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Maryam Rajavi — MEK Propaganda Queen — Advertises Her Services For Iran’s Enemies

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) website carries a glamorous advertising campaign for a Grand Gathering. Surrounded by glitzy pictures of flag-waving youth, the central focus of this gathering is ‘Our pledge: regime change’.

Well, we all know what that means. Don’t we? Apparently not. Because this advertising doesn’t reflect the destruction wrought in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen. Here is no promise of jihad and the caliphate. It looks very much like a carnival. Which is exactly what it is – a show. So, what is meant by the promise of regime change?

The first port of call is to understand that the NCRI is just another name for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) which was also known as the National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA).

Back in 1994, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi tasked his wife Maryam to leave Iraq for America in order to regain political recognition of the Mojahedin Khalq as ‘the’ Iranian opposition which had been lost when he refused to abandon Saddam Hussein during the First Gulf war.

Refused entry to the USA as the leader of a terrorist entity Maryam instead took up residence in France as a refugee. But instead of meeting politicians to talk about how the MEK could overthrow the Iranian regime, she discovered she could simply create the illusion of support by paying both audience and speakers. She discovered a talent for dressing up, holding fancy dinner parties and talking about her cult ideology.

To create the appearance of a willing audience for her views, she recruited a rag-tag following of Iranian economic refugees who would happily turn up when paid for their services. She paid for feminists from North America, Europe and Scandinavia to visit Auvers-sur-Oise and attend dinner parties. She posed in her hijab to speak about her version of feminism to these western women; carefully spelling it out for them that they would never really understand what feminism is until they understood her husband Massoud Rajavi.

When Massoud recalled her to Iraq in 1997 she had spent a third of the total MEK budget and had no political support to show for it. She had lost around half the loyal MEK members who had defected whilst in Europe. With morale at an all-time low, Maryam was forced to retreat to Iraq with what remained of her personnel and leave the western bases in the hands of largely uneducated paid ‘supporters’.

But in reality the MEK was already in terminal decline. Its fighting forces, disarmed in 2003, are currently being transferred from Iraq to Albania by the UNHCR to begin a process of de-radicalisation and reintegration back into normal society. Nobody expects veterans with an average age of sixty to wage the terrorism of thirty years ago. Disarmament also allowed American experts to investigate years of complaints about human rights and cultic abuses inside the MEK. As long as the MEK was being used to muddy the waters of the nuclear negotiations, such details could be glossed over. But since last year when agreement was reached, the MEK’s murky past can no longer be dismissed.

The main reason, of course, is that the new theme for challenging Iran in the international community is based on the country’s dismal human rights record. But Maryam Rajavi has her own well documented human rights abuse dossier to answer for. The MEK, under whatever name it is used, is simply the wrong tool to use to demonise Iran.

Beyond this, the MEK is not the popular opposition its own advertising claims it to be. The group is almost universally despised among Iranians both inside the country and in the diaspora. Not only did the MEK fight alongside Saddam Hussein’s army during the devastating eight-year Iran-Iraq war, but the MEK’s anti-Iran role in the nuclear negotiations hit a nerve with most ordinary Iranians who regarded support for their country’s right to nuclear technology as an issue of nationalism rather than politics.

Maryam Rajavi cannot get support from Iranians unless it is paid for. Nor can Maryam Rajavi deign to share a platform with any other Iranian opposition personality. So this year Maryam Rajavi will again do what she does best; pay audience and speakers alike to give the illusion of support.

Clearly this message is not aimed at Iranians. The clamour for regime change in Iran does not emanate from inside the country in spite of its many social, civic and political problems. Who then is Maryam Rajavi’s constituency? From whom is she hoping to garner support?

Many constituencies outside Iran wish fervently for its destruction. It is enlightening that Maryam Rajavi’s websites are home to a bizarre mixture of anti-Shia, anti-Iran, anti-Syria, items which reflect very closely the views of neocons, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Maryam Rajavi is not promising regime change, she is advertising her services as a propaganda queen.

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July 9, 2016 0 comment

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Maryam Rajavi – MEK propaganda queen – puts out again for Iran’s enemies

The Middle East is in turmoil. Deaths and destruction are a daily occurrence throughout the region. Families flee their homes in fear, forced into an uncertain future. No end is in sight. Yet into this calamitous scenario a slick, sophisticated terrorist recruiter’s advert has popped up which ISIS itself could learn from. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) website carries a glamorous advertising campaign for a Grand Gathering. Surrounded by glitzy pictures of flag waving youth, the central focus of this gathering is ‘Our pledge: regime change’. Well, we all know what that means. Don’t we? Apparently not. Because this advertising doesn’t reflect the destruction wrought in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen. Here is no promise of jihad and the caliphate. It looks very much like a carnival. Which is exactly what it is – a show.

