MKO former members

Mr. Dashtestani, MKO Cult defector joined his family

Nejat Society – Shiraz – On Monday, January 18, 2010, Nejat Society Shiraz Branch proudly received another defector of Rajavi’s destructive cult.

Mr. Mahmoud Dashtestani succeeded to release himself from the bars of Rajavis’ Cult and returned to his homeland and joined his family.

Mr. Dashtestani became prisoner of war in 1980 during Iran- Iraq War. In 1989 Mujahedin deceived Mr. Dasahtestani into recruiting him and sent him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He had been a member of the so called National Liberation Army for about 20 years.

Mr. Dashtestani’s parents are active members of Nejat Society and in cooperation with other members of Nejat dedicated their entire efforts and energy for the release of their beloved son from this hellish organization.

Nejat Society welcomes Mr. Dashtestani and wishes him success in all aspects of his new life and free of MKO cult isolation.

January 19, 2010 0 comments

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Letter to Directorate of Anti-Cult Association in France(UNADFI)

Honorable Directorate of Anti-Cult Association in France(UNADFI)

As you know well that Rajavi’s Cult has taken advantage of the Democracy and Freedom Honorable Directorate of Anti-Cult Association in France(UNADFI) dominating upon European countries and in France in particular for years to propagandize in favor of its cultish objectives and ends under cover of false democracy and freedom loving claims to fortify and reinforce its headquarter in France, which is very dangerous for French government’s interests as well as the French people because of its full-scale cultish – Terrorist structure .

The French people and your honorable association have witnessed and observed closely a part of this cult’s inhumane deeds which occurred in Paris in 2003 .In this catastrophic incident , with the direct order of the cult’s leader and its leadership council , some of the cult’s members set themselves on fire .

The French people should know that this cult became Saddam Hussein’s full-scale mercenary and puppet just to preserve its cultic interests in Iraq and they began their cooperation with Saddam’s suppressive forces to overcome the Iraqi people’s fair and square uprising. They perpetrated lots of crimes against the interests of Iraqi people just to preserve their cultish objectives and interests, so that the Iraqi army-generals were totally fascinated and gratified of pmoi’s full-scale cooperation and collaboration to suppress the Iraqi people’s protests and uprisings in 1990-1991.

We come to this conclusion that such cult which for preservation of its own runty-interests change its course and has the power to do any crime whom it wants, is very dangerous and no-one should be deceived by their leaders’ alluring appearance and hollow slogans devoid of any real content .

The cult leaders who implemented and carried out suppression , physical and psychological tortures and even homicide in their inter-organizational relations against their own members, now they intend to reinforce their cultic base and fortress located in Paris by imposture and demagoguery and again perpetrate more scoundrel-crimes to preserve their cultish interests .
The cult which is claimant of freedom and democracy ,but it does not tolerate and bear any criticism against itself and uses mayhem and disdain and accusation against the critics which the sensible instance of that was the peaceful and totally legal rally and demonstration of the critics and former members of pmoi in the city of Cergy in France , on 28th of November 2009 which the pmoi’s proxies and henchmen who were gathered from European countries and France , attacked the participants who were revealing the cultish – Terrorist structure of Rajavi’s cult for French people , unfortunately as a result of their attack , some of the participants got injured . Mr. Mohammad Karami Political and human rights Activist with more than 25 years of political activity and struggle in the age of 50, was assaulted by a number of pmoi’s henchmen and got injured .

We the former veteran members of this cult who are the victims of suppression and systematic torture in Rajavi’s cult , according to humanitarian commitments , we have obligation to warn all French politicians to be vigilant about the presence of this inhumane cult in their country, and according to the bitter experiences of the presence and crimes of this cult in Iraq and its inhumane actions(self-burning and self-immolation) in 2003 in Paris , their activities in France should be limited and confined or stopped.

Victims of Rajavi’s cult
Ancient Iran, Glorious Future Association, Paris

December 12, 2009 0 comments

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French citizens demonstrate against PMOI

On Saturday, November 28th, 2009, a large number of citizens of Cergy, France gathered to protest the presence of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in their country soil.

