Luisa Hommerich, a Berlin-based investigative journalist with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit, couldn’t hide her joy and thrill on February 10 as she triumphantly announced the end of a…
In June 2018, BBC Scotland News published a story on a survivor of a notorious cult: Children of God. The report is based on testimonies of a 38-year-old woman says…
When in December 2021, former child soldiers of the Mujahedin Khalq spoke out about the abuses they endured inside the group camps and team houses, most people thought it was…
Mohammad Koohestani was born in 1982 when his parents had a clandestine life in Iran. His father Mostafa Koohestani had married his mother Zahra Farahnak three years earlier because the…
Political ideologies can easily influence people’s daily lives. In the contemporary history of Iran, the topic of politics has been constantly remained trending both in the news and in daily…
Esmat Vatanparast called mother Esmat, defected the Mujahedin Khalq after she realized that the group agents tortured her small daughter. Mother Esmat was an active member of the MEK. She…
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…
In September 2002, Reza was five years old when his mother Farokh Farhangian took him across the Kurdistan border to join the Mujahedin Khalq (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi)…
Zohair was only fourteen when he was armed by Massoud Rajavi in person Zohair Zakeri was born in 1976. When in 1991 Massoud Rajavi ordered to separate the children form…
Former child soldier of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) writes about several questions his mind was flooded with during the years he was kept under…