Rajavis and Cult Leadership

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Who are the main defendants of the MEK’s trial

The second session of the court hearing of the charges of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) was held last week on Tuesday, December 28, at the 11th branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Dehghani.

The criminal court of Tehran had previously issued a public announcement to announce that based on the case filed in this court, 104 members of the MEK, as well as the very organization as a legal entity, are supposed to be tried.

According to the case’s indictment, the defendants are accused of breaking Iran’s law, refusing to hand over their weapons to Iranian authorities after the 1979 revolution, illegally infiltrating state organizations, harboring animosity against Iranian people and assassinating thousands of Iranians in acts of terror.

In the first two sessions, the indictments of 19 people out of the 104 defendants were read aloud. Regarding that the first defendant is the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organizatoin as an entity, let’s get to know the second and third defendants of the file:

Massoud Rajavi:

Massoud Rajavi born on August 18, 1948 in Tabas in the Northwest of Iran. He became the leader of the MEK in the late years of the Pahlavi dynasty after the early leaders of the group had been executed and Massoud survived the death sentence that all his comrades received. Due to his “cooperation” with the Shah’s Intelligence, SAVAK, his death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.

In 1981 when Massoud Rajavi called his followers to launch an armed struggle against the Islamic Republic. A large number of innocent civilians were killed during the MEK’s acts of violence. His group has claimed responsibility of dozens of attacks during since 1981 until now –the group’s so-called resistance units still commit acts of violence in Iranian cities.

He fled Iran and joined the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was at war with Iran. In Iraq, Rajavi formed the National Liberation Army (NLI) that was logistically and financially sponsored by Saddam Hussein’s Baath Regime. NLA was actually Saddam’s Private Army to suppress Iraqi shiits and kurds’ uprisings.

Sheltered in Iraq, near Iranian border, Massoud Rajavi led numerous cross border operations and terrorist attacks inside Iran. NLA was also an arm of Iraqi military in the suppression of Shiite and Kurdish uprisings inside Iraq in the early 1990s.
Rajavi married to Maryam Qajar Azodanlu (later known as Maryam Rajavi) in 1985, who was already married to one of his close associates Mehdi Abrishamchi and divorced her husband in order to marry Rajavi. The marriage that was called as “ideological” by Massoud, resulted in the transformation of Rajavi as a normal political leader to the leader of a cult of personality.

The Cult of Rajavi required members to obey cult-like regulations that Massoud indoctrinated in the hierarchy of the group. The regulations included forced divorce, forced celibacy, absolute obedience to the leader, Massoud. Rajavi married all women of the group’s Elite Council in a ceremony called “Freedom Dance.”

He disappeared in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and it is not known whether he is alive or dead. Rajavi has been wanted by Iraqi government since 2010 for crimes against humanity. He is now the Prime suspect of the Iranian court.

Maryam Rajavi:

Born in December 1953, Tehran, Maryam Qajar Azodanlu (later called Rajavi) was raised in a middle-class family. She joined the MEK after her older sister was killed by the secret Police of the Shah.
Married to Mehdi Abrishamchi, one of the high-ranking members of the group, she had a baby girl when they fled Iran to join Massoud Rajavi in France.

In France, Maryam became the administrator of Massoud’s office. The close relationship between Maryam and Massoud in the office led to their dramatic marriage in 1985 immediately after she divorced Mehdi Abrishamchi. The marriage was celebrated as an ideological revolution in the history of the group. Maryam Rajavi is the co-leader of the MEK.
Following the ideological marriage, Maryam became Massoud’s tool to run his cult of personality. They forced members to divorce their spouses, they ordered forced celibacy, forced hijab and founded Rajavi’s dictatorship. Since then, Maryam Rajavi was announced as the role model for all members of the group to leave their own family life and have Massoud in their minds as their only love.

In 2003, After the American invasion to Iraq, Maryam fled to France. Her headquarter in Auver sur d’oise in the suburb of Paris was raided by the French Police in June 2003. She was placed under arrest together with 160 of the group members and the assets of the MKO were frozen by the French judiciary. The Police seized millions of dollars from the group’s headquarters. The group was accused of preparing to commit or finance acts of terrorism and money laundering.
A dozen of brainwashed supporters of the Cult of Rajavi set themselves on fire to protest the arrest of Maryam. Two women were killed eventually. French Police released the cult leader to stop the horrible scenes of self-immolations in European capitals.