So, what is meant by the promise of regime change? The first port of call is to understand that the NCRI is just another name for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) which was also known as the National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA).Back in 1994, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi tasked his wife Maryam to leave Iraq for America in order to regain political recognition of the Mojahedin Khalq as ‘the’ Iranian opposition which had been lost when he refused to abandon Saddam Hussein during the First Gulf war.Refused entry to the USA as the leader of a terrorist entity Maryam instead took up residence in France as a refugee. But instead of meeting politicians to talk about how the MEK could overthrow the Iranian regime, she discovered she could simply create the illusion of support by paying both audience and speakers. She discovered a talent for dressing up, holding fancy dinner parties and talking about her cult ideology.To create the appearance of a willing audience for her views, she recruited a rag tag following of Iranian economic refugees who would happily turn up when paid for their services. She paid for feminists from North America, Europe and Scandinavia to visit Auvers-sur-Oise and attend dinner parties. She posed in her hijab to speak about her version of feminism to these western women; carefully spelling it out for them that they would never really understand what feminism is until they understood her husband Massoud Rajavi.

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When allied forces next invaded Iraq in 2003 Maryam Rajavi again fled to France. This time, as luck would have it, western politics was focused on curtailing Iran’s nuclear programme which it insisted was aimed at creating a nuclear weapon. The MEK’s services as propaganda experts were just what was needed, ensuring the MEK’s ostensible survival as an opposition group.But in reality the MEK was already in terminal decline. Its fighting forces, disarmed in 2003, are currently being transferred from Iraq to Albania by the UNHCR to begin a process of de-radicalisation and reintegration back into normal society. Nobody expects veterans with an average age of sixty to wage the terrorism of thirty years ago. Disarmament also allowed American experts to investigate years of complaints about human rights and cultic abuses inside the MEK. As long as the MEK was being used to muddy the waters of the nuclear negotiations, such details could be glossed over.

But since last year when agreement was reached, the MEK’s murky past can no longer be dismissed. The main reason, of course, is that the new theme for challenging Iran in the international community is based on the country’s dismal human rights record. But Maryam Rajavi has her own well documented human rights abuse dossier to answer for. The MEK, under whatever name it is used, is simply the wrong tool to use to demonise Iran. Beyond this, the MEK is not the popular opposition its own advertising claims it to be. The group is almost universally despised among Iranians both inside the country and in the diaspora. Not only did the MEK fight alongside Saddam Hussein’s army during the devastating eight-year Iran-Iraq war, but the MEK’s anti-Iran role in the nuclear negotiations hit a nerve with most ordinary Iranians who regarded support for their country’s right to nuclear technology as an issue of nationalism rather than politics. Maryam Rajavi cannot get support from Iranians unless it is paid for. Nor can Maryam Rajavi deign to share a platform with any other Iranian opposition personality. So this year Maryam Rajavi will again do what she does best; pay audience and speakers alike to give the illusion of support.

So, back to the recent advertising campaign. Any publicity campaign will be successful if it is newsworthy. Maryam, however, simply churns out the same scenario ad infinitum. Starting with describing a terrible situation in Iran – based on news items that can be gleaned from any serious reporting outlet – she then proposes a ten-point plan for Iran, approved this year by Italian parliamentarians. And then she promises regime change.Clearly this message is not aimed at Iranians. The clamour for regime change in Iran does not emanate from inside the country in spite of its many social, civic and political problems. Who then is Maryam Rajavi’s constituency? From whom is she hoping to garner support? Many constituencies outside Iran wish fervently for its destruction. It is enlightening that Maryam Rajavi’s websites are home to a bizarre mixture of anti-Shia, anti-Iran, anti-Syria, items which reflect very closely the views of neocons, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Maryam Rajavi is not promising regime change, she is advertising her services as a propaganda queen.

Co-authored by Anne Khodabandeh , toptopic.com

July 4, 2016 0 comment

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Maryam Rajavi’s blood thirsty propaganda

Following the deadly attack on Temporary Transit Location (TTL/Camp Liberty) and the death of at least 23 residents of the Camp, Maryam Rajavi the leader of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) said:” We had warned against such attacks…”!

Considering that several of such attacks had previously shaken the MKO Camps in Iraq, Maryam Rajavi’s warning to the United States and the United Nations seems pointless. Both the US and UN have been committed to relocate the residents of the Temporary Transit Location (Camp Liberty) in third countries mainly Albania due to the critical situation of Iraq but the relocation process has been very slow. Why?

Regarding the immigration of millions of refugee seekers of the Middle Eastern countries to Europe in recent months, the official resettlement of a few thousand residents of the TTL in the past two years does not seem so difficult, especially based on the official memorandum that was signed between the group, the UN and the Iraqi government.

Hence, there would be properly one main reason for such slow process for the departure of the MKO members from Iraqi territory: leaders of the cult-like MKO do not want it. During the three past years, reluctance of the MKO authorities to move their base from Iraq has been testified in various occasions.

