MEK elderlies from nursing home, sick and tired of freeing Iran
Maryam Rajavi is not a democratic opposition leader but she is the evil hand to run the dictatorship of her husband’s cult of personality
January 19, 1981, when Musa Khiabani’s team house, the headquarters of the terrorists of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) in Tehran was attacked by the security forces, Khiabani, the top man of the group in Iran, Ashraf Rabiei, the first wife of Massoud Rajavi, and about 20 others members of the group at that house, were killed.
All the residents of that house were killed in the operation in Zafaraniyeh, Tehran and eventually the group’s terror acts in Iran stopped because of the disappearance of the command room. But that operation also had a survivor! A young child who had been born that year. The son of Massoud Rajavi and Ashraf Rabiei: Mostafa Rajavi.
A few minutes after the end of the operation, the Tehran prosecutor, Lajevardi, while hugging the same child, described the operation in front of the camera and addressed the grandfather of the child, the father of Massoud Rajavi, to go the Prosecutor’s Office to take the baby.
Very soon, Mostafa Rajavi was handed over to his grandfather in Mashhad. Then the group’s operatives secretly transferred him to France. Mustafa became known as Mohammed Rajavi after entering the MEK’s headquarters in France. He studied there for a while until he was transferred to the Camp Ashraf in Iraq with his father’s command.
After the disastrous Eternal Light operation against the Iranian border, which left the MEK with huge casualties, Massoud Rajavi began a series of cult jargons under the title “Ideological Revolution”. He forced married members to divorce. Eventually, During the Kuwait war, he separated children from their parents under the pretext of the danger of the war, and smuggled them to Europe. Years later, the group authorities returned these children to Camp Ashraf.
Mostafa Rajavi was transferred to Camp Ashraf Iraq together with a large number of other MEK children who were all at their teen age.
The presence of Mohammad Rajavi in Camp Ashraf had a great use for Massoud Rajavi, which allegedly showed his devotion. But Mohammad was not happy with living in Camp Ashraf. He began dissent and therefore commanders placed him in a separate house to conceal his discontent with the sectarian relations within the MEK and the disagreements with his father. They provided all kinds of facilities to keep him silent.
Although Rajavi tried to induce his forces that there is no exceptions in Ashraf, Mostafa enjoyed a better living condition which only Massoud and Maryam and some of the upper classes enjoyed. Meanwhile, other parents were banned from meeting their children in Camp Ashraf. All teenage members had to attend”passing the family”classes daily while Mostafa could see his father whenever he wanted to.
However, Mostafa Rajavi, who studied and grew up in Europe, considered the entire organization as a prison. Despite having at least six security guards, he tried to escape. With several friends of his age, he hit the barbed wire with a heavy military vehicle overnight but he was arrested by one of the guards while he was trying to flip over the truck’s roof over the barbed wire. Mostafa’s companions were all jailed in solitary confinement where they were beaten and tortured. But Mostafa was only transferred to his place of residence and was held there.
After the collapse of Saddam and the entry of Americans into Iraq, the Americans began to reach Ashraf and its inhabitants in order to get informed of both the status of the Camp Ashraf and the capacity of its inhabitants to be employed in Iraq. According to former members of MEK, the Persian translator of the American army repeatedly called for an interview Massoud Rajavi’s son but the request was faced with severe opposition by the side of the group commanders each time. The leaders of the group were struggling to hide Mostafa’s positions against his father’s organization.
Muhammad Rajavi moved to Liberty after the shutdown of Camp Ashraf, and he was removed from Iraq during the transition to Albania and sent to Norway. Mostafa was no more a teenager who could be silenced by the commanders but he was afraid of the organization’s decision to eliminate him, which was not far from mind –Muhammad was familiar with that technique because of his life experience in Ashraf.
His criticisms made the organization provide him an easier condition in Norway. It was told that a salary of several thousand dollars a month and the expenses of his education in one of the prestigious universities in Norway were the costs the MEK paid to silence Rajavi’s son.
