{"id":12808,"date":"2021-06-03T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2021-06-03T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T08:41:07","slug":"maryam-rajavi-struggle-to-hold-on-the-cult-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/12808","title":{"rendered":"Maryam Rajavi struggle to hold on the cult members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MEK is struggling to hold on to its own members, who have begun to defect in Tirana,Albania. Hundreds of members have walked out \u2013 complaining about the organisation\u2019s rigid rules enforcing celibacy, and control over contact with family.<br \/>\nWidely regarded as a cult, the MEK was once designated as a terrorist organization by the US and UK, but its opposition to the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12809 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rajavi-cult-members-1.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam Rajavi and Ashraf 3\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rajavi-cult-members-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rajavi-cult-members-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rajavi-cult-members-1-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rajavi-cult-members-1-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MEK is struggling to hold on to its own members, who have begun to defect in Tirana,Albania. Hundreds of members have walked out \u2013 complaining about the organisation\u2019s rigid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[21405,680,104],"module":[23],"ctype":[22],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maryam-rajavi","tag-ashraf-3-camp-mek-base-in-albania","tag-mko-members-in-albania","tag-rajavis-and-cult-leadership","module-cartoon","ctype-image","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}