Trial of MEK leaders

The fifth session of the court hearing the accusations of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO/ MEK) and the group as a legal entity, was held on Tuesday, January 9, at the eleventh branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran. The court was presided by Judge Dehghani.

Family members of some victims of the MEK terrorist acts were present in the court. A young woman whose father has been assassinated by the MEK addressed the court. She was only 3 years old when her father was killed. “My father was assassinated by the MEK because he had installed pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini on the wall of his shop,” she said. “After his martyrdom, they kept on threatening us. They knocked our door at midnight and threw their threatening letters in the house.”

“No one can understand the stress of a little girl on her way to school,” said the daughter of the victim. “Every time I took a few steps, I turned back in fear and looked behind me. Even after my father’s martyrdom, they threatened us every day by calling our house, saying that they will set fire to the house and even set fire to the shop again or they will kidnap us on the way to school.”
Then the judge asked the persecutor’s representative to take the stand. Vaziri, the persecutor’s representative read the indictments of the 34th to 42th defendants of the court.

Ozra Alavi Taleghani, the 34th defendant

She joined the MEK in 1975. In April 1981, she was transferred to the body of the organization and then became a candidate for the Iranian parliament on behalf of the MEK.
Ozra Alavi was one of the high-ranking officials of the MEK, who after the military-terrorist operation of Forough Javidan, became the deputy of the operations of the military branch and was responsible for operations inside Iran. She is dead now.

Jamileh Abrishamchi, the 35th defendant

She is the sister of Mehdi Abrishamchi, and because of her brother’s activities, before being a sympathizer, she became a member of the MEK. Subsequently, after the victory of the Iranian Revolution, she continued her cooperation with the MEK and fled Iran in 1982 with their children (Maryam and Ali Akbarzadegan) in order to join the organization. After settling in Paris, while being a member of the terrorist council known as the National Resistance, he cooperates with the foreign part of this terrorist group. She is currently based in Paris and also travels to Albania.

Mahmoud Qajar Azdanlou, the 36th defendant

He is the brother of Maryam Rajavi and the wife of Shahrazad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi, the administrator of Maryam Rajavi’s office. Mahmoud Qajar Azdanlu joined the MEK in 1973 and with the victory of the Iranian Revolution, he continued his cooperation with the group and finally fled the country in 1981.
He is currently a member of the MEK and a member of the so-called National Council of Resistance (NCR).
It should be mentioned that Mahmoud Qajar Azdanlou, in close cooperation with Mozhgan Parsai, is another main and key factor in mobilizing the assassination team of Lieutenant General Ali Sayad Shirazi.

Badri Pourtabbakh, the 37th defendant

After the Iranian revolution, under the influence of her brother, she was fascinated by the MEK. the She joined the group in 1979. In 1982, after a forced organizational marriage with a member of the group, Mehdi Ghorbanpour Moghadam, she fled the country and settled in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Badri Pourtabbakh was one of the members of the MEK’s Elite Council and a member of the so-called NCR, who spends most of her time in Europe and America. She was in charge of the group’s headquarters in the Netherlands for a long time, and since 1999 she has been also in the interior headquarters of the group in Iraq and Albania.

Mohammad Javad Qadiri Modarresi, the 38th defendant

He was the spouse of Zohra Atrianfar and an MEK member who could penetrate the Iranian revolutionary guard. He had joined the MEK before the Iranian revolution. In 1981, he began to work in the intelligence unit of the group, and after that, in June of the same year, he was transferred to the security preparation department.
He is currently in Albania and is active in the so-called educational, political and Arabic sectors of the MEK.

Farhad Olfat, the 39th defendant,

His nickname is Manouchehr. He is one of the high-ranking officials and old members of the MEK.
In 1989, he was the deputy head of the military branch in axis one of the MEK, after which he became the head of the axis and then the head of the headquarters.
Between the years 1994 and 1995, he entered the central unit and was later transferred to the staff units and for some time to the so-called legal system of MEK.
In 1998, he was in charge of the MEK’s prisons in Camp Ashraf, Iraq and the instructor of organizational training and group ideology. He is now in Albania serving in the Arabic section of the so-called political wing of the group.

