty corruption attracts like-minded people.

March 12, 2022 0 comments

Iran

Iran Condemns Western Support For Mojahedin-e Khalq Terrorists

Secretary of Iran Judiciary’s Human Rights Council condemned Western countries for granting immunity to the terrorist group of MKO, despite the group’s long-drawn-out history of bloodshed and atrocity against the Iranians.

Kazem Gharibabadi made the remarks in a letter addressed to the United Nations secretary-general, the UN high commissioner for human rights, and the UN Human Rights Council as well as the heads of the European Council, Commission, and Parliament.

The Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorist organization (MKO also known as MEK), he wrote, is responsible for carrying out most of the assassinations that have targeted the Iranian people since the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

Secretary of Iran Judiciary’s Human Rights Council; Kazem Gharibabadi

“In order to introduce the MKO, it suffices to say that their top priority and the main basis of performance [relies on] assassination and murdering the individuals, who do not adhere to the same ideas as they [themselves],” the letter read.

The MKO has a dark history of assassinations and bombings against the Iranian government and nation. It notoriously sided with Saddam Hussein in the former Iraqi dictator’s 1980-88 war against the Islamic Republic.

Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Revolution’s victory, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO’s acts of terror.

Western countries, topped by the United States, have, however, taken the group out of their terror blacklists.

The group throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American, Western, and Saudi Arabian officials as its guests of honor. These have included former US national security advisor John Bolton, former US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal.

Gharibabadi reprimanded some European countries for providing “safe havens” for the group, allowing it to set up its offices there, and even letting its members address their government and parliament sessions.

The support, he regretted, had emboldened “the murderous and dangerous organization’s ringleaders to [even] introduce themselves as human rights supporters.”

“This dual perspective of the issue of human rights” and support for a group, which has the blood of thousands of Iranians on its hands “is not acceptable under any circumstances,” the letter said.

It finally urged the United Nations and the European Union to prevent the free movement of the MKO’s members across the European countries and elsewhere and hold them accountable for their atrocities.

March 10, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Left homeless, poor and sick after over thirty years of serving the MEK

Barani Dehghani, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) officially declared his defection from the group.

Barani Dehghani, from Fars province, was a soldier of the Iranian army in Iran-Iraq war in 1987. He was taken as a hostage by MEK forces in the front, in March 1987. As he was not registered as a war prisoner, he was intimidated to stay in the Cult of Rajavi in Iraq.

“They convinced us to stay with them by threatening and deceiving us,” Barani writes. “We were constantly told that ‘if we got back to Iran we would be arrested and tortured by the government’.” Barani was deceived by the fraudulent tactics of the MEK leaders and became a member of the cult.
“During all those years of membership we had to listen to long-time arguments in meetings in order to accept that the MEK is the best place to stay in,” he describes the brainwashing sessions.

Barani Dehghani

After the fall of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and the disarmament of the MEK by the US military, the group was no more welcome in Iraqi territory. With the assistance of the US government and the UN High Commissioner of Refugees, the group was relocated in Albania. Barani was transferred from Iraq to Albania in the fourth group of MEK members in 2016. Barani explains about the living conditions of MEK members in Albania:
“In Albania, we were taken to a base called Giti. Cult-like pressure by the group leaders kept on in Albania and even worse than when we were in Iraq. Although the UNHCR paid for housing, food and welfare of the MEK members for two years, we were deprived of all facilities the MEK leaders. Even the appliances that the UNHCR has given to us were confiscated by them.”

Therefore, Barani decided to leave the MEK but it was not simply feasible. “When I wanted to leave, they forced me to sign a large number of documents and I signed just because I was determined to leave,” he writes.
“I was told to sign an engagement to confirm that I would stay a sympathizer of the group and in exchange they would help me financially”, he writes about the preconditions of leaving the cult. “They asked me to report everything I get to know about other defectors of the group. I had to give the reports to the office of the MEK. I was asked to monitor both defectors and current members of the group when I see them in the streets of Tirana.”

Thus, Barani was still under the cult-like pressure of MEK commanders although he had left the group. Eventually, he decided to leave Albania. He asked the group to provide the money but they did not contribute. However, he moved to Greece on his own but after a while he was again stuck in financial difficulties. He asked the MEK for help. “The conditions were the same,” he says. “Their donations were little and late but I had no choice.”
Homeless and moneyless he moved to Serbia last year. Once more, he asked the MEK for money but they did not pay attention. Following his illegal journey in the Balkans, he went to Bosnia and then to Croatia where he was arrested and sent back to Bosnia. He was jailed in the capital of Bosnia.

