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No member state of anti-terrorism conventions has the right to host the MEK

Judge Dehghani asked the signatory countries of universal anti-terrorism conventions to punish the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) for its crimes or return them to Iran.

The fifteenth session of the court hearing for the trial of the MEK was held on July 9th,2024. In this meeting, Judge Dehghani emphasized that there is no permanent international criminal court with the jurisdiction to deal with cases of terrorist incidents, and said that dealing with cases related to terrorist incidents is the responsibility of the governments.

He further reminded the audience of the existence of anti-terrorism conventions and the need for the signatory countries to commit to its provisions and said: Since the beginning of this court, no member country of the anti-terrorism conventions has had the right to host terrorists. They should either prosecute the accused themselves or return them to Iran.

Judge Dehghani also mentioned 13 international conventions and three regional conventions as a result of the international community’s efforts to deal with the issue of global terrorism, and emphasized the need for various host and supporting countries of the MEK to pay attention to their obligations within the framework of the signed conventions. He asked for punishment of these terrorists.

Judge Dehghani asked the prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take the necessary measures to return the MEK criminals to the country.

July 17, 2024 0 comments

Missions of Nejat Society

Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society CEO in the MEK’s 15th trial court

Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Nejat Society CEO attended the MEK’s 15th trial court in Tehran.
The 15th session of the trial court of 104 Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) members and the group as a legal entity was held on July 9th, 2024. Ebrahim Khodabandeh who is a former responsible with the MEK’s international relations showed up as an informed source in the court.

Ebrahim Khodabande stated in the court: “I accomplished diplomatic missions for the organization in more than 20 countries. We used to hold meetings with Masoud Rajavi in Iraq and Paris. When the explosion of the building of the Islamic Republic Party took place, the organization did claim the responsibility for the bombing. Later, we realized that the reason was not international considerations, but the organization’s internal environment.”

He continued: The organization did not announce who did the attack, even the members of the organization were confused. A year later, in 1961, Massoud Rajavi held a meeting in Paris, where a number of members and supporters of the organization were present, and in that meeting, he clearly announced, ‘we collapsed the ceiling on Beheshti and the members of the Islamic Republic Party, and in this way, we ruined the regime’s future’. Rajavi used to say that Imam Khomeini is the present of the Islamic Republic, but Shahid Beheshti is the future of the Islamic Republic, and in thus he supposed that he had ruined the future of the regime.”

The former agent of MEK international relations stated: “The MEK published the slogan “Death to America” in its publications. The constitution of the MEK’s National Council of Resistance, was first based on fighting against imperialism and helping anti-imperialist movements. One year later, in 1982 the slogan of death to America was removed and the statutes of the National Council of Resistance were changed. Masoud Rajavi held meetings with other members of the group and announced, ‘The reason was that we were confronting America and the enemy We were, because our main conflict was with the Shah and America supported the Shah, and now that the Islamic Republic is one of the few independent countries in the world and has been in complete conflict with America, so we have no reason to be enemies with America and confront it. We are aligned.’”

Nejat Society CEO told the court: “In October 1997, the US State Department listed the MEK as foreign terrorist organization. At that time in Baghdad, Masoud Rajavi held a meeting in Camp Ashraf and said ‘when we did the bombing of June 27th, America did not list us as terrorist, but now that we have not taken up arms for 10 years, it has done so’.”

Ebrahim Khodabandeh further said: “Massoud Rajavi announced in one of the meetings, ‘After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, everyone sought to form a party, but we sought to collect weapons and our infiltrators were everywhere and we influenced wherever we could. Like the impact on Bani Sadr and wherever we could not, we removed people; Like the bombing of June 27th, the explosion of the Islamic Republic Party building.”

He stated: “Kolahi Samadi [the MEK agent who detonated the bomb in the office of Islamic Republic party] came to Iraq after the explosion of the Islamic Republic Party and Masoud Rajavi introduced him to everyone, but after a while there was no news of him and we did not find out where Kolahi went.”

