Open letter by former MEK member, Reza Sadeghi Jaballi to Albanian President Ilir Meta
\nMy name is Reza Sadeghi Jaballi. I am a former member of the MEK and a human rights activist living in Brussels. On June 1981, I was shot and later arrested by the Iranian security services and spent five years in prison in Iran including of two years in solitary confinement. Once freed, I left Iran and worked in the MEK\u2019s financial section in Canada and the United States. I also spent many years in the MEK\u2019s military garrison Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
\nRecently you visited the MEK Camp in Tirana. As a former member, I would like to bring to your attention that the latest EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs, held in Tirana in October 2018, recognized that terrorism and radicalization remain a common challenge for the European Union and the Western Balkan region.
\nThe ministers representing the European Union, signed the Joint Action Plan on Counter Terrorism for the Western Balkans. It calls on Western Balkan partners and the European Union to take ambitious action in order to reach their counter-terrorism objectives. Ministers discussed their common challenges in responding to the security threat posed by violent extremism and agreed to work together to address its root causes and to build resilient and cohesive societies.
\nConsidering the MEK\u2019s past forty years record of assassinations and terrorist activities in Iran, Iraq and Europe, as a former member I must emphasize that the MEK presence in Tirana is and will be one of the greatest threats to your country as well as the European Union and also one of the main obstacles for Albania\u2019s accession to the European Union.
\nDear Mr President,
\nYou have just met with Maryam Rajavi who is considered by Iranians to be one of the worst and most violent mafia-like terrorist cult leaders in Iran\u2019s recent history.
\nSeveral incidents between members of the MEK and local communities in Albania reveal the pernicious danger of their secret activities.
\nChannel 4, a highly reputable British television news channel, recently travelled to Albania to find out about the daily life of the MEK members. The film crew was greeted by hostile private security forces outside the fortified camp at Man\u00ebz. Camp members physically attacked the Channel 4 camera crew (Shqiptarja.com, August 19). It was an unprecedented event that raised many questions about the activities at and inside the camp (Lapsi.al, August 19).
\nThe event was widely reported by local media, which was also able to obtain a threat assessment on the group by Albania\u2019s Intelligence Agency.
\nA prominent Iraqi politician described the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, also known as MKO, NCRI or PMOI) as a big cancerous tumor that Iraq had been afflicted with.
\nOlsi Jazexhi, an Albanian writer says \u201cWe are supposed to be living in a free and democratic country. But the MEK have built a state within a state that implements its own laws\u201d.
\nOlsi Jazexhi : MEK Helping Albania Slide Toward AuthoritarianismOlsi Jazexhi : MEK Helping Albania Slide Toward Authoritarianism
\nMEP Ana Gomes speaking during the debate on Iran\u2019s nuclear deal indicated \u201cwe must not turn a blind eye to the provocative activities of sects such as the MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq), which act within this Parliament, and which last week even physically assaulted an opponent just outside the Parliament. This criminal act happened when the MEK leader Maryam Rajavi was in the Parliament. I demand from President Tajani the expulsion of MEK agents who work on EP premises. This is also a security matter for all of us\u201d.
\nMartin Kobler, as head of UNAMI, tried to work out a solution in Iraq, but was \u201cmiserably\u201d attacked by the MEK. He indicated \u201che could not get access to the members to find out what they wanted as individuals. The MEK would not allow the normal interviews that the UNHCR conduct\u201d.
\nMEK behavior in Albania is like a mafia \u2013 breaking laws, blackmailing, paying people off, beating people, threatening defectors, accusing anyone who questions them of being an Iranian agent, controlling their members in the camp through Stalinist totalitarian methodology and not allowing members to call or visit their families.
\nIn 2003, French anti-terrorism officers raided a dozen locations northwest of Paris in Auvers-sur-Oise, the MEK headquarters, at a time the MEK was classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Iran (1997-2012), and initially detained 165 people including the MEK leader Maryam Rajavi who immediately ordered a few members to burn themselves in protest in the streets of Europe. The attempts at self-immolation to protest against the arrest of Rajavi are proof of a fanaticism and terrorist group that does not respect our laws and our values.
\nFarid_Totounchi_Mahoutchi_MEK_Iraq_AlbaniaFarid Totounchi (Real name: Mahoutchi) Commander of Saddam\u2019s Private army forcing Somayeh Mohammadi to do a \u201cForced confession\u201d session in Terror camp in Albania
\nDear President Meta,
\nThe MEK was listed as a terrorist organization for a reason. It has carried out decades of brutal terrorist attacks, assassinations, and espionage against Iran\u2019s government and its people (according to Rajavi\u2019s own statement, the MEK killed more than 12000 people from 1981 to 1983), as well as targeting Americans including the attempted kidnapping of US Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, the attempted assassination of USAF Brigadier General Harold Price, the successful assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Lee Hawkins, the double assassinations of Colonel Paul Shaffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Turner, and the successful ambush and killing of American Rockwell International employees William Cottrell, Donald Smith, and Robert Krongard.
\nAccording to Ms Ebi Spahiu, the MEK presence in Albania \u2013 which continues to struggle with endemic corruption and organized crime and the emergence of religious radicalization as a regional security threat and potential sectarian rifts \u2013 may add to the list of challenges facing Albania\u2019s political landscape.
\nIn 2013 Maryam Rajavi said, we are going to Albania because it is a corrupt country and we will own this country in a short period of time, we have money and instead of paying few hundred thousand dollars to buy a western politician, there we can buy their president with one thousand dollars.
\nThis is the true face of Maryam Rajavi.
\nRespectfully,
\nReza Jaballi \u2013 Brussels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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