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The MEK failure in struggle leads to labeling critics as IRI’s agents

These three people are labeled as agents of the Intelligence Ministry of the Iranian government by the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK):
Parviz Heidarzadeh, a former member of the MEK who left the group in 2016. He had been imprisoned by the MEK when he was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war, in 1987. After he denounced the MEK, he lived a free life in Albania for 5 years. Finally, a few days ago, he returned to Iran to join his family after 35 years of separation.

Parviz Heidarzadeh to repatriate after 35 years

Soraya Abdollahi, mother of Amir Aslan Hassanzadeh a member of the MEK. Her son was recruited by the MEK in Turkey. Soraya has been taking many legal actions in order to visit her son in the MEK. She was never allowed by the MEK to contact him in any forms. She is a member of Nejat Society and the head of an establishment formed by mothers of MEK members who seek to contact their children inside the Cult of Rajavi.

Soraya Abdollahi

Amin Golmaryami, a former child soldier of the MEK who was made to sign a recruitment form to join the MEK’s army in Iraq when he was only 13 years old. He was a student in Germany before he was disappeared at school and turned out to receive military trainings in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He and his brothers left their Mujahed family behind in the MEK when the group was relocated in Albania in 2015. He exposed facts on the abusive attitudes of the MEK commanders in an interview with a German newspaper in October 2021. His revelations encouraged other former MEK child soldiers speak out in Club House.

Amin Golmaryami

These three people are the icons of three groups who are accused by the MEK of working for the enemy, the Iranian government. What makes these three people to be the target of the MEK’s propaganda in the same way?
As a matter of fact, they all denounce the MEK and ask its leaders to be responsive to their critics. But the MEK leaders particularly Massoud Rajavi has never been open to critics. Moreover, critics who might later become defectors should be punished according to the rulings of Rajavi. No matter the defector is a forced recruit like Parviz and many others or a child soldier from Mujahed parents like Amin who were coerced to join the MEK’s army.

Pedram is Amin’s friend, a former child soldier of the MEK too. Speaking in Club House, he argues that the MEK has failed to win its struggle against the Iranian government so it has nothing to do except projecting its failures on to its critics even if they are their own children, from their own DNA. “What is the MEK doing in Albania now,” asks Pedram. “Absolutely nothing. Their army does nothing. The only thing they can do is to accuse us of being mercenaries. The MEK has to realize that all critics are not mercenaries. As a political movement, the MEK has to respond to its criticizers.”

Actually, Pedram is right but he fails to assert that the MEK is not a political movement. It is a destructive cult with the methodology of destructive cults. In all destructive cults around the world, you cannot question the guru. You are not allowed to leave the group; you are not allowed to contact your family and many other suppressive methods that the cult leaders use to keep members in.

Once a defector can manage to leave the Cult of Rajavi, he or she becomes a mercenary. Once a family member seeks to meet his or her loved one, he or she turns into the agent of the IRI.

Today, the MEK propaganda targets Nejat Society because it is the body to support families of MEK members. The group also endeavors to obstruct the activities of the newly established association for the support of the Iranians living in Albania, ASILA. And, it does not hesitate to accuse the MEK-born children of Mujahed parents who just seek to enlighten the public opinion about the threats of Rajavi’s destructive cult.
The face of every person under these three categories are circled in red, captioned as agents of the Iranian intelligence by the propaganda machine of the Cult of Rajavi.

Mazda Parsi

January 18, 2022 0 comment

Missions of Nejat Society

Letter of the CEO of Nejat Society in Iran to the President of ASILA in Albania

Mr. Dashamir Mersuli
President of ASILA
Tirana, Albania

Dear Sir,
Nejat Society is a campaigning human rights NGO with branches all over Iran. It is supported by former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MeK, MKO, PMOI, NLA, and NCRI) and the estranged families of current members who reside in the MEK camp in Manez, Albania called Ashraf 3. Our aim is to secure the human rights of the members of the MEK, particularity their right to contact their families. I am writing on behalf of these families to draw your attention to some very grave violations of these basic human rights.
In 2016, under a flawed agreement struck between the US, Albania, the UNHCR in Geneva and the MeK, the UNHCR facilitated the transfer of the entire MEK organization (known as Saddam’s Private Army) to Albania from Iraq. This was achieved by moving just over 2000 MEK members to Tirana without their informed consent and without identity or travel documents.