Maryam was the first assistant of her disappeared husband Massoud in his quest for sexual abuse of female members of their cult. She was charged with the responsibility of mental preparation of members of the group’s so-called Elite Council to get naked in front Massoud and consequently get in bed with him.

Today, Maryam Rajavi tries to portrait herself as pro-democracy leader of opposition. She boasts of her so-called ten-point plan for future Iran of which none of the items are fulfilled in her own organization. Inside the Cult of Rajavi there is no right to freely choose for clothing, for religion, for job or studies. Maryam Rajavi is the she-guru of the MEK.

December 24, 2023 0 comment

Iran

Consequences of holding court for MEK leaders in Iran

The first court hearing for the trial of leaders of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) was held on Tuesday, December 12th, with five lawyers representing the accused. The trial is considered historical as it is the first time that the complaints of many plaintiffs are dealt with in a national court. This court of which the next session will be held next week will have some consequences.

The plaintiffs of the MEK include diverse groups: victims of the group’s terrorist operations including civilians and government officials, former members of the group who endured torture and imprisonment, families of current members of the group who are isolated behind the bars of the cult-like system of the group.

The complainants who were present in the first hearing were mostly civilians who were injured and amputated by the MEK terror acts. A number of them were family members of those killed by the terrorist operations of that responsibility was officially claimed by the MEK.

The court is a crucial step in the documentation process of the crimes committed by the MEK. The facts, testimonies and verdicts that are documented by the Iranian judiciary are expected to be considered as a background for a fair trial in international courts or in judiciary systems of France and Albania.

As a consequence of the recent hearing in Iranian judiciary, there is a possibility that the leaders of the MEK will be extradited to Iran. Once they are extradited to Iran, their trial will take place before the eyes of the accusers. Long time hatred of the Iranian nation for the MEK traitors will be countered.

The historic trial of 104 members of the MEK is regarded as a step towards peace and security for the Iranian people as well as the Europeans who host the group in France and Albania. The official documents of the court should be recorded as historical documents to condemn the Cult of Rajavi.

Mazda Parsi

December 16, 2023 0 comment

Iran

Terrorists panicked by Iran’s historic trial

After more than four decades of expectations by several thousand families of Iranian terror victims, the first session of the historic trial of 104 members of the terrorist group Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) is scheduled to be held in Tehran on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, Habilian Association that protects families of terrorism victims in Iran said.

However, it seems that this event is more important for this group which is responsible for those horrible acts of terror in the country, Habilian Association said in a report which was cited by the IRNA on Tuesday.

Since the day Iranian judicial authorities announced that they plan to prosecute fugitive members of the MKO, we have been witnessing hysterical reactions by this terrorist group which indicates the extent of their concerns regarding the consequences of this trial. As the most recent example of this hysteria, the MKO announced via its official media that it has called its members to carry out 100 terrorist operations in different parts of Iran as a reaction to the trial, whose first session was set to be held three days later.

Following the MKO’s forced disarmament after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the fall of Saddam Hussein, the main supporter of the group, it has attempted to pose as a democratic group that advocates a peaceful regime change in Iran to deceive some Western politicians.

Activation of the MKO’s terrorist cells known as “rebel centers” in the country reveals how fake its democratic and peaceful slogans are. However, perhaps no event could arouse this hysteria in the MKO than holding an unprecedented and historic trial over their crimes during the 1980s, namely the killing of thousands of innocent civilians through bombing and armed activities, to the extent that they have called for 100 terrorist acts to be carried out in the country.

Undoubtedly, a nation that has put behind such a harsh and cruel period not only will not give up on the prosecution of the murderers of its children, but it will be more determined to do such actions to shed light on the nature of this terrorist group for the world public opinion.

December 13, 2023 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The trial time

Finally, its time for a trial for terror-lined treason, domestically. And for human rights violations, internationally. Iran is calling for this, and within its own borders it held a hearing for MKO crimes.

