Mujahedin Khalq Declining

MKO Cult: New phase of Ideological revolution is on the way

Ebrahim Khodabandeh has published a series of articles in which he reveals what MEK insiders divulge to him about what is happening inside the cult.

In part 8 of the ongoing articles Khodabandeh says this coming week marks the 50th anniversary of the MEK and Massoud Rajavi is on overdrive to spend money to uphold the past (nobody in the MEK still thinks they are continuing the original path of ant-Imperialism).

Rajavi will shortly announce who he has appointed as the new MEK leader and will start a new series of Ideological Revolution sessions.

According to people inside the MEK, this is his last effort to keep it together and stop it disintegrating. The reason is that nobody believes in it anymore and the MEK is falling apart.

The most common doubts and questions which are being raised, and are being suppressed through physical and mental means, are:

– Rajavi always said after Maliki we will move back to Camp Ashraf, but everyone sees that even Camp Liberty is being closed and everyone is being moved to Albania.

– Second, how long does a man live that he is in hiding for 12 years? What’s the point of him?

– Third the NLA and military capability is finished, so what happened to the armed struggle which Rajavi still insists we must believe in? How does that work?

– There are many question about the recent nuclear deal and the fate of Camp Maryam in France as the French are saying more and more clearly that the MEK are no longer – have never been – welcome there.

– There is a huge amount of questioning and uncertainty about the fate of the people in Albania. There is clearly no plan. What is Rajavi’s strategy or tactic for them?

– The main question which frightens the MEK more than any other and which is gaining momentum is, ‘Can anyone give an example of the MEK doing anything for themselves, any independent action or strategy it has followed that has not been dictated by Saddam Hussein, America, Israel or Saudi Arabia?’

August 30, 2015 0 comment

Iran

Iran Urges Iraq to Expel All MKO Members

Deputy Head of Iran’s Human Rights Headquarters for International Affairs Kazzem Qaribabadi called for the complete expulsion of Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR) terrorist group members from Iraq.

Qaribabadi made the remarks in meetings with Iraq’s judiciary and human rights officials during his two-day visit to Baghdad which started on Tuesday.

During the meetings on the first day of his trip, he underlined the necessity for joint cooperation in fighting terrorism at international circles, hailing Iraq’s campaign against the terrorist groups, specially the ISIL.

Qaribabadi also appreciated Iraq’s position against the MKO terrorist group, and underlined the necessity for continued efforts to expel all MKO members from the Arab country.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly-established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by the MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under the US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with the American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty. Hundreds of the MKO terrorists have now been sent to Europe, where their names were taken off the blacklist even two years before the US.

The MKO has assassinated over 12,000 Iranians in the last 4 decades. The terrorist group had even killed large numbers of Americans and Europeans in several terror attacks before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Some 17,000 Iranians have lost their lives in terror attacks in the 35 years after the Revolution.

August 19, 2015 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The MEK and the Deal with Iran

AIPAC has been lobbying against the nuclear deal as one would expect, and this week they are touting the opposition of a handful of former military officers to the agreement. The first one that they cite is Hugh Shelton, who recently penned an op-ed objecting to the deal while praising the virtues of the “former” terrorist group Mujahideen-e Khalq’s political umbrella organization, the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran. It is telling that they edited the quote to leave out his reference to the latter, since they probably know it would discredit what Shelton says.

Shelton is a longtime MEK booster, and was cheering them on even before they were removed from the official list of foreign terrorist organizations. The MEK seeks to overthrow the Iranian government, as do the cult’s many American fans, so they are predictably opposed to any agreement with Tehran. Anyone that sides with this group is pushing a regime change agenda that is extremely unpopular among Iranians, and so shouldn’t be taken seriously on anything related to Iran.

As he has done before, Shelton presents the cult and its allies as Iran’s “main opposition,” but this is plainly false. The group is widely hated inside Iran and has almost no support in the Iranian diaspora. It is wildly unrepresentative of what most Iranians in Iran and elsewhere want for their country, and it is also at odds with what most Iranians think about the nuclear deal. Most Iranians support the deal, as do most dissidents inside Iran, so it is dishonest in the extreme to assert that the MEK’s rejection of the deal represents the wishes of “the Iranian people.” Shelton is recycling the propaganda of a fanatical exile group and trying to pass it off as something radically different in order to influence a major policy debate here in the U.S.