The Obama administration’s policy at that time was to de-radicalize the members and distribute them among other European countries. This policy changed under the Trump administration allowing the MEK leader, Maryam Rajavi, to isolate and control the members in a closed camp where they have been set to work in a click farm propagating propaganda and misinformation against Iran.

Experts in cultic abuse identify the MEK as a destructive mind control cult which uses psychological manipulation and coercive control to brainwash members. This involves abuses of their most basic human rights including preventing contact with the outside world, particularity family and friends. The members are forbidden from marrying and forming a family, they do not receive salaries for their work and they are prevented from freely leaving the cult. Members of the MeK are living in conditions of modern slavery, yet the Albanian authorities – police, security, public health officials, etc – have no jurisdiction inside the camp. This is surely unacceptable for the national interests of Albania.

On first arriving in Albania, before being incarcerated in the camp, hundreds of members were able to leave the organization and try to live independently. Unfortunately, under the aforementioned agreement all the MEK members were to be supported by the organization. This meant that those who left were stranded without identity papers and no means to support themselves. As an indication of their desperation to escape the cult, members continue to leave under these conditions.

For this reason, the families of these stranded former members were delighted that you and your colleagues have established the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) to help these vulnerable individuals. We are also hopeful that we can support your work with our own efforts. As you are no doubt aware, many families have applied for visas to visit their loved ones in Albania. Unfortunately, the Albanian authorities have succumbed to the lies and deception of Maryam Rajavi who claims these families pose a security risk to her members and have refused to issue visas even to the elderly parents of some members. However, Rajavi’s objection to family visits is not made on the basis of security. Family contact has been banned for decades in the MEK because it breaks the mental and emotional isolation needed for brainwashing.

This is a gross violation of the fundamental rights of the members and their families. And as far as the families are concerned, the Albanian government has a share in this violation of human rights by supporting the MEK and allowing it to act with impunity against the members. Thousands of letters and emails from the families to the Albanian authorities requesting contact with their loved ones during all these years have gone unanswered.
I urge you, as president of ASILA, to raise this issue with the Albanian authorities and demand answers. Why are members of the MEK denied contact and visit with their families? Why does the government not issue visas for the families of the members so that they can travel to Albania and visit their loved ones after decades? Why do the Albanian authorities have no control over what is happening inside the MEK camp?

We look forward to hearing from you and anticipate a positive outcome for the families and the MEK members.

Yours Sincerely,
Ebrahim Khodabandeh
CEO, Nejat Society

January 17, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Being a child perpetrator takes you higher in the hierarchy of the Cult of Rajavi

Following the revelations that have been recently made by former child soldiers of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MKO/ MEk/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) on forced recruitment in the group’s military force, cult-like suppressions and sexual harassment and abuse by MEK commanders, other defectors spoke out to reveal evidences on child abuse cases they witnessed in the group.

Davood Baghervand is a former high-ranking member of the MEK who had previously written about child abuse in the MEK but he never stated the names of the abused child soldiers until last December that they began to speak out about their traumatic life inside the Cult of Rajavi. In order to confirm their words, Baghervand exposed the names of at least two MEK members who committed child abuse in various situations during their serving time in Massoud Rajavi’s cult of personality.

As the then commander of the group, Baghervand reported what he knew about child abuse cases to the higher ranks but the perpetrators were never punished. Instead, they were granted higher positions in the hierarchy of the Cult of Rajavi. The perpetrators, such as Esmail Mortezai (nicknamed Javad Khorasan) eventually turned into the most notorious torturers of the MEK. Read Baghervand’s account about him:

MEK member Esmaeil Mortezaei aka Javad Khorasan; the group’s torturer living in Albania

Javad Khorasan from child perpetrator to torturer
After the MEK leader Massoud Rajavi fled to Iraq, Esmail Mortezai was in charge of transferring MEK members living in Khorasan, Iran, to Pakistan. So, he was called Javad Khorasan in the group. Then, he became the head of many MEK operational teams to launch terrorist attacks across the Iranian borders during the 1980s and 1990s.
When MEK sympathizers and members were smuggled from Iran to Iraq, Javad Khorasan assisted a Mujahed mother named Ebrahimipour and her two teenage daughters to settle in Pakistan in a safe house shared with him.

