Manipulation Techniques of the MEK cult leaders

Inside the MEK: Cellphone Forbidden

Using cellphone can be a distracter to accomplish your tasks but who denies that cellphones have opened the door to be able to communicate in different ways (text message, social media messaging, photos, etc.) However, there are still some people out there who are banned from having cellphones: Members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq .

While even kids across the world are allowed to have cellphones these days, the rank and file of the MEK who are taken as hostages in a barred camp called Ashraf 3, north of Tirana, Albania, are banned from having cellphones. Defectors of the group have bizarre experiences of forbidden cellphones inside the MEK’s cult-like group.

In the United States no law prohibits the employer from banning phone use or possession during actual work time or in a regular active working area but MEK members are not employed by the group leaders. They are not paid for the routine difficult tasks they have to accomplish every day, in Camp Ashraf. Instead, as all cult members, they are supposed to dedicate their whole life to the leaders of the cult.

Former members of the MEK who are residing in Albania have recently published their memoirs of “cellphone ban” in the MEK. Khalil Ansarian who defected the MEK in 2020 after 28 years of forced membership, writes his memoirs of the efforts made by him and his friends to find a cellphone to call their family from inside the MEK. Sarfaraz Rahimi also writes how a cellphone rescued him from the group.

Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania

According to Ansarian, after the MEK was relocated in Albania and since the group was under the scrutiny of a democratic society, Massoud Rajavi decided to pay his rank and file for the first time. “Each member was paid 8 dollars per month,” he writes. “After three decades we had 8 dollars in our pockets.”

One of his friends suggests Khalil buying one cellphone by sharing their money. As they had no idea of mobile technology, the first cellphone that they secretly bought was so old that no application could be installed on it. So, they did not succeed to contact their families after long years of separation. They planned to buy another one.

“This time we bought a used cellphone for 40 dollars,” he recounts. “The other day, my friend and I went to the hills around the camp. We tried to contact his family via Telegram by the only phone number my friend had from his family.”
They could finally get connected to his friend’s family. “We were connected!” he writes. “At first, his family could not believe him. They could not believe that their son was alive after so many years.”

Nevertheless, it was not easy to contact your family even if you had a cellphone. “We had to change the place of contact every day, “Khalil Ansarian states. “The suppressive agents of Rajavi would constantly patrol around the camp watching the rank and file.”

Sarfaraz Rahimi the MEK defector who left the MEK six years ago and married an Albanian girl, writes, “The leaders of the MEK know well that if members have cellphones, they will immediately call their families. Having been connected to the outside world, they will realize the reality of the world. Thus, the MEK does not allow members to have cellphones.”
Sarfaraz writes about his personal experience after he found a cellphone to call his family. “It was because of the cellphone that I learned that I was a hostage of the MEK,” he states. “When I started having daily contacts with my family and I surfed the Internet, I got to know that the truth was not what the MEK gave us. Every day, the truth became clearer. I realized why the MEK was against cellphone. Because it would open connections with the world outside the walls of Ashraf.”

January 30, 2023 0 comment

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MEK, a case study on mind manipulation at Salford Uni- Part three

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

In the first part of Dr. Banisadr’s lecture, a general description of human mind and the way it is gone under undue influence was presented. Using several examples of his own account of being involved in the MEK cult, he helped us understand how our mind works, what the weak points of our mind are and how it can be manipulated. The second part of his presentation was focused on the relationship between time and mind manipulation and the tools manipulators use to change their victims’ personality. In this file, the third part of his lecture, Dr. Banisadr explains how the conscious mind or System 2 is an obstacle against the unconscious mind or System 1.

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Tools of Minipulators

He states that manipulators want their victims to act according to their unconscious mind and they do it via different tools. Unconscious mind works through a reward and punishment system. Dr. Banisadr explains his own experience of being subjected to such a technique in the MEK. When he as an active member of the MEK, Massoud Rajavi would send him some presents. Once he sent him his own underwear as a gift which was so precious for Banisadr!
Self-criticism meeting is an example of punishment tool in the MEK. According to Dr. Banisadr, as a daily routine, members of the group have to attend meetings called “Dig” in which they have to confess all they did through a day. Dig means pot in Persian and connotes that the member is in the boiling water in a pot and should confess his sins to and get punished by his or her commanders and peers.

