{"id":13737,"date":"2021-12-25T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13737"},"modified":"2021-12-25T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T07:57:35","slug":"the-birthday-boy-in-the-mek-mother-blows-out-the-candles-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13737","title":{"rendered":"The birthday boy in the MEK; Mother blows out the candles in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soraya Abdollahi blew out the candles on the birthday cake of her son, Amir Aslan who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq (the MEK\/ the Cult of Rajavi) for 20 years.<br \/>\nAmir Aslan was born on Yalda Night which marks the winter solstice in the Persian calendar. Since 2002, every year at Yalda Night, Soraya blows out the candles and cuts the birthday cake of Amir Aslan in his absence.<br \/>\nAmir Aslan Hassanzadeh was only 19 when he fell in the trap of the MEK recruiters in Turkey. During the 20 years that he has been behind the bars of the Cult of Rajavi, his mother has been endeavoring to find a way to contact Amir Aslan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13740\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13740\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdollahi-Soraya-11.jpg\" alt=\"Soraya Abdollahi\" width=\"600\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdollahi-Soraya-11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdollahi-Soraya-11-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soraya Abdollahi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy dear Amir Aslan! I blew out the candles of your 39th birthday as every year in these past twenty years,\u201d Soraya said addressing her beloved son. \u201cI am still hopeful that you will be with me next year.\u201d<br \/>\nWeeping tears while cutting the cake, Soraya talks to her radicalized son in the MEK\u2019s camp in Albania. \u201cI hope that you will be able to make a decision to find your way to freedom,\u201d she tells Amir Aslan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdollahi_Ashraf_8-1.jpg\" alt=\"Soraya Abdollahi \" width=\"700\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdollahi_Ashraf_8-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdollahi_Ashraf_8-1-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In order to visit her son, Soraya Abdollahi has taken various actions but she has not been successful yet. She traveled to Iraq several times when the MEK was located there. She picketed in front of the gates of MEK\u2019s camps in Iraq but the group authorities never allowed AmirAslan to visit his mother. Soraya also traveled to the UN\u2019s office in Geneva to appeal to the UN special rapporteur on human rights. She has written so many letters to the international community and the Albanian authorities. She is now the head of an association for mothers of MEK hostages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soraya Abdollahi blew out the candles on the birthday cake of her son, Amir Aslan who has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq (the MEK\/ the Cult&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24530,599,52,24475],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-13737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization-members-families","tag-amiraslan-hasanzade","tag-mko-bar-reunion-families","tag-mujahedin-khalq-destructive-cult","tag-soraya-abdollahi","module-news","ctype-story","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737","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=13737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=13737"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=13737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}