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The Rajavis’ illusions against the rationalism of Gen Z

Many economic, political, and social activists are talking about the potential benefits of Generation Z. This social group is considered both as a driving force in the economy and business and as a political force for change. However, the debatable fact is that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, as the leaders of a group of which average age of members is over 50, are trying to bring themselves closer to Generation Z.

Sociologists classify people born in different periods into different groups based on fundamental changes in lifestyle. They call those born between 1964 and 1981 “Generation X,” those born between 1982 and 1997 “Generation Y” or millennials, and those born between 1997 and 2010 “Generation Z” or the Internet generation.

Research shows that Generation Z is committed to personal freedom. Their behavior falls into the liberal category in classical orderings. Masoud Rajavi, the disappeared leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has recently called Generation Z as “the central core of future uprisings”, and Maryam Rajavi has lined up a number of surviving children of Mujahed parents in her recent propaganda shows boasting of the support of the younger generation of Iran (!).

It is necessary for the leaders of the MEK to learn more about certain concepts and words like Generation Z. Massoud Rajavi, as the creator of Rajavi’s personality cult, must understand that although Generation Z seems to be selfish and to consider themselves superior to others, they are so skillful in tolerating and accepting different and opposing beliefs, races, social levels, genders, and tastes. To the extent that some sociologists call them a generation of rationalism, pluralism, or plurality of beliefs. While tolerating others’ opinion is one of the missing concepts in the MEK.

The leaders of the MEK should note that trustworthy researches on the characteristics of Generation Z in various countries show that this generation has a great appetite for understanding the situation and the forces behind events. They do not easily accept media discourse. Therefore, Maryam Rajavi’s performance of forced rituals with a large group of women wearing forced hijab at Camp Ashraf 3, simply gives a glimpse of the real behind-the-scenes of her gathering with young people in European cities.

Unlike the reality of the MEK, where there is no room for dialogue and its members are suppressed for the slightest dissenting opinion or personal thought, Generation Z expresses their feelings easily, and believes in dialogue to resolve conflicts and improve the world. Members of this generation believe that change is achieved through dialogue. Common goals and motivations for doing great and new things bring them together, and they analyze and make decisions based on the data they collect from their communication networks.

Unlike the internal relations of the MEK, which are based on constant self-criticism and severe self-censorship, Generation Z usually avoids self-censorship. They present their demands without confrontation and conservatism, and express their opinions about family members, classmates, colleagues, friends, managers, and the government fearlessly.

Due to the historical record of the MEK, especially under the ruling of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, the MEK is highly unlikely to influence Generation Z in Iran. The MEK is known above all as a destructive cult with a history of extremism, terrorism and collaboration with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. This criminal record has deprived the group of the support of the majority of the Iranian people, including the younger generations.

The MEK’s strict ideology, internal dictatorship, and numerous coercions in personal life have separated them from the demands of a generation that seeks freedom of choice, freedom of expression, and democratic values. Like their counterparts around the world, Iranian Generation Z is known for its strong emphasis on individual rights, free access to information, and a desire to create change based on modern democratic principles.

The past and present behaviors of the MEK, including its cult-like and authoritarian internal structure, and its historical collaboration with foreign powers hostile to Iran such as Saddam and Israel, are considered counter-values to Generation Z.

Thus, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi lack the necessary ability to attract the support of a generation that has critical thinking and believes in individual freedoms. The MEK leaders, with their organization’s problematic past, have nothing to say against the rationalism of Generation Z. This generation does not allow Massoud Rajavi’s fabricated, outdated ideology, which has the most illusory content, to emerge.

Mazda Parsi

November 3, 2025 0 comments

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Rajavi’s complex mix of miscalculation for Eternal Light

Massoud Rajavi’s decision to launch the “Forough Javidan” (Eternal Light) operation in 1988, which resulted in significant casualties for his forces, was driven by a complex mix of strategic miscalculation, political ambition, and a profound misunderstanding of the prevailing conditions. The operation, also known as Mersad by Iran, was a large-scale military offensive by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from Iraq into Iran, aiming to capture Tehran and overthrow the Iranian government in three days.

