{"id":13977,"date":"2022-04-18T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2022-05-29T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T05:42:24","slug":"victim-of-the-cult-of-rajavi-i-was-brainwashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13977","title":{"rendered":"Victim of the Cult of Rajavi: I was brainwashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a passionate teenager, Ali Biglari fled home to go to the front of Iran-Iraq war. He dreamed of defending his homeland against the aggressive enemy. However, he soon was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces.<br \/>\nThe recruiters of the Mujahedin Khalq\u00a0 succeeded to convince him to join their group after three years of imprisonment in Rumadi Camp, Iraq.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13978\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13978\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Ali-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Biglari\" width=\"700\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Ali-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Ali-1-600x385.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Ali-1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Biglari<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once he entered the MEK\u2019s headquarters in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, he found out that he had stepped in the wrong path but the brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi continued to keep him for many years.<br \/>\nAli Biglari could finally manage to return home in 2003, after 14 years of imprisonment and mental and physical torture in the MEK\u2019s cult-like structure. \u201cThe bitterness of freedom\u201d is a recently-published book based on Ali\u2019s life experience as a victim of the Cult of Rajavi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13979\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13979\" class=\"wp-image-13979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Book.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Biglari \" width=\"700\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Book.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Book-600x407.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Book-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biglari-Book-220x150.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javad Kamvar; Writer of the book: bitterness of freedom, and Ali Biglari<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe title of the book implies that the central character of the book was freed from Iraqi prison but immediately after he was imprisoned in the MEK\u2019s prison,\u201d Javad Kamvar, the author of the book says. \u201cHe regretted but there was no way back. He could not accept the ideology of the MEK so he was under too much organizational pressure that led him to commit suicide. He survived but the MEK leaders handed him to Iraqi notorious prison, Abu Ghuraib.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ali Biglari never became an official member of the MEK\u2019s army but he was coerced to stay in the group. \u201cI had no idea that Camp Ashraf was a camp surrounded with barbed wires,\u201d he says. \u201cI thought it was a city in which I would have a normal life but as I arrived in Ashraf, the exit was shut for me for 14 years. I was brainwashed there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a passionate teenager, Ali Biglari fled home to go to the front of Iran-Iraq war. He dreamed of defending his homeland against the aggressive enemy. 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