Roya Ahmadi Musavi, the 40th defendant

After she was accepted in the university in 1985, under the cover of education, she legally left Iran for Germany, where he had an organizational marriage with one of MEK members named Musa Faiz Marzouqi (nicknamed Jalal).
Later, in 1989, she went to Iraq to participate in Forugh Javidan and after the defeat of the MEK in the operation, she escaped and reached Kermanshah. From there, while contacting one of her family members in Tehran, she asked for help and finally, with the help of some of her relatives, she secretly came to Tehran.
She spent 20 days in Tehran, hiding in a house, and finally fled the country illegally and rejoined the group. The news of his action spread among the members of the group, to the extent that Masoud Rajavi said, “the only person who was able to go to Tehran and return after the Forough operation was our Mujahid’s sister Roya” which is the reason for her fame among the members.
Roya Ahmadi has had responsibilities in Camp Ashraf and Cologne, Germany, in different periods. For example, in 1998, she was the financial and social manager of the MEK in Iraq. She is now a member of the leadership council and one of the officials of the MEK’s office in Germany.

Behzad Naziri, the 41st defendant

In 1981, he was employed in the guise of a translator for the AFP office in Tehran but, he was actually working and cooperating with the MEK. He was arrested in 1982, and was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment, but then in 1985, during his leave from prison, he escaped and went abroad illegally.
His wife (named Maryam Khorramshahi, also a member of the MEK) was killed Forough Javidan.
He was in charge of the center of 13 military branches of the MEK in Iraq, and he had an active participation in the planning of the mortar attacks called road opening which led to the killing and injury of a large number of civilians, as well as large financial losses to private and public property.
He has been a member of the group’s so-called Foreign Relations Commission charged with organizing demonstrations in western countries, attacking the official embassies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and recruiting troops.

Fereshteh Yaganeh, the 42nd defendant

At the beginning of the Islamic Revolution, she was recruited by the MEK and became one of the officials of the group’s Ahvaz branch. Subsequently, after getting married to a person named Alireza Panahivar, she participated in the armed actions of the MEK. She left Iran when the group entered the military phase. Currently, she is in charge of the group’s political struggle and aid.

The fourth session of the court hearing the accusations of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO/ MEK) and the group as a legal entity, was held on Tuesday, December 26, at the eleventh branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran. The court was presided by Judge Dehghani.
In the past sessions, the indictment of 33 defendants in the case has been read.

MEK terrorists started soon after the revolution

Before reading of the indictment of the accused ones, the prosecutor’s representative stated: “The MEK terrorist group has been collecting weapons for 28 months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution. This group claimed that the fight against imperialism required weapons and military branch. But at the beginning of the 60s, this group used to parade in the street and fight with people in the street.”

According to the prosecutor’s representative, Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the group had a trip to Paris before June 20, 1981 (the start of the MEK’s armed struggle against Iran) and entering the military phase and had a meeting with the officials of the French Intelligence Service in Paris; After the meeting, they blew up the office of the Islamic Republic Party in Tehran.

“In a meeting with General Habbush, the head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, Rajavi revealed that the MEK not only blew up the building of the Islamic Republic Party, but he was also responsible for blowing up the prime minister’s office,” he addressed the court.
He added, “On the September 27th, 1981, the MEK once again brought their para military forces to the streets who openly brought weapons to the streets and killed anyone who stood in their way. On this sad day, from a 3-year-old child to a 90-year-old man, were killed by the MEK forces.”

Massoud Rajavi confessed his terror acts

Based on the documents presented by the prosecutor’s representative, the documents and images of the MEK’s violent act were distributed by the group’s network. “Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the MEK, said about this crime that first we encouraged the people to join us in Shohada Square. But we observed that the balance was messed up and people refused to cooperate.” Rajavi has admitted that because the people ignored the MEK militia, the group opened fire on civilians.

The MEK’s cross border operations against Iran for oil money

According to the prosecutor’s representative, after Rajavi took his terrorist organization to Iraq, the group crossed the border with the cooperation of the Iraqi Intelligence service and entered Iran to launch terrorist operations in urban areas.

