Family in the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Mujahedin-e Khalq imprisoned me for 14 years

Nejat Society; Alborz branch held a meeting at the NGO’s office.

Families’ of Mujahedin-e Khalq hostages as well as recently defected members of MKO participated the meeting.

Mr. Fereydoun Ebrahimi and Bayramali Mohammadi were the two defectors who participated the meeting.

The families congratulated the defectors for their brave decision in liberating themselves from the bars of Rajavis cult.

Mr. Ebrahimi introduced himself declaring why and how he joined the group:”

In 2000, I immigrated to Turkey for sewing; the work I was proficient at. After a month I met a man who said he could send me to Europe via Iraqi border providing me with a good job and residency. I was fascinated by his false propaganda. In a week he provided my documents. Then I was transferred to Iraq and Camp Ashraf. At the Camp the commandants of the group convinced me that I had to wait for two years to be transferred to Europe.

However, they kept me at the group camps for 14 years without any contact with the outside world. I tolerated many physical and mental pressures within the Cult. At last in March 2015 I managed to release myself. At Camp Liberty I introduced myself to the Iraqi forces and UN members in Camp Liberty. I contact my family as soon as I stepped out of the Cult camp. Then I moved to Turkey and there I could visit my family members after so long years. After Turkey I immigrated to Germany. Although I was decided to stay there, when I heard about my mother’s illness, In October 2015 I repatriated. Now I am married and work at my brother’s shop. “

December 3, 2015 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Open letter to UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees,

We, the under signed former members of Mujahedeen Khalgh (OMPI) who are currently residing in Europe wish to share our concerns about the violation of the protected person’s rights with you.

As individuals with years of knowledge and experience about the oppressive means of this organization’s leadership, we are writing to you to draw your attention to the situation of those members still kept at Camp Liberty in Baghdad. Once again, in the past few days, the leadership used illogical and baseless excuses to prevent the meeting of those concerned families who came to the gates of Camp Liberty hoping to meet with their loved ones after, in cases, many decades. Unfortunately, they were denied any contact with their family members.

Many of us have been in this organization, before being able to find a way out of it, for decades. We are fully aware of the brainwashing and intimidation activities that take place at every level with the single aim of isolating the members from the outside world and feeding them false information and targeted propaganda to turn them against their own families.

Based on our personal experience, we assure you that if you facilitate the meeting of the members with their families in a protected and private space, without the presence of their superiors, they will find the courage to express their true desire that is to join their families and relocate from Iraq.

In our many years as part of this organization we have never witnessed any election or another means of member participation in the process of decision making or appointments. Ordinary members are not in the position of sharing their opinions or being involved in any decision, even about their own situation. In this organization, no one dares to express his/her true opinion and those who pretend to represent members are actually appointed by the leadership and their role is to pass the leadership’s agenda as the will of the members to you or any other authorities.

Considering all the facts and the grim condition of the Camp and its residents, we urge you to contact each individual personally oppose to listening to their so called “representatives”. It is the basic right of every citizen in a free society, even in prisons, and should not be denied to these individuals kept under UNHCR’s care.

The situation in Camp Liberty is not safe or sustainable. We urge you to stop talking to those who have taken these individuals hostage for so long and recognize the rights of these individuals in making their own decisions apart from the negative propaganda and intimidation of the leadership.

It is critical that UNHCR acts immediately before another catastrophic attack takes more lives.

Respectfully,

Faryad Azadi Association

Peyvand Rahaee Association

Yaran iran Association

December 1, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families of Liberty Residents at the Doors

Second group of families of Liberty residents went to the camp near Baghdad, Iraq.

On Friday November 20th, another group of families of residents of Camp Liberty – taken as hostages by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) picketed in front of the camp in an effort to get news about their loved ones there.

These families demand the local authorities of the UNHCR to aid them with information about their dear ones who are not allowed to visit them.

