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Gholam-Ali Mirzaei message to his captivated friends at the MEK camp

Mr. Gholam-Ali Mirzaei, the Mujahedin-e Khalq ex-member and one of the plaintiffs in the case against the leaders of the MEK stated in an interview with the Nejat Society correspondent:
I am one of the people who sued the MEK leaders’ case in the court. I support the rights that were abused in the Rajavi Cult for 20 years, as well as the lawsuit against the leaders of the Rajavi Cult for preventing families from visiting their children.

I call on the Hague Tribunal and the international community and all human rights organizations to support this issue so that these families can hold their rights as soon as possible and see their children face-to-face.
I also thank the families for their support and I ask them to follow up more. My family did that. I do not think this problem will be solved with one or two attempts. They need to be more persistent so that these people are informed through cyberspace. Cyberspace is very influential.

Gholamali Mirzaei

Mr. Gholam-Ali Mirzaei also told his friends who are still being held in the Rajavi Cult camp in Albania:
Greetings to all my friends in the Rajavi Cult who are now in the captivity of this cult .I have been back in Iran for almost 8 months now. All that the Rajavi Cult says about anyone who leaves the cult are mirages and lies. They said that if you return to Iran, neither your family, nor your relatives and locals will accept you. These are all nonsense. Believe me that no one is preventing you from returning home. The families and those who are waiting for you have worked hard over the years to liberate you.

The Rajavis said that whoever leaves the organization will die of starvation or if he/she returns to Iran he would be executed.The Rajavi Cult deceived people like us for its own survival. I ask you friends who work in cyberspace to inform the rest of the friends who are not in cyberspace. Let the others know and make your final decision to leave immediately.

The families are waiting for you to return as soon as possible. Make an effort and get rid of that camp as soon as possible.

October 11, 2021 0 comments

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MEK defectors celebrate defection of Rafiq Dehghan

Defectors celebrated the official defection of Rafiq Dehghan from the Mujahedin Khalq.
Survivors of the Cult of Rajavi once more gathered in the café owned by Hassan Heirani in Tirana to celebrate the official defection of Rafiq Dehghan after 17 years of mental and physical imprisonment in the group.
The MEK defectors published photos and video clips of their small party in the café on their Facebook and Instagram accounts.

October 10, 2021 0 comments

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Rafiq Dehghan declare defection from the MEK

The former member, Rafiq Dehghan, officially declared his disassociation from the Mujahedin Khalq Organization.

Rafiq Dehghan from Iranshahr, Baluchestan, Iran, left the MEK in Albania after 17 years. In the announcement published by Rafiq on MEK Survivors’ website, he explains how he was deceived to join the group as a young Baluch who was seeking a happy life.

“About 17 years ago, I got to know a human trafficker named Ali,” he writes. “He told me that he could take me to Europe and I accepted what he said. After three days, I crossed the Iranian border and went to Pakistan where an Iranian man called Farid received me. Ali said that Farid would help me travel to Europe. Farid took me to an apartment in Golshahr region in Karachi.”

Though, Farid told Rafiq that he had to go to Iraq and stay there for some time before immigrating to Europe. “I asked him how long I had to stay in Iraq.” Rafiq recounts. “He told me that it would not take so long.”
By the way, Rafiq was sent to Iraq with a forged passport after bribing the Pakistani security guard at the airport. Three members of the MEK received Rafiq at Baghdad airport. “They took me to a paramilitary complex,” he recalls. “In the afternoon, I was taken to Camp Ashraf in which a man named Aidin received me. He gave me a military uniform and a pair of military boots and told me, ‘Now, you are a Mujahed’ “.

Rafiq Dehghan; MEK defector in Albania

Rafiq was shocked. He had no way out. He had to stay in Iraq. “I spent tough years in Camp Ashraf until we were relocated in Albania,” he said. In Albania, he started doubting the MEK leaders who according to him were “just liars and storytellers whose lies had coerced me and brainwashed me.”
In Albania, Rafiq could manage to contact his family via another defector, Sarfaraz Rahimi who was also from Sistan Baluchestan. “I realized that the MEK cult had told me lies about my family,” he writes. “Families are not mercenaries. The MEK leaders themselves are the top mercenaries who are henchmen of Israel and the US and Saudi Arabia.”

