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The Pandora Box of the Mujahedin Khalq sex cult

“There has never been such a sovereign in the whole history of human beings”, former member of the Mujahedin khalq organization and a long-standing critic of the group, Iraj Mesdaghi says. “Massoud Rajavi is a unique example among dictators who practiced polygamy. There have been kings, emperors and cult leaders who had many wives, who used to take the wives of their rank and file but Rajavi is an exception because he has forbidden marriage for other men under his rule. Sex is forbidden for all male members of the MEK.”

After the so-called ideological revolution in the MEK, Members of the group were forced to divorce their spouses under the order of Massoud Rajavi; celibacy became mandatory in the group. “All emotions had to be led to Massoud Rajavi.”

Iraj Mesdaghi

Mesdaghi who has been labeled as the agent of the Iranian government by the MEK propaganda, has numerous documents and testimonies of former members of the MEK to prove that Massoud Rajavi raped female members of his so-called Elite Council under a systematic process. In an interview with Sahar Tahvili, he reveals secrets of Rajavi’s mass marriage with the group’s female rank and file.

Maryam was in love with Massoud when she was married to Abrishamchi and was the mother to his daughter with him.

The first victim of such a horrifying system is Massoud Rajavi’s third wife, Maryam Qajar Azdanlou who turned to be Maryam Rajavi after their so-called “ideological marriage” in Paris, in 1985. The marriage was hailed by the organization as the beginning of a permanent “ideological revolution”.
“Rajavi is proud to say that Maryam was in love with him while she was still married to Mehdi Abrishamchi,” Mesdaghi discloses. “So, as the office manager of Massoud Rajavi, Maryam was near his love, doing his personal affairs around the office.”

Masoud Rajavi launched what he called an”ideological revolution”in 1985. He married the wife of a confidant and forced all others to get divorced

Their marriage was the eventual consequence of those days but Massoud tried to garnish it with an ideological sauce. “Massoud claimed that Maryam has gone a long way to reach him and all women of the group should follow her in her path to reach him”. Mesdaghi cites form Rajavi, “I belong to all of them.”.
Maryam should not be an obstacle between Massoud and other female members, instead she should be a catalyzer for their unification. “The first woman who is led by Maryam to sleep with Massoud Rajavi is Fahimeh Arvani,” Mesdaghi highlights. “Compared with other women of the Elite Council, Arvani did not enjoy a higher ideological or political status but she only looked more beautiful. So, she opened her way to Massoud’s Harem.”

Sex with Rajavi is vital for your growth

Rajavi had to justify his abnormal relationships with women with kind of argument. “This is vital for your growth and progress in the group” Mesdaghi quotes Rajavi. “Maryam is scarifying herself for you.”
Mesdaghi speaks of a series of steps that coerces women to obey Massoud Rajavi’s bizarre orders. He emphasizes on the fact that members of the Cult of Rajavi are kept in complete ignorance, isolation and deprived from all rights even sexual life. “They are like zombies,” he says. “They are under constant manipulation techniques. Before going to private meetings, they have to write love letters to Massoud Rajavi expressing their love for him. If they disobey, they go under severe peer pressure. They are verbally abused with the most horrific words.”

Then the women get ready to go to a session called “Salvation Dance” which is actually a party of nude dancing in front of Massoud Rajavi which leads to group sex with him. “Rajavi called nude dancing as a spiritual ceremony,” Mesdaghi says.
During the ceremony, Maryam and several high-ranking women persuaded other women to remove their clothes and dance before the eyes of Massoud. “They asked them to take of the clothes of evil,” Mesdaghi says. “They try to give an ideological aspect to the ceremony. As moments pass, the participants go to a kind of ecstasy.”

Rajavi reads verses of Quran before sex

According to Mesdaghi’s evidences, Massoud Rajavi uses religious concepts as a tool to run his cult of polygamy. “Before going to bed with the selected woman of the night he says prayer, then he reads a few verses of Quran,” he states.

Asked about those women who did not agree to sleep with Rajavi, Mesdaghi speaks of Minoo Fathali and Mehri Mousavi who were killed mysteriously in the group because they wanted to leave the cult.
Mesdaghi declares that he has enough documents to condemn leaders of the Cult of Rajavi for sexual abuse of female members of their group. He correctly points out the silence of the MEK’s propaganda about the revelations on sex abuse in its group. “Rajavi knows that what he committed against his female members is considered a criminal act according to the international laws,” Mesdaghi says.

