Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Who are the MEK’s lobbyists in the US government?

In September 2012, the Mujahedin-e Khalq was removed from the list of foreign terrorist organizations of the US State Department. This was the outcome of the group’s heavy lobbying campaigns. However, the MEK lobbyists are still actively lobby in favor of the group in the US government. The mechanisms are complicated and fraudulent.

In 2017, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, Philip Giraldi of the American Herald Tribune newspaper, warned about the relationship between the MEK and American politicians and the increasing rise of the formerly-terrorist designated group in the United States. Giraldi ironically stated that if you are a terrorist group and have a history of carrying out terrorist operations against Iran and the United States itself, you can easily pay and spend money in Washington, even having a lobby office on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

This law is actually known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which was passed in 1938. It requires lobbyists and representatives of foreign entities in the United States to register their activities and expenses with the Department of Justice, and its main goal is to provide transparency about foreign influence on American policymaking and public opinion.
As a terrorist group, the MEK also used this mechanism to survive in the United States. The group was registered with the US Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). According to documents and data registered on the OpenSecrets website, the MEK’s expenses for lobbying with American institutions reached about $516,000 in 2017, about $440,000 in 2018, and $60,000 in the first quarter of 2019!

In fact, this American law had led to the formation of multi-million-dollar contracts between Rajavi’s terrorist organization and lobbying companies in the United States in those years, and it had gone so far that many American politicians had united in their advocacy on behalf of the MEK. Before 2012 and their removal from the terrorist list, the fee for a speech in favor of this terrorist organization was $15,000; but according to the latest report by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Randall in 2017, the latest fee for each speech in favor of the MEK was $150,000.

Who is the leader of the MEK’s lobbying team in the US?

Farzaneh Yazdanpanah, the main agent of the MEK’s intelligence headquarters, is responsible for communicating with US parliamentary officials. She has been in contact with Secretary of State Mark Rubio in the past and has pursued numerous lobbying projects with this American official.

Farzaneh Yazdanpanah, the main agent of the MEK’s intelligence headquarters

Farzaneh is not the only member of the Yazdanpanah family involved with the MEK. Her brother, Parviz Yazdanpanah, was also a member of the organization. He fled Iran in 1986 and he now lives with his wife, Ensiyeh Hosseini (under the organizational name Ensiyeh Yazdanpanah), in El Sobrante, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Parviz Yazdanpanah

According to a report published in 2016 about Parviz Yazdanpanah, he works as a florist in San Francisco undercover. Parviz also had another sister, Parvaneh Yazdanpanah, who was killed in the MEK’s cross border operation against Iran in 1988.
Of course, Farzaneh Yazdanpanah is not the only MEK lobbyist in the United States. Hedayatollah Mostofi is also another agent of the MEK who, in cooperation with Yazdanpanah, is a member of their lobby. Mostofi has established many connections with Mark Rubio through Senator Margaret Dougherty and is considered Yazdanpanah’s correspondent in Rajavi’s lobbying projects.

Ali Safavi

Ali Safavi is another influential element of the Cult of Rajavi in the United States. Safavi is the spokesman for the MEK’s office in Washington. He has spent some time at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, where he underwent terrorist training and ideological indoctrination.

He has also participated in organizing and creating terrorist teams at Camp Ashraf and sending them inside Iran. After receiving individual military training and succeeding in ideological induction courses, he was called back to the European office of the group. He has also served as a representative of the National Council of Resistance (the political cover of the MEK) in the United States.

Safavi is also a member of the organization’s Foreign Relations Committee and manages the MEK Economic Network, which is supported by wealthy firms based in Europe and North America. This network, under the guise of charitable donations, provides financial resources for the MEK’s actions against Iran.

Through the income from this network, Safavi has connections with the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States. Safavi was one of those who organize the MEK’s rallies against Iranian government, in the United States.
Another lobbyist of the MEK in the US is Alireza Jafarzadeh, who is the representative and versatile of the group in the United States.

He joined the MEK in 1981 when he was a student in the US and served as one of the spokespersons in the group’s diplomatic relations department. In June 1986, when Massoud Rajavi was expelled from France and transferred to Iraq, the French government expelled a number of MEK members to Gabon.

Following these expulsions, the MKO terrorist organization’s organizations went on strike, and many of its members and officials from different countries called for suicide and self-immolation operations. Alireza Jafarzadeh was one of those officials who announced his willingness to perform self-immolation.

After the MEK was listed as a terrorist group in 1997, it was unable to continue its previous activities. So Jafarzadeh continued his service as a columnist for the Huffington Post since 2006, and the, he was recruited by the warmonger’s media group, Fox New, where he appeared as a commentator and analyst of international relations.