The families were from Eastern Azarbayjan, Markazi and Isfahan provinces. They stayed the previous night in a hotel in Baghdad. They were present in front of the doors of Liberty, on Friday morning at 10 O’clock.

They are determined not to leave the camp unless the UNHCR gives them proper information about the destiny of their children and unless they are able to have a short visit with them.

As well as the first time, using loudspeakers, cellphones and cameras was forbidden for the families but they tried to cry the names of the children so energetically that they could hear them. They also tried to enter the Camp but they were not allowed.

They called on all human rights activists including Europe-based defectors of the MKO to support the action taken by the families and to put pressure on the UNHCR to allow families to visit their children. The UN should answer why it is acting in line with the ambitions of the Rajavis.

November 22, 2015 0 comments

UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Letter to the UNHCR

The following letter was sent to the UNHCR on behalf of the suffering families of the residents of Camp Liberty:

The UNHCR – Baghdad

Dear Sir or Madam,

With kind regards, we have been inundated by calls in the past couple of weeks by the families of the residents of Camp Liberty in Iraq who wish to learn about their loved ones trapped in the Rajavi Cult known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, MeK, NCRI, NLA, PMOI).

In this letter we as their representative wish to state that considering:

1. The UNHCR is directly and solely responsible for Camp Liberty and its residents and the Camp is managed and run by the UNHCR;

2. The UNHCR is obliged to be in contact with the refugees inside the camp directly with no proxy in between, and that dealing them as a group with contacting only with the leaders is against your own regulations and obligations;

3. Iraq and Camp Liberty is by no means a safe place for the residents according to past experiences over time;

Therefore, we wish to ask you why:

1. The families are not allowed to visit or be in contact with their loved ones inside the Camp?

2. The UNHCR yields to the demands of the cult leader Massoud Rajavi all the time?

3. The entire residents have not been moved to a safe place yet more than 12 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein?

We on behalf of the families are anxiously looking forward to receiving your reply as soon as possible.

Yours Sincerely,

Sahar Family Foundation

Translated by Nejat Society,

November 21, 2015 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Family Revives the Experience of the Free Life, Rajavi Fears

One sure sign of someone being involved in a cult is that there is a clear separation from family, friends and society. Common point between all former members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the Cult of Rajavi) is that they had lost their family contacts during their membership in the MKO.

Separation from family is the main factor that helps recruiters recruit people to join the cults. Dounia Bouzar, a 51-year-old Muslim anthropologist, who speaks to Reuters during an interview in Paris, France, believes that when a person is recruited by an extremist cult, he thinks that he is chosen. Ms. Bouzar who failed to convince young recruited Islamic militants to leave the cult by religious arguments believes in this idea: “Don’t try to reason with people”. [1]

Bouzar, a Muslim herself, instead uses memories, music and even smells to try to win young militants back. Recruiters have adopted techniques developed by cults, she says, so it takes different skills to break their hold. [2]

Bouzar’s effective technique to get cult victims back to family, has been testified by a large number of former members of the cult of Rajavi. Dr. Massoud Banisadr is a defector of the group who has authored a book called “Memoirs of an Iranian Rebel” about his experience in the organization. He now focuses much of his work on the research and understanding of cults, terrorism, and cult behavior within those structures. Dr. Banisadr was interviewed on his account of living in the Cult of Rajavi by Richard Potter of the mondoweiss.net in, 2013. In the interview he describes how he was manipulated by the cult leaders to leave his wife and his children. He also tells the horrific story of a group of adolescents who were taken to Iraq by the MKO in order to take part in the so-called Eternal Light Operation –a blind operation commanded by massoud Rajavi to take over Tehran across Iraqi borders in three days! [3]

Dr. Masoud Banisadr recounts:

“It was very horrible. There were 15 students who were from the United States, they were supporters. They were brought to Iraq and in the same night they were moved to the battle field. Because of my political rank I was a commander even though I had no military background. I didn’t know anything about fighting. Only a few days before for the first time I saw a machine gun, and I only shot it once. So in the first battle I almost lost my life, I was shot and went unconscious and was taken back to the hospital. Unfortunately I learned all 15 died because they didn’t have any training, and because it was done so quickly no one asked them their names and nothing was recorded. I didn’t even know their names. It was horrible.” [4]