After Rafiq left the MEK, he was not left free by the MEK agents. They forced him to spy on other defectors of the group in Albania in exchange for giving him the monthly payment that the UNHCR is supposed to pay every refuge seeker including all MEK members.
“For a period of time, I had to spy on defectors,” Rafiq admits. “Until the day I ran into Sarafraz in the Cafe. It was his birthday. I joined him and other defectors who were having a party in the Café but then I was punished by the MEK agents. They told me that I had passed the red line.”

In order to punish him, MEK agents Javad Khorasan and Abdollah Tehrani forced him to sign a paper containing some fabricated information on the defectors accusing them of being agents of the Iranian intelligence.
Rafiq Dehghan denied all the fabricated lies that the MEK websites published under his name. “I had financial issues,” Rafiq stated. “The cult commanders confiscated the monthly money that was mine. I had no income. Sarfaraz and his friends always helped me when I needed money. I felt guilty when I was spying against them.”

Ultimately, Rafiq Dehghan decided to defect the MEK completely. “I just want to live a free life and denounce the Cult of Rajavi that troubled me and others who are like me.”

October 10, 2021 0 comments

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Tahereh was a prisoner of the MEK Cult

Tahereh Nouri was only twenty years old and the mother of a nine-months old baby when she was taken as a hostage by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi).
“As a young girl, I had married a greedy man who ruined my life,” Tahereh writes in the memoirs she has published on her experience of involvement with the MEK. “My husband was jailed in Arak, Iran, where he got to know a man named Mehdi.”

Mehdi was actually an MEK recruiter who succeeded to deceive Tahereh and her husband to join the MEK. “He promised to take us to Iraq to work in the MEK camps with good payments for two months and he claimed that eventually we would be sent to Europe to build a new life.”
As Mehdi asks them, Tahereh and her husband take their passports and travel to Turkey where they are welcome by MEK agents. “We were settled in a safe house of the MEK for about a week,” she recalls. “They showed us films of the life of families in Camp Ashraf.”

Tahereh Nouri

The group agents take them to Iraq. They are housed in base of the MEK in Baghdad called Tabatabayee. “We were received warmly with good food and residence,” Tahereh says. “Again, we were shown videos of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi’s speeches. After several hour, they put a document before me and told me to sign it. They told me to divorce my husband in order to comply with the rule of Massoud Rajavi.”

Fahimeh Arvani is the female commander to coerce Tahereh to leave her family life; to divorce her husband and to give her little daughter to the group. “I was shocked to hear that,” Tahereh utters. “I said that we were supposed to move to Europe via Iraq but Fahimeh started shouting at me that there would be no exit for a Mujahed. She told me ‘There is only war here’.”

Tahereh was not allowed to see her husband any more. Her daughter was not with her. She was only allowed to visit her twice a week. The group commanders had scheduled a daily work plan for her, she received military trainings, she worked and she attended daily self-criticism sessions and brainwashing meetings.
“The daily routines were exhausting,” she says. “I was looking for a way to release myself. Everyone who arrives in the Cult of Rajavi is stuck in a space that there is no way out of it. The Cult of Rajavi is very dangerous. When I looked at those women in the cult, they looked really desperate. They seemed to have a lot to say but they did not have the courage to say.”

Tahereh was surprised to see that even brothers and sisters were not allowed to meet each other in the MEK’s camp. “I asked Fahimeh Arvani why sisters cannot talk to their biological brothers,” she recalls. “She replied sexual instincts are equal for every one!”

Tahereh observed various examples of discriminations and brutality in the MEK. “I remember the day that I had to work in the kitchen of the camp. The rank and file had to eat food with a very bad quality but I saw some pots with special foods cooked for female commanders who were members of the group’s so-called Elite Council. Unlike other, they did not come to the eating place. Their meals were taken to their rooms.”

It took Tahereh a few years to get determined to leave the group. She endured long hours of criticism sessions in which commanders and peers tried to convince her to stay. “When I officially asked them to let me leave the group, they immediately hold meetings for me,” she says. “I was determined to leave. Fahimeh Arvani was mad at me. She threatened me to death. ‘I will bury you alive’, she said.”

Ultimately, Tahereh could manage to liberate her daughter and herself from the bars of the MEK. “Years after leaving the MEK, I am living a free life in Iran but I feel pity for the women who are still imprisoned in the cult of Rajavi.”

