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Parviz Heidarzadeh declares his defection from the MEK

Parvis Heidarzadeh Nashli who left the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI) about a year ago formally announced his departure from the group in January 2019.

Parviz was a soldier in Iran-Iraq war when he was directly imprisoned by the MKO forces in 1987. Together with 27 of other Iranian soldiers, Parviz was being brainwashed under the command of Mehdi Eftekhari for 20 days. The group’s propaganda succeeded to radicalize Parviz.
He was then kept in the MKO for 30 years. “It was totally a prison. Every day was a repeated routine for us”, he writes. “Meeting after meeting, all words were repetitive. Everyone had to criticize himself, insulting himself and peers had to do the same. You were not permitted to defend yourself against the accusations and insults by the side of your peers.”
In the letter of declaration of defection, Parviz testifies about the incidents of 1994 inside the MKO in which a large number of the group members were accused of being the spy of the Iranian Intelligence and were eventually confined in solitary and tortured. Parviz recalls some comrades who were killed under torture and were buried secretly.
After the group’s relocation in Albania, the mind control system and isolating bars of the MKO collapsed when Parviz could manage to use the Internet in the Internet Room of the HCR. Thus he decided to leave the group for a new life in free world.
He asked the MKO authorities for permission to leave the group but he was jailed for 15 days under severe oppressive treatment. Finally he left the cult-like MKO in December 2nd, 2018.
“I am outside the MKO now. I formally declare that I have no connection with the MKO. I came out to rebuild my new life after 30 years,” he writes.

January 26, 2019 0 comments

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Another member of the MKO left the group

Abdorrahman Mohammadian declared his defection from the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi).

Mr. Mohammadian was a soldier of the Iranian army in the Iran-Iraq war when he was imprisoned by Iraqi forces in 1980. He spent 9 rough years in Saddam’s jail before he was recruited by the MKO.

“In 1989 a team of MKO recruiters headed by Mehdi Abrishamchi launched their propaganda in the POW’s camps to recruit us,” Mohammadian writes in his statement of defection. “Together with some other Iranian prisoners, I joined them but, soon I found out that their propaganda was completely false.”

He witnessed an immoral, undemocratic and inhuman atmosphere in the group. It was like the collapse of a mirage for him. “It was a pity that we had no way out despite the entire hypocrisy we witnessed there,” he asserts.
After the MKO’s relocation in Albania, Mohammadian felt more discrimination because he saw other refuge seekers from other countries who were free to go out and back to the camp but as a member of the MKO he was not allowed to go out to visit the city like a normal resident. This helped him to get determined to leave the cult-like group that has taken him as a hostage for 28 years.
“I felt that I could no more tolerate the group,” he says. So, he left the group on November 10th, 2018 and on the early days of January, 2019, he officially declared his defection from the MKO.
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January 9, 2019 0 comments

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Photo Exhibition Press Club, Brussels –International Terrorism Mojahedin Khalq

A Photo Exhibition was held at the Press Club in Brussels between 3 – 7 December, 2018. The exhibition was formally opened by a panel of speakers who outlined the content and purpose of the photo exhibition. The exhibition aims to enlighten reporters and media to the dangerous consequences of blind support for the MEK. Three of the participants gave interviews in English afterwards in which they explained why the MEK is a danger to Europe and that although they joined MEK to fight for freedom and democracy in Iran, they soon discovered this was a lie, but were trapped inside the MEK by imprisonment and torture.

Anne Khodabandeh, Open Minds De-Radicalization Consultant placed the MEK’s current survival in the context of Neoconservative support. This means that in spite of well documented severe human rights violations, the MEK’s ‘regime change’ narrative is supported by paid advocates. The danger however is that the MEK will escalate their false flag ops in Europe which are blamed on Iran, only this time Europeans may be killed.

Reza Jabelli, Service Etat Civil et Population – Aawa Association, related his history with the MEK from his teenage years to the time he managed to escape the cult in Iraq when the US army guarded the MEK camp. He said that when he joined the MEK he believed it was fighting for freedom and democracy. When he discovered this was a lie, the MEK held him captive for many years, sometimes in solitary confinement, in an attempt to force him to change his mind. Jabelli said that when Maryam Rajavi was arrested by French counter terrorism police in Paris in 2003, she ordered her followers to set fire to themselves. This example shows that the MEK can pose a serious threat to peace and security in Europe because the group has not given up its belief in violence and terrorism.

