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Ebrahim Moradi declared his defection from the MEK

Ebrahim Moradi declared his total disassociation with the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK, MEKO, PMOI, NCRI, Cult of Rajavi) after 20 years of collaboration with group. Moradi, now 64 years old, from Kermanshah, in west of Iran, was a construction worker when he was deceived by an MEK recruiter to join the group in Iraq. “In 2001 I was a worker in Iranshahr, Baluchestan, (Eastern Iran), a man named Farid promised me to take me to Europe”, Moradi says. “I was seeking a better life so I found it a great opportunity.”

Ebrahim Moradi

With the help of human smugglers, Farid took Ebrahim Moradi to Pakistan where he was given a fake passport. “They told me that there was a problem to go directly to Europe and I had to go to Iraq to stay there for a short time before moving to a European country,” Moradi writes in his message to announce his defection from the MEK.

The MEK agents warmly welcomed Moradi in Baghdad airport. They took him to a hotel and after a few days they took him to Camp Ashraf. “When I arrived in Camp Ashraf, a man named Aidin gave me a military uniform and told me, ‘You are a fighter for the Khalq (people)!’ “, Moradi recalls. “I was shocked, I asked them to leave me get back to Iran but I was told that I had no way out.”

Ebrahim Moradi was not personally interested in in the MEK’s cause. He was always looking for a chance to release himself from the bars of the Cult of Rajavi but like any other member of the MEK, he was constantly under the manipulation system of the group. “I had no access to the outside world, I was not even allowed to contact my family,” he says.

As a Sunni Muslim, Moradi was forced by the MEK commanders to obey the religious rules and ceremonies of the Shiite Mujahedin. “I was difficult for me but I had to obey the repressive ruling of the cult,” he states.
Moradi left the MEK’s camp in Albania in 2017 but he was linked with group’s authorities because of the monthly payment that the UN pays all refugees in Albania. In fact, the MEK leaders have confiscated the money and they pay it to their defectors as far as they work for them as spies against other defectors who have completely defected from the group.

About his departure from the MEK he says, “After 17 years of ruining my life for the lies and false promises of the MEK, I left the group after it was relocated in Albania but unfortunately it was like I was still I the group; I was forced to snitch on other defectors of the group as a spy just in order to receive my monthly payment.”

Ebrahim Moradi with ASILA members

The MEK authorities wanted him to inform them on the whereabouts, job, family … of the defectors. “I was fed up with spying and snitching for them so I came to ASILA office and introduced myself to Mr. Heirani,” he writes.
Moradi joined ASILA (the association for the support of the Iranians living in Albania) which is run by defectors of the MEK to aid former members of the MEK to build a new life in the outside world.

February 9, 2022 0 comments

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Parvis Heidarzadeh to repatiate after 35 years

Former members of the Mujahedin Khalq (the MEK) celebrated the return of Parvis Heidarzadeh from Albania to Iran.
Yesterday, former members of the MEK gathered together to hold a good good-bye party for one of their peers, Parviz Heidarzadeh who was going to repatriate after 35 years. Then, they accompanied him to Tirana airport.
Several ex-members of the Cult of Rajavi published the photos of their gathering to accompany Heidarzadeh in their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Heidarzadeh was under the ruling of the MEK cult for 30 years. He was imprisoned by the MEK agents while he was a soldier in the front of Iran-Iraq war, in 1987. He was not registered by the International Red Cross as a POW so he was kept in the MEK’s modern slavery until 2015 when the group was relocated in Albania. He formally declared his defection from the group in 2016 .

January 15, 2022 0 comments

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Two other MEK members defected the group in Albania

Hassan Heirani announced the separation of Mehdi Mazloumi and Ali Asghar Kalateh Seifari from the Mujahedin-e Khalq in Albania.

In a video link with some of Nejat society families of Zanjan, the head of ASILA, Hassan Heyrani, reported these two members’ defection from the group. The online meeting held on Saturday,Dec.25.
The newly established ASILA has the duty to support the Iranians who defect the Cult of Rajavi and the families of those who are still taken as hostages in the group’s camp Ashraf 3, in the region of Durres in North of Tirana, Albania.

The families efforts to free the MEK cult hostages along with the ASILA activities provide more incentive for the cult hostages to liberate themselves.

December 26, 2021 0 comments

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Iranians outside MEK’s camp celebrate Yalda Night in Albania

Former members of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) celebrated Yalda Night in Albania.

The Iranian residents of Albania, who have defected the MEK’s cult-like group, celebrated the winter solstice, known as Yalda in Persian culture, in Tirana, on December 21.

