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++In reference to an MEK picket in front of the White House during the visit of Prime Minister Al Maliki, several outlets talk about the desperation displayed by having ten or twenty paid people which nobody took any notice of. Not even anti-Iraqi groups wanted to be associated with it. Many analyse that the weaker the MEK become the more they are losing their benefactors who see they are not worth the money paid. There was even a quote from someone linked to the MEK in Washington saying that ‘with the money we spent on this so-called demonstration if we had given food handouts in front of the White House, we would have got a hundred more people to chant for us’.

++ The Kermanshah branch of Nejat Association has interesting article which points out that until the latest event at Camp Ashraf, anything happening under the sun, even an earthquake in South East Asia, the MEK would blame the intelligence services of Iran for. It is interesting, therefore, that in response to the deaths in Ashraf and the allegedly-missing seven people, the MEK has moved away from Iran and are concentrating blame on Al Maliki and Iraq. It is clear from this that Rajavi has received a severe blow in losing his foothold in Iraq, but he doesn’t want to lose face. Blaming Iran would be degrading – so he says now that the whole world conspired against us and that is why we lost. His game is to take the blame off himself by claiming it wasn’t just the MOIS but the whole he was facing.

++ Saeed Jamali has been continuing his memoirs, one per week, and because he has been at the very centre of the organisation, the MEK have been on overdrive in concentrating all their swearing at him in every way possible, from fabricating lies to personal attacks etc. This has not deterred him, but many people have also written in his support, even those who don’t agree with him. Commentators say that the MEK will not get away with muddying the waters, there are clear questions from disaffected top ranking people and they have to come clean and say whether these are true or not.

++ Behzad Alishahi was the guest on a two hour Mardom TV programme this week. He went into the details of how mind control and cult culture works in the Mojahedin and about other aspects of the cult.

++ Javad Firouzmand from Ariya Iran, who is one of the famous disaffected members who has been publicly tried by Rajavi and condemned to death and has suffered in both Rajavi’s and Saddam’s prisons for being vocal against Rajavi, is writing a series of articles. In the second one, published this week, he corroborates the information given by Saeed Jamali. Because they were working together at many times in the MEK he is able to add supporting evidence to Jamali’s exposures.

++ Maryam Rajavi has declared that ‘if we are allowed to sell Camp Ashraf and other assets to the British company which is willing to buy it, for five hundred million dollars, then we will donate one hundred million of it to the UN Fund [to which the US has already given one million]‘. This hasn’t been taken seriously but has attracted a backlash from many critics, in particular Iraqis and others who point out that half the camp was given to the MEK by Saddam to be used as a terrorist camp and this was one of the stated reasons for the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the other half taken by force from nearby villagers. The MEK have no documentation, not even a piece of paper signed by Saddam to show ownership. They point out that as a last effort, since Rajavi knows no other way, he is trying to bribe the UN and Americans, but up to now no one has responded to this silly proposal by these terrorists.

++ Following the anniversary of Marzieh’s death, this week, a few who knew her personally like Iraj Shokri and Esmail Yaghmai have written their memories of that time which exactly match what MEK critics have said until now; which is that in the last years of her life she tried to leave the cult, and when she found the opportunity she used telephones and middle people to contact the outside world to ask for help and to be rescued. Because of this the Rajavis ordered that her telephone be cut off and that she be made to live in isolation in Paris until she died. Yaghmai refers to Marzieh’s complaints that her written memoirs went missing and how she asked for an investigation since she believed that MEK members had stolen them, to which the MEK answered by swearing at her. The MEK is famous for not allowing anyone to keep any personal documents or writings etc.

++ Hamid Reza Salmani from Yaran Association in Paris has published some memories on their website recounting his experience of Ali Mansouri (the MEK member arrested in Israel). He explains how he was recruited by Mansouri in Turkey in the mid 1990s and was from there sent to Iraq.

++ Many have written articles about the British government’s statement that the UK is ‘considering’ the cases of 17 residents of Camp Liberty referred to them as refugees by the UNHCR. Mazda Parsi from Nejat Bloggers has gone into the history of the MEK and European countries and makes the point that, yes the MEK are supported to be used as a terrorist organisation outside Europe, but Europe and America know the MEK as a tool very well – that they are not creatures to be kept at home – and that is why they are so reluctant to take them, and so they delay and play games to keep them out.

++ On the anniversary of the US embassy siege – in which the MEK participated and promoted a far more radical line than was taken by Ayatollah Khomeini – the MEK have significantly remained silent.

