{"id":13287,"date":"2021-09-22T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T06:53:36","slug":"the-only-contacts-were-on-behalf-of-the-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13287","title":{"rendered":"The only contacts were on behalf of the MEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MohammadReza PourMehdi is from Tabriz, Eastern Azarbaijan, Iran. He has been taken as a hostage for 30 years by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ Cult of Rajavi).<\/p>\n<p>He was a soldier fighting in Iran-Iraq war when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces. Three years later, he was deceived by MEK recruiters who were active in Iraqi POW camps. (The awful conditions of Iraqi camps led a number of Iranian POWs to fall into the trap made by the MEK for them.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13290\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13290\" class=\"wp-image-13290 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-1.jpg\" alt=\"MohammadReza PourMehdi\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MohammadReza PourMehdi; has been taken hostage by the MEK for30 years<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDuring the years that MohammadReza has been in the MEK, he only has called us twice, in the first years,\u201d his brother, Davood PourMehdi, says. \u201cThe calls were on behalf of the MEK\u201d. (The MEK members have to call their families to ask for fund for the group.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13291\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13291\" class=\"wp-image-13291 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Bro.jpg\" alt=\"MohammadReza PourMehdi brother\" width=\"700\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Bro.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Bro-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Bro-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MohammadReza PourMehdi brother<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PourMehdi family have so far written several letters to the international community including French and Albanian authorities calling for the release of MohammadReza.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13292\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13292\" class=\"wp-image-13292 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Mum-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammadreza PurMahdi sister\" width=\"700\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Mum-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Mum-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Purmahdi-Mohammadreza-Mum-1-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammadreza PurMahdi sister<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They have also sent video messages to speak to their loved one. They talk to him in Turkish, their mother language. In one of the videos, the heartbroken sister of MohammadReza is crying so hard that she cannot speak to the camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MohammadReza PourMehdi is from Tabriz, Eastern Azarbaijan, Iran. He has been taken as a hostage for 30 years by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ Cult of Rajavi). 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