The rally began at 14:00 when the citizens gathered together in downtown. The gathering started with a performance made by Iran-France music band that played fascinating pieces. A panel was also held for a book show that included 5000 editions of journals, books and revealing catalogues on MKO.

a large number of citizens of Cergy, France gathered to protest the presence of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in their country soil

There were also huge posters, distributed among protestors to reveal the cult-like nature of Mujahedin-Khalq Organization.

During the rally a play was performed by a group of former members to present a symbolic show on torture, imprisonment, suicide operations committed by Rajavi’s cult. The participants were moved by the performance.

Hundreds of Iranian-French citizens sang the famous Iranian song “Ey Iran” standing in organized lines and then walked through streets of Cergy under the rain.

They ended their rally after they issued a resolution at 18:30.

The move was executed by cooperation of some NGOs and foundations formed by former members of MKO.

At the ending phases of the demonstration, a few suppressive henchmen of Rajavi’s cult attacked the demonstrators and hit them on face and eyes. The attackers were sent from Auver Sur Oise to break down the peaceful rally. Three French citizens and an Iranian were injured by MKO agents who were consequently arrested by French police.

Aria Iran – Translated by Nejat Society

December 2, 2009 0 comments

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Ms. Maleki letter to Mrs. Berta Cabral ,Mayor of Ponta Delgada

Mrs. Berta Cabral ,Mayor of Ponta Delgada

Respectfully, I would like to introduce myself before anything else. I am an ex member of Ms. Maleki on the right is an ex member of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO). she is an outspoken critic of what is known as the "forced divorces" and special relations between the organisation and Saddam Hussein Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO). In 1990 I became an outspoken critic of what is known as the "forced divorces" and special relations between the organisation and Saddam Hussein, the ousted dictator of Iraq. I was imprisoned for a few months in solitary confinement inside camps of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation in Iraq. I am living in Switzerland now.

Me and my colleagues would like to begin this letter by congratulating you on your victory in the election for the position of Mayor of Ponta Delgada against Mr. Paolo Casaca, we would like to bring to your attention a point that has had its own effect on the previous elections among the people of Portugal. The negative opinion of the people of Portugal against Mr. Casaca has undoubtedly been the result of his overt and covert relationships with the Iranian terrorist cult called Mojahedin Khalq Organisation. The group has been in close cooperation with the crimes committed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as well as participating in human rights abuses against its own members.

I would like to inform your Excellency that MR. Paulo Casaca visited from Camp of Ashraf in Iraq many times for more help to this terrorist cult last years. But without any human rights organisation representative accompanying his good self., He visited the camp of terrorist cult without even investigating the allegations as to what is really going on behind its closed doors and he did not notice that the camp has no children inside. MR. Paulo Casaca did not think that this is because the cult leader has banned marriage and family relations?

About this news and his visiting to camp of terrorist cult in Iraq, Mr.Casaca himself admitted to the Socialist Party [and they] rejected his remaining as a candidate [for MEP] after news of the Express in the court of Ponta Delgada. ( RTP TV, Portugal, July 15, 2009 )

I am extremely pleased to announce that public opinion in Portugal and other parts of European Union is sensitive to the violent nature of cults like Mojahedin Khalq Organisation and Public opinion will certainly give its verdict against terrorism, violence and its supporters.

I wish you and your colleagues all the best for the future. like people of Portugal.

Sincerely
Batoul Maleki – 01.11.2009

November 3, 2009 0 comments

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Akbar Mohebi returns to his family

On Monday 12th, October 2009, Nejat Society, Gilan Branch proudly received another defector of Rajavi’s destructive cult.

Akbar Mohebi was warmly welcomed by his family who were so impressed.

”I should say that I’m ashamed because I made you a lot of grieves during the years of my membership in MKO” he said, “ Although I am so happy about my return to my country and family, I feel very sad because I cannot see my father and mother alive among my family members.

Damn with Rajavi, the traitor who deceived us with his slogans of “support for people and revolution”. His hysteric ambitions for power blocked any emotional relation with our families so he could control our minds to keep us in his caves far from the reality of Iranian society.”

Like other defectors, Akbar also suffered a period of being far from emotional relationships. He added:”I am so eager about living with you. I need your kindness and affections although I failed to be with you during my imprisonment in Rajavi’s cult. I remember the time you came to Ashraf to visit me. Under the manipulation system of the cult, Rajavi deceived us to insult our families who had come to Ashraf.”

