After 40 plus years of bombings and assassinations attacks in Iran, members of the terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization or MKO are standing trial in absentia.
Gisoo Misha Ahmadi
The fifth session of the court hearing the accusations of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO/ MEK) and the group as a legal entity, was held on Tuesday, January 9, at the eleventh branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran. The court was presided by Judge Dehghani.
Family members of some victims of the MEK terrorist acts were present in the court. A young woman whose father has been assassinated by the MEK addressed the court. She was only 3 years old when her father was killed. “My father was assassinated by the MEK because he had installed pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini on the wall of his shop,” she said. “After his martyrdom, they kept on threatening us. They knocked our door at midnight and threw their threatening letters in the house.”
“No one can understand the stress of a little girl on her way to school,” said the daughter of the victim. “Every time I took a few steps, I turned back in fear and looked behind me. Even after my father’s martyrdom, they threatened us every day by calling our house, saying that they will set fire to the house and even set fire to the shop again or they will kidnap us on the way to school.”
Then the judge asked the persecutor’s representative to take the stand. Vaziri, the persecutor’s representative read the indictments of the 34th to 42th defendants of the court.
She joined the MEK in 1975. In April 1981, she was transferred to the body of the organization and then became a candidate for the Iranian parliament on behalf of the MEK.
Ozra Alavi was one of the high-ranking officials of the MEK, who after the military-terrorist operation of Forough Javidan, became the deputy of the operations of the military branch and was responsible for operations inside Iran. She is dead now.
She is the sister of Mehdi Abrishamchi, and because of her brother’s activities, before being a sympathizer, she became a member of the MEK. Subsequently, after the victory of the Iranian Revolution, she continued her cooperation with the MEK and fled Iran in 1982 with their children (Maryam and Ali Akbarzadegan) in order to join the organization. After settling in Paris, while being a member of the terrorist council known as the National Resistance, he cooperates with the foreign part of this terrorist group. She is currently based in Paris and also travels to Albania.
He is the brother of Maryam Rajavi and the wife of Shahrazad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi, the administrator of Maryam Rajavi’s office. Mahmoud Qajar Azdanlu joined the MEK in 1973 and with the victory of the Iranian Revolution, he continued his cooperation with the group and finally fled the country in 1981.
He is currently a member of the MEK and a member of the so-called National Council of Resistance (NCR).
It should be mentioned that Mahmoud Qajar Azdanlou, in close cooperation with Mozhgan Parsai, is another main and key factor in mobilizing the assassination team of Lieutenant General Ali Sayad Shirazi.
After the Iranian revolution, under the influence of her brother, she was fascinated by the MEK. the She joined the group in 1979. In 1982, after a forced organizational marriage with a member of the group, Mehdi Ghorbanpour Moghadam, she fled the country and settled in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Badri Pourtabbakh was one of the members of the MEK’s Elite Council and a member of the so-called NCR, who spends most of her time in Europe and America. She was in charge of the group’s headquarters in the Netherlands for a long time, and since 1999 she has been also in the interior headquarters of the group in Iraq and Albania.
He was the spouse of Zohra Atrianfar and an MEK member who could penetrate the Iranian revolutionary guard. He had joined the MEK before the Iranian revolution. In 1981, he began to work in the intelligence unit of the group, and after that, in June of the same year, he was transferred to the security preparation department.
He is currently in Albania and is active in the so-called educational, political and Arabic sectors of the MEK.
His nickname is Manouchehr. He is one of the high-ranking officials and old members of the MEK.
In 1989, he was the deputy head of the military branch in axis one of the MEK, after which he became the head of the axis and then the head of the headquarters.
Between the years 1994 and 1995, he entered the central unit and was later transferred to the staff units and for some time to the so-called legal system of MEK.
In 1998, he was in charge of the MEK’s prisons in Camp Ashraf, Iraq and the instructor of organizational training and group ideology. He is now in Albania serving in the Arabic section of the so-called political wing of the group.
After she was accepted in the university in 1985, under the cover of education, she legally left Iran for Germany, where he had an organizational marriage with one of MEK members named Musa Faiz Marzouqi (nicknamed Jalal).
Later, in 1989, she went to Iraq to participate in Forugh Javidan and after the defeat of the MEK in the operation, she escaped and reached Kermanshah. From there, while contacting one of her family members in Tehran, she asked for help and finally, with the help of some of her relatives, she secretly came to Tehran.