By Daniel Larison

August 15, 2015 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The “Manufactured crisis” ended, the MKO left in Catastrophe

“After decades of tensions and distrust, 12 years of hope and fear and 22 months of intense, difficult, highly technical and political negotiations, we had finally made it,” write Mrs. Frederica Mogherini in her enlightening piece on the Guardian titled “The Iran agreement is a disaster for Isis”. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy believes that the nuclear agreement between Iran and the West will open a new chapter in the relations between the two sides. She explains one of the main reasons for her trip to Tehran concerns with the implementation of the agreement. Besides, she writes of another duty she and other sides of the agreement have to build on “the historical result” they have achieved in Vienna which is” an alliance of civilizations“ that according to her can be “our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror” and sectarianism in the region , particularly ISIS. [1] Mrs. Mogherini’s good will for peace making seems truly honest but why the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) condemns her trip to Tehran?

The so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran the propaganda arm of the MKO claims that the Iranian Government is in decline and Europe should not tie its future to it! As he claims Europe will lose the friendship with Iranian people in future!

The future the NCR tries to imagine for Iran is entirely based on the mirage its leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have been portraying for more than three decades. This is while Mogherini writes, “The Vienna deal tells us that we all have much to earn if we choose cooperation over confrontation”. She believes that hard work is needed to create peaceful mutual relationship but she points out,”We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran. Before sanctions began in 2005, cooperation between our parts of the world spanned many areas, from energy to trade. But our shared interests go well beyond the economy.” As she clarifies there is enough political will that “could open unprecedented possibilities of peace for the region”. [2]

The MKO leaders have other reasons to be mad at European countries. In the aftermath of the nuclear agreement, delegations of Germany and France also travelled to Tehran to expand economic and political relationships with Iran. “German business leaders landed in Iran with Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel and have said they have high hopes to renew contacts”, reported DW. “Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s vice chancellor and economy minister, flew to Iran on Sunday, becoming the first top Western official to visit the country since world powers and Tehran reached a historic nuclear deal.” [3]

“On the first visit to Iran for 12 years by a French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius conveyed an invitation from President Francois Hollande to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to visit France”, reported Reuters . “Fabius met with Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and was also due to meet Rouhani on his one-day visit, two weeks after a landmark deal under which Western sanctions are to be lifted in exchange for limits on Iran’s nuclear program.” [4]

Thus, the “manufacture crisis” made by the MKO-Israel alliance –as the famous historian journalist Gareth Porter investigated—seems to be ended.[5] The MKO now is endeavoring to ally itself with Zionist warmongers of the Congress to survive.

The two independent journalists Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton investigated the alliance between the Zionist lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that declared war on nuclear accord and the MKO: “AIPAC, Washington’s most influential pro-Israel lobby reportedly plans on spending $20 million over the next two months urging Congress to vote against the deal. But its efforts at a full frontal attack on the accord, inked by the P5+1 (the US, China, France, Russia, the UK, and Germany) and Iran is leading to some politically awkward alliances.” [6]

They affirm that an advocacy group called Citizens For a Nuclear Free Iran (CNFI) is an off-shoot of the AIPAC, “ Now that the campaign is taking shape, the AIPAC spin-off appears to be relying on a typical, if troubling, ally of American groups and individuals opposed to diplomacy with Iran.” They highlight the MKO’s part in this notorious alliance, ”Namely, two items on the website of Citizens for a Nuclear Iran, one of which was later removed, featured an exiled Iranian opposition group called the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK).” [7]

The MKO is publicized in the multi-million dollar advertisement made by the Zionist advocacy lobby CNFI. As Gharib and Clifton state, the ad “incorporates b-roll footage from a press conference held by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which the State Department deemed the MEK’s “political wing” (earning it a corresponding terrorist designation). “ [8]

They add, “The footage in the Nuclear Free Iran ad shows Alireza Jafarzadeh, a longtime Washington-based MEK apparatchik, at the National Press Club using a pointer aimed at a satellite photograph.” [9] This must be one of the hundreds press conferences held by the MKO propaganda machine in which Alireza Jaafarzadeh, Sona Samsami, Mohammad Mohaddessin …or any other MKO agent repeats the repeated unproved claims of the so-called revelations on the Iranian nuclear program.

“Rajavi counts among her supporters one of Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran’s advisory board members: former Democrat and former senator Joe Lieberman,“ Gharib and Clifton report. “Lieberman has made several appearances at MEK events, including this June when he appeared at a MEK confab in Paris.” [10]

There are a large number of warmongers who oppose any deal with Iran and support the MKO as an alternative for the Iranian government. On the MKO website you may see a list of people who had denounced Mogherini’s trip to Iran, from US lawmakers to Foreign Minister of the UAE. Good news for the MKO’s propaganda, skeptical lawmakers of the US Congress —some of whom induced by the MKO lobby and mostly backed by Israeli lobby — every day they challenge Secretary Kerry for not being firm on Iran. So what?

Seemingly, The MKO and its sponsors should understand that the aspirations of both sides of the agreement for peace and understanding are not easy to underestimate. It seems that the time for fabricating half-truths and false evidences about the Iranian nuclear program is over.