In addition, Jafarzadeh was the one who allegedly disclosed the Iranian nuclear sites and scientists.

Sona Samsami is another high-ranking member of MEK who is in charge of the organization’s Washington office. She was in Camp Ashraf for about a year in 1986 and was sent to the United States after receiving espionage and terrorist training.

Sona Samsami

Sona Samsami, along with Alireza Jafarzadeh, played a role as the person in charge of the case of exposing the nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. She is now the organization’s representative in Washington, responsible for lobbying American political retirees for speeches worth several hundred dollars in support of the MEK.

She is also one of the coordinators of the self-immolations of MEK members abroad. Samsami is one of those MEK high-ranking members who is mostly detested by former members of the group. She has played a major role in suppressing female members of the MEK, both at Camp Ashraf and abroad.

Hassan Soltani

Hassan Soltani is another of Farzaneh Yazdanpanah’s associates in lobbying with American officials and senators. He is also the MEK’s agent for money laundering in the US territory in order to pay American politicians. Until recent years, these funds were paid directly, but after a while, in order to evade money laundering charges and being traced, he pays them in form of expensive watches and small gold bars.

Documents on MEK lobbying and money laundering

April 13, 2025 0 comments

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CIA analyst: we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq

As the United States and Iran are at a critical juncture, worries on a military conflict are increasing. Tensions have escalated under President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign meant to deter Tehran from developing its nuclear program. In response Tehran’s policy is to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while Iranian nation is under the US’s maximum pressure campaign and military threats. Sponsoring the formerly designated terrorist group, Mujahedin Khalq (MEK) is considered a proof for US’s illegal stance against Iran.

Many analysts think that invading Iran would be the gravest mistake in U.S. foreign policy since the Vietnam War. Sixteen years ago, the George W. Bush administration manipulated intelligence to scare the public into backing an aggressive war against Iraq. The so-called weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that he warned against didn’t exist, but the invasion long desired by neoconservatives and other hawks proceeded.

Ironically, one of the pretexts that George W. Bush declared in his pre-war speech was the presence of the MEK in Iraqi territory, funded and supported by the then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The outcome was: Thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands of wounded and maimed U.S. personnel, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and millions of Iraqis displaced.

Dialogue Works is a YouTube channel hosted by the Brazil-based Professor/Podcaster Nima Rostami Alkhorshid. Dialogue Works believes that there’s nothing more unstoppable than dialogue. The topics discussed on this podcast are dedicated to dialogue and peace!

CIA analyst: we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq

Therefore, the guests of Dialogue Works are mostly selected out of those analysts who criticize the warmongers in the United States in particular Donald Trump. Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA analyst and Scott Ritter, a former intelligence officer of US marine courts discussed “Why War with Iran Would Be America’s Biggest Mistake” on the episode published on April 1st, 2025.

On the US’s fabrications about Iranian nuclear program and the American terrorism against Iran, Larry Johnson stated:
The United States doesn’t have any right to be the final arbitral since it drops bomb on people and kill them. The problem I have with the US’s position is that so many false wrong assumptions about Iran, about its capabilities and about in fact what Iran is doing.

The only country over the last 20 years that has been carrying out terrorist attacks against the other is the United States that has been carrying terrorist attacks against Iran.

It’s not been Iran that has been carrying out terrorist attacks inside the United States, or against US targets.
In the United States we complain that the Iranians provide assistance to Shias of Iraq during our invasion, our illegal invasion, I will add.

And that they provide military support to guys carrying out attacks against military units. That’s terrorism? That’s not terrorism.

Our terrorism was when we funded and trained the Mujahedin-e Khalq who we used to declare as a terrorist organization. They were carrying out attacks against civilian targets inside Iran.

The same with aid to the Baluchestan area in South East Iran.

So, the United States has fabricated this narrative about “Oh, my God! We’re gonna stop Iran at all cost!”

April 7, 2025 0 comments

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Concerns over MEK’s potential Influence in Congress

The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) has renewed its efforts to position itself as a credible opposition movement to the Islamic Republic. The recent outcome of the group’s lobbying activities has been a resolution submitted by 160 congressmen. However, a comprehensive new report from the Congressional Research Service critically assesses these ongoing efforts, underscoring significant concerns regarding the MEK’s extremist ideological origins, historical involvement in terrorism, documented human rights abuses, and notably weak popular support among Iranians both domestically and within the diaspora.

These serious issues about the MEK’s background indicate that endorsing the group not only contradicts democratic values but also undermines the genuine democratic efforts of the Iranians.

