{"id":3282,"date":"2010-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2010\/09\/18\/diabolical-sex-abuse-practiced-by-mko-leader-massoud-rajavi\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:34:17","slug":"diabolical-sex-abuse-practiced-by-mko-leader-massoud-rajavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3282","title":{"rendered":"Diabolical Sex Abuse Practiced by MKO Leader, Massoud Rajavi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recently published testimony of Ms. Batoul Soltani<\/a>, a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) revealed new measures of the group\u2019s manipulation and brainwashing. Because of this, and because of previous reported bizarre practices and abuses, the MKO can be accurately labeled by psychologists as a Closed High Demand Group (CHDG) [1]. Formerly, Ms. Soltani had testified against the MKO in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, revealing some of the group\u2019s military operations during the Iran-Iraq War. [2] What she failed to report at that time was the sexual abuse that was imposed on her and many of the other women. Prior to Ms. Batoul Soltani\u2019s escape from the MKO, she was a member of the group\u2019s elite so-called \u201cleadership council<\/a>\u201d and her new testimony is consistent with reports that Massoud and Maryam Rajavi are the self-appointed leaders of the cult, and that they frequently engaged in abusive practices in order to keep control of the members, especially the females. While abuse by the MKO has previously been documented, Soltani\u2019s recent reports of maltreatment, due to shame and sensitivity, had not been made public. Now, Soltani describes Massoud Rajavi as a deceitful leader who practices a bizarre form of ideological polygamy and frequently engages in \u201cobligatory\u201d sexual activity with many of the women in the cult\u2019s leadership council. In one of her many interviews that have been translated into English <\/a>and fully documented into over 100 pages on the Sahar Family Foundation Website [3] Soltani describes a scene she witnessed during her time as a member of the cult\u2019s leadership council\u2014these particular excerpts are obtained directly from the Nejat Society\u2019s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I was shocked to see some high-ranking women of leadership Council took off their clothes and went to Massoud. Massoud was saying”yes take off your clothes of heresy and ignorance and dive in the pool to unite yourself with me in order to be resistant enough in every moment of your struggle.”[\u2026]<\/p>\n

Maryam also said,”Get close to Massoud and unite with him.”I noticed that Maryam and some other high ranking members were monitoring us and trying to convince those of us who hesitated to remove their underwear.[\u2026] Maryam said that we were no more jealous to each other so we could fight together.[\u2026]she tried to persuade us to look at the others having sex with Massoud Rajavi. [4]<\/p>\n

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Peculiar coercive sexual practices and polygamy in cults is not unusual. Cult leaders tend to claim they are more spiritually evolved than the rest of the population and therefore they aggressively press cult members to worship them. For some cult leaders, especially male leaders, requiring female members to have sex with them is basically part of that worship, which in turn is meant to create complete devotion\u2014and often it does. But the repercussions are steep; Soltani outlines that there is a total loss of self. Steven Hassan who authored the bestselling book *Combating Cult Mind Control* writes on his website that”unselfishness, kindness, gentleness and compassion should be a basic living principle, not just an ideal. When individuals claim to be spiritually more developed, and put themselves in the role of guru, swami, master, prophet these virtues must be consistently demonstrated. We must not allow our desire to know the \u2018Absolute Truth\u2019 to blind us from observing obvious discrepancies in our teachers’ behaviors.”[5]<\/p>\n

As a victim, Soltani<\/a> has a unique perspective. She revealed that under this pretext of \u201cunification with the leader,\u201d the women are told to revere him\u2014and that he is the only source of truth in their lives\u2014then they are exploited sexually. Arnold Markowitz who is a cult expert asserts that members or disciples are often vulnerable and sexual abuse in cults by leaders is rampant. According to him,”a group constitutes a destructive cult when it has a self-appointed, charismatic leader who controls the daily lives of members.”[6] For the females of the MKO, Massoud Rajavi is that charismatic leader, and they are actually able to undergo total submission, even sexual submission, because according to Soltani, their daily lives are tightly controlled, both physically and psychologically. In essence Rajavi\u2019s victims are comprehensively brainwashed. Besides Soltani\u2019s testimony, many sources confirm that Massoud Rajavi became the captivating leader of MKO after he launched his ideological revolution in the mid 1980\u2019s. At that time, he forced couples to divorce under the pretense of freeing themselves so that they could focus all their love, energy, and emotions on Rajavi the Ideological Leader. [7]<\/p>\n

Soltani reports that nobody in the isolated, dominated and filtered atmosphere of the group is allowed to or even dares to question or show concern about Rajavi\u2019s illicit behavior\u2014the women are simply too vulnerable, and Rajavi wants to keep them that way.<\/p>\n

The MKO is just one of many cults to use techniques which include the sexual exploitation of women. There are hundreds of documented cults which include polygamy or require deviant sexual acts\u2014all in order to maintain their system of mind control. [8] Many of these cults\u2019 leaders have been convicted. In 2005, William Kamm, was found guilty on five charges in a New South Wales District Court. Kamm was also known to his followers as \u201cLittle Pebble\u201d and he led the Order of St. Charbel, an Australian Christian cult.<\/p>\n