July 13, 2024 0 comments

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Iranian court holds 15th trial session in MKO terrorism case

The 15th trial session of the hearing on crimes of members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group is held in Tehran.

The new round was held at the 11th branch of the criminal court of Tehran province on Tuesday in a case that tries 104 natural persons as well as one legal entity in absentia.

Judge Dehqani, who presided over the session, said judicial notices have already been sent out to all defendants of the case under the Islamic penal code of Iran, stressing that the defendants have neither hired a lawyer nor filed a defense with the court.

He added that anti-terrorism conventions stipulate that prosecution and punishment of those accused of acts of terror fall within the jurisdiction of criminal courts, noting that the conventions are based on the principle of extradition and punishment of the accused.

The states are, therefore, obligated to try those accused of terrorist activities or hand them over to the country which has placed an extradition order, Judge Dehghani pointed out.

He went on to describe the Iranian nation as the biggest victim of terrorism, noting that governments should commit themselves to dealing with terrorism cases as there is no permanent international criminal court with jurisdiction over such cases.

Dealing with acts of terror incorporates principles that do not allow parties to anti-terrorism conventions to host terrorists or issue visas for them.

Judge Dehqani also advised the defendants to return to the country, defend themselves against criminal charges and possibly absolve themselves of liability before it’s too late.

Iran’s top human rights official says the MKO and other terrorist groups suffered another blow by the release of Hamid Nouri, a former judiciary official, from illegal detention in Sweden.

Under the principle of citizenship, countries can prosecute their nationals who have committed crimes outside their territory. Almost all European states have admitted this principle. Terrorism is an international crime and even if it is done with a political motive, it is not considered a political crime and is subject to extradition, he stated.

Accordingly, if a country refuses to extradite those accused of terrorist activities, a red notice will be issued. Therefore, this Iranian criminal court warns the statesmen of those countries hosting terrorists that countries that are members of anti-terrorism conventions are not allowed to offer terrorists refuge, Judge Dehqani stated.

The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks over the past four decades, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO’s acts of terror.

The European Union, Canada, the United States and Japan had previously listed the MKO as a “terrorist organization.”

In 2012, the group was taken off the US list of terrorist organizations. The EU followed suit, removing the group from its list of terrorist organizations.

July 9, 2024 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

MEK’s confession to their crimes in Mujahed journal

Mohammad Sadegh Koshki, a researcher and author, told the trial court of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) about the confessions of the group to its terrorist activities in its official journal “Mujahed”.

Mohammad Sadegh Koshki, the author of the book “Tabar Terror, an overview of the history and terrorist record of the Mujahedin-e Khalq”, attended the 13th session of the trial court of 104 leaders of the MEK and the organization as a legal entity. He presented his book as a document of the “open confessions of the legal defendant” to the court.

According to Kushki, the book was written only based on Mujahed journal. It presents a record on the terrorist activities of the group. All the cases discussed in the book are based on the Mujahid journal, with the publication number, exact date and page number.

He stated that since Mujahid journal is recognized as the official periodical of the MEK, the organization cannot deny the attribution of the terrorist acts it has committed.

He then reads some parts of the book for the court: For example, in No. 178 of Mujahed journal, dated July 20, 1983, Ali Zarkesh, who was the operational head of the MEK in Iran, was quoted as saying that between June 1382 and June 1983, the group had killed at least 2,500 Iranian citizens.

Other examples of Mujahed journal’s confessions of committing the murder of a large number of innocent citizens, military and government officials of Iran, training for making explosives, bombs and terror tactics were also mentioned by Sadeq Kushki.

Mujahed journal is actually a document for confessions of the MEK as the first-line defendant in the court for committing terrorist acts, killing thousands of Iranian citizens, teaching the methods of committing crimes and encouraging to commit them, which can be used by the court as evidence against the group.

