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"Join Sahar Family Foundation in Iraq"
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To be a Mujahed
By:
SFF
Translation: Nejat Society
October 23 2008
Interview with Mrs. Batoul Soltani (1)
The following is an interview with “
Former member of the leadership Council of MKO; a woman who was
released after two decades of being captive of the cult of Rajavi
…during those years she lost her kids and her warm family center.
The life of Mrs. Batoul Soltani is mostly like a tragic drama that
seems like an incredible fate. She is now stepping in a way to
rejoin her missing husband and kids.
SFF:
Mrs.Soltani, Thank you for your time. We would like to offer you our
sympathy due to the entire grieves you suffered for more than two
decades. As we’d like to learn about your tragedy-like life, please
explain how you were recruited by the organization?
Mrs.Batoul Soltani: Thank you. I am Batoul Soltani. I was born in 1965 in Isfahan where I
graduated from high school. I was accepted for the university but I
didn’t go there and instead I married a man who had just been
released from the prison.
In 1986 we got married and then one
of my husband’s friends, who had joined the organization, introduced
him to MKO. He had told them that we are opposed to the Islamic
Republic. So the MKO’s men came to Isfahan to look for us.
My husband told me about leaving
Iran. I had some social problems so I was ready to leave Iran. I
said:
”It is so good. We will leave Iran to
look for our happiness and life.”
The same year when I was pregnant
(about eight months after our marriage) we left Iran
through Iran-Pakistan border by the help of a smuggler who worked
for MKO.
We were on the way for a few days. I
remember the difficulties I had on the way. When we arrived in
Pakistan, I told my husband that I wanted to continue my studies and
have a free life. We asked the UNHCR for the refugee card. Due to my
physical status, pregnancy, they soon granted refugee to us. I gave
birth to my first kid in Pakistan.
Later MKO came to my husband. He
insisted on going to Iraq and I disagreed but my husband said:
”It is very good to live in Iraq.
They have a very good situation there. We will have a comfortable
life. If we don’t want to live there, we can go to a European
country.”
But from the other side the MKO’s
representative said:
” everyone cannot step in this way.
It is so hard. “
But my husband said:
”No, it’s not like that. They say
these words to everyone who wants to join MKO, but it is not
actually as what he says. They have a very relaxing life. They want
to know how loyal the members are and such things.”
He said these things to convince me
to be satisfied and tolerate any difficulty.
Therefore, in 1987 we came to Iraq
with our two-month old baby. They received us in the best hotels of
Baghdad and settled us in a 5-starred hotel. After a period of
residence in the hotel they told me that I can leave my kid to the
nursery and work in their school. I remember that they took our
passport and refugee card when we arrived at the airport and we
couldn’t understand that they were blocking all the way back.
When I got their base, I left my
baby to the nursery and started working as a teacher in their
school. We were practically gotten involved in the organization’s
relations.
The process continued until they told
us that they wanted to send the children to Europe. This was a plan
after the Gulf War. They used the opportunity and said:
”We are not able to keep children
here any more and we must send them to Europe. “
They held indoctrination meetings and
various factors convinced us to send the children to Europe. I
talked with my husband. He said:
”we have no way out of Organization’s
relations and no appropriate facilities and means to live our life
in Iraq without MKO. We can not return Iran because we will be
arrested and executed there. Besides we have no money and the
organization keeps our documents.”
Actually he was gotten stuck within
the Organization’s relations so he wanted to continue as before.
So he convinced me to let our
children go for their own sake in the hope that they will be lucky
and happy there and we will be loyal to each other here and soon we
will also go abroad. Or we will go to Iran after victory. He
seriously emphasized that the regime of Iran would overthrow in 6 or
7 months and we would go to Iran.
After that I remember that I was so
sad and I missed my children. I cried under the blanket at nights
because we shouldn’t show our emotions. If they found out that I had
missed my children, they would punish me. They said:
” what’s wrong with you? You are a
revolutionary avant-garde. You are here to liberate your country.”
So I tried to hide my feelings. Then
the promotions began in the organization. They held special programs
to allegedly liberate the women in revolutionary phases, heightening
the scene of responsibility of the weakened women.
Thus everyday I was promoted in my
ranks and duties. After the departure of my children, I received
military trainings and soon, in 1993, I was the commandant of a
unit.
In 1991, the mandatory divorces were
ordered. They said:
”Anyone who wants to stay and
continue the way must divorce from her husband. “
Therefore in an artificial
atmosphere, anyone wanted to take off her ring and declared her
divorce to show that she is superior and more liberated.
This was Masud and Maryam’s plan to
separate the spouses. [..]
After the divorces, the control was
heightened to keep the men and women away from each other. If even
the members thought about their spouses or asked any question about
them, they would be punished seriously.