Human casualties are always a tragedy. Particularly, in case of Liberty residents, many of them were not able to leave the cult-like structure of the group. Although most of these members left Iran to struggle for what they called “freedom”, once they found out that they were laboring for the evil Massoud Rajavi as the mercenary of Saddam Hussein, it was too late for them to return home. They were taken as hostages by the Cult of Rajavi.

Maryam Rajavi holds both the US and the UN “officially and legally responsible” for the loss of lives in Camp Liberty while she never thinks of her own part in the disastrous incident.

The expenses of relocation of two thousand residents to Europe does not sound to be so much more that the expenses of the so called Grand Gathering they hold in Paris Villepint every year in June. The costs of the Villepint event include speaking fees, expenses of first class flights and luxurious hotel rooms for speakers of the event of whom dozens come from the United States. However, the UN is committed to pay MKO members who reside in Europe as refugees so the costs of departure from Iraq would get much less for the group.

Actually, the recent deadly attack on Camp Liberty as well as pervious attacks does not harm the MKO leadership but it gives them more chances to run their propaganda. As the US secretary of State and the UN Secretary condemn the attack, the MKO propaganda finds more room to show off; Maryam Rajavi uses the opportunity to get in the limelight for a few days to boast a meek figure of her cult of personality.

As she implicitly says that she has expected such deadly attacks on her members one should ask her: So, what did you do to facilitate the resettlement of your members to a safe place?

NO action has been reported by the side of the MKO about an alleged effort to relocate the cult members except their call for getting their arms back to allegedly defend themselves in Iraq which proves their violent substance.

In addition, families of Liberty residents who have suffered years of separation from their loved ones suffer more when they hear about such attacks while concerning the history of MKO’s cooperation with Saddam Hussein for brutal suppression of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites, hostile activities against the group seems unpreventable.

Maintaining the cult hostages in Iraqi territory hurts them and their families but their blood provides more fuel to the cult’s propaganda machine.

By Mazda Parsi

November 7, 2015 0 comment

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Maryam Rajavi’s crocodile tears over human rights

‘Who could hang a saint?’ – Maryam Rajavi’s crocodile tears over human rights

Human Rights advocacy is a laudable activity. Advocates automatically occupy the high moral ground in pursuit of their goals – and this of course reflects on their status. But as with everything we must examine their underlying motives before we accept at face value the posturing of every Tom, Dick and Harry who jumps on the bandwagon of human rights. Above all, we must examine the person before we listen to their inviolable message.

In reaction to the ‘World Day Against the Death Penalty (October 10), notorious cult leader Maryam Rajavi will use the occasion to announce to a specially assembled audience that she is against the death penalty.

That will be news indeed to the thousands of former members and indeed the current members of the notorious terrorist Mojahedin Khalq cult which she leads. Maryam Rajavi’s MEK has not only killed over 12,000 Iranians and 25,000 Iraqis as part of its violent regime change agenda, but inside the group, Rajavi has been personally responsible for the extra-judicial murder and torture of countless members behind the closed doors of the cult.

So, what could be behind this dramatic volte-face? Has Rajavi really undergone a unique transformation of belief and if so, is she sincerely contrite for all the deaths she is personally responsible for within the Mojahedin Khalq? Does she regret her past? Will she now apologise to the thousands of former members of her organisation who are victims of heinous human rights abuses for which she and her husband are culpable?

For various reasons this is impossible. Not least because as the leader of a mind control cult such an admission of guilt would undermine the whole foundation of her organisation and throw the remaining vulnerable brainwashed members onto the path of a mental breakdown.

Or is this, as we have every reason to believe, a politically motivated fake stance brought about by panic and despair, just as once the MEK’s manufactured nuclear intelligence bought them artificial status brought about by opportunism. Since July, the negotiated Iran nuclear agreement has irrevocably changed the political landscape. The MEK are no longer needed or wanted beyond backing up the efforts of a few regime change pundits clinging to the past.

And of course, Maryam Rajavi is acutely aware of the fate of her benefactor Saddam Hussein. When he was no longer needed, his former allies handed him over to the Iraqi people for judgement and punishment. He was, as we all know, hanged.

So, Maryam’s Rajavi’s sudden and specific and uncharacteristic condemnation of the death penalty should be judged in this context. Her underlying message to her sponsors is, ‘who could hang a saint?’

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Middle East Strategy Consultants,

October 10, 2015 0 comment

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Maryam Rajavi’s strange diplomacy with the UK

Vicious attacks on the BBC Persian Service: Maryam Rajavi’s strange diplomacy with the UK

Maryam Rajavi is a nervous woman. As European ministers line up to visit Iran to improve trade and cultural links, and her cult resorts to violence on the streets of a small French village to keep families away from their loved ones, she must feel the cold winds of isolation and opprobrium blowing around her cult HQ in Auvers-sur-Oise and is certainly watching with growing concern for her own security.

As a result, Rajavi has renewed her efforts to obtain a visa to visit the UK. (She wants to come to the UK because there is more chance that her Zionist sponsors will offer her protection from legal prosecutions than in France where her activities are still under judicial investigation.)