The MKO or MEK is termed the Monafeqin in Iran, meaning the Hypocrites. The official trial-in-absence of the defendants, MKO chiefs, held today 21 Azar / 12 Dec 2023.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/PressTV/Presstv-MEK-202312.mp4

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December 12, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

The MEK’s Ideological Revolution

The ideological marriage of Maryam and Massoud [1984] and intra-organizational obligatory divorces [1988] constitute the strategic hallmarks of the ideological revolution within Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization [MKO] or the Mojahedin Cult as notoriously entitled. Although there is a five-year interval between the two events, ideological divorces are a complementary step to the marriage of Maryam and Massoud that deteriorated the status of family life in MKO. Mehdi Abrishamchi, Maryam Rajavi’s late husband, justifies the act of Maryam’s divorce from him and her remarriage to Massoud as removing the problem of family as a barrier in the way of Maryam and Massoud. It is the first time the structure of family life is put into challenge. He says:

Maryam had to be either unquestionably promoted to a high status in the organization released of any [conjugal] obligation, just like Massoud, and be totally devoted to revolution or had to give it up. Here, the simple issue of family was creating an incongruity.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Documentary/MEK-Ideo-Rev-1.mp4

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Another possibility that led the organization to mastermind and theatricalize such a show was to open a passage out of the encountered strategic cul-de-sac following the organization’s failure in overthrowing the Iranian regime on the one hand and to deter the possibility of any organizational split or demise on the other hand.

A larger number of MKO’s separated members especially in recent years have exclusively focused on the ideological revolution and the internal objectives Rajavi sought. In his review, Hadi Shams Haeri writes:

The so-called ideological revolution in 1985 that was much a cover for the strategic failure of the organization and a move aimed at averting accusations posed against Rajavi could not achieve all its objectives and acquit Rajavi completely. Therefore, it deemed necessary to find a scapegoat for the organizational failures and the strategic impasse. The plotted conspiracy against [Ali] Zarkesh was the continuation of the conspired [ideological] revolution in 1985. As such, we come to the conclusion that the other consequent ideological revolutions were in fact conspiracies in order to overcome the challenges at hand in every stage. [6]

A number of other former MKO members also evaluate the ideological revolution in the same way and believe that the ideological revolution was based on the mechanism of externalizing the internal contradictions within the organization and delineating a new line of relation based on an all-encompassing and blind obedience to Rajavi.

It is worth noting that nearly two years before the development of the ideological revolution and obligatory divorces, Rajavi held a completely different idea on intra-organizational marriages and the concept of family. Believing to be modeling on some legal, Islamic ideological creeds, he encouraged marriage and foundation of family as a revolutionary act. In summarizing his one-year struggle in armed phase, Rajavi has said:

In organizational reports, there are cases in which those members who have lost their wives or husbands in armed operations are so emotionally depressed that have declared they prefer to remain single for ever… But this is not a perfect and revolutionary idea since the Prophet, Islamic Imams and also all the reformers and revolutionary leaders of the world have denounced it. Therefore, the organization advises such members, and also the unmarried, to get married to anybody they will if possible. According to the Holy Quran and the doctrines of our ideological leaders, we have to consider the marriage as a part of our struggle not something to be thrown away.

November 7, 2023 0 comment

Maryam Rajavi

3 decades of life presidency, the prove for Rajavi’s undemocratic ruling

Nearly three decades have passed since the appointment of Maryam Rajavi as the president on 30 Mehr 1372, she is still in power and carries the title of “elected president for the era of transfer of power and sovereignty to the people of Iran”. A title that cannot last for three continuous decades in any democratic structure.

As we know, words such as “election” or “elected”, like many other valuable words, have been emptied of their meaning by the Cult of Rajavi. No democratically elected president in the history of democracy has been able to hold office for thirty years, or rather for life, unless the power structure is a dictatorship.

The remarkable coincidence in the appointment of Maryam Rajavi to the presidency for life was that Almost at the same time, members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), were subjected to the most severe repressions and organized tortures at Camp Ashraf, Iraq. Massive interrogations, torture, solitary confinement and even the murder of members took place in Camp Ashraf prisons in the early 1990s.

In addition to the above-mentioned honors, the resume of Maryam Rajavi, the president of the so-called National Council of Resistance, during all these years, is a ten-point plan full of contradictions and deception, in which the right to choose for clothing, to choose for religion and freedom of expression and many other democratic rights are claimed to be fulfilled by her in case that she come to power in Iran.

The beginning of Maryam Rajavi’s presidency coincided with the height of the “Pot” meetings –in which dissident members were suppressed under peer pressure, interrogation and isolation. This type of ruling has continued until today in Ashraf 3, in Albania.

Today, the only achievement of Maryam Rajavi, after years of wearing a democratic title, is that about two thousand members of her group are forced to work under the command of the queen like worker bees on the outskirts of a village in Albania, while they are not allowed to leave their hive without organizational control.

