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Mazda Parsi, Nejat society, Shiraz, Iran, August 11 2016:… International reports on the truth of the MKO including HRW’s “No Exit”, indicate the very undemocratic atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajavi, as well as many other reports, testimonies and memoirs of former members of the group who reveal the most inhumane violations of human rights in the MKO camps. The British advocates of the MKO who want their government to …
Urgent action is needed to save women from Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult, MKO, NCRI) camps
As Kurds remember Saddam’s crimes – Maryam Rajavi clearly not welcome in the UK
Dialogue with Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult), a Destructive Policy
While the Chiclot Report has presented a range of evidence that demonstrates that Britain was misled by Tony Blair in the run up to the war in Iraq a British Parliamentary Committee urge UK to condemn what it calls “Tehran’s efforts” against the MKO in Europe! The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BOCIF) asked Western governments to condemn “the Tehran regime for undermining and rejecting democratic values and the Rule of Law”. The Committee called for a” firm and responsible” policy in relation with the Islamic Republic and advised them to see dialogue with the Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a “constructive policy”.
The letter of support of 25 UK parliament members for the Mujahedin Khalq was published coincidently with the publication of the long-awaited Chicolt report that drew much attention and strong criticism of UK former Prime Minister Tony Blair for his naïve commitment to the Americans, and for misleading of parliament. According to the report, the allegations about Saddam’s WMD was not reliable and not a “great concern “to justify the invasion to Iraq.
Regardless of large numbers of human loss- civilians who were killed and injured – in the war in Iraq, UK government and people played a high cost for probably unneeded war. Now, the 25 British MPs who seek constructive dialogue with the MKO should beware that supporting the cult of Rajavi may cost them much more financial and spiritual expenses. Let’s discuss the BPCIF’s plan to support the MKO.
Lord David Alton of Liverpool, a vocal sponsor of the MKO who condemned IR for violence and crackdown of Iranian users of social networks and its “restrictive ideology”, vowed his support for Maryam Rajavi, praising her “constant support for democracy”. He and a number of his comrades in the so-called BPCIF claim to “stand by Maryam Rajavi’s third option”.
Third option of Maryam Rajavi is claimed to advocate the controversial option, “democratic regime change in Iran”. As a matter of fact, regime change rarely leads to democratization. Democracy is not a phenomenon that can be imposed through regime change. Moreover, imposing democracy by force is almost impossible.
British supporters of the MKO should notice the tools and the grounds that a movement needs for bringing democracy in a society. They should watch the MKO’s small society in its camps to verify that the group is the proper force that enjoys the proper tools to function properly.
Actually, democracies require various tools in order to function properly. People in a democratic society should be able to vote, should have access to free press, to the Internet and to libraries. In such society, authorities can cultivate democracy.
However, in the cult-like society inside the MKO, none of the above-mentioned grounds are available. The tools are not available because Maryam Rajavi and her disappeared husband Massoud Rajavi have never wanted them to be available to their rank and file.
“Totalitarian cult” is indeed the most frequent label applied to the MEK by people who come in contact with the group,” wrote Veronika Krasheninnikova of RT.
International reports on the truth of the MKO including HRW’s “No Exit”, indicate the very undemocratic atmosphere ruling the Cult of Rajavi, as well as many other reports, testimonies and memoirs of former members of the group who reveal the most inhumane violations of human rights in the MKO camps.
The British advocates of the MKO who want their government to consider their support for the MKO as a “constructive policy”, they should beware that it is absolutely a destructive policy to rely on a cult-like group with a dark history of violence for bringing democracy in Iran.
By Mazda Parsi,
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Comrades in Arms – Sexual abuse by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi
An Unfinished documentary for my daughter – Trapped in Rajavi cult, Mojahedin Khalq
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Also read:
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=6574
Open Letter to Susana Klien and Caroline Haworth of Womankind Worldwide
A number of survivors of Rajavi cult, August 31 2015:… This summer, your charity floated an engaging invitation on its Facebook page for women to nominate their ‘women’s rights idol’. Sadly, perhaps inevitably, Womankind was then inundated with nominations and praise for Maryam Rajavi. The effect has been to hijack the page and spoil its intent. The Mojahedin are …
Our story thus far: Another Mojahedin attack on two fathers and the sister of MEK’s captives
Council of Foreign Relations, 2014: Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK). Backgrounders
(Received with many thanks – Iran Interlink)
Open Letter to Susana Klien and Caroline Haworth of Womankind Worldwide
As the outgoing and the incoming CEOs you will both be sensitive to the enduring reputation of your valuable charity Womankind Worldwide. We hope therefore that you are aware by now that you have become the latest target for another of the Mojahedin Khalq’s deceptive propaganda campaigns.
