Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society CEO attended the MEK’s 15th trial court in Tehran.
The 15th session of the trial court of 104 Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) members and the group as a legal entity was held on July 9th, 2024. Ebrahim Khodabandeh who is a former responsible with the MEK’s international relations showed up as an informed source in the court.
Ebrahim Khodabande stated in the court: “I accomplished diplomatic missions for the organization in more than 20 countries. We used to hold meetings with Masoud Rajavi in Iraq and Paris. When the explosion of the building of the Islamic Republic Party took place, the organization did claim the responsibility for the bombing. Later, we realized that the reason was not international considerations, but the organization’s internal environment.”
He continued: The organization did not announce who did the attack, even the members of the organization were confused. A year later, in 1961, Massoud Rajavi held a meeting in Paris, where a number of members and supporters of the organization were present, and in that meeting, he clearly announced, ‘we collapsed the ceiling on Beheshti and the members of the Islamic Republic Party, and in this way, we ruined the regime’s future’. Rajavi used to say that Imam Khomeini is the present of the Islamic Republic, but Shahid Beheshti is the future of the Islamic Republic, and in thus he supposed that he had ruined the future of the regime.”
The former agent of MEK international relations stated: “The MEK published the slogan “Death to America” in its publications. The constitution of the MEK’s National Council of Resistance, was first based on fighting against imperialism and helping anti-imperialist movements. One year later, in 1982 the slogan of death to America was removed and the statutes of the National Council of Resistance were changed. Masoud Rajavi held meetings with other members of the group and announced, ‘The reason was that we were confronting America and the enemy We were, because our main conflict was with the Shah and America supported the Shah, and now that the Islamic Republic is one of the few independent countries in the world and has been in complete conflict with America, so we have no reason to be enemies with America and confront it. We are aligned.’”
Nejat Society CEO told the court: “In October 1997, the US State Department listed the MEK as foreign terrorist organization. At that time in Baghdad, Masoud Rajavi held a meeting in Camp Ashraf and said ‘when we did the bombing of June 27th, America did not list us as terrorist, but now that we have not taken up arms for 10 years, it has done so’.”
Ebrahim Khodabandeh further said: “Massoud Rajavi announced in one of the meetings, ‘After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, everyone sought to form a party, but we sought to collect weapons and our infiltrators were everywhere and we influenced wherever we could. Like the impact on Bani Sadr and wherever we could not, we removed people; Like the bombing of June 27th, the explosion of the Islamic Republic Party building.”
He stated: “Kolahi Samadi [the MEK agent who detonated the bomb in the office of Islamic Republic party] came to Iraq after the explosion of the Islamic Republic Party and Masoud Rajavi introduced him to everyone, but after a while there was no news of him and we did not find out where Kolahi went.”