{"id":6197,"date":"2015-08-25T11:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2015\/08\/25\/open-letter-of-a-group-of-ex-members-of-mek-to-the-us-congress\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:49:37","slug":"open-letter-of-a-group-of-ex-members-of-mek-to-the-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/6197","title":{"rendered":"Open letter of a group of ex-members of MEK to the US Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honorable Members of the US Congress,<img alt=\"\"height=\"170\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Politician\/Iran\/Iran_5-1.jpg\"style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\"width=\"320\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With regards, we are the former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, NCRI), who had been members of this cult for between 10 to 30 years, mostly in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We are most pleased by and very much welcome the nuclear agreement made between Iran and the P5+1 and consider it an important step towards establishing global peace and security in alliance with the people of Iran&rsquo;s best interests.<\/p>\n<p>We also fully support the lifting of the sanctions against Iran since we find it in the best interest of Iran and its people.The people of Iran welcomed the agreement and the world was witness to their celebration and satisfaction in the news broadcasts.The people of Iran have suffered enough damage from the 8 years of war between Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We have all spent a life time trying to bring freedom, justice and welfare for the people of Iran,to restore human rights and civil rights for our homeland and therefore now we have no wish other than what Iran&rsquo;s people desire.<\/p>\n<p>We condemn all the efforts made to reject this agreement in Congress by those who are in favor of launching war against the Iranian nation and against the economic interests of the Iranian people and find it contrary to the efforts made to restore global peace which is in the best interests of all nations including those of the US and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Some fundamentalists and extremists, including the cult leader Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam of the terrorist MEK, see their existence only in war mongering and terrorism. We declare that the people of Iran support this agreement and of course they know best what is to their best interests.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore we, alongside the people of Iran and peace loving organizations and personalities around the world, urge members of the US Congress to support the nuclear agreement with Iran and let all sanctions be lifted and Iran&rsquo;s wealth be released.<\/p>\n<p>We are certain that your approving vote would not only improve the living standards in Iran but would pave the way for reformists and civil rights activists to struggle for political freedom and human rights in Iran both inside and outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>A group of former members of the MEK:<\/p>\n<p>1.Milad Ariaie<\/p>\n<p>2.Issa Azadeh<\/p>\n<p>3.Abdolkarim Ebrahimi<\/p>\n<p>4.Nasrin Ebrahimi<\/p>\n<p>5.Adel Azami<\/p>\n<p>6.Ehssan Bidi<\/p>\n<p>7.Hamid Reza Bikas<\/p>\n<p>8.Shahrooz Tajbakhsh<\/p>\n<p>9.Edvard Tornado<\/p>\n<p>10.Shirzad Jalili<\/p>\n<p>11.Ali Jahani<\/p>\n<p>12.Parvin Haji<\/p>\n<p>13.Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad<\/p>\n<p>14.Karim Haqqi<\/p>\n<p>15.Mahboobe Hamze (Mohammadi)<\/p>\n<p>16.Yoosef Hamidi<\/p>\n<p>17.Anne khodabandeh<\/p>\n<p>18.Ebrahim khodabandeh<\/p>\n<p>19.Massoud khodabandeh<\/p>\n<p>20.Habib Khorrami<\/p>\n<p>21.Hassan Khalaj<\/p>\n<p>22.Mehdi Khoshhal<\/p>\n<p>23.<\/p>\n<p>24.Ali Akbar Rastgoo<\/p>\n<p>25.Mohammad Razzaqi<\/p>\n<p>26.Siavosh Rastar<\/p>\n<p>27.Mojtaba Rashidi<\/p>\n<p>28.Sadeq Rezaei<\/p>\n<p>29.Majid Roohi<\/p>\n<p>30.Hamid Reza Zaree Sistani<\/p>\n<p>31.Ali Reza Zahedi<\/p>\n<p>32.Mehrdad Sagharchi<\/p>\n<p>33.Mohammad Hossein Sobhani<\/p>\n<p>34.Mahmood Sepahi<\/p>\n<p>35.Mehdi Sojoodi<\/p>\n<p>36.Niloofar Sarfaraz<\/p>\n<p>37.Batool Soltani<\/p>\n<p>38.Hamid Reza Soleimani<\/p>\n<p>39.Rabeah Shahrokhi<\/p>\n<p>40.Ahmad Reza Shafiei<\/p>\n<p>41.Mir Baqer Sedaqi<\/p>\n<p>42.Hamed Sarrafpoor<\/p>\n<p>43.Mohammad Iraqi<\/p>\n<p>44.Hassan Azizi<\/p>\n<p>45.Karim Gholami<\/p>\n<p>46.Ghafoor Fattaheian<\/p>\n<p>47.Ali Ghashgavi<\/p>\n<p>48.Mohammad Karami<\/p>\n<p>49.Homayoon Kehzadi<\/p>\n<p>50.Homeira Mohammad Nejad<\/p>\n<p>51.Ahmad Mohammadi<\/p>\n<p>52.Hooreiyah Mohammadi<\/p>\n<p>53.Mohammad Mohammadi<\/p>\n<p>54.Mortaza Mohammadi<\/p>\n<p>55.Mostafa Mohammadi<\/p>\n<p>56.Zahra Moeini<\/p>\n<p>57.Zahra Mirbaqeri<\/p>\n<p>58.Seid Amir Movassaqi<\/p>\n<p>59.Nader Naderi<\/p>\n<p>60.Mohammad Reza Najjareian<\/p>\n<p>61.Ali Reza Nasrollahi<\/p>\n<p>62.Manssoor Nazari<\/p>\n<p>63.Mehdi Nikbakht<\/p>\n<p>64.Ahmad Hajari<\/p>\n<p>Copy to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Office of the President of the United States<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; U.S. Department of State<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Published by Peyvande Rahaee, Paris,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fundamentalists and extremists, including the cult leader Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam of the terrorist MEK\/MKO\/PMOI, see their existence only in war mongering and terrorism. We declare that the people of Iran support this agreement and of course they know best what is to their best interests. 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