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- Wearing Hijab is mandatory within the MEK affairs despite the cult leader’s claims.
- All the women have to wear the type of Hijab the Cult leaders dictate to them; Scarf.
- Female members of MEK are ought to wear exactly the same uniforms. They are not allowed to choose their own clothes’ color; all the women have to wear Khaki uniforms and red or mud-colored head scarves.
- Female members are banned from applying any form of cosmetics even sunscreen crème.
- Before the Ideological revolution and forced celibacy the women were forced to marry whoever the organization would decide.
- Women in MKO Camps have not been allowed to step in Iraq’s public alone for at least 25 years.
- A large number of female members of MEK became infertile through hysterectomy calling the “Ideal Summit Operation”.
- A large number of female members are manipulated to be abused sexually by the Cult leader; Massoud Rajavi.
- Female members are forced to dedicate all their mind and heart to the cult leaders.
- Female members were deceived by the cult leader to attend a ceremony called “Salvation Dance” in which the women had to dance naked in front of their guru; Massoud Rajavi.
- Women are deprived from experiencing the feeling of motherhood since having child is forbidden within the Cult of Rajavis.
- Women are deprived from marital life.
Human Rights Abuse in the MEK
To the Head of UNHCR
I am Azar Hossein Nejad from Tehran, Iran. I am contacting you to ask for your help regarding the situation of my sister, Zeinab Hossein Nejad, a 36 years old woman who is living in Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq.
I never saw my parents or sister during my childhood and youth as all of them had to run for their lives. They left Iran along with many other members of People’s Mojahedin of Iran [Mojahedin-e-Khalq (PMOI also, MEK, MKO)] and had to leave me behind with my relatives because I was an infant at that time and it was not safe for me to be taken with them. My mother and uncles died in the operation of People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in 1988. However, my father (Ali Hossein Nejad) survived and was able to leave the Camp Liberty, after thirty years, with the help of the board of visitors of UN and UNHCR. He left the organization and is currently living in Paris, France.
It is well known that many of the current residents of the Camp Liberty are living there against their will and are highly influenced by the PMOI leaders who use all possible methods for brainwashing and preventing them from leaving the camp. I have tried many times to contact my sister in the Camp but with no success. I even wrote a letter to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi (Current leader of the PMOI) and begged her to let me talk to my sister over the phone, at least once, but have not received any response yet.
So far I have never been able to see my sister in my life. I can’t stop thinking about her and I am so worried about her safety especially with the recent escalation of violence and clashes between ISIS and other forces in Iraq that can put the lives of Camp Liberty residents in danger.
My sister has never had the chance to freely choose where she wants to live and has been raised within an isolated and ideological group (PMOI) during all her life. As a result, she doesn’t have any idea about the life outside the camp and has never had the chance to live like a normal citizen.
I am very happy and thankful for recently accelerated the process of transferring residents of Camp Liberty.
As her sister, I would like to ask you to please please help her to leave the camp and enters into a third country as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Azar (Mona) Hossein Nejad
http://ghorbanali2013.blogfa.com/post/172
From time to time, the UN issues a resolution condemning violation of human rights in Iran. This makes the Mujahedin khalq Organization to get some fuel to run its propaganda machine against the Islamic Republic despite its own horrendous human rights record.
The self-claimed president of the group, Maryam Rajavi uses this opportunity to describe the 61st resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 2014, “as another decisive document on illegitimacy of having economic and political relationship with the ruling clerical regime in Iran.”
Prior to the recent resolution, in November Dr. Ismail Salami wrote on the Global Research, “The not-very-independent UN body has made a mockery of justice by soldering a resolution on the so-called human rights violations in Iran.” He suggests that the double standard over human rights has led the UN to ignore severe violation of human rights by some countries like Israel. [1]
Dr Salimi considers Canada — one of the main sponsors of Israel—behind the resolution against Iran. In May 2014, Canadian Liberal MP Irwin Cotler who served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until 2006 embarked on a series of programs known as Iran Accountability Weeks in which they heard “testimonies highlighting Iranian political prisoners and other victims of Iranian human rights abuses.” Among those who testified was the notorious terrorist MKO leader Maryam Rajavi accompanied by a UN rights official and pundits from a hawkish American think tank. [2]
To comprehend the link between the two sides of the Canadian campaign of advocate both the MKO and Israel, it is worth to read Gareth Porter’s piece on the Middle East Eye that once more exposes warm relationship between the MKO and Israel.
