{"id":6465,"date":"2016-04-04T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2016\/04\/04\/pictorial-mr-varshi-managed-to-run-away-the-cult-after-27-years\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:35:03","slug":"pictorial-mr-varshi-managed-to-run-away-the-cult-after-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/6465","title":{"rendered":"Pictorial &#8211; Mr. Varshi managed to run away the Cult after 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashur Varshi joined the MKO 27 years ago. As a 19\u2013year\u2013old teenager his ideal was the overthrow of the Islamic Republic through armed struggle. But ultimately, the totalitarian and manipulative system of the group made him leave it. \u201dAfter 27 years of companionship with the group, I was threatened to death (by Alireza Budaqchi under the pseudonym of Ahad) just because I had said that the leader\u2019s arguments were not realistic,\u201d Varshi writes. \u201cHe [Ahad] used to pressure me to praise the leader\u2019s words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"postimsh\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Repatriation\/Iraq_201602\/Varshi_Ashur_23.jpg\"alt=\"Mr. Varshi defected MKO Cult\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 27 years of companionship with the group, I was threatened to death (by Alireza Budaqchi under the pseudonym of Ahad) just because I had said that the leader\u2019s arguments were not realistic,\u201d Varshi writes. \u201cHe [Ahad] used to pressure me to praise the leader\u2019s words.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24406],"tags":[24429,6],"module":[396],"ctype":[22],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mek-ex-members","tag-mko-former-members","tag-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image","module-newspics","ctype-image","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","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=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/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=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}