Her last visit to the UK was in 1996. After failing her mission to mend political links with western governments, the French had ordered Rajavi to return to Iraq. In order to save face she negotiated a trip to the UK for a public appearance. (Even then her visit was hidden behind the pretence that the audience were attending a music concert with the retired Iranian singer Marzieh.) Rajavi was given a few days visa only after British security services had obtained a written assurance from France that she would immediately be allowed to return there where she has political asylum. Maryam Rajavi did indeed immediately return to France from whence she packed her bags and went back to Iraq and only covertly returned to Auvers-sur-Oise just before the start of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. In spite of her continued attempts to obtain a visa – a British peer raised the issue for her in the House of Lords – Maryam Rajavi remains persona non grata in the UK.

This has infuriated the notoriously bad tempered Rajavi whose reaction has been to bark at her intended hosts via a vicious campaign to demonise the BBC’s Farsi programme. Presumably Rajavi sees the BBC World Service as an earpiece of the FCO.

The attack began over a programme called Compass. The programme deliberately hosts controversial guests to prompt lively discussions. One particular combination included a former SAVAK (Shah’s repressive secret service) official at the time of the Shah and a former MEK terrorist who was in prison at that time. The programme asked ‘How effective was SAVAK?’ Enraged, Maryam Rajavi instigated a vicious attack on the BBC, which suddenly received an orchestrated rash of letters of complaint purporting to be from actual, named prisoners in Iran. This was ridiculed by critics of the MEK who pointed out that prisoners in Iran do not have access to satellite television and would not be able to write uncensored letters to London if only for security reasons. In any case, the vitriolic style of the letters is an indication that they come from the same few authors at the heart of the Rajavi Cult Empire in Europe. Staff at the BBC Persian Service were mystified.

Revealing herself to be supremely ignorant of UK politics and the current political atmosphere in relation to Iran, the next step was an astounding assault on credulity; a letter written to Prime Minister David Cameron supposedly from the residents of Camp Liberty complaining about the bias of the BBC. This concept is even more ridiculous than the prisoner campaign. The Farsi Commentariat were quick to point out that residents of Camp Liberty are living incommunicado as members of a cult and are therefore completely cut off from normal life. Living under strict gender apartheid, they are denied contact even with relatives inside the same camp, let alone their estranged families outside. Every bit of information they are given is strictly controlled and censored by the cult leaders – there is no such thing as access to external television, radio or print media in the camp. The idea that the MEK leaders asked brainwashed members to sign a letter which was written on their behalf is ludicrous in these conditions. Why ask? Just add their name to the letter. You don’t even need to inform them. Nobody will be able to ask them anyway because they are in a totally closed environment. A recent sham demonstration by Camp Liberty residents reflects how ludicrous this idea is. The residents of Camp Liberty held a demonstration against the Iran nuclear deal. Perhaps not a single resident has any idea what the deal was, but in any case they were ordered to hold placards written in English. But for whom? No media are allowed into the camp.

Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Middle East Strategy Consultants,

September 8, 2015 0 comment

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Maryam Rajavi ready to commit any atrocities for the survival of the Cult

Frustrated by the newly established relations between the West and the Iranian Government, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization is seeking new tactics to run its hostile policies against the Islamic Republic or in better words to prolong its survival.

While 14 years of launching disinformation campaign by the MKO against the Iranian nuclear program, failed to win the world’s attention, this time the group crisis makers are endeavoring to trigger the tensions between Tehran and Riyadh.

MKO Leader Maryam Rajavi in a meeting with Saudi Ambassador to Paris, Mohammad Al Sheikh, said that the group is willing to cooperate with Riyadh to carry out its attacks against the Yemen, reported FNA. [1]

Rajavi and Al Sheikh have met several times in Paris so far and Rajavi has thanked the Al Saud regime for its support and financial assistance over the past years, according to the report. [2]

Saudi-led coalition began air strikes in Yemen in March in a campaign to restore Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power. He was forced to flee in March and consequently the Shiite Houthis took control over Sanaa in September and then thrust into central and south Yemen. A large number of civilians have been killed and wounded in the conflict since March 19.

The leader of the MKO offers help to Saudi Arabia despite the fact that Human Rights Watch said in a report on Sunday that three bombings it had investigated in the northern province of Saada used cluster bombs, which are banned by most countries, adding that it suspected the munitions were fired by Saudi-led forces. [3]

"These weapons can’t distinguish military targets from civilians, and their unexploded submunitions threaten civilians, especially children, even long after the fighting," said Ole Solvang, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. [4]

Furthermore, mutual cooperation between the Cult of Rajavi and Saudis have been reported several times over the past decades. However, such cooperation become more visible since the downfall of the cult’s former sponsor, Saddam Hussein.

