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		<title>Nejat Society Albania on the Occasion of International Family Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 07:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Members of Nejat Society Albania celebrated the &#8220;International Family Day&#8221; together. On May 15, on the occasion of International Family Day, Iranian and Albanian members of the Nejat Society gathered&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Members of Nejat Society Albania celebrated the &#8220;International Family Day&#8221; together. On May 15, on the occasion of International Family Day, Iranian and Albanian members of the Nejat Society gathered with the lovely people of Tirana in the city&#8217;s central park and held a warm and passionate celebration by the beautiful lake in the park.</p>
<p>This gathering was not just a simple celebration; it was a symbol of returning to social life, liberation from years of isolation and regaining the self-confidence that had been taken away from them in the closed and limited space of a cult-like system of Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).</p>
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<p>About 30 Albanian citizens and all members of the association participated in this program. Defectors of the MEK, those who had been kept away from family, society and human connections for many years, freely laughed, danced and experienced moments full of joy and hope alongside the Albanian people. The warm presence of the people of Tirana showed that people can return to society and start a new life, regardless of their bitter past.</p>
<p>The event was held in a very positive, warm and happy atmosphere. During the program, traditional Albanian and Iranian dances were performed, songs were sung and fun activities were organized that created beautiful moments of friendship and cultural exchange between all participants.</p>
<p>During the activity, food and drinks were served to the participants, while interviews and interactions from the participants and citizens present in the area were also conducted.</p>
<p>While celebrating Family Day, Nejat Society Albania emphasizes the importance of family, freedom of human communication and the right of every person to live alongside society and their loved ones.</p>
<p>Nejat Society Albania</p>
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		<title>Deconstructing the Couple within the MEK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The cult of Rajavi]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“Family, I hate you”. This citation from André Gide, the French author and 1947 Nobel Laureate can be described, with no exaggeration at all, as Massoud Rajavi’s motto. After all,&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Family, I hate you”. This citation from André Gide, the French author and 1947 Nobel Laureate can be described, with no exaggeration at all, as Massoud Rajavi’s motto. After all, the People’s Mojahedin sacrificed everything for their revolution.<br />
In order for the individual to give himself up body and soul to the cause, the MEK intervened directly in its militants’ daily lives. This was to enforce the arbitrary decisions of the ‘Great Teacher’.<br />
As Figaro reported:<br />
“Founded on the cult of its spiritual leader, Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, the Mojahedin organisation has often been compared to a sect by former members, forced to divorce and break with their family to join the ranks of fighters”.</p>
<div id="attachment_11854" style="width: 1010px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-11854" class="wp-image-11854 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Yousefi_Mitra_7.jpg" alt="Mitra Yusefi" width="1000" height="1104" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Yousefi_Mitra_7.jpg 1000w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Yousefi_Mitra_7-272x300.jpg 272w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Yousefi_Mitra_7-928x1024.jpg 928w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Yousefi_Mitra_7-768x848.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /><p id="caption-attachment-11854" class="wp-caption-text">Mitra Yusefi , her husband and children</p></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mitra Yusufi, a long term member of the MEK, and a victim of this policy of enforced divorce, breaks the silence:<br />
“I traveled a long road. I underwent a real brainwashing and I have to be alert all the time. The Iranian people detest Rajavi and I hate him. My story is simple. I was a young newlywed when it all started. My husband was a popular man; since he had played for the Iranian National Football team. This was the team that qualified for the World Championship in 1978 and played in Argentina. We were living in England when the revolution happened.<br />
We returned to Iran before going to the United States. In the Eighties, we had heard bad news about things that happened to our friends. In fact, at the time, we were very cut off from the realities of Iranian society. Rajavi wanted to use my husband’s name. We agreed and we were moved to Greece to organize the movement. When Rajavi, after his divorce from Banisadr’s daughter married his comrade’s wife, Maryam, we were shocked. My husband then took a strong position, saying that you cannot take another’s wife. Two days later, though, they convinced us of the opposite.We were such fools&#8230;”.</p>
<div id="attachment_14113" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14113" class="size-full wp-image-14113" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Afshari-Nadereh.jpg" alt="Nadereh afshari" width="700" height="438" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads//Afshari-Nadereh.jpg 700w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads//Afshari-Nadereh-600x375.jpg 600w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads//Afshari-Nadereh-300x188.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-14113" class="wp-caption-text">Nadereh Afshari</p></div>
<p>Nadere Afshari also lived inside the Mojahedin. She knows the reality:<br />