By Mazda Parsi

May 11, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Cults use ideology as a cover for controlling members

Cults look fairly attractive from the outside since their colorful attractions prevent you from understanding the nature of the “cult”. But when we delve too deeply into them, we will discover the unseen aspects that the cults do not want to be known. Cult leaders seek deceptive recruitment techniques and seek to take control all aspects of members’ lives. Cults utilize sophisticated brainwashing and recruitment techniques, which have become highly advanced after the spread of social networks.

Most people who are attracted to cults are almost unaware of the nature of the group they are trying to join or think that they can be safe from the cults’ strict and conventional controls. However, it has been proved to be a failed experience, to the extent that most cult members do not even discern that they are involved in cultish relations. They do not understand their position and the internal relations of cults are designed in such a way that it is impossible to escape.

To remove the attractive shell of cults, it is necessary to know how they operate and what techniques they use. In most cults, “ideology” is used as a cover for control techniques. One of the cults known to the Iranian people is the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, which presents itself as a political opposition group but is in fact a terrorist group that acts as a cult in organizing and recruiting individuals. The terrorist cult uses Islam as a cover and Shiism as a tool to maintain its framework and structure as its origin is a Muslim country (Iran) and most of its members were formerly Shiites.

Mandatory organizational clothes for controlling members

One of the principles of Islam and Shiism is the hijab and head covering of women, but the MEK uses this tactic as a means of controlling individuals.

In a free society, people can believe in whatever they want, say whatever they think, and wear whatever clothes and color they want, but this is not the case in cults. The women at the headquarters of this group must wear uniforms with a specific color and even the fabric had been specified by the leaders of the group. Outside this framework, they were out of choice.

“Women who entered the cult were told very openly: The headscarf is the official (i.e., mandatory) form of this organization,” said Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri; a dissident member of the MEK.

Majid Mohammadi, a current member of the MEK says, “The red color of the headscarf in the MEK’s uniform is borrowed from Marxism. The green uniform also belonged to the Castro and Che Guevara wars in Cuba. The hijab of MEK women, although a part of Shari’a, is merely a declaration of allegiance to the religion of the masses.”

“In this cult, hijab is limited to headscarf, women are not allowed to use other types of clothing such as shawls or hats, etc. Khaki was allowed only in certain places, and if someone wanted to wear a red or khaki scarf outside the MEK propaganda gatherings, he would be given a reprimand,” Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri said.

According to the memoirs of MEK defectors in the 1960s, a number of girls and boys lived and worked side by side in the group’s “team houses”. Sexual relations in these buildings indicate a lack of practical and systematic belief in Islamic principles in the group. However, in public, members have never been allowed to remove the hijab or have never had the right to choose its color.

In the following years, after the relocation of MEK members to Europe (France; Auvers-Sur-Oise), then Iraq (Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty and other camps), and finally Albania (Camp Manez) and the establishment of organizational camps to maintain and deepen relationships, none of the female members of the group, even in all women’s environments, dormitories, and restaurants, are allowed to remove their hijab. While there have been several cases of Massoud Rajavi’s non-compliance with the basic principles as hijab and other moral issues, such as raping female members of the leadership council. This has been narrated many times in various forms by MEK defectors.

Creating guilt and mind control by character assassination

Leaders of the terrorist cult hold daily, weekly, and occasional ideological cleansing sessions to strictly control the individuals’ feelings and emotions and their performance. This was designed also to continuously evaluate members and take away the slightest time for thinking and provide the ground for their absolute obedience by destroying their human dignity and personality and creating a personality vacuum.

the MEK members in an confession session

“In Rajavi’s organization, women have no right to remove headscarves. If women expose their hair a little, they would receive warnings at first, and then they would receive insulting labels,” Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri said.

Self-immolation of members

One of the most blatant examples of the group’s cultish behavior is several self-immolations by its deceived members in European countries in protest of Maryam Rajavi the group leader’s arrest, in 2003. Several people were killed and wounded, and the European media has long analyzed the cultish behavior.