According to the Middle East Press, “Rajavi further added to Saudi ambassador in France that they appreciate Saudi kingdom for its financial support to this organization in recent years and announced their readiness to do missionaries for Saudi Arabia for getting rid of financial problems that have been caught in 4 past years and also to release of Iraqi government’s pressure to leave the country and asked Saudis to provide them a suitable base, anywhere in Saudi Arabia, to settle there.” [5]

The news had been somehow confirmed by the MKO’s propaganda websites too. According to them,” Maryam Rajavi on Thursday described the joint action by Arab countries against the Iranian regime’s occupation and aggression in Yemen as an extremely essential and inevitable united action.”

The MKO’s alleged statement ends with expressing pleasure over “several airstrikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, destroying most of an airbase used by the militia in Sanaa “, although the airstrikes used cluster bombs that targeted innocent civilians including Children.

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] Fars News Agency, MKO Voices Readiness to Help Saudi Arabia in Yemen, May 30 2015

[2] ibid

[3] Aboudi, Sami & Browning, Noah, Arab war planes bomb Yemen; exiles report U.S.-Houthi talks, Rueters, May 31, 2015, Reuters

[4] ibid

[5] Middle East Press, MKO Ready to help for all Sorts of Assistance to KSA, May 30 2015

June 2, 2015 0 comment

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MKO Ready to help for all Sorts of Assistance to KSA

KABUL: (Middle East Press) Maryam Rajavi, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization’s (MKO) leader said in a meeting with the Saudi ambassador in France: We ready to help for all sorts of assistance to Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA).

She recently in response to the request of Saudi leaders while supporting Saudi attacks to Yemen said that they do not hesitate to help the Saudi kingdom and war and struggle with the Shiites and supporters of the Iranian revolution is one of the main policies of this organization in a meeting with Saudi ambassador in France.

She added that they have always performed it which is coordinated with Saudi’s policies when they were in Iran and now in Iraq as well.

Rajavi further added to Saudi ambassador in France that they appreciate Saudi kingdom for its financial support to this organization in recent years and announced their readiness to do missionaries for Saudi Arabia for getting rid of financial problems that have been caught in 4 past years and also to release of Iraqi government’s pressure to leave the country and asked Saudis to provide them a suitable base, anywhere in Saudi Arabia, to settle there.

Due to hostile performance of this organization toward Iraqi people and government going out of these people from Iraq to other countries is a major priority of the Iraqi government and Iraqi people and they have always demanded the expulsion of this group from their territory.

After the fall of Saddam and the intensification of pressure on this organization, officials of this group went to European countries such as France and have stayed there and they are looking for a new country to transfer other troops and their facilities. There is possibility that Saudis agree their transition to their country in exchange of MKO’s intelligence and military operations in favor of Saudi Arabia.

Middle East Press

May 31, 2015 0 comment

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Maryam Rajavi, ludicrous testimony in a “historic hearing”

Appearance of the self-claimed president of National Council of Resistance, Maryam Rajavi in a hearing in US Congress indicates the absurdity of the claim of fighting against terrorism. Although the credibility of this so called leader is questionable getting support among some US congressmen for her presence in the congress is interesting and creates doubts in everybody’s mind.

The support is basically due to multi—million dollar lobbying campaign over years which includes paying good money for speaking and providing first class flights plus fancy hotel for those congressmen who support this terrorist organization. These are the true motivation behind supporting this cult like group.

The hearing was hosted by Congressman Ted Poe, chairman of the congressional subcommittee on the threats posed by ISIS. Why did Poe and the Republican majority on the terrorism subcommittee decide to invite Maryam Rajavi while main victims of ISIS terror acts are mostly among Iraqi Yazidis. However, no one of the Yazidi community was invited to the hearing! The reason is crystal clear since we know that Yazidis do not have such financial resources to attract any congressman.

“Poe received $17,900 in campaign contributions from supporters of the MEK between 2009 and 2014, according to an analysis I conducted of campaign finance data,” Eli Clifton writes. ”Surprisingly, nearly half—or $8,600—of the total flowed into his campaign while the group was still on the State Department’s terrorism list between 2009 and its delisting in 2012.”

Clifton adds,” In 2013 and 2014, the group also paid for $19,671 in travel expenses (including business-class plane fare) for Poe’s travel to MEK events in France.”

Indeed, it is so unusual to have Maryam Rajavi to testify in a hearing about ISIS. It is as if bringing Stalin to testify about Fascism, or asking Hitler to testify about Nazism. It seems money is everything in the US Politic. “Money talks” is an appropriate phrase here.

Shaylyn Hynes, a spokeswoman for Poe, told Joshua Keating by email that Rajavi has a “long history of speaking against what she calls ‘Islamic fundamentalism,’” and “can speak to how ISIS’ ideology is both similar to and different from the mullahs leading Iran.” Asked if there were any concerns given the MEK’s history, Hynes replied, “the administration does not consider them a terrorist group and neither do we.”

Hynes might be right to say that Rajavi has a “long history of speaking against what she calls ‘Islamic fundamentalism,’” but he should notice that “actions speak louder than words”. In other words, this does not mean that she herself is a moderate Muslim or she is pro-democracy. As it has manifested in her cruel treatment of its own members.