At Yalda Night, Iranians celebrate the arrival of winter, the renewal of the sun and the victory of light over darkness. Families gather together, stay up all night, eat red fruits, nuts and special dishes. They tell stories, read the poetries of Iranian poets like Hafez and speak of the good that can overcome evil. However, all these family activities are forbidden in the MEK as a so-called Iranian group.

A few of former members of the MEK who got married after their defection from the group, attended the celebration together with their families. Other defectors of the MEK who have not married yet or are far from their families in Iran, try to keep in touch with their friends through such occasions.

MEK defectors celebrated Yalda in Albania

These free Iranians living in Albania who have recently established the Association for the Support of Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA) gathered together to keep the ceremonies of Yalda alive in Albania. As one of the missions of ASILA is developing cultural interactions between Iranians and Albanians, some Albanian friends of ASILA members attended the party.
The event indicates the determination of MEK defectors to live a normal life maintaining all traditions that link them to their homeland and family, despite years of being deprived from a normal family life in the MEK camps.

December 25, 2021 0 comments

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Iranian Romeo & Juliet Versus Maryam Rajavi The Witch

It was in Tirana that the story of Iranian Romeo & Juliet, the couple in love, was repeated, like a production from Shakespeare’s “master” pen. This time, Romeo and Juliet are not from Verona but from Iran. Fortunately, the story of the loving Iranian couple in Tirana has a “happy ending” and not a tragic end like Shakespeare’s characters!

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi are the Iranian Romeo and Juliet in Tirana. The couple were previously members of the defunct terrorist organization Mujahedin Khalq, MEK, locked up in Camp Ashraf 3 in Manez, Durres, Albania. They fell in love with each other thus violating one of the basic rules of the Rajavi cult (MEK): Love is “HARAM”! Love is forbidden because it prevents cult members from overthrowing the government of Iran! Those in the cult, however, have had forty short years, in which they have not yet overthrown the government in Tehran, even though they have declared “non grata” such a human feeling as love. Thankfully this time love triumphed over the wickedness of Maryam Rajavi, head of the Iranian cult of Manez. Sanaz and her brother Mehrdad were not intimidated by the threats of the cult commanders, nor were they seduced by the sums of up to 14,000 euros or the promises to be trafficked from Tirana to Europe, to Germany.

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq

We remind the reader that commanders of this cult were recently handcuffed by the Albanian police for human trafficking – we hope that the ‘007’ employees of the German Embassy in Tirana will take account of this trafficking of human beings destined for Germany.

Sanaz and her Romeo Bijan Khademi are finally living happily in Tirana. The couple even got married according to Islamic ceremony, a marriage performed by an Albanian imam. In December, the Albanian police (immigration directorate), despite the pressures and intrigues of the Rajavi cult, will start to provide ID cards to Iranians who live in Albania, but who have left the ranks of the Rajavi cult.

The ASILA Association, which protects the interests and rights of these Iranians, has undertaken to help provide our “Romeo and Juliet” with Albanian identity cards. Once provided with an identity card, the couple can complete the civil marriage formalities at the civil registration office in Tirana. Such action will provide the Iranian couple with all the necessary legal cover to protect themselves from any intrigue of the wicked woman Maryam Rajavi.

I am closing this post with my wish: Let Tirana inherit this Romeo and Juliet of Iran!

Gjergji Thanasi, Gazeta Impakt – Translated by Iran Interlink

December 18, 2021 0 comments

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Child soldiers speak of abuse and violence in the MEK

Following the publication of the investigative report of the German Zeit Magazine on the life of a child soldier of the Mujahedin Khalq, Amin Golmaryami, the propaganda of the group reacted by accusing the author of the article, Luisa Hommerich and Amin Golmaryami of working for the Iranian Intelligence. The group’s propaganda claimed that Amin’s testimonies were false and launched a propaganda against him.

However, the group’s propaganda in the social media was responded by other former child soldiers who supported Amin and confirmed his testimonies. Even, Mohammad Rajavi, the son of the group’s leader Massoud Rajavi approved the evidences presented by Amin, in his Facebook account.

Furthermore, a room was formed in Club House under the topic “Accounts by former child soldiers of the Mujahedin Khalq”, on December 12th, in which several former child soldiers, including Amin Golmaryami participated. Confirming Amin’s testimonies, the room members revealed other cases of human rights violations including child abuse, harassment and forced military trainings against children in the MEK.

