Hossein Ali Rigi, the brother of Barat Ali Rigi asks him to leave the Mujahedin-Khalq (MEK/ PMOI). Barat has been taken as a hostage by the MEK for over three decades. He has never been allowed by the group leaders to visit his family. In the Video message, his brother asks him to think independently and leave the group in order to have a normal life in the free world.
Hamid Reza Noori has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin-e Khalq
for over 30 years. His family have been looking forward to contact him in all these years. They have sent petitions to the international human rights bodies in order to demand his liberation from the MEK.
They have also published several open letters in the hope that Hamid Reza will read them some day. Being stuck in the cult-like MEK, Hamid Reza has never been allowed by the group leaders to contact his family. This is the latest letter to Hamid Reza written by his daughter Somayeh who is 34 years old.
My Dear father,
I hope you are doing well. I have so far sent you several letters but you have never responded.
My beloved father,
I miss you so much. When ever I miss you, I begin writing a few words to you. I have never felt you as a father. When I was a kid and a primary school student, I would see the fathers of my classmates who dropped them at school. I always envied them wondering where my father is. In your absence, I grew up with so much regret.
I have already told you in my previous letters that I am married and have two children. I show your photo to my kids; they become happy to see you and ask when grandpa will to come over? I have no clear answer to give them. I just tell them to be patient. “Grandpa will come,” I tell them.
Dear father,
I ask you to release yourself from the Mujahedin-e Khalq and get back to your family. We are here waiting for you with open arms.
Your daughter, Samaneh
Olsi Jazexhi’s thread on his twitter account on the situation of defectors of the Mujahedin-e Khalq who do not want to stay in the group any more:
The Soros backed regime of Edi Rama has succeeded to destroy the Iranian opposition to the cult of Maryam Rajavi in Albania. Many defectors of MEK now languish in jails or in the Karrec concentration camp.
SPAK and counterterrorism police of Edi Rama is trying hard to convince the Iranians of Karrec to make false statements against Hassan Heyrani and others, in exchange for their release from the camp. SPAK wants to create a fake excuse in order to legally jail the defectors of MEK
Iranian government and NGO-s must take back to Iran, any Iranian who has defected MEK and has renounced violent terrorism. If Iran does not want to do that – it must approach refugees and ask the agency to find a third country for Iranians who live in Albania.
Iranians who are forced to join MEK face years long slavery, isolation, separation from families, psychological torture, indoctrination, radicalization and many end as cannon fodder for Maryam Rajavi in her war against Iran. Human rights organizations must ask Edi Rama to stop this.
Albania is not a safe country for Iranians anymore. The collusion of Albanian counterterrorism police and security agencies with MEK has turned Albania into a no-go area for Iranians. Albanian officials force Iranians to join the MEK cult, something horrible and dreadful.
The counterterrorism police of Edi Rama have become a military gang in service of MEK and Maryam Rajavi. Edi Rama is acting like Saddam Hussein and its counterterrorism police is supporting MEK like the Iraqi fedayeen protected MEK thugs in Iraq in the past.
By using its Albanian agents within the ASILA organization in Tirana, counterterrorism police is trying to silence all the remaining Iranians and turn them against Hassan Heyrani and Albanian journalists who expose the plight of Iranian defectors to the media.
While in the previous years MEK used its own vigilantes to attack Canadians, Albanians and Iranians, now MEK no longer needs to do that. Nowadays the Albanian counterterrorism police does the intimidation, persecution and harassment on behalf of MEK.
Albanian counterterrorism police and SPAK has not prosecuted a single MEK terrorist for their violent attack against Durresi’s book fair in August 2022. However, all Iranians who attended this book fair and were attacked by MEK – are in detention or jail.
Michael Rubin wrote a new article to respond the agent of the Mujahedin Khalq in Western media. As the contributor to the Washington Examiner and the senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Rubin had published an article on December 30th, 2022 criticizing the US politicians for embracing the MEK. He warned about the “emptiness” of the MEK’s claims and asserted that the group is “a cult whose leader still veils and who runs the organization as an autocracy”.
The MEK’s propaganda activist claims that his group is not a cult and instead Rubin is “a propagandist” who is “intellectually dishonest, lazy, and dangerously ignorant”. This is Rubin’s recent piece, published on January 17th, in response to Ali Safavi:
Ali Safavi, a foreign affairs spokesman for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), is upset that I called the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) a “cult.” His response is deflection, full of hot air and personal attacks. But he avoids the factual points of my article. So, why not a quick test? If the MKO is not a cult, can Safavi prove it by documenting any disagreement with Maryam Rajavi, the organization’s leader?
Let’s start with a few issues that should be easy:
Does Safavi disagree, for example, with Rajavi over the group’s alliance with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the lead up to the Islamic Revolution?
Or maybe Safavi can show where he or any other members of the group disagreed with the MKO’s documented acts of terrorism against Americans and American companies in Iran at that time?