However, Mostafa Rajavi did not keep silent as the MEK leaders desired. In August 2020, he was interviewed in a Persian-language TV show hosted by Zina Tehrani a monarchist figure. During the Phone interview, Mostafa criticized the Mujahedin Khalq Organization and particularly his father Massoud Rajavi.
In April 2021, Jack Turner of Geopolitica reported that Mostafa Rajavi is still under the pressure of undemocratic approaches of the MEK leaders. He published parts of a law suit signed by Mostafa Rajavi against the MEK. His statement begins with this: I want to reveal about a dirty and illegal ransom to put pressure on me.
One of the cult-related issues is family. In a destructive cult like the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MEK/ MKO/ PMOI/ Cult Of Rajavi) the destruction of family intimacy is the result of the leader’s absolute influence on members. Members are not allowed to contact their families outside the group.
A large number of MEK members have not contacted their families for over three decades. Many parents have become sick or even died while their children in the cult of Rajavi have not been informed at all.
Roozbeh Atayee is a member of the MEK. His mother Giti Zartoshtian, from Esfahan, Iran, has not visited Roozbeh for twenty years. His father died 15 years ago and the mother is sick now. The MEK leaders dot not want Roozbeh to be aware of his mother’s sickness.
The MEK, very similar to many abusive groups, attempts to either eliminate or destroy emotional bonds between parents and children that might compete for loyalty with the emotional attachments that members feel for leaders, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.
Leila is the Youngest child of Rahim Kayukan. She was born in 1979, two years before his father, Rahim would leave the entire family behind to join the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, in September 1981. When Rahim left the family other siblings of Leila, Mozhgan, Mehran and Mosen were respectively, 13, 10 and 4 years old. At the time, their mother, Behjat Sediqi was 32 years old and since then she has never been contacted by her husband.
For four decades, Rahim Kayukan has been a member of the Mujahedin Khalq and is in the group’s camp in Albania now. He is one of the thousand Iranians who are kept under the cult-like structure of the Mujahedin Khalq. Rahim was a flight technician of the Iran National Airlines when he was recruited by the MEK. What has stopped Rahim from contacting his wife and children during these long years?
It may seem strange how intelligent people can get caught up in such a bizarre and dangerous cult like the MEK. But the fact is that cults target individuals throughout their life spans and across all socioeconomic groups and backgrounds.”Regrettably, it is impossible to quantify how many people are involved in potentially damaging cultic religions or similar ideological commitments,”Doni Whitsett & Stephen A. Kent assert in a paper on”Cults and Families”.
The authors of the article, referring to a large number of comprehensive books and researches on the issue, attempt to raise the awareness in ways that facilitate the ability of professionals to evaluate the impact of cults on some people who get trapped in these cults. They focus on both families within the cults and families outside of cults that are impacted by the cultic involvement of one or more of their members.
According to Whitsett and Kent,”A frequent consequence of cult involvement—and one that may have dramatic implications for diagnosis and treatment of former members—is the assault that these groups make upon family units among their adherents“. The evidence is officially published on the MEK-run websites from time to time, particularly after, each family member of the MEK adherents try to call on human rights bodies and file appeals against the MEK leaders.
In case of Leila Kayukan, her recent testimony in court made the MEK propaganda agents assault her family by accusing her of being dishonest about her father. This is an official position taken by the MEK vitrines in the social media which is exposed to the outside world. Not mentioning the way they treat members and their families inside the isolated camps of the Cult of Rajavi.
The authors of”Cults and Families”, believe that cult leaders use several factors to break the bonds between members and their families.”These factors include intensive resocialization into the new, deviant beliefs and behaviors; the demonization of people’s pre-cult lives; intense punishment and shaming regimes; restrictions on exogenous social contacts; heavy financial and time commitments; and constant demands to value group commitments over family considerations.”