Porter explains how the propaganda against the Iranian nuclear program was first fabricated by Israel and then handed over to the MKO. ” We now know that the documents did not come from an Iranian participant in the alleged project, as the media were led to believe for years; they were turned over to German intelligence by the anti-regime Iranian terrorist organization, Mujahedeen E Khalq, (MEK)” , He writes.” I first reported this in 2008 and have now confirmed from an authoritative German source in my book on the Iran nuclear issue. The MEK was well known to have been a client of the Mossad, serving to launder Israeli intelligence claims that the Israelis did not want attributed to themselves.” [3]
The MKO-Israeli cooperation is not restricted to intelligence laundering and spying operations. “Over the past three decades, the MKO has initiated a series of deadly attacks on Iran and the Iranian population and has so far assassinated 12000 Iranians including the nuclear scientists”, writes Dr. Salimi. “It is interesting to note that the assassinations of prominent Iranian characters including the politicians and scientists are basically conducted in cahoots with Israeli Kidon, the assassination unit within Mossad.”[4]
While the UN ignores serious violation of human rights in Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and particularly in camps of the cult-like MKO, the Australian Government maintains the MKO and its affiliates in its consolidated list updated on December 15th, 2014. This took place a few weeks after the bloody hostage taking in a cafe in the Australian Capital Sydney.
Although the cult leader Mrayam Rajavi vainly tries to wear the mask of humanity by laying flowers at the floral memorial of the victims of the incident in Sydney, the history will never forget the atrocities of the Cult leaders toward its own members, and the victims’ memories will be always alive.
Mazda Parsi
References:
[1] Salami, Ismail, Human Rights and Double Standards: UN Resolution on Iran Mockery of Justice
Global Research, November 21, 2014
[2] ibid
[3] Porter, Gareth, Guess who credits the Mossad with producing the ‘laptop documents?’, Middle East Eye, Thursday 18 December
[4] Salami, Ismail, Human Rights and Double Standards: UN Resolution on Iran Mockery of Justice
Global Research, November 21, 2014
November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women which hits its 15th anniversary this year. Violence against Women (VAW) is a grave violation of human rights but its notion has always been abused and misused by the leaders of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO).
The impact of women’s rights abuse ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical, sexual, and mental abuses, including death. It negatively affects women’s general well-being and prevents women from fully participating in society. Violence not only has negative impacts on the victims but also on their families, the community and the country at large. As a result of these abuses, women are facing grave consequences in the MKO.
Based on the testimonies of former female members of the group, women in the MKO camps every day experience a large range of violence including forced marriage, forced divorce, mandatory celibacy, forced sterilization, sexual slavery and forced labor.
Violence against women which is carried out in the MKO is covered under the guise of feminism. Women in the MKO are called “heroines” and “examples of progressive women” but in reality, they are taken as hostages in a modern slavery system.
Despite the severe situation of women in the MKO, the group launches a huge propaganda against Islamic Republic on what it calls violence against women. Acid attacks in Isfahan, Iran gave the group a new pretext to accuse the Iranian government of violating women’s rights. Although I condemn acid attacks on my country fellow women under any circumstance, I should mention that the record of abusive cases in the MKO by its leader against the group members, particularly female members, is much more severe than the eight cases of acid attacks in Isfahan.