In the cults, daily routines contribute to change the members’ behavior into habits and in the absence of the critical system 2 (conscious mind), the habits are established automatically. The magic of repetition also helps the manipulator to change a lie into reality; change the reality into truth and then to change truth into belief.

This procedure was perfectly used by the MEK leaders after the so-called ideological revolution, the marriage of Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Qajar (Rajavi). Dr. Banisadr remembers how the entire organization was inclined by the photos, words, quotations, posters of Massoud and Maryam that had covered the walls of the group’s headquarters.

Obstacles to defection

Based on Dr. Banisadr’s research, loss aversion is another factor that makes a cult member stay in the cult despite its suppressive atmosphere. Cult members respond more strongly to what they lose if they leave the cult rather than what they gain if they do so. He speaks of one of his friends in the MEK who was fed up with the cult-like ruling of Massoud Rajavi but he was not able to leave the group. “He was tired; he did not want to stay any more but he would think if he left the group what would happen to him, how he would find a gob, how he would make a living outside the group,” Banisadr says.
Dr. Massoud Banidadr suggests that System 2 has a veto power over System 1. Due to lack of will power, System 1 accepts without questioning. What Banisadr calls “Gee Factor” is vital to control a person’s thought, emotions, impulse and performance. He recommends some methods to increase Gee factor.

December 18, 2022 0 comment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

November 30, 2022 0 comment

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MEK smuggle dissident members across Europe to stop deradicalization

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The recent order to inspect the properties of former members of the Mujahedin Khalq (current members of ASILA) by the Albanian Police was issued by the country’s attorney general, Etleva Deda. Although the Police did not discover anything illegal in the properties of MEK defectors, the order contained a very crucial point about the mujahedin Khalq: Since the arrival of Mojahedin Khalq in Albania, about 400 members have separated from it and about 300 members have illegally left Albania for EU countries.

The most recent defector of the MEK whose house was inspected by the Police on July 14, published new revelations confirming the fact that was noted in the attorney general’s inspection order. Mostafa (Milad) Beheshti‘s testimony was like an evidence to verify what the inspection order stated. “During the past months, an Afghan smuggler with a nickname (Meysam) sent dozens of people across the Albanian border to Greece by receiving 1,200 Euros from each person, and by making fake IDs and documents of foreigners and Greek citizens,” Mostafa writes on his Facebook.

Mostafa Beheshti

Mostafa clarifies the part of MEK agents in smuggling their defectors out of Albania. “This was done as a team and under the control of one of the Mojahedin supporters in Germany,” he writes. “The smuggler (Meysam) was in contact with a person determined by the Mujahideen through virtual number and WhatsApp, and no one else had the right to have the number of this smuggler.”

Mostafa Beheshti who used to visit the MEK commanders to receive a small monthly payment before announcing his complete defection a few weeks ago, states the names of two MEK commanders who were in direct contact with the Afghan smuggler to monitor the defector even after his defection from the Cult of Rajavi. “Human trafficking was carried out in groups of 3 people, and Javad Khorasan and Abdullah Hosseini were in direct contact with the groups’ guides along the way.”

Human smuggling by the MEK has been in the lime light from time to time. On December 2021, it was reported that an MEK-linked team have been arrested for drug smuggling, human trafficking, and money laundering in Albania. Press TV cited from Exit News, the Albanian news agency that published an official document giving details of serious offenses involving MEK members: “According to the document, bearing the signature and stamp of the Director of the Criminal Police Department in the State Police, two members of the MKO, along with Albanian and Greek accomplices, have been arrested for direct involvement in human trafficking.”