++ The Fedayeen newspaper Kar online has an interview with Mehdi Fatapour one of the prominent leaders of the organisation. He talks in the interview about the US embassy takeover, going into detail about how and why it happened. He rejects the claim that the Fedayeen were involved in the act. He says, not only were we not involved in the occupation but even before the revolution we took a stance against the MEK’s violence toward US servicemen in our country. Our way was not to fight with foreigners, we were engaged in fighting at home, not the outside world.

++ The latest news from inside Camp Liberty is that people are refusing to attend lectures and not obeying orders and that the imposed controls are cracking. A lot of people are apparently angry. They notice that 52 were killed and then the remaining 42 then arrived in Camp Liberty and they now want answers. It is not enough to say ‘someone came from the sky and killed them’. They want real answers. This information has been passed to Paris and now Maryam Rajavi is sending messages and videos to try to calm people down. The basic question is ‘if this was a suicide mission, why did only 52 die and the others stayed alive, and if it wasn’t suicide then why was even one killed?’ Maryam has replied that ‘keeping these people there and sacrificing top members like Zohreh Ghaemi and others was pre-planned. The plan has worked and the result is that the blood of these people has meant that we came off the US terrorism list and also we delayed evacuating Camp Ashraf to this date. We have therefore achieved our aim and we would have given the other 42, but thank God this wasn’t necessary’. She also claimed that ‘keeping these people in Ashraf was partly our decoy to hide the whereabouts of Massoud Rajavi and we were successful in this part as well’. She says nothing has been lost and ‘Liberty is now the beacon of the arrow [sic] of evolution and has replaced Ashraf’.

+ Many have written in Farsi about the so-called hunger strike which has now passed its second month. They ridicule it as ‘proof of Maryam’s Ideological Revolution’. They point out that Bobby Sands died well before 60 days, but these people who have undergone Maryam’s Ideological Revolution, are getting fatter by the day while on hunger strike.

++ There was another terrorist attack this week by Jaish Al-adl – which is supported by Saudi Wahhabis and runs a Facebook account and website from London. This time the terrorist group assassinated the Prosecutor of Zabol city in Baluchestan killing him, his driver and a passer by in the attack. Rajavi again, as last week, has been praised and supported this act of violence, which raises the question again ‘how did the US and UK and Europe come to the conclusion they are not terrorists and take them off their terrorism lists?’ Commentators point out that it is precisely because they have not given up terrorism, but because they firmly have hung on to their terrorist credentials.

++ Ariya Iran has an article about the support the MEK has given to the Jaish Al-adl terrorists. The site published a scan of the MEK’s Farsi publication of the same day in which the MEK are praising them for the assassination. But in their English and French sites they have been on overdrive to condemn the kidnap of a French journalist and call it terrorism. This shows how hypocritical they are.

++ Maryam Sanjabi, a former member of the MEK’s Leadership Council who defected recently and exposed their cult corruption etc., has written a note in her Facebook page referring to the recent exposures by the likes of Iraj Mesdaghi, Hadi Afshar, Karim Ghassim and Rowhani and Esmail Yaghmai, saying that although none of this is news, it is certainly confirmation of what has been said by others over the past decade. From one side she wonders why, after being exposed so much, are some in the West are still supporting them; surely any benefit is negated by the damage inflicted by them, which is now being proved. In addition she questions the mentality of the newly defected members and supporters who think they should answer every bit of rubbish that Rajavi throws at them and defend themselves against it. It is unfortunate, she says, that they can’t understand that both their side and the ones who are in the MEK and forced to swear back at them are no more than puppets for Rajavi to serve his survival. If either side knew what Rajavi really thinks about them then the last thing on their mind would be to defend themselves against the rubbish he throws at them.

 November 8, 2013

++ The MEK’s systematic swearing continues against Mesdaghi, Yaghmai, Ghassim and Rowhani – the latest four to defect and publicly criticise the MEK. As usual, the MEK have created new websites and made up new names and associations to swear at them. There has been much reaction to these activities, which everyone identifies as an effort to divert attention from the actual questions which have been raised by these critics. One short article this week from Atefeh Eghbal, us titled, ‘Is it really possible?’ She examines the MEK reaction and begs the question, ‘even if we accept everything the MEK says, that we are all agents of the regime, we are torturers and murderers and rapists, still is it really possible that people have or will forget what the original questions were which were directed at Massoud Rajavi. Where did these questions go?’