Dounya Bouzar has studied the recruitment process by examining phones and computers of hundreds of French adolescents, and heard it described by the young people and their families who have come to her for help. "Recruiters show differing utopias to young people," she said. "It’s by listening to how they get caught that we can undo the deception." [5]

What happened to Dr. Banisadr was the kind of technique that was presented by the anthropologist. That was family ties, her daughter and other belongings revived the sense of life in his heart. To answer how he was dissociated with the MKO he tells Richard Potter:

“In 1996 Maryam Rajavi (Wife of Massoud Rajavi and current head of MEK) was speaking in London and they asked me to come and mobilize supporters, and talk to British politicians and arrange meetings for Mrs. Rajavi, including Margaret Thatcher. So in London after five or six years I met my daughter. Before that she was 13 and now she was 18. I was faced with a lady. Emotions and feelings are very important in destructive cults. They isolate you from your loved ones, so you don’t turn your emotions to your loved ones. In London I could see my daughter and my sister and my old friends. From early morning to midnight I had to see old friends, ex-supporters of MEK, and answering thousands of questions which internally I had no rational answer for any of them. So these things, my feelings between my friends and family helped me change. And also luck. I had an accident and back problems, and I was so active in London that I had to go to the hospital. My back gave out. Fortunately for me MEK was very busy then for Maryam Rajavi with different meetings, so they didn’t care about me. If it was another juncture they’d make sure someone was with me, because MEK never leaves a member without a chaperone, always at least two with each other they watch and look after each other. So in the hospital I was alone for the almost a month and I could see normal relationships of people with each other. HUMANITY There was a guy beside who had an accident and I was helping him to shave his beard, or to feed him and so on, and this revived my individuality and my humanity and self-confidence. All gradually it came back. When it came that I left the hospital I left MEK. I didn’t reject them fully yet, but I realized I couldn’t be with them anymore.” [6]

Bouzar has also borrowed an idea from French writer Marcel Proust, who wrote a masterpiece on memory which said how the flavor of a certain sponge cake – a Madeleine – revived an intense experience from his childhood. [7]

As she suggests families using emotional cues – music, pictures, places, scents, food – to "wake up" their loved ones caught in the cults, one may find out why the leaders of the MKO are so dreadfully scared of presence of families in front of the gates of their camps.

The propaganda of the MKO tries to demonize the families labeling them as “agents of the Iranian intelligence ministry”. The group leaders even indoctrinated members to turn against their families. In several cases, children were shown on the MKO TV channel verbally abusing their parents accusing them of working for the “regime”.Ghorban Ali Hosseinnezhad and Mostafa Mohammadi fathers of two girls who are taken as hostages at Camp Liberty were even beaten by henchmen of the Cult after they took an action to denounce the group’s abusive attitude in front of Maryam Rajavi’s headquarters in Ouver sur Oise, Paris. [8]

“Touched by memories of his childhood," as Ms. Bouzar said or having heard the voice of their parents and siblings through loudspeakers at Camp Ashraf was so moving to stimulate a large group of the MKO members to escape the cult-like bars of the group. And, that’s the bitter experience Rajavi fears the recurrence.

By Mazda Parsi

References:

[1]MEVEL, PAULINE& LABBÉ, CHINE , ditch reason, Dounia Bouzar, a 51-year-old Muslim anthropologist, speaks to Reuters during an interview in Paris, France, REUTERS, October 22, 2015.

[2] ibid

[3] Potter, Richard, The Cult in the Shadow War: An Interview with a former member of Mojahedin-e-Khalq, mondoweiss.net, November 26, 2013

[4] ibid

[5] MEVEL, PAULINE& LABBÉ, CHINE , ditch reason, Dounia Bouzar, a 51-year-old Muslim anthropologist, speaks to Reuters during an interview in Paris, France, REUTERS, October 22, 2015.