And of course, another democratic achievement that can be considered for Maryam Rajavi is a concept called “resistance units”, which is summarized in images of groups of two or three people with their faces covered and being in secluded areas with a photo or a slogan of Mrs. president of whom they probably don’t even know the name correctly. In exchange for receiving a sum of money, members of resistance units are ready to set fire to the buildings in the urban areas in order to display another symbol of the democracy desired by Masoud and Maryam Rajavi.

By Mazda Parsi

October 23, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

We Make Hope Happen for MEK Members

Members of the MEK are isolated from the outside world. Even inside the group, they are often made isolated from their peers as part of the group’s regulations and even punishment. They are not allowed to have intimate relationships with their comrades and family members –if they are members of the group too. leaders of the MEK use cult-like practices to maintain their control over members, a ruling system that forces members to stay single, to work hard without payment, to wear the group’s dress code in particular forced hijab, to forget family, friends and normal life. One of the outcomes of such a suppressive ruling is suicidal ideation.

Suicidal ideation is associated with depression and other mood disorders. Under the manipulative system of the Cult of Rajavi, most members are at risk of suicidal ideation. They are depressed, suppressed and helpless. They perceive no image of a normal life outside the group. In one sentence: they have lost hope.

Several members of the MEK have so far committed suicide. On the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day Isa Azade, a former member of the group, presents a list of MEK members who committed suicide under the suffocating ruling of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, on his Facebook account. According to Isa, the reason for so many suicidal attempts –of which several succeeded- was that hope and love has been killed by the leaders of the MEK. He recounts the heart-breaking stories of these people:

Parvin: She fell in love, but love was forbidden in the MEK. This was her crime that led her to commit suicide.
Kamal: He was also in love. He did not want to obey the rule of “Forced Divorce” but he had no way out. He killed himself.
Alan: She was teenager, smuggled from Germany to the MEK’s camp in Iraqi deserts. MEK commanders forced her to wear hijab and military uniform. They trained her as child soldier. They told her that she could never get back to Europe. She shot herself in head.

Shamsollah: he was fed up with the mafia system of MEK commanders. He killed himself a few days before the group’s relocation from Iraq to Albania.

Isa Azadeh also writes of Minoo, Masoumeh, Mehri, Zahra, Marjan, Homa, Yasser, Elias, Soheil, Khodam and Saeed. They all committed suicide because they had lost hope under the excruciating pressure of Rajavis’ ruling.

Each year on September 10th, World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) is valued by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO). WSPD marks global commitment to suicide prevention. It is organized to raise awareness about suicide prevention and mental health. On the occasion of this day, IASP consider the importance of holding on to hope every day.

Nejat Society and its sister organization in Albania, the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) are two entities founded by defectors of the Cult of Rajavi and families of members of the cult who are still taken as hostages inside the group’s Camp Ashraf 3, in Manez, Albania. Nejat and ASILA’s main mission is to keep the light of hope burning. All their activities are directed to create a sense of hope for every member of the Cult of Rajavi. Hope is a key ingredient for life and can be an antidote to suicide and a powerful tool to break the metal and physical bars of the cult.

By Mazda Parsi

September 9, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

MEK; The cult of the leader

Massoud Rajavi is an outstanding speaker, able to move audiences with his smooth voice, staccato delivery, and sharp turns of phrase. Neo-Stalinist, caught up in his own charisma, he soon created a cult of personality around himself and eventually his current wife, Maryam Rajavi . former members of the movement frequently criticize this phenomenon, described by many foreign reporters.

Born in 1953 to a middle-class family in Tehran,Maryam Rajavi was active from 1970 in the resistance movement to the Shah. She was a student at the Sharif Technical University in the capital. Rising to a leadership position in the student movement she joined Mojahedin in the mid-Seventies. According to her official biography, the Shah’s Savak executed one of her sisters, Narges, and agents of the Islamic Republic later killed another, Maasoumeh.