++ There have still been a few articles expanding on Rajavi’s remark that he is only responsible for the souls of his followers and what happens on Judgement Day, and that he has no clue or responsibility about the overthrow of the Iranian regime or when that may occur.

++ This week a delegation from Aryia Association in Paris had meetings at the Albanian embassy. The delegation thanked the government of Albania for its humanitarian act of accepting 210 MEK as refugees from Camp Liberty. They further explained, with documents and evidence, how the MEK is attempting to create a new camp like they had in Iraq how they exert pressure on the new arrivals to conform to the cult will.

++ One of the series of people from the NCRI brought to swear at Ghassim and Rowhani is Moslem Filabi. Many articles have been written criticising him on various levels. One is that he is still living on his reputation as a wrestler forty years ago which the MEK uses for advertising purposes. Also many criticise him for having never been political and not attending any NCRI meetings or getting involved. They say he is paid for writing whatever the MEK dictate for him although he has no clue about what is happening in the world. The articles point out he is not an unknown creature for anyone and that he really ought to shut up.

++ Behzad Alishahi was this week’s guest on Mardom TV. He had an open line and answered various views and questions put to him by viewers. The questions varied from asking about the families at Camp Liberty to the accusation that he is biased and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to speak. Alishahi answered by acknowledging “I am is not neutral. I wish I could be, but with all the things I have seen and experienced with the MEK, it is impossible. That, however, is not important. What matters is that the people are neutral. Since the MEK is not neutral either, let us sit together and discuss this from both sides and let the people decide.” When asked whether he is an ‘agent of the Iranian regime’ Alishahi thanked the questioner for this and said, “normally the MEK line is never to make these accusations directly because this is the start of a dialogue. Instead you are only supposed to swear at me in a place where I can’t answer. So, as a supporter if the MEK, either knowingly or not you have crossed the red line. We can start the conversation and you will see that I have points we can discuss and share.” He then goes on to explain how the MEK have been used by Iran and how the MEK try to wipe out the questions by shouting and threatening. He reminded the questioner that he has never written any letter to any official in Iran but Massoud Rajavi has and is frequently doing so and that this is just the surface of his relations. Some other questions involved his years with the MEK and what he feels is his responsibility for what happened when Iraq was at war with Iran and during other episodes in the MEK’s history.

++ Ghader Rahmani has written an article for Nim-Negah directed at Rowhani and Ghassim. While welcoming their resignations and their distancing from the MEK, he reminds them that they have to criticise their own past themselves. He reminds them specifically of the time in Baghdad that Rajavi suddenly expanded the NCRI from tens to 500 members by appointing hundreds of MEK. At that time, says Rahmani, those MEK who were forced to join had questions in their minds and didn’t want to be members of the NCRI. However because that was the era of Saddam and they had to obey orders. However, although you two didn’t have to obey you accepted this and didn’t raise your voices to object. On top of that, for two decades you accepted someone like Maryam Rajavi as your so-called president elect.

++ As usual MEK TV broadcast swearing sessions against its critics, this time bringing Mehdi Abrishamchi – Maryam Rajavi’s first husband and famous inside the MEK as a lumpen. As part of the programme, MEK callers began issuing threats against Yaghmai, Mesdaghi and others saying they would not only kill them but chop them into pieces. In response there have been many articles, some of which remind Abrishamchi that the era of Saddam has passed and the MEK should grow up and live with the reality of Western countries. Yaghmai has answered in his blog, explaining the words and phrases the MEK use and comparing them with the likes of Hassan Sabah and the Assassin cult and how they were sent to chop people up. He asks, “is this what you mean?” He has also published a poem, titled ‘I am vomiting’. He describes his disappointment that over the years he has been fooled and had helped the cult and lost everything. In the end he comes out on top and says that ‘if I only have one more day to live, I will not sit and do nothing’.

++ Several articles directed at Massoud Rajavi say ‘isn’t it better that you ‘get lost’, rather than your followers?’

++ Adam Scherck for Associated Press in Baghadad reports that Georges Bakoos, who oversees the MEK issue for the Iraqi government, dismissed as “propaganda” the dissident group’s allegations of persecution. He acknowledged there are occasional power cuts at the camp but said they are no different as those in other parts of Iraq. “I can assure you no order was given” to cut off supplies, he said. Iraqi officials are, however, moving ahead with court proceedings to evict the Camp Ashraf holdouts, possibly as soon as in the next few weeks, Bakoos said.