All that has been said, along with other cultish tactics, such as forced and organizational marriages, coerced sterilizations, bans on love and marriage, bans on family relationships, fear, and intimidation, mind and information control, planning for round-the-clock work, and holding glorious gatherings has turned the organization into a cult with a terrorist function that is far more dangerous than a normal terrorist group.

by Mohammad Mahdi Mirzaei – Quds Online – Translated by Habilian Association

May 10, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

May Day, a standard to bring the MEK leaders to trial

Under the impression that she was joining a movement to free the Iranian people, Zahra Mirbagheri found herself in the deserts of Iraq, running carrying heavy pack bags full of rocks. “Viva Rajavi”, she heard herself chanting in the headquarters of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization.
Motivated by the inspirations made by her older brother and sister, Zahra left her parents behind in Tehran and joined the MEK in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, where she actually became the victim of the destructive Cult of Rajavi.

Zahra Mirbagheri showing the pendant that Rajavi gave to the women of the organization telling them that they were all connected to him and to no other man

Forced labor was one of the practices of the cult.

The American National Defense Research Institute, RAND reported on the MEK in 2009: “Rajavi instituted what he termed an ‘ideological revolution’ in 1985, which, over time, imbued the MeK with many of the typical characteristics of a cult, such as authoritarian control, confiscation of assets, sexual control (including mandatory divorce and celibacy), emotional isolation, forced labor, sleep deprivation, physical abuse, and limited exit options.”

On the occasion of the International Workers’ Day, it is worth to investigate the MEK’s approach to the working class. The rank and file of the group is actually the working class of a few thousand-populated community that Maryam Rajavi and her disappeared husband rule in Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania and previously ruled in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty in Iraq.

While the MEK’s propaganda website states, “Iran’s workers are living in utter potter and struggling to afford even the most basic daily needs for themselves and their families”, members of the MEK do not enjoy the least opportunities Iranian workers enjoy. The rank and file of the MEK have been never paid for the long years they served the group. They own no personal property, not even a cellphone which every Iranian worker at least has one.

May Day commemorates the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labor movement. It is observed and celebrated in many countries including Iran where workers still struggle for their rights but being supported by Massoud Rajavi seems ridiculous. The disappeared leader of the MEK stated in his recent message, “Help the farmers who have suffered from deprivation and exploitation for years.”!

MEK members – Camp Ashraf 3

This is while families of members of the MEK have been struggling to help the release of their loved ones who are barred in the Cult of Rajavi. Zahra Mirbagheri, former member of the MEK whose neck and backbone was hurt in the suppressive system of the cult has been endeavoring to save her brother and sisters who are still taken as hostages in the Cult of Rajavi.

MEK members in Albania

Before her escape from the MEK, Zahra was serving in Maryam Rajavi’s military unit. “I felt the violence in my bones and flesh,” she says. “We had to attend heavy military maneuvers. We had to drive nonhydraulic military vehicles, carry heavy bags of rocks on our shoulders, running 700 meters…Most women were injured in back, neck and backbone. I am one of the victims of such practices.” Zahra cannot move her neck easily, without pain.
Forced labor continued after the MEK was disarmed by the US army in 2003. At the time, the American journalist, Elizabeth Rubin of the New York Times magazine visited Camp Ashraf and described the camp as “a fictional world of female worker bees”.

Today, after two decades, the metaphor still works for the MEK’s rank and file. Just a few days ago, the group’s propaganda published the news of building a huge mosque in Camp Ashraf 3. Boasting of the hard work by its hostages, the website said, “In less than a year, fighters’ glorious, miniature-like, labyrinth-like and parallel group work founded a city.”

Yes, they are right. The MEK’s newly established city in north of Tirana (Camp Ashraf 3), with its many buildings was built in less than a year by the hands of two thousand male and female members who have nothing to do except obeying the orders of their commanders. They are not paid for such long hours of hard work and they are not retired even if they are old, sick or paralyzed. They have no days off even if it is the International Worker’s Day.

By Mazda Parsi

May 7, 2022 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

Th MEK; Virus of Corruption, Terrorism in Albania

It has been more than five and a half years since the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (a.k.a. MEK, MKO, and PMOI) has relocated to Albania, a small country in southeastern Europe. A process, which took nearly three and a half years, indicates how difficult and complicated the expulsion of fewer than 3,000 members from Iraq to a third country was.

