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Clandestine protests in the MEK camps

Underground protests have ‎dramatically increased among members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, now based in the group’s headquarters in the region of Durres in Albania.
As long as the history of the Mujahedin Khalq as a cult of personality under the rule of Massoud Rajavi, clandestine dissent has been on going among the rank and file. According to former members of the Cult of Rajavi, disagreements and demands for defection from the cult-like system of the group, has enhanced since the group’s relocation in Albania.

Based on the news from the insiders, protesters who are afraid of voicing their dissent, write slogans against the group’s leaders on the walls of bathrooms where they are not under the supervision of commanders. This has happened on different occasions which indicates the rise in the number of dissident members who want to leave the group but they are intimidated by verbal and physical abuse on daily cult jargons.

A member of Mujahedin-e Khalgh walks in a street at the Ashraf-3 camp. Photo:Gent shkullaku/AFP

Although most members of MEK refuse to express their opinions openly because of fears of torture and abuse committed by the group commanders, the increase in the number of defections from the group since its arrival in Albania has been indicative of an increase of dissatisfaction.
According to unofficial data, since the resettlement of MEK in Albania, more than 400 people have left this group, regardless of those suspicious cases who have been killed mysteriously inside Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Durres, Albania.
The rise of protests in the Cult of Rajavi has plunged the leaders of the group into alternative ways to prevent the spread of protests among the rank and file, in addition to conventional methods of the organization, including solitary confinement and peer pressure. In this regard, all members of the group have been ordered to sign an engagement letter to stay in the group until the overthrow of the Iranian government –which according to the leaders of the group has been always close during the past forty years.

June 10, 2021 0 comment

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Former spouse of the MEK current leader

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Mehdi Abrishamchi is a member of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) who has been described as “the right hand man of Massoud Rajavi”, the group’s leader. He is the former spouse of the group’s current leader, Maryam Rajavi, whom he divorced so that she could become the spouse of Massoud Rajavi. In 1985, due to the ‘ideological revolution’ within the MEK, he divorced his wife Maryam Qajar who married Massoud Rajavi.

Mehdi Abrishamchi

Shortly after, he married to Mousa Khiabani’s younger sister Azar.

Abrishamchi and his wives

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Who was Ashraf Rabiei?

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Ashraf Rabiei is an iconic figure in the history of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). She was Massoud Rajavi’s first wife whose name later became the symbolic name of the MKO’s main headquarters in Iraq, “Camp Ashraf”. The group’s propaganda still uses the term “Ashrafneshan” to glorify its members as “unique fighters”.

Born in 1952 in a politically active family, Ashraf Rabiei was grown up in Tehran. Her brother was a member of the leading council of the early Mujahedin Khalq establishment.

Ashraf was a university student when she joined the MKO in 1972. She was arrested several times by the Shah’s Intelligence Agency (SAVAK) during her organizational activities before the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

She married Akbar Nabavi a religious high-ranking member of the group in the early years of her membership in the MKO. Nabavi killed himself with cyanide capsule in a clash with shah’s security forces in 1976. Meanwhile Ashraf was injured in the explosion of a hand-made bomb that she was making in their safe house; she was then arrested for the third time.

Meeting Massoud Rajavi in Evin

A mysterious visit with Massoud Rajavi in Evin prison turned Ashraf into an ardent promoter of Massoud. Since the alleged visit, Ashraf began promoting Rajavi’s rhetoric as the only leader of the MKO. They got married in 1980.

After the Iranian revolution, Ashraf Rabiei together with some other female members of the group including Maryam Qajar Azdanlou (Maryam Rajavi –the current leader of the group) actively worked for recruiting female students.

In 1980, Ashraf Rabeie was in the list of candidates of the MKO for the Iranian Parliament elections but she was not elected by people as well as other candidates of the group.

By the beginning of the MKO’s armed struggle against the Islamic Republic in June 1980, the clashes between the Iranian newly established government and the MKO fighters broke out. Two months later, Massoud Rajavi fled Iran for France and left Ashraf and their one-year-old son Mostafa in Iran.