Edvard Termador introduced himself as anArmenian-Iranian and a Christian. He explained how he had been a Prisoner ofWar in Iraq for nine years as a result of the Iran-Iraq war. Although he hadthe opportunity to return to Iran at the end of the war, he chose to join theMEK because he believed they would bring freedom and democracy to Iran. When herealised this was a deception, he was imprisoned inside MEK camps before beinghanded over to the Abu Ghraib political prison of Saddam Hussein. He warnedagainst believing the MEK’s false presentations of democracy.

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Brussels_201812/Singleton_Ann.mp4

Anne Khodabandeh, Open Minds,De-Radicalisation Consultant, PHOTO-EXHIBITION in Bruxelles

(International Terrorism Mojahedin Khalq, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Brussels_201812/Jebelli.mp4

Reza Jabelli, Service Etat Civil et Population, PHOTO-EXHIBITION in Bruxelles

(International Terrorism Mojahedin Khalq, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult)

https://dlb.nejatngo.org/Media/Report/Brussels_201812/Tremado_Edvard.mp4

Edward Termado, Christian, Armenian-Iranian,PHOTO-EXHIBITION in Bruxelles

December 9, 2018 0 comments

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Recently defected Sadollah Seifi at Nejat Society office

Saadollah Seifi visited families of MKO hostages at Nejat Society office in Kermanshah.

Following the return of Sadollah Seifi from Albania to his hometown Kermanshah, Iran, a number of families whose beloveds are still taken as hostages in the MKO’s base in Albania contacted Nejat Society and asked for visiting Saadollah. They were eager to get to know about the conditions of their loved ones in the MKO.

Eventually the visit took place in the office of Nejat Society in Kermanshah. Some of the attendees were children of the MKO members who have not seen their mother or father for more than two decades.

Seifi spoke of the brainwashing system ruling the MKO that has been demonizing family as the corruption center for years now. “This way, the hostages are coerced to dedicate their whole life to the group,” he said.

Based on Seifi’s testimony, the ruling atmosphere in the group’s base in Albania has deteriorated. The group leaders force members to sign engagement deals every month in order to keep them inside the camp.

However, members are more courageous now and defection from the group is on the rise. We will witness more defection from the group in near future, according to Seifi.

During the meeting, another defector living in Albania also talked to families via video call. He told them about possible tactics for helping their loved ones release from the MKO.

November 22, 2018 0 comments

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Gholamali Mirzaei officially declares his defection from the MKO

Gholamali Mirzaei left the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI) after 30 years of membership.

Mirzaiee was a prisoner of war when he joined the MKO in 1989. He had been imprisoned by the Iraqi forces on the early days of the Iran-Iraq war.

Gholamali Mirzaei

After nine years of suffering in Saddam Hussein’s jail, he was deceived by the propaganda of recruiters of the MKO in Iraq.

“After a while I found out that their slogans for democracy was just a cover for their lies, hypocrisy and sycophancy,” he writes in his official declaration of defection. “According to Rajavi’s religion having a family was a sin so every day we were played away with a new cult jargon under the name of Ideological Revolution.”

Mirzaei was not allowed to visit his family in all those years of his imprisonment in the MKO and before that in Saddam Hussein’s POW camps.

After the relocation of the group in Albania, he could manage to find a cellphone and call his family. It was then that he realized that his family including his wife, children and his brother had come to Camp Ashraf to meet him but the MKO authorities had barred them from visiting him.

Despite the constantly brainwashing system of the group, he decided to leave it in Albania. In a statement that he published on a website linked to survivors of the MKO, he officially declared his defection from the MKO.

October 13, 2018 0 comments

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Open Letter of over 50 ex members to Daily Caller

Dear editor of Daily Caller,

With regards, we are a group of members and officials and former commanders of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) from various sectors, including military, propaganda, foreign affairs and publications, we are residents of different European countries now.