Nasrin Ebrahimi is a former member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization, who fled the group in 2006. She was one of the first survivors of the Cult-like MKO who dared to reveal the corruption of the leaders of the group. She was the first person to speak of the “Ideal Summit Operation” which was a cult jargon through which a large number of female members of the group became infertile by Hysterectomy. [1]
Batoul Soltani, who was a Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) member for 20 years and was promoted to the rank of the leadership council of the terrorist organization, told Press TV that individuals in the Mojahedin-e Khalq cult should reach what the organization sees as a peak by cutting all their links with the outside world. [2]
Women in the MKO who allegedly reach the “Ideal Summit” by removing their wombs and becoming infertile were since then nominated to get raped by the leader Massoud Rajavi. Former leadership and board member of the MKO, Mrs. Zahra Mir Baqeri, confirmed that 95 women were exposed to the process of hysterectomy and being raped by order of Massoud Rajavi and Maryam Rajavi. Mir Baqeri proposes a list which includes the names of 95 of the female members of the MKO who went through hysterectomy under various pretexts and deceptive excuses. [3]
The most detailed report on VAW committed in the MKO, “Comrades in Arms” was broadcast by Press TV. The documentary discloses how harshly Massoud Rajavi abuses women who were “Looking for a brighter future” so that they “ended up in Camp Ashraf, where a fate worse than death awaited them.”[4]
Testimonies of the three women interviewed in this documentary indicates that love, marital life and having children is forbidden for everyone living in the group. Moreover, all women should think of Massoud Rajavi as their husband. Nasrin Ebrahimi tells Press TV, “Maryam Rajavi used to hold many meetings for us, very long meetings. She would hold many meetings especially for women. She said, “We women all have only one husband who is Masoud Rajavi.” She even said, “You have the most handsome and the best man in the world. So what’s wrong with you?”[5]
Vocal revealer of Rajavi’s sexual corruption Batoul Soltani describes how women were manipulated to sleep with Massoud. Although she could not believe his eyes she was one of the victims of rape by the leader. She says in the film:’ “I could never imagine that her words would be put into practice someday and I would have to sleep with Massoud. I really thought that it was merely an ideological discourse. As for Maryam Rajavi herself, I couldn’t imagine that Massoud had sexual relationship with her. I couldn’t imagine it.”[6]
Compared with acid attack against a few women–which is deplorable and not acceptable at all— and executions in Iran, cases of VAWs carried out in the community of 900 women in the MKO are very crucial. The MKO propaganda on the alleged women rights abuses in Iran is used as a cover up for the massive violation of women rights in their own small cult-like community.
Mazda Parsi
References:
[1] FNA, the Ideal Summit Mujahedin Khalq makes women unfertile, October 15, 2008
[2]Press TV, Hysterectomy, latest MKO cult strategy, Oct 21, 2008
[3]Ashraf News, Zahra Mir Baqeri: 95 women were subject to hysterectomy at Camp Ashraf, December 27, 2012
[4]Press TV, Comrades in Arms, Dec 01, 2014
[5] ibid
[6] ibid
According to Iran Interlink’s sources in Iraq, 120 residents of Camp Liberty were due to be transferred to Tirana, Albania last week. This was cancelled because the MEK leader changed his mind again. The residence in Tirana has been ready for months.
At first Rajavi wouldn’t allow access to anyone in Liberty. Then he granted access only if he chose the 120 transferees himself. The UNHCR accepted this on the understanding that 120 transfers are better than none. The interviews went ahead only for Rajavi to halt the process again because he wants more concessions.
From the time this plan was achieved by UNAMI, Rajavi has demanded various things: heavy machinery, more land, unrestricted access to the border (with Jordan), etc. Through the Zionist backed Western media and MEK outlets, Rajavi has hidden these demands behind allegations that “Iraqi officials” are denying medical help, restricting fuel and have confiscated lift trucks.
This is not a new ploy and both UNAMI and the Iraqi authorities have consistently and publicly rejected these allegations.
Iran Interlink Weekly Digest
The recent order by Maryam Rajavi the co-leader of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization to her assistant in Camp Liberty is definitely a new masquerade show to entertain the individuals inside the group, particularly female members.
According to the new order which was published in form of a letter to Zohreh Akhyani the first official of Camp Liberty, she is ordered form what Maryam Rajavi calls “Central Council” made of a “Thousand Heroine”. She gave her agent in liberty an eight-month deadline to form the so-called council.
According to many reports, the number of female members of the MKO is about nine hundred. Regarding that during the past decade a large number of the group members –of which some were women– managed to leave it and another large number died or were killed in clashes with Iraqi forces, the number of women in liberty could hardly ever be more than the reported digit, 900, even if the group’s fraudulent recruiters have been able to recruit new female members. However, the latter is very improbable.
Let us imagine that there are really a thousand women in Liberty, another miscalculation would emerge. According to Maryam’s order, members of the Central Council should be elected by their “competency” and “majority of the votes”. What sort of elections does Maryam Rajavi think of? Electing a thousand heroine of a thousand women! So what about the competency of the elected ones? What does majority of votes mean in her doctrine?
Let us imagine that a fair election is launched and then a thousand female members get the title of “Members of Central Council”, so what? What is the function of this council? What is the difference of “Central Council” one with the “Leadership Council” which was formed by Massoud Rajavi and included only female members?
Based on testimonies of disaffected female members of the MKO’s Leadership Council, all women in the MKO pass the hierarchy and become a member of the Leadership Council someday.