According to the article, cult leaders impose various regressive techniques on their members that interfere with their ability to critically assess their situations. Authors also assert that the most virulent forms of regression.This kind of treatment demonstrate the disordered personalities of the cult leaders. however, probably reflect the disordered personalities of some leaders. They present several examples of cult leaders who suffer from various forms of psychological dysfunction.
“Many groups attack the formation of parent–child bonds by geographically separating children from their parents,”they state.”For example, various Eastern-based religious groups operate educational facilities back in their home countries, and often Western followers send their children to these overseas facilities for schooling. Consequently, children and parents see each other very infrequently, as distant strangers assume child-rearing and educational responsibilities. The children, therefore, cannot rely upon their parents in times of need.”
In addition to children like Leila and her siblings, there have been many children who were taken to the MEK camps by their parents but later on they were separated from them. then distanced from them. The number of children who have been separated from their parents by the MEK leaders mount to over 700. In just one cargo, over 300 children were separated from their parents in Camp Ashraf and were transferred via Jordan to Europe in 1990. The horrible fates of these children should be considered as cases of child and teen abuse.
Moreover,”similar threats to those directed against parent–child relationships also exist against spousal relationships”. The authors of the paper suggest,“In highly restrictive groups, strong marriages challenge leaders’ ability to control and receive the constant attention of the two partners. Moreover, couples are likely to establish private confidences—to share intimate feelings, dreams, desires, and perhaps doubts—all of which threaten paranoid leaders and evoke envy in those who have narcissistic and borderline personality disorders.”Therefore, forced divorces and mandatory celibacy in the MEK are definitely the sign of Massoud Rajavi’s personality disorders.
Thus, Rahim Kayukan and hundreds of his peers are trapped in the Cult of Rajavi. They are not allowed to talk and even think about their family. They are under daily pressure to denounce any relationship with the world except with the orders of the leaders Maryam and Massoud Rajavi. This is always mentioned in the testimonies of former members of the group and confirmed in the article too.
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“Often groups require members to reveal their supposed deficiencies and shortcomings in assemblies, meetings, or other public settings,”Whitsett and Kent write.”Members, therefore, are trapped in double binds. On the one hand, if they go public with doubts or private opinions, then others will attack and possibly expel them. On the other hand, if they withhold their private (and possibly negative) thoughts, then they likely feel deceitful and inadequate to the tasks of their groups’ missions. Thus, many members are locked in inner battles between self-protection and group solidarity. Because they are torn in these ways, it is exceedingly difficult for them to provide emotional and cognitive guidance to children (not to mention to other adults).”
It is clear that, members of MEK have no way out of the Cult-like system of the group. They are certainly live cases of human rights violation that the International community is responsible to rescue them before irreparable damage is taking its toll.
Mazda Parsi
There was some speculation recently as to the whereabouts of Maryam Rajavi – reminiscent of the disappearance of her husband Massoud Rajavi in 2003, who has since been presumed dead and yet speaks from the grave; does anybody miss him? Similarly, Maryam Rajavi who, no matter where she actually is, exists totally outside the consciousness of over 80 million people in Iran as the de facto head of the MEK cult which she inherited from her husband, has come to life in France.
Several observers who closely follow such issues have confirmed the news: Maryam Rajavi, after being expelled from Europe and being forced to spend two years in Albania, has now surfaced in Auvers sur Oise near Paris again. Unable to travel on her French documents, the CIA arranged for her to be given an Albanian passport stamped with a visa from France.
Rajavi has happily abandoned her followers to their fate in the slave camp in Manez, which is riddled with COVID-19, and emerged to celebrate her dead. (A far cry from the promise of regime change she has advertised for many a year.) Rajavi is photographed at the grave of a man who left the Iranian airforce forty years ago. She brought along a substitute for the dead pilot Behzad Moezi – his former flight technician and now MEK member – and dressed him in the same airforce uniform from that time; presumably to indicate that she is head of the defunct National Liberation Army of Iran. The MEK lost its military identity when it lost the patronage of Saddam Hussein two decades ago. That doesn’t appear to bother Maryam Rajavi. But her pose, in civilian clothes giving a military salute, only shows that she learned nothing about military etiquette over the past forty years.