The MEK’s expulsion from Iraq and their acceptance by a third country had been a knotty problem for the Iraqi central government because of their criminal and anti-human rights record, which has been corroborated by numerous international reports, including the European Union.

Eventually, Albania, a small Balkan country, accepted the MEK members after signing an agreement with the United States. Many believe that Albania’s acceptance was because of the United States’ hegemony over Albania and its $20 million aid to the Albanian government, which had been revealed by John Kerry during his meeting with the Albanian Prime Minister in Albania.

Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania

However, Albanian officials, being aware of the sensitivity of their decision, insisted that their terrorist guests made pledges not to engage in any political activity and they had been accepted solely for humanitarian reasons. But the fact is that none of these claims of the Albanian authorities came true. The politicians of the Democratic Party who signed the agreement to accept the MEK members in 2013 did not adhere to the claim. And the Socialist Party and Prime Minister Edi Rama offered the strongest support to the terrorist group. The incumbent Albanian Socialist Party had previously accused the Democratic Party of taking huge bribes from the United States in exchange for accepting MEK members on Albanian soil. Strangely enough, the political leaders of both parties are now giving widespread support to the MEK. Members of the MEK were initially housed in buildings in the Albanian capital of Tirana. Gradually, they moved to a more remote site in Durrës County, western Albania, and constructed a highly fortified camp on 34 hectares of farmland when the country was struggling with unfavorable economic conditions.

Albanian officials have suspiciously stepped up their support for the cult of MEK. Forgetting his legal status, Albanian President Ilir Meta attends the MEK camp in Tirana to meet with the leader of the terrorists. Prime Minister Edi Rama spends a significant portion of his time at the UN General Assembly in support of the MEK. Albanian lawmakers have frequently visited the MEK camp and given speeches in their support. In November 2018, former Albanian MP Namik Kopliku said that his country’s politicians were united in welcoming the MEK. Given the serious disagreements between the Albanian political parties, the MEK’s drawing support from Albanian politicians should be seriously investigated as Albania’s political corruption has always been a hindrance to its EU membership. Popular narratives of MEK’s cutting fat checks for some Iraqi and US officials during the last years shed light on the reasons for the Albanian support and speeches in favor of the MEK.

It is the dubious support of the Albanian authorities for the MEK that has led to the group’s freedom of action in the country, a situation that contradicts the initial commitments of the Albanian authorities. The MEK cult, according to the Independent’s 2018 report, has built a state within a state in Albania that implements its own laws. For example, for a large sum of money, it has set up a powerful telecommunication tower overlooking Tirana. “The organization appears to have strong connections to senior Albanian officials.,” the report said. “Pandeli Majko, a minister in the current Albanian government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, Fatmir Mediu, a former defense minister, and Elona Gjebrea, a former deputy interior minister, were with Giuliani in his visit to Tirana earlier this year for Persian New Year festivities hosted by the MEK.” The MEK’s influence among the corrupt Albanian politicians has been so overwhelming that, according to the Independent, even the Albanian police are not allowed to enter their camp. The Albanian Interior Ministry has no control over the compound, which has become a secret underground organization.

At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and the infection of a significant number of the MEK members which led to the death of a number of them, the Albanian Ministry of Health was not allowed to enter the camp to check the health protocols. In addition, at the heart of the energy crisis which has plagued the country, causing power outages in various parts of the country including Durres, it has been surprising and at the same time irritating for the locals to see the MEK’s camp lit by innumerable lamps.

Undoubtedly, the Albanian government’s different approach to the MEK has seriously raised suspicions of collusion and secret agreements of Albanian officials with this terrorist cult and perhaps its sponsors. In 2020, El País disclosed the MEK’s $1 million support for Spain’s far-right Vox party during its founding in 2013 and the payment of monthly salaries to the party leaders, as well as the payment of 80% of its campaign expenses in the 2014 European Parliament elections. It shows that the group’s tendency to attract foreign support and strengthen its lobby knows few bounds. It becomes highly dangerous if the support is drawn from officials of a small country faced with economic chaos like Albania whose politicians are involved in rife corruption.