Mrs. Batoul Soltani was member of the so-called Council. She could release herself from the cult-like structure of the MKO after she witnessed corruption of the MKO authorities. As a member of the elite council she was made to sleep with the leader of the MKO cult of personality, Massoud Rajavi. According to Batoul, when she left the cult near a decade ago the number of members of the Leadership Council was six hundred! This number must have raised to a much higher level during the past decade.
Six hundred members in the Leadership Council of a group that the number of its entire members –male and female– hardly ever mount to 4 thousand people and every year several people escape its cult-like, suppressive and violent structure. And now Central Council again consisted of women whose roles and functions are not clarified in the entire letters of Maryam Rajavi and Zoreh Akhyani.
The new show of the Cult of Rajavi is absolutely used to manipulate individuals who are taken as hostages in the cult. It is also a new entertaining program to keep them busy-minded. Not only it does not get any attention in the outside world but also it looks disgusting.
Rajavi is not so creative to misuse the recent acid attacks in Iran. She seeks to find a way to show off her nonexistent feminist ideas!
The truth about the conditions of women in the MKO camps is abuse, abuse, abuse!
The Thousand Heroine of Liberty are banned from love, marriage, having children….Their everyday life is tightly controlled by the cult system. They are not free to choose their covering style, their eating style, their timing for sleep, work and etc. They have to report all their acts and thoughts to their superior official. Some of them have become barren after the leader ordered a mass Hysterectomy surgery. At last some were sexually abused by Massoud Rajavi after a mass marraige!
This is the story of a Thousand Heroines of the MKO.
Mazda Parsi
On January 5, 2014, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Jane Holl Lute of the United States as his Special Adviser for Relocation of Camp Hurriya Residents Outside of Iraq. Since then, she has worked dynamically to resolve the stalemate at Camp Liberty where 2700 residents remain trapped, unable to leave the camp. As a result of her diligence, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Albania was able to announce it has provided the necessary measures for the transfer of a further 210 Camp Liberty residents to Albania. Local reports indicate that several apartments are ready to accommodate the newly arrived individuals.
Previously, in March 2013, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha had announced that Tirana was ready to host 210 members of the MEK “for humanitarian reasons.” Since then, over 200 residents have already been transferred to Albania.
As a UNAMI representative, Jane Holl Lute works in close co-operation with several Iraqi governmental bodies including the security forces and Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights, as well as the UNHCR and independent bodies such as the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC).
UNAMI has had to deal with constant complaints from the Mojahedin commanders about siege conditions at the camp. On 31 August, UNAMI reported that “the provision of life support systems such as water, electricity and food continue to be well in excess of basic humanitarian standards”. In addition, MEK advocates in Europe, such as MEPs Julie Ward and Judith Kirton-Darling, also insist that the MEK be protected from further attacks like the events at Camp Ashraf on September 1, 2013 and for them to be moved as soon as possible to third countries to prevent further violence.
Yet, now it has been made possible to transfer another 210 to a place of safety, the MEK has refused to allow anyone to leave Camp Liberty. Of course this may be linked to news that over half of the MEK members who now reside in Tirana have renounced the group and have begun to speak out about human rights abuses inside Camp Liberty. The MEK leader Massoud Rajavi cannot afford to allow more of the camp’s residents the freedom to decide their own futures, and would prefer to keep them locked up in Iraq under his direct control.
The problems at the camp can quickly be resolved if the MEK commanders would agree to open the gates of the camp and allow the individual residents to access external help from the UN, ICRC and Iraqi NGOs, as well as allowing them to access much needed medical care. Above all, it has been found that the most help to residents has been given by their own families once they have left the camp. Since it has proven itself inadequate in the care of the Camp Liberty residents, the MEK should therefore allow them to have family visits and to access all the help they need from agencies outside the camp.
The document released by some dispatched members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization reveals that the members had to go through strict procedures in order to go out of camp Ashraf and even commuting between different parts of the Camp. they had to fill out a form requiring their name, destination, time it takes for he/she to be out , reason of his/her exit along with signature and approval from his/her superior. The prescribed rules for those who wanted to go outside the Camp Ashraf had been more complicated as the members where required to get the approval of different parts of the organization such as security, personnel and intelligence commands.
The second form on top of which is written “Visa for internal places “had been issued for the members commute between different parts of the Camp Ashraf i.e. going to hospital, masque, cemetery or different bases within the Camp.