“Rajavi used the family institution as an instrument at the service of his own power. To keep the men in the organisation, he forced them to marry. To do this, he used women as bait and ‘gave’ them to his most docile servants. Yet, at the slightest sign of disobedience, he took away their wives. Women were, therefore, objects passed from hand to hand.</p>
<p>Thus, a docile woman like Atefeh, who had the rank of Major, was forced to divorce four times, on the personal orders of Rajavi. Her comrade, Mahboubeh Jamshidi, divorced and remarried at least three times.<br />
Rajavi considers the family as an integral cell in his organisation. He, therefore, feels free to intervene in the marital relations of members against their own will. The truth is that he dislikes the family which always posed a problem for his ‘regime’. This was for a very good reason: it is very difficult to keep ‘the light of love for the Leader’ burning bright.<br />
From 1991 on, marriage changed its meaning. It became a barrier which kept the organisation’s members from loving their Leader”.</p>
<p>A third defector states:<br />
“At this time, Rajavi also imposed on the leadership a fixed ceremony at the beginning of meetings: everyone had to place his hands on the table to make sure that no one was wearing a wedding ring, which he called ‘a slave ring’.”</p>
<p>Deconstructing the Family Of course, the MEK defended itself. The impact of these statements on its internal practices on international public opinion created a very negative impression. The National Resistance Council wrote, in its response to the American accusations:<br />
“Further on, they claim that the Mojahedin had forced couples in Iraq to divorce and send their children to Europe and the United States. Here, it must be taken into account that the individuals who wrote this report were repeating, word for word, the allegations used by the Iranian regime and by the survivors of the Shah regime.<br />
The National Liberation Army of Iran is based in the territory of a country where family-Iife in the camps became impossible during the unprecedented bombardments of the Gulf War and thereafter, because of the international embargo.</p>
<p>During the bombings, families, voluntarily and sometimes in writing, asked the organization for assistance in sending their children to Europe and the United States to live with their parents or our supporters. Despite many obstacles and risks, the movement spent millions of dollars to move these children to safe places. The alternative would have been accepting the possibility of numerous victims among them “.</p>
<div id="attachment_13694" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13694" class="size-full wp-image-13694" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Children-2.jpg" alt="The MEK children" width="700" height="479" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Children-2.jpg 700w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Children-2-300x205.jpg 300w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Children-2-220x150.jpg 220w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13694" class="wp-caption-text">The MEK children</p></div>
<p>The facts, however, are stubborn and the eyewitness reports are very precise:<br />
‘in the terms of the ‘Second Ideological Revolution’, children had to be separated from their families and sent abroad. Rajavi made sure personally that this order was carried out case by case, finding militants or family members living in Europe or the United States who could take the children in. In the absence of family abroad, the children were sent to orphanages or special schools established by the Mojahedin in Germany and the Netherlands. More than 500 children were sent abroad this way: they were handed over to the organization during a special ceremony in which the parents recited a text affirming: ‘I give my child to Massoud and Maryam’.”</p>
<p>Yet the MEK justified itself by comparison with others:<br />
“Moreover, this policy is not without precedent. During the Second World War, children were separated from their families and sent outside London during the bombings. If this way of doing things is unacceptable, the State Department should have published a declaration criticising Winston Churchill “. (219)<br />
The People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran could have cited two other 20Ih Century precedents, ones more troubling indeed.</p>
<p>During 1936-37, the evacuation of the children of Spanish Republicans fighting Franco’s Nationalists is one. To protect them from the bombings which struck some cities very hard, especially Madrid, young girls and boys were sent by convoy to the Soviet Union. But once the Popular Front Government was swept aside and taken over by the Communists, these kids stayed in the USSR for an orthodox MarxistLeninist education.<br />
The same scenario took place a few years later in Greece, during the civil war that immediately followed World War ii. There again, children kidnapped for the stated motive of putting them out of harm’s way remained in the USSR.</p>
<p>Kidnapping could also take place at home. The Hitler youth stole the minds and loyalties of children, turning them against their teachers and even their parents. The “Racially pure” S.S. breeding facilities were only a continuation of kidnap, but with the result of bringing thousands of parentless children into post-war Germany. Uprooted, far from their country and cut off from their culture, these children became wanderers without identity. They only had that given them by the movement or the organisation which took them in hand and led them where they wanted to for their own purposes.</p>
<p>For more than 20 years we know exactly how the MEK has used these kids: easier to lead, because they are more docile than adults who have developed their critical faculties. This included abandoning them to their fate when times went bad:<br />
“In Evin, the model prison of Iran, built by the ex-Shah, one section is completely devoted to the ‘curables’, who undergo a reeducation programme. There, we find a certain number of inmates who discarded their former masters, like Banisadr’s embody guard. But the overwhelming majority are children. They are the ones the Mojahedin threw into the street fighting, without any military or political training at all. These kids (13-15 year olds) cracked, naturally. They turned against themselves”.</p>