Mazda Parsi

References:

[1] Mogherini, Federica, The Iran agreement is a disaster for Isis, the Guardian, 28 July 2015

[2] ibid

[3] DW, German delegation aims to renew trade ties on trip to Iran, 19 July 2015

[4] Naegelen, Jacky, Fabius, visiting Tehran, invites Rouhani to France, Reuters, July 29 2015

[5] Porter, Gareth, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, Amazon.com,

February 14,2014

[6] Gharib, Ali & Clfton, Eli, Anti-Iran Deal AIPAC Spin-off Relies on Iranian Ex-Terrorist Group

, lobelog.com, July 21 2015

[7 ]ibid

[8] ibid

[9] ibid

[10] ibid

August 2, 2015 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Mojtaba Bidaqi fled Camp Liberty

Mr. Mojtaba Bidaqi succeeded to leave the Cult of Rajavi(the MKO)

He left camp Liberty after 31 years of membership in the destructive cult of Rajavi.

Submitting himself to the United Nation’s officials in charge of camp Liberty, Mojtaba stepped in free world.

He was first recruited by the MKO recruiters in Turkey in 1984 when he had gone there to find job. He was trapped by the MKO agents and were sent to Camp Ashraf where he was brainwashed under the cult structure for 31 years.

Mojtaba’s brother, Amir was also recruited by the MKO. Last year he defected from the group after he was relocated in Albania.

Nejat Society congratulated Bidaqi family for the release of their loved ones.

July 23, 2015 0 comment

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The MKO frustrated by the Nuke deal, look to Congress and Israel

As the international community welcomes the historic deal reached between Iran and the world powers, there are some groups who oppose any deal with Iran. These groups include Israel and its advocates in Washington and its proxy force, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization.

The above mentioned groups form a complicated network that has so far tried hard to derail diplomacy between Iran and the West. They aided each other vigorously in order to launch war against Iran instead of reaching a peaceful solution for the Iranian nuclear issue. Fortunately their campaign did not succeed.

By the way, after the nuclear deal is reached, the MKO propaganda website reluctantly publishes the news under the neutral title “there is a deal in Vienna”. The short news of the nuclear deal put on the MKO’s propaganda website, is undermined by a tricky question in the subtitle: “What happens next?”.

The biased report answers the question by magnifying the part of the US Congress in working out of any deal with Iran.

Having allied themselves with the warmongers of the US Congress, the Mujahedin Khalq have invested on their vote to reject the nuclear deal with Iran: “Both houses of Congress now have 60 days to review the deal and hold hearings. While that is going on, the president cannot wave sanctions against Iran on his own authority.

“If Congress does vote to reject the deal, the president most likely would veto that measure. Two third of each house (67 votes in Senate and 290 votes in the House) could then vote to override the veto. If that override fails, the president can seal the deal and lift those sanctions.”

However, The MKO is definitely disappointed by what President Obama called a "comprehensive long-term deal". Obama has promised that he will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of the deal. Thus, the MKO’s lobbying campaign in the Congress has to spend large amounts of money to override the veto.

The controversial reaction of the MKO propaganda machine towards the N deal was followed by the so-called statement of the group leader Maryam Rajavi. In the statement, she blames the West for “many shortcomings and unwarranted concessions” to the Iranian government and for not being decisive enough to stop Iranian nuclear program while she claims that the deal represents “a reluctant retreat” by the Iranian leader!

Maryam Rajavi’s fallacious argument continues. This is another example of her fallacy: “The nuclear program that projected the power of the velayat-e faqih regime for the past quarter century is now a source of the mullahs’ weakness and impasse”!

She does not explain that if the nuclear program is “a source of weakness and impasse” for the Islamic Republic, so how come that the nuclear deal is “a reluctant retreat” for it?

Puzzled by its current declining instable situation in Iraq and the likely rapprochement of the West and Iran, the MKO has no way out except tying its survival to the US warmonger like John Bolton and The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as both see the deal disastrous for themselves. Netanyahou called the historic deal between Iran and the West a “historic mistake” while the majority of the world confirm that the deal is the start of a path to the international peace.

By Mazda Parsi

July 20, 2015 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Defection from Mujahedin-e Khalq is increasing

A growing number of MKO members are leaving the Cult despite the group efforts to hold them in.

Neday-e Haqiqat Website reported the defection of 4 Camp Liberty residents during the last three months.

According to the report the individuals managed to escape the cult and resided at Mohajer Hotel, Iraq.

The MKO ringleaders have prevented members of the group from meeting their relatives in a bid to prevent their defection.