Recently, an article was published in your site titled “TRUMP’S MAIDEN SPEECH TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL — A MODEST PROPOSAL”.

Since we are fully acquainted with the literature and culture of the organization, we assure you that this article was either written by them or just has been dictated to the author by MEK operatives base in the US and it is completely illusions and fake news for attracting attention and rating to this organization.

Today, MEK has become a cult, among the Iranian public, there is a negative view towards the MEK not only because of its policy, but more so because of its role in the post-revolution political assassinations and the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and ultimately not only isolated by both Iranians inside and outside Iran and the Iranian movements and opposition figures but also according to many analysts and politicians, even the US Department of State Spokeswoman recently declared and acknowledge that MEK lacks any position among the Iranians and have no support in Iran what so ever.

we were members of this cult between ten to forty-five years with various responsibilities in different European countries, the United States and Iraq are well aware of the lies and deception and fake news which is the MEK routine practices for many years.

Among Mojahedin tricks and deceptions in Albania and other countries, are the scenarios of “lack of security and protections for their members” and their lives are at risk, so they could attract local support. (MEK known as Rajavi cult among Iranian).

We saw several examples of this type of trick in Iraq, including the time of Saddam Hussein regime, including imports mortars with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s logo from the Iraqi Kurdistan and firing them to our own base Camp Ashraf (the main headquarters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq), aimed at gaining more privileges from the Iraqi government by exploiting a few true attacks of the Iranian regime.

The claim that the Iranian regime’s intention to launch a terrorist attack on the headquarters of the MEK in Tirana, the capital of Albania, during the celebration of Nowruz, which appeared in this article published in your site, is completely false and fabricated, because there have not been any media reports what so ever, including the Albanian media, and there is no report on this issue by the Albanian government, and even the MEK itself has not published absolutely no news in any of its many fake site and media.

If such a threat were true, at first sight the Mujahideen should have issued a statement at the time, that is, seven months ago, but no such claim exists.

Other claims, including the intention to blow up the cult gathering in France and the intention to spy on MEK members in the United States, are completely false and funded by the MEK propaganda machine to attract attention and obtain privileges from the authorities of the respective countries and is an effort to keep the remaining members intact which in recent months and days many of them escaped from MEK camp in Tirana. These tricks and scenarios illustrate the isolation of the MEK and are out of desperation to be display and promotion in the media.

We emphasize that the Iranian regime feels no threat or any danger from this organization, which today is more and more in a state of collapse, but in the other hand, the presence of the MEK leaders and elements that have in the past assassinated many Iranian and US personals both before and after 1979 revolution, are and will be a great danger and a threat to the security of the European and United Stated, because the leader of this cult, Masoud Rajavi repeatedly threatened to kill and murder the defectors on the streets of Europe and the United States.

A group of former members and officials of the People’s Mojahedin Organization Iran (MEK) residing in various European countries.

October 3/2018

Issa Azadeh
Abdulkarim Ebrahimi
Mohammad Akbari
Bahman Azami
Adel azamy
Malek Beytemashaal
Ehsan Bidi
Hamid Reza Bikas
Shahrooz Tajbakhsh
Edward Termado
Ali Jahani
Ghorban Ali Hossein Nejad
Hassan Heyrani
Anne Khodabandeh
Massoud Khodabandeh
Mehdi Khoshhal
Ali Akbar Rastgou
Mohammad Razzaghi
Kobra Rashti
Majid Roohi
Alireza Zahedi
Mehrdad Sagharchi
Mahmoud Sepahi
Mehdi Sojoodi
Niloofar Sarfraz
Batul Soltani
Hamid Reza Sistani
Ahmad Reza Shafiee
Saba Shakarbeygi
Hasan Shahbaz
Ali Shirzad
Reza Sadeghi Jabali
Mir Bagher Sedaghi
Manouchehr Abdi
Mohammad Araghi
Hassan Azizi
Ghafur Fattahian
Mohammad Karami
Nader Keshtkar
Homayoun Kohzadi
Homeyra Mohammad Nejad
Ahmad Mohammadi
Reza Mohammadi
Mohammad Mohammadi
Mostafa Mohammadi
Zahra Moeini
Amir Movassaghi
Saeed Naseri
Alireza Nasrollahi
Mansour Nazari

Peyvane Rahaee, Paris

October 8, 2018 0 comments

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Female defector officially declared her defection from the MKO

Sahar Adibzadeh denounced the Mujahedin Khalq Organization after she left the group’s camp in Iraq in 2015. She officially declared her defection from the group via Women Association Website on September 18^th, 2018.

