Mujahedin Members and Self-immolation - Page 5 of 7

Rajavi’s interpretation of the holy and foul suicide

Nejat SocietySeptember 3, 2009071 views

An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part thirteen)- some of these suicides were committed just following these meetings like the suicide done by Mehri Moussavi ..the significance was his skill in presenting examples .., the presented standards and motivations, which the ranking members were well aware of, behind these suicides could well help to identify whether it was esteemed a holy suicide for the cause of the leaderand interests of the organization or despised a sinful suicide for individual weaknesses ..

Rajavi’s leadership, the criterion to legitimize the ideology

Nejat SocietyAugust 22, 2009095 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part eleven)..In his speech Rajavi underlined that the act of suicide in itself was a big sin and homicide in Islamic teachings. He would say if according to Quran suicide was known to be a big sin then, why we were stressing on suicide and related operations as a working approach. Of course, it was before the widespread self-immolations of June 17.He would continue focusing on the point that while it was a big sin then, why we took advantage of it for organizational interests and to defend Ashraf

Rajavi; set your body on fire to defend Ashraf

Nejat SocietyAugust 6, 20090117 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part nine)..There was a female colleague who had refused to volunteer for self-immolation but the organization showed no antagonistic attitude towards her before others. It was not the end of the story and the organization commanded me to watch her closely since they believed that she was in trouble with herself and cared not the least for the organization. They would justify that now even ten days after the detention of Maryam in France, she had refrained to be an abstentious volunteer.

Human tragedy in prospect; Mojgan Parsai the first volunteer

Nejat SocietyJuly 22, 20090247 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part 8 ).. Of course, what she said was another interpretation of Massoud Rajavi’s message stating that we had to make use of all our facilities and potentialities wherever we were to set Maryam free. He would say any Mojahed breathing on this planet had to be ready to sincerely sacrifice and set on fire whatever he had for the sake of Maryam. Thus, it all began in the echelon of the Leadership Council and the enthusiast slid down to the lower layers. It is also the same with other issues. Consider, for instance, they want to elect a first secretary.

Suicide operation, a lever to defend Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyJuly 18, 2009085 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part seven)..Members in Camp Ashraf are on alert of committing mass suicide on the grounds that there are many blind spots round the camp through which outsiders might easily infiltrate to either kidnap the members of the Leadership Council and use them as hostages or kill them. The possible reaction to these threats could be a mass suicide of the insiders.

The red-line discriminating between word and action in suicide operation

Nejat SocietyJuly 9, 2009068 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part six).. how the organization and Rajavi in particular draw the red-line between the word and theory for carrying out these operations. Second, we have to see to what extent the words are actually practical, and third, what is the position of the leadership ..When Rajavi plotted assassination of people he knew well that killing was an inseparable part of a planned operation which could never be fulfilled unless through homicide.

Suicide operation, an ultimate solution to security dilemma

Nejat SocietyJuly 5, 2009078 views

The operation teams who came to Iran for armed operation, for instance, carried some related information, or it was the same with members residing in other European countries out of the headquarters in Auver-sur-Oise. They knew details about the location of the camps, the members and their responsibilities .. As a result, the organization[MKO/MEK/PMOi] emphatically required the teams about to embark on operations to swallow their cyanide capsules as soon as they felt a risk of arrest.

No suicide operation unless commanded by the organization

Nejat SocietyJuly 1, 2009069 views

any recruit had to pass through these discourses which the suicide operation was an inseparable part. Even I, a ranking member of the leadership Council, was constantly exposed to these discourses. It was an issue of high priority on the agenda before the leadership when the organization reached a critical stalemate. In the process of dispatching operation teams across the Iranian borders to carry out operations inside Iran, the prerequisite was a proclaimed preparedness for committing suicide.

Tension Grows Over Plans to Close Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyJune 30, 20090106 views

The prospect of a change in Iran’s government is viewed by many to be as unlikely as the MEK’s hope that Iraq will change its mind about shutting down a camp that has been a major irritant in Iranian-Iraqi relations.. The prospect of a change in Iran’s government is viewed by many to be as unlikely as the MEK’s[PMOI/MEK/MKO] hope that Iraq will change its mind about shutting down a camp that has been a major irritant in Iranian-Iraqi relations..

Suicide operation; a solution or sidestepping it

Nejat SocietyJune 22, 2009094 views

(An interview with Batool Soltani on MKO self-immolations – Part two )..the organization’s[PMOI/MEK/MKO] standards are absolutely different. The organization unrelentingly persisted that the ultimate solution to any problem was to offer a sacrifice. Somebody had to be sacrificed for the cause of the organization, which has been regarded more precious than the life of a militiaman, through suicide, self-harming operations or other similar acts. In one instance, as I remember, Rajavi in justification of the failure of the Operation Eternal Light stated that he had known from the very beginning that it was a futile operation from a military viewpoint,..