The Key Point

A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) details the MEK’s tricky history and its current lobbying efforts in the US, including:
The organization was founded on extremist ideologies combining Marxism with radical Islamism.
It has a documented history of violence and terrorism, including assassinations of American personnel in the 1970s. Historically, the MEK actively supported Ayatollah Khomeini’s rise to power and endorsed the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis.

The organization functions under a highly coercive, cult-like structure that enforces strict obedience to leader Massoud Rajavi through physical, psychological, and financial coercion.

The cult-like totalitarian structure enables extensive lobbying campaigns aimed at deceitfully legitimizing the group as a viable alternative to the Iranian government, despite minimal popular support among Iranians domestically and abroad.
U.S. officials who support the MEK claim their goal is to promote democracy and foster the emergence of a new, representative government in Iran. Yet aligning with the MEK directly undermines this objective. The group has cultivated a strongly negative perception among Iranians, who view the MEK as terrorists and traitors who sided with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.

The Cult of Rajavi Lobbying in the West

The MEK operates with a strict, hierarchical, cult-like organizational structure led by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, imposed through highly coercive measures.

Members are reportedly subjected to forced family separations, including mandatory celibacy. The organization is also particularly cruel to females, conducting hysterectomies on them and repeatedly subjecting them to be raped and sexually abused by the leader, Massoud Rajavi.

Numerous credible reports detail systematic physical and psychological abuses, including allegations of torture and coercive control mechanisms. Dozens of members have been killed due to the mechanisms.
The MEK’s lobbying campaign is aimed at legitimizing the group’s leadership and securing political support, particularly in the U.S. and Europe.

These efforts have allowed the MEK to introduce and garner support for some pieces of legislation. The group pays exorbitant speaking fees to lawmakers to speak at their headquarters in Albania and their rallies in Paris, Berlin and Washington.

For example, speaker fees include over $400,000 paid to former Vice President Mike Pence and $180,000 or more to former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

And most recently, The MEK’s lobbying efforts also led to the introduction of H.Res 166, a deceiving resolution that claims to express “support for the Iranian people’s desires for a democratic, secular, and nonnuclear Republic of Iran,” but actually endorses Maryam Rajavi and her cult-like terrorist group.

Maryam Rajavi has deliberately misled lawmakers by asserting that the MEK would lead a transitional government in Iran, ostensibly restoring power to the people within six months. However, under her plan, this so-called transitional government would oversee the formation of a Constituent Assembly. While the MEK would technically be dissolved, it would still maintain control through the assembly, ensuring its continued grip on power.

Allying with the MEK hurts the interests of both Iranians and Americans

Engaging with the MEK poses serious risks to U.S. diplomatic credibility. The ideological foundations of the MEK, and its totalitarian system is essentially incompatible with the principles of democracy, human rights, and capitalism.
Ongoing documented human rights abuses and internal authoritarian practices severely undermine their claim of representing democratic aspirations.

The U.S. Department of State has explicitly indicated in recent assessments that the MEK does not constitute a credible democratic opposition force representing the Iranian people.

The MEK relies on front organizations to solicit contributions from expatriate Iranian communities, as well as American and European citizens. This practice has gotten the MEK in trouble in the past, such as when the FBI arrested seven MEK supporters for raising over $1 million for a sham charity at LAX.

Due to their ideology, harsh treatment of their members, terrorist activities against Iranian civilians and siding with Saddam Hussein against Iran, the MEK has little to no popular support within Iran and among the Iranian diaspora.
U.S. policy on Iran should not harm the interests of either the United States or the Iranian people. In particular, Washington should respect Iran’s territorial integrity and national unity and should refrain from engaging with armed groups or formerly terrorist designated organizations. Members of Congress should clearly distance themselves from the MEK, learn about its affiliates and avoid legitimizing them or engaging with them.

Mazda Parsi

March 17, 2025 0 comments

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Points on the resolution by US Congressmen in support of the MEK

Less than a month ago, following a Congressional hearing addressed by Maryam Rajavi, some representatives of the US Congress announced their support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) in a resolution.

According to information available on the US Congress website, the resolution in question was submitted by 160 Cosponsors (106 Republicans, 54 Democrats). This is despite the fact that only three representatives of Congress were present at the hearing on February 26th, 2025.

Zoe Lofgren, Tom McClintock and Brad Sherman were supposedly representing their colleagues to refer the Resolution H.Res. 166 to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Why the remaining representatives supporting the MEK were not present at this meeting is a good question to be asked. The answer to this question lies in the points that follow. Points that show that the resolution is arbitrary and based on false information and is even clearly authored by the MEK, as the financial sponsor of the whole scenario.

Where is the voice of the Iranian people?