The MEK’s background indicates that it has always been professionally active in human trafficking. According to RAND report a large number of the MEK’s rank and file had been smuggled to Iraq when it was located in Camp Ashraf, 60 kilometers from Baghdad. The report published in 2009 reads:

“Several factors suggest that repatriation to Iran is appropriate for the MeK rank and file. First, a significant, indeterminate portion of the MeK rank and file in Iraq were at Camp Ashraf only because of the MeK’s fraudulent recruiting practices. For example, Iranians taken prisoner by Saddam’s forces during the Iran-Iraq War were promised repatriation to Iran if they transferred from Iraqi prison camps to MeK facilities. Iranian expatriates in third countries were told that they would be granted asylum in European countries. They were also given offers of employment as translators, along with promises of land and spouses. Some Iranians were enticed to MeK camps by offers of free visits with family members. Others who paid to be smuggled out of Iran found themselves trafficked to MeK camps rather than to their intended destinations. Although the exact figure is not known, it is estimated that approximately 70 percent of MeK members now in Iraq joined the group after its relocation there and subsequent decline in popularity. Many of them were victims of these fraudulent recruiting practices.”

MEK members' at camp ashraff

What the RAND report asserts, have been frequently appeared in the testimonies of former members who recounted how they got involved with the MEK. The testimonies of victims of the Cult of Rajavi indicate the dimensions of Massoud Rajavi’s atrocity against his rank and file in his cult of personality. “These victims as well as the MeK’s true volunteers (most of whom joined prior to the MeK’s exile from Iran) have been trapped in a cult environment,” according to the RAND report. “The MeK leadership has confiscated their identity documents, threatened them with persecution in Iran and prosecution for illegal immigration in Iraq, and prevented those who wished to do so from returning to their home country. Therefore, humanitarian considerations regarding the MeK must not assume that the wishes of the MeK’s leadership are the same as those of the rank and file, particularly those who were deceived and then trapped at MeK camps.”

Nevertheless, the recent revelation that was made in the Albanian’s inspection order and was confirmed and clarified by Mostafa Beheshti, shows that people who defect the MEK are not free from the cult’s control system which is now under the ruling of Maryam Rajavi. Leaders of the Cult of Rajavi make their maximum effort to prevent defectors from deradicalization by smuggling them across Albanian border and delivering them to their agents in other European countries. By its supportive activities for former members of the group, the Association for the Support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) is actually obstructing the MEK’s efforts. Indeed, as defectors come to ASILA office immediately after their escape from Camp Ashraf 3, they eventually break all of the links that attach them to the Cult of Rajavi.

July 30, 2022 0 comment

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The Pandora Box of the Mujahedin Khalq sex cult

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“There has never been such a sovereign in the whole history of human beings”, former member of the Mujahedin khalq organization and a long-standing critic of the group, Iraj Mesdaghi says. “Massoud Rajavi is a unique example among dictators who practiced polygamy. There have been kings, emperors and cult leaders who had many wives, who used to take the wives of their rank and file but Rajavi is an exception because he has forbidden marriage for other men under his rule. Sex is forbidden for all male members of the MEK.”

After the so-called ideological revolution in the MEK, Members of the group were forced to divorce their spouses under the order of Massoud Rajavi; celibacy became mandatory in the group. “All emotions had to be led to Massoud Rajavi.”

Iraj Mesdaghi

Mesdaghi who has been labeled as the agent of the Iranian government by the MEK propaganda, has numerous documents and testimonies of former members of the MEK to prove that Massoud Rajavi raped female members of his so-called Elite Council under a systematic process. In an interview with Sahar Tahvili, he reveals secrets of Rajavi’s mass marriage with the group’s female rank and file.

Maryam was in love with Massoud when she was married to Abrishamchi and was the mother to his daughter with him.

The first victim of such a horrifying system is Massoud Rajavi’s third wife, Maryam Qajar Azdanlou who turned to be Maryam Rajavi after their so-called “ideological marriage” in Paris, in 1985. The marriage was hailed by the organization as the beginning of a permanent “ideological revolution”.
“Rajavi is proud to say that Maryam was in love with him while she was still married to Mehdi Abrishamchi,” Mesdaghi discloses. “So, as the office manager of Massoud Rajavi, Maryam was near his love, doing his personal affairs around the office.”