At the time, Baghervad was responsible for organizing the affairs of MEK agents in Pakistan. The other day, Ebrahimipour opened up to him weeping tears. She told baghervand that Javad Khorasan sexually harassed her daughters at nights and he should be executed by the group leader.
In response, Baghervand changed the safe house of the mother and her two daughters and reported sexual misconduct of Javad to the leaders in Iraq. Nothing happened after the report was sent.
After their relocation in Camp Ashraf Iraq, once more Baghervaned pursued the case of Javad Khorasan. Again, there was no feed back and Javad Khorasan was still escalating up the hierarchy.

Today Javad Khorasan is considered as one of the most violent commanders of the MEK. His name is repeatedly stated by former members as a suppressive commander of the cult in the daily self-confession and brainwashing sessions held inside the MEK base to manipulate the minds of the rank and file.
Baghervand asserts, “It is clear that Massoud Rajavi was informed of every sexual case and child abuse that were committed in the group but he used these crimes to leverage the person in order to take him completely under his control.”

January 12, 2022 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq as an Opposition Group

Deceptive Recruitment in Albania – MEK Treachery Against Iranians Continues

Reports continue to emerge about malign behaviour by the MEK in Albania. In December 2021 two leading members were arrested for human trafficking and drug smuggling. The removal of an article from Alice Taylor for Exit News which reported the arrests highlighted MEK interference in Albania’s media as well as other state bodies. Exit News further reported that a foreign diplomat was notified about the case by a senior police official, but that the embassy involved failed to respond to media questions and that subsequently no prosecutions resulted. Under such conditions of foreign protection, whoever ordered the reinstatement of the Exit News article should be applauded. However, vigilance must be maintained to prevent further misdemeanours by this cultic group.

Recently it has been reported that MEK members are helping Albanian police identify Iranians among migrants arriving in the country. On the surface, this might appear a benign form of help. But deeper inspection reveals a sinister treachery.

Working with the police in itself throws up questions. Migrants seeking asylum from repressive countries have no need or benefit in lying about their origins. What role do the MEK personnel play in seeking out fraudsters? Who lies about their origins? Do the police employ the MEK members in some official capacity or are they simply there as ‘volunteers’? In this scenario, do the police ‘employ’ other ethnicities to identify their own? Once such individuals are identified, what purpose does this serve? Are the MEK personnel used as translators? Are the individuals informed that these are members of MEK? These questions should in themselves raise alarm bells about the involvement of this unethical, criminal group in a highly sensitive arena involving extremely vulnerable asylum seekers.

However, there is growing evidence that MEK are able to exploit this scenario for recruitment purposes. They will tell the migrant in Farsi that they will almost certainly be deported back to Iran unless they accept help from them. That help will be framed as facilitating their forward travel to Germany or France or the UK, etc, and that only they can prevent deportation. In this case, the target will need to stay in Camp Ashraf 3 to ensure their safety until travel arrangements can be made. In reality, no such arrangements will be made and these duped victims will be trapped inside Camp Ashraf 3 with no recourse to help or saviour.

This is exactly how MEK has behaved in the past. During the Iran Iraq war 1880-88, the MEK would visit Iranian Prisoners of War in Iraqi camps. They would promise to remove them from the appalling conditions of the camps where death, violence, torture and malnutrition were a daily risk. The PoW would be taken to Camp Ashraf and from there, the MEK would promise to facilitate their return to Iran, often via Europe. Of course, that never happened, and tens of these PoWs are still trapped in the MEK camp in Albania after three decades.

Later, as Iranians fled from the post-war revolutionary conditions imposed on them in Iran, including financial hardship, the MEK set up a recruitment department in Turkey to lure would be victims with similar deceptive promises of help. All the migrants needed to do, they were told, was come to Iraq for a while until arrangements could be made to transfer them to Europe of North America. Again, this was a deceptive trap, and these individuals were never freed from either Iraq or now Albania unless they made their own escape.

