Defectors of Mujahedin khalq

Preparedness for suicide, a prerequisite for MKO operations

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – a précis of parts 35-36)- The means of suicide had to be necessarily checked as the first priorities along with other weapons needed for the operations. They were cyanides, hand-grenades, and guns and the teams received special trainings to use them in critical situations. Of course, they received other psychological and security trainings to counteract after-arrest tortures and pressures if they failed to commit suicide and fell into the hands of the regime’s forces. In general, any thought of compromise was a taboo within MKO/MEK/PMOI; there was no alternate but to kill or be killed.

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The Iranian Pen Club letter to the French Ambassador in Germany

Mr. Bernard de Montferrand , As you know that peoples Mojahedin organization ( PMOI/MKO) which has been residing in your country for decades, had cooperated and participated in many crimes against humanity in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s reign and they have been taking advantage of the democracy and freedom in European countries specially in your motherland, France.

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Iran sees less threat in exiled MKO militants

“I think you would find the current President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad more democratic than the Mujahideen,”says Mr. Abrahamian.”Even in the early 1970s, it had turned into a cult organization…. The remaining members … will do whatever [MKO leader Massoud] Rajavi tells them.” The State Department’s terrorism report last year said the MKO maintains”the capacity and will to commit terrorist acts in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Canada and beyond.”

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Ancient Iran Association Letter to Mr. Vidal Quadras Roca

We the victims of this cult , urge all the European politicians specially the politicians who have been deceived and fallen in pmoi’s ambush by their glamorous slogans which are devoid of any real content to revise their support of this notorious and dishonorable cult( Rajavi’s cult/MKO/MEK/PMOI) and instead , question and inquire them for the numerous crimes which are perpetrated and carried out by them against the people of Iraq and Iran and suppression and slaying of its own dissidents .

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Camp Ashraf, MKO’s political excuse in the West

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – a précis of parts 33-34)- … While the organization calls the world’s attention to Ashraf to intervene to stop the human tragedy taking place there, which also puts its great impact on the Ashraf residents as well, it does not shrink to sacrifice all of the camp’s members to survive and further its ends The propagandas persuades insiders to insist on their resistance since they may come to believe that for sure something would come out of these propagandas …

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Akbar Mohebi returns to his family

Akbar Mohebi was warmly welcomed by his family who were so impressed…”I should say that I’m ashamed because I made you a lot of grieves during the years of my membership in MKO” he said, “ Although I am so happy about my return to my country and family, I feel very sad because I cannot see my father and mother alive among my family members…Hamid Hajipour, another defector who had returned to Gilan four months ago, also attended the little celebration.

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Urgency of safeguarding Camp Ashraf at any price

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – a précis of parts 31-32).. that the organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] is entirely depended on Ashraf for a range of pivotal political, strategic, social, propaganda and even fundraising concerns. For the insiders, Ashraf would be depicted as a strategic bastion where resistance could be fully interpreted, not because it below life into the organization but as it was located in the proximity of Iran’s soil..

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Hierarchical administration of information within MKO

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 30)..none of the information would be circulated among the rank and file and there was a strict hierarchical discipline with no leak to the lower ranks..Massoud and Maryam Raajvi always insisted on the exigent priority of the Leadership Council and were of the opinion that information had to be restrained within the council. The lower ranks of MKO/MEK/PMOI had to only carry out the orders of the top even if the day came when a mass suicide was inevitable ..

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Primacy of death and violence in the ideology of MKO

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 29)..The members of the organization are encouraged to either kill or be killed and there has to be necessarily justifications to convince them choose the either way. ..it is crucial to know why the organization, unlike other similar political or armed groups, cultivates homicidal tendencies with an emphasis on suicidal ones in a struggle to counter its adversaries and exclusively invest on the tactics that highly risk the lives of the insiders. .

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