Mr. Mohebi’s brother and sisters who are some of educated people of Gilan, engaged to try their best for helping their beloved brother regain his lost individuality.

Hamid Hajipour, another defector who had returned to Gilan four months ago, also attended the little celebration. He welcomed Mr. Mohebi and spoke of his life experiences during the last four months.

Nejat Society of Gilan congratulates the repatriation of Mr. Akbar Mohebi, wishing him prosperity and success in his new life, relieved from the notorious Camp Ashraf. We hope to see the release of all other victims of MKO.

October 24, 2009 0 comments

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Members of Nejat Society, Golestan branch visit Afshin Fallah

On Saturday, Sep 30th,a number of families whose children are captured in Camp Ashraf, visited Mr. Afshin Fallah who has recently been released from the bars of Rajavi’s Cult.The meeting was very useful for Nejat members.

During the meeting, a member of Nejat Society explained about the recent clashes at Camp Ashraf where “Iraqi Police wanted to establish a station and faced MEK’s violent resistance. The leaders of the cult made some of their dissident members to encounter Iraqi forces and then to be injured, killed or arrested. “

“Another trick, MKO played to abuse the members, was the hunger strike show to bring the West’s attention to itself” he added.

Then, Mr. Afshin Fallah Qareh Tapeh told his story introducing himself as an educated person who had traveled to Turkey where he had been recruited by MKO.

He told that in Turkey he met a person named Shahram and joined the organization after he was impressed by his words. He was told that he could earn more money in Europe but at first he should stay in quarantine in Iraq for some time. Afshin accepted to go to Iraq…

Mr. Fallah explained that he was threatened by the cult leaders to be handed over to Iraqi officials although he declared his opposition against the group from the early days of his entrance. He was also threatened to be labeled as IRI’s spy. “so I kept quiet for a while but I heightened my protest when I found out my life would be futile in that desert, so finally they sent me to American Camp where they introduced me as a criminal to American soldiers and asked them to look after me.” When the American camp (TIPF) was shutdown, he went to Iraqi society where he could get to know about Nejat society. He went to Iranian consulate and returned to Iran. “Now that I am here with you I am married and living a happy life with my family” he said.

At the end of the meeting the family members of Ashraf residents who were members of Nejat Society, Golestan branch, signed a petition and asked for:

The visit with their children in a free atmosphere without presence of criminal leaders of Rajavi’s cult and with presence of Red Cross representatives
The expulsion of MKO from Iraq, by Iraqi authorities and the support of other countries for the Iraqi decision
The possibility of making phone calls to their loved ones in Ashraf by the help of Red Cross and without the intervention of MKO leaders.

The names of signatories:

Mr. Hussein Ali Rigi,Barat Ali Rigi (MKO member)’s brother
Mr. Mohammad Aq Atabai,Hamid Aq Atabai (MKO member)’s brother
Mr. Sakheed saeedfar,Saeed Saeedfar (MKO member)’s brother
Mr. Ahmad Salim Nia (Ruzrokh),Shir Ahmad Ruzrokh (MKO member)’s brother
Mr. Abdul Halim Kalavi, Abdul Hamid Rau’fian (MKO member)’s uncle
Mr. Nazer Rahim Arbabi,Ahmad Rahim Arbabi (MKO member)’s brother
Mohamamd Qezel Qarsh,Ali Qezel Qarsh (MKO member)’s brother
Mohammad Dowlati,JanAli Dowlati (MKO member)’s brother
Mohammad Ali Qezelseflou,Nurollah Qezelseflou (MKO member)’s brother

Nejat Society Golestan Branch

October 17, 2009 0 comments

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Pride and joy among MKO defectors

Three more defectors of Rajavi’s Cult who were banned behind the bars of Mujahedin at Camp Ashraf returned home and joined their families.

Within a friendly atmosphere at Nejat Society Gorgan Office, Mr.Ahmad Sarayee, Mr.Jamshid Sarayee and Mr. Yunos Yanpey gathered together and shared their bitter memoirs of the days of their being captives of MKO and that their new life in their motherland is filled with joy and peace.

Nejat Society Golestan Branch

September 27, 2009 0 comments

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MEK dissident broaches US ties with Rajavi cult

Sobhani was separated from his daughter and wife for more than eight years.

A former member of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) claims the US turned a blind eye to the terrorist nature of the ‘Rajavi cult’.

Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani, 49, from the central Iranian town of Saveh, came into contact with the MKO two years before the 1979 revolution in Iran, which overthrew the pro-US Iranian monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Five year later, after working in the organization’s administrative and student departments, he was whisked away to Iraq to assume his role”as a unit commander at the training school for urban guerrilla warfare.”

After questioning the organization’s”armed struggle and presence in Iraq”, Sobhani claims he was beaten, tortured and”held in solitary confinement for eight-and-a-half years, from September 1992 to January 2001.”

“The reason why I started to raise my objection was that I believed that the strategies employed by Masoud Rajavi were meant to secure his domination on its members,”Sobhani said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.

The former senior MKO official said Rajavi resorted to”cult-like”practices, including forced divorce and celibacy.

He would separate couples claiming that”such practices would liberate the members”from competing loyalties. Their children were also sent to European countries, Sobhani said.

“Rajavi would justify forced divorces by claiming that these practices would free a member, and pave the way to transform a micro society into a macro one and overthrow the Islamic Republic,”Sobhani said.

During his interview, he also claimed that because”the organization forbids matrimony, for the past 25 years no child has been born to a man and woman inside the organization.”
He said the US had committed a colossal mistake in not dealing with the residents of the MKO training camp in eastern Iraq, known as Camp Ashraf.

The camp, home to 3,400 Iranians loyal to Rajavi, was the base for operations against the Tehran government during the eight-year war as well as operations against Iraqi Kurds and Shias during the 1991 uprising against former dictator Saddam Hussein.

“Rajavi maintained a mercenary-like relationship with Saddam Hossein, after Iraq’s invasion he wanted to forge the same relationship with the Americans so he announced that he was ready to [willingly] lay dawn his arms,”Sobhani explained.

“Although the Americans were fully aware of the fact that the MKO was a terrorist organization, they still cooperated with Rajavi,”he claimed.

Americans in Iran were one of the primary targets of the group throughout the 1970s. They assassinated a number of American citizens, namely William C. Cottrell, Colonel Lewis L. Hawkins, Donald G. Smith, and Colonel Jack Turner inside Iran.

“As a former member of the group, I feel that the Americans have made a grave mistake with regards to the organization. Six years after overthrowing Saddam, the MKO is still brainwashing the residents of Ashraf Camp with the help of the Americans,”Sobhani said.

The MKO was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country some twenty years later after carrying out numerous acts of terror inside the country.

The group masterminded a series of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, including the 1981 bombing of the offices of the Islamic Republic Party, in which more than 72 senior Iranian officials were killed, including the then Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti.

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September 5, 2009 0 comments

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MKO Leaders’ seditious acts condemned

Nejat Society,Western Azarbayjan Branch condemns MKO leaders’ seditious acts

The recent incidents at Camp Ashraf where a number of residents, incited and organized by the cult leaders, confronted the Iraqi Police, ended with the death and injury of some of them. The act once again showed the brutality of Rajavi’s gang in rising crisis and creating constant tension for their propaganda. They never matter the victimization of their rank and file but they only matter how to feed their deceitful propaganda machine as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said about the move of Iraqi Police to Ashraf :"It is a matter now for the government of Iraq to resolve,"

We deeply believe that MKO leaders try to maintain Camp Ashraf as their ideological and strategic container by launching false propaganda and mongering crisis, they violate all international laws based on the right of sovereignty of the nations on their own territory.

We as the ex – members of MKO, who returned to our homeland and now are living in Iran peacefully, condemn MKO leaders’ plot to create crisis and tension by warmongering, terrorism and violation of international laws and finally victimizing Ashraf residents for their own inhumane cause. We know that MKO leaders are terrified by easy access of Iraqi police to their base since it will pave the way for the access of International human rights bodies and also residents’ families to them.

The ideological leader of MKO knows well that if their base is supervised by Iraqi officials, the release of captured members will be more likely. Therefore they try in any way to stop Iraqi supervision over the camp to prevent the decline of their forces.

Their anti-democratic acts contradict the most basic human rights.

We want them to stop crisis mongering in Camp Ashraf and provide the residents a peaceful relaxing atmosphere, without any control or supervision by their authorities, so that they can visit their families in mental security and can decide for their future by their own free will.

August 31, 2009 0 comments

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MKO former member open letter to Vidal-Quadras

I am responding to your recent speeches in the European Parliament in relation to Iran in which you express support for the Mojahedin-e Khalq organization led by Massoud Rajavi. As a former member, I have known this group since 1979. Because of them I spent five years of my youth in Mr. Sadeqi: As a former member, I have known MKO group since 1979 Iranian prisons; including two years in solitary confinement in Gohar Dasht in Karaj. I also spent the years from 1997 to 2006 as a prisoner of the MKO in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

I was sent to Camp Ashraf after several years of fundraising work for the MKO in Canada. I was originally sent for a six month military training stint, but in fact they never allowed me to leave. (As you know, none of the people at Camp Ashraf have any legal status in Iraq and their passports and personal documents are confiscated by the MKO leadership to prevent them leaving. Ref. RAND report.)

After considering your support for this military cult, I just want to ask you, and give you the benefit of the doubt, if you honestly and purely, as the freedom lover you make claim to be, believe in your own use of the term ‘democratic’ in relation to the MKO. How do you know that? By visiting Camp Ashraf?

I should remind you and your colleagues that these are visits carefully pre-arranged and organized by the MKO leadership. Where did you go while you were at Camp Ashraf, to whom did you speak? I was there while so many people like yourself and like Paulo Casaca visited. We saw by whom you were escorted and of course we were not allowed to approach you and talk to you. All those people around you were MKO intelligence and security personnel, the same people who are responsible for the suppression and mistreatment of rank and file members.

Did it ever occur to you that everybody you were introduced to and allowed to speak with was saying exactly the same things like a broken record. Maybe you didn’t think of this because when it comes to it the MKO are expert at manipulating and deceiving people with their red carpet treatment and their provision of gifts like Perisan rugs and fancy goods.

In your speech you used the words ‘pressure’ and ‘harrasment’. Do you have any idea what your Rajavi has done to us? The beatings, humiliation, swearing and constant mental pressure aimed at anyone who wants to leave, or even to say anything critical of what Rajavi has ever said. Where you then? Why has no one asked any international human rights organization to come and visit Ashraf independently?

Many tragedies have taken place within the confines of Camp Ashraf. But no more, not for the rank and file members like myself. On the contrary, with the takeover by the Government of Iraq in January 2009, and the recent publication of the RAND report, they see some light at the end of the tunnel at last.

But as for Rajavi and his high rank killing machine, of course you said that you recently visited Camp Ashraf and that such allegations are absolutely unfounded. Are you a man of your word? Are you prepared to return to Camp Ashraf with a different, non-MKO organized delegation to see if you are right or not? I make only one suggestion; that I be permitted to come along with that delegation and show you the real Camp Ashraf and take you to places so that you could freely talk to the rank and file members. What do you say about that? Since your speech is presumably not political and is purely humanitarian, so you should not have any objection to this suggestion. In fact, I am sure you will be happy to prove your words, especially as you think that everybody in Camp Ashraf is there voluntarily.

In the end however I have so many things to say and explain to you and your colleagues. But for now I just wanted to ask how you can be so sure of what you say? How many former members, or even ordinary Iranians have you spoken to before you came to your conclusions? I myself am ready to come and talk about freedom and democracy and voluntary action and anything else that you and your colleagues want to discuss.

Don’t you think for one moment how strange it is that everyone who backs the MKO repeats exactly and precisely what Rajavi himself says? But that when it comes to listening to what former members say both MKO backers and leaders alike scream their hearts out that they are all agents of the Iranian Intelligence ministry?
Why is that? Could it be that Rajavi doesn’t want people like yourself – western, liberal, democratic, freely elected representatives – to talk to people like me?
Rajavi knows that if you talk to us you will have to think twice before you repeat whatever they want you to.

If you are truly a freedom lover, I think it’s only fair, not for me, or even for the Iranian people, but first for yourself to take these steps. Because I believe that if you are a humanitarian person then one day, maybe not long from now, as events unfold, you will see the truth and you will think back to this day and wish that you had taken a different stand. I just want you and other purely humanitarian people to remember that, along with my fellow brothers and sisters, victims of the Rajavi cult, I would remind you that little streams will, at last, join the ocean.

Reza Sadeghi, Paris

August 30, 2009 0 comments

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