June 2, 2024 0 comments

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13th MKO hearing held in Tehran

The third session of the new round (thirteenth session) of the hearing on the crimes of 104 members of Mojahedin Khalgh organization, as well as the nature of the organization as a legal entity, began on Tuesday, in the eleventh branch of the criminal court of Tehran.

Iran Press/Iran news: The new round of hearing the crimes of the members of MKO, was held in the 11th branch of the Criminal Court of a Tehran province, presided over by Judge Dehghani and court advisors Morteza Turk and Amin Naseri in the Imam Khomeini Judicial Complex (RA) in public.

The record of crimes of the MKO terrorist outfit includes a black and anti-human history, which is the proof of the massacre of more than 17 thousand Iranian civilians.
In this meeting, lawyers explained the legal complaint against this group in details, especially Maryam and Masoud Rajavi.Films and pictures of the inhumane and ISIS-like behavior of this group were broadcast, which was very disturbing.In this court, the lawyer of criminals (absent from the court) also presented defenses regarding 15 lines of accusation.According to the judge of the court, a red notice has been issued by the criminal police for the defendants and these people are not immune anywhere in the world.

The next court session starts on June 11 at 8:30 am.

Iran Press

May 29, 2024 0 comments

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On the eve of the 13th session of the trial court of the leaders of the MEK

A compromise between witnesses, plaintiffs, researchers, prosecutor’s representative and plaintiffs’ lawyers
After twelve sessions of the trial of the leaders of the Mujaheidn-e Khalq (MEK) in Criminal Court No. 1 of Tehran, the thirteenth session of the court will be held soon. During the previous sessions, indictments were presented for the MEK as a legal entity and 114 defendants, all of whom are high-ranking members of the organization. Statements of some eyewitnesses, families of victims of MEK-led terrorist attacks and former members of the organization were heard.
In the twelfth session, the intellectual foundations of the MEK and in particular Masoud Rajavi were discussed. In this regard, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Meisam Hakimzadeh Hosseini, cited some documents, books and opinions of researchers. In fact, the previous session was an opportunity to investigate the real identity and main ideology of the MEK, which ultimately led to the violent and sectarian activities of the group.

Whatever the intellectual foundations of the MEK have been, today it has created a record for the group, from which a 700-page indictment has been issued, as well as a huge number of plaintiffs, some of whom are always present at court hearings.
Perhaps the testimony of eyewitnesses of the violence of the MEK is more fruitful than historical evidence and ideological foundations, for the court in order to reach the truth and issue fair verdicts. Because the number of eyewitnesses who have witnessed the crimes of MEK in different areas is so large that it can facilitate the clarification of the dimensions of the case.

One of the reactions of the MEK to the holding of the courts in Iran is to purify their past. For example, producing various contents, the agents of the group try to deny its relationship with the Iraqi dictatorship. The cooperation of the MEK with Saddam Hussein and his Baath regime is described as “collaboration with the enemy at war with the homeland” and in many countries of the world the sentence issued for this treason is the most severe punishment in the country’s judiciary because it “endangers national security”. In this regard, in addition to the videos, photos and documents that were revealed after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime, there are also many eyewitnesses.

The presence of Ali Ekrami, a former member of the MEK, in the previous session of the court is a positive step in enriching the documents and evidence about the betrayal of the group to its homeland (Iran), which was at war with the aggressor (Iraq) for eight years. Ali Ekrami, as one of the officials of the forign relations department of MEK, is not only an informed source, but also a witness to many crimes of the Cult of Rajavi, which is undeniable.

The number of former members of the MEK who are willing to testify about the violence of this terrorist cult in court is not low. These people have a great capacity to improve the process of awareness and enlightenment in the court. While Safaedin Tabarayan rightly spoke about the role of the MEKin suppressing the Iraqi Shia intifada uprising, there are many former members of the group who took part in the operations against Iraqi Kurds and Shiits. These people have written dozens of books and articles about that era, which can be presented in court sessions. Maryam Rajavi’s famous statement in the Morvarid Kurd killing operation came from this evidence: “Take the Kurds under your tanks! You’re your bullets for Iranian revolutionary guards!”