According to former members who could managed to release themselves from Camp Liberty such firm rules are run in Camp Liberty as well.
Setaregan exposes MEK human rights abuses to delegates of the Human Rights Council Conference in Geneva
Members and representatives of Setaregan Association (Switzerland), gathered in Geneva for the 27th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The Association used leaflets and individual explanations to inform delegates to the Conference about the human rights abuses practiced by the Rajavis against members of their own organisation, the Mojahedin Khalq. Representatives of Setaregan, including Nasrin Ebrahimi, were able to relate personal testimony to inform delegates, a move which was highly effective.
Setaregan exposed the deceptive behaviour of the MEK. In particular they alerted delegates and officials at the UN to the presence of an individual by the name of Behzad Naziri, who is posing as a human rights activist for a bogus NGO. Naziri is actually a high ranking member of the MEK who is wanted in Iraq for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity there while he served as a high level MEK military commander, as an adjunct to the Saddam regime’s suppressive apparatus. Many former MEK members now living in Europe have personal experience of Naziri’s torture and mistreatment in the MEKs Iraqi camps.
Of particular concern was the mistreatment of women inside the MEK as well as the continued refusal of Maryam Rajavi to free the hostages in Camp Liberty in Iraq.
Members of the Association also gave evidence of the MEK’s support for ISIS and asked for an investigation into activities at the MEK’s headquarters in France and the role of Maryam Rajavi in supporting terrorism and extremism in Iraq and Syria.
Setaregan Association handed over a letter to officials at the HRC explaining these facts. This is produced below:
Behzad Naziri, Mojahedin Khalq military commander, infiltrates Geneva disguised as a human rights activist
BEHZAD NAZIRI
At the start of the 27th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, an agent of the Rajavi cult (Mojahedin Khalq, aka MKO, MEK, PMOI, NCRI), by the name of BEHZAD NAZIRI, has been dispatched to Geneva. Hiding behind the respectable guise of a suit and tie he pretends to belong to various NGOs to infiltrate his way into the buildings and meeting rooms. He is pretending to be a freedom lover and supporter of the rights of the people of Iran but in reality he is carrying out the direct orders of the Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult).
Since the true nature of the Rajavi cult (aka Saddam’s Private Army) is known to all the human rights activists and organisations, the cult does not dare to use its real name to register or to enter meeting rooms. Hence it resorts to using its infamous agents like BEHZAD NAZIRI in disguise to do their job of lobbying by deception, lies and fabricated documents (which the MEK are famous for).
1- BEHZAD NAZIRI, who now hides his membership of the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation, is the same person who served in military uniform in Camp Ashraf as a commander of Saddam’s Private Army during the reign of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship.
2- BEHZAD NAZIRI is one of the closest commanders to Massoud Rajavi (the cult leader), who was deeply involved in the massacre of the Kurdish population of Iraq. Massoud Rajavi, whose existence was totally dependent on the existence of Saddam Hussein, participated fully in the suppression of the uprising of the Iraqi people, and BEHZAD NAZIRI was one of Rajavi’s military commanders who carried out his orders to commit crimes against humanity and war crimes.
3- Human rights organisation have repeatedly reported in detail the suppression of members of the Rajavi cult by their leaders over several decades and all agree that the human rights abuses inside the organisation have never stopped. Rajavi used these inhuman tactics to force the trapped members to carry out orders against their personal beliefs and will. BEHZAD NAZIRI has been and is one of these suppressors and commanders of the Mojahedin Khalq.
4- The Rajavi cult is one of the main collaborators with other terrorist organisations in the region and one of the vocal supporters of ISIS (ISIL or Islamic State). BEHZAD NAZIRI has been and is one of the commanders who is pushing the objectives of the cult leader of the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist organisation which is in line with its open support for the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL).
The one who has put on military clothes and sits in a tank to murder masses of civilian Iraqi Kurds only to extend the reign of a dictator like Saddam, and the one who has been engaged in the imprisonment, torture and execution of the internal critics of the Mojahedin Khalq terrorist organisation and the one who is now working in support of ISIS in the heart of Europe is not a “Freedom Lover” nor is he a “Supporter of the rights of people of Iran”.