She spent 20 days in Tehran, hiding in a house, and finally fled the country illegally and rejoined the group. The news of his action spread among the members of the group, to the extent that Masoud Rajavi said, “the only person who was able to go to Tehran and return after the Forough operation was our Mujahid’s sister Roya” which is the reason for her fame among the members.
Roya Ahmadi has had responsibilities in Camp Ashraf and Cologne, Germany, in different periods. For example, in 1998, she was the financial and social manager of the MEK in Iraq. She is now a member of the leadership council and one of the officials of the MEK’s office in Germany.
In 1981, he was employed in the guise of a translator for the AFP office in Tehran but, he was actually working and cooperating with the MEK. He was arrested in 1982, and was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment, but then in 1985, during his leave from prison, he escaped and went abroad illegally.
His wife (named Maryam Khorramshahi, also a member of the MEK) was killed Forough Javidan.
He was in charge of the center of 13 military branches of the MEK in Iraq, and he had an active participation in the planning of the mortar attacks called road opening which led to the killing and injury of a large number of civilians, as well as large financial losses to private and public property.
He has been a member of the group’s so-called Foreign Relations Commission charged with organizing demonstrations in western countries, attacking the official embassies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and recruiting troops.
At the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, she was recruited by the MEK and became one of the officials of the group’s Ahvaz branch. Subsequently, after getting married to a person named Alireza Panahivar, she participated in the armed actions of the MEK. She left Iran when the group entered the military phase. Currently, she is in charge of the group’s political struggle and aid.
An Iranian prosecutor has said crimes committed by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist group against the Iranian nation are similar to those carried out by the Daesh terror group because both groups resort to blind attacks to inflict more casualties upon civilians.
The prosecuting attorney made the remarks in the fifth session of the trial of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization, which was held in absentia in the capital Tehran on Tuesday.
According to the legal official, both terrorist groups use explosive materials with the same features; for instance, Daesh terrorists use suicide vests filled with shrapnel and nails, causing more casualties, and MKO elements utilize bombs and other explosives to kill more individuals as well.
Pointing to the history of assassinations conducted by the MKO terrorist group in Iran, the prosecutor noted that the group was aided and abetted by Iraq’s Baath regime during Saddam Hussain’s dictatorship and then created connections with the United States Congress.
Earlier, the Tehran criminal court held hearings concerning atrocities committed by 33 MKO terrorists based on visual and written documents, and the court announced that fugitive members of the MKO terrorist group must introduce their attorneys to the court to represent their clients’ cases.
The indictment of the crimes committed by ringleaders and members of the MKO terrorist group is comprised of over 700 pages, and the court is attended by journalists, and some of the families of the victims affected by the MKO terrorism. Furthermore, five lawyers of the defendants also attended the trial.
Documents obtained by Iran’s intelligence bodies show that the members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group received oil from Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein in return for killing the Iranian people, says the prosecutor’s representative.
The third session of the court investigating the crimes of the MKO members was held publicly on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Judge Dehqani in the 11th branch of the criminal court of Tehran Province.
During the hearing, the prosecutor’s representative laid out the details of the documents against the MKO members and their relations with Saddam.
“Intelligence and judicial investigations show that the MKO members, as mercenaries of Iraq, carried out terrorist acts against the people. Also, the intelligence officials have obtained information showing that they took oil from Iraq in exchange for the terrorist acts,” he said.
Judge Dehqani then asked the prosecutor’s representative whether the said documents have been included in the lawsuit raised against the MKO members, to which the representative responded in the affirmative.
“The documents related to this meeting that was held in 2001 in the Iraqi Intelligence Service between the head of the Iraqi intelligence and Masoud Rajavi in the presence of Mehdi Abrishamchi have been documented and included in the lawsuit,” he said.
“In this meeting, the indictment of a number of other defendants in this case was read out. In the first and second session of the court, the charges brought up against 23 defendants were read out.”
The fourth session of the court hearing the accusations of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO/ MEK) and the group as a legal entity, was held on Tuesday, December 26, at the eleventh branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran. The court was presided by Judge Dehghani.
In the past sessions, the indictment of 33 defendants in the case has been read.
Before reading of the indictment of the accused ones, the prosecutor’s representative stated: “The MEK terrorist group has been collecting weapons for 28 months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution. This group claimed that the fight against imperialism required weapons and military branch. But at the beginning of the 60s, this group used to parade in the street and fight with people in the street.”
According to the prosecutor’s representative, Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the group had a trip to Paris before June 20, 1981 (the start of the MEK’s armed struggle against Iran) and entering the military phase and had a meeting with the officials of the French Intelligence Service in Paris; After the meeting, they blew up the office of the Islamic Republic Party in Tehran.