He is now sick and poor, residing in a refugee camp after serving the MEK for over thirty years. “Now that I am writing this, I am in a terrible situation,” he writes. “I am sick. I am living in camp trying to make a living as a street vendor but I believe that being linked to the notorious MEK is more disastrous for me. The group has nothing for me except misery and despair. The farther I am from the MEK, the more comfortable I am.”
Ending his statement, he declares his complete dissociation from the PMOI. He states, “From now, there is no link or relationship between me and the group. The group that cheats on its own nation and cooperate with the enemies of the Iranian nation does not deserve support.”

March 9, 2022 0 comments

Nejat Publications

Nejat Newsletter No. 91

Inside this issue:

– MUJAHEDIN FORMER CHILD SOLDIER – THEY KILLED MY FATHER
Former child soldier of the MEK wants justice for his father’s killers Mohammad Reza Torabi (Ray Torabi) seeks the trial of the MEK leaders for the murder of his fa ther under torture in the group’s prison.
His father Ghorban Ali Torabi was killed in the MEK’s internal prisons in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, in 1994.

– CRIMINAL MUJAHEDIN IN ALBANIA – LATEST OFFICIAL REPORT

In a video clip released on YouTube, Dr. Olsi Jazexhi and Gjergji Thanasi analyse the latest scandal of the Mujahedin Khalq/ the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in Albania. Different Albanian medias have reported that on the Albanian State Police has sent a police report to …

– POW SAEID FARAJOLLAH HOSSEINI – FAMILY DEMAND ACCESS TO ALBANIAN PRISON CAMP
in a video, Faezeh Balali an Iranian – Swedish citizen who is in Albania shows her struggle to meet her nephew Saeid Farajollah Hosseini who is being held as slave soldier by Maryam Rajavi and the Mujahedin command since when he was captured as prisoner of war by Saddam Hossein during the Iran – Iraq war….

– USING MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALQ MANUFACTURING ENEMIES
After the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) divulged Iran’s program in 2002, the question became was Iran working toward developing a bomb, nuclear breakout capability, or was it all peaceful? The U.S. ramped up sanctions on Iran…

– FROM TORTURER TO PETTY THIEF – MEK TERRORIST MOHAMMAD SADAT DARBANDI
Iranian terrorist Mohammad Sadat Darbandi was the head of the MEK prison in Camp Ashraf in the Diyala Governorate in Iraq ..

– ANOTHER CASE OF RAJAVI CULT CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES IN ALBANIA
Another member of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, MEK, resident at Ashraf 3 in Manez has admitted to two incidents of theft, just two months after other members were reportedly involved in human and drug smuggling. In December, Exit publish ..

– CHILD ABUSE BY RAJAVI CULT TRUE – GERMAN COURT VERDICT
Following the appeal made by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/PMOI/ NCRI) against the
German magazine Die Zeit, on an article titled “Freed at Last” about the former child soldier, Amin Golmaryami, the German court ruled that five out of eight facts that the MEK had ap pealed on…

– SUPPORTING MEK TERRORISTS EXPOSES WESTERN FAKE HR CONCERNS
The MKO has conducted numerous assassinations and bombings against Iranian statesmen and civilians since the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they enjoyed..

– CRIMINAL MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALQ IN ALBANIA – POLICE ALERTS US EMBASSY
Report: MKO terrorist group trafficked 400 own members to Eu rope; probably Daesh members too
An Albanian historian and journalist says the country’s police have alerted the US embassy that members of the so called Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist cult, is involved in various criminal activities …

– AXIS OF RESISTANCE AND THE WEST
The KSA has of course been backing the enemies of Iran for years (for example, Saddam Hussain during the 8 years of war and financing and supporting anti Iranian terrorist groups like the Mujahedin Khalq
and others) to balance regional power. Even though Iran has not been the cause of imbalance or at least not as persistently.

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March 8, 2022 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Deja Vue for MEK Over Bread Shortages in Albania

As the world wakes up to the realisation that more than a quarter of the world’s wheat exports come from Russia and Ukraine, the MEK ( Mujahedin e Khalq ) are in familiar territory. During the MEK’s four decade stay in Iraq (1983-2016), they had to learn how to exist under the various U.S. sanctions on that country. While Albanian media is warning of price rises and shortages of bread due to the current conflict in Ukraine, the MEK will no doubt be quickly scrambling to ensure its own supplies via mafia gangs.

In Iraq, under extreme sanctions, the MEK used its privately sourced bread supply to recruit new members. There is no doubt they will try to use the situation in Albania for the same end. Already the MEK has positioned itself alongside the Albanian police and immigration services to deceptively recruit Iranian, Afghani and other vulnerable asylum seekers as they arrive in Albania. The shortage of bread can only offer even greater leverage.