BEHZAD NAZIRI, hiding behind the mask of “the people of Iran and freedom”, has been sent to push the MEK and Rajavi’s agenda. The leader of the cult is determined to keep its members (now mostly disaffected) in Iraq (currently in Camp Liberty), for as long as possible . His hope is that the victory of the ISIL against the government of Iraq will allow the cult to keep these people in Iraq and use them as he used them during the era of Saddam. BEHZAD NAZIRI has been, and remains, one of the key players in misinforming people that they are working for the human rights of the trapped people of Camp Liberty, when the real agenda is not to save them but to keep them there indefinitely.
We ask all the Human Rights organisations, ICRC, UNCHR and others, to stop BEHZAD NAZIRI as the main agent of the Mojahedin Khalq and the head of the group of agents who are now trying to push for the agenda of Massoud Rajavi (a fugitive since the fall of his benefactor Saddam Hussein), from entering meeting rooms, and not to fall into the trap of the disguise of a human rights abuser as a human rights activist. We ask these people and organisations to work to help free the trapped hostages of Rajavi’s cult (MEK) in Camp Liberty and facilitate their transfer to other countries, and we ask European countries to accept as many as they can in this respect. It is a documented fact that the leadership of this organisation is the main problem in creating obstacles to resolving this situation. Hence we ask you to open the closed gates of this camp to the families and loved ones of these hostages and to facilitate simple meetings between these families, some of whom have not seen one another for decades.
CC:
ICRC
UNCHR
HRW
AI
Other relevant parties.
Setargan Association, Geneva
Women’s right around the world today is an important indicator in understanding a civilized country. Many may think that women’s rights is only the issue in religious countries while it is actually a global issue. However, the problem is improving across the world but there are still a lot of women who have to struggle to achieve it. For instance, women who have been recruited by destructive cults such as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) are good examples of how women are being treated unfairly. The cult of Rajavi (the MKO) which is governed by kind of modern slavery system deprives female members from their fundamental freedoms and rights.
Nevertheless, the MKO propaganda tries to demonstrate a modern democratic portrait of a viable alternative for the Iranian Government while in reality it practices discrimination and violence against its female members. The new documentary published by Press TV proves just the opposite of what their propaganda claims. “Comrades in Arms” unfolds the story of those women who fell for deceptive slogans of the MKO. Looking for a brighter future these women ended up in Camp Ashraf, where they faced a gloomy fate.
The testimonies of three interviewed women who are interviewed in the documentary severely challenge very special page on Maryam Rajavi’s website where its Gobbles propaganda issues a long statement titled “Women’s Freedoms and Equality in Tomorrow’s Iran”. Criticizing the Constitution of the Islamic Republic for violation of women rights.
“Fundamental freedoms and rights” numbered on this page of the MKO site, one after the other, ironically recalls you the testimonies of Batoul Soltani, Zahra Moini and Nasrin Ebrahimi, former members of the Cult of Rajavi in Press TV documentary.
According to the so-called program that Maryam Rajavi has planned for the future of women in Iran Women shall have the equal right to enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms’’. In contrast, about the situation of women in the MKO, Batoul Soltani says, “What I saw in this organization was that women were merely tools in every level I witnessed.” Zahra Moini whose arm was wounded in the group’s blind military operation against Iran, Eternal Light, says, “This was his old slogan that women were open to exploitation but we were exploited most in the organization.”
What do you think of this article of the so-called statement in support of women?
“Women are free to choose their place of residence, occupation, and education. They must have the opportunity to travel freely, have the right to freely choose their clothing and spouse, and have the right to leave the country, to obtain foreign citizenship, to devolve citizenship to their children, to divorce, and to obtain custody and guardianship over children.”
The paragraph seems pretty nice! If you are not well informed about the true nature of the MKO you may imagine such a democratic progressive humanitarian political movement exist in this group but the testimonies of the a few number of a large group of women held as hostages in the MKO camps indicates the extremely abusive condition of members in the Cult of Rajavi, particularly female ones. “As for Camp Ashraf, it’s very painful to talk about it. It’s like to be in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for years and experience the sufferings and then talk about it,” Nasrin describes the horrible camp Ashraf.
“Everything was obligatory there: organizational obligations, organizational dos and don’ts, organizational rules, and relations that would become tense and tenser every minute”, says Batoul.