Taherh Nouri tries to keep in touch with Nejat Society. In her last text message to female members of the MEK she writes, “As I experienced it, I know that the cult-like pressure on female members is very high in the MEK. Maryam Rajavi claims of women’s right but no woman is free in the MEK. We had no right to open up for the cult leaders. We had no right to think about our children or our family. No one can ask for a phone call with her family.”

She adds, “We just worked as slaves. We had to chant ‘Maryam! Maryam!’. The cult of Rajavi is retarded it will not change. I released myself and chose a free life. You can do it too. Do not let the cult leaders demolish you behind the bars of their cult!”

October 6, 2021 0 comments

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We support the appeal of the former members against the Rajavi Cult

Mr. Mohammad Baqer Momenzadeh, a former member of the Rajavi Cult and in charge of the Neajat Society of Fars Province, said on the first day of the Nationwide Online Conference of the Nejat Society held on August 7, 2021:

Mohammad Baqer Momenzadeh, a former member of MEK

Greetings. I, Mohammad Baqer Momenzadeh, am in charge of the Nejat Society of the Fars Province.
We have now learned that a complaint by the victims of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) against the leaders has been handed over to the Secretariat of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. We do support this act, and we hope that one day these victims will get their due rights.

Today, we invited several families and several people who have left the MEK to join us. First, I thank all of them, and then I hope that the MEK will be dismantled as soon as possible, and that we will be able to help the people who have suffered so much.

September 25, 2021 0 comments

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Mr. Kamand Ali Azizi: Members of the Rajavi cult have been brainwashed

Mr. Kamand Ali Azizi, a former member of the Rajavi Cult and one of the plaintiffs in the case against the leaders of MEK, stated on the first day of the Nationwide Online Conference of the Nejat Society held on August7, 2021:

KamandAli Azizi

I am Kamand Ali Azizi. I am very happy that the case has gone to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. I thank the families whose children are trapped and have come to this conference. Thanks to all of them. I was very closed to Ali Madad Sadeqi for many years.

Ali Madad Sadeqi wished to come to Iran and see his family, but he was brainwashed and therefore he is afraid to leave. Ali Madad and I were together. They said that if you go to Iran, you will be executed or you should go to prison. Ali Madad Sadeghi was afraid, otherwise he would have come to Iran a long time ago.

September 23, 2021 0 comments

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Srafaraz Rahimi officially declared his defection from the Mujahedin Khalq Organization

In 2002, Sarfaraz was a young boy from Zahedan (a city in East of Iran) seeking to immigrate to Europe in hope of a better life. “A human trafficker took me to Pakistan and introduced me to a man named Farid,” Sarfaraz recounts his story with the MEK. “He told me that Farid would take me to Sweden.”

Nevertheless, Farid took Sarfaraz to Iraq. “In Iraq, they took us to camp Ashraf where I found out that I would never go to Europe,” Sarfaraz says. “This was a trap made by the MEK to recruit more members.”

Srafaraz Rahimi

The brainwashing system of the Cult of Rajavi coerced Sarfaraz to stay in Camp Ashraf for about two decades. “The group only seeks the interests of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi,” he says. “Neither the cause of the group and nor the forces matter to the Rajavis.”

After the group was relocated in Albania in 2013, Sarfaraz Rahimi left the group but he was financially dependent on the MEK. The group had actually confiscated the monthly payment that the UN pays the refugees in the MEK’s camp in Albania. This was a tool for the MEK authorities to morally abuse Sarfaraz and some other defectors of the group. The group wanted them to spy on other defectors, otherwise they were labeled as the agents of the Islamic Republic.

Finally in August 2021, Sarfaraz cut off all links with the notorious MEK agents and publicly announced his dissociation from the group. He was welcome by other defectors of the group who live freely in Albania. They held a party to celebrate his salvation from the bars of the Cult of Rajavi.

September 23, 2021 0 comments

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Khosropour: I hope that the former members would get their rights in the near future

Mr. Khosropour, from the Lorestan Province of Nejat Society, stated at the online conference of Nejat held on August,2021:
In the name of God. Thanks to the families and former members who participated in this video conference. This nationwide conference is held online with the subject of supporting the complaints of the former members against the leaders of the Rajavi Cult to gain their rights, and we hope to see it take place in the international courts.