He added, “At that time, Rajavi believed that cross border operations had no added value for the group and that large-scale assassinations were necessary to bold the name of the People’s Mojahedin-e-Khalq organization. The MEK had asked its internal headquarters to assassinate people in the cities with groundbreaking operations. The MEK carried out these operations on behalf of the Iraqi regime, and instead, they got a guarantee of staying in Iraq and getting five million barrels of oil! The MEK exchanged the blood of Iranian nation the oil of Iraq.”

Who runs the MEK’s so-called rebel centers?

The prosecutor’s representative stated that in the 1980s, in order not to claim responsibility for the terror acts against civilians, the MEK claimed that its internal headquarters was carrying out the assassinations. He said, the rebel centers that have been active in the recent riots (2008 and fall of 2022) are new version of the internal headquarters of the MEK, which is run by the terrorist group from Albania.”

Eavesdropping of the MEK by the CIA

“Based on an American intelligence document about the eavesdropping of the MEK headquarters, the group confessed to terrorist acts,” prosecutor’s representative told the court. “The CIA in Los Angeles has intercepted several phone calls in which the leaders of the MEK terrorist group in France and Germany admitted that terrorist acts and bombings were their work.”

Sister of a 14-year-old victim of the MEK in the court

Then, the sister of one of the victims of the MEK terror acts, took the stand with the permission of the head of the court and explained how her sister was killed: “Zainab was a 14-year-old student who went to congregational prayers with the permission of her mother. He left the house and was suffocated by members of the MEK group with her chador.
The sister of Zeinab Kamai 15333 addressed the court, “For what sin did they martyr my sister?”

The third session of the court hearing the charges against 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), as well as the nature of this organization as a legal entity, today, was held on Tuesday, December26th, in the eleventh branch of the Criminal Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Dehghani and court advisors Morteza Turk and Amin Naseri.
A number of family members of the victims of MEK terror acts attended the hearing. At the beginning of the trial, the judge asked the representative of the prosecutor to stand and read the indictment.

The accusations of a number of defendants of the file were read by the prosecutor’s representative. These people include: Nikoo Khaefi, Mohammad Hayati, Zahra Bakhshai, Dowlat Noruzi, Morteza Esmaeelian marnani, Mehrban Hajinezhad, Golnar Javaheri Saatchi, Mahmood Atai Karizi, Homeira Hojati Emami, Abolghasem Rezai.
The indictment included the following crimes committed by the MEK during over 4 decades.

MEK as Saddam’s mercenary

The MEK cooperated with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. The MEK’s terror teams entered Iran with the help of Iraqi intelligence to launch cross border operations.
According to the indictment, some intelligence documents that have reached the Iranian intelligence ministry show that the MEK took oil from Iraq in exchange for assassination. Rajavi did not know that during the meetings the MEK leaders and the Iraqi intelligence officials, the meetings were recorded. After the fall of Saddam, the films were revealed.

Cross border operations from east of Iran

According to the intelligence documents, Masoud Rajavi asked General Haboush, the then head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, to provide conditions for the MEK so that the group could enter Iran’s territory from the east of the country and carry out assassinations. Haboush asked Rajavi to carry out the operations of the MEK in Tehran.

Forough Javidan, military operation against your own nation

The MEK conducted a massive military attack against Iran enemy using more than 7,000 troops and hundreds of tanks and personnel carriers in 1988. The operation was financially and logistically sponsored by Iraqi army. 14188

MEK’s Reconnaissance teams

Prior to terrorist attacks, MEK’s reconnaissance teams selected their Iranian country-men who seemed to be religious. They marked the victims’ locations for terror teams. There were civilians including women and children among the targeted victims.

Smuggling arms for terror teams

The supplies of explosives and weapon required for terrorist operations were trafficked by the MEK forces through the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Bombing and mortar attacks

Once the teams are funded and armed, they launch acts of violence in urban areas most of which are nongovernmental, like the group’s mortar attack on Noor residential complex in 1999 that left several people killed and wounded.

Mohammad Mahdi Chizari, a survivor of the MEK’s mortar attack on the Noor residential complex in 1999, appeared on the witness stand following the reading of a part of the indictment related to this terrorist act. In response to the Judge’s request he showed his scars left from that terrorist operation.