What is made very clear from this sad little vignette is that the Biden administration still regards the MEK as a valuable tool. The CIA – which as an institution lacks any moral compass – is happy to continue to support Rajavi and exploit the slave labour of 2000 Iranian cult victims in Albania and is too dumb to comprehend that the families of these victims are sincere in their efforts to free their loved ones. The family of Behzad Moezi tried in vain to prevent Maryam Rajavi from exploiting him in death as she had exploited him in life*.
This ‘circus’ is a stark reminder, however, that the next-of-kin of all her dead followers are their families. It is they who should decide where and how their deceased loved ones are buried and honoured. Yet, even in death Rajavi cruelly denies these families their natural rights. Shame on her. Shame on those who wittingly follow her. And shame on the Biden administration which could act to put an end to this pointless debacle, but chooses not to.
* The one thing my father made clear to us, his only request, was to not let the Mujahedeen use his body for their circus. That is exactly what @Maryam_Rajavi did. Instead of being able to mourn our father, we’ve spent the last week trying to fight off this cult from afar.
— Maryam Moezzi (@maryam_moezzi) January 16, 2021
Iran Interlink WebsiteApril 4, 2021
A number of defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) took action to denounce the group for kidnapping another former member, Hadi SaniKhani.
Tens of former members of the MEK distributed flyers and brochures on the case of Sanikhani among citizens of Paris and its suburb. Hadi Sanikhani was recruited by the MEK in Turkey and then smuggled to Iraq to stay in the group’s cult-like system. He escaped from the group after it was relocated in Albania but after a few years he was disappeared. The MEK propaganda websites published some papers allegedly signed by Sanikhani.
Defectors believe that the MEK leaders have probably smuggled Sanikhani to France territory. They warned the French authorities and citizens about the MEK’s unlawful activities in France.
A court session has been held in Tehran to look into the complaints filed a by a group of former members of the terrorist Mujahedin Khalgh grouplet known as MKO, who have fled to the country after several years of being under torture and oppression by the MKO leaders namely Masoud and Maryam Rajavi and other senior officials of the terrorist cult.
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This is the first time that such a lawsuit has been filed at a legal court. The 42 individuals claim damages and compensation in connection with imprisonment, torture.
Saman Kojouri
Let’s review Maryam Rajavi’s promises for Iranian women on the occasion of the International Women’s Day
Women’s rights are the fundamental human rights that were cherished by the United Nations for every human being on the planet about 70 years ago. These rights include the right to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn a fair and equal wage. These basic rights have been constantly violated by the group leaders. Violence against women is one of the most systematic, widespread human rights violation in this group. This violation is embedded in unequal power dynamics between women and men that is reinforced by harmful social norms or inequality in the group.
Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) has always pretended to be an enthusiastic advocate of Women’s rights. She adds certain rights to the above-mentioned list which sound quite rational and ethical. Just to mention an example, in her message on March 8, 2019 on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, she persuades the Iranian women”to rebel against the culture of surrender”and”to cultivate solidarity, compassion, friendship and trust among our people”.
Then she tries to inform her imaginary audience about their rights.”Women are free to choose their place of residence, their occupation, and education,”she writes.”They have a right to freely choose their spouse, to freely travel, to exit the country, to divorce, and to have custody over their children.”
A very”controversial”right that she tries to explicate is what she calls”freedom of choice for selecting their attire”. She asserts,”The compulsory veiling law must be abolished”. This right is controversial not only because veiling is compulsory in Iran but also because it is compulsory in the MEK too. While women in Iran should cover their hair and body according to the law, they are at least free to choose for the color, the pattern and the design of their clothing. But, female members of the MEK are not even allowed to choose for the color of their head scarves.