Masoud Rajavi launched what he called an”ideological revolution”in 1985. He married the wife of a confidant and forced all others to get divorced

Their marriage was the eventual consequence of those days but Massoud tried to garnish it with an ideological sauce. “Massoud claimed that Maryam has gone a long way to reach him and all women of the group should follow her in her path to reach him”. Mesdaghi cites form Rajavi, “I belong to all of them.”.
Maryam should not be an obstacle between Massoud and other female members, instead she should be a catalyzer for their unification. “The first woman who is led by Maryam to sleep with Massoud Rajavi is Fahimeh Arvani,” Mesdaghi highlights. “Compared with other women of the Elite Council, Arvani did not enjoy a higher ideological or political status but she only looked more beautiful. So, she opened her way to Massoud’s Harem.”

Sex with Rajavi is vital for your growth

Rajavi had to justify his abnormal relationships with women with kind of argument. “This is vital for your growth and progress in the group” Mesdaghi quotes Rajavi. “Maryam is scarifying herself for you.”
Mesdaghi speaks of a series of steps that coerces women to obey Massoud Rajavi’s bizarre orders. He emphasizes on the fact that members of the Cult of Rajavi are kept in complete ignorance, isolation and deprived from all rights even sexual life. “They are like zombies,” he says. “They are under constant manipulation techniques. Before going to private meetings, they have to write love letters to Massoud Rajavi expressing their love for him. If they disobey, they go under severe peer pressure. They are verbally abused with the most horrific words.”

Then the women get ready to go to a session called “Salvation Dance” which is actually a party of nude dancing in front of Massoud Rajavi which leads to group sex with him. “Rajavi called nude dancing as a spiritual ceremony,” Mesdaghi says.
During the ceremony, Maryam and several high-ranking women persuaded other women to remove their clothes and dance before the eyes of Massoud. “They asked them to take of the clothes of evil,” Mesdaghi says. “They try to give an ideological aspect to the ceremony. As moments pass, the participants go to a kind of ecstasy.”

Rajavi reads verses of Quran before sex

According to Mesdaghi’s evidences, Massoud Rajavi uses religious concepts as a tool to run his cult of polygamy. “Before going to bed with the selected woman of the night he says prayer, then he reads a few verses of Quran,” he states.

Asked about those women who did not agree to sleep with Rajavi, Mesdaghi speaks of Minoo Fathali and Mehri Mousavi who were killed mysteriously in the group because they wanted to leave the cult.
Mesdaghi declares that he has enough documents to condemn leaders of the Cult of Rajavi for sexual abuse of female members of their group. He correctly points out the silence of the MEK’s propaganda about the revelations on sex abuse in its group. “Rajavi knows that what he committed against his female members is considered a criminal act according to the international laws,” Mesdaghi says.

By Mazda Parsi

May 11, 2022 0 comment

Using interment is not accessible for the ordinary MEK members

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The Internet Shutdown, Violation of Human Rights in the MEK

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Huge screens that show Maryam Rajavi in the video conferences in the halls of Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania and hundreds of monitors that demonstrate the online audience of the conference from all over the world are signs of the well-funded complicated Internet system used by the Mujahedin Khalq’s propaganda machine. But you may never believe that the rank and file of the MEK do not know how to work with a smart phone. They have no access to the Internet as a core pillar of everyday life.

In fact, information control is one important sign of destructive cults. In order to control the information, the cult leaders practice deception by deliberately withholding or distorting information, and or lying. They minimize or discourage access to other sources of information (TV, internet, former members, and so on). They make extensive use of cult-generated information and propaganda. In the Cult of Rajavi, the only accessible source of information is the group’s TV channel, Sima-ye Azadi and the internal bulletins.

Bakhshali Alizadeh, speaks of a room in the MEK’s base called “the Internet Room” with a big no entry sign and the written phrase in Persian: Entry is absolutely forbidden

Former member of the MEK, Bakhshali Alizadeh, speaks of a room in the MEK’s base called “the Internet Room” with a big no entry sign and the written phrase in Persian: Entry is absolutely forbidden. “The room was only authorized for a few people”, he says. “These few members had to keep everything they saw there a secret. So, their self-criticism sessions were held separately.”