Rajavi’s miscalculations

One primary reason for Rajavi’s decision was his belief that the Iranian government was on the verge of collapse and that the Iranian public would rise up to support the MEK’s advance. This assessment was a critical misjudgment.
The Iran-Iraq War had severely weakened Iran, and the country had just accepted UN Resolution 598, signaling a willingness to end the conflict. Rajavi interpreted this as a sign of the Iranian government’s weakness and desperation, believing that a final push would lead to its downfall. He underestimated the Iranian people’s hatred against the MEK and their loyalty to the Islamic Republic, despite the war’s hardships. The MEK had been largely isolated from the realities inside Iran, operating from Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s patronage, which may have contributed to this skewed perception. Also, the Iranian nation despised the MEK because it had allied with the invader, Saddam Hussein.

Rajavi’s deep-rooted animosity against Iran

The MEK had been engaged in a pitiless war with the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1981, including from Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War. Rajavi, having sided with Saddam Hussein against his Iranian country-fellow, was seen as a traitor by many Iranians. This intense ideological conflict and desire for revenge likely fueled his determination to launch a decisive attack.
Another significant factor was the MEK’s reliance on Saddam Hussein’s support and their integration into the Iraqi military strategy. Saddam armed the MEK with Iranian weapons captured from Iranian troops and provided them with a base in Iraq. Massoud Rajavi, had close cooperation with Saddam Hussein, who entrusted them with the assassination of figures like Lieutenant General Sayyad Shirazi, who had inflicted heavy losses on Saddam’s army during the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam’s strategic objectives, which included creating a buffer zone and destabilizing Iran, aligned with the Rajavi’s ambitions, leading to a joint offensive. The MEK, with Iraqi air power cover, aimed to advance rapidly towards Kermanshah and ultimately Tehran.

Rajavi’s cult-like dictatorship

The MEK’s internal structure and leadership style also played a role. The organization was characterized by a “guru-like-leadership” where Rajavi held “divine power” and brainwashed members, controlling even their personal matters. This cult-like environment fostered unquestioning loyalty and may have suppressed dissenting opinions regarding the feasibility of the operation. Members were reportedly enslaved to the leadership’s decisions, making them willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause.

Bad timing for Rajavi

Finally, the timing of the operation, shortly after Iran accepted UN Resolution 598, was critical. Rajavi likely saw this as a window of opportunity, believing that Iran’s military was disorganized. However, Iran’s acceptance of the ceasefire allowed it to re-focus its military efforts on the MEK, leading to a swift and decisive counter-attack known as Operation Mersad. The Iranian military, including the Revolutionary Guard and the Army, unified their efforts and launched a coordinated response, utilizing paratroopers and air power to demolish the MEK forces. The MEK’s expectation of a popular uprising in Iran never materialized, and they were met with strong resistance from the Iranian military and civilians.

In summary, Massoud Rajavi’s decision to launch the Forough Javidan operation was a catastrophic miscalculation rooted in an overestimation of the MEK’s support within Iran, an underestimation of the Iranian government’s resilience, deep-rooted animosity towards Iran, and a strategic alignment with Saddam Hussein that ultimately backfired. He lost over one thousand of his forces including men, women and even child soldiers like Maryam Gheitani and Zohair Zakeri.

Mazda Parsi

July 26, 2025 0 comments

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An Analysis on Massoud Rajavi and his addiction to power

Based on Gabor Maté’s views on addiction
Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned addiction expert, believes that the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in childhood trauma and in stress and social dislocation endemic to systems of inequality and injustice. In his TEDx Talks, he states some facts about power-addict people. The criteria that he clarifies is dramatically compatible with Massoud Rajavi.

According to Gabor, some people are addicted to power, to wealth and to acquisition because they want to make themselves bigger. Their sense of insecurity and inferiority makes them need power to feel okay in themselves.

He refers to certain dictators in the history such as Alexander, Napoleon, Stalin and Hitler. To make themselves bigger, and in order to get that power, they were quite willing to fight wars and to kill a lot of people, just to maintain that power. “The addiction to power, is always about the emptiness that you try and fill from the outside,” Gabor says.

First of all, why did they need power so much? The interesting thing is that physically, they were all relatively short people, about my size, or even smaller. They came from the margins; they were not part of the mainstream population. Stalin was Georgian, not Russian; Napoleon was Corsican, not French; Alexander the Macedonian, not Greek; and Hitler was Austrian, not German. So, there was a deep sense of insecurity and inferiority complex in them.

Remember Massoud Rajavi, short man born in a small town far from capital with no upper-class family! He finds himself in a situation that all the first founders of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) are gone. He takes over the organization. However, after the Iranian revolution he and his group cannot find any position in the newly-established Islamic government. So, he sets off for a bloody war with Iranian government.