After Khomeini consolidated control and purged the Mujahedin from the ranks of his followers, the MKO’s rank-and-file regrouped in Iraq where it became a proxy for Saddam Hussein. Does Safavi regret that decision? Maybe Safavi can explain why the entire episode of the MKO’s decades-long alliance with Saddam Hussein is omitted from the history the MKO relates on its website?
Can Safavi point to a single tactical disagreement or argument that he or any other senior leaders have had with Maryam Rajavi? She has been “president-elect” for 30 years. Is it normal for “democratic” movements to have complete, even totalitarian agreement on every single issue over the course of a week or month, let alone three decades? Can Safavi point to any other “democratic” movement where thousands of followers never disagree with each other or their leader?
Can Safavi explain why, if the network of organizations that Rajavi controls are independent, he gets so upset when anyone suggests an audit? A religious-political group
If the MKO isn’t a cult, why is it that its members remain isolated from the world around them? Iranians support all sorts of political movements. Many want a liberal democracy, even if they debate about whether that should be a parliamentary democracy or a presidential republic. A few may want the return of Reza Pahlavi, the late shah’s son, though they debate what power if any the monarchy should have. There are some other extremes. The National Iranian American Council, for example, still appears to believe the Islamic Republic is legitimate. All have lives outside their small political group. They do not live in group homes, dress alike, wear their facial hair alike, and refuse to live with or mix with others.
Safavi can splutter and can claim the MKO is not a cult but, sometimes, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s more than daffy. That said, Ali Safavi, prove me wrong: You have tweeted more than 35,000 tweets. Can you find a single one that puts you at dissonance with Rajavi on any issue?
Rubin accurately suggests that on one thing we all agree: Iranians want democracy, not a cult.
Nadeali Torabi, the brother of two female members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq call on the international community to aid him visit his sisters. The Torabis have been suffering through 40 years of involvement with the MEK.
One of their brothers GhorbaniAli was killed under torture in the MEK’s prisons and their two sisters, Masoumeh and Maryam, are still under the suppressive ruling of Maryam Rajavi in the group’s headquarters, Ashraf 3 in Albania.
Mohammad Reza Torabi, the son of Ghorbanali, left the MEK 5 years ago. His freedom from Ashraf 3 was a light of hope for uncle Nadeali. He is now making efforts to draw the attention of the international community and human rights bodies to the case of his beloved sisters who have been taken as hostages by the Rajavis for about 4 decades.
When the MEK was located in Iraq, Nadeali traveled to Camp Ashraf several times. Except for one time the group leaders never allowed him to visit his sisters. The only time that Masoomeh and Maryam were allowed to visit their brother, they were being supervised by their commanders and eventually the ex-wife of Ghorban – previously forced to divorce— got mad at Nadeali because he wanted his sisters to keep in touch with family. Since then, they have never been allowed to contact each other.
Today, Nadeali is looking forward to a way to contact his sisters whose basic rights are violated in an isolated camp in the European territory. He sends letters to human rights bodies and the international organizations in order to demand that the human dignity of his family and all families whose loved ones are taken as hostages under the destructive Cult of Rajavi, be respected.
Mansoor Rahdar has been taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin-e Khalq for 35 years. His family have not had any contact with him since his mandatory recruitment by the MEK.
Mansoor was a young soldier from Gilan, fighting in Iran-Iraq war when in 1988 he was taken as a hostage by the MEK agents in the war fronts in Mehran region, South-West of Iran. Once he was captured in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, he was never allowed to contact his family in Iran.
Mansoor’s family have so far written several open letters published by Nejat Society in the hope that he will see the letters someday. In her most recent letter addressing Mansoor, his sister, Zahra wrote of her concerns over the health of the brother who is now an elderly residing in the MEK’s military-like camp in Manez, Albania.
“Why don’t you answer our letters?” Zahra Rahdar asks her brother. “Are you alive at all? I wrote you several letters and there was no answer. Even, three years ago, after I wrote you that our father had died you did not give any reaction.”
Considering that their mother is too old to wait for Mansoor, Zahra asks him to call them as soon as he can. As always, she leaves her phone number at the bottom of the letter in the hope that Mansoor will break the mental bars of the Cult of Rajavi and contact his family soon.
Elisa Hajari was born on January 13th while her father, Ali, is kept in detention. Ali Hajari together with five other members of the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) has been detained in Karrec detention center, north of Tirana, in the past two months.
Ali Hajari is a former member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization who could manage to defect the group in 2018. He is one of the founders and active members of ASILA who were detained by the Albanian border and immigration police in November 2022 without being accused of any charge so he was forced to leave his pregnant Albanian wife alone.
In the absence of Ali Hajari, his wife gave birth to their beloved daughter, Elisa. The newborn baby was visited by ASILA members, in particular Dashamir Mersuli the Albanian president of the association. Mersuli announced his best wishes for Elisa as “the youngest member of ASILA” hoping that his father Ali will be released from Karrec camp as soon as possible.
Ebrahim Khodabandeh, the CEO of Nejat Society also published a congratulations message addressing Ali Hajari. He wrote, “I wish you could receive such a good news in a better situation rather than being stuck in the conspiracies made by the inhumane Cult of Rajavi and you could celebrate the birth of your baby freely without being bothered by the MEK.”