Sahar 39, was recruited by the MKO when she was in her 20s. “I was deceived by the group’s propaganda and trusted them,” she said.

She is now determined to launch her human rights activities in order to help release those who are still forced to stay in the Cult of Rajavi.

Adibzadeh has previously published parts of her memoirs of working with the group and living in its cult-like structure. However, she will appear on Mardom TV to publicly announce her defection from the cult. “Whoever who has defected the Cult of Rajavi should publicly denounce the group in order to stop any abuse by the side of the group,” she told Women Association.

She describes the suffocating atmosphere of Camp Ashraf as place where women are forced to wear uniforms with strict hijab; there are no children and all members are single. “I wondered why those women looked so sad!” Sahar said.

After experiencing the life inside Ashraf, the MKO collapsed in Sahar’s mind. “Gradually I found out that they had nothing to offer,” she added.

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What is behind the alleged “widespread campaign of MEK supporters” in Iran?

September 24, 2018 0 comments

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Five female members defected the Cult of Rajavi

Five female members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) escaped the group, Iran Interlink reported.

According to the sources in Abania, Marzieh Qobadi, Sorour Salami, Sara Haftbaradaran, Raheleh Zabeti and Mozhgan Taghipour are the five women who could manage to leave the MKO despite the very sever supervision of the cult authorities.

During the past month the MKO authorities have been exposed by various news media for their cult-like undemocratic behavior against their own members. Particularly the case of Somayeh Mohammadi whose parents traveled to Albania calling for the visit of their daughter.

The British Channel Four TV also published a video report on the MKO’s “secretive camp” in Albania. The report demonstrates the isolated MKO camp in Albania where members are maintained under security guards.

September 10, 2018 0 comments

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We were slaves!

Hassan Shahbazi was a university student when he left Iran to visit his friend Hassan Heirani in Camp Ashraf, the headquarters of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) in Iraq.

In Ashraf, he was welcome by the authorities of the MKO. “They intrigued our nationalistic sentiments…so I decided to stay there but what I endured during the past years is not easy to recount now,” he writes in his letter of declaration of separation from the MKO.

Hasan Shahbaz

He was coerced to work as a forced labor. “Once I found myself in a discriminating system that claimed the classless society,” he asserts.

However he did not leave the MKO until the group was relocated in Tirana, Albania where the group members could have a very limited access to the outside world. “In the first days of our arrival in Albania, the organization let us visit the city in groups,” he writes. “I contacted my family and I learned that my family had come to Iraq to visit me but the group authorities had not let me know.”

Thus, the final stages of distrust started for Hassan Shahbaz. “The organization authorized itself to decide instead of us,” he suggests. “We were not allowed to contact our families. We had to hate our families.”

He eventually left the MKO secretly on April 3^rd, the fourteenth day of the Iranian NewYear while the group had gone on a picnic. “Immediately I submitted to the office of UN High Commissioners of Refugees in Tirana,” he says. “I declare that I have had no relationship with the Mujahedin Khalq Organization since my departure from the group.”

July 23, 2018 0 comments

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Two hostages escaped the MKO base in Albania

Two members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/MEK /PMOI / the Cult of Rajavi) left the group’s base in Albania.

According to Sahar Family Foundation, the two recently-defected people could manage to escape from the MKO’s new base called Ashraf 3 in the outskirt of Tirana and introduced themselves to the office of the UN High Commissioners of Refugees.

The newly-established camp of the MKO is located in Durres region, 31 kilometers West of Tirana where members are more isolated than they were in Tirana.

SFF reported that following the relocation of MKO members in Ashraf 3 their discontent of the cult-like regulations of the group increased and once they were informed that the UNHCR pays their monthly payment independently –not via the MKO authorities- they are more motivated to leave the group as soon as possible.

March 14, 2018 0 comments

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