“They needed power to feel good about themselves, to make themselves feel great,” Gabor suggests. “And to get that power, they were quite willing to wage war and kill a lot of people, just to keep that power.” That’s what Rajavi did in accomplice with Saddam Hussein and other war-addicts around the world. His addiction to power led him to build his cult of personality in which he violates the right of his member, abuses women and trains child soldiers.

Amir Yaghmai, a former child soldier of the MEK, recalls Rajavi’s compatibility with what Gabor says about power addicts:
A man of about 160 centimeters tall, full of sexual and psychological complexes, who had built the structure of a cult around his pathological need for control and power. Forced divorces, obtaining confidentiality signatures from hundreds of women, weekly sexual confessions, forced baths called “ideological purification baths” [self-criticism sessions as cult jargons in the MEK ]

None of these were signs of faith, spirituality, or liberation. Rather, they were all tools for dominating people, from the inside and outside. Rajavi was a concrete example of what Gabor Maté was talking about: a person who felt empty without power and found existential meaning only in dominating others.

Mazda Parsi

May 31, 2025 0 comments

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Revealed in court | Massoud Rajavi’s Blood Bank

Massoud Khodabandeh, a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) was an official of Masoud Rajavi’s protection team before he left the group. As a witness, he addressed the 19th session of the court hearing the accusations of the leaders of MEK, clarifying the internal relations of the group and the approach of Masoud Rajavi as its leader.
Khodabandeh, who was relatively close to Masoud Rajavi, says: “One of the problems I had with Rajavi was that he used to give a lot of orders without any knowledge. One of these cases was his involvement in the operations.”

This former member of the MEK, who was present on-line at the court session in full compliance with the legal formalities, stated that the trained operations department of the Iraqi Intelligence also knew this about Rajavi. Khodabandeh continues: “Rajavi used to add something to the process that made everything fail and no one dared to say anything. Rajavi actually used to act in a way that not only the operation was not carried out but also the operator himself would be killed.”
“Rajavi wanted to fill his blood bank in this way,” Khodabande stated. “It means that the blood of people should be shed and the rest should stay and continue to fight for those who were killed.”

Based on Khodabande’s testimonies, Massoud Rajavi defined his “blood bank” like this:
“Dogs and cats also die; The person whose blood comes to this bank is important and stays; I am the banker of the blood; these bloods are collected; I take it on the table in the scene of politics and use it; What difference does it make if your blood doesn’t come to this bank? the blood of cats and dogs is shed too.”

Mizan News Agency – Translated by Nejat Society

October 2, 2024 0 comments

, Rajavi gave all the new members an icon and put it around our necks

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Where is Massoud Rajavi?

Many people ask me about Masoud Rajavi. Mostly whether he is still alive or not. First, I must emphasize that my writings about Mujahedin (MEK) are based on my personal observations and experiences. If I have not seen or heard anything, I will not express it under the title of observation.

Talking about where Rajavi is in the MEK is prohibited. They told us that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence is looking for this information and anyone who talks about this issue is in line with the Ministry. This issue was a “red border” and we should not have approached it. My writing about this will surely make Rajavi’s dogs rabid.

First, a memory from my childhood, which shows a part of the brainwashing of children at that time. When I was 8 years old and I was with my parents at Camp Ashraf, my mother once asked me:
My son, who do you love more, mom and dad or uncle Masoud and aunt Maryam (the Rajavi couple)? I said, “uncle and aunt”.

My mother was happy to hear this and said congratulations. In later years, when I returned to Ashraf as a teenager, she told me this memory several times and said that she was proud of me at the time. Yes, the brainwashed Zahra wanted me to like her ideologic leader more than anything else.

My first contact with Rajavi was in 1999. When I went to Ashraf and my mother said that my father died. Then she said that from now on consider Rajavi as your father and send him the gold watch [The souvenir that he had brought his father from the United States]. I did the same. A month later, when I was in the reception section of the camp, Rajavi sent me a gift in response.

A colored glass with the Koran verse engraved on it. If you know the story of Aya Kowsar, you will understand the depth of Rajavi’s deception. He tortured and killed my father and then with this verse he told me that it is okay that you lost him, instead I gave you Maryam Rajavi and her ideological revolution. Damn Rajavi!

