In 1980, I and another 51 members occupied the Iranian embassy in London for which we were sentenced to some months of imprisonment. Dr. Ra’eesi had already left the organisation by this time and had returned to Iran, and we were now receiving direct orders from the Mojahedin HQ in Tehran. I believe that the Mojahedin ordered attacks on Iranian embassies to all of the branches in different European and north American countries
As expected the terrorist Mojahedin-e-Khalq showed a knee-jerk reaction to Mahan Abedin’s interview with Masoud Banisadr at iranefshagar website.
Here is Mr. Abedin’s comment on the MEK reaction:
There can be no dialogue with people who reduce everything to such slanderous and libellous gesture politics! FYI Masoud Banisadr translated the unedited version of the interview into Persian and displayed it on his website
Some Iranian detainees at this facility near Baghdad have applied for asylum. UNHCR has been requested to verify their status and pursue solutions for those who qualify as refugees. Due to lack of access to Ashraf by humanitarian agencies, UNHCR has piloted the first Refugee Status Determination interviews using video tele-conferencing facilities.
Masoud Banisadr is an Iranian historian and political analyst. He is a former senior member of the Iranian opposition group the Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization (MEK), and was its representative in the United States from 1990-96. Banisadr left the MEK in in June 1996 and has lived in London since. …I am sad for the organization’s members and supporters and those who lost their lives on this path. I am also sad to see the organization in its current state, when they are fighting for survival and have abandoned all their original core principles..
Two more members of Rajavi’s Cult, who had cooperated with the organization for a long time, declared their separation from the cult and sought asylum in American camp. Therefore, on Tuesday, May 3rd,2006 at 4 pm they could arrive Mehr Abad airport by the help of International Red Cross and Iranian Red Crescent and join their families.
Any account of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) will reveal a black record of destroying family relationships and misappropriating various people’s lives and belongings. All of the organisation’s terrorist actions inside Iran after they fled the country have been planned, facilitated and directed from inside Iraq with the intelligence, training, weapons and equipment provided by Saddam Hussein.
On April 8, 2006, during a large gathering in France, former members and the families of those suppressed inside the cult of Mojahedin-e Khalq commemorated their loved ones and stressed the need for bringing the leaders of the cult- especially Massoud and Maryam Rajavi- to the court of justice.
The event started with the speech of Massoud Khodabandeh; he welcomed the guests and introduced a book by Iran-Peyvand Association, which includes the names and details of nearly 100 victims of MKO’s internal suppression.
Now the former members of the MKO in Paris have published a pamphlet containing the names and details of nearly 100 members who they claim were killed by the MKO- under torture, by hanging, forced to commit suicide or had suspicious deaths.
We were informed that Marzieh Ghorsi (also known as Arezou), after years of forced staying in Camp Ashraf, has left the cult of Rajavi and is now living in US-run camp; according to her parents, she has called her parents from American camp and her parents are very happy.
Italy’s channel 1 (Rai Uno) broadcast a report on MKO and pardon of its defectors in its news section, which is the most important news program in Italy with 25 million viewers.
The report says:”Members of the terrorist MKO can return to their country with recent public pardon [issued by Iranian leaders].