This is obviously shown in the pictures broadcasted by the group, itself. All female rank and file are wearing uniforms in both ceremonies and routine life of the group. The group has no exception for the rule of forced hijab. For example, Ann Singleton was a British Christian woman when she was recruited by the MEK. She was forced to wear hijab as an MEK member. She was not able to unveil only after her defection from the group.
In the same way, Mrs. Rajavi should be questioned on other rights she suggests for Iranian women. First of all, the freedom to choose their place of residence. Members of the MEK have always been kept in concentration camps whether in Iraq or Albania. Members are not allowed to commute out of the camps. Maryam Rajavi should explain how it is possible to choose a paramilitary camp as a residence for over 40 years without any access to the outside world including your family and friends.
She speaks of freedom of choosing occupation and education. There is no such thing in the MEK camp. You cannot find an actress, an artist, a fashion designer, a hair stylist etc. among almost a thousand women residing in Camp Ashraf. All duties are scheduled under the rule of the commanders and all occupations are defined according to the agenda of the organization.
The”freedom to choose spouse”is unheard of in Maryam Rajavi’s group. According to the group’s regulations, celibacy is mandatory. Nobody has married in the MEK since the so-called ideological revolution that was launched by the group’s disappeared leader Massoud Rajavi. The revolution required married members to divorce their spouses and single members to vow for long-life celibacy. However, Massoud Rajavi was the only person who later married a group of female members simultaneously.
That means that polygamy was pretty normal for the leader of the MEK while his third wife, Maryam Rajavi utters,”Polygamy must be banned and marriage below the legal age will not be permitted”!
She also speaks of the rights”to freely travel, to exit the country, to divorce, and to have custody over their children”. There are at least 400 children of the MEK members who have been separated from their parents, orphaned in different countries and not allowed to contact their mothers because they are not permitted to enter the camp and mothers are not permitted to travel out of the camp either.
Furthermore, about a hundred of female members of the MEK have undergone forced hysterectomy surgeries in order to elevate in the cult-like hierarchy of the group. This stage is called”the Ideal Peak”by the group leaders.
It is clear that the”culture of surrender”is actually the dominant culture in the world Maryam Rajavi and her husband have created in Camp Ashraf. In this bizarre world, it is not possible”to cultivate solidarity, compassion, friendship and trust”. Members are expected to monitor their comrades all the time; they are supposed to write reports against their comrades; they are even expected to insult and beat their peers during the self-criticism meetings which are held on a daily basis in the group.
As the most basic rights of human beings and specifically women are violated in the MEK regulations, one should forget about the right to vote or the right to own property and to earn money. As an MEK member, nobody is compensated for the long hours of forced labor and sleep deprivation.
Therefore Mrs. Rajavi must explain about at least ten issues in which the rights of her female followers are violated:
1. Female members of the MEK do not have freedom of choice for selecting their attire.
2. Female members of the MEK do not have the right to freely choose their spouse
3. Female members of the MEK do not have the right to freely travel and to exit the group’s camp.
4. Female members of the MEK do not have the right to have custody over their children and even to contact their children.
5. Certain female members of the MEK have been deprived from motherhood for their entire life by a surgery.
6. Female members of the MEK are not free to choose their place of residence, their occupation, and education. No MEK member receives academic education in the MEK camps.
7. Certain members of the MEK’s Elite Council were made Massoud Rajavi’s wives during a ceremony called”Salvation Dance”, an evidence for polygamy in the MEK.
8. Female members of the MEK are under mental and physical pressure in the cult-like regulations of the group.
9. The atmosphere of fear, threat and distrust leaves no room for solidarity, compassion and friendship among female members of the MEK.
10. Female members of the MEK are not paid for the hard work they do in the camp and so they do not own any personal property.
Regarding the magnitude shortcomings in the ruling of Maryam Rajavi over her group, does she still envision”a bright and shining future”for”Iran’s women and people”?
Mazda Parsi