From 1999 to 2003, I met Rajavi in several meetings. We, the new members, were allowed to kiss him several times. In this video, I had just joined Ashraf, and in a meeting, Rajavi gave all the new members an icon and put it around our necks.
The last time I saw Rajavi was in March 2001. It was the days of Ashura [a religious ceremony] and, as always, there were ideological mass meetings. It was clear that America was going to invade Iraq and Rajavi had planned to attack Iran if the war started. I will write more about the 2003 war and the relationship with America later.

The war started and after the agreement between the US and the MEK was signed, all the members were gathered at Camp Ashraf. When the war started, Rajavi disappeared. To this day, he has not shown up publicly anywhere. But in the years after the war, every year we had some meetings with Rajavi, which were held in audio or written form.

In one of these meetings, Rajavi announced, with photos and videos, the unsuccessful missile attack of the coalition forces on his headquarters and even his bed. There were many speculations and rumors about Rajavi’s whereabouts in those years. Some said that he was in a hidden place in Ashraf. Some said that he was in an Arab country.

But I have never seen any concrete evidence in this regard. I only knew that he was alive. After I left the MEK, I followed the news of the MEK for a long time. Rajavi’s meetings with members continue. Yes, the evidence suggests that he is alive. On this year’s New Year, an audio message from him was broadcast on the MEK’s TV channel.

I will not put the link here, but if you search the following sentence on YouTube, you will find the video:
“Masoud Rajavi’s Nowruz Message 1403”

It is clear from his voice that he is very old and sick. But in my opinion, yes, it is his own voice.

I wish Rajavi will be alive and one day will be tried in an international court. In my opinion, he and Mujahedin have been dead for years. Maybe not physically, but politically and socially. Today, they are a rotten cult that shakes its tail every day for this and that and buys foreign support with money. But they are definitely over.

Ray Torabi’s account on X

May 5, 2024 0 comments

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Why do they call Rajavi, Pol Pot of Iran?

About two decades ago when Elizabeth Rubin titled his article on the Mujahedin-e Khalq as “the Cult of Rajavi” and published it in the New York Times Magazine, she quoted the Iranian public opinion at the end of the article with a phrase that was actually warning and distressing: “the Rajavis, given the chance, would have been the Pol Pot of Iran.”

“Pol Pot of Iran” is also a title that Paul Sheldon Foote, the American university professor, has always used to address Massoud Rajavi, the disappeared leader of the MEK. “During the American hostage crisis, the MEK participated and called for the executions of the Americans,” he writes. “Rajavi is anti-American, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist. His aim is to become the Pol Pot of Iran, even if the MEK must become a tool of the American government to achieve his aim.”
Why such a comparison?

Raajvi; Polpot of Iran

Rajavi vs Pol Pot

Pol Pot is notoriously known as one of the most violent dictators in the world history. Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork. One detention center, S-21, was so notorious that only seven of the roughly 20,000 people imprisoned there are known to have survived.
Massoud Rajavi founded his cult of personality on the dead bodies of thousands of civilians who were killed by his bombing teams. The most horrific acts of his cult were the operations he launched against Iraqi Kurds and Shiites and Iranian soldiers in Forough Jbvidan.

S21 vs Eskan

Let us compare the Pol Pot era in Cambodia with the rule of Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality in Camp Ashraf, Iraq during the 1980s and the 1990s.
Around one third of the rank and file of the MEK were accused of being agents of the Iranian government and so disloyal to the group’s cause. They were imprisoned, jailed in solitary confinement, tortured and even killed under torture just because they had asked to leave the group or had dared to criticize the leader. Ghorban Ali Torabi and Parviz Ahmadi are two of the MEK victims who were killed under torture by the organization that they had been serving for years.
A large number of former members of the group have testified about the tortures they endured in the prison of Camp Ashraf called Eskan. (The violence the MEK leaders committed against their own members should be considered together with the terrorist acts against the Iranian civilians and officials.)

