{"id":7214,"date":"2017-07-30T12:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:53:50","slug":"4-people-left-the-mek-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/7214","title":{"rendered":"4 people left the MEK in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after the Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult\u2019s propaganda show in France, two members left the group in Albania each with some 39 years of membership in the group.<\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"510\" height=\"270\" class=\"wp-image-7216 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MKO_Albania_1.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"510\"height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MKO_Albania_1.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/MKO_Albania_1-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/>\n<p>Siavosh Seifi and Mahmoud Mambini are two individuals who managed to leave the group in Tirana,Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Another two MKO members; Pouria Nouri and Jaafar Aghai, also have left last week, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Iran Interlink weekly Digest reports the defection of these members asserting:<\/p>\n<p>There are currently fewer than 2100 MEK members in Albania. The disintegration of the group is gaining momentum and formers in Albania predict it will be only a matter of weeks before this figure reaches less than 2000. The acceleration in defections is attributed to \u2018the Villepinte effect\u2019. That is, lavish and ostentatious spending while the members in Albania don\u2019t have enough to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Another cause has been Maryam Rajavi\u2019s presentation of the MEK\u2019s precious book of anti-Imperialist martyrs to Senator John McCain as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>The defectors say, \u2018we were fooled by Massoud Rajavi all these years but Maryam can\u2019t even do that and only wants to party and show off\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days after the Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult\u2019s propaganda show in France, two members left the group in Albania each with some 39 years of membership in the group. Siavosh Seifi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[14,52,79],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-7214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albania","tag-defectors-of-mujahedin-khalq","tag-mujahedin-khalq-destructive-cult","tag-mujahedin-khalq-declining","module-news","ctype-story","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214","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=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}