According to the document issued by the Office of Human Rights High Commissioner of the United Nations (OHCHR), published in April 2021, the Internet shutdown can violate human rights. In cases that the shutdown of the Internet is neither legal nor necessary, shutdowns violate the rights to freedom of expression and to peaceful assembly and freedom of association under Articles 19, 21 and 22, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

The document reads, “Given that the internet is now used to enjoy a wide range of rights, including health, work, and education, shutdowns are a blunt approach that is almost invariably disproportionate. Smaller scale restrictions, such as denials of service, are often discriminatory…Shutdowns thus can significantly increase marginalization and social and economic inequalities.”

Therefor, it is not implausible that an ordinary member of the MEK has to try hard to get adopted with the high-tech smart phones and other communication devices in the outside world after leaving the Cult of Rajavi.
Based on the OHCHR’s document, titled “Internet Shutdown and human Rights”, states, regional and international organizations can help stop discrimination and human rights violation in the communities that the Internet has been banned. They should engage with authorities, pay attention to community reports and respond promptly when shutdowns occur. In case of the MEK, today there are numerous testimonies presented by former members of the group as well as investigated reports published by independent journalists on the life inside the MEK.

Moreover, families of the rank and file of the MEK living in Iran are the most significant witnesses for the Internet shutdown inside the MEK. The reason is clear. Despite their longtime efforts in order to contact their loved ones in the MEK, they have not been able to visit them or talk to them on the phone during the past decades.
Families have no way except publishing text or video messages on the Internet including Nejat Society’s website, in the hope that their loved one in the Cult of Rajavi will see their messages someday. Bakhshali Alizadeh asserts that Nejat society’s website is checked by those specific MEK agents in the Internet room of camp Ashraf 3, every day. “They see all messages sent by families on Nejat website but they are forced to keep silent about them. They should not tell the member that his or her family is looking forward to see him or her” he says.

Therefore, it seems that the legal duty of the Albanian government and the regional and international human rights bodies requires them to conform their actions to stop violation of human rights in the MEK’s camp aiding the rank and file of the group reach the outside world via the Internet and other communication tools.

By Mazda Parsi

January 8, 2022 0 comment

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Learning a new language is forbidden in the MEK

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Traveling abroad presents an ideal opportunity to master a foreign language. The immersion process facilitates communication in a diverse world. However, for members of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) who have lived the longest part of their life in foreign countries learning the languages of that country is forbidden.
In today’s world, learning a new language has a lot of benefits. The experts believe that learning a foreign language improves your memory, makes you a better multitasker, encourages cultural appreciation, makes you a better communicator and encourages creativity. But, as members of a cult-like system, the rank and file of the MEK are not supposed to gain these benefits.

Former member of the group, Mehdi Soleimani told Mardom TV, in his recent interview on the life of child soldiers in the MEK, “The MEK leaders do not allow members to learn English. As soon as they see someone speaking a few English words they accuse him or her of being a mercenary or of being willing to leave the group to join a bourgeois life!”

In fact, anything that opens the windows to the outside world for the members of the MEK is a taboo. The leaders of the MEK know that learning English improves and widens employment opportunities for defectors. A person who masters in English is able to explore the world with confidence and access world-class education systems and establishments. And eventually knowing English increases his or her cognitive ability which can be paraphrased as brain power.

Herd mentality or mob mentality within cults

Brain power is what all destructive cults do not want for their members. Destructive cults are considered as being dangerous and harmful, as their practices can be manipulative and can have a detrimental effect on the mental and physical well-being of members. Many members who have left the MEK report practices of physical and mental abuse, both of adults and children.

As a matter of fact, most members of the Cult of Rajavi resided in Iraq for about three decades but the scandalous fact about them is that the majority of them hardly ever know Arabic, the official language of Iraqis. Having been isolated in the Iraqi deserts at Camp Ashraf which had almost all facilities of a city, MEK members were not allowed to leave the camp and to communicate Iraqi people.