After the departure of Rajavi, Mousa Khiabani became the commander of the MKO in Iran in violent operations. He and Ashraf were in the same team house when the Iranian security forces attacked the house on February 8th, 1982. Ashraf and Mousa and eighteen other MKO members were killed in the clash.

Her son, Mostafa survived the battle and was then yielded to to his grandparents by the security guards. Mostafa is reportedly living in Albania now.

Ashraf Rabiei ; Massoud Rajavi's first wife

February 5, 2018 0 comment

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Siamak Naderi; defector or MKO agent

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A man called Siamak Naderi left the MEK in Tirana and quickly moved to Germany where, for the past few weeks, he had been given coverage in paid TV and other media outlets in which he established himself as an ex-member.

Even when he came out of the MEK some ex-members in Albania were suspicious – he had too much money and too much backing.

Now he’s turned around to repeat the things Rajavi says but this time in the guise of an ex-member. Last week he published a list of four hundred names in his new top-notch website claiming they are the names of people who have been tortured by Rajavi in Camp Ashraf.

When examined more closely it is clear this has been done to muddy the waters. Iran Interlink has been contacted by over 30 people saying their name is on this list, but they have not been tortured by the MEK. Looking at the names it is clear that Naderi has listed those who talk against the MEK as torturers, while others, who don’t speak out, are listed as victims.

A lot of FB posts and articles have been published exposing the lie behind Naderi’s claim. One, for example, showed that he was in prison in Iran at the time he was accused of torturing others in Camp Ashraf. Everyone says Rajavi will get nowhere by doing this since nobody believes these lies anymore. A couple of people wrote about Naderi, saying they had seen him in the MEK prison working for the MEK himself.

His picture – apparently while he was not out of the MEK – lying on beach sunbathing was published. He was clearly granted a particular lifestyle by Rajavi in exchange for working for them.

February 5, 2018 0 comment

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750 Mojahedin Khalq members ask to return to Iran

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Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaifar says nearly 750 members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) have expressed readiness to return to Iran.

A file photo shows a member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO)
holding his weapon as he stands guard near the terrorist group’s
base in Camp Ashraf in northern Iraq.

Danaifar had earlier announced that Iran had pardoned all the residents of the Camp Ashraf except for less than 100 individuals who have criminal records.

The Iranian ambassador said on Sunday that Iran would not grant amnesty to the ringleaders of the terrorist group, adding that “those whose hands are not stained with the blood of Iranian citizens will be pardoned.”

Danaifar noted that during UN envoy’s visit to Camp Ashraf, the majority of the group expressed willingness to return to Iran in Iraq; however, the MKO leaders do not allow them to leave the camp and they have “somehow taken those members as hostages.”

The MKO, which has carried out numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials, fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up the camp in Diyala Province, near the Iranian border.

The terrorist group is also known to have collaborated with Saddam in the bloody repression of the 1991 Shia Muslims in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

Iran has repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to expel the group, but the US has blocked the expulsion by mounting pressure on the Iraqi government.

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Iraq releases detained MKO members

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The MKO members were arrested during the July 28-29 operation at Camp Ashraf.

The Iraqi government has released 36 members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) detained in a July raid on the notorious Camp Ashraf in Diyala province.

Shahriar Kia, a spokesman for the exiled terrorist group, said the inmates were released on Wednesday ‘after more than two months of hunger strike’, and were immediately taken to Ashraf medical center for treatment.

He said the detainees had recently refused to take water, too, and were in critical condition. The claim could not be independently verified.

The prisoners were arrested by Iraqi police on rioting charges after they clashed with security forces during the July 28-29 operation at Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, and were held in custody on grounds of illegal entry into the Iraqi soil.

In September, US Ambassador Christopher Hill vowed to press the Baghdad government not to repatriate Camp Ashraf residents to Iran.

MKO members, together with their families, have lived in Ashraf since former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the armed rebels to erect bases on the Iraqi territory during the 1980-88 war with Iran.

Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, the camp was protected by the US military until its 3,500 residents were shifted to Iraqi jurisdiction last January under a bilateral security pact.