As Sean Nevins of Mint Press News asserts, “the MEK is a kind of cult, according to the FBI, Human Rights Watch, the Rand Corporation, and just about every other organization which has investigated the group.” He correctly writes that the MKO is “precisely the kind of organization that should not testify about Islamic extremism.”

Jeremiah Goulka, author of “The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum,” a report published by the Rand Corporation in 2009, told MintPress, “At the MEK camps, there’s a whole set of practices that are all textbook out of cult theory – sleep deprivation, make-work projects… forced celibacy, forced divorce, [and] gender segregation.”

Nevins also interviews Masoud Banisadr, a former member of the MKO, who had served as the group’s representative to the United Nations and the U.S. Banisadr confirmed that forced divorces were common in the group. Banisadr told MintPress: “All members were forced to divorce their spouses, and later they have to send their children abroad to Europe and United States to be adopted by supporters and other members.”

This is Eli Clifton’s description of the MKO: “The group has long faced criticism from Iran specialists and rights groups such as Human Rights Watch that it has devolved into a cult based on devotion to Maryam and her long-missing husband, Massoud Rajavi. According to numerous accounts, the group exerts a high degree of control over its followers, going so far as to mandate divorces and celibacy for their soldiers.”

According to the report by Julian Pecquet the congressional correspondent at Al Monitor, “Other lawmakers, including ranking member William Keating, D-Mass., ignored Rajavi and directed their questions only at the other witnesses. Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who also isn’t a committee member, was the only one to challenge her to explain why the United States should put its trust in a group that was kicked out of Iran in the early 1980s and fought alongside Saddam Hussein against Tehran.

"Over the past 30 years, the United States has been drawn into some serious diplomatic and military dead-ends in the Mideast by mistakenly backing individuals and organizations claiming popular support, which turned out to be exaggerated and somewhat manufactured," Davis told Rajavi. "Would you please tell us about the role of the [MEK] … and its place in the current Iranian political life?"

Rajavi’s reasoning in responding to Davis just included the same old fallacy that “regime’s "fear" of the group and its efforts at "demonizing" was a strong indication of the MEK’s "strength." However, her claim has been numerously rejected by international investigated report that clearly acknowledge that MKO has hardly any support among Iranians.

By the way, could the event organizers really define the enemy and the threat of ISIS by listening to the MKO cult leader? In conclusion, what can be achieved by listening to the MKO’S cult leader? Can the threat of ISIS be eliminated?

Mazda Parsi

May 7, 2015 0 comment

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US Envoy Becomes Next to Refuse Attending House Hearing Due to MKO Leader’s Attendance

Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford joined former State Department counter-terror official Daniel Benjamin as a second witness that refused to testify at a House hearing because of the presence of the leader of the anti-Iran Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI) in the meeting.

“I didn’t want to be on a panel with the MEK. I was shocked they invited the MEK. What the MEK has to do with the ISIL, I don’t have a clue,” Ford told FP.

“I told the committee to put me on a panel without the MEK or I wouldn’t appear,” the former envoy stressed.

The April 29 hearing, in front of a House subcommittee on terrorism and nonproliferation, will focus on the threat from the ISIL, which has overrun much of Syria and Iraq. Among the invited speakers is Maryam Rajavi, president of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which is the umbrella organization for groups that include Mojahedeen-e-Khalq (MKO), the foreign policy reported.

Earlier, former State Department counterterror official Daniel Benjamin balked at sharing the spotlight with terrorist group’s leader.

Daniel Benjamin, formerly the State Department’s counterterror coordinator, also was slated to testify at the House hearing. But on Monday, Benjamin declared that “I will not appear at a hearing” about the ISIL with the MKO’s leader, because “I know of no substantive expertise that the MKO has developed on the ISIL.” News of Benjamin’s cancellation was first mentioned on Twitter by ALM Congress Pulse.

In an email to Foreign Policy, Benjamin noted that the MKO’s “exclusive focus” of concern has for decades been Iran. “So one has to wonder what the purpose of Rajavi’s presence on this panel is,” said Benjamin, who is now director of an international studies program at Dartmouth University.

“Being delisted as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — a decision I took part in — doesn’t mean that this group … has suddenly … become trustworthy or worthy of engagement,” he said.

Meanwhile, in a follow-up interview with Foreign Policy, Benjamin — who had a role in the State Department’s decision to delist the MEK — criticized the House panel for agreeing to let Rajavi testify by video. He said that is not a perk that is offered to US witnesses.

“Why won’t she travel here to testify?” Benjamin asked.

"MEK offered me tens of thousands of dollars to speak on its behalf, but i turned down the request," he underlined.

“This is still a group that has American blood from killings in the 1970s on its hands and killed many other innocents as well. That has never been apologized for,” the former senior American official stressed.