The host of the room was Amir Vafa Yaghmai who has several times spoken of his horrible experience as a 14-year-old soldier in the MEK’s camps. Among speakers –mostly former child soldiers and so friends of each other—Ray, 39, was one of those who stated horrible facts about his own experience of living in the MEK as a child and then as a child soldier. He said that is determined to reveal the realities about the MEK’s attitude against children and teens because Amin is his best friend who is attacked by the MEK propaganda.

Ray who finds it his absolute right to speak out on what he endured in the MEK is the son of Mujahed parents. He was in camp Ashraf Iraq until he was nine years old. In 1991, he was smuggled to Europe and then to Canada to live in the MEK bases or with foster parents. He was then returned to Iraq when he was 16.
Ray who plans to publish his autobiography, promised to speak of details on what was going on the child soldiers in the MEK. “I left the group four years ago,” he said. “I was there for 18 years. I was recruited by Sedighe Hosseini in Canada. I am an eye witness of the story of child soldiers… this is my right to tell my story to the world.”

About his childhood in the MEK he said, “It was a terrible life there. I was in Ashraf until I was eight or nine. In Camp Ashraf or in the MEK’s bases in the West, I was sexually abused by the MEK sympathizers and members. I was then given to a family that was very bad. I was constantly beaten by them. I was mentally abused.”

Ray is a mature man right now. He is proud of himself because of his bravery to expose facts about his life. “I am a strong man who can stand up to tell the true story of my past life,” he said.
Ray who is going to get married next year, believes that it is time to denounce the MEK leaders. “No one has the right to deprive me from the right to tell my story,” he said.

As the MEK propaganda has published the so-called documents about Amin Golmaryami in order to claim that he was not forced to fight for the MEK and he joined it voluntarily, Ray states that the group’s cult-like structure coerces members to admit what the leader wants. “We were under severe pressure,” he says. “We had no choice except to write and sign what they told us. In the meetings, we were dictated by Massoud Rajavi to write word by word of the commitment letters and we had to sign them and put fingerprints on them. The MEK can not use such a paper as evidence against us.”

Other speakers of the room also exposed details on what they went through under the cult-like oppressive system of the MEK. To read more about them stay tuned.

Mazda Parsi

December 15, 2021 0 comments

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Two MEK members defected the group in Albania and got married

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Sanaz and Bijan have recently defected the MEK cult in Albania and left the group’s camp. They soon decided to get married. It was forbidden in the organization for them to even think about marriage and love.

Sanaz Bazazian and Bijan Khademi got married in Albania after separating from the Mujahedin-e Khalq

As soon as the agents of the Mujahedin became aware of their decision, they tried to dissuade Sanaz from doing so by promising to transfer her to Germany. However, Sanaz didn’t fall into their trap. The young couple celebrated their wedding on Sunday December 12 in accompany with their friends who have also walked out of the group.
Ever since the MEK members transferred to Albania, hundreds have left the organization due to its rigid cultic rules dominating the group’s affairs, one of which is forced celibacy. The MEK members have to replace family love with love for the Rajavis as cult leaders.

December 14, 2021 0 comments

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Swedish police recruited by the Iranian intelligence !

Hanif Aziz, 40, a Swedish police officer and the son of Mujahed parents published his autobiography on the early 2021 in Swedish language. The book was soon published on Google Play eBooks and Amazon and other online stores for $9.99. While the propaganda media of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) claims that the book has been written by the Iranian Intelligence (!) the world’s largest community of book lovers, Good Reads, has introduced the book. In this database, there are also eleven reviews on the book of which two are in English. The MEK-run media claim that the Iranian intelligence is abusing Swedish Police personnel! Their proof for such a claim is that, as a child, Hanif had not been interested in writing books and politics.

The Swedish title of the book is “Förortssnuten” which has been translated to English as “Suburban snout”. These unbiased reviews on the book clarify that Hanif Azizi’s book is not a book on politics. Google Reads states:
Hanif Azizi grew up on a military base in the Iraqi desert. His parents are warriors for the Iranian rebel movement Mujahedin of the People and the fight against Khomeini permeates his entire life. After his father is killed in the war, nine-year-old Hanif takes his little brother by the hand and begins an escape that eventually takes him to Sweden. He has a hard time adjusting to the new country and in his teens he gets in touch with the terrorist-branded rebel movement again. Attracted by fellowship and a possible reunion with his mother, he goes to Iraq to become a warrior in the People’s Mujahedin.

