Batul Soltani

Rajavi’s interpretation of the holy and foul suicide

An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part thirteen)- some of these suicides were committed just following these meetings like the suicide done by Mehri Moussavi ..the significance was his skill in presenting examples .., the presented standards and motivations, which the ranking members were well aware of, behind these suicides could well help to identify whether it was esteemed a holy suicide for the cause of the leaderand interests of the organization or despised a sinful suicide for individual weaknesses ..

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Rajavi’s passion for women and his ambition for leadership

(Memoirs of Ms. Batoul Soltani – Final Part)..Rajavi believes that a woman works more obediently than a man. He thinks that when he orders a man to do a job, he may ask why, but a woman never asks questions about the demands, she would immediately execute the order. And that’s exactly what Rajavi wants. This is the potential that he cannot see in his male members. What matters to him is that who the best to achieve his goals is.

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Massoud asked arrogantly:”Does anyone claim to have a husband other than me?”

(Memoirs of Ms. Batoul Soltani – Part 22 )..The MKO leaders looked dawn on us so we accepted everything they said. They always tried to make us doubt our individuality. If we were not able to present a case about one of our minor colleagues, Maryam would punish us. She accused us of distancing ourselves from Massoud. Then she concluded that the problem comes from our thinking. I could never convince myself to accept their justification

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Weekly sessions, a process to secure obedience to Rajavi

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part twelve)..The more the time passed, the more he was obsessed with plans to become a magnet to draw devoted members and insisted to exactly, even if forcibly, accomplish the pattern he was holding onto. He was merging the principle of guidance with its authoritative aspects and opportunism to create a holy man of himself called the ideological leader.

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Rajavi’s leadership, the criterion to legitimize the ideology

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part eleven)..In his speech Rajavi underlined that the act of suicide in itself was a big sin and homicide in Islamic teachings. He would say if according to Quran suicide was known to be a big sin then, why we were stressing on suicide and related operations as a working approach. Of course, it was before the widespread self-immolations of June 17.He would continue focusing on the point that while it was a big sin then, why we took advantage of it for organizational interests and to defend Ashraf

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No member of Leadership council dares to tell his personal problems

(Memoirs of Batoul Soltani –Part 21) .. The affairs of the Leadership Council including marrying Masud are never revealed to lower ranks, due to the fact that Maryam and Masud believe :”the lower ranks will not understand it because the pupils of their eyes are sexual.”..Maryam and Masud insist that there is no need to present such a case in lower ranking meetings and also they do not have the capacity to realize it. .

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Execution, the approach to repel dissenters

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part ten )… Interestingly, if anybody failed to commit suicide, others had the responsibility to help him/her accomplish the job. Thus, the human tragedy in defense of Ashraf is a program that has to be possibly brought into actuality and there are a variety of approaches that will act to remove deterrents …

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Masud Rajavi Married every woman of the Leadership Council

(Memoirs of Batoul Soltani – Part 20)..Any woman who wants to enter the Leadership Council should obey the article B of the Ideological Revolution, which was actually related to “Joining the leader”. In this article the women are told to marry Masud Rajavi as soon as they are accepted in the Leadership Council.. .through a series of long-term meetings, the members of the Leadership council are convinced that the extent of their relation with the leader has changed due to their presence in the Leadership Council

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Rajavi; set your body on fire to defend Ashraf

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part nine)..There was a female colleague who had refused to volunteer for self-immolation but the organization showed no antagonistic attitude towards her before others. It was not the end of the story and the organization commanded me to watch her closely since they believed that she was in trouble with herself and cared not the least for the organization. They would justify that now even ten days after the detention of Maryam in France, she had refrained to be an abstentious volunteer.

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Human tragedy in prospect; Mojgan Parsai the first volunteer

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 8 ).. Of course, what she said was another interpretation of Massoud Rajavi’s message stating that we had to make use of all our facilities and potentialities wherever we were to set Maryam free. He would say any Mojahed breathing on this planet had to be ready to sincerely sacrifice and set on fire whatever he had for the sake of Maryam. Thus, it all began in the echelon of the Leadership Council and the enthusiast slid down to the lower layers. It is also the same with other issues. Consider, for instance, they want to elect a first secretary.

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