Albania performed poorly in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 and ranked 104. Housing the MEK with numerous cases of money laundering and corruption is a threat to Albania and would endanger its efforts to join the European Union. The MEK spends huge sums of money to support the political authorities who support them the most. The political leaders, in return, will do their best to attract the attention of this terrorist group. It will be the Albanian people who will suffer from the presence of this terrorist group in Albania and will touch its effects, in the long run.

by Reza Alghorabi – Quds Online – Translated by Habilian Association

April 27, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

MEK and Children – Saeed and Mohammad Akhavan Hashemi

Saeed and his twin brother Mohammad were only three years old in 1988 when their mother was killed in Forough Javidan, the messy military operation that the Mujahedin Khalq launched from Iraq against Iran after the ceasefire was signed between Iraq and Iran.

A year later, the twins were smuggled out of Iraq together with seven hundred children of Mujahed parents who were separated from their parents under the direct order of Massoud Rajavi who saw the children an obstacle to the struggle. Saeed and Mohammad were smuggled through Europe to Canada.

Saeed and his twin brother Mohammad were only three years old in 1988 when their mother was killed in Forough Javidan

As well as other MEK children, the agents of MEK in Canada handed the twins to families who were mostly sympathizers of the group. They were grown up in Canada until their teen years.
When they got sixteen, the organization needed the child soldiers to extend its millitary force. Thus, Saeed and Mohammad were persuaded to get back to Iraq to join the group’s military arm, the so-called National Liberation Army (NLA).

They were first moved to the US where they were settled in the MEK’s base for a few months. They were indoctrinated to join the army to revenge the blood of their mother. In the US, Saeed was intrigued to take part in the anti-Iran protests run by the MEK.

After a few months of indoctrination in the headquarters of the NCR in Washington, when they were 17 years old, the twins were coerced to sign the membership forms of the NLA and eventually they were smuggled back to Iraq. They were given military uniforms and arms as child soldiers of the MEK’s army.
In the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Saeed and Mohammad like other child soldiers of the MEK were not able to go to school or university. Instead, they received military trainings.

In 2003, after the US invasion to Iraq, the MEK was disarmed by the US army and NLA was practically dismantled. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, main sponsor of the MEK had been collapsed and the newly established Iraqi government did not want the MEK in its territory but the MEK leaders considered themselves the owners of Camp Ashraf, the land that Saddam Hussein had confiscated from Iraq farmers and had donated to Massoud Rajavi.

In order to move the MEK out of Iraq, the group was temporarily relocated in Camp Liberty near Baghdad. The twins were separated. Mohammad was transferred to Camp liberty and Saeed was ordered to stay in Camp Ashraf.

Saeed and his twin brother Mohammad

Although the brothers did not use to live together in Camp Ashraf – as none of family members are allowed to live together in the MEK—the last two weeks they spent more time together. “We used to talk to each other every night for the last two weeks,” Mohammad says. “The last day we said goodbye to each other. We exchanged our watches as memento.” This was their last visit.

Saeed was shot dead by Iraqi Intifada Youth who raided camp Ashraf on September 1st 2013. He was only 28 when he became the victim of Massoud Rajavi’s ambitions in Iraq. The whereabouts of Mohammad Akhavan is not clear. He might be still under the brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi in Albania to revenge the blood of his mother and brother, who both were victimized by the cult’s system or he might have left the MEK after the group was relocated in Albania, just like many other former child soldiers of the group.

April 26, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Victim of the Cult of Rajavi: I was brainwashed

As a passionate teenager, Ali Biglari fled home to go to the front of Iran-Iraq war. He dreamed of defending his homeland against the aggressive enemy. However, he soon was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces.
The recruiters of the Mujahedin Khalq succeeded to convince him to join their group after three years of imprisonment in Rumadi Camp, Iraq.

Ali Biglari

Once he entered the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq, Camp Ashraf, he found out that he had stepped in the wrong path but the brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi continued to keep him for many years.
Ali Biglari could finally manage to return home in 2003, after 14 years of imprisonment and mental and physical torture in the MEK’s cult-like structure. “The bitterness of freedom” is a recently-published book based on Ali’s life experience as a victim of the Cult of Rajavi.

Javad Kamvar; Writer of the book: bitterness of freedom, and Ali Biglari

“The title of the book implies that the central character of the book was freed from Iraqi prison but immediately after he was imprisoned in the MEK’s prison,” Javad Kamvar, the author of the book says. “He regretted but there was no way back. He could not accept the ideology of the MEK so he was under too much organizational pressure that led him to commit suicide. He survived but the MEK leaders handed him to Iraqi notorious prison, Abu Ghuraib.”