Later the group forced the men to
give their hegemony following giving their wives to the organization
and under the revolutionary titles they handed their duties to the
women gradually.
I remember that I was the commandant
of a unit with 11 tanks, each one with 3 service-men. It was a big
responsibility and I had no free time. I could relax only two hours
a day. Then I received computer training for 4 years after I went to
Britain with a false passport. At the time the systems of the
computers in MKO was Appel and the group wanted to promote them to
PC so I was chosen for some new trainings.
During the war I learned the site
systems and designed websites. I only for a short time worked in
the recruitment section to recruit new forces. In 2007, I was
promoted to the Leadership Council.
I attended the meetings of the
Leadership Council which were held once a week. We held several
meetings when Masud and Maryam were in Iraq and later, as the layer
of the leadership council we had the meetings everyday.
In 2006,I was the subject of the
meetings for a long time. They asked me why I’m not relaxed. Why I’m
depressed or thoughtful. They constantly put me under questions
until I got several phone calls from Masud Rajavi.
I'm a woman escaped from MKO camp
By:
SFF
Translation: Nejat Society
November 01 2008
Interview with Mrs. Batoul Soltani (2)
Memories of Mrs. Batoul Soltani -
Part two
In his phone calls, Masud Rajavi
tried to know why I was upset by making jokes and having fun. He
wanted to know what my problem was. I didn’t tell him what my
problem was. I was very sad. I had many questions on the
organization. I felt that I have lost all my life, wasting my
lifetime for looking for nothing. I even saw that the organization
didn’t obey its own principles. For example, at that time, we
claimed to be anti-Imperialism so much, but I saw how they spread
red carpet for the Americans in Camp Ashraf welcoming them warmly.
They named the cooperation with Americans as the struggle with the
main enemy which is Islamic Republic, saying that
“It doesn’t matter to negotiate with
the US to fight the main enemy.”
Sometimes, I asked them:
” why do you make the youth miserable
by bringing them to the organization? Why haven’t we overthrown the
regime yet after two decades? Or why are we struggling at all?”
However I was stuck in vain, this was
not a factor to make me escape or leave the organization until the
day I was working on the computer and I entered the private network
of Mozhgan Parsaie. In fact I was supposed to fix their network. In
one of their rooms, I entered Mozhgan Parsaie’s network where she
had prepared a report which was supposed to be sent to Maryam
Rajavi. I read the report and I saw what she had written about me. I
got shocked extremely wondering what the reason of all respects they
had for me was and what this report is. I felt they are so hypocrite
and the word hypocrite really deserves them. They had back-bitted
about me writing anything they could write about me although I was a
member of Leadership Council. For instance they had written that I
have moral problems or I have problems with children etc…. they had
stated that my situation was so crucial. So I got very upset since
they had wasted my life. I was looking for a way to carry out my
decision and soon I was able to pack my bag and escape from the
camp. We were seriously controlled.
We couldn’t walk around the camp
alone. The low-ranking members were told:
“You may be arrested or kidnapped by
the others who traffic the camp.”
The members do not trust anybody.
They are always monitoring each other. I was in the Leadership
Council, so I know that they falsely say that
“We do not allow the women to walk
alone due to lack of security in the camp.“
In fact they want to cover the
reality of their jobs.
The women were controlled in a
particular way, so strictly, that Rajavi had soon sworn that
“We have no female defector”,
The control over the women members
were more sever because he wanted to prove his claim.
Since I couldn’t get out alone, I
planned a way to escape. At the sunset time, I put a back bag on the
front seat of my jeep and I put a cap and a scarf on the pack bag to
make the figure of a woman. Therefore I could pass the control
station. I told them that my colleague is taking a nap on the front
seat. So I could get out until I reached the street around the camp
where I parked the car and walked out of the prison I had spent so
many years of my life: Two decades of my life, from the moment I
was recruited by the cult until the time I could run away by a
complex plan. When I was escaping from the camp, I didn’t intend to
go to TIPF (the American camp). I had some tools such as a wire
cutter to cut the barbed wires and walk out of the camp. I knew that
there are some hungry dogs wondering around the camp. I brought some
food to give them in case of the risk of their attack. When I
entered the deserts around the camp and I was walking towards the
cast, I encountered the dogs. So I gave the food and water to them.
They became my friends and escorted me.
But when I got to the barbed wires I
found out that I had lost my wire cutter when I was trying to feed
the dogs. So I changed my plan and decided to go to American camp. I
came towards the American camp and tried to draw the soldiers’
attention to myself, but they couldn’t hear me because they were
listening to music by their headsets. I tried to shout, using my
English. I told them that
“I am a woman who escaped from MKO
camp and I don’t want the organization learns about me.”