Several family members of Camp Liberty residents have established a permanent picket in front of the Camp entrance since June. The families told Iraq’s Minister of Human Rights they would be satisfied even to see their loved ones at a distance of 10 metres and then they will leave. The Minister did intervene on their behalf and the MKO have again rejected it, Sahar Family Foundation reported.

Despite the group leader’s efforts to keep members behind the bars of the Cult, about 17 Camp Liberty residents could liberate themselves during last year.

Besides, in Albania about 120 members parted away with the group. The increased number of defections in Albania has caused the MKO leaders to hold the last group of transferees “in quarantine “, according to ex-members website reports.

June 29, 2015 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Declaration of Separation: Siavosh Rastar

Mr. Siavosh Rastar declared his defection from the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in the statement he published.

Siavosh Rastar whose organizational name is Nader Afshar lived in the MKO for 14 years, from 2001 to 2015. He has been to Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, Iraq before his relocation in Tirana, Albania.

Mr. Rastar left the MKO to protest Massoud Rajavi’s undemocratic approach towards the group members and their families.

“In my idea, the only thing that never exists in Massoud Rajavi’s organization is freedom of speech and thought. In brief, absolute suppression and dictatorship rule it, “Rastar writes. If anyone criticizes Massoud Rajavi, he would be treated violently in various sessions held for this aim.”

Mr. Rastar has witnessed his comrades being tortured or killed by the group. He himself was one of the victims of the MKO’s mal-treatment against the rank and files.

“They didn’t allow me to take proper medical treatment,” he states. “Intentionally they gave me wrong medications. They didn’t let me go to Iraqi hospitals. They didn’t even give me the drugs Iraqi doctors had proscribed for me.”

When the Iraqi doctors finally examine him, they diagnose a serious illness telling that he will not survive over six months. “When the MKO leaders made sure that I would not live so long, they transferred me to Albania,” he reveals.

In Albania, Siavosh finds the chance to leave the group and submit himself to the officials of the UN High Commissioner of Refugees. They aided him to receive proper treatment in hospital.

However, the MKO agents did not give up annoying him. “They put pressure on my family. They called my wife and claimed that I got married and have children in Albania, they also told her that I am drug-addicted,’’ he writes.

In the statement to declare his defection, Siavosh Rastar offers sympathy to his friends who are still held as hostages in the MKO’s cult-like system. He hopes for their release and a free life in the free world.

Nejat Society reporting from Iran Azadi Albania

June 23, 2015 0 comment

Former members of the MEK

Nader Keshtkar declare defection from the MKO

Mr. Nader Keshtkar declared his defection from the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) in Paris.

Mr. Keshtkar spoke about his disassociation with the MKO. He was interviewed during defectors’ rally in Paris to protest the MKO’s propaganda show in Villepint, on June 13th.

“I attended this action, together with my friends in order to officially state my separation from the MKO. Now that I am in the free world, liberated from prejudice ideas, dogmatism and Machiavelli thoughts of the MKO, I feel relieved,” he said.

To explain the reasons of his disassociation with the MKO he said,” Armed struggle was a mistake that gradually brought about severe consequences. The strategy of armed struggle was a mistake. The later the leaders revise this mistake the more the MKO goes in decline. The main reason of the impenetrable cul-de-sac of the MKO is the armed struggle. Ambitions, treasonous activities and lack of courage of Massoud Rajavi prevented him from reviewing his strategic mistake that led him and the MKO to turn in to the operative agent of Israel and Saudi Arabia.”

Translated by Nejat Society

June 22, 2015 0 comment

Missions of Nejat Society

MKO Cult defector; Mohammadpur repatriate after 27 years

Mr. Abbas Mohammadpur defected the Mujahedin-e Khalq group aka MKO/MEK/PMOI in Albania and returned to his homeland.

Mohammadpur was imprisoned during the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 . He missed 27 years of his life within the Cult of MKO camps in Iraq. In 2014 he was transferred to Albania along with some other MKO members following the Albanian government accepted to receive some MKO members in Tirana under the request of the US.

In Albania he managed to liberate himself from the Cult boundaries. On Monday, June 15 Mr. Mohammadpur returned to his homeland and visited his family for the first time after about 27 years.

Nejat society Shiraz Province branch held a ceremony on the occasion of his return . Several members of NejatNGO including families of MKO hostages as well as ex-members of the group participated the meeting. The families included: families of Iranpur, Zare Mohazzabiye, Rahmati, Kuhpeyma, Amin, Chitsaz, Mohamamdi, Hushmand, Torabi Zakherdi, Delavar.

The defectors included Alireza Ghasemi, Kambiz Bagherzade, Mahmoud Dashtestani, Hamed Sarrafpur and Zahra Sadat Mirbagheri.

June 16, 2015 0 comment

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