Maryam Azdanlu, working hard in the social department of the Mojahedin, played a key role in winning student support for the movement. As a candidate in Tehran for the legislative elections of 1980, her supporters claimed that she won over 250000 votes. She took part in Tehran’s popular demonstrations against the Islamic Republic soon after the revolution. In 1982, she joined the Mojahedin’s headquarters staff in Paris.” Elected” in 1985, after she married Massoud Rajavi, as “ co-leader”, she was made secretary General by decree four years later. Deputy commander In chief of the National Liberation army(NLA) since 1987, the National Resistance Council “elected” her “future president of Iran” five years later. Her role was to be the country’s provisional chief executive during the transition period that the Mojahedin predicted would follow the fall of the Mullahs.

Ervand Abrahamian, a City University of New York historian, has analyzed Massoud and Maryam Rajavi’s “cult of personality’ in terms of the Mojahedin’s “sect-like” structure and behaviour. By 1987, he argues, the organization had developed all the symptoms of a religious cult or sect: worship of the leader, called “the guide” or ,less formally, but significantly :”the current Imam”. The Mojahedin’s “rigid” hierarchy was based on orders from the top and unquestioning subordination of the membership. Abrahamian describes a closed world with its own texts, censorship and enforced outlook. And this “world view” , despite frequent public denials, remained committed to a “synthesis” of the Shiite “religious message” with Marxian social science. He goes on to emphasize the organization’s creation of its own “history”,”martyrs” and “hagiography”. members follow a dress code. Finally, in Iraq, Abrahamian depicts a world apart with its own communities,press, offices, militia, training camps, clinics, schools and prisons,known as “ re-education centers”.

Peter Waldman, an American journalist, endorses this view. According to him, Massoud Rajavi’s marriage with Maryam, a relatively unknown ex-wife of one of his assistants, completed the group’s “transformation” from a political movement to a sect. he points to the Mojahedin’s publications that presented her new role as a “triumph of feminism” and an “ideological revolution” for Iranian women and Moslem world. She was used, he adds, as a contrast with the treatment of women under the Islamic Republic.

According to the former members, the “leadership cult” rose to a new pitch soon after their marriage. Waldman wrote that, Massoud Rajavi was described in a series of Mojahedin publication as “quasi-divine” and a “gift to mankind”. His marriage was compared to the Koran’s depiction of the Prophet’s, and he was seen as a source of “God’s light”. finally, according to the reporter, the group officially proclaimed Massoud Rajavi as “infallible” and “without sin”.
Dr. Ghaffour Moussawi, a psychiatrist and former member, suggest that Massoud Rajavi suffers from a form of narcissistic disorder:” this man is obsessed with his own personality. He believes himself to be above others. He can neither tolerate criticism nor face up to his own mistakes, of which, God knows.

There have been many during his long career as a despot. To establish his authority, he relies on demagogy, intimidation, raw power or the force of arms. He only recruits young people who have not yet developed their own personalities or critical capacities and will do anything to prove their loyalty. His narcissism is also evident in his avowed hatred for other Iranian opposition leaders, whom he insults and accuses of all kins of reason. He has attacked every one, including those most respected for their integrity, like Dr. Charlaat Madaari”.

From the book: The People’s Mojahedin of Iran: A Struggle for what? “By Victor Charbonnier,2004.

August 29, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Former child soldier of the MEK slam Maryam Rajavi

Mohammad Reza (Ray) Torabi former child soldier of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, slammed Maryam Rajavi over the likely victimization of his relatives in the group’s camp. The MEK’s headquarters in Albania was raided by the Police over charges of fraud, organized crimes and human rights abuse.
Ray Torabi whose father was also a member of the MEK and was killed by the group’s torturers is now concerned over the life of his mother and aunts who are still taken as hostages in the group, under the rule of Maryam Rajavi.

During the raid by the anti-terrorism and anti-corruption Police of Albania on Camp Ashraf 3 on June 20th 2023, camp residents clashed with police forces. Albanian state police entered the camp in accordance with the warrant of investigation issued by the Albanian Judiciary. They seized dozens of computers throughout the raid although they were violently confronted by the residents.
Following the clashes that led to injuries for both sides, Ray Torabi posted a video on social media to warn about the threat by the side of the MEK leaders and commanders against their own members. He criticized those who consider the Police’s legal action as human rights violation. “Exactly because it is a human rights case, MEK supporters should stop advocating this group,” he said.