Admitting huge expenses, Rajavi’s group located in Manez, Albania, is trying to file a legal case against members of ASILA. It has made efforts launching lobbies in the Albanian government and judiciary system to accuse these people with charges ranging from espionage to terrorist acts just because they did not want to stay with Maryam Rajavi.
My dear Ali,
I received the news of the birth of your beautiful daughter on Friday, January 13th , coincidently Mother’s Day in Iran. This was the best and the most valuable gift that you could give me on this occasion. Elisa is the greatest gift the God offered you and our family.
My beloved son,
I hope you could know how happy and pleased I am, as a mother who languished to hear the voice of his son for years. The son that had gone to war to defend his country and his people but was taken as a war prisoner and then was imprisoned in a new prison called Ashraf of the Mujahedin-e Khalq where he lost best years of his younghood earning no job, no education, no income and no wealth.
You lost your life under the brainwashing system and the fraudulent propaganda of the Cult of Rajavi where marriage and having baby was forbidden and an impossible wish. You spent those years in the worse and most disastrous conditions until, thanks to God and our prayers, you were released from the cult.
You were again imprisoned this time by the Albanian government two months ago as the result of the plots created by the leaders of the MEK. This unlawful act prevented you from being by the side of your beloved wife while she was going through labor. However, I still believe that the will of God is more powerful than all the devilish plots. I am sure that you and your friends will be free soon. God will bring you back to us.
I am grateful to God that gave me enough life to see your child, my grandchild. Send the congrats of me and all your siblings to your caring and kind wife who protested and complained your detention despite the difficult conditions of pregnancy.
Wishing you freedom and your warm company by the side of your daughter and family. I kiss you.
Your mother Sakineh Avazzadeh (Hajari)
A reliable and knowledgeable source from Albania, who wished to remain anonymous, sent the following:
Rajavi’s organization in Albania is trying hard to repeat the scenario of its old exhibition in Iraq during the time of Saddam Hussein, now in Albania.
Maryam Rajavi is recruiting corrupt elements in the Albania police and in secret service to fight against ASILA members.
At that time in Iraq, any fugitive from the MEK was imprisoned in the dreaded Abu Ghraib prison, or even worse, killed and buried somewhere in the deserts of Iraq in a remote grave.
Fortunately, in our country Albania, Rajavi needs much more effort and money to neutralize the members of ASILA.
Rajavi’s organization in Albania is trying to file a legal case against some members of ASILA, accepting huge expenses. It has even been strongly demanded that these Iranians who did not want to continue with Maryam Rajavi be charged with charges ranging from espionage to terrorist acts.
Until now, these corrupt elements in our police and anti-terrorism department have resisted Maryam Rajavi’s continuous demands towards the Albanians (Olsi Jazexhi, Gjergji Thanasi, and lawyers and journalists, etc.) These people are afraid of their reactions.
Such elements of the police and secret services, receiving huge amounts of bribes, try hard to file court cases against ASILA members on charges such as unauthorized public gatherings, spreading false news that causes panic among people, resisting police officers, etc. They are trying to persecute the quasi-official ASILA members and their supporters in every possible way.
So far, they have failed twice in their actions and their proposed cases have not been accepted by the judicial system. They try to intimidate ASILA members and supporters of this society or send them to court with false accusations, but they have not succeeded.
During this period, the manufactured cases have not been accepted by the Albanian judicial system for legal prosecution, but they do not stop trying to persecute. The amount of money Rajavi’s organization spends in this regard is really amazing.
You know that the judiciary in Albania is independent and their actions have already failed twice, but Rajavi’s organization continues to try and spend money.
I know that the corrupt elements in our Albanian police and security system are surprised why Rajavi’s organization is willing to spend so much money and time to harass those who no longer want to be with them.
“Who are Mek cult?” is the title of an inside report for the first time presented by the defected high-ranking member of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), Davod Baghervand Arshad.
The video content covers the answers to the following issues about the MEK, the notorious Cult of Rajavi:
Who assassinated the Americans in Tehran?
MEK and spying for Russia
Did CIA destroy MEK-Russia spy net?
How the MEK retaliated?
Seizure of US Embassy in Tehran?
The MEK’s Islamist Revolutionary Courts
The MEK and the Children in the combat
The MEK and Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Saudi Arabia
The MEK as Assassinators
Who is the head wife in the MEK Leader’s Harem?
Have they changed?
How does Maryam Rajavi deceive the western world?
How does the MEK’ terrorism differ from ISIS and Al Qaeda’s terrorism?
Why is the MEK more dangerous?
Use of 10-year-old children in combat by the MEK.
Who are the wives of the harem of the Caliph of the MEK?
MEK’s planed courts and justice for their Islamic State describe by its Calipha.
How can the world protect itself against the threat of terrorism by the side of the MEK?
Assassination of Americans, hostage taking in US Embassy in Tehran under the MEK’s support.