++ Mehdi Khoshal has written an article titled, ‘Getting and Giving’. He explains how Rajavi has lost one thing after another because he never had dared to give anything. Rajavi always wants to get but can never pay the price to gain anything worthwhile.

++ In an interview with Ashraf News translated into English, a former independent member of Iraq’s House of Representatives, Hussein al-Falluji, has revealed that from the time of their arrival, the occupying American forces granted the Mojahedin Khalq organisation immunity and freedom of movement within the country to coordinate with some other groups and political parties in Iraq. He concluded that the situation posed by the MEK and the increasing number of extremist armed groups which are waiting for the opportunity to work together to target the security of Iraq poses a challenge.

++ Hanif Heydar Nejat has published his series of articles on Forough Javidan as a book in Farsi. He has also written, as have others, about the MEK TV programme and the death threats etc. He puts it that it is obvious that when the head of the MEK does not directly reject these comments which have been broadcast from his television, then we can consider that any future occurrence has been directly ordered by him.

++ Atefeh Eghbal wrote an article about the people in Camp Ashraf and says that it is ridiculous to claim, as the MEK do, that these 100 people are there to look after their belongings. This doesn’t match with anything and everyone is clear they are not there for that. She compares the bad conditions of Camp Liberty and Camp Ashraf which the MEK themselves claim to the conditions at Auvers-sur-Oise and asks, ‘after 30 years, what is really the mission of these 100 people who are suffering deprivation and what really is the mission of those in France eating well and enjoying themselves in comfort.

++ Milad Aryiai has a short article in Pen Association in Germany saying that after 90 days since a couple of people have left the NCRI, and nothing more, Rajavi has still dropped everything else and is doing nothing but creating allegations against them and swearing at them. In a world in which it is usual that you join an organisation willingly and leave when you want, Rajavi’s reaction shows how corrupt his thinking is that he believes they shouldn’t be allowed to behave like this.

++ Many write about the possible break-up of the MEK as day by day it is collapsing in on itself. They question whether there a possibility that a new faction break off and rescue the forces with a new name or something.

++ Press TV in English covered a press conference in Tehran in which two former members of the terrorist MEK elaborated on the terrorist nature of the group which has a long history of hostility and terrorist attacks against the Iranian nation. Ebrahim Khodabandeh and Maryam Sanjabi both worked for the MEK for over 20 years before escaping from the group’s camp in Iraq. “The MEK is not seeking a social position inside the Iranian society, but rather it is only trying to ensure the interests of the US and Israel,” Khodabandeh said. “The group was initially established on the platform of fighting imperialism three decades ago, but today the group’s leaders do not follow this policy anymore and instead they have become the partners of the US and Israel in carrying out their destructive policies against Iran,” he added. Sanjabi said the MEK does not observe human rights at all even in recruiting its forces. “The group doesn’t care how old you are. We had a number of children from seven to ten years of age who’d been forced to join the group and indeed they were raised according to the group’s plans.” She said that the leaders of the group believe that families are “the nest of corruption” so they try hard to disrupt family bonds and force members to forget their family.

++ Minoo Sepehr has written an article about the active presence of the MEK in the violence in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, detailing both the news and the aims that have been set for Rajavi to perform in these places. She reminds us of many reports, including that of Seymour Hersh, that the MEK are being trained by Americans. It is not surprising, she concludes, that if they can’t use them in Iran they will use them elsewhere because they don’t want to pay for nothing.

++ Mohammad Razaghi has commented on the MEK TV programme and reminds us that the last few violent attacks in Paris and other places against vocal critics have all been directed from Auvers-sur-Oise, pointing out that this cannot happen in the MEK without a direct order from the top. Knowing the MEK they will follow orders from Auvers, but warns that this time because the MEK is collapsing they may not only knife people, they may go to kill them.

++ Sahar Family Foundation has translated into Farsi some articles from Iraqi papers. The news agency Al Iraq al Markazieh says there are reports of Massoud Rajavi now living in Israel under the protection of the Americans. The same report also goes into the sexual mistreatment of women in the MEK during the time of Saddam and the fact they were all divorced and married to Rajavi. The report says that many claims are being brought to the Iraqis that they have been raped by Rajavi and that Maryam Rajavi was aiding and abetting the sexual abuse.

++ Al Elam Al Iraqi has published an interview with an official of the Iraqi ministry for human rights, Kamel Amin, who is following the case of the MEK. He says there is no way the MEK can be considered for refugee status in Iraq as they are not eligible, but the number of people remaining in Camp Ashraf is exactly 80. The MEK have deliberately published various numbers on their websites from 80 to 230 just to confuse the situation, but it is exactly 80, not more. He also stressed that they will be expelled soon.