Sedaghat, the religious expert in the court said that the MEK believe in pragmatism followed by Machiavellianism. In his opinion, the MEK sees Islam as a cover for its belief in Machiavel. Many former members of the Cult of Rajavi citing memories and evidence of prayer, fasting, hijab and Islamic rituals that were compulsory in the group. The MEK leaders prove that Islam is the means in the hands of Masoud and Maryam Rajavi to justify the ends. Therefore, the research, scientific and historical explanations of the researchers and lawyers in the court should be supported by the statements of eyewitnesses and the testimonies of the plaintiffs, to aid the heads of the court reach a fair judgment.

Mazda Parsi

May 27, 2024 0 comments

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Judge Dehghani: Hosting the MEK is considered a crime

The trial of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK), and the group as a legal entity, began.

Today, Tuesday, May 7th, the trial was held in the 11th branch of the criminal court of a province of Tehran, headed by Judge Dehghani. The court advisors are Morteza Turk and Amin Naseri, and Vaziri represents the prosecutor.

Judge Dehghani announced that the court session is public and said: A case containing the indictment received from Tehran’s General Prosecutor’s Office regarding the accusations of 104 leaders of the MEK and the organization’s legal personality was brought to the court, which the 11th branch of the criminal court of a province of Tehran, according to the law, is dealing with it.

Once again Judge Dehghani asked the hosting countries of the defendants to extradite them to the Iranian judiciary. “We warn the countries that host the defendants of this case”, he said. “Hosting these defendants is considered a crime against international conventions against terrorism.”

Then, the judge asked Meysam Hakimzadeh, the lawyer of the plaintiffs, to take the stand. The lawyer spoke of the influence of the Shah’s Intelligence service (SAVAK) on Massoud Rajavi. Based on the bill he submitted to the court, Rajavi had turned into SAVAK’a accomplice after he cooperated with them and revealed the locations of his comrades. SAVAK reduced his sentence from death penalty to life imprisonment and in exchange made him unveil the Islamic cover of the group.

“At the beginning of its foundation the MEK tried to recruit members using an Islamic cover that attracted Muslim youth at the time,” the lawyer said.

Ali Sedaghat, an expert on ideologies was called to take the stand. He said: “We are dealing with a group that has repeatedly committed violent crimes, including torture, murder and assassination, and has a practical policy for itself. We must first know its basic principles, because in philosophy, every action is based on a theory, dos and don’ts are based on what is and what is not.”

“Some believe that the MEK’s ideology is a mixture of Islam and Marxism opposing imperialism. But, these two ideologies are contradictory,” Sedaghati added.

He concluded about the basis of the MEK’s approach: “We all saw that the MEK wiped out the cover and today it is looking for the sponsorship of the Imperialism. Even if we say that the members of the MEK are Muslim-looking communists, it still cannot be applied. The communist should be with the people, but in Shabaniyah uprisings in Iraq, they were against the masses and by the side of the dictator, Saddam Hussein. I have an interpretation. I consider them to be Muslim-looking Machiavellians or Muslim-looking pragmatists to reach Masoud Rajavi’s power.”

May 7, 2024 0 comments

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The Judge called on Albanians and International bodies to take action against the MEK

Judge Dehghani called on People and Albanian government to extradite the defendants of Tehran court who reside in Albania. He also asked the international bodies and other countries hosting individuals out of the 104 accused ones to take action in order to bring them to justice.

As the heading official who presides over court proceedings of the trial of the leaders and 102 high-ranking members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), began the recently held court session by addressing the international organizations and certain countries that host the MEK leaders: “

“From this position, I plea the international organizations and some countries that host the defendants of this indictment. The people of those countries should take action and ask their governments and institutions to extradite these people and submit them to the court in order to show up in court until the decision is made and final verdict is issued for the defendants.”