After the group’s relocation in Europe, Albania, the same restrictions were made for the rank and file of Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. Members who are kept as hostages in camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, in north of Tirana are deprived from the proper self-confidence to enter the foreign community of which they do not know the language and culture. Furthermore, the group has confiscated their ID documents, their money and other properties as well as their brain power. Thus, those who dare to leave the MEK are really brave and respectable people.

Mazda Parsi

December 9, 2021 0 comment

Albania

State officially responsible for protecting Iranians sheltering in Albania

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Between 2013 (in the last days of the Berisha Government 2) and 2016, several thousand Iranians arrived in Albania on the basis of an agreement never made public between the Albanian governments and the international community.

These Iranians were part of a former terrorist organization (until 2012 it was also listed as a terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department). The organization is known by several names or as part of other umbrella organisations such as MEK, NCRI, PMOI, etc. These Iranians sheltering in Albania are also known as members of the Rajavi Cult. With the arrival of this organization to Albania from Iraq, a series of desertions from its ranks were recorded. Men and women members deserted and left, either when the Iranians had settled on the outskirts of Tirana or when they were transferred to Manez in the so-called Camp Ashraf 3.

After Albania was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, desertions increased in Camp Ashraf 3 as well, because this virus spread significantly in the camp leaving many dead and many affected by it. (For more see this link:

In recent days, in addition to the continuation of desertions, even of family groups, there have been serious human rights violations of these former members of the Rajavi Cult. Such violations of human rights constitute at the same time criminal offenses which carry prison sentences according to the articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania. The Danafar family tragedy occurred in late November when the Danafar family decided to leave the Rajavi Cult. The father of the family and his two sons, Navid Danafar and Shahpour Danafar, asked their Rajavi Cult superiors to allow them to leave the Manez camp and live in the city of Tirana like many other former members of the cult. The commanders of the camp on the direct order of Maryam Rajavi, the cult leader, refused to allow the family in question to leave the camp in Manez and settle in Tirana.

Maryam Rajavi

Suicide attempt

One of the sons, Shahpour Danafar attempted suicide by cutting the veins of his wrist. Shahpour was hospitalized in QSUT Hospital (University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa”). Albanian state bodies are keeping a dirty silence over this case of attempted suicide.

The police of Durrës and Tirana have not mentioned such a case in their press releases at all. The QSUT directorate, gripped by the fever of changing its head, has also kept a total silence. We remind the police, doctors and leaders of the Rajavi Cult that inciting suicide is a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment. To the leaders of the police in Durrës and Tirana as well as the director Gledis Nano, we bring to their attention what is written in article 99 of Law no. 7895 dt. 27/1/1995: “Causing the suicide or attempted suicide of a person, as a result of systematic ill-treatment or other systematic behaviour which seriously affects their dignity, committed by the person on whom they are dependent or by the person with whom they have a family or cohabitation relationship, is punishable by imprisonment from three to seven years.

Navid Danafar

All those police officers and medical personnel who have kept their mouths shut in the face of such a crime – which is punishable by up to 7 (seven) years in prison – should ask themselves if it is worth going to jail to fulfil the criminal whims of an old woman; former apolitical and stateless terrorist (no homeland), like this Maryam Rajavi?

Unfortunately, even now, when we are writing this article, the violation of the human rights of the victim, the survivor of the suicide attempt continues! From the amateur mobile phone videos made secretly in QSUT, it transpires that 2 (two) male guards, members of the Rajavi Cult, are constantly posted next to the victim. I remind the new director of QSUT, Mrs Albana Fico, that the stationing of two such guards next to the victim all day is in flagrant contradiction of the provisions of the Basic Regulation of the Functioning of QSUT of v. 2015. The presence of two such “full time” guards is nothing short of constant psychological torture of the victim Shahpour Danafar.

Such a flagrant violation of the law means administrative but also criminal penalties for all those Albanians who, by violating the law and the bylaws in force, have joined the Rajavi Cult in violating the human rights of the victim Shahpour Danafar.