++ Bahar Irani has an article in Mojahedin.ws comparing the content of the MEK TV programme with what Maryam Rajavi has been claiming in her Paris show at Villepint. She says what they want for Iran – freedom of speech and religion etc – but in their programme the MEK threaten to kill people for talking. Irani reminds us that what this woman is doing and saying is when the MEK do not have power.

August 30, 2013

Wondering at those Americans who stand under the flag of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult) only to LOBBY for the murderers of their servicemen

++ This week it has been revealed that Massoud Rajavi released an audio message during the month of Ramezan addressing his 3000+ followers. Rajavi tells them ‘anyone who wants to leave can go to Hell, as I have no use for you. If I have one thousand loyal devotees I can do anything’. According to this proclamation, ‘the MEK will not pay a penny for anyone if they choose to leave Iraq’, (even though they worked for tens of years for him for nothing). This speech comes in the context that Rajavi has made it almost impossible to get out of the camp and also that the MEK has shown itself desperate to hold on to the 100+ residents who the UN have already transferred to Albania. The MEK have sent commanders from Iraq and Paris to offer them material help and other forms of support in order to keep control of them. It is clear from the reports of the refugees that the MEK is trying to recreate Camp Ashraf/Liberty in Albania.

++ Many write in Farsi about Rajavi’s message and point out that he is responsible for misusing and destroying thousands of people, people who gave up everything to do some good. And now, after destroying the whole organization Rajavi can only tell them to get lost. The conclusion of most is that Rajavi must be bought to justice for all this suffering and destruction. One article in particular talks about ‘shame’ and how at various times Rajavi has shown himself totally without shame and that this is his character.

++ Mahmoud Sepahi analyses what Rajavi says in the Ramezan audio address. His view is that knowing Rajavi and they way he talks, clearly behind all the shouting we can see he is begging the members not to leave him naked and alone. He is begging for protection; especially because Rajavi specifically criticises the people in Albania and asks ‘why have they distanced themselves from me’.

++ In English, Akbar Montaser, Professor of Chemistry (1981-2012) The George Washington University has written an Open Letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry. He points out the contradiction between the spectacle of prominent American politicians and former officials supporting a group despised by Iranians as traitors and until very recently on the US terrorism list, and potential efforts to embark on serious diplomacy and dialogue with the rulers in Iran. He says, “Importantly, such reckless actions by the US government, coupled with new sanctions passed in the House, effectively help the Supreme Leader to convince Iranians that America does not intend to bring the long-lasting disputes to a reasonable conclusion in a peaceful manner. Aside from the Iranian regime, the highly intelligent people of Iran will undoubtedly infer that the delisting of MEK was accomplished to allow America to use MEK as a puppet, to attack Iran, similar to Saddam. Certainly, this type of diplomacy reduces or eliminates any chance of peace.”

++ An article by Nejat bloggers in English also focuses on the huge fees paid by the MEK to American speakers and reminds us that when the MEK was removed from the US terrorism list Congressman Ted Poe claimed that the MEK “has been actively working with US intelligence agencies”. The article is titled, ‘People’s Mojahedin or Intel’s Mojahedin?’ and says the MEK has not been on the side of the Iranian people for 35 years. Instead, “the MKO has to answer many questions over its cooperation with the Israeli and American Intelligence Service and over the 25 years of Massoud Rajavi’s obedience to Iraqi Intelligence chief under Saddam Hussein, General Taher Al Jalil Haboush”.

++ In parts 7 and 8 of his series looking at Forough Javidan after 25 years, Heydar Hanifnejad talks about what happened when he disagreed with the MEK after the failed operation which led to his move to Germany. He talks about how the MEK treated him after he arrived in Germany.

++ Karim Ghassim held a lengthy interview with Radio Payam in Canada, detailing his opinions and explaining why he left the NCRI and why the MEK attacks him and calls him an agent of the Iranian regime. He emphasised that his separation didn’t happen in one day and says, “I tried for a long time to get them to listen to my opposition. Me and others asked to talk about the ridiculous name of ‘Democratic Islamic Republic of Iran’ which was supposed to replace the ‘Islamic Republic of Iran’, which even the Muslim opposition to the current regime don’t understand. But Rajavi never allowed anyone to discuss the matter never mind give any opinion on it.”