The story could have ended here, but something happens that makes life turn around. Instead, Hanif returns to Sweden – and trains as a police officer.
He is looking for a job in Rinkeby, and will soon be involved in things he never thought could happen in Sweden.
Suburban Snot is a reality-based story about escape, exclusion, radicalization and life in Swedish areas of exclusion. It is a story about friendship, cohesion and about a police force that is faced with a brutality it cannot handle.

Ksena a user on Good Reads rated the book “really liked it” and wrote:
Recommends it for: Anyone!

Shelves: painful, lovely, dramatic, biographical, nonfiction-facts, read-for-work, important, favorites
This was… a really good book. And an important one. AND! Much more than I first had anticipated.
I expected a story about a Swedish cop being a refugee originally or from such a family, and working in a Vulnerable area. And I do get that. But not only.
He grew up his first 9 years in the organization Peoples Mujahedin of Iran. But was then sent away to an uncertain future with alone. Just him and his little brother. 9 and 6 years old.
It’s interesting how he has written this book about his life. Every other chapter is about his life as a cop. And every other chapter is about how he grew up and survived just him and his little brother with various adults around them, both good and bad.
It’s both tragic and inspiring. Especially when he does finally meet his mother again as a young adult and almost joins the Mujahedin organization… It makes it so clear how young men so easily can be so easily manipulated to join extremist organizations.
Now he didn’t, he grew up mentally, returned to Sweden and ended up being a cop through various roads of life. And works in areas in Sweden where crime-rates are high and honor culture are way to common. And he is using his past to help as much he can.
It’s an inspiring story. It would have been cool to meet this man, and especially to have the teens and kids in the school I work in. I think it would have done them good.
I’m glad to have read this book. Even though the language was a bit weak here and there (hence not max-rating), over all it was an amazing story!

Another user Katerina Dashti rated it “liked it” and wrote:
“He is not welcome here (Han är inte välkommen hit). ”
This book happened to be on my to-read list due to several reasons. First, it has been much discussed in Swedish social median and book societies. Second, this is the topic that is very important for my new Swedish family and it was very interesting to read other people view about it.
This is a story of Iranian boy, who grow up in a military base in the Iraqi desert where his parents joined the Iranian rebel movement in the fight against political regim in Iran. After death of his father, Hanif and his brother start their journey for a better life that eventually takes them both to Sweden. This is a story about difficulties to adjust to the new country and how different situation can be experienced by two brothers. The story has a twist and instead of leaving for Iraq to reunion with his mother and join the People of Mujahedin, he decides to become a police officer in Sweden and work in one of the problematic areas in Rinkeby.

The story is presented in two parts. On the one hand, it is a story of a little boy who goes through really tough moments that undoubtably affected his life and views. On the other hand, it is a story of a police officer working in one of the most criminal areas in Sweden and facing loads of brutality that is hard to handle.
This is announced to be a reality-based story about escape, exclusion, radicalization and life in Sweden. Yet it turned to be more a one-sided story, that perhaps is a part of author’s getting well and accepting himself process. The part of the police officer story was really interesting as it focused on emotional aspects and challenges and possible ways (or lack of them) to deal with them. In addition, it was interesting to read about some tragical events in Sweden from the insider perspective. The biographic part of the growing up boy and information presented raised numerous questions. Thus, I would recommend to see the book more as a fiction story with some connections to the reality than as the reality based one. In other words, this book is a great example case where one should read consciously and remember about the danger of a single story.
Book is in Swedish and translation in English is not available. The language is easy and advanced language skills are not required.

December 13, 2021 0 comments

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Fazel Farhadi defector of the MEK recounts experiences

“We were enduring the conditions of Iraqi camps when one day, they announced over loudspeakers that we get in line in the yard. We got in line. A few minutes later, a few men wearing suit and tie and two women arrived. A man –I later realized that he was Mehdi Abrishamchi—began to speak. He said, ‘We come from the Mujahedin Khalq. Brother Massoud says hello to you. We feel pity for you. We know that you suffer difficulties here. We are sorry and we want to take you to our own camp.’ Then Abbas Davari started speaking repeating the same nonsense.” Fazel recounts.

Fazel Farhadi was serving his army service as a soldier when he was taken as a war prisoner by Iraqi forces in Iran-Iraq war. The Iraqi forces took Fazel and other Iranian POWs to their camps which were terribly in shortage of food and hygiene. Fazel and a few of other POWs were deceived by the MEK agents to join the group’s camp in Iraq.

Fazel Farhadi

That day, MEK recruiters served the Iranian prisoners with lunch. During the lunch time, the prisoners used the opportunity to ask them some questions. Fazel asked Abbas Davari, “If you save me from here, when will you take me to Iran?” Davari promised him to take him to Iran after he joined the group’s so-called army National Liberation Army (NLA). “We will soon go to Iran and you will return to your family after you join the NLA,” Davari told Fazel.