<p>From the book: Autopsy of an Ideological Drift by Antoine Gessler, translated by Thomas R. Forstenszer</p>
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		<title>She found a paper: Dont wait for Ali! He is in the MEK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Mahvash Jahanbani was pregnant with her second child when her husband, Ali Ebrahimi, was taken as a war prisoner by the Iraqi forces in the early days of the Iran-Iraq&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Mahvash Jahanbani</strong> was pregnant with her second child when her husband, Ali Ebrahimi, was taken as a war prisoner by the Iraqi forces in the early days of the Iran-Iraq war. Their first son, Hossein was only two years old.<br />
Ali Ebrahimi was an officer serving the Iranian army. As a war prisoner he had been registered by the Red Cross, so he was able to write letters to his family in Iran during the years of imprisonment in Iraqi camps. However, letters were suddenly cut off in 1989.</p>
<p>Mahvash who used to write about their growing kids, sending their photos to her husband, had no new of Ali anymore. The Iranian POWs were released in 1990 but Ali did not return home. The whole family were looking for him in the international offices of the RC but nobody knew about the whereabouts of Ali until the day that Mahvash found a paper in the yard of her house in which it was written: “Dont wait for Ali Ebrahimi. He is in the Mujahedin-e Khalq.”</p>
<div id="attachment_13809" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13809" class="size-full wp-image-13809" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Ebrahimi-Wife.jpg" alt="Ali Ebrahimis Wife; Ms. Mahvash Jahanbani" width="700" height="405" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Ebrahimi-Wife.jpg 700w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Ebrahimi-Wife-300x174.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13809" class="wp-caption-text">Mahvash Jahanbani; wife of the MEK hostage Ali Ebrahimi</p></div>
<p>Ali Ebrahimi and dozens of Iranian POWs were deceived by the MEK recruiters who used to go to the camps to convince the POWs to join the group. As a member of the MEK Ali was not allowed by the leaders of the group, to contact his family in Iran.<br />
Mahavsh has not been able to contact her husband since 1989. When the MEK was located in Iraq, she went to Iraq four times. “I and other families of MEK members picketed in front of the bars of Camp Ashraf and Camp liberty for weeks,” Mahvash told Mardom TV. “I called the name of Ali Ebrahimi in the loudspeakers. I am sure that they could hear us but they just threw rocks at us. We were never allowed to visit him.”<br />
Weeping tears, she says, “I was only 24 when Ali left. I grew my kids by my own. I miss him. Whenever, I talk about him I cry.”</p>
<p>Offering sympathy to Mahavash, a number of former members of the MEK commented below the video of Mardom TV’s interview with her. “I remember that Ali was under too much pressure by the MEK commanders after his wife came to the gates of camp Ashraf,” a former member recalled. “They forced him to take position against his wife labeling her as the mercenary of the Iranian Intelligence but Ali did not agree to do so. In response, he was suppressed by the commanders.”</p>
<p>Mahvash Jahanbanian is still seeking to visit her husband after years of separation. She calls on the Albanian authorities to aid her have a private visit or even a phone call with her beloved husband.<br />
In the hope that her husband might see her video, she addresses Ali through the camera of Mardom TV: “Ali! I still love you and respect you the same as I did the day you left. We will warmly welcome you whenever you come back home.”</p>
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		<title>The story of Torabi family; torn apart by the MEK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Torabis are from a village near Gaz port in Golestan province in North of Iran. Nadeali Torabi, the oldest brother is a farmer, living in their home town looking&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Torabis are from a village near Gaz port in Golestan province in North of Iran. Nadeali Torabi, the oldest brother is a farmer, living in their home town looking forward to see the two sisters left of his entire family. Their parents, both died before they could be able to visit their beloved children and grandchildren.<br />
QorbanAli one of the Torabis was influenced by the communist ideas taking over the 1970s in Iran so he joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, his two sisters Masoomeh and Maryam and his bother Mohamad Reza joined the MEK too. Eventually the Torabi’s home became a center for ani-government activities in the armed struggle that Massoud Rajavi launched against the newly stablished Iranian government during the 1980s.</p>
<p>The fate of two generations of the Torabis was impacted by their involvement with the MEK. The followings are brief records of what happened to these guys:<br />
Mohammad Reza Torabi 1 (Nadeali’s brother)<br />
QorbanAli Torabi (Nadeali’s brother)<br />
Zahra Seraj (QorbanAli’s wife)<br />
Mohammad Reza Torabi 2 (Son of Qorban and Zahra)<br />
Masoomeh Torabi (Nadeali’s sister)<br />
Maryam Torabi (Nadeali’s sister)</p>
<p>Mohammad Reza Torabi 1<br />
The clashes between the MEK forces and the Iranian government turned into violence after Massoud Rajavi ordered the bloody armed struggle against the Islamic Republic, in June 1981. The MEK launched numerous acts of violence against the Iranian civilians and authorities. Consequently, a large number of MEK members were arrested, imprisoned or sentenced to death. MohammadReza was executed in Evin Prison.</p>
<div id="attachment_13755" style="width: 608px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13755" class="wp-image-13755 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Torabi-Ghorbanali-1.jpg" alt="GhorbanAli Torabi Qorban was tortured to death by the MEK" width="598" height="374" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Torabi-Ghorbanali-1.jpg 598w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Torabi-Ghorbanali-1-300x188.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13755" class="wp-caption-text">GhorbanAli Torabi Qorban was tortured to death by the MEK</p></div>