Nowhere in the resolution is there a trace of statistics or documents about the type of government the Iranian people want or their level of approval for the MEK and Maryam Rajavi. This is despite the fact that according to the text of the resolution, the signatories have introduced the MEK as a subversive force and Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point plan as a model for the future government in Iran.
It goes without saying that if anyone wants to think logically and comprehensively about changing the government in Iran, in addition to polling the Iranian people, it is necessary to consider other opposition groups as well.

Woman, Resistance, Freedom?!

Even the most ignorant politicians know that the slogan “Woman, Resistance, Freedom” has never been a topic in Iranian society, and the removal of the word “life” from the overarching slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” is solely a fabrication of the MEK, as a cult-like group that openly considers “life” to be the enemy of struggle.

The submitters are congressmen from a country that considers itself the Super Power of the world and sets tasks for regime change for another country and defines the type of government for it. However, they are too ignorant to have heard the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom”! How were they able to hear “Woman, Resistance, Freedom”?
“Woman, Resistance, Freedom” was only transmitted in the hashtags of the MEK’s virtual army on social networks from their Albanian base, in the remote village in North of Tirana, Manez.

Paid Advocacy

It is not strange that the submitters are not surprised that the fabricated slogan “Woman, Resistance, Freedom” is claimed to be the demand of the Iranian people while they have never heard it in the streets of Iran, because it is likely that many of those whose names are listed as submitters have not read the text of the resolution at all.

They did not read it and eventually did not object to the text. This shows their extreme ignorance. Nonetheless, the point is something else. This obvious contradiction of the resolution’s text with the reality in the world makes it clear that the donations of the MEK are so compelling that a congressman, without attending a hearing or reading the text of the resolution, would declare his support for an organization with a history of terrorism, extremism and cult-like violence.
Ultimately, American representatives should be asked whether they would accept a foreign force to declare what kind of government their country should have or who should govern it with what intentions?

In any case, this resolution is a politically signaling, not policy making, and according to the estimates on the Congress website, the probability of its approval is 13 percent. However, its wording suggests foreign approval of a specific political outcome – which has led to interventions that ignores the action and will of the Iranian people.

Mazda Parsi

March 15, 2025 0 comments

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Paid Speaker of the MEK rally, attacked by X users

On the Int. Women’s Day, Sherman stands with the cult that enslaves and abuses women

March 8, 2025 was the most recent opportunity for the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to run their propaganda machine under the slogans of freedom of Iranian women. The MEK-run rally called “Free Iran” in Washington DC was addressed by some US politicians like Congressman Brad Sherman, a member of the Israeli lobby, AIPAC and MEK’s top supporter in the US Congress.
However, as it was expected, the speakers were slammed by the Iranian public, in social media. No matter, from which political view, all Iranians share one view in common: They despise the MEK.
And they showed their hatred towards the MEK by trending the hashtags, #MEKterrorists and #NCRterrorists, sharing links, videos, photos and articles to remind the American paid speaker of the MEK rally about the truth of the group’s atrocities during the past fifty years against Americans, Iranians, Iraqi Kurds and their own members including women and children.
On his X account, Brad Sherman, claimed that on International Women’s Day, he “honored the brave Iranian women who have risked and lost their lives to fight for freedom in Iran”.
The followings are a few of hundreds of comments against congressman Sherman by X users:

Nerd
Mr. Sherman claims that he honors Iranian Women by supporting #MEKterrorists
On “International Women’s Day”, he claimed to honor brave Iranian women who risked their lives for freedom; yet he stood with MEK (NCRI), a group notorious for abusing women and children.
Let’s remind him “MEK’s” real record on human (especially women’s) rights.
1) Forced Divorce & Sexual Exploitation of Women
MEK banned marriage and family life to ensure absolute loyalty to its leader, Masoud Rajavi.
– Forced divorces; members had to separate from their spouses.
– Women were ordered to “marry” Rajavi and perform naked “salvation dances.”
– Many were forcibly sterilized to ensure they never had children.
https://hrw.org/report/2005/05/18/no-exit/human-rights-abuses-inside-mojahedin-khalq-camps
https://nejatngo.org/en/posts/11355

2) MEK’s Forced Child Separation & Child Soldiers
MEK ripped 800+ children from their families in Iraq and sent them abroad.