The MEK needs to recruit now in particular. From the 3800 members detained in Iraq by the US army in 2003, only around 1600 or fewer remain in Albania. The attrition of members has come about from various causes. Most are defections – tens of hundreds of people who simply could continue as members of a cult that daily destroys them and so fled the clutches of MEK. Some have died – from old age, illness, murder and suicide and of course, COVID-19. Of those who remain, the great majority are old, sick or disabled – from war and disease and neglect.

Whatever the reason, the number of members has diminished and deteriorated so much that the MEK’s sponsors and masters are beginning to find them a burden rather than an asset. Certainly, even slaves need feeding, housing and clothing if they are to perform valuable tasks. The return for this contract is barely worth it. Rajavi sells her organisation’s members for various tasks – to organise and participate in glitzy propaganda rallies, to act as click farm operatives and perhaps most sinister, to be the hiding place for several dangerous persons skilled in terrorism and prepared for suicide missions. As long as these services are in demand, Rajavi has a need for more younger healthier members. But there is a fine balance as to how necessary and cost effective this particular group is in the west’s calculations.

Whether or not the anti-Iran coalition continues to fund and exploit the MEK in its current manifestation – a slave camp in Albania – the authorities there should consider the national interests of Albania now and what its presence there means to the future of the country. There are, of course, multiple steps that can be taken toward dismantling the group. Certainly, this should start with preventing further recruitment into the camp and into slavery.

By Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh,

January 11, 2022 0 comment

Missions of Nejat Society

Nejat Society’s main mission

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ NCRI/ Cult of Rajavi) is not currently considered a social, political or even security threat for the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, the group is still enjoying the material support of the enemies of Iran in order to target psychological security of the Iranian nation using its well-fueled propaganda machine.

What puts the MEK in the limelight is human rights issues. The group is a considerable example of destructive mind control cults. It uses manipulation techniques to control and maintain its members violating the basic human rights of theirs and their families’.

Unfortunately, the current international political circumstances have made the MEK leaders capable of committing human rights violations against their own members, imposing sufferings on their families. And, they have never been questioned for the human rights they abused.

As an NGO formed by former members of the Cult of Rajavi and families of present members, Nejat Society calls for a change in living conditions of the MEK members who are deprived from the most basic human rights including the right to contact their family. Nejat Society is in charge of drawing international attention to human rights abuses committed against members of the MEK.

In Nejat Society’s point of view, members of the Cult of Rajavi are kept in a modern slavery. They are mentally and physically imprisoned. They should be released from such a catastrophic situation and their human rights should be restored. During the past years, Nejat Society has worked hard to at least restore the MEK members’ right to contact their families.

January 10, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

The Internet Shutdown, Violation of Human Rights in the MEK

Huge screens that show Maryam Rajavi in the video conferences in the halls of Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania and hundreds of monitors that demonstrate the online audience of the conference from all over the world are signs of the well-funded complicated Internet system used by the Mujahedin Khalq’s propaganda machine. But you may never believe that the rank and file of the MEK do not know how to work with a smart phone. They have no access to the Internet as a core pillar of everyday life.

In fact, information control is one important sign of destructive cults. In order to control the information, the cult leaders practice deception by deliberately withholding or distorting information, and or lying. They minimize or discourage access to other sources of information (TV, internet, former members, and so on). They make extensive use of cult-generated information and propaganda. In the Cult of Rajavi, the only accessible source of information is the group’s TV channel, Sima-ye Azadi and the internal bulletins.

Bakhshali Alizadeh, speaks of a room in the MEK’s base called “the Internet Room” with a big no entry sign and the written phrase in Persian: Entry is absolutely forbidden

Former member of the MEK, Bakhshali Alizadeh, speaks of a room in the MEK’s base called “the Internet Room” with a big no entry sign and the written phrase in Persian: Entry is absolutely forbidden. “The room was only authorized for a few people”, he says. “These few members had to keep everything they saw there a secret. So, their self-criticism sessions were held separately.”