The Obama administration believed the MKO was providing misinformation in an effort to derail recent nuclear talks with Iran. During negotiations the MKO insisted Tehran was building underground nuclear facilities, an assertion dismissed by the State Department.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly-established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by the MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under the US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with the American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty. Hundreds of the MKO terrorists have now been sent to Europe.

Earlier this month, the managing editor of Veterans Today from Atlanta said the number of Iranian terror victims is “in effect almost six 9/11’s,” but these attacks never got enough coverage in international media.

Jim W. Dean said even now, very few people know the scale of the Iranians who were killed in terrorist acts. “I would imagine your maimed casualties would also be high, and those statistics should be publicized as well.”

He went on to say that despite this great number of terror victims, “Iran did not crank up a huge War on Terror that slaughtered countless thousands of innocents, as happened with the Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld gangsters and their army of helpers.”

The US political analyst underscored that the story of Iranian victims of terror, “with all of its gory details,” still has to be brought to the international audience. “The Western media blackout shows they fear their audiences wanting to know more about why this was being covered up and eventually figuring out that these were offensive Western Intel operations during peacetime.”

"You have been maligned in Western media as a longtime supporter of international terrorism, but we know that hiding the history of Iran having been the top victim of terrorism was part of the false propaganda," he continued.

“Suppressing publicity of your being the major victim of terrorism at the time played a key role in falsely casting Iran as a major terror threat to everyone else,” Dean continued. “This is what people remember as it was an organized campaign in the Jewish controlled media for years and years.”

Regarding the presence of Iranian terrorist groups such as MKO in the US and their role in anti-Iran policies, Jim Dean said, “They have no negative profile here whatsoever. They are presented as oppressed freedom fighters and that is all the public ever hears.”

He pointed out that American people would be shocked, if Iranian terror victim groups and families were constantly touring the American college campuses and the church networks on speaking tours. “But the Zionist Lobby, the NeoCons and Christian Zionists would fight any attempt to do this, but that would be good as it would show they fear exposure.”

The US veteran went on to say that Iran should not act alone in exposing the state sponsors of terrorism, “as the victims of terror are now manufactured on an industrial scale, most of it state-sponsored terrorism, and the guilty parties naturally dread having this exposed.” “This is why I feel Iran is in a unique position to be the tip of the spear for efforts to uncover the long sordid history of state-sponsored terrorism and to publicize it on a continual basis to challenge the various nations involved to hold their leaders and operational organs responsible.”

“Their goal to destabilize target countries to protect their own nations will not be believable once the truth is out that these were purely offensive operations straight out of the Cold War operations manual, where anything could be done to hurt ‘the other side’ and be done with immunity, despite there being no state of war existing.”

He also made a reference to the Zionists’ killing of Iranian nuclear scientists and said, “Unfortunately, we see old tactics being reused, the ones with a track record of being successful and low risk.” “The killing of a few scientists would not have much effect on a major program. Personnel losses get replaced. And with 20/20 hindsight, we see from the 18 months of nuclear talks with Iran that neither Israel nor Britain ever disclosed any hard evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.”

He finally said that he saw Iran nuclear deal as “an offering of good will from Obama,” and that “he wants to turn the corner on the sordid past of US diplomacy and start a new era.” “The average American is not aware of how our CIA and British intelligence basically hijacked your country and terrorized it under the Shah for a long time. No reparations for that flagrantly offensive act have ever been discussed here.”

May 6, 2015 0 comment

Maryam Rajavi

Open letter to Robert Ford and Daniel Benjamin

The gratitude letter of Iran-Ghalam Club to gentlemen Robert Ford and Daniel benjamin

Daesh and Mojahedin both are from the same gender

We declare our severe criticism to Mr. Ted Poe for inviting Mrs. Maryam Rajavi

Greetings and best wishes to Mr. Robert Stephen Ford and Mr. Daniel Benjamin

first of all, we would like to inform you that the Iran-Ghalam club consist of the former members, critics, and specialists in Rajavi cult’s affairs with more than 20 years record of service in People’s Mojahedin Organization who had separated from this organization because of criticism which they had to its violent and terrorist strategy and its cultish structure begotten by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, and now we are living in Europe and we are active in humanitarian affairs.

We declare our gratitude and sincere congratulation regarding to non-participation of you gentlemen Robert Ford and Daniel Benjamin in subcommittee session of congress which was convened on 29-April-2015 with participation of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the leader of Rajavi cult through video-conference for testifying about Daesh or the Islamic State.

Your participation, as the former officials of the US state department who have enough recognition of international relations and the terrorist infrastructure of PMOI, in the same panel with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi to testify about the bloodthirsty and slayer group of Daesh, was going to fortify the terrorism and violence in the Middle-East. We should ask other participants in that panel with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi that how is the participation of leader of a terrorist organization in this panel who has led more than 100 terrorist operations can help to reduce violence and terrorism begotten by Daesh and Islamic State?