[6]Potter, Richard, The Cult in the Shadow War: An Interview with a former member of Mojahedin-e-Khalq, mondoweiss.net, November 26, 2013

[7] MEVEL, PAULINE& LABBÉ, CHINE , ditch reason, Dounia Bouzar, a 51-year-old Muslim anthropologist, speaks to Reuters during an interview in Paris, France, REUTERS, October 22, 2015.

[8] https://www.nejatngo.org/en/posts/6160

November 11, 2015 0 comments

Massoud Rajavi

Free my brother; Mostafa Beheshti

Rajavi is responsible for the lives lost

Narges Beheshti is a suffering sister who has not been able to have any contact with her brother; Mostafa now for long years.

She says:” Rajavi and irresponsible ranks of his cult caused the death of my beloved brother Morteza due to their passion for power…

The Rajavis have taken hostage the other brother of mine; Mostafa now for 14 years. During all these years they didn’t allow us to visit Mostafa even once.

We traveled to Camp Ashraf, Iraq several times. We and other Camp residents families even went to UNHCR in Baghdad. However the MKO Cult leaders didn’t allow the suffering families to visit their beloveds.

It is now 4 years that the Camp Ashraf residents have been relocated to Camp Liberty. They were due to stay there as a temporary location to soon be transferred to third countries. However, during all these four years just some 400 individuals have been transferred to Albania that is 100 people a year.

I believe that Rajavi does not intend to save the helpless residents of Liberty. He just think about his zeal for power, his relatives and friends.

How does it come while my brother and other stranded Liberty residents are kept by the MKO Cult leaders within the violence and insecurity of Iraq as captives and don’t transfer them to third countries, the Rajavi’s son, Maryam Rajavi and Shahrzad sadr and her daughter and many other Rajavi’s relatives were transferred to foreign countries.

I plea all human rights bodies to probe the suffering families petitions. I declare that Rajavi is personally responsible for the lives of our beloveds.

Narges Beheshti, Iran Interlink, Translated by Nejat Society

November 10, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

Speaking of human Rights, Paradox of the Cult of Rajavi

As soon as her supervisors turned their back, she opened the door next to the doctor’s room and ran through the long corridor. At the end of the corridor, there was another door opening to a hall where she rushed to a window. She was lucky that there was no bars on the window so she could squeeze through the window. She breathlessly ran again and again until she reached Iraqi forces guarding Camp Ashraf.

Zahra Mirbagheri, former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization ( the MKO) left three sisters and a brother in Camp Ashraf after she was fed up with mental and physical tortures under the oppressive mind control system of the Cult of Rajavi ( the MKO).

She is now married in Iran but looking forward to the releasing of her siblings who are still taken as hostages by the MKO authorities. According to Zahra’s testimony, they had no family relationship in the Camp Ashraf due to the strictly scheduled and emotionless life in the MKO cult in which no one is allowed to think of love, family and friends. Zahra and her mother are waiting for their loved ones and hoping that they find their way out of the cult someday.

As a matter of fact, the rank and file of the MKO must dedicate their entire life to their leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi under a manipulation program that requires members to attend self-criticism meetings and to undertake cult jargons every day.

Zahra and her family are a few of thousands of the MKO’s victims. Finian Cunningham, a prominent expert in international affairs opens his latest article on the US sponsored MKO terrorists, with the bitter story of another victim of the MKO: Masoumeh. She was only six years old when MKO gunmen shoot her family members dead at home. “Masoumeh and other children in the house were spared in the massacre,” Cunningham writes. “But everyday of her life ever since that horror, she lives with the nightmare encountered that morning when she woke as a young girl.”[1]

“My mother was innocent,” she recounts with an abiding, heartrending disbelief that her beloved was so cruelly torn from her life. [2]

There are a lot of more families who were torn by the MKO either in its terror acts or as a result of the cult-like despotic approach by its leaders. By contrast, today Maryam Rajavi who speaks under the so-called title of “president-elect”, boasts of human rights and democracy that she could bring to the Iranian people.