This summer, your charity floated an engaging invitation on its Facebook page for women to nominate their ‘women’s rights idol’. Sadly, perhaps inevitably, Womankind was then inundated with nominations and praise for Maryam Rajavi. The effect has been to hijack the page and spoil its intent.
The Mojahedin are not doing this to promote women’s rights and cannot point to a single real-life example of what Maryam Rajavi is supposed to have done to help women. Instead they are trying to whitewash their savage past and evade the court cases and allegations of gross human rights abuses inside the organisation.
We are all witnesses to the cruelties Maryam Rajavi has inflicted on the female members of the cult she created with her fugitive husband Massoud Rajavi. Maryam Rajavi is indisputably responsible for the deaths and mistreatment of tens of women members. And this is an ongoing problem. Only this month Maryam Rajavi’s response to a young Iranian Canadian woman who visited her headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, searching for her sister, was to send a gang of thugs into the street to beat her up. This is not the action of a defender of women’s rights.
Have no doubt, Maryam Rajavi’s notoriety is known worldwide – from the US State Department and Human Rights Watch to the Human Rights Ministry of Iraq. And closer to home, the Foreign and Commonwealth office and the Home Office in the UK.
Although we are confident that you have no intention of allowing the reputation of Womankind Worldwide to be tarnished by association with this cult and its leaders, we thought a friendly heads-up to be appropriate at this stage. All of us are happy to provide more information on this issue. The following links are a good starting point.
Yours sincerely,
Batoul Soltani – Germany
Open letter of Iranian Women’s Association to Mr. Otto Bernhardet: Do you know who Maryam Rajavi is?
Homeyra Mohammad Nejad – Germany
Open letter to Mrs. Jane Holl Lute
Nasrin Ebrahimi – Switzerland
Beware of Maryam Rajavi’s deception (open letter to Régine Deforge)
Zahra Mirbagheri – Iran
78 signatories: Mojahedin Khalq terror group are threatening to kill us in your country (Open letter to François Hollande)
Zahra Moini – Germany
President Hollande should curtail violent activities of Mojahedin Khalq (Rajavi cult) in France
Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) – U.K.
Silencing the victims of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult, PMOI, NCRI …) to promote Maryam Rajavi
And some relevant links:
In 1997, the Home Secretary excluded Mrs Rajavi from the UK on the ground that “ We need to take a firm stance against terrorism”. That exclusion remains in force.
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2014/11/12/government-may-weigh-rights-against-national-security-without-courts-interference/
Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK). Backgrounders
http://www.cfr.org/iran/mujahadeen-e-khalq-mek/p9158
No Exit: Human Rights Abuses inside the Mojahedin Khalq Camps
http://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/mena/iran0505/
UN: continued concerns about abuses committed by the PMOI/MeK leadership.
http://www.uniraq.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1567:unami-half-yearly-report-on-human-rights-january-to-june-2013&Itemid=605&lang=en
New document on Mojahedin Khalq released by RAND (The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq, A Policy Conundrum)
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG871.html
State Department’s Report on Mojahedin Khalq Orgainsation, Rajavi cult
http://www.iran-interlink.org/?mod=view&id=2309
Iran Interlink Fourth Report from Baghdad
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=5536
Comrades in Arms – Sexual abuse by Massoud and Maryam Rajavi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpDUMaIntS8&feature=youtu.be
An Unfinished documentary for my daughter – Trapped in Rajavi cult, Mojahedin Khalq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEb5-ZBuk4k
Miss Mohammady: Our story thus far: Another Mojahedin attack on two fathers and the sister of MEK’s captives
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=6454
Behind the deceptive face of Maryam Rajavi’s Women’s Day meeting in Berlin
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=5906
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Judit Neurink: Iranian resistance group MKO to move to Albania
President of MIVILUDES Serge Blisko with Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton) of the FST
Expert in cultic abuse and terrorism in the MEK speaks in London charity meeting
Also read:
https://iran-interlink.org/wordpress/?p=2462
Silencing the victims of Mojahedin Khalq (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult, PMOI, NCRI …) to promote Maryam Rajavi – March 2013
Anne Singleton (Khodabandeh), Middle East Strategy Consultants, March 06 2013: … These women face a backlash of ‘power and money’ to stop them talking, while the same ‘power and money’ grooms the perpetrator, Maryam Rajavi, to talk about the rights of women and criticise marriage laws and say how they should be changed in the favour of women. ‘Power and money’ believe the MEK should not only be removed from terrorism lists but should be paraded in parliaments as exemplars of feminism. ‘Power and money’ are so dishonest that they cast the MEK in the role of victim while condemning the former women members as torturers, spies and agents …
http://www.mesconsult.com
In this context what are we to understand about Maryam Rajavi’s claim to feminist credentials?