Mr. Robert Ford by asking a question that what do Mojahedin know about Daesh? and Mr. Daniel Benjamin former coordinator of counterterrorism section in US State-department in an Email to the News-Website , Al Monitor wrote, no one seriously can deny that the hands of Mojahedin is smeared with blood of Americans . Not only they participated in killing of military and non-military personnel of USA in Iran and participation in seizure of American embassy in Teheran and serving as a strike-force for Saddam Hussein but also they have dictatorial attitude and behavior against their members.

Mr. Daniel Benjamin, invitation of Maryam Rajavi by the head of the subcommittee, called shameful and reiterated and emphasized that this organization will not do any good in our discussion.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi who was invited for this session in the subcommittee of fighting with terrorism by Ted Poe the republican representative from the state of Texas to give her speech about Daesh through video-conference from Paris.

Mrs. Rajavi in her speech for fighting against fundamentalism and terrorism indicated to 7 topics as follows:

1) Expel the Quds Force from Iraq and end the Iranian regime’s influence in that country;

2) Enable full participation of Sunnis in power sharing and arm Sunni tribes to provide security for their communities;

3) Assist Syria’s moderate opposition and people to end Assad’s regime and establish democracy in that country;

4) Recognize the Iranian people’s aspirations to overthrow the mullahs and end inaction vis-à-vis the gross human rights violations in Iran.

5) Provide protection for, and uphold the rights of members of Iran’s organized opposition, the MEK, residing in Camp Liberty in Iraq.

6) Empower the true, democratic and tolerant Islam to counter fundamentalist interpretations of this religion; and

7) Block all pathways for the Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons.

Gentlemen Robert Ford and Daniel Benjamin,

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi in her speech did not mention anything about Daesh and its leader , leadership, forces and severe breach of human rights which happens wherever Daesh goes specially about women , why did not she?!!

We ask you, which organization is responsible for the connection between the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s government and daesh in Iraq? with no doubt , one of its financial and logistical nets is PMOI(MKO, Rajavi cult). If is not, why Maryam Rajavi insists on staying in Iraq?!!

what is the connection between providing security and taking their arms back, which has been requested by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi , and finding solution to eliminate Islamic State or Daesh in Iraq? It’s irrelevant!!

Our question as the former members of this dangerous and vicious cult from this subcommittee regarding to invitation of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi is that inviting the leader of Rajavi cult which till 3 years ago was in the terrorist black list of the US state-department

it has cultish internal relations and it does not tolerate even the smallest criticism to its cult and it threatens or lure the person who dare to criticize or beat him/her up .

the cult which in terrorist-operation of 9/11 on US soil called it as a revolutionary act and called all those terrorists from al-Qaeda who planned and carried out the operation as martyrs and for the massacre of more than 3000 innocent American men and women who lost their lives , threw party and celebrated in its garrisons in Iraq.

The cult which calls its members’ families as agent, spy, special force (commando), and slayer and ….etc !!!!And in this regard it does not allow its members to have even 5 minutes of meeting with their families and loved ones.

With all those facts mentioned above, can you count on the leader of a terrorist cult as specialist and expert in subcommittee of US congress to solve the Daesh and Islamic State phenomenon?!!!!!

Why such a cult with lots of money and resources and diversity of lobbies throughout the world has not done anything in replacing its forces, more than 2500 men and women who are stranded and stuck in Iraq, from Iraq to a safer place to save them from Daesh bloodthirsty group?

Do they really care about the life of those 2500 men and women or they prefer those 2500 men and women be sacrificed so they can take political advantage of their sacrifice in Iraq!? Really, with all these facts can she and her cult be part of the solution regarding terrorism and Daesh phenomenon when she was calling those savages and man-eaters as revolutionary nomads and popular revolutionary forces?!! Is not it shameful??

We, as victims of this violent and bloodthirsty cult, condemn inviting such person, who does not believe in democracy and freedom, in subcommittee of US congress. Non participation of you gentlemen in the same panel with the leader of this cult in US congress is sincerely and truly welcomed.

Maryam Rajavi in the end of her speech quoted from George Washington and said, the harder the conflict the greater the triumph,

Well we believe so, but when it happens that, all forces who are participating in the war against their enemy such Daesh, are pure and they do not have the same gender as daesh. Massoud Rajavi calls himself as a spiritual leader of mojahedin and muslims while Abobakr Al- baghdadi also calls himself as khalifeh or the spiritual leader of muslims and Daesh’s mojahedin. both of them call themselves the permanent religious leader and they believe that their orders are the god’s will and disobeying their orders mean hell , destruction, and death!

Quoting from George Washington from the leader of a cult who has a dark history and record in terrorism in subcommittee of US congress is very shameful.

We the members of Iran – Ghalam Club thank you gentlemen Robert Ford and Daniel Benjamin and wish you both success and victory in your objectives and also we would like to announce our severe criticism to Mr. Ted Poe the Republican representative of Texas.

Best Regards,

Iranian Pen Club (Iran Ghalam)

May 4, 2015 0 comment

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