++ Nejat Association in Kermanshah (Kurdistan) has published an article titled, ‘Consequences of the MEK’s mercenary activity’. It says no matter how the Americans try to use this mercenary force in various scenarios, the Kurdish population clearly know and have not forgotten how Rajavi joined with Saddam to massacre their people. It concludes, ‘the indictment of Massoud Rajavi in Iraq remains valid in this part of the world whether they are friends with America or not’.

++ The MEK have embarked on another wave of money collection. Many people have written about this tactic which the MEK uses for money laundry. One is Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad, Rajavi’s former translator who now lives in Paris. He remembers how the MEK have been ‘collecting money’ for years and years and reminds us how the MEK exploited the UN Oil for Food programme by selling oil for Saddam Hussein and taking a percentage. And how the MEK received money from various other sources and had phases of so-called money collections and a few weeks later would announce they had collected several million dollars! He says no one is in any doubt that these have never been legitimate collections, rather it is a way of whitewashing [laundering] payments for mercenary work, this time presumably Israel related.

++ Julie Ershadi, writing for America’s Future, investigates where the MEK gets its money from. “According to a form submitted in compliance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act in May, the NCRI is registered as a foreign principal under Rosemont Associates, LLC. That company is owned by Robert G. Torricelli, a former Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey. A man who picked up the company phone on Thursday morning wasn’t keen on chatting, and a receptionist who answered another call later that afternoon said Torricelli wasn’t in.”

“According to his company’s FARA filing, the NCRI pays Torricelli $420,000 per year for his services, which include lobbying executive and legislative branch officials. They also gave him $34,975 in March for speeches he gave in Europe.”

++ Mehdi Khoshal published the final part of his article about ‘the horse and the rider’. Last time he addressed Rajavi saying ‘sure, they won’t ask how you won but they don’t give the prize to the horse’. This time he uses the same metaphor to claim that the story of the horse and his rider is not just about the finishing line but about what they go through to get there. He expands on various scenarios concerning the MEK, including Forough Javidan and says it was not Rajavi but Iraqi intelligence who ordered him to go to war. It was Saddam in charge, not Rajavi.

++ Mohammad Karami has published another article in his series on suspicious deaths inside the MEK. This time he talks about Kamran Bayati, a Kurd from Kermanshah, who the MEK claim committed suicide. Karami, who knew Kamran personally, names a few people including Afsaneh Shahrokhi, Fahimeh Mahhoozi, Mohammad Reza Mohadess, Karim Gorgon, Siamak Diamati as people who collectively were in charge of torture and explains that one of the tortures they used against Kamran was dripping water on his forehead to force him to accept that he should write to ask to attend a collective meeting to confess his sins.

++ Mohammad Alavi from Aryia Association in Paris examines Rajavi’s approach to the Islamic Republic of Iran from the time he was part of it, through the many times he has had covert and overt discussions with its various factions, to the latest incident just before election this year when Rajavi wrote to Ayatollah Rafsanjani and Ayatollah Khamenei. Alavi points out that Karim Ghassim and Mohammad Reza Rowhani both cited this as one of the reasons they left the NCRI. He then describes Rajavi’s use of cult manipulation to fool his supporters to pretend nothing is wrong. On one hand he claims he will topple regime but at same time he is writing love letters to IRI leaders.

++ Irandidban has an article titled, ‘An open letter, but not like Iraj Mesdaghi or Massoud Rajavi’. This says that at this point of time these kinds of letters are too little, too late. What is left of the MEK after Saddam, Israel and the human rights abuses, has now reached a tragicomic phase. The article suggests the only decent thing left for them is to openly announce the dissolution of the MEK. ‘We don’t say this as being defeatist, but believe this is the only remaining positive path in front of this organisation. This is the path for survival of the people in the MEK rather than a path of destruction.’

++ Many write in Farsi to ask ‘why is it banned inside the MEK to ask “where is Rajavi after ten years?”‘

++ Mohammad Reza Rowhani had an interview about his resignation from the NCRI with Pejvak Iran. He goes through his various reasons and how the MEK reacted by falsifying things to try to demonise him and his friends. In this lengthy interview Rowhani criticises some of the people in the NCRI who have submitted to swearing at him even though they have known him for years, so that it is clear they are not doing this on their own initiative but have been made to do it.

++ Bahar Irani from Mojahedin.ws writes, ‘What Alternative?’ and analyses the system of the NCRI and how it operates. He ridicules the MEK ‘particularly after being exposed by the last two non-MEK members who recently resigned and asks how can the MEK still call itself ‘the alternative’.

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – August 16 2013