I remind the police officers that the brother-in-law of director Fico, currently Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Albania, after the incident with the police, who deliberately pushed the journalist and cameraman into the abyss, did not hesitate to sell the police officer in question. After this scandal of an information blackout of the suicide attempt of a foreigner, who is in Albania as a person protected by the Albanian state (Article 27 and Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention), the police of Durrës and Tirana cannot be silent; most hopefully Minister Cuci this time will not sell his subordinates! I publicly call on former terrorist Maryam Rajavi to clarify the fate of the mother of the two sons Shahpour and Navid. The lady is still in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez. It is not known, whether she remains in the camp voluntarily, unlike the other 3 family members, or she is merely a hostage in the camp. In the second case, I remind the Albanian police that the head of the cult, Maryam Rajavi and her subordinates have committed beyond any reasonable doubt the criminal offense of unlawful deprivation of liberty of a person.

It is not too late for the Albanian officials to stop their criminal cooperation with the former terrorist Maryam Rajavi and stop the violation of the human rights of the poor “serfs”, who are kept locked up in Camp Ashraf 3. The troubles are not over for the former terrorist Maryam Rajavi – the haemorrhage of members from Camp Ashraf 3 continues. The Rajavi cult ranks are being abandoned not only by ordinary members but also by the high-ranking members of this cult. In the past two weeks, another member of the cult, a very famous Iranian singer named Farshad, left the camp in Manez. This singer, just like Mr Shahpour Danafar, does not ask for anything except that the former terrorist Maryam Rajavi allow him to live in Tirana as a free man and not as a “serf” in the Manez camp. I take this opportunity to call on the Albanian police to take care of Mr Farshad, because he is under constant psychological pressure from the cult commanders. You can expect everything from the former terrorists of this cult, so I pray to God that the Albanian police protect Mr Farshad.

MEK member Esmaeil Mortezaei aka Javad Khorasan; the group’s torturer living in Albania

A brief investigation which I conducted revealed to me that a commander of the Rajavi Cult with the nickname Javad Khorasan (his real name is Morteza Ismail) has exerted extreme psychological pressure on Mr Farshad. I hope that the Albanian police will take care of Mr Farshad thus avoiding any extraordinary event such as murder, suicide or even murder disguised as suicide. I appeal to the Albanian police to protect the lives of these Iranians, because the Albanian state, in written agreement in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention, bears responsibility for protecting the lives of these Iranians as internationally recognized protected persons. The U.S. military, since 2003, has categorized these Iranians as protected persons. I strongly believe that both the Albanian police and the Albanian secret service, in accordance with the written commitment of the Albanian government and following the example of the U.S. allied military, will take every measure to protect the life and health of these Iranians, who have abandoned the Rajavi Cult and Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez.

Gazeta Impact, Tirana, Albania, Translated by Iran Interlink

December 6, 2021 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

MEK baby sitter testify on violation of children’s rights in the group

written by Nejat Society

Zahra Moeini, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ NCRI/ Cult of Rajavi) was in charge of taking care of the children who have been smuggled by the MEK agents from Iraq to Germany during the first Gulf war.

Zahra Moeini got to know about the MEK immediately after she married her ex-husband, a member of the MEK, in Iran. In 1987, the newlyweds, Zahra and her husband joined the MEK in Iraq where they received military trainings and were made to attend cross border operations against Iranian forces. Zahra was wounded in an operation. She was then sent to Europe where she worked in the MEK’s so-called “financial-social section”.
Their duty was to raise funds for the group in the streets of Köln and Berlin by showing pictures of alleged Iranian orphans. The fake charity organizations founded by the MEK was later condemned by German government but the MEK leaders could raise large amounts of money by deceiving both German authorities and citizens.
In 1991, when the coalition forces invaded Iraq, Massiud Rajavi ordered his commanders to transfer about nine hundred children of the Mujahedin to Europe. The children included from new-born infants to 14-year-old teenagers. “They made fake passports for the children and smuggled them from Jordan to Europe,” Zahra Moeini says in a recent interview with Mardom TV.