– Children were deported alone to Europe while parents were forced to stay.
– Later, many were brought back and turned into child soldiers.
https://rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871.html
https://lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/23/we-the-child-soldiers-of-the-mujahedin-e-khalq_62458.html

3) MEK’s Crimes Against Kurds & Iraqis (1991)
After the Gulf War, MEK sided with Saddam Hussein to crush Kurdish and Shi’a uprisings.
– MEK tanks ran over Kurdish civilians in Kirkuk & Khanaqin.
– Rajavi ordered: “Crush them under your tanks!”
– U.S. State Dept confirms MEK helped Saddam kill Iraqis.
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2005/64337.htm
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/01/27/congress-forms-caucus-to-aid-iranian-ex-terror-group/

4)MEK’s Cult-Like Psychological Abuse
MEK operates “like a cult”, punishing members for independent thought.
– Dissenters were thrown into solitary confinement for years.
– Members were forced to write self-criticism reports.
– Trying to leave was considered treason, punishable by imprisonment and torture.
https://hrw.org/report/2005/05/18/no-exit/human-rights-abuses-inside-mojahedin-khalq-camps
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/23/iran-mek-albania-cult/
Final notes; MEK Is Anti-Women, Anti-Children & Anti-Human Rights
– MEK is despised by both Iranians & Iraqis for its atrocities.
– Ex-members expose horrifying abuse of women, children & dissenters.**
– Even the U.S. State Dept warns that MEK is NOT a democratic alternative.**
https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2005/64337.htm
https://rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871.html

David
We demand you to explain yourself!
You claimed to honor Iranian women, but stood with a terrorist cult that enslaved and abused them.
How on earth does supporting MEK’s rally in DC help Iranian women?

Shaheen Shirazi
Maryam Rajavi is a terrorist who killed Americans and many Iranians, and they joined the war with Saddam, who killed Iranians, whether through bombings or assassinations. Iranians hate the criminal terrorist organization that you are promoting, shame on you, money is not everything.

Armin
The NCRI terrorists & MEK terrorists is islamomarxist cult many Iranian are living in your district and most of them hate that cult I warn you about that stop supporting this anti American and Israel cult who killed American citizens.

Iranian Girl
The People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) or the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), has a complex history involving various violent and terroristic activities, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Maryam Rajavi, a self-proclaimed leader within the organization, has been associated with the group during and after these terroristic periods. Below is a summary of documented violent and terroristic activities attributed to the MEK/MKO/PMOI/NCRI:
1. Assassinations and Attacks in the 1970s:
• Targeting U.S. Personnel: Throughout the 1970s, the MEK orchestrated attacks against the Iranian state, resulting in the deaths of several Americans working in Iran, including military officers and civilian contractors.
http://cfr.org
• Attempted Kidnapping: In 1970, the MEK attempted to kidnap U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II.
http://en.wikipedia.org
2. Activities During the 1980s:
• Collaboration with Saddam Hussein: During the Iran-Iraq War, the MEK aligned with Iraq, participating in military operations against Iran.
http://en.wikipedia.org
3. Legal Issues Involving Maryam Rajavi:
• Arrest in France (2003): On June 17, 2003, Maryam Rajavi was arrested by French authorities, along with approximately 150 MEK members, on suspicion of terrorism-related activities. All charges were later dropped.
http://en.wikipedia.org
• Iraqi Arrest Warrant (2010): In July 2010, the Iraqi High Tribunal issued an arrest warrant for 39 MEK members, including Rajavi, accusing them of crimes against humanity related to their involvement in suppressing the 1991 uprisings against Saddam Hussein. The MEK denied these charges.
http://en.wikipedia.org

Reza
This cult, the #MEKterrorists, is a Marxist-Jihadi terrorist group responsible for assassination of 6 Americans. Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) engaged in activities against American targets in Iran during the 1970s, reflecting their anti-imperialist stance. This included attacks on American corporations and personnel, which were part of their broader campaign against perceived foreign influence and imperialism in Iran.
The names of Americans killed by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) include:
– Lieutenant Colonel Lewis L. Hawkins** (killed in 1973)
– Colonel Paul R. Shaffer** (killed in 1975)
– Lieutenant Colonel Jack H. Turner** (killed in 1975)
– Robert R. Krongrad, William C. Cottrell, Jr., and Donald G. Smith** (all killed in 1976).

Javid Shahemon
They don’t want peace in lran. They want a Civil war. The iranian people are ready to die
But these terrorist traitors will not Accept it.

Reza Behrouz
Mr. Sherman, This cult you’ve cozied up to, the #MEKterrorists, is a Marxist-Jihadi terrorist group responsible for assassinating Americans. They are also antisemitic.

March 11, 2025 0 comments

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The irony of Americans attending MEK conferences

Did you know that the MEK and especially it’s leadership, not only didn’t mourn the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers, which took the lives of thousands of innocent Americans, but rather celebrated it. I know because I was in the MEK at the time. Let me tell you about it.