“In a meeting with General Habbush, the head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, Rajavi revealed that the MEK not only blew up the building of the Islamic Republic Party, but he was also responsible for blowing up the prime minister’s office,” he addressed the court.
He added, “On the September 27th, 1981, the MEK once again brought their para military forces to the streets who openly brought weapons to the streets and killed anyone who stood in their way. On this sad day, from a 3-year-old child to a 90-year-old man, were killed by the MEK forces.”
Based on the documents presented by the prosecutor’s representative, the documents and images of the MEK’s violent act were distributed by the group’s network. “Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the MEK, said about this crime that first we encouraged the people to join us in Shohada Square. But we observed that the balance was messed up and people refused to cooperate.” Rajavi has admitted that because the people ignored the MEK militia, the group opened fire on civilians.
According to the prosecutor’s representative, after Rajavi took his terrorist organization to Iraq, the group crossed the border with the cooperation of the Iraqi Intelligence service and entered Iran to launch terrorist operations in urban areas.
He added, “At that time, Rajavi believed that cross border operations had no added value for the group and that large-scale assassinations were necessary to bold the name of the People’s Mojahedin-e-Khalq organization. The MEK had asked its internal headquarters to assassinate people in the cities with groundbreaking operations. The MEK carried out these operations on behalf of the Iraqi regime, and instead, they got a guarantee of staying in Iraq and getting five million barrels of oil! The MEK exchanged the blood of Iranian nation the oil of Iraq.”
The prosecutor’s representative stated that in the 1980s, in order not to claim responsibility for the terror acts against civilians, the MEK claimed that its internal headquarters was carrying out the assassinations. He said, the rebel centers that have been active in the recent riots (2008 and fall of 2022) are new version of the internal headquarters of the MEK, which is run by the terrorist group from Albania.”
“Based on an American intelligence document about the eavesdropping of the MEK headquarters, the group confessed to terrorist acts,” prosecutor’s representative told the court. “The CIA in Los Angeles has intercepted several phone calls in which the leaders of the MEK terrorist group in France and Germany admitted that terrorist acts and bombings were their work.”
Then, the sister of one of the victims of the MEK terror acts, took the stand with the permission of the head of the court and explained how her sister was killed: “Zainab was a 14-year-old student who went to congregational prayers with the permission of her mother. He left the house and was suffocated by members of the MEK group with her chador.
The sister of Zeinab Kamai 15333 addressed the court, “For what sin did they martyr my sister?”
An Iranian court has held the first public hearing on a lawsuit over the Mujahedin-e-Khalq’s terror organization’s crimes in the Iranian capital of Tehran. The trial reportedly addresses the conduct of the group’s main ringleaders.
Farzaneh Ashoorioun
The third session of the court hearing the charges against 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), as well as the nature of this organization as a legal entity, today, was held on Tuesday, December26th, in the eleventh branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Dehghani and court advisors Morteza Turk and Amin Naseri.
A number of family members of the victims of MEK terror acts attended the hearing. At the beginning of the trial, the judge asked the representative of the prosecutor to stand and read the indictment.
The accusations of a number of defendants of the file were read by the prosecutor’s representative. These people include: Nikoo Khaefi, Mohammad Hayati, Zahra Bakhshai, Dowlat Noruzi, Morteza Esmaeelian marnani, Mehrban Hajinezhad, Golnar Javaheri Saatchi, Mahmood Atai Karizi, Homeira Hojati Emami, Abolghasem Rezai.
The indictment included the following crimes committed by the MEK during over 4 decades.
The MEK cooperated with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. The MEK’s terror teams entered Iran with the help of Iraqi intelligence to launch cross border operations.
According to the indictment, some intelligence documents that have reached the Iranian intelligence ministry show that the MEK took oil from Iraq in exchange for assassination. Rajavi did not know that during the meetings the MEK leaders and the Iraqi intelligence officials, the meetings were recorded. After the fall of Saddam, the films were revealed.
According to the intelligence documents, Masoud Rajavi asked General Haboush, the then head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, to provide conditions for the MEK so that the group could enter Iran’s territory from the east of the country and carry out assassinations. Haboush asked Rajavi to carry out the operations of the MEK in Tehran.
The MEK conducted a massive military attack against Iran enemy using more than 7,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and personnel carriers in 1988. The operation was financially and logistically sponsored by Iraqi army. 14188
Prior to terrorist attacks, MEK’s reconnaissance teams selected their Iranian country-men who seemed to be religious. They marked the victims’ locations for terror teams. There were civilians including women and children among the targeted victims.