As a former member of the MEK, Ray is completely aware of the atmosphere of the group’s camps. “The Mujaheds have no image of the outside world,” he says. “They are coerced to stand against the Police. This is what happened in Iraq too. The group commanders sent us to clash with Police forces. The pushed us toward Iraqi soldiers. We told them, ‘They are shooting us!’, but they replied, ‘they are practice bullets.’” In July 2009 and in April 2011, dozens of MEK members were killed, paralyzed and wounded because of the same scenario.
Ray asserts that he is more worried over the health of Ashraf residents than anyone else because his mother and his aunts (a sister of his mother and two sisters of his deceased father) are in the camp. “I feel pity for them very much because I know what is going on inside the camp.”

He declares that he wants to be the voice of MEK members against commanders and leaders of the group. “Maryam Rajavi! I consider you responsible for the blood and the life of Mujahedin!” he addresses the leader of the MEK.

He also warns the MEK’s sympathizers. He tells them, “Come to your senses! The scene is the same scene. The country and the continent have changed but the MEK is the same MEK as it was in Iraq. It is the same MEK with the same rotten ideology, with the same leaders and commanders who do not value the lives of their members.”
“They even seek more blood and bloodshed in order to find a bargaining chip at their negotiation table with the West,” former child soldier of the MEK states.

June 28, 2023 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Testimony on annihilation of MEK members by their leaders

Mohammad Ashayer and Aziz Asadi were disappeared after they criticized the MEK leaders.
Ghafoor Fattahian, a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK, PMOI) testifies about the fate of two of his comrades. He witnessed suppression, torture and disappearance of Mohammad Ashayer and Aziz Asadi in the Cult of Rajavi. The group commanders then exploited the photos of their both victims as victims of the Islamic Republic!

Fattahian left the MEK in 2011 after 19 years of membership. He lives in France now. Comparing Maryam Rajavi’s so-called “Ten Point Plan” for “Free Iran” with the reality inside the MEK, Fattahian proves that the group is undemocratic and hypocrite.

Ghafoor Fattahian, a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, living in france

He writes, “In the notorious Camp Ashraf, a lot of members would react Maryam Rajavi’s speeches about free Iran in her propaganda shows because they could see contradictions between what Rajavi said and what was going on inside her camps.”

He even recalls Massoud Rajavi’s reply to members who criticized Maryam: “Maryam and I have to say these words in order to shut the mouths of western politicians”.
Two of MEK members who began dissent at Camp Ashraf were Mohammad Ashayer and Aziz Asadi. Fattahian confirms that they were killed by the group leaders after they criticized them for the conflicts between their words and acts.

Actually, actions carry the stronger message. Fattahian recounts:
“These two people were in my unit. Mohammad Ashayer criticized Maryam’s words about free future Iran saying that the MEK itself was not engaged in democracy and freedom for its own members and acted undemocratically inside its base. He would ask how Maryam Rajavi could guarantee freedom of Iranians after the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.”
According to Fattahian, “Aziz Asadi criticized the MEK for lack of freedom of speech and expression”. He would also question the function of the MEK’s so-called National Liberation Army.
Both men were tried in a court under the command of two female commanders, Maryam Akbari and another woman who Fattahian does not remember her name. “The trial lasted for several hours,” Fattahian writes. “The two men were insulted, humiliated and accused of being the agents of the Iranian intelligence ministry during the trial.”

However, Ashayer and Asadi did not shrink from their opinion. Thus, Assadollah Mosana, the MEK’s notorious torturer entered the scene. Fattahian was an eyewitness of the scene:
“Assadollah Mosana along with some of other prison guards and torturers suddenly attacked them. They beat them to death and then they took them out of the hall, and we never saw them again.”
Fattahian tried to find a track of his disappeared comrades, but he could not find anything until two years later. “Kamran Fallahi and I were patrolling around Camp Ashraf,” he says. “We went to the camp’s cemetery and ran into a group of journalists. A large number of photos of casualties of the MEK’s terrorist operators and executed members of the group were hanging everywhere. Kamran and I were shocked to see the photos of Mohammad Ashayer and Aziz Asadi among them. Pari Bakhshai, the high commander of the camp was telling the journalists that they were victims of the Islamic Republic!”

Ghafoor Fattahian and Kamran Fallahi went to Pari Bakhshai and asked her, “When were they killed? They were in our unit” Bakhshai answered, “Good job to tell us about them. We will remove their pictures,” But, eventually Ghafoor and Kamran were kicked out of the cemetery.
This was not the end of the story. Ghafoor and Kamran were summoned immediately after they got back to their unit. “Never talk about what you saw today! It is a red line!” They were told.

May 28, 2023 0 comment

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