The meeting was attended by a number of families associated with the Society of this province and a number of former members, including Mr. Karami and Mr. Mirzaei. As you know, Mr. Mirzaei has recently returned from Albania and is living with his family. Congratulations to him and we hope that all the captives of the Rajavi Cult would be able to leave the cult and live in a free atmosphere, away from the tyranny of the organization.

Khosropour – MEK defector and the head of the Nejat Society Lorestan Office

As you know, about a few months ago, a complaint was filed by 42 former members against the leaders of the Rajavi Cult in order to gain their rights in Branch 55 of the Tehran International Court of Justice and the trial was held. The plaintiffs were able to prove that they were tortured and repressed during their time in the organization. They now want to gain their deprived rights by this cult, which fortunately has been ruled in favor of the former members.

Following this process, this case has been registered a few days ago in a very valuable and good action by a number of former members abroad to open the case of Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam Rajavi in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Hopefully, in the near future, this case will be investigated and the former members will get their rights.

September 21, 2021 0 comments

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Fathollah Eskandari: Members of the MEK are captured in a very closed circuit

Mr. Fathollah Eskandari, a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) and one of the plaintiffs in the case against the leaders of MEK, stated on the first day of the Nationwide Online Conference of the Nejat Society held on August 7, 2021:

Greetings to all who are working for the release of those who are trapped in the Rajavi Cult. I promise you that so long as we are alive, we will think of these loved ones who are caught in the Rajavi Cult. We do think about them all the time.

I greet my dear friends Mr. Ali Madad Sadeqi, Mr. Morteza Qadimi, Mr. Jafar Sani and many who do not know about their loved ones for many years. The members of the MEK have no contact with their families and live in a very closed and isolated circuit.

Fathollah Eskandari; MEK former member

I assure them that we are free in Iran and we also care about their freedom. With the help of all the honorable families who have gathered in the Nejat Society and are thinking about the release of their loved ones, we promise to serve them until the last day of our lives.

I would like to tell you that it is the last days of the era of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. As we see in their programs and gatherings, they have become very weak. The Iranian people know them better now and understand their lies and avoid them, and as we saw in the last statements of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, they had nothing to say and were condemned.

They have nothing to say but to threaten. They have no official or public work to present. They are lying. Rajavi is convicted. He must face an international court. He must be tried. He should know that one day he will be like Hussein Saddam.

September 19, 2021 0 comments

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Mahmoud Dashtestani: We challenged the Rajavi Cult

Mahmoud Dashtestani, one of the plaintiffs in the case and one of the cult’s former members, stated on the first day of the Nationwide Conference of the Nejat Society held on August 7,2021:

Greetings to all dear sisters, brothers, fathers, mothers and former member friends separated from the Rajavi Cult and affected by this cult. I am Mahmoud Dashtestani, one of the witnesses in the court, which, of course, is a unique and unprecedented court.

The Rajavi Cult did not expect at all. We challenged the Rajavi Cult. The case is being pursued and has gone to The Hague. Of course, first of all, the Rajavi Cult must respond to the damages we have suffered, whether former members, families, fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers who have been in the cult for 10 years, 20 years or 30 years, or prisoners who are currently in the cult. This is something that is inevitable.

Mahmoud Dashtestani ; one of the plaintiffs in the case and one of the cult’s former members

We complained against them and we went to the court and the case was followed up and is being followed up now, and we will do anything necessary about it. What about those of us who have been separated and lost our past, and also our future is uncertain, and waiting families, old fathers and mothers, who failed to see their children and they passed away. Those who shed tears for their loved ones. MEK should be held accountable for all this in the international courts. I hope that all parents will see their children and their loved ones, and we will reach the results we are expecting with our complaints.

This is not an economic issue at all, it is not a treasure issue at all, it is an issue of a very large lawsuit regarding Rajavi’s humanitarian crimes, in connection with deceives. It is related to the betrays against human beings there. They have to be accountable mentally, emotionally and psychologically. We are in any court with all our former member brothers. This case will reach the desired result that we are all looking for. I hereby express my full support for this case and this complaint, and I support all the brothers who are behind this case, and we will be together step by step to the end.

September 16, 2021 0 comments

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