Over a decade the MKO’s misinformation campaign tried to mislead the West about the Iranian nuclear program. However, the nuclear deal was finally reached between the West and Iran.

Defeated tactic pushed the MKO to take the next step. They took action to bold a new propaganda: human rights in Iran. Maryam Rajavi orders the West to empower her cult as dissidents of the Islamic Republic –perhaps like what happened in Syria and Iraq. She accuses Islamic Republic of launching “a war against its own people” by “executions, imprisonments, intimidation and repression.”

Maryam Rajavi claims that her cult can fulfill the desire of the Iranian people for democratic change while Iranian victims of the MKO mount to thousands of people who never forget the group’s atrocities against its own people. The MKO, as Fininnan Cunningham describes, is the most notorious group that has devastated Iranian families by acts of terrorism. [3]

Caleb Maupin, American journalist exposes the MKO as “a group of fanatics” who “has killed tens of thousands of innocent people since the Iranian revolution in 1979”. [4]

He states that the MKO turned into a destructive abusive cult after it was sided with Saddam Hussein against its own countrymen. “Hossein forces air-dropped bands of MEK fighters into Iran where, as the self-named “Iranian National Liberation Army”, writes Maupin.[5]

He mentions the MKO’s role in Iraq, as Saddam Hussein’s “personal goon squad” who slaughtered Kurds of Iraq. Thus, he ironically puts the subtitle “Mass murderers as Human Rights Activists” who chant slogans of democracy and human rights.[6]

The MKO agents follow Maryam Rajavi’s agenda in their recent masquerade show in front of the United Nations during its General Assembly. The few MKO agents who attended the so-called protest were “a group of elderly, agitated Persians” who tried to pass themselves off as “Human Rights Activists”. [7]

Caleb Mupin calls their show as a display of “insanity to the world by calling for greater hostility between the United States and the Islamic Republic.” Referring to the collaboration of the MKO and Mossad to kill the Iranian nuclear scientists, Maupin reveals the MKO as a supporter of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, too.

Considering the dark history of human rights abuses in the undemocratic Cult of Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi’s claim for democracy and human rights (that she promises to be fulfilled in Iran by the empowerment of the MKO) seems absolutely absurd.

By: Mazda Parsi

References:

1. Cunningham, Finian, Iran Key to Unlocking US Hypocrisy on Global Terrorism, Strategic Culture Foundation, September22,2015

2. Ibid

3. Ibid

4. Maupin, Caleb T, Annual Anti-Iran Terrorist Freak Show Is Back in Town!, Counter Currents, September 28 2015

5. Ibid

6. Ibid

7. ibid

October 8, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Ouver’s citizens sympathize with the MKO hostages families

On Monday September 28, 2015, Mr. Ghorbanali Hosseinnezhad the father of Zeinab Hossein Nejad and Mostafa Mohammadi the father of Somayeh Mohammadi and her sister Hurieh, went to the town hall of Auver Sur Oise to submit a letter of appreciation to the mayor Isabelle Meziere who welcomed the two families of the girls who are taken as hostages by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO). The MKO’s headquarter is located in Auver Sur Oise in the suburb of Paris and the leader of the group Maryam Rajavi resides there.

The two fathers were then escorted by the police to Municipality of Auver Sur Oise and the office of the governor general of Val d’Oise province.

The two fathers also took their cause to the office of the local newspaper La Gazzette carrying placards and flyers and photos of their daughters.

Under the official permission of the local authorities, they presented a statement in French, spreading among people in the neighborhood where Local authorities and citizens offered sympathy to the two suffering father. They expressed their sorrow urging the necessity of pushing Maryam Rajavi to allow families of the group’s hostages to visit their loved ones and to lift ban on the members of the cult-like group to have free access to the free world.