<p>QorbanAli Torabi<br />
As a mujahed partisan, he was arrested by the Iranian security guards when he was crossing the Turkish border with his family. He was imprisoned for six years. In March, 1989 Qorban left Iran to join the MEK in Iraq together with his wife, son, his two sisters, his sister’s husband. They first moved to Pakistan and then they were smuggled to Iraq.<br />
Two years later, Massoud Rajavi’s so-called ideological revolution required members of the group to divorce their spouses. Family life became forbidden at Camp Ashraf. His son, Mohammad Reza was separated from him and transferred to the West together with eight hundred other children of the MEK members. Qorban protested the new cult-like regulations of the group. This was the start of an oppressive process against him.<br />
In the winter of 1994, the MEK leaders imprisoned a large number of their own members including Qorban, accusing them of working for the Iranian government. Qorban was tortured to death. Twenty-one of his peers in the cell witnessed his death after his awfully injured body was brought to the cell by the MEK torturers. Former members, Alireza Mirasgari and Mohammad Razaghi were two of those witnesses who later testified about the death of Qorban due to tortures in the MEK’s prison.</p>
<p>Zahra Seraj<br />
After Rajavi’s so-called ideological revolution, Zahra was coerced to divorce her husband, Qorban. She submitted her son to the MEK’s smugglers to take him to Canada. In response, she was granted higher ranks in the hierarchy of the Cult of Rajavi.<br />
When in 2004, Nadeali traveled to Iraq to see his brothers and sisters, he ran into Zahra in the hall that all families of MEK members were waiting to visit their loved ones. Nadeali asked Zahra about his brother Qorban’s fate. “For a few seconds she stared at me and then she started shouting insults at me,” Nadeali recounts. “She was severely brainwashed.”<br />
Zahra Seraj is still in the MEK’s camp in, Albania. According to former members, Zahra was a kind, hardworking and responsible person who was brainwashed by the Cult of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.</p>
<div id="attachment_13756" style="width: 608px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13756" class="size-full wp-image-13756" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Torabi-Ray-1.jpg" alt="Mohammad Reza Torabi" width="598" height="374" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Torabi-Ray-1.jpg 598w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Torabi-Ray-1-300x188.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13756" class="wp-caption-text">Mohammad Reza Torabi</p></div>
<p>Mohammad Reza Torabi 2<br />
He was named MohammadReza after the name of his martyred uncle. He was only one year old when he was in Iranian prison with his mother. In 1989 his parents took him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He was there until he was nine years old. In 1991, he was smuggled to Europe and then to Canada to live in the MEK bases or with foster parents. He was then brought back to Iraq to join the MEK’s National Liberation Army (NLA) when he was 16.<br />
Four years ago, He could manage to leave the MEK after 18 years. He has recently begun to reveal facts on his life experience as child soldier in the MEK. “It was a terrible life there,” he says about his childhood in the Cult of Rajavi. “I was in Ashraf until I was eight or nine. In Camp Ashraf or in the MEK’s bases in the West, I was sexually abused by the MEK sympathizers and members. I was then given to a family that was very bad. I was constantly beaten by them. I was mentally abused.”</p>
<p>Masoomeh Torabi<br />
Masoomeh was pregnant when she crossed the Iranian border to Pakistan together with her family. She gave birth to her daughter, Anahita, in Pakistan. Then they joined the MEK in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.<br />
She admitted Rajavi’s order to divorce her husband, Hamid. A year later, the MEK smugglers took her two-year-old daughter to Canada.<br />
However, when his brother Nadeali went to camp Ashraf to visit the, she hugged him and cried. Asked about the death of Qorban, Masoomeh told Nadeali that he had died of a heart attack!<br />
Masoomeh is still taken as a hostage in the MEK cult-like group. Former members say that when Masoomeh finally called her daughter Anahita after 20 years, she did not know her at all. No information was found about the current situation of Hamid and Anahita Emami, the husband and daughter of Masoomeh.</p>
<p>Maryam Banoo Torabi<br />
The youngest sibling has spent the most part of her life in the MEK. In 1994, she was also accused of being an agent of the Iranian intelligence. She was interrogated and imprisoned. She was under too much pressure by the commanders. The death of her brother, Qorban was also a trauma that led her to psychotic disorders.<br />
In that only one meeting with Nadeali in 2004, Maryam told him that she wanted to leave the group but she was scared. “My little sister, Maryam was crying saying that she did not want to stay there but she was forced to stay,” Nadeali says. “I asked her to come with me but she said that if the MEK agents realized that she wanted to escape, they would kill her.”<br />
Maryam is still in the MEK’s camp in Albania, just the same as other radicalized female members of the group.</p>
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		<title>Good News From Albania – Family Visits May Go Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a summit held on December 20-21, hosted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the Albanian capital Tirana with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, a raft of deals were signed that will lead the way to further links between the countries. Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia launched the Open Balkan initiative in October 2019 to promote ties with the aim to establish a single market to pave the way for EU membership.</p>
<p>“Our goal is that the Balkans have no more borders for people, for the movement of goods, capital, and services — four European Union principles,” Albania’s prime minister said.</p>
