{"id":505,"date":"2006-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2006\/01\/16\/singleton-talks-to-frankfurter-rundschau\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T23:55:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:25:56","slug":"singleton-talks-to-frankfurter-rundschau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/505","title":{"rendered":"Singleton Talks to Frankfurter Rundschau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Singleton, who had worked for 20 years with the terrorist organization of MKO, talked to Frankfurter Rundschau, revealing some facts from this terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Mojahedin spent the money we had collected with difficulties for buying houses, or gave that money to other people as loan.<\/p>\n<p>Mojahedin does everything from human trafficking to money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>My husband, who was for years the bodyguard of Rajavi, has talked to me of physical torture and rape in the MKO.<\/p>\n<p>I was not recruited by this organization by chance, since such terrorist groups are fully aware of recruiting methods.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a university student in Leeds, I was very passionate about human rights, justice and <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>at that time I met this group.<\/p>\n<p>My friend at that time was Iranian who took me to the meetings of this organization.<\/p>\n<p>I was neither a religious person, nor a Muslim. MKO recruited me by deception. I took part in the demonstrations of the group, distributing their handbills; I also helped them in getting financial aid for them.<\/p>\n<p>I gave them my money, sold my car, and even gave up my job to be able to serve for the organization in its headquarters in London.<\/p>\n<p>To make their members dependent, Mojahedin use different tricks such as isolation from society, diets, and sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n<p>I slept less than 5 hours and I was always transferred from one point to another so that I could never understand the leadership&#8217;s intentions.<\/p>\n<p>After ten years in the organization, I was sent to Iraq, in order to participate in a training camp. At that time, Saddam used this group against Iran. I passed all military courses there.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question whether she would have used violence under the name of organization, Singleton answered:<\/p>\n<p>Today, I find it frightening, because I cannot say no to this question since they had treated me in a way that I was ready to do everything.<\/p>\n<p>On what led her to decide to leave the MKO, she said:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was in a situation which forced me to think and this thinking made big changes in me so that I decided to leave this terrorist organization.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mojahedin spent the money we had collected with difficulties for buying houses, or gave that money to other people as loan.<br \/>\nMojahedin does everything from human trafficking to money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>My husband, who was for years the bodyguard of Rajavi, has talked to me of physical torture and rape in the MKO.<\/p>\n<p>I was not recruited by this organization by chance, since such terrorist groups are fully aware of recruiting methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[159,24406],"tags":[24427,14,85],"module":[128],"ctype":[17],"blog":[117],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ann-singleton","category-mek-ex-members","tag-ann-singleton","tag-defectors-of-mujahedin-khalq","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","module-dialogue","ctype-story","blog-iran-interlink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}