His offences include aggravated indecent assault and aggravated sexual intercourse with a 14 year old girl. His practices are similar to the \u201cmarriages\u201d Rajavi imposed on the women of the MKO\u2019s leadership council. And while Kamm chose twelve queens and seventy-two princess to become his mystical wives, [9] Rajavi used verses from the Quran to make his followers believe that his compulsory marriages were justifiable. Until recently, the MKO however, has not been illustriously known for systematic sexual coercion because media coverage of its military activity and its politically charged thunderous tirade against the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran has overshadowed its rather secretive internal core.<\/p>\n

For now, three thousand people reside behind the fences of the isolated MKO compound\u2014Camp Ashraf\u2014in Iraq, and many of them are women. According to Batoul Soltani, there are some hundreds women with the leadership council rank\u2014many or all of whom in some way or another are being subject to form a diabolical union with the leader, Massoud Rajavi.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

[1] Furnari, Leona LCSW.”Born or Raised in High-Demand Groups:
\nDevelopmental Considerations.”
\nInternational Cultic Studies Association 4.3
\n(2005): Web. 6 Sep 2010. <
\nhttp:\/\/www.icsahome.com\/infoserv_articles\/
\nfurnari_leona_bornraised
\nFurnari states that According to Tobias and Lalich
\n(1994, p.13) the
\nfollowing characteristics are often present in these environments:
\nMembers are expected to be excessively zealous and
\nunquestioning in their commitment to the identity and
\nleadership of the group. Personal beliefs and
\nvalues must be replaced with those of the group.
\nMembers are manipulated and exploited and
\nmay give up their education,careers,
\nand families to work excessively long hours
\nat group-directed tasks such as selling a quota
\nof candy or books, fund-raising, recruiting, and proselytizing.
\nHarm or threat of harm may come to members,
\ntheir families and\/or society due to inadequate medical care,
\npoor nutrition, psychological, physical, or
\nsexual abuse, sleep deprivation, criminal activities, etc.
\nFurthermore, Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich (1995),
\nwho have done vast amounts of work in the cult field,
\nstate that such groups have the following
\ncharacteristics:
\nAuthoritarian power structure
\nTotalitarian control of members\u2019 behavior
\nDouble sets of ethics (one for leader and
\nanother for members; one for
\nthose inside the group, another for outsiders)
\nLeaders that are self-appointed and
\nclaim to have a special mission in life
\nLeaders who tend to be charismatic,
\ndetermined and domineering
\nLeaders who center the veneration
\nof members upon themselves
\nFinally, Robert Jay Lifton (1961),
\na psychiatrist and pioneering researcher
\nin the thought reform, or mind control, field,
\nhas proposed that the following eight
\nfeatures create environments of \u201cideological totalism\u201d:
\n1. Milieu control\u2014the control of communication
\nwithin an environment;this creates unhealthy boundaries
\n2. Mystical manipulation or
\n\u201cplanned spontaneity\u201d\u2014experiences which
\nappear to be spontaneous are actually
\norchestrated in order to demonstrate
\n\u201cdivine authority,\u201d which enables the leader(s)
\nto use any means toward a \u201chigher end\u201d or goal
\n3. The demand for purity\u2014absolute separation
\nof good and evil within self and environment
\n4. The cult of confession\u2014one-on-one
\nor group confession of past and present \u201csins\u201d
\nor behaviors, which are often used to humiliate
\nthe confessor and create dependency upon the leader
\n5. Sacred science\u2014the group’s teaching is
\nportrayed as Ultimate Truth that cannot be questioned.
\n6. Loading of the language\u2014use of terms
\nor jargon that have group-specific meaning,
\nphrases that will keep one in or bring one back into
\nthe cult mindset.
\n7. Doctrine over person\u2014denial of self and self-perception.
\n8. Dispensing of existence\u2014anyone not in the group or
\nnot embracing the \u201ctruth\u201d is insignificant,
\nnot \u201csaved\u201d or \u201cunconscious\u201d; the outside world
\nand members who leave the group are rejected.
\n[2] CORI Research Analysis, United Nations
\nHigh Commissioner for Refugees.
\n“Information on the People’s
\nMujahedin of Iran (PMOI) including on the three
\nmain military operations
\nof National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA), the PMOI
\nmilitary wing, in 1987-1988 during the Iraq-Iran war.\u201d
\nThe military
\noperations are called:”the Sun”,
\n“40 Lanterns\/Stars”and”Eternal Light”.
\nInformation about the military confrontation
\nin 1991 between the Iranian
\nforces and NLA at the Iraq-Iran borders
\nin Khaniqin and Jalawla (Ex-PMOI
\nmembers call it Marwarid (Pearl) operation).
\nQuery ID: HCR00008E (21
\nSeptember 2009): Web. 6 Sep 2010. <
\nhttp:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refworld\/pdfid\/4ac9c2c52.pdf>.
\n[3] Soltani, Batul [or Batoul]
\n.”Interviews of Ms Batul Soltani with Sahar
\nFamily Foundation in Baghdad.”
\nSahar Family Foundation. 1 May 2009. Web. 9 Sep 2010.
\n<http:\/\/www.saharngo.com\/en\/story\/1335>.
\n[4] Nejat Bloggers.
\n“PMOI Leadership Council\u2019s Women SALVATION DANCE.”
\nNejat Society (19 August 2010): Web. 9 Sep 2010. <
\nhttps:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3261>.
\n[5] Hassan, Steven.”Introductions.”
\nSteven Alan Hassan’s Freedom of Mind Center.
\nFreedom of Mind Resource Center, 2010. Web. 9 Sep 2010. <<\/p>\n

Freedom of Mind by Dr. Steven Hassan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n