According to the document issued by the Office of Human Rights High Commissioner of the United Nations (OHCHR), published in April 2021, the Internet shutdown can violate human rights. In cases that the shutdown of the Internet is neither legal nor necessary, shutdowns violate the rights to freedom of expression and to peaceful assembly and freedom of association under Articles 19, 21 and 22, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

The document reads, “Given that the internet is now used to enjoy a wide range of rights, including health, work, and education, shutdowns are a blunt approach that is almost invariably disproportionate. Smaller scale restrictions, such as denials of service, are often discriminatory…Shutdowns thus can significantly increase marginalization and social and economic inequalities.”

Therefor, it is not implausible that an ordinary member of the MEK has to try hard to get adopted with the high-tech smart phones and other communication devices in the outside world after leaving the Cult of Rajavi.
Based on the OHCHR’s document, titled “Internet Shutdown and human Rights”, states, regional and international organizations can help stop discrimination and human rights violation in the communities that the Internet has been banned. They should engage with authorities, pay attention to community reports and respond promptly when shutdowns occur. In case of the MEK, today there are numerous testimonies presented by former members of the group as well as investigated reports published by independent journalists on the life inside the MEK.

Moreover, families of the rank and file of the MEK living in Iran are the most significant witnesses for the Internet shutdown inside the MEK. The reason is clear. Despite their longtime efforts in order to contact their loved ones in the MEK, they have not been able to visit them or talk to them on the phone during the past decades.
Families have no way except publishing text or video messages on the Internet including Nejat Society’s website, in the hope that their loved one in the Cult of Rajavi will see their messages someday. Bakhshali Alizadeh asserts that Nejat society’s website is checked by those specific MEK agents in the Internet room of camp Ashraf 3, every day. “They see all messages sent by families on Nejat website but they are forced to keep silent about them. They should not tell the member that his or her family is looking forward to see him or her” he says.

Therefore, it seems that the legal duty of the Albanian government and the regional and international human rights bodies requires them to conform their actions to stop violation of human rights in the MEK’s camp aiding the rank and file of the group reach the outside world via the Internet and other communication tools.

By Mazda Parsi

January 8, 2022 0 comment

Missions of Nejat Society

Nejat Society and families; main contradictions to the MEK

Reliable information obtained from some sources, including within the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult), indicates that the MEK’s sensitivities towards the activities of the Nejat Society have increased significantly compared to previous years.
This information shows that the MEK, in its political communications and lobbying, has launched a large-scale campaign against the Nejat Society and the activities of the families, and is desperately trying to induce that these activities are all planned by the Iranian intelligence in order to introduce the purpose of laying the groundwork for terrorist operations.

The Rajavi cult is trying to republish the counterfeits against the CEO of the Nejat Society on various monetary sites in Europe and the United States from more than 10 years ago at great expense, and display them to the audience as new first-hand information.
The Rajavi cult also tries to, by selecting and translating the contents of the Nejat website and presenting them to Albanian and European officials, prove that the families who want to meet their loved ones in the MEK camp in Albania are all Iranian intelligence officials that pursue terrorist intentions.

It goes without saying that these efforts have largely turned against themselves, and many audiences have realized that the main opposition of the Rajavi cult is merely families, and like all mind control destructive cults in the world, considers its members’ families the main enemy. The MEK has always failed to answer this question that “What security threat can some elderly mothers and fathers pose to them in Albania?”. Many have assessed such activities of the MEK as a sign of helplessness and nervousness, and of course propaganda against the Nejat Society and its CEO.

The main problem and reason for the fear of the Rajavi cult is the establishment and registration of “ASILA” as an association for the protection of the basic rights of Iranians living in Albania and its relationship with the Nejat Society and families inside Iran, which is a turning point in their presence in Albania.

What is true and what the leaders of the MEK want to cover up is that the members of this cult have no basic human rights, including the right to marry and start a family and have children, the right to communicate with the outside world, particularly family and friends, and the right to receive salaries for their work. They are also deprived of many other rights recognized in the UN Charter of Human Rights.
As far as suffering and awaiting families are concerned, they are determined not to give up on achieving their ultimate goal, which is to gain the rights of their children, especially the right to family visit, and certainly slander and insults made by the Rajavi cult will not cause families to retreat.