Ali Biglari never became an official member of the MEK’s army but he was coerced to stay in the group. “I had no idea that Camp Ashraf was a camp surrounded with barbed wires,” he says. “I thought it was a city in which I would have a normal life but as I arrived in Ashraf, the exit was shut for me for 14 years. I was brainwashed there.”

April 18, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Marzieh Babakhani set herself on fire to protest the arrest of Maryam Rajavi

“I do not regret what I did on June 17th 2003”, Marzieh Babakhani said in a conference held by the Mujahedin Khalq (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajvai) in Paris in 2014. This was not her first time to speak in an MEK-run event. She is often considered as the symbol of a devotee to Maryam Rajavi by the group’s propaganda.
Marzieh Babakhani joined the MEK when she was a young girl. She was soon elevated in the hierarchy of Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality. When Maryam Rajavi was arrested by the French Police on June 17th, 2003, in Paris, Marzieh was 40 and a member of Maryam’s security team.

Marziyeh Babakhani

Marzieh was one of the ten MEK members who set themselves on fire to protest the arrest of the third wife of their disappeared leader, Massoud Rajavi. Two MEK female members, Neda Hassani and Sedigheh Mojaveri were killed in fire.

“I set myself on fire not to kill myself but for the freedom of my people,” Marzieh said. “Dear Maryam, you have several times told me that you disagreed what I did but as a human being I chose and I decided to do it because I think the Police raid on June 17th was a raid to terminate a legitimate resistance.”

In contrary to Marzieh’s claims, the MEK was not a legitimate entity. It was on the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union at the time and Maryam Rajavi had been arrested under terrorism charges. About nine million dollars were discovered by the French Police in Maryam Rajavi’s headquarters in Auver Sur d’Oise
There are a lot of evidences to prove that the Mujaheds who self-immolated after the arrest of Maryam Rajavi were coerced by the group to do so. “According to an organizational ruling issued by Massoud Rajavi, members of the MEK had been asked to set themselves on fire in France and other European countries,” Javad Firouzmand, a defector of the MEK writes. “This way, the group wanted to put pressure on France to release Maryam Rajavi.”
In an organized act, ten members of the MEK set themselves ablaze before the eyes of the citizens in France, Switzerland, Britain and Canada. Marzieh Babakhani set herself on fire in the morning of June 19th in front of the building of French intelligence and security department (DST).

photo: The raid of the MEK’s Paris compound in 2003, which prompted acts of self-immolation by some of its members.

On the proper day, the French newspaper, Le Parisien, stated that the spokesperson of the foreign committee of the National Council of Resistance (NCR) had called cellphones of some of its journalists to announce the name of the self-immolator. The same newspaper also reported, “After the fire was extinguished, one of the Mujaheds offered a journalist better and nicer photos of the self-immolation ceremony!”

Marzieh Babakhani is a victim of a manipulative system that coerced its members to commit what it wants. The French author, Nathalie Goulet states evidences of on such a system in her book:
“In October 2007, two Iranians Mahmoud Alami (55) and Hossein Amini Gholipour (51) were charged in a court in Paris, for encouraging Sedigheh Mojaveri to set herself on fire on June 18th 2003. The two men were members of the MEK who had been arrested in a protest run by the group in front of the DST headquarters. The two men were filmed while they were buying a gallon of petrol in a gas station. They eventually handed the gallon to Sedigheh Mojaveri.” (Goulet, Nathalie, “PMOI: How a political cult transformed to a democratic party”, page 32)
About Marzieh Babakhani, the case seems to be the same. Moreover, Marzieh was security guard for protecting Maryam Rajavi. She was always by the side of Maryam carrying a colt to protect her. Alef Abbasi, an MEK defector says, “After the arrest of Maryam Rajavi, Marzieh was under too much pressure by the group. ‘Sister Maryam is in Jail and you are still beathing,’ she was constantly told. She was continuously asked by the Cult of Rajavi: ‘What should have you done to prevent the arrest of Sister Maryam?’ “

She finally had no way out except to “decide” to pour petrol on her body and light the fire in order to stop the arrest of Sister Maryam or at least to stop the organizational pressure on herself.