<p>This is good news for ASILA, the association registered with the Albanian Judiciary whose aim is to support Iranians living in Albania. ASILA not only helps defectors from the Rajavi cult with their rights and living arrangements, it also hopes to reunite families estranged by the MEK’s anti-family policy. In a video link with some of these families gathered in Tehran, the head of ASILA, Hassan Heyrani, explained that the Open Balkan initiative would open the way to facilitate these visits.</p>
<p>“The good news is that the president of Albania Edi Rama and the president of Kosovo signed an agreement, the day before yesterday, based on which the border between the two countries will be opened.” Hassan Heyrani told families of MEK members in an online meeting.<br />
“Therefore, families will be able to take a flight from Iran to Belgrade, Serbia and from there they could come to Krishna which is 250 kilometers from Tirana so we can go there to visit them.”</p>
<p>Heyrani added that the ASILA Association also has the power to establish a travel agency in order to provide visitor visas for the Iranian families willing to visit their loved ones in Albania.</p>
<div id="attachment_13731" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13731" class="wp-image-13731 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Zaev-Rama.jpg" alt="Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the Albanian capital Tirana with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev" width="600" height="323" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Zaev-Rama.jpg 600w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Zaev-Rama-300x162.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13731" class="wp-caption-text">summit held on December 20-21, hosted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the Albanian capital Tirana with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev</p></div>
<p><strong>Sources:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1- Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia Deepen Ties At ‘Open Balkan’ Summit</strong><br />
Radio Free Europe</p>
<p>TIRANA — Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia have signed a raft of deals and agreed to further their Open Balkan initiative to promote ties as the three countries’ leaders held two days of talks in Tirana.<br />
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama hosted the December 20-21 summit in the Albanian capital with his counterpart from North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.<br />
The sides inked six agreements on the labor market, electronic identification, and the lifting of nontariff barriers for businesses, among other things.</p>
<p>They had previously decided to abolish customs controls from January 1, 2023.<br />
Rama said the Open Balkan initiative’s goal is to establish a single market among its members and pave the way for EU membership.<br />
“Our goal is that the Balkans have no more borders for people, for the movement of goods, capital, and services — four European Union principles,” Albania’s prime minister said.<br />
The Open Balkan initiative, launched in October 2019, “is one of the biggest ideas in today’s Europe,” according to Vucic.<br />
“The most important goal is to unite people who have been focusing more on the past rather than the future. It is important to connect people and their businesses,” the Serbian leader said.</p>
<p>According to Zaev, “Open Balkan is our way forward on the road to the European Union.”<br />
The three Western Balkan countries are at different stages on the path to EU membership.<br />
While Serbia has launched full membership negotiations, accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania have been delayed.<br />
“We agreed that our three countries would not be held hostage to the failure of the European Union to unblock our European integration process,” Zaev said. “That process can be stopped in Brussels, but the Europeanization and implementation of European values in Northern Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania have no reason to be on hold.”</p>
<p>Officials of the three other Western Balkan countries seeking to join the EU — Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro — have expressed skepticism toward the Open Balkan initiative and rejected calls to join.<br />
Vucic’s arrival in Tirana on December 20 triggered a protest by thousands of Albanians opposed to his visit and the summit.<br />
The rally was called by former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who said the Open Balkan initiative was meant to “establish Serbian hegemony in the region.”<br />
The next Open Balkan summit is scheduled for February in North Macedonia’s capital, Skopje.</p>
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<p>2- ASILA: the way will be open for families of MEK hostages<br />
<a href="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/13727">Nejat Society</a></p>
<p>The head of the Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) spoke of the new options that are opening for the families of MEK members who are looking forward to visiting their loved ones in the group’s camp in Albania.<br />
The newly established ASILA has the duty to support the Iranians who defects the Cult of Rajavi and the families of those who are still taken as hostages in the group’s camp Ashraf 3, in the region of Durres in North of Tirana, Albania.</p>
<p>In an online meeting between Hassan Heyrani, the head of ASILA, in Tirana, and a number of families of MEK members in the office of Nejat Society in Tehran, Heyrani promised to use all capacities of the association to pave the way for the families to travel to Albania.<br />
“I assure you that the way will be opened,” he said. “The cult of Rajavi cannot prevent you from visiting your loved ones in a democratic European country. They have been supported by the US and Israel so far but they have not been able to keep their own children in their cult.”</p>
<p>In response to the heart-broken mother of Mijad Hajalirezai who was weeping tears languishing for her son, Heyrani said, “The Mujahedin cannot keep their members under pressure, mind control and intimidation forever. Half of their members have defected since the early 2000s.”<br />