The supplies of explosives and weapon required for terrorist operations were trafficked by the MEK forces through the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Once the teams are funded and armed, they launch acts of violence in urban areas most of which are nongovernmental, like the group’s mortar attack on Noor residential complex in 1999 that left several people killed and wounded.
Mohammad Mahdi Chizari, a survivor of the MEK’s mortar attack on the Noor residential complex in 1999, appeared on the witness stand following the reading of a part of the indictment related to this terrorist act. In response to the Judge’s request he showed his scars left from that terrorist operation.
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
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.
TEHRAN – The first court hearing for the trial of 104 members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) took place on Tuesday with five lawyers representing the accused.
Held at the 11th Branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran Province, the trial of MEK members was chaired by Judge Dehghani, and court advisors were Morteza Tork and Amin Naseri.
The judge stated that the court oversees a case received from Tehran’s General and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office. The case involves the indictment of the terrorist group known as the Mojahedin Khalq, as well as 104 individuals from the group’s central cadre and its main agents.
After studying the indictment and following the principles of criminal procedure, including articles 7, 296, and 382 of the law, the 11th Branch of the Criminal Court of the Tehran Province has declared its jurisdiction to deal with the charges. This decision was made under the procedural law and the Islamic Penal Code, and it is equivalent to judicial notices, according to the judge.
Judge Dehghani stated that following the legal charges, the court conducted a comprehensive investigation into the case. A detailed report has been prepared, and per Article 389 of the Criminal Procedure Law and Article 391 of this law, the head of the branch responsible for investigating the case has acknowledged that the investigation is complete and ready for trial. As a result, an order has been immediately issued to determine the hearing time.
MEK in a glance
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Marxist cult and terrorist group, which claimed it had played a major role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution, launched a campaign of terror against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Finally, in 1981 the MEK operatives took up arms and carried out large-scale terrorist operations, assassinating more than 17,000 Iranians. The most important of these actions were the bombings of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Office of the Islamic Republic of Iran Party. The president, prime minister, and head of the Supreme Court were brutally killed in the bombings.
When the MEK escaped from Iran, they went to Iraq and collaborated with Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran in the 1980s. They took up arms against their own country and participated in two operations against the Islamic Republic.
After Iran and Iraq accepted a ceasefire, the NLA (National Liberation Army), MEK’s military branch, with financial and logistical support from Saddam Hussein attacked Iran with the hallucination of conquering Tehran in a few days. As soon as they set foot on Iranian soil, they committed heinous actions such as setting people on fire and hanging them.
The terrorist organization considered itself an alternative to the Islamic Republic of Iran and was doing its best to attack the Iranian people and government in any way possible.
After about 25 years of presence in Iraq, the MEK was expelled at the end of Saddam Hussein’s rule and settled in Albania with the financial support of some Arab countries and the direct support of the Americans.
The MEK was trying to rebuild and portray its new face from a terrorist face to a democratic one by taking measures such as holding political and annual gatherings. To achieve its vicious goals, the MEK kept inviting famous and controversial political figures to its summits.
Yet, the report issued by Human Rights Watch in May 2005, once again revealed the inhumane nature of the terrorist group. The report was issued on alleged human rights abuses committed by MEK.
In 2016, the United States brokered a deal to relocate the MEK to Albania. About 3,000 members moved to Albania, and the U.S. donated $20 million to the U.N. refugee agency to help them resettle.
On 9 September 2016, more than 280 remaining MEK members were relocated to Albania, where they have been protested by the locals.
On June 20th, 2023, the Albanian police launched an operation at the MEK camp in Manez, Durres, on the orders of the Albanian judiciary due to the “violation of agreement and commitments.”
The conflict between police and the MEK left one dead and 36 other camp residents injured.
The state police said that the police didn’t use any deathly means.
The MEK ringleaders have reportedly decided to relocate their base to Canada following the Albanian government’s intense pressures and after the failure of their negotiations with the Paris government over relocation to France.
An informed security source told Tasnim that the MEK terrorists have come up with the relocation plan after the government of Albania and its counter-terrorism court imposed restrictions on the terrorist group following the discovery of incriminating evidence from their Ashraf-3 camp near Manez, a small hill town 30 kilometers west of Albania’s capital Tirana.
“The MEK heads are making preparations for the gradual pullout of their members (from Albania),” the source said.
The source noted that the MEK terrorists have failed to obtain France’s consent for the relocation of a number of their elements to a camp in Auvers-sur-Oise on the northwestern outskirts of Paris.
By Alireza Akbari