By Atefeh Nadalian,

January 4, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

The story of Torabi family; torn apart by the MEK

The Torabis are from a village near Gaz port in Golestan province in North of Iran. Nadeali Torabi, the oldest brother is a farmer, living in their home town looking forward to see the two sisters left of his entire family. Their parents, both died before they could be able to visit their beloved children and grandchildren.
QorbanAli one of the Torabis was influenced by the communist ideas taking over the 1970s in Iran so he joined the Mujahedin Khalq Organization. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, his two sisters Masoomeh and Maryam and his bother Mohamad Reza joined the MEK too. Eventually the Torabi’s home became a center for ani-government activities in the armed struggle that Massoud Rajavi launched against the newly stablished Iranian government during the 1980s.

The fate of two generations of the Torabis was impacted by their involvement with the MEK. The followings are brief records of what happened to these guys:
Mohammad Reza Torabi 1 (Nadeali’s brother)
QorbanAli Torabi (Nadeali’s brother)
Zahra Seraj (QorbanAli’s wife)
Mohammad Reza Torabi 2 (Son of Qorban and Zahra)
Masoomeh Torabi (Nadeali’s sister)
Maryam Torabi (Nadeali’s sister)

Mohammad Reza Torabi 1
The clashes between the MEK forces and the Iranian government turned into violence after Massoud Rajavi ordered the bloody armed struggle against the Islamic Republic, in June 1981. The MEK launched numerous acts of violence against the Iranian civilians and authorities. Consequently, a large number of MEK members were arrested, imprisoned or sentenced to death. MohammadReza was executed in Evin Prison.

GhorbanAli Torabi Qorban was tortured to death by the MEK

QorbanAli Torabi
As a mujahed partisan, he was arrested by the Iranian security guards when he was crossing the Turkish border with his family. He was imprisoned for six years. In March, 1989 Qorban left Iran to join the MEK in Iraq together with his wife, son, his two sisters, his sister’s husband. They first moved to Pakistan and then they were smuggled to Iraq.
Two years later, Massoud Rajavi’s so-called ideological revolution required members of the group to divorce their spouses. Family life became forbidden at Camp Ashraf. His son, Mohammad Reza was separated from him and transferred to the West together with eight hundred other children of the MEK members. Qorban protested the new cult-like regulations of the group. This was the start of an oppressive process against him.
In the winter of 1994, the MEK leaders imprisoned a large number of their own members including Qorban, accusing them of working for the Iranian government. Qorban was tortured to death. Twenty-one of his peers in the cell witnessed his death after his awfully injured body was brought to the cell by the MEK torturers. Former members, Alireza Mirasgari and Mohammad Razaghi were two of those witnesses who later testified about the death of Qorban due to tortures in the MEK’s prison.

Zahra Seraj
After Rajavi’s so-called ideological revolution, Zahra was coerced to divorce her husband, Qorban. She submitted her son to the MEK’s smugglers to take him to Canada. In response, she was granted higher ranks in the hierarchy of the Cult of Rajavi.
When in 2004, Nadeali traveled to Iraq to see his brothers and sisters, he ran into Zahra in the hall that all families of MEK members were waiting to visit their loved ones. Nadeali asked Zahra about his brother Qorban’s fate. “For a few seconds she stared at me and then she started shouting insults at me,” Nadeali recounts. “She was severely brainwashed.”
Zahra Seraj is still in the MEK’s camp in, Albania. According to former members, Zahra was a kind, hardworking and responsible person who was brainwashed by the Cult of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi.

Mohammad Reza Torabi

Mohammad Reza Torabi 2
He was named MohammadReza after the name of his martyred uncle. He was only one year old when he was in Iranian prison with his mother. In 1989 his parents took him to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. He was there until he was nine years old. In 1991, he was smuggled to Europe and then to Canada to live in the MEK bases or with foster parents. He was then brought back to Iraq to join the MEK’s National Liberation Army (NLA) when he was 16.
Four years ago, He could manage to leave the MEK after 18 years. He has recently begun to reveal facts on his life experience as child soldier in the MEK. “It was a terrible life there,” he says about his childhood in the Cult of Rajavi. “I was in Ashraf until I was eight or nine. In Camp Ashraf or in the MEK’s bases in the West, I was sexually abused by the MEK sympathizers and members. I was then given to a family that was very bad. I was constantly beaten by them. I was mentally abused.”