Batoul Soltani previously spoke out about the abuse of women in the MEK in both Baghdad and now in Europe where she lives. She was recently attacked in front of her house and her neighbours had to come to her rescue. The MEK have published indecipherable false documents on their websites alleging that while she was a member of the Mojahedin’s Leadership Council (the highest rank after the Rajavis), she was working for the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. Batoul joined the MEK with her husband and two month old baby when she was barely eighteen years old. She had been a member for over twenty years.
Nasrin Ebrahimi, who now lives in Switzerland, was fourteen years old when she was taken to the MEK’s Camp Ashraf in Iraq. She was only able to escape after the American army forced the MEK to disarm in 2003. Nasrin was invited to the European Parliament to testify about her experience as a woman in the Mojahedin. After that she suffered such severe harassment by the MEK that she changed country twice to escape them. Police have had to protect her for some time against the MEK. Recently she has again been approached and threatened in Switzerland for joining the group of women exposing the abuses.
Zahra Bagheri crawled combat-style over a kilometre for hours in the dark to escape Camp Ashraf. Her body was so lacerated and bleeding that the Iraqi soldiers who found her wept on seeing her injuries. She spent several weeks in hospital recovering from this ordeal. In addition she has had to undergo various operations in Germany because of neglect of her medical conditions while she was in Ashraf. She also joined the other women in the Autumn 2012 conference. The MEK are currently using her two sisters and her brother who remain in Camp Liberty to perform on their TV to swear at Zahra and their mother.
(Women “rewarded” with pendants and robes after sexual ordeal)
(Camp Ashraf)
(E.U. Parliament)
(Baghdad University)***
Dear Washington: Kick Out This Iranian Militant Cult
Holly Dagres, Huffington Post, December 12 2014:… Maryam Rajavi’s marriage to one of the original founders of the MEK symbolized the transformation from an organization to a “cult of personality.” With the money provided by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein–they formed an alliance due to a deep disdain for the Iranian regime–to “construct self-sufficient camps” …
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Foreign Policy Journal, November 08 2014:…In addition to the “Iran experts”, Washington has found itself other sources of ‘intelligence’, foremost; the Mojahedeen Khalg (MEK) terrorist cult. This group feeds Washington information provided them by Israel. Previous to this assignment, the cult was busy fighting alongside Saddam …Anne Khodabandeh (Singleton), Iran Interlink, November 01 2014: … When a supporter of ISIS sits in the French parliamentary building and attacks President Obama, the cracks are seriously beginning to show in the West’s approach to resolving the whole Middle East situation. Observers may not be sufficiently informed to tell Western governments what to do in …
Azar Hossein Nejad, Hossin Nejad weblog, January 01 2015:… I am contacting you to ask for your help regarding the situation of my sister, Zeinab Hossein Nejad, a 36 years old woman who is living in Camp Liberty in Baghdad, Iraq. I never saw my parents or sister during my childhood and youth as all of them had to run for their lives. They left Iran along … 
Farideh Farhi, Lobelog, April 22 2014: … members (some of them with links to the exiled Iranian opposition group, the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK), such as Spanish EPP member Alejo Vidal-Quadras and British ECR member Struan Stevenson) proposed amendments deleting the call for an opening of the EU office in Tehran, fully in line with the position of their supposed enemies — Iranian hardliners …
Nejat Association reporting from , Ashraf news, April 21 2014: … Massoud Rajavi has ordered the officials of the Camp to intensify the limitations against women especially after the revelations by Batoul Soltani and other dispatched members who bravely exposed the internal affairs especially the sexual scandals of the cult leader such as ‘Salvation dancing’ …