The MKO, listed as a terror group by both Tehran and Washington, assassinated several leading Iranian figures after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

It also engaged in bombings and brutal mass killing of civilians, and served as a military arm for the Baath regime in Baghdad during the Iraqi-Iranian war.

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Iraqi official: 36 Mojahedin members released but their deportation order stands

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Iraqi PM: Number of security forces strains budget, hinders reconstruction

BAGHDAD – The number of Iraqi soldiers and police has strained the government’s budget, hindering reconstruction projects, Iraq’s prime minister said Wednesday. Iraqi official: 36 Mojahedin members released from prison but their deportation order stands

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said more of next year’s budget should go to reconstruction rather than security, setting the stage for possible layoffs at a time when questions have been raised about the ability of its existing force to keep a lid on the violence.

The comments came the same day that a group of 36 Iranian opposition members were returned to an exile camp in northern Iraq after nearly three months in Iraqi custody and despite an ongoing effort to expel them, a government spokesman said.

About three-quarters of Iraq’s budget was used to pay salaries and operations of Iraq’s more than 640,000 security personnel, al-Maliki said.

"This is a dangerous phenomena for the Iraqi economy," he told a group of businessmen gathered in Baghdad. "Instead of allocating 74 percent of this year’s budget to pay salaries, we think that a big part of our budget should go to construction."

The comments came a week after Iraq’s deputy finance minister said that although the proposed $70 billion budget for 2010 is almost 20 percent higher than the one this year, it still falls short of the country’s funding needs.

It is unclear when parliament will vote on the budget.

The 36 Iranian opposition members were returned to Camp Ashraf, where nearly 3,500 members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran have been confined since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, while the Iraqi government works to find a country other than Iran that will take them, said spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.

"We demand the international community help provide a place for them because they are unwanted persons," al-Dabbagh said. "We are looking for a country that is willing to accept them."

The 36 were detained in July following a deadly melee between the exiles and Iraqi security forces at the camp, an incident that caused an international outcry from human rights groups and raised questions about the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government’s ties to Iran.

The men were detained during two days of confrontations at the camp that left at least 11 people dead — shot, beaten or run over by military vehicles, officials have said.
The opposition group claimed the 36 were on a hunger strike during their detention and were in a weakened state when they arrived back at Camp Ashraf.

The Iraqi government has said it was trying to establish a police station at Camp Ashraf and blamed the violence on the resistance by Iranian exiles.
Iraqi judicial authorities did not pursue charges against the men after their detention and ordered them freed.

The group, known as MEK, operated for years in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. The U.S. military turned over responsibility for Camp Ashraf to the Iraqis on Jan. 1.
The U.S. considers MEK a terrorist organization, though one that has provided the Americans with intelligence on Iran. The European Union removed it from its terror list this year.

SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press Writer Qassim Abdul-Zahra contributed to this report.

October 8, 2009 0 comment

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36 MKO members now face new charges in Iraq

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[Iran-Interlink editor – The 36 Iranian nationals from the Mojahedin-e Khalq were originally arrested and charged with inciting and/or committing acts of violence against the police under Section 431 of Iraqi law in July 2009. Since their arrest further charges have been brought by the Government of Iraq (GOI) and passed to the Judiciary. The charges include:

illegal entry into Iraq and interference in national security – charges which carry severe penalties. The GOI is working with the Judiciary to bring these individuals to trial in a court with the participation of interested international parties. The 36 have been moved to a secure location to await trial.]

Police carrying detainees Camp Ashraf to Baghdad

Police carrying detainees Camp Ashraf to Baghdad

Diyala / Aswat al-Iraq: A security source in the Diyala police force said that the police leader quoted on Thursday and official media reported that the Camp Ashraf detainees in custody in the capital, Baghdad, had been transferred to an unknown location.

A source told (Voices of Iraq) that "the Iraqi forces, a joint police and army force today (Thursday) transferred the 36 detainees from the Ashraf residents from the prison of Khalis (15 km) north of Baquba to Baghdad."

