As the outgoing and the incoming CEOs you will both be sensitive to the enduring reputation of your valuable charity Womankind Worldwide. We hope therefore that you are aware by now that you have become the latest target for another of the Mojahedin Khalq\u2019s deceptive propaganda campaigns.<\/p>\n
This summer, your charity floated an engaging invitation on its Facebook page for women to nominate their \u2018women\u2019s rights idol\u2019. Sadly, perhaps inevitably, Womankind was then inundated with nominations and praise for Maryam Rajavi. The effect has been to hijack the page and spoil its intent.<\/p>\n
The Mojahedin are not doing this to promote women\u2019s rights and cannot point to a single real-life example of what Maryam Rajavi is supposed to have done to help women. Instead they are trying to whitewash their savage past and evade the court cases and allegations of gross human rights abuses inside the organisation.<\/p>\n
We are all witnesses to the cruelties Maryam Rajavi has inflicted on the female members of the cult she created with her fugitive husband Massoud Rajavi. Maryam Rajavi is indisputably responsible for the deaths and mistreatment of tens of women members. And this is an ongoing problem. Only this month Maryam Rajavi\u2019s response to a young Iranian Canadian woman who visited her headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, searching for her sister, was to send a gang of thugs into the street to beat her up. This is not the action of a defender of women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n
Have no doubt, Maryam Rajavi\u2019s notoriety is known worldwide \u2013 from the US State Department and Human Rights Watch to the Human Rights Ministry of Iraq. And closer to home, the Foreign and Commonwealth office and the Home Office in the UK.<\/p>\n
Although we are confident that you have no intention of allowing the reputation of Womankind Worldwide to be tarnished by association with this cult and its leaders, we thought a friendly heads-up to be appropriate at this stage. All of us are happy to provide more information on this issue. The following links are a good starting point.<\/p>\n
Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n
Batoul Soltani \u2013 Germany<\/p>\n
Open letter of Iranian Women\u2019s Association to Mr. Otto Bernhardet: Do you know who Maryam Rajavi is?<\/a><\/p>\n Homeyra Mohammad Nejad \u2013 Germany<\/p>\n Open letter to Mrs. Jane Holl Lute<\/a><\/p>\n Nasrin Ebrahimi \u2013 Switzerland<\/p>\n Beware of Maryam Rajavi\u2019s deception (open letter to R\u00e9gine Deforge)<\/a><\/p>\n Zahra Mirbagheri \u2013 Iran<\/p>\n 78 signatories: Mojahedin Khalq terror group are threatening to kill us in your country (Open letter to Fran\u00e7ois Hollande)<\/a><\/p>\n Zahra Moini \u2013 Germany<\/p>\n President Hollande should curtail violent activities of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) in France<\/a><\/p>\n Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) \u2013 U.K.<\/p>\n