Based on the defectors’ testimonies and numerous international reports including NO EXIT report of the Human Rights Watch, violation of individual rights in the MKO ranges from mandatory marriage and divorce to solitary confinement and torture that in some cases ended up in death. So what about this dimension of Maryam Rajavi’s ideal world for women: “Women must have free and equal right to choose, marry or divorce a spouse. They must have the opportunity to travel freely, have the right to freely choose their clothing and spouse, and have the right to leave the country, to obtain foreign citizenship, to devolve citizenship to their children, to divorce, and to obtain custody and guardianship over children”?
You may find the sarcastic answer in Batoul words: “And what we witnessed from the beginning – though my marriage conformed to social norms and was not an organizational marriage – I encountered women who were devoid of emotional involvement with their husbands but the organization had made them marry. For the first time, I saw compulsory marriages in the organization. It’s very difficult to love someone by force. I think that it’s very difficult for a woman to do so.”
“It was a very difficult process for me as it was a mental torture for me.” She adds.” I was with a group of people who kept talking about divorce and hate children and mutual life. It was not accepted for them to have children. It was a sin for the people I was with to sleep with their spouses.”
But the most ridiculous part of the statement seems to be this one: “Polygamy is prohibited”!
Nasrin speaks of very long meetings where Maryam Rajavi tried to manipulate female members to consider Massoud as their only one husband. Maryam told them: “We women all have only one husband who is Masoud Rajavi. You have the most handsome and the best man in the world. So what’s wrong with you?”
Batoul was one of the members of the group’s Elite Council. She was one of those chosen women who were indoctrinated to marry Massuod. “One day a ceremony was held – it was the wedding ceremony – in which Masoud Rajavi performed the marriage ceremony and the women stood up one by one saying, “Yes”, she recounts.
Female survivors of the MKO destructive cult reveal facts about dancing sessions in which women were encouraged to dance in front of Massoud “uniting with him” according to Maryam Rajavi’s claim, although they were severely forbidden to talk or even look at male members in the camp.
Read Btoul’s firsthand account of what happens in the inner side of the MKO filthy relations.
“I suddenly realized that the senior members of the leadership council began to take their dresses off. When about 25 senior members of the leadership council began to take off their dresses and stripped naked other women who were of my rank followed suit and Maryam Rajavi and others were encouraging, “This is your pool. You should dive into it. Come on! Get undressed in front of the leader.” The meeting went on this way; for about three to four hours they were dancing. Masoud, though at first pretended to be discontent over our presence there, sat comfortably eyeing up us all.”*
Nasrin is definitely right to feel sick when she hears the phrase “pure Mujahedins’ relations”. “There are no pure relations in the organization,” she says. “I haven’t seen relations so filthy as in the organization than in everywhere else.”
In Camp Parsian Batoul was selected by Maryam to sleep with Massoud. She describes the first night to sleep with the cult leader how her mind was obsessed with contradictory thoughts about her beloved leader and his organization:
“When Maryam Rajavi called me to see Masoud at night it didn’t mean that I was in love with Masoud waiting with bated breath to see him or that I had an overwhelming urge since I had no husband. No, that was not the case. The only reason was that I couldn’t stand up against the organization when I was there. I knew that if I had fought them they would have done away with me. I couldn’t fight with them. I thought, “If I say no to them, what would happen next? Would they leave me alone? No. and this is not a subject to be discussed in the leadership council.” Then it would come to my mind that such and such a member of the leadership council who had disappeared mysteriously might have been killed or whatever. Later on, I had no doubt that they would kill anyone who disagrees with them in the leadership council. So I decided to let him do whatever he wanted waiting for a moment to save my body.”
She lists names of several women who were mysteriously disappeared in the organization. Later she found out that she was not the only one to sleep with Massoud. That was then she could see Rajavi’s true colors. ”I wondered why marriage and sexual satisfaction was banned for all men while he exempted himself,” Batoul says.
The entire documentary rejects this passage of Maryam’s plan for prosperity of Iranian women: “Any exploitation of women under any pretext is prohibited. All traditions, laws and regulations according to which the parents, a guardian or anyone else put girls or women at the disposal of others on the pretext of marriage or any other pretext for sexual gratification or exploitation will be repealed”
Together with her friends, Nasrin is now dedicated to reveal the true substance of the MKO Cult. She notes: “They appear good, happy and beautiful in public but they are rotten to the core. Only we who were there know their real characters and therefore hate their appearances. It makes us sick when Maryam Rajavi delivers a speech. It taxes our patience to listen to her speech word by words because we know that she’s lying through her teeth. It makes us puke when she talks about women.”
Mazda Parsi