It was the afternoon of September 11th, 2001. We, the majority of MEK members had gathered in Bagherzadeh Camp near Baghdad because annual meetings were being held with MEK leadership. That afternoon we were playing soccer on the pitch during sports time, when several commanders rushed outside from the buildings and yelled “the American imperialism is crumbling”!

Our commander quickly explained that the Twin Towers had been targeted by airplanes and they were up in smokes.

We all quickly rushed to the cafeteria where large projection screens had been set up and the live news from Aljazeera and CNN was being broadcasted. Every time the scenes of the planes crashing into the towers were shown, the crowd cheered and clapped. That evening celebrations began. Loud music and dancing as sweets were distributed (an Iranian tradition when people receive good news). We danced until late night as the scenes of the towers crumbling were being broadcasted in the background.

We, especially the young members, had been indoctrinated that American imperialism was a “paper tiger” (a term coined by Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong) and that it would one day crumble from within. And the MEK portrayed 9/11 as that day. The beginning of the fall of American imperialism. It’s important to note that Rajavi always insisted that the Islamic Republic is our tactical enemy and American imperialism is our strategic enemy.

The next day the entire MEK rank had a meeting with Masoud and Maryam Rajavi. As we sat in the meeting hall, which held almost 3000 MEK members, the Rajavis were sitting behind a wide desk on stage. On both sides of the stage were large projector screens, which were broadcasting live news and rerunning the scenes of the towers crumbling. Masoud Rajavi was very quiet during those moments, but Maryam Rajavi was smiling and clapping as the audience cheered on.

Every time I see an American politician meeting with Maryam Rajavi, this scene comes to my mind and I think to myself: if only they were with us on that day and saw Rajavi’s smile as all those innocent people fell to their deaths.

Shame on any American who openly supports the MEK and it’s deceiving, corrupt and criminal leader Maryam Rajavi.

Ray Torabi

March 4, 2025 0 comments

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Don’t fall for the MEK’s smoke and mirror games

Following the Fox News statement on the support by 150 US lawmakers for the MEK, Former child soldier, Ray Torabi (Mohammad Reza Torabi) addressed the signatories of the resolution on his X account informing them that the MEK is “an outdated cult with no popular support inside Iran who try to stay relevant by spending their laundered money on buying fake support from politicians who have a price tag”.

Torabi wrote an exemplified first-hand account about the hypocritic and fraudulent approach of the MEK leaders since past until now:
Days prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi had ordered all forces (approximately 3000 members) to station alongside the Iran-Iraq border. His strategy was that while Coalition forces are occupied with Saddam’s army, at the right time we will attack Iran and overthrow the mullahs’ regime! Yes it was a ridiculous strategy. One that could have led to the slaughter of all MEK forces, once and for all. But Rajavi was serious about it. Luckily the order never came and I live to tell the story. Once it was imminent that Saddam’s army had fallen and his troops had turned their backs on him and abandoned their stations, we began carrying out secret reconnaissance missions into Iraqi Army bases that had been completely abandoned. We were looking for tanks and military equipment, specifically T60s and T72s.

These tanks were then transferred to MEK bases in the dark hours of the night and quickly spray painted with MEK military codes and flags.

The goal wasn’t even to eventually use these tanks, the majority of which had gone through a self-demolition procedure by the crew prior to abandonment, but to show on paper that the MEK owned several thousand tanks. At the time, talks between the US Army and MEK officials had begun and Rajavi knew his army had to give up all of it weapons and surrender.

But it wanted to look strong on paper. And so we did. In a matter of days, we ended up adding several hundred more tanks to the MEK’s arsenal, which was then handed over to the US Army. Many of these tanks weren’t even operational anymore, but counted on paper as the MEK’S firepower. I remember that a few years later, in one of Rajavi’s meetings with all MEK members in Camp Ashraf, where he connected with us via audio, he listed the numbers of tanks and military vehicles and equipment we had handed over to the US Army and bragged that based on the number of tanks we “owned”, we were “the most powerful army in the Middle East”.

Today, it’s the same story. The MEK looks strong on paper. They spend the fortunes they accumulated during the 90s illegally selling Saddam’s oil in black markets on buying worn-out politicians to give paid speeches at their rallies and conferences. They collect signatures from members of Congress and parliamentarians across the world by using the names of fallen Iranian youths like Masha Amini, who had no association with the MEK, and write up fancy statements, but on the ground have no popular support. In fact, they are loathed by the Iranian people for the crimes they committed against their own countrymen during the Iran-Iraq War, where they sided with Saddam and betrayed their country.