September 30, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Facebook account for liberty residents! An outrageous lie

Families of the residents of Camp Liberty who had picketed behind the gate of the Camp probing the visit of their loved, did not succeed to meet them during the due time that they were allowed to picket by the UN officials. The leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) claim that all Liberty residents have Facebook accounts with real IDs !! through which they can contact their families. They labeled the families at Liberty gate as agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and Quds force!

Elderly parents and siblings of the MKO hostages at Camp Liberty suffered the hot and dusty weather and dangerous situation of Iraq in the hope of visiting their loves ones but Liberty authorities did not allow any visit and even threatened that they would stop the relocation of the residents to Albania.

On one hand, leaders of the Cult of Rajavi (the MKO) claim that the entire Camp residents themselves abstain from meeting their families, on the other hand they allege that all residents have Facebook accounts to contact their families. As a matter of fact, making fake personal Facebook accounts with the identity information and photos of liberty residents is a simple tactic for the MKO propaganda to deceive the UN officials.

According to several international reports such as “No Exit” of the Human Rights Watch and the testimonies of a large number of defectors who fled the MKO, members of the group have no free access to the free media. They are allowed to watch the MKO’s satellite channel and a few recorded news reports filtered by the authorities of the camp .They assess the presence of families at the gates of Camp Ashraf as a serious motive to push them to escape the cult, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi fear families as a powerful lever that might influence many other members of the cult of Rajavi to liberate themselves.

The claims and threats made by the MKO authorities indicate that the MKO is definitely a destructive mind control cult that takes its members as hostages under a horrific manipulative system. Social networks including Facebook is an unknown phenomenon for a lot of the Camp residents. Given that they have access to social networks, it sounds weird that they prefer it to a face to face visit with their families who are just a hundred meters away from them.

September 16, 2015 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Families of MKO hostages visit mayor of Auver Sur d’Oise

In line with families gathering in front of Camp Liberty in Baghdad, two families of MKO hostages visit Auver Sur d’Oise mayor in France.

On Tuesday september8, 2015 Mr. Ghorbanali Hosseinnejad and Mr. Mostafa Mohammadi along with his wife; Mahboubeh and his daughter Huriyeh met the Mayor of Auver Sur d’Oise and her deputy.

Daughters of both families are hostages of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Cult. Mohammadi family were once the active supporters of the group. Mr. Husseinnejad also was a veteran member of the group.

Expressing solidarity with the families of MKO hostages, the Mayor of Auver said:” …We don’t want them [Maryam Rajavi’s Cult] to stay in our city… they try to pay some of the cities’ personalities and officials to be at the Cult’s service. … However we would ask them to come and reply your appeals and questions on the fate of your children. .. Here is a democratic state and the democracy principles require the issue to be resolved through negotiation… “

The families reiterated:” Maryam Rajavi should personally come and answer our questions, because Maryam, herself is responsible for the kidnapping of our daughters as minors and for endangering them by transferring our daughters from France and Canada to military camps of the cult in Iraq. In the Cult camps they have been denied any family contacts as well as marital life.

The officials of the municipal then received the families in the Town hall and contacted the MKO Cult requiring them to come and reply the families’ demands.

However the Cult response was insulting and cursing at the suffering families.

The Cult officials didn’t attend the municipal and just their henchmen and thugs were stationed outside the Town Hall to report everything to their commanders.

The authorities then removed the MKO Cult members in order the families to hold a protest in front of the Town Hall. The families of MKO hostages handed out leaflets and CDs and tried to publicize their plight and to expose the Cult atrocities against them and their loved ones. The Rajavi Cult attempts in thwarting the families’ efforts in exposing their crimes was futile.

The municipal and gendarmerie authorities declared their support for the families’ public activities in calling for their demands and escorted them with seven cars outside the city in order to prevent the Cult thugs from chasing or harming the families.

September 10, 2015 0 comments

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