Masoomeh Torabi
Masoomeh was pregnant when she crossed the Iranian border to Pakistan together with her family. She gave birth to her daughter, Anahita, in Pakistan. Then they joined the MEK in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
She admitted Rajavi’s order to divorce her husband, Hamid. A year later, the MEK smugglers took her two-year-old daughter to Canada.
However, when his brother Nadeali went to camp Ashraf to visit the, she hugged him and cried. Asked about the death of Qorban, Masoomeh told Nadeali that he had died of a heart attack!
Masoomeh is still taken as a hostage in the MEK cult-like group. Former members say that when Masoomeh finally called her daughter Anahita after 20 years, she did not know her at all. No information was found about the current situation of Hamid and Anahita Emami, the husband and daughter of Masoomeh.

Maryam Banoo Torabi
The youngest sibling has spent the most part of her life in the MEK. In 1994, she was also accused of being an agent of the Iranian intelligence. She was interrogated and imprisoned. She was under too much pressure by the commanders. The death of her brother, Qorban was also a trauma that led her to psychotic disorders.
In that only one meeting with Nadeali in 2004, Maryam told him that she wanted to leave the group but she was scared. “My little sister, Maryam was crying saying that she did not want to stay there but she was forced to stay,” Nadeali says. “I asked her to come with me but she said that if the MEK agents realized that she wanted to escape, they would kill her.”
Maryam is still in the MEK’s camp in Albania, just the same as other radicalized female members of the group.

January 3, 2022 0 comment

The cult of Rajavi

Testimonies of the MEK’s Child Soldiers

Former child soldiers of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) spoke in Club House, on December 11th and 18th, 2021. Dozens of participants of the rooms were former members of the MEK including former militia forces of the MEK who are considered as child soldiers because they were recruited by the group commanders when they were teenagers. They gave testimonies on their experiences of working and receiving military trainings in the MEK’s bases.
A lot of speakers talked in the two five-hour-long club house rooms. Although former child soldiers knew that they would be again labeled as agents of the Iranian government or “mercenary” by the MEK propaganda, they revealed more facts on their life in the Cult of Rajavi. The followings were extracted from some of their testimonies:

Alireza Naghash
As the son of a Mujahed mother, he was taken to Iraq when he was 11 years old. In 1991 he was smuggled to Europe together with other children of the MEK. He was then transferred to Camp Ashraf again to join the MEK’s so-called National Liberation Army (NLA). He says:
“I went to the MEK when I was 11 and I left it when I was 30, in 2004. I started talking against the group as soon as I left camp Ashraf and entered the American Camp (TIPF). If you wanted to leave the MEK you had to admit any accusation. They would label you as a mercenary or as an immoral person. In my idea, those who were braver, soon accepted one or both of these accusations and left the group…
“If the MEK calls us mercenary, they should prove it. The MEK wanted us to stay in the group to get killed and then they would use our names as their martyrs… I am proud of myself even if the MEK calls me mercenary. I am happy that I could inform other people about the danger of the MEK.”

Ali Meyari
He was only thirteen years old when the MEK transferred him to Iraq to join the NLA in 1998. He says:
“Marzieh Aliahmadi told me, ‘You have no other way. Your parents were mujaheds and you have to become a mujahed too’. I was forced to take arms. They told me, a 13-year-old son, to write about the crimes of the regime on a paper! I have no photos of my teen years. There are only some pictures of me wearing military uniform and having a gun in my hands. The MEK wanted to delete us.
“Today, I am in Germany. The MEK has no base in the Iranian population here. If you tell the Iranians that you come from the MEK, they will beat you or insult you… I came to Germany four years ago and since then I tried to contact my mother [who is still in the MEK] but I was not allowed to talk to her…
“When I was in Camp Ashraf, one of the commanders touched my hip. This was repeated every night. When I reported to the superior ranks, they told me that it was my own fault…People in the MEK had sexual problems. Sexual relationships were forbidden. This is against the nature of human beings.
“The MEK seized my passport. When I wanted to leave the MEK in Albania they even took my necklace, they left me money less in the streets of Albania. In Germany, I had to prove that I am Iranian!”