They are consisted of some 2500 members around the world with the average age of almost 60. Their Marxist-Islamic ideology no longer sells in Iran and the younger generations don’t even know who they are.
But on paper, Maryam Rajavi is the self proclaimed leader of the “resistance”.

Don’t fall for their smoke and mirror games.

Did you know that in 1998, when I was 16 years old and awaited being sent to Iraq to join MEK ranks as a child soldier, a top NCRI/MEK official took me along with him on a trip to Arkansas, where we collected money (tens of thousands of dollars in cash) from MEK supporters to “purchase night vision goggles” for MEK’s teams infiltrating into Iran and carrying out military operations? It was illegal because at the time, the MEK was still on the US Foreign Terrorist Organizations list.
I don’t want to name him yet but it seems Fox News loves him.

Did you know that me and the other child soldiers who were recruited from Canada and the US in the late 90s by the MEK and sent to Camp Ashraf in Iraq, lived in NCRI headquarters in Washington DC the entire time? That’s where we were indoctrinated and eventually given illegal fake travel documents by MEK/NCRI officials, with which we were smuggled into Iraq.

That’s also where the MEK’s fake charity scheme, through which they laundered money, was being operated and controlled from.

MEK/NCRI leaders and officials talking about freedom and democracy and human rights is a joke. These people are criminals and must be tried in an international tribunal.

March 2, 2025 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

Fox News betray Iranians by promoting the MEK

Fox News, reported that bipartisan group of 151 lawmakers is rallying around a resolution to support the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). In its statement on X platform, Fox News indicated that 150 American politicians have openly betrayed the freedom-seeking people of Iran. They are imposing an ideology that has been actually acting against freedom and democracy for near 5 decades.

According to the report, the resolution, led by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., claims support for the Iranian people and their stated desire for a “democratic, secular and non-nuclear” Iran through regime change by the MEK which is a formerly terrorist designated group by the US State Department. The group has a dark background and it is despised by the Iranian public.

Fox News’s statement was slammed by thousands of Iranians around the world using the hashtags #MEKTerrorists and #NCRTerrorists. The users tried to inform the US politicians that the MEK can not be considered as the alternative of the Iranian government based on a large number of atrocities committed by its disappeared leader, Massoud Rajavi and its public leader, Maryam Rajavi.

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Here’s a brief account of the documented violent and terrorist activities attributed to the MEK/PMOI/NCRI/MKO:

Terrorist Attacks and Murder of Americans

Founded in 1965 as an Islamist-Marxist militia, MEK was a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) from 1997-2012.

In the 1970s, it assassinated U.S. military personnel in Iran—colonels Paul R. Shaffer, John H. Turner, and Lewis Lee Hawkins—targeting them as “imperialist” symbols.
It bombed Western businesses and, in 1992, attacked Iranian diplomatic missions in 10 countries, including the U.S. In 2003, 170 MEK members including their she-guru Maryam Rajavi, were arrested in France for plotting terrorist attacks. The French Police confiscated large amounts of money and documents of money laundering. Eventually dozens of group members committed self-immolation to protest the arrest of Maryam Rajavi. Two women died.

Alliance with Saddam Hussein

Exiled from Iran in the 1980s, MEK allied with Saddam Hussein, who funded and armed it. During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), it fought Iran from Camp Ashraf. In 1988, its Operation Forough Javidan—a failed invasion—killed thousands of Iranian civilians, deepening its infamy as a traitor group among Iranians.

Crimes Against Humanity in Iraq

In 2010, the Iraqi High Tribunal issued arrest warrants for 39 MEK members, including Maryam Rajavi, for crimes against humanity tied to their role in suppressing the 1991 uprisings of Kurds and Shiites under Saddam’s regime, further evidencing their brutality and collaboration with dictators. “Take the Kurds under the tanks! Keep your bullets for Iranian soldiers!”, a very famous quote by Maryam to her forces in the operation to suppress Kurds.

Torture and Human Rights Abuses

MEK operates as a cult, enforcing control through horrific abuses. Defectors report torture, solitary confinement, and brainwashing. Women face oppressions, while families are separated, with children trafficked to Europe. Female members were coerced into sexual relations with Masoud Rajavi, with Maryam Rajavi sanctioning it via “vows.” Refusal meant disappearance.

Oppressive Practices

MEK claims to support democracy, but enforces mandatory hijab, gender segregation, sexual control, and emotional isolation. Members lack outside media, limited to “Mujahedin television” looping Rajavi speeches. Its theocratic practices clash with Iranians aspirations for democracy.

Propaganda and Deception

MEK runs “troll farms” in Albania, with over 1,000 members using fake accounts to spread pro-Rajavi propaganda in English, Farsi, and Arabic across social media and news comments. It hides behind aliases like the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), falsely posing as a democratic option. Defectors reveal orders to praise pro-MEK figures and attack critics.