The source pointed out that "the transfer of detainees was based on instructions from higher circles", without giving further details.

The official spokesman for the Mojahedin Organization of Iran, Mehdi Oghbaii, told (Voices of Iraq) that "Iraqi forces today (Thursday) transferred the 36 detainees from the members in Ashraf from police custody in the district of Khalis, to an unknown location."

It will be recalled that an investigating judge issued an exclusive, three days before a decision to release 36 imprisoned members of the [MKO] after being arrested since the end of July 2009 against the backdrop of clashes that occurred between police and members of the organization, which killed two and wounded 60 policemen, while 11 were killed and 400 other members of the MKO wounded.

Camp Ashraf [now renamed Camp New Iraq] is located near Khalis (15 km) north of Baquba in Diyala province, which lies 57 km northeast of the capital Baghdad.

October 3, 2009 0 comment

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MKO Operatives Secretly Transferred To Europe

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The Iranian website Tabnak reports that 64 operatives from the Iranian opposition Mojahedeen-e Khalq organization have been secretly transferred from Iraq to a European country, on Jordanian aircraft, without the Iraqi government’s knowledge.

March 18, 2009 0 comment

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MRS.MAHVASH SEPEHRI THE PRESTIGE DEMOLISHER

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I would like to introduce MRS. MAHVASH SEPEHRI( NASRIN), who is the second woman in women commanding section after MARYAM RAJAVI and known as prestige demolisher. Actually she is
MARYAM RAJAVI’s replacement and her deputy. she is too devoted to the leaders of this cult, and she was true and genuine subordinate of MASSOUD and MARYAM RAJAVI. She was in charge of PMOI’s governing council and deputy of the commander in chief of NLA , MASSOUD RAJAVI .She had been in charge of all urbane gureilla warfare which happened in IRAN by PMOI’s gureillas since 1995.she formulated the notorious sessions known as amaliyate jari(the current operation) and ghosleh hafteghi(weekly purification), which were created to suppress and detect the people’s minds and thoughts. she is very famous of propagation bad language , insult, swear and curse among PMOI’s people especially in those notorious sessions mentioned above . she was very good at demolishing member’s prestige and personality . she was helping Maryam Rajavi in theorizing the ideological revolution to make it easier for brainwashing the members of this cult. she was in charge of sending too many operational teams to Iran , and the majority of those teams were destroyed or captured and arrested by Iranian police and security forces .she was totally against sending the PMOI’s dissidents who did not want to continue co-operating with PMOI, to foreign countries ,and she was backing her boss’s idea up regarding to handing over the dissidents to saddam Hussein’s agents in abughorib prison to be utilized for exchanging with Iraqi soldiers who were captured by Iranian army during Iran- Iraq war.MRS. MAHVASH SEPEHRI was in charge of the horrifying gathering and sessions called and known as (DIG) which in English version means pot and boiler. In those sessions all the members had to participate and it was totally compulsory and forcibly. those sessions were established to suppress and destroy any dissent in member’s mind and it was accompanied by brutal and savage treatment such as beating ,spitting at, swearing and insulting by the operatives and high ranking officers of this cult. those sessions were usually lasting up to 15 hours. During those 15 hours the dissidents were under horrendous pressures from the participants in that session, and MRS. mahvash sepehri was provoking the participants to attack the dissidents either verbally or physically. In those sessions MRS. Mahvash Sepehri was imposing people to use vulgar language and swear against the dissidents to destroy their resistance , and force them to accept and obey the harsh and inhuman cultish rules. she disappeared after the invasion of Iraq by USA, and she is probably hiding somewhere . why is she hiding ?why dose not she want to appear in public? I have the answer. she is afraid of being questioned by authorities about killing of all those innocent people in Iraq in co operation with Saddam Hussein and his government. she is afraid of all those suppressions and repressions that she has done against the dissidents in side of PMOI. yes she has done lots of crimes for that reason she is hiding. she is a criminal

Hassan Piransar a victim of this cult, Iran Peyvand

February 11, 2009 0 comment

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