The fact that the MEK is still trying to recruit new members should sound alarm bells. In spite of the problems the MEK faces due to its ageing and ailing membership, the cult is still actively working with Albanian and Italian mafia gangs. The MEK’s skills in money laundry, military logistics, intelligence and spying and human trafficking could all be utilised during the Ukraine crisis. With its history of mercenary work for Saddam Hussein, Israel, the US and others, the only question is, ‘how much is any side willing to pay?’

March 8, 2022 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Former MEK’s Terror Operative Speaks of Rajavi’s Kingdom

Born in a Mujahed family, Amir Nematolahi was enthusiastic to fight the Iranian government. When the 21-year-old Amir joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization in 1994 he was motivated by the young “thin” Massoud Rajavi whom he had seen in the MEK’s early videos and photos of Massoud speaking in the meetings. “A few years later, in more films of Massoud Rajavi which were taken after the death of Musa Khiabani and Ashraf Rabiee, he looked like a king,” Amir Nematollahi says in his recent interview with Siamak Naderi. “Massoud had become a fat man who was living like a king spending the money that was given to him in the name of fighting for the Iranian people.”

Shortly after his arrival in the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Amir received trainings for operating explosives and launching bombs. He was then ordered to cross the Iranian border to launch a terrorist attack in Tehran’s Police headquarters. “I was told that the building was only for Police authorities but when I went there, I saw something else,” Amir says. “I saw about a hundred of young innocent soldiers as old as I was.” Amir quit the operation and returned to the MEK’s camp in Iraq. “I told lie to my commanders, I said, ‘the bomb did not explode and I don’t know why’.”

Siamak Naderi and Amir Nematollahi;the MEK ex-operative

This was the jerk of his hesitations about the MEK and its leaders. He found the group’s main leader as a despotic dictator who wanted the absolute obedience of his followers. “Under the name of struggle, there was an oppressive atmosphere in the MEK,” he recalls. “Two people were not allowed to sit next to each other in the eating place, twice in one single day. They were immediately accused of planning conspiracy against the group. They called it Mahfel.”

As the MEK is a “No Exit” establishment, dissident members of the group are never allowed to simply leave it particularly when the group was located in Iraq under the rule of Saddam Hussein. “Every one who entered the MEK, his passport was confiscated by the group,” he explains how members were locked up in the MEK. “His arrival was not registered by Iraq government so he was considered an illegal person in that country.”

This was the leverage to suppress the person who wanted to leave the MEK. He had to go to the Iraqi’s notorious prison, Abu Quraib for eight years. Before that he had to stay in the MEK’s quarantine –actually jail– for two years. And prior to all these imprisonments he was coerced under long hours of brainwashing meetings in order to get convinced not to leave the group. Amir Nematollahi explains how the meetings went on: “Everyone who wanted to leave was supposed to attend a meeting where he was put under harsh peer pressure. Commanders and even peers humiliated him insulting, spitting on him and even beating him.”

However, the public meeting was not the end of this violent procedure. “If he was not convinced to stay in the group, he was taken to a smaller meeting where a dozen of commanders tortured him,” Amir states. “These actions were taken systematically under the direct order of Massoud Rajavi.”

Amir states the names several MEK members who got victims of the totalitarian structure of the Cult of Rajavi. Ali Tabrizi is one of the members he recounts his heartbreaking fate in the MEK camp:
“Ali was a young boy from Tabriz. He had been a sympathizer of the group and he had legally traveled to Turkey and then to Iraq but shortly after he arrived in the group, he declared that he did not want to stay there. The group leaders seized his legal passport and handed him over to Iraqi intelligence. He was eventually jailed in Abu Quraib where terrible living conditions caused him to get infected by tuberculosis. He was almost dying when an Iraqi doctor helped him to get treatments in a hospital. Having become so desperate, Ali wrote a letter to the MEK and asked them to let him get back to the camp. However, when he returned, again he asked for his passport. He told the group leaders ‘it is your duty to send me back to Turkey’. Later, he was disappeared. He was my friend but I did not see him in the meetings anymore.”

Amir recalls Maryam Rajavi’s words saying “Massoud has come to save the world”! The former bomb maker of the MEK terror teams says, “The Rajavis do not provide the expenses of dental treatment for a young member of their cult but they run their kingdom with the funds they were offered by Saddam Hussein and Saudi Arabia.”
Amir Nematolahi speaks out about the human rights violations committed by the MEK leaders twenty years after his defection from the MEK. “I kept silent for over twenty years,” he argues. “Today, I am speaking because I want my testimonies to be recorded in the history. The MEK leaders must be tried in a fair trial for what they did.”

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