“There are 104 defendants with indictments issued in the court,” he continued. “They are accused of crimes that are more than one murder. How is it that when some people are suspected of murder and the police or competent institutions are informed of their presence in their countries, but they do not take any action?”

“Now, 104 people who are accused of burning people alive and bombings,” judge Dehghani added. “shouldn’t the hosting countries take the initiative and demand their competent institutions the extradition and departure of these people from their country? so that those accused with these charges can be tried in the court? A court where the defendants have the right to freely choose a lawyer.”

The head of the court expressed hope that these governments, by prioritizing the interests and the security of their people for extraditing the defendants, just like any other accused group, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, will take measures according to their national interests.

April 28, 2024 0 comments

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Trial of MEK leaders in Iran | Report of the 11th session

A new round of courts on charges of 104 high-ranking members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as well as the group as a legal entity began yesterday, April 23rd, at the 11th Branch of the Tehran Province Criminal Court. The court was presided by Judge Dehghani and his counselors Morteza Turk and Amin Nasseri.

The judge began the session by explaining that the defendants’ lawyer has the opportunity to present his statements in the court, and the court hears private plaintiffs, their complaints and their lawyers.

Judge Dehghani addressed the international bodies and the countries that host the accused: “People of those countries themselves must be the pioneer to call their governments and the international organizations to extradite these individuals in order to attend the court until the trial is finalized and the verdicts are issued.”

According to the indictments the defendants are accused to a lot of crimes including murder, burning the victim alive, bombings and shooting against civilians. “How is it that 104 people are suspected of murder, police or competent institutions re informed of his or her presence but the hosting nation does not demand their competent institutions to extradite these individuals?”, judge Dehghani asked the audience.

He added, “I announce to the people of Albania and certain European countries that indictments have been issued and they have the right to choose lawyers to defend the allegations. It seems that they have not been informed by their hosting governments.”

The head of the court expressed hope that these governments would take actions in favor of their national interests by prioritizing their people’s security extradite the defendants of the court, like any other accused groups, to the Iranian government.

Subsequently, the Judge ordered Seyyed Maysam Hakimzadeh Hosseini, one of the lawyers of the plaintiffs, to stand before the court to present his statement.

“Given that today is the first meeting that I have had the opportunity to express defense, the text of the bill will be submitted to the court,” the lawyer told the court.

The lawyer continued, “The previous incidents have shown that there have been crimes that anyone who defines crimes would not use not a word other than that, in terms of the public conscience of the media, their task is to reflect the crimes.

As we can see today, the public conscience has been awakened about Gaza crimes, and everyone takes stand against them.”
“What happened in Iran by the MEK for the past 40 years is not less important than what we see in Gaza today,” Hakimzadeh Hosseini said, “We are dealing with people who have committed the highest level of crime and betrayal against their own country and their national interests.”

The lawyer introduced two people to the court, a researcher and a former member of the MEK in order to present their statements. Safaedin Tabraeian, the researcher is the author of a book on the MEK history. Ali Ekrami, former member of the MEK and a member of Nejat Society attended the court as an informed person.

April 24, 2024 0 comments

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Iran begins second round of proceedings against MKO terrorists

Iran has begun the second round of legal proceedings against members of the infamous terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).

The second round of the trial of 104 members of the MKO was presided over by Judge Dehghani at a court in Tehran on Tuesday.

During the court session, Dehghani called on the people of Albania and some other countries that host members of the terrorist group to demand the extradition of the terrorists from their country.

The high-profile trial of the ringleaders and members of the MKO kicked off in Tehran on December 12, 2023.

According to the criminal court, some 104 members of the terrorist group as well as a legal entity (the MKO) are sued in the trial for committing inhumane crimes.

The MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks in Iran against ordinary people and officials since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, killing thousands of people over the past four decades.

April 24, 2024 0 comments

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