Anti-American nature

Backing the U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis, the MEK chanted anti-American slogans. “May America be annihilated” and “Death to America by blood and bonfire”—show its radicalism. After clashing with the Iranian government, it turned to violence and exile, never shedding its authoritarian core.

Removal from FTO list

The U.S. delisted MEK in 2012 after heavy lobbying, but internal reports flagged its violent history and cult-like nature. This wasn’t a clean slate—its past, including killing Americans and aiding Saddam, lingers. In Albania, ex-military intelligence described “extraordinary psychological violence and threats of murder” in its camps.

Now, the Iranian people ask Fox News a crucial question: as a media outlet that claims to stand for freedom and democracy, based on which survey, which vote of the people, which historical value, and what legitimacy did you decide to recognize a cult-like terrorist group—one that itself opposes the freedom of the Iranian people—as a symbol of freedom and democracy?
In fact, there has been no survey or poll. The American sponsors of the MEK just follow the rule of money. The MEK/ NCR was a terrorist cult but it turned out to be “freedom fighter” after it paid millions of dollars as speaking fees to the high-profile figures.

Mazda Parsi

March 1, 2025 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The hypocrisy of MEK/NCRI supporters

THE INTRODUCTION

In general, you can divide MEK supporters into two categories.
The first, the majority, are those who never ever spent a day in the MEK ranks, especially during their time in Iraq at Camp Ashraf. I don’t mean fancy guest-like visits, where they were treated like kings and queens and wined and dined by MEK officials. I mean the real cult life, where they had to wake up at 5:30 AM every day, forced to pray and carry out other Islamic rituals, take part in cruel and inhumane self-criticism meetings and ideological teachings and being shouted at and ridiculed, 16 hour work days under the scorching summer heat, being completely disconnected from the outside world without access to internet and phones, not being able to freely see family members, even within the camp, being forbidden from connecting with family outside of the camp, being forced to worship the cult leaders like religious figures, and much much more. You get the idea. They didn’t spend a single day in the MEK!

The second group, maybe two handfuls, are those who were actually members of the MEK at a certain period of time. Almost all for a very short period of time. Yet very soon realized the reality of the cruelty and brutality of the cult life and escaped with promises of leaving and continuing support for the MEK from afar.

THE CONTRADICTION

If you ask the first group why don’t they join the MEK if they are so good and just and worthy of your support? You’ll get answers like:
– I didn’t have the courage to join, especially in a warzone like Camp Ashraf
– I am not worthy and competent enough to be an MEK member. They are the most honest and selfless individuals, which I am not (they don’t say the last part out loud of course).
– I have family and children and other personal obligations.
So the MEK is good, or “too good” for you to join and officially become a member? Got it.

If you ask the second group why they left the MEK, if they’re so good? You’ll get answers like:
– I couldn’t bear their organization and structure.
– That lifestyle isn’t for me and I can’t devote and sacrifice so much.
– I was scared and didn’t want to lose my life.
So again, the MEK is good, but you can’t bear the good or “too good” conditions and ultimately leave and go back to your normal life? Got it.

THE IRONY

The majority of MEK supporters haven’t spent a single day in the MEK, yet are all over social media “debunking” facts and harassing and attacking any individual, like me, who criticizes and speaks truth about this cult. They get their information from second and third hand sources while I stand here as a living witness to MEK crimes and willing to testify in any international or fair court.
The next time you come across one of them, simply just ask them why they don’t go and join the MEK if they are all that they claim they are?

Mohamamd Reza Torabi

January 25, 2025 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq; A proxy force

The MEK portrayed 9/11 as the American imperialism crumbling

The irony of Americans attending MEK conferences and supporting Maryam Rajavi and the NCRI.

Our commander quickly explained that the Twin Towers had been targeted by airplanes and they were up in smokes.
We all quickly rushed to the cafeteria where large projection screens had been set up and the live news from Aljazeera and CNN was being broadcasted. Every time the scenes of the planes crashing into the towers were shown, the crowd cheered and clapped. That evening celebrations began. Loud music and dancing as sweets were distributed (an Iranian tradition when people receive good news). We danced until late night as the scenes of the towers crumbling were being broadcasted in the background.

Every time I see an American politician meeting with Maryam Rajavi, this scenes comes to my mind and I think to myself: if only they were with us on that day and saw Rajavi’s smile as all those innocent people fell to their deaths.

Shame on any American who openly supports the MEK and it’s deceiving, corrupt and criminal leader Maryam Rajavi.

January 18, 2025 0 comments

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