Finally I could get in the camp of
American forces.
In the camp, MKO tried to contact me,
in many ways. They sent me letters, messages,.. They even called me
on the cell phones which were held secretly in the American camp.
They wanted me to get back to Ashraf promising me to do anything I
want such as going to Europe or giving financial aids. Then they
launched a large attempt to attract me by my children. They knew
that I was looking for my children. They particularly wanted to
bring my daughter to camp Ashraf so as I would get back. They even
had her supervisor, in Europe, call me so that they can control me
out of Camp Ashraf and even abroad. But I never let them get close
to me. They had taken my daughter as a hostage; she wasn’t allowed
to call me. She was told a lot of nonsense about me. They had even
told her to have an interview against me but she hadn’t accepted
because she was busy with her studies and her personal life.
I stayed in TIPF for a period of
time. Americans suggested working for them. I did their computer
works about storage of their goods listing them in the computer and
I was paid 2.5 dollars an hour.
Meanwhile I had some contacts with my
family. I was sometimes afraid of my future life. I was afraid of
making mistake. I didn’t know what was waiting for me. Sometimes I
got disappointed. The organization was also trying hard to have me
back with promises of money or a free life in Europe but I was sure
that I would have no way out with MKO except that same isolated
cult.
We had many difficulties in TIPF. The
Americans didn’t help us; instead they aided the organization to
become more stable, for example they recognized Mozjgan Parsaie but
not the separated members of the cult. The organization used the
opportunity and expanded its control and hegemony over the members
more and more. The pressure of the meetings was increased.
In the meetings, about 300 people
were shouting at an individual asking him or her:
” what is in your mind? Why do you
want to leave the camp? Why do you think about your children or
husband?”
When I just remember these memories,
I get terrified. So I didn’t think about any of their suggestions.
In my contacts with my family, they couldn’t help me so much they
wanted to help me in their own way offering their emotions and
sympathy.
Behind the smiles of the captives in Ashraf
By:
SFF
Translation: Nejat Society
November 06 2008
Interview with Mrs. Batoul Soltani (3)
Memories of Batoul Soltani- Part
three
In the previous part, Mrs.Batoul
Soltani described her defection process. She is going to explain her
first visit within her family and her following activities in Sahar
Family Foundation.
Batoul Soltani: out of Ashraf, there
was another world. I found the opportunity to meet my family who had
come to Iraq. It was so bizarre. The family is a spiritual gift:
mother, father, brothers and sisters who are full of emotions and
feelings. I realized how badly I had behaved to them, how much they
had suffered because of me. I found out that my father had died due
to a heart attack, and my mother had suffered a lot of grieves. So I
had much motive to help the other families because I have seen that
the organization is still capturing the youth of our country by
various methods even deception and abuse of emotional relationships.
If anyone wants to leave the group, they ruin his future so as he
will have no future out of the group, forcing him to stay in the
organization for his whole life.
After the defection, I could have had
a normal life but I had enough motivation to stay in Iraq to help my
ex-friends and those who are likely to be captured by MKO; the ones
who are like me and who do not know what is waiting for them in the
cult despite their deceitful smile and green lights. I know what is
behind the smiles of the captives in Ashraf. They are very tired but
they are afraid of complaining because they would be marked. They
have no idea what to do. Even those members, who could leave MKO,
have their own problems because the organization has functioned so
violently that no one accepts the defectors either.
I learned about a foundation called
Sahar, I contacted them and I was willing to help them. Then I
became a member of Sahar Family Foundation and now I am a
spokeswoman of that. My activities included a trip to Turkey to
contact some of the defectors who had legal and financial problems
there, we had some jobs and interviews there, with Mr. Masud
Khodabandeh who is the founder of SFF.
We are trying to pave the way for MKO
defectors to be able to live a normal life in a free society. Mr.
Khodabandeh and I also had a trip to Karkul, Irbil, Soleimanieh and
Dahouk, and we visited various defectors in these cities. I had
recently a trip to the North of Iraq to help those ex-comrades. I
could have some meetings with the deputies of Kurdish parties and
some journals and international communities to provide the
conditions to aid the defectors of MKO. I met and talked to many of
them, I got acquainted with their life, problems and grieves. Now I
am doing my best to aid SFF in order to help the defectors of MEK.
I had to help my husband; it was my
responsibility to save him. I know what happened to him finally and
what his motive at the beginning was. I asked his family for help
inviting them to Iraq. They came to Iraq after some time, we went to
camp Ashraf. I will explain the way the organization treated us in
detailed in another part. The scenario they had designed was so
significant that needs to be discussed carefully in a separate
program.
My activities are partly based on my
human feelings. I know my children are hostages in MKO where they
are manipulated. I got to know that my daughter Setareh has been
forced to come to Iraