Mujahedin Khalq as a Destructive Cult

Rand: The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq – A policy conundrum

… A RAND study examined the evolution of this controversial decision, which has left the United States open to charges of hypocrisy in the war on terrorism. An examination of MeK activities establishes its cultic practices and its deceptive recruitment and public relations strategies. A series of coalition decisions served to facilitate the MeK leadership’s control over its members. The government of Iraq wants to expel the group, but no country other than Iran will accept it.

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Outcome of Rajavi’s Ambitions

In the cult of Rajavi, Massoud Rajavi’s extreme ambition for power has already taken the lives of a large number of people including the organization’s members, Iraqi and Iranian civilians ..today while Camp Ashraf is completely going under the control of Iraqi Police, Massoud Rajavi is the only responsible for lives of those six members who were killed during riots at Ashraf gates. Those members are only some brainwashed manipulated individuals who were ordered by their leader to defend their Camp by rocks or knives.

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Rajavi; set your body on fire to defend Ashraf

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part nine)..There was a female colleague who had refused to volunteer for self-immolation but the organization showed no antagonistic attitude towards her before others. It was not the end of the story and the organization commanded me to watch her closely since they believed that she was in trouble with herself and cared not the least for the organization. They would justify that now even ten days after the detention of Maryam in France, she had refrained to be an abstentious volunteer.

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Who are the MKO and why did Iraqi forces storm their camp?

Iraq flexes its muscles at Camp Ashraf and shows military independence from America, as the Iranian exile group’s long strange trip draws to a close..Camp Ashraf, the object of the raid, has been the principal home of the MKO since the Iranian group allied itself with Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, receiving weapons and training from his regime. Hussein used them as shock-troops against Iraqi Kurds and Shiites who rose up against his regime in the 1990s.

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Camp Maryam: The Potential Danger

MKO takes its victims out of the so-called bourgeois atmosphere but it has no ideals to replace it because the MKO’s methodology is basically opposed to idealism. Thus the only way to keep the members in is to brainwash them inspiring the feeling of being superior to the public. To achieve this goal, the organization’s leaders haven’t failed to use any cult techniques. They have used any manipulation techniques and mind control methods to freeze the individuals’ minds. ..

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Human tragedy in prospect; Mojgan Parsai the first volunteer

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 8 ).. Of course, what she said was another interpretation of Massoud Rajavi’s message stating that we had to make use of all our facilities and potentialities wherever we were to set Maryam free. He would say any Mojahed breathing on this planet had to be ready to sincerely sacrifice and set on fire whatever he had for the sake of Maryam. Thus, it all began in the echelon of the Leadership Council and the enthusiast slid down to the lower layers. It is also the same with other issues. Consider, for instance, they want to elect a first secretary.

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Rajavi and The Leadership Council

(Memoirs of Ms. Batoul Soltani-Part 19)..Being a good speaker or having executive skills was prior to ideological competence to be selected as a member of leadership council in MKO/PMOI/MEK..When the members started their compliments, Maryam and Masud Rajavi waited for their words to be listened completely and the atmosphere of the hall be influenced by the compliments. Then they apparently complained that they were not glad with such a compliment.

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Suicide operation, a lever to defend Camp Ashraf

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part seven)..Members in Camp Ashraf are on alert of committing mass suicide on the grounds that there are many blind spots round the camp through which outsiders might easily infiltrate to either kidnap the members of the Leadership Council and use them as hostages or kill them. The possible reaction to these threats could be a mass suicide of the insiders.

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The red-line discriminating between word and action in suicide operation

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part six).. how the organization and Rajavi in particular draw the red-line between the word and theory for carrying out these operations. Second, we have to see to what extent the words are actually practical, and third, what is the position of the leadership ..When Rajavi plotted assassination of people he knew well that killing was an inseparable part of a planned operation which could never be fulfilled unless through homicide.

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On MKO’s Ideological Revolution

(Memoirs of Batoul Soltani – Part 17)Masud managed the meetings of the ideological revolution himself saying:”suppose that you have brought an Iranian youth to the organization[MKO/MEK/PMOI] and you want to explain and justify the ideological revolution to him. You should clarify it to him that he cannot be married and be a fighter at the same time. You should explain that one cannot think of sexual or emotional problems while one is struggling.

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