ASILA has been officially registered in the Albanian Judiciary department and its activities are closely supervised by the Albanian government.</p>
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		<title>Iranian Romeo &#038; Juliet Versus Maryam Rajavi The Witch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2021 05:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It was in Tirana that the story of Iranian Romeo &#38; Juliet, the couple in love, was repeated, like a production from Shakespeare’s “master” pen. This time, Romeo and Juliet&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was in Tirana that the story of Iranian Romeo &amp; Juliet, the couple in love, was repeated, like a production from Shakespeare’s “master” pen. This time, Romeo and Juliet are not from Verona but from Iran. Fortunately, the story of the loving Iranian couple in Tirana has a “happy ending” and not a tragic end like Shakespeare’s characters!</p>
<div id="attachment_13711" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13711" class="size-full wp-image-13711" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Khademi-Bazazian-1.jpg" alt="Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi" width="700" height="466" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Khademi-Bazazian-1.jpg 700w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Khademi-Bazazian-1-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13711" class="wp-caption-text">Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq</p></div>
<p>Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi are the Iranian Romeo and Juliet in Tirana. The couple were previously members of the defunct terrorist organization Mujahedin Khalq, MEK, locked up in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Durres, Albania. They fell in love with each other thus violating one of the basic rules of the Rajavi cult (MEK): Love is “HARAM”! Love is forbidden because it prevents cult members from overthrowing the government of Iran! Those in the cult, however, have had forty short years, in which they have not yet overthrown the government in Tehran, even though they have declared “non grata” such a human feeling as love. Thankfully this time love triumphed over the wickedness of Maryam Rajavi, head of the Iranian cult of Manez. Sanaz and her brother Mehrdad were not intimidated by the threats of the cult commanders, nor were they seduced by the sums of up to 14,000 euros or the promises to be trafficked from Tirana to Europe, to Germany.</p>
<div id="attachment_13719" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13719" class="size-full wp-image-13719" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Khademi-Bazazian-2.jpg" alt="Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi" width="700" height="777" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Khademi-Bazazian-2.jpg 700w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Khademi-Bazazian-2-270x300.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13719" class="wp-caption-text">Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq</p></div>
<p>We remind the reader that commanders of this cult were recently handcuffed by the Albanian police for human trafficking – we hope that the ‘007’ employees of the German Embassy in Tirana will take account of this trafficking of human beings destined for Germany.</p>
<p>Sanaz and her Romeo Bijan Khademi are finally living happily in Tirana. The couple even got married according to Islamic ceremony, a marriage performed by an Albanian imam. In December, the Albanian police (immigration directorate), despite the pressures and intrigues of the Rajavi cult, will start to provide ID cards to Iranians who live in Albania, but who have left the ranks of the Rajavi cult.</p>
<p>The ASILA Association, which protects the interests and rights of these Iranians, has undertaken to help provide our “Romeo and Juliet” with Albanian identity cards. Once provided with an identity card, the couple can complete the civil marriage formalities at the civil registration office in Tirana. Such action will provide the Iranian couple with all the necessary legal cover to protect themselves from any intrigue of the wicked woman Maryam Rajavi.</p>
<p>I am closing this post with my wish: Let Tirana inherit this Romeo and Juliet of Iran!</p>
<p>Gjergji Thanasi, Gazeta Impakt &#8211; Translated by Iran Interlink</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 05:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Zhila (Forouzandeh) Kakavand is from Borujerd, Lorestan, Iran. she has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) for over 40 years.&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Zhila (Forouzandeh) Kakavand is from Borujerd, Lorestan, Iran. she has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) for over 40 years.</p>
<p>Zhila was married to a Mujahed named Yaser Jahan Nezhadi. He is still in the MEK too. They left their daughter Sara behind in Iran and they fled to Iraq to join the MEK in Iraq. Zhila’s mother recalls those days that Sara was languishing the absence of her mother, as a little girl. “Grandma tell me about my mom’s childhood,” Zhila’s mother says about Sara. “While I was talking for her, she was just weeping tears.”</p>
<div id="attachment_13255" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13255" class="wp-image-13255 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand-Foruzande-Mom.jpg" alt="Zhila Kakavand's mother" width="700" height="389" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand-Foruzande-Mom.jpg 700w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand-Foruzande-Mom-300x167.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13255" class="wp-caption-text">Zhila Kakavand&#8217;s mother</p></div>
<p>Sara lives in Canada now. She is still disconnected with her parents. “She still looks for her mom and asks me about her,” Sara’s grandmother says.</p>
<p>Zhila’s family has taken numerous actions to open a way to contact their beloved Zhila. Besides several letters that they have sent to the International Human Rights bodies, Ziba has published a few videos in the hope of reminding Zhila of the good memories of their past, their school, their neighborhood and their home.</p>