Amir Pakbaz
As the son of Mujahed parents, Amir and his brothers spent their adolescence in the MEK’s cult-like structure. He was 17 when he was taken from Denmark to Belgium and Netherlands and finally to Iraq. He left the MEK in Albania in 2015. He recounts:
“I want to speak of the truth. I waisted 19 years of best part of my life to fight for the Iranian people but unfortunately, I was in a structure in which I did not fight for the freedom of Iranians even for one day. In the MEK the fight was between the lower ranks and the higher ranks.”

Parvin
She was a little girl when she was separated from her Mujahed parents and she was smuggled to Europe in 1991. She did not see her mother until 2015. She says:
“I am sad and moved by your stories. I went to Albania 6 years ago. I met my mom after 25 years, there [in the MEK’s camp]. I feel that my mom would leave the MEK if she was able to choose. She does not know anything about the outside world. She is scared to come out.”

Amin Golmaryami
He might be the most famous child soldier of the MEK due to the famous interview he had with the German newspaper Die Zeit. He recounted his story as a child soldier in the MEK and he was soon labeled as mercenary of the Iranian government by the MEK propaganda. Amin was a main speaker in the rooms. The followings are just a short part of his words:
“I never vote for the MEK in the future of Iran. This group will not bring democracy for Iranians. As a free man, I live in Germany. I recounted my life experience for the German journalist Hommerch and the MEK simply accused me of being a liar! No body can say that I me telling lie. I received military trainings in the MEK. My mother did gave me the arm! Every morning we had to declare that we are fighters of the National Liberation Army… In the MEK ‘family’ make no sense. My parents did not know anything about me in the MEK. Leadership of the group had the central role and nothing else was important.”

January 2, 2022 0 comment

Albania

US Allies Must Control MEK Crimes in Albania

All the US ambassadors to Tirana since the late Ambassador Limpreht in 2001 have raised concerns about human trafficking in Albania and the frequent link between this crime figure and transnational crime. Our American allies have helped us a lot by donating vehicles, computers and various equipment to Albanian law enforcement agencies and conducting training, etc.

All this in the service of the fight against human trafficking. Unfortunately, in the last 3-4 years, a new actor has entered the field of this type of trafficking: the former terrorist organization MEK (the People’s Mojahedin of Iran). Individually, in my writing, I have addressed some cases (by name and surname) of the human trafficking committed by this former terrorist organization. Unfortunately, an almost total black out by the Albanian media of these trafficking cases has encouraged this malicious activity by the Mojahedin who are located as uninvited guests in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez.

In the only case when Albanian police arrested two senior commanders of the MEK for involvement in drug trafficking and human trafficking, American diplomats strongly intervened with the Albanian prosecution to close this story down so that …… Such an intervention by our allies amongst the best Albanian law enforcement agencies, emboldened the former MEK terrorists to continue to trafficking Iranians and not only from Albania to EU countries, also to England and neutral countries such as Finland or Sweden.

The case of Farid Shahkarami

Until April 2021, the Iranian Farid Shahkarami (with identification number / personal number: L623030041) was employed in Tirana in the Company “Market Info sh.pk” with the address: Rruga Reshit Petrela, TIRANA Train Station. According to secret personal data which was leaked to the Albanian media a few days ago, Faridi worked in this company as a computer operator and was paid 2.72700 ALL per month.

Now it turns out, Farid Shahkarami is no longer in Albania. From an exchange of information with my Austrian colleagues it turns out that this Farid is in Vienna, where he is living illegally. I honestly do not know why Austrian journalists are so extremely interested in learning as much detail as possible about an Iranian computer specialist and former terrorist, who lives illegally in Vienna! Farid Shahkarian came to Albania together with several thousand members of the former MEK terrorist organization. The agreement governing the arrival of these Iranians in Albania is kept secret, but our NATO allies are now seeing the problem with these Iranians in the MEK is as the perpetrators of several criminal offenses, such as human trafficking, international drug trafficking, etc. As an Albanian journalist and patriot, I hope that the American diplomats in Tirana will help the Albanian law enforcement bodies keep the criminal activity of these Iranian Mojahedin living in Albania under control and on a tight leash.

Gjergji Thanasi

December 29, 2021 0 comment

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