Family life in the MEK and in Khmer Rouge

In 1988, Massoud Rajavi ordered members to divorce their spouses under the pretext that family life and sex life would distract the rank and file from their struggle against Iran. A year later, over 700 children of the Mujahedin were separated from their parents and were smuggled to European countries, under the order of Massoud Rajavi. About 300 of these children were later dispatched back to the MEK’s camp in Iraq in their teen years. They were recruited in the MEK’s army the so-called National Liberation Army. These child soldiers were given military uniforms, arms and military trainings in order to be prepared to invade Iran.
A decade earlier, you could see the same pattern of family life in Cambodia ruled by Khmer rouge. In order to enforce loyalty to the state, the Khmer Rouge broke peoples’ ties to religion and family. All political and civil rights were abolished. Formal education ceased and from January 1977, all children from age of eight were separated from their parents and placed in labour camps, which taught them that the state was their true parents. For the Khmer Rouge, children were central to the revolution as they believed they could be easily moulded, conditioned and indoctrinated. They could be taught to obey orders, become soldiers and kill enemies. Children were taught to believe that anyone not conforming to the Khmer laws were corrupt enemies.

Forced marriage before forced divorces

According to Pol Pot’s regulations, people were not allowed to choose their own marriage partners. They could not leave their given place of work or even select the clothes that they would wear. It should be noted that the Cult of Rajavi went further to force members to marry the ideological comrade that the group had selected for them before the later ruling of Massoud Rajavi that forced members to divorce and maintain a mandatory lifelong celibacy.
No one is married in the MEK’s camp in Albania right now. The rank and file of the MEK had to were military uniforms when they were settled in Camp Ashraf Iraq. After the group’s disarmament by the US army, their clothing was still regulated by the organization.
Today, MEK female member have to wear hijab. They are not allowed to wear tight or short clothes. However, the dress code is strict for both sexes in the group. Male members are not allowed to wear shorts or T-shirts in the world of 2022!

There are definitely a large number of more common personality and behavior traits between Pol Pot and Rajavi that can be taken into consideration to prove that Rajavi is ruling a modern slavery in the heart of Europe in Albanian territory very similar to the bloody dictatorship of Pol Pot that destroyed Cambodia. It may seem bizarre but must be just believed by the world’s human rights bodies and activists.

By Mazda Parsi

August 30, 2022 0 comments

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Documents to Expose Rajavi’s Violence against Dissident Members

A recently published document from inside the Mujahedin-e Khalq proves that Massoud Rajavi has used the most horrific tactics to suppress dissident members. Former child soldiers of the MEK revealed the cover and some pages of a pamphlet that demonstrates how critics against the MEK’s strategy will end with imprisonment, torture, elimination and even murder of the criticizing person.

The pamphlet which is titled “Organizational Ideological Argument” is actually the abstract of thousands of manipulation sessions run by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi in Camp Bagherzadeh, Iraq in 2001. The heart-breaking memoir of these sessions are always part of the difficult experiences of every former member of MEK. All of the confirm the content of the recently published document. According to the contents of this booklet, the MEK leaders forbid any kind of dissent and criticism in their cult-like organization.

Organizational Ideological Argument

The pamphlet which is titled “Organizational Ideological Argument

guidelines to push the dissident members to the hands of the Iranian Government or the Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence Service

Zhina and Amir, the two former child soldiers of the MEK published two pages of the document that contains a dozen of guidelines to push the dissident members to the hands of the Iranian Government or the Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence Service (Estekhbarat). The document which is dated September 2001, clearly argues that defection is forbidden:

“There is no such a person as defector. A defector who wants to leave the organization to enjoy a normal life should confess in front of the cameras. His place is not in the organization; he will be sent to Iran without cyanide capsule and arm.” This way, the MEK leaders plan to threaten their dissident members that they will certainly be arrested and executed by Iranian government and the group actually pushes them to this dark fate.
According to the document, no dissident member is allowed to go to Europe to take refuge. Instead, he or she will be handed to the then Iraqi government that was called by the MEK as the landlord.

“If we do not smuggle the defector into Iran, we will hand him to the landlord who will deal with him in accordance with their laws. Explanation: unlike European countries, Iraqi government does not deal with individuals and does not grant refuge. Iraq deals with the organization as a whole. It has accepted members based on the organization’s credit. Therefore, people who are attached with the organization are not questioned and do not have to fill out forms while arriving or leaving the country. Consequently, once the organization does not admit the responsibility of an individual, he will be treated as an illegal person.”

The content of this document is nothing new for former members of the MEK. We have already seen the testimonies of numerous defectors of the group who were victims of such a horrific punishment by the Cult of Rajavi. However, this booklet can be considered as a legal document to prove the inhumane attitude of the MEK leaders towards their own members in order to bring them to justice in a fair international trial.