<div id="attachment_13256" style="width: 810px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13256" class="wp-image-13256 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand_Ziba.jpg" alt="Ziba Kakavand " width="800" height="532" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand_Ziba.jpg 800w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand_Ziba-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kakavand_Ziba-768x511.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /><p id="caption-attachment-13256" class="wp-caption-text">Ziba Kakavand attended Nejat Society meeting</p></div>
<p>Ziba Kakavand also attended the online conference of Nejat Society last month. She once more called on the international community to help the release of her sister.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The family of Rahim Kiukan, who is based in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in Albania, has written a letter to the Albanian Prime Minister asking for help&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The family of Rahim Kiukan, who is based in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in Albania, has written a letter to the Albanian Prime Minister asking for help with his situation in the country.<br />
The text of the letter, which follows, has also been sent to other Albanian government officials as well as international organizations and the media.</p>
<p>Mr Edi Rama,<br />
Honorable Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania<br />
Greetings and best regards<br />
We, the extended family of Mr Rahim Kiukan &#8211; who is based in the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO) camp in Albania &#8211; including his wife, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law, 2 daughters-in-law and 7 grandchildren &#8211; have been informed that he has been trying to make contact with his family for years but has been prevented from doing so by the MEK.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12792 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-1.jpg" alt="Kiukan family " width="800" height="519" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-1.jpg 800w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-1-768x498.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>
<p>According to the information we obtained, he is now seriously ill and in quarantine due to the physical and psychological pressures that are generally placed on disaffected people in the MEK seeking contact with their families, and he is still not allowed to communicate with his family.<br />
We also learned that he had been severely pressured to take a public stand against his family, who have been working tirelessly to obtain any information about him, and to denounce their actions, which he refused to do, and he is therefore placed under double pressure.</p>
<p>Rahim, 78, left Iran in September 1981 in support of the MEK at the behest of the organization and eventually went to Iraq. He was then transferred to Albania with other members of the organization. Like other members, he has no right to communicate with the outside world, especially family and friends.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12793 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-2.jpg" alt="Rahim Kiukan family" width="800" height="457" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-2.jpg 800w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-2-300x171.jpg 300w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Kayukan-Family-2-768x439.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>
<p>During these years, we made great efforts and sent many letters to Albanian government officials and international and human rights organizations, asking them to help us contact Rahim and get information about his condition, but we did not get any results from these efforts.<br />
We urge you to help us in any way possible to establish a connection with Rahim Kiukan, who is a prisoner of the MEK in Albania and who has been deprived of any right to communicate and is quite ill in old age, so that we can move beyond our worries.</p>
<p>Yours Sincerely,<br />
Leila Kiukan on behalf of the family<br />
Phone: + 98-9127103706</p>
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		<title>Family is taboo except after death</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 07:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In human society, family is a group of people related either by birth or affinity. The purpose of families should be to maintain the well-being of its members and of&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In human society, family is a group of people related either by birth or affinity. The purpose of families should be to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. It is the essential element and the fundamental pillar of society; and many societies in the world regard the protection and support of the family as their fundamental principles, since the decline or rise of each society is closely linked to the inner situation of each family.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the formation of a family is one of the basic rights of every person. This right, like other basic rights such as having a job and choosing a place of residence, is inevitable, and nobody can deny this right from another.</p>
<p>The above-mentioned statements are perfectly rational and acceptable to each audience. It is even surprising to everyone that, in the twenty-first century, leaders of a small society violate these logical principles. Today there are sects out there that deny this simple principle. They oppose the foundations of family.</p>
<p>Among destructive cults, the Cult of Rajavi (MKO/ MEK/ Mujahedin Khalq/ PMOI) has escaped the principle of family , forbidding the foundation of family as its fundamental organizational principle.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-12713 size-full" src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Cult-Family-1.jpg" alt="Family in the MEK Cult" width="800" height="509" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Cult-Family-1.jpg 800w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Cult-Family-1-300x191.jpg 300w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/MEK-Cult-Family-1-768x489.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>
