{"id":5698,"date":"2014-05-12T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2014\/05\/12\/nejat-society-holds-meeting-in-semnan\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:46:44","slug":"nejat-society-holds-meeting-in-semnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/5698","title":{"rendered":"Nejat Society holds meeting in Semnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Former members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization attended press conference in Semnan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The meeting titled &ldquo;Metamorphosis of the MKO&rdquo; organized by Nejat Society on Saturday May3rd, 2014. The four former members of the MKO who addressed the audience described the current condition of the group in Iraq.<img alt=\"\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Meetings\/Se_201405\/Degardesi_Semnan_3.jpg\"style=\"width: 300px; height: 232px; margin: 10px; float: right;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ronak Dashti, Ibrahim Khodabandeh, Ali Ekrami and Iraj salehi spoke of the support of US and Israel for the MKO terrorist cult.<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahim Khodabandeh, former official of the MKO&rsquo;s international relations and former member of the so-called National Council of Resistance ,declared that over 500 MKO members have returned to Iran,&rdquo; Today 3000 people are residing in Camp Liberty,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ebrahim Khodabandeh who was a member of the group for 23 years said:&rdquo;Nejat Society&rsquo;s objective is to get humanitarian aid to rescue the 3000 individuals who are taken as hostages by MKO.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Considering that the MKO is not a political , social or security issue right now but it is a humanitarian issue, we should do our best to help them release and to relieve their families,&rdquo; said Mr. Khodabandeh.<\/p>\n<p>He added:&rdquo;The main victims of the cult are always their members.&rdquo;<img alt=\"\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Meetings\/Se_201405\/Degardesi_Semnan_2.jpg\"style=\"width: 300px; height: 199px; margin: 10px; float: right;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Regarding Israel and the American warmongers as the only supporters of the MKO, Khodabandeh revealed that the group&rsquo;s financial resources actually come from Israel, Saudi Arabia and its fraudulent charity works.<\/p>\n<p>Iraj Salehi, former member of the MKO&rsquo;s Central Council stated that Camp Ashraf has been shut down and the MKO members are residing in a 25000 square meter area. A few dozen of Liberty residents have been relocated in European countries including Germany and Albania where a number of these asylum seekers defected the group.<\/p>\n<p>Ronak Dashti, another former member addressed the conference:&rdquo;The situation of female members of the group is much worse than male members.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While I was never affiliated with the group, I was kidnapped by its recruiters,&rdquo; she said. She described how she was deceived to join the group, &ldquo;I had gone to Turkey to continue my studies but my uncle who was the group&rsquo;s member took me to Iraq where I was imprisoned in the cult structure for several years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ali Einakian, former member of the group Foreign Relations and its central Council told reporters,&rdquo; The US and Zionists view the MKO worse and more despised than monarchists but their interests and policies make them support the group.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Noting the alleged list of global terrorists that the US provides every year, Einakian said,&rdquo; This list is the list of terrorists but it is the list that clarifies the US&rsquo;s enemies and friends. Those who kill people in Syria are not in the list but a half of Lebanon&rsquo;s parliament members or Palestine statesmen are in the list. Those who slaughter people are not in the list because they want to be independent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The MKO former members representing Nejat Society organize series of meeting title &ldquo;Metamorphosis &ldquo;of the MKO to enlighten the Iranian youth and students in Semnan province. The first meeting was held in shahroud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebrahim Khodabandeh who was a member of the group for 23 years said:\u201dNejat Society\u2019s objective is to get humanitarian aid to rescue the 3000 individuals who are taken as hostages by MKO.\u201d\u201cConsidering that the MKO is not a political , social or security issue right now but it is a humanitarian issue, we should do our best to help them&#8230;..<\/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":[1],"tags":[14,112,581,132],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nejat-missions","tag-defectors-of-mujahedin-khalq","tag-hot-topics","tag-nejat-activities","tag-nejat-news","module-news","ctype-story","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","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=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/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=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}