June 2, 2022 0 comments

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The MEK former member: Rajavi is an Iranian Bin-Laden

At a very long ago, this mechanical engineer, born to poor peasants, was attracted to the movement against the Shah’s dictatorship by the speeches of its founders: Mehdi Bazargan,Hanifnezhad and Massoud Rajavi. He joined the Mojahedin organization in his home region in northern Iran. He soon joined the movement’s militia. He explains that,” I knew that the organization carried out violent actions, but I was proud of that since the targets were the monarchy and imperialist agents”. a member of the Majles Shoura (Consultative Council). He specialized in propaganda activities. After his national military service in 1981, he was given his first missions. Heading a group of five activists, he received his orders through coded messages broadcast by the movement’s radio. These operations involved breaking windows of officials’ homes, setting fire to their automobiles and burning portraits of Imam Khomeini. The young Mojahed won the respect of movement leaders, now headquartered in Paris and they asked him to come to their base in Iraq.

Mohamamd Nazari left for Karachi, Pakistan, where the Mojahedin had offices. From there, he went on to Baghdad a month later. He says:” I had changed a lot. I wasn’t myself anymore. My personality had been stolen from me. I could no longer think for myself. I was completely devoted to the organization and ready for terrorist actions in Iran. “ his first operations were against military targets in Iranian Kurdistan. During the period 1985-1986,the unit he commanded was in combat several times against the Iranian army. He also helped reconnoiter and map Iranian military positions, intelligence which the organization passed on to the Iraqi authorities. The former Mojahed recalls:” dressed in an Iranian Military jacket, I entered the country to scout the situation on the front. Sometimes, I captured Iranian soldiers and handed them over to the Iraqis”. In total his unit fought fifteen engagements against the Iranian Army and carried out dozens of reconnaissance operations in Iran.

In 1992, Mohammad Nazari began to realize the truth about the organization and refused to fight the Iraqi Kurds. He served 45 days in solitary confinement and his break with the organization was now complete. But, fearing for his life, he agreed to a self-criticism and rejoined the ranks. But he had one idea: plan his escape.
A little later, he asked for permission to travel to the United States, in order to visit the brother. His superiors refused to let him go. As a compromise, however they sent him to Germany, now free to travel, Mohammad Nazari went to Italy and asked for political asylum. Eleven months later, he returned to Iran, with the help of country’s embassy in Rome. Now,43, the former Mojahed says: ”I am not proud of my past. I fought for 19 years, but it was for nothing. If I have now agreed to describe my past, it is to unmask the Mojahedin Organization which stole the best years of my life and all dreams of my youth.” He adds:” Rajavi is not a Commander Massoud.

He is a Bin Laden. The afghan leader gave his life for his people. The Iranian,for his part, has not the slightest qualms about sending his men to their deaths. But he, himself, avoids touching a rifle. During all the years during which I worked side by side with him, I never knew where really lived.”

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

May 18, 2022 0 comments

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Massoud Rajavi offered his own gun to the 14-year-old Zohair

Zohair was only fourteen when he was armed by Massoud Rajavi in person

Zohair Zakeri was born in 1976. When in 1991 Massoud Rajavi ordered to separate the children form their Mujahed parents and smuggle them to Europe and North America, Zohair refused to leave Camp Ashraf; he allegedly wanted to be a fighter of the MEK’s army, the so-called National Liberation army. Eventually, Massoud Rajavi gave his colt to him as a gift!
His father, Ebrahim Zakeri was a high-ranking member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). His mother who disagreed with the MEK had divorced before they came to Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

Zohair zakeri next to his father

Ozra Alavi Taleghani the second wife of Ebrahim Zaker was Zohair’s stepmother. Both parents were commanders in the MEK and busy working for the group. So, Zohair did not enjoy a normal family life. Before the separation from their parents and the eventual forced divorce of married members, children of the Mujahedin could visit their parents in the weekends but Zohair was even deprived from these short-time family life.
Persuaded by Massoud Rajavi, the 14-year-old Zohair became a child soldier of the Cult of Rajavi. He did not go to school or university. Instead, he was under the constant manipulation system of the cult. He was trained as a devotee of Massoud Rajavi. According to the MEK’s website, Zohair wrote a letter to Rajavi after he watched the videos of his speech addressing him, “Brother! You break a record again but what should we do with your love?” This was the result of the education system of the Cult of Rajavi.