<p>In fact, family is a strange word which is scarified in the cult-like regulations of the MEK. Rules such as compulsory marriage, forced celibacy, forced divorce, separation of children from parents, the sterilization of women, and many other components represent the violation of family rights by the MEK.</p>
<p>However, family turn out to become useful for the MEK leaders. In December 2018, one of the most famous MKO members, Mohammad Seyedi Kashani, in the Garrison of Ashraf 3 in Albania, died because of his age.<br />
At the time of his funeral in the cemetery of Ashraf, the famous fringe occurred; the presence of people with flowers. They showed up as Seyed Kashani’s family. Perhaps, the most remarkable fringe for the ceremony was a paper on which it was written &#8220;family&#8221;. In the pictures of two women with flowers, moving to the grave of the man; you will find that one of them is Shohreh Moghadas, the wife and the other one, the daughter of Seyedi Kashani.</p>
<p>But why is the name of the family surprising to the audience? The answer to this question should be sought in the history of the MEK. After the heavy defeat the group in the “Eternal Light” against Iranian border, Massoud Rajavi called the operation as an &#8220;insurance letter&#8221; for the management and reduction of members&#8217; protests for the failure of &#8220;Forough Javidan&#8221; and its heavy casualties for the organization.</p>
<p>All members were blamed for the failure. People got stuck in the &#8220;Chahar zebr&#8221; Strait (a location of a horrible battle in the operation), because of thousands of straits in their minds! And in fact, their &#8220;monotheism&#8221; was incomplete because they had to think about the leadership in their minds and they should not depend on anyone else in terms of emotional affairs and considered the interests of a husband and wife as partners and the members should only be interested in their leader, Massoud Rajavi.</p>
<p>These arguments were the introduction to another &#8220;ideological revolution&#8221; known as the &#8220;divorce revolution&#8221;. To control individuals, Massoud Rajavi considered the only factor in the failure of the organization to be an individual&#8217;s affiliation with the family and, in order to counteract it, sought to oppose the &#8220;individuality and gender&#8221; of the organization, and then members of the organization took a divorce and even insulted each other. Seyedi Kashani and Shohreh Moghaddas were not excluded from this and were obliged to obey Massoud orders, in addition to having a child. Shohreh Moghaddas went to France in March 1993 with Maryam and no longer returned to Iraq, and daughter of Seyedi Kashani was taken to Iraq in 1991 in a sectarian movement.</p>
<p>This is a story of the lives of many people who have been condemned to death in the Rajavi cult, and see their being excluded because, contrary to the principles of nature, in this sect, only death can be a factor in forming a family. When you observe Seyedi Kashani&#8217;s burial video, you are more likely to realize the reality of the secularism of the MKO. A woman and girl who have been for years not allowed to meet with their other family members, and only permission, is to attend the funeral. It is possible that if Massoud Rajavi, the head of the terrorist cult of the MKO, was presents on that day, he would condemn and blame the woman and daughter for expressing their kindness and grief.</p>
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		<title>Dear Peyman Recall Your Sweet Memories of Home!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2021 04:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Fatehi]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ali (Peyman) Fatehi was a soldier at Iran-Iraq war when 1988 he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. Supported by Saddam Hussein, the authorities of the Mujahedin&#8230;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ali (Peyman) Fatehi was a soldier at Iran-Iraq war when 1988 he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. Supported by Saddam Hussein, the authorities of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) used to deceive Iranian soldiers to join their group in POW camps. Peyman was deceived to join the MEK, probably in the hope of a better life condition than the disastrous one of Iraqi camps. However, he has been taken as a hostage by the group for over 35 years now.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img loading="lazy" width="500" height="380" class="aligncenter wp-image-12480 size-full"src="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Fatehi_Ali_Mom_2.jpg"alt="Ali Fatehi mum"width="500"height="380" srcset="https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Fatehi_Ali_Mom_2.jpg 500w, https://www.nejatngo.org/en/wp-content/uploads/Fatehi_Ali_Mom_2-300x228.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></p>
<p>His parents made a lot of efforts to visit him in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, but they were never allowed by the group authorities to meet their son. They picketed in front of the gates of Camp Ashraf several times, calling the name of their son, showing his name and picture on placards. Unfortunately, it did not work. In response, the MEK leaders labeled them as the agents of the Quds force of the Iranian government.</p>
<p>Ten years ago, Peyman’s father died while he was awaiting his beloved son. His mother, Mehangiz Rezaiee still suffers this long-life separation. She is expecting the return of his son from Albania to Iran. She publishes letters and voice messages, on the Internet, for her imprisoned son. She hopes that Peyman will receive the message someday.</p>
<p>In her recent voice message, the heartbroken mother asks Peyman to recall his sweet memories of home, his friends and family. Her desperate voice is an evidence for the horrific human rights violation that is taking place in the MEK.</p>
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