“In the NLA you are free to take a few days off every week,” Davari fabricated some lies about their army. “You are even paid for the days you are off.”
The MEK agents left the camp after the lunch but they got back a week later. “This time they had brought us some gifts,” Fazel writes. “They said, ‘we are going to go to Iran in a few days and if you do not join us, you are not Iranian and we will not take you to Iran.’ We believed their fake promises. So, I and some of other prisoners told them our names and asked them to take us. They took us to Camp Ashraf two days later. Our dark days started from that very day.”

Initially, the Iranian prisoners were received warmly at camp Ashraf but just a few weeks later, they were treated like slaves; forced to labor without any payment. “I was exhausted with the repetitive and sever daily labors so I asked a commander to give me a few hours off to go to the town. He laughed at me! ‘What kind of off!?’ he asked, ‘Here we are in Iraq. We are fighting. There is no off here. Who told you such a nonsense!?’ I told him that a man named Abbas Davari had told me about it but he said that I was wrong. ‘Here is the place of war and there is no day off in war.’ he said.”

Fazel started complaining about the false promises and the lies that MEK recruiters had told them and asked to leave camp Ashraf to get back to the Iraqi camp. He was not allowed and instead he was threatened to death. “I suddenly found out that the lunch and gifts were a trap to capture me and other POWs,” Fazel states.
“Rajavi and his commanders are just a bunch of fraudulent liars,” he says. “I spent 16 years of my life in the cult of Rajavi, in a closed atmosphere. I waisted my life in the MEK. Rajavi resorts to any dirty deals to achieve his dire ambitions. I hope that Rajavi and his allies will be brought to trial in near future.”

December 11, 2021 0 comments

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Mohammad Reza Sedigh announced defection from the MEK

Another member of the Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) announced his defection from the group and joined the newly established ASILA.

Mohammad Reza Sedigh, was born in 1979 in Tabriz, Easter Azarbaijan, Iran. In 2002, in order to get in a better job market he moved to Turkey where he was deceived by an MEK recruiter. “Join the MEK to enjoy a better life and a job with a good income!” the recruiter told MohammadReza. “Then the MEK will send you to Europe.”
MohammadReza who was eager to have a better life in Europe accepted the suggestion and the next day he was in the MEK’s camp in Iraqi territory. “They gave me a military uniform and told me ‘You are a fighter of the MEK now!’” MohammadReza writes in the message that he published to announce his defection from the group.
He was forced to stay in the MEK’s camps in Iraq for over 13 years. After the expulsion of the group from Iraq and its relocation in Albania, MohammadReza stayed 3 more years in the group’s camp near Tirana. “In Albania, the group leaders kept on the same cult-like regulations, called red lines,” he writes. “I could not endure their fraudulent practices anymore. I had waisted my youth, my mental and physical health under the deceptive system of Massoud Rajavi.”

Mohammadreza Seddigh

Therefore, MohammadReza decided to leave the group but his departure from the group’s camp did not stop the MEK commanders from controlling him. He had to go to the group’s office to receive the monthly payment that the UNHCR was supposed to pay all MEK members in Albania. “Every time I went to the MEK’s office to receive my money, the office’s authorities such as Javad Khorasan, Fereidoon Salimi and Abdollah Tehranchi tried to interrogate me,” he writes. “They wanted me to spy other MEK defectors in Tirana. They wanted me to give them information about Hassan Heirani and even about other separated members who still went to them for the monthly cash.”

Mohammadreza Seddigh at ASILA office

MohammadReza Sedigh was fed up with these monthly interrogation meetings. He explains how he decided to denounce the MEK completely: “The last time I went there to get my 35 thousand Albanian Lek was November 27th. They asked me to take position against the group’s defectors who have recently founded the Association for the support of the Iranians Living in Albania (ASILA). They wanted me to repeat the lies that the group propagates about ASILA. I wondered why the group itself does not take such a position and eventually I found out that ASILA is a legal organization registered by the Albanian government as a European country.”

MohammadReza realized that the MEK leaders are determined to cause division between defectors of the group. The group knows that any accusation against ASILA can be officially sued in the Albanian judiciary. “I joined ASILA and reported the MEK’s intentions against the association to the Albanian authorities via ASILA.”
MohammadReza Sedigh announced his complete dissociation from the MEK’s office and his membership in ASILA.

December 7, 2021 0 comments

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