Zohair Zakeri

When Zohair was 19, he was an official member of the MEK’s army. Radicalized by Massoud Rajavi’s trainings he was ready to act under his absolute power. Consequently, years later when he was ordered to lie down in front of the military vehicles of Iraqi army to prevent them from entering Camp Ashraf, he was manipulated (or perhaps intimated) enough to get killed for the cause of Rajavi.
Zohair was 35 when he was killed in the clashes between Iraqi forces and the MEK members in May 2011. The MEK propaganda media broadcast all kinds of content to glorify the “martyrdom” of Zohair, a young man who never enjoyed childhood in the Cult of Rajavi and lost his life under the order of the cult leader.

March 15, 2022 0 comments

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Massoud Rajavi beat and kicked Mehri to force her to stay in his cult

Mehri Musavi a female member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization was killed in 2003 after she asked to leave the group.

Born in 1961 Mehri Musavi was a student in her twenties studying in a university in the United States when she decided to join the MEK in Iraq. There, she worked for the group’s political unit as a translator and interpreter. Eventually, she was raised in the hierarchy of the cult of Rajavi and was nominated for membership in the group’s Elite Council which included only female members.

To remain a member of the Elite Council, Mehri had to stay in Iraq. She was not allowed to leave Iraqi territory according to the regulations of the Rajavi Cult. She had to promise that she would stay in the group for her whole life and Mehri could not admit such a harsh ruling. Thus, she asked for leaving the group.

Mehri Musavi’s grave

Mehri’s determination to leave the MEK was faced with a process of suppressive sessions. The main session was a trial for Mehri which was held by Massoud Rajavi, himself. Maryam Sanjabi, former member of the MEK, worked in the same unit as Mehri did. In her testimony about the killing of Mehri Musavi, she writes about the trial:
“Massoud Rajavi called on her to speak. Mehri repeated her request for leaving the group calmly and courageously. Instigated by Massoud Rajavi, the whole audience started shouting at her as if she had committed the most terrible crimes! Rajavi who was mad with her told her, ‘You can kill yourself swallowing your cyanide capsule!’…He explicitly told her that as a nominee of the Elite Council she was sentenced to death penalty because she wanted to leave.”

The meeting did not end by Rajavi’s ultimatum. Female commanders and peers of Mehri also tried their best to show off their obedience to Massoud by humiliating, insulting and threatening Mehri to death. Eventually, Mehri was asked if she had changed her mind. Her answer was “No”. “I never forget what happened then,” Maryam Sanjabi writes. “It was a new act of violence and cruelty played by Rajavi.”

Sanjabi describes the scene:
“Very irritated and nervous, Rajavi asked Mehri to come up to the stage to talk to her in person. Immediately after Mehri went to the stage, he, Maryam Rajavi and a few of high-ranking commanders took Mehri to the corridor behind the stage. A few minutes later, there were terrible screams and cries. About an hour later, Mehri was brought back to the hall. She had been terribly beaten. Her whole body was bruised. Her hair was messy and pulled out.”

It is said that Maryam Rajavi had pulled Mehri out of under the Massoud Rajavi’s fist and kick. She had talked to Mehri trying to persuade her to retract her words, at least in front of the audience. Sanjabi recalls, “Having a lump in her throat Mehri finally addressed the audience, ‘I was wrong. I will stay.’ “
After the trial session, Mehri was no more employed in political unit. She was sent to kitchen. “This was a systematic punishment in the MEK,” Sanjabi says.

“Mehri Musavi was ultimately forced to swallow her cyanide capsule in May 2003,” Sanjabi writes. “It was after the invasion of the US forces to Iraq.” The MEK leaders told members that Mehri had killed herself to protest the entrance of the American forced to Camp Ashraf. “She asked for permission and we allowed her to kill herself so we name her a martyr”. This was read by a commander in a meeting for the Elite Council.

Nobody could believe such an argument for the death of a dissident member. Maryam Sanjabi worked in the personnel department of the organization, at the time. Some time later, she came across with a classified document. It was an order issued and signed by Massoud Rajavi. “Regarding the presence of the American forces at Camp Ashraf and regarding Mehri Musavi’s fluency in English and her problematic organizational conditions, Rajavi had stated that her being alive is troubling and she had to be eliminated,” Sanjabi writes. “This was a fact to prove Rajavi’s crimes and treasons against his own members.”

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