Zahra Moeini

Poor life conditions, forced labor
In Germany, Zahra Moeini was ordered to serve in a three-story house of the MEK in which 50 children were kept in four rooms. “There were only six rooms,” she explains. “Two of them were for the commanders of the base and the fifty children had to stay in the other rooms. They had to sleep on the floor too tightly next to each other. In the morning they had to stay in a long line to go to the bathroom.”
According to Zahra’s testimonies, the children of the MEK were kept under poor sanitary conditions and poor food hygiene. She says, “The bread was always stale. It was actually the stale bread that the bakeries wanted to send for animals that the MEK agents took them for free. We had to put the bread in the oven before feeding the children.”
The children were supposed to cooperate in the choirs around the house. “They were always tired,” Zahra says. “We had to take them to school by bus. The commanders intentionally enrolled the kids at schools far from the house. They fell asleep at school. Their teachers asked us about the reason. These children had to work hard at home. There was no washing machine. They had to wash their clothes. They had to help with preparing foods. For example, in the weekends children had to peel a lot of eggplants or other stuff.”
The children also had to work in the streets to raise fund for the MEK. They were actually workers of the financial-social section too.

MEK Militia

Maltreatment
Children of Mujahed parents had to be trained as Mujahed. The leaders of the MEK had planned to train them as what they called “militia” so they were treated as young soldiers. They had to sleep alone. They did not have the right to miss their parents. They did not have the right to ask about their parents. The only letters they receive were from “Uncle Massoud” and “Aunt Maryam” –Massoud and Maryam Rajavi the leaders of the group.
Zahra Moeini recalls some of those kids who missed their mother and cried all night. “They asked me to sleep by their side but the commander of the base did not allow me to get closer to them. If I expressed affection for the kids, I would be punished for not being strict enough to them.”
These distressed children had different problems. One of the problems was bedwetting that resulted in verbal and physical punishments for children. “A woman named Razieh, was really cruel. She shouted at the kid, beat her in the hip and verbally abused her,” Zahra says about the 7- to 8-year-old girl who had wetted her bed.

MEK children

MEK leaders stole Children’s money
The MEK leaders kept children under such poor conditions while German government has one of the most reliable care systems for children in the world. The child benefit is a monthly payment given to all parents in Germany, regardless of their income, to ensure that their children’s basic needs are covered. As Zahra Moeini presents the documents, at the time, the child allowance paid by German government was about 600 marks for each child but the money was confiscated by the MEK leaders. The children had no personal property.
“Every weekend a group of ten children were allowed to go shopping,” Zahra says. “We took them to a store. Each kid was allowed to shop something for only one mark! The poor child who was watching different snacks and foods, tried to choose something that she could share with her other friends at home. For example, she chose cookies because she could share it with other children who could not go shopping at that weekend.”
Based on Zahra’s evidences, no clothes were bought for the children. “Although the German government gives annual payments to families for buying clothes for children, the clothes of MEK’s children came from charity organizations or the Red Cross,” she says.

The testimonies of Zahra Moeini are nothing of new. A perfectly detailed account of the life of children in the MEK‘s team houses in Germany was written by another MEK defector, Nadereh Afshari, in the 1990s. Like Zahra Moeini Nadereh Afshari was also an unpaid teacher and baby sitter for the MEK’s children. The book written by the deceased Nadereh Afshari is titled “Love Forbidden”. It gives a huge number of cases of children, particularly girls, who became victims of the Cult of Rajavi in different ways.

By Mazda Parsi

November 29, 2021 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Brainwashing as a tool in the MEK cult

written by Nejat Society

Processes of brainwashing rest on the creation of stress or threat with no escape other than the apparent unsafe haven of the group. This is exactly the atmosphere ruling the MKO members in the group camps formerly in Iraq and in France and Albania now. Self-criticism meetings, permanent supervising of a hierarchical system, mandatory working schedule, sleep deprivation, forced celibacy are all tools to maintain the stressful, threatening structure. This results in a state of terror that causes a dissociative state resulting from a disorganized bond to the leader, or the group as proxy.

This way, members are gradually driven to engage in acts they would not have done before their involvement in the totalist system of the cult. For examples, acts of terror, suicide and self-immolation committed by the MKO operatives are numerous in the official history of the group published by different sources including the US State Department, The Human Rights Watch and the RAND Corporation etc.

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