The self-immolations committed by MEK members in Western capitals, are those of the darkest points in the history of the group. In western academic and political circles, self-immolations are regularly referred to in order to authenticate that the MEK has cult-like characteristics. Therefore, the MEK propaganda has to call on Marzieh Babakhani and other survivors of June 2003 to show up and declare that they tried to kill themselves with their own free will. However, every one agrees that free will is unheard of in destructive cults such as PMOI.

By Mazda Parsi

April 16, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Alireza Taherloo; burned alive under the order of Massoud Rajavi

Alireza Taherloo joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) after the Iranian 1979 revolution. He used to work in the political phase of the group. In 1982, a year after the MEK launched a bloody armed struggle against the newly established government of Iran, Alireza was arrested by the Iranian security forces.

He was freed in 1992 after he served his ten-year-long sentence. “He was looking for a job after he was released,” Alireza’s sister told Nejat Society. “Because of his criminal record, it was too difficult for him to find a job so he traveled to Turkey to find a good job.”

Alireza Taherloo

In Turkey, Alireza was once more recruited by the MEK’s active recruiters there. “He was no more interested in working with the MEK but they deceived him and took him to Iraq,” his sister said.
Alireza arrived in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, in 1993 but only one year later, he was jailed in Camp Ashraf under the accusation of being the agent of the Iranian government. At the time, a large number of MEK members had been accused of such allegations. They were imprisoned, violently interrogated and tortured by their own commanders in Ashraf.

Nasir Heidari who was one of the suspected members of the group recalls: “They took Alireza Taherloo to our cell. He had been terribly tortured. His mental and physical conditions were not normal. We all had to sign a paper to confess that we had come to Ashraf to kill Massoud Rajavi otherwise tortures would be continued.”
After months of imprisonment and torture, Alireza was released but he was not mentally balanced. He was kept in isolation because he usually opposed commanders’ orders.

On April 8th, 2011, when Massoud Rajavi ordered his disarmed members to attack Iraqi forces who were supposed to build a station in Camp Ashraf, Alireza was coerced to commit suicide.

Alireza Taherloo

Khodabakhsh Miri, MEK defector who witnessed the deadly clashes in the morning of April 8th, testifies about Alireza Taherloo’s killing: ‘’He was in a car sitting next to his commander, Kianoush Salahpour. The car stopped. Alireza was listening to the commander. He took off the car and went towards Iraqi forces and set himself on fire.” Alireza burned alive before the eyes of Iraqi forces and his commander.

On April 8th, 2011, Massoud Rajavi ordered his members to scarify themselves to stop Iraqi forces from entering Camp Ashraf. Thirty-six members of the MEK were killed and hundreds were injured in the clashes between the MEK’s rank and file and Iraqi army. Iraqi police were supposed to return the lands in north of Camp Ashraf to their original owners, Iraqi farmers of the region. The lands have been confiscated from the farmers and donated to Massoud Rajavi by Iraqi’s former dictator, Saddam Hussein.

April 13, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

The worst experience of being an MEK member

“I saw my mother and brother over the fences of Ashraf but I did not bat an eyelid”, Musa Jaberifar, MEK defector said.
Defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization have so many times testified about the many examples of human rights violations committed by leaders of the group against their own members. The cases of violations include intimidation, humiliation, peer pressure, solitary confinement, physical and mental torture and even death.
However, the experience of Musa Jaberifar and many other MEK members might be considered as one of the worst memoirs of members of destructive cults like the Cult of Rajavi. These unpleasant experiences belong to those who found the chance to see their families on the other side of the walls of Camp Ashraf in Iraq but they were not allowed to meet them. Families used to picket in front of the gates of Ashraf in Iraq calling on their beloved children who were taken as hostages behind the bars of the cult.

Musa Jaberifar

Musa Jaberifar who has recently declared his total defection form the MEK writes this memoir as evidence for the inhuman experience he endured in his 13 years of membership in the MEK’s manipulative system:
“When we were in Ashraf, one day I was on guard post in one of the sides of Ashraf prison, I noticed my mother and brother who had come to visit me, behind the barbed wires around Ashraf. They were not allowed to enter Ashraf and I was not told that my family were there. I saw them accidently but as I was so frightened of the authorities and their humiliating sessions to oppress members, I did not bat an eyelid.”

Musa ignored his mother and brother while he had not seen them for years and he had definitely missed them. He had left them to immigrate to Greece but he turned out to be imprisoned in the MEK’s headquarters in Iraq. Nevertheless, ignoring his mother and brother was not enough for the cult authorities. His commander summoned him. He continues:

“After finishing my job, the authorities took me to the unit’s commander, a woman named Sheida. She said, ‘I called on you to tell me about your problems. We can talk about it and solve it.’ But I was afraid and already knew that if I said anything they would use it against me in their humiliating sessions. They might even label me with further accusations. So, I said, ‘No. I have no problem and every thing is OK.’ They did not say anything about my family’s coming to Ashraf.”

This was a brief account of the suppressive atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajvai. There are a lot of similar experiences exposed in the testimonies of defectors of the cult.

Gholam Ali Mirzaei

Gholam Mirzai was forced to speak in the MEK’s TV cannel to announce his hatred against his family who had come to Camp Ashraf to visit him. Years later, he could manage to leave the group and join his family in Iran after 40 years of separation.

Ms. Akafian – Ali sasani’s mother

Mohammad Ali Sasani is still in the MEK. His mother Mahnaz Akafian recalls how MEK members were forced to shout at their parents because they had come to Ashraf to visit them. At the time, she realized that his son did not come to visit him because he did not want to be rude to them.
This is the truth of People’s Mujahedin of Iran. It is a destructive cult that coerces members to ignore, insult and accuse their own parents only because they miss their children.

By Mazda Parsi

April 12, 2022 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Joie de Vie, mission accomplished by defectors of the Cult of Rajavi

Everyday, we see and hear new photos or videos on the daily life of defectors of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). It may be their gathering on the occasion of Persian new year’s traditions like Sizdahbedar (also known as Nature’s Day is an Iranian festival held annually on the thirteenth day of Spring) or in the birthday party for the son of Sarfaraz Rahimi and his Albanian wife Arisa, Ermolindo. It may also be the news on Malek BeitMashal who has bought his first personal car.

MEK defectors in Albania celebrate Thirteenth day of Spring, Sizdahbedar

What prevented Malek from buying a car in all those years of membership in the MEK? What prevented members of the MEK from enjoying a picnic in the nature just like what every Iranian enjoys at least once a year on the Thirteenth day of Spring, Sizdahbedar?

MEK defectors in Albania celebrate Thirteenth day of Spring, Sizdahbedar

Political struggle –what the MEK leaders claim for—does not mean neglecting life. Instead, the love for life leads to the love for people, nation and country. Thus, rejecting individuality and sexuality – as the MEK leaders believe in and boast of—is never a necessity for political struggle. There are a large number of political activists and freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela, Che Guevera who dedicated their life to fight for their people but they never ignored their love for nature, family, spouse and children — their love for life.

Life is forbidden in the Cult of Rajavi

This is the criteria that excludes the MEK from political fighters and includes it in the list of destructive cults. Life is forbidden in the Cult of Rajavi. This destructive cult deprives its victims from their individual, spiritual, social, academic and sexual life. The MEK leaders consider life as an obstacle against their alleged struggle. They call their so-called strategy as “neglecting individuality and sexuality”!

A few of current members of the MEK are likely to be mentally barred in the Cult of Rajavi. They have not realized that the group’s so-called struggle has borne no fruit but it has fortified the rule of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi over the cult. However, evidences indicate that there are a number of MEK members who have maintained joie de vie in their hearts; they know that life is going on outside the bars of the cult and they are waiting for an opportunity to leave the group, just like hundreds of defectors who left the group during the past few years.

Eid al-Fitr for MEK defectors in Albania

That is why members of ASILA (Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania) as defectors of the Cult of Rajavi try to use every occasion to demonstrate signs of their normal life outside the MEK. The videos of their parties, gatherings and picnics seem honest, simple and friendly in contrast with the well-funded luxurious propaganda shows run by the MEK in Camp Ashraf 3. Just compare the robot-like faces of MEK members waving flags and praising Maryam Rajavi with the cheerful faces of the guests in the birthday party of the four-year-old Ermolindo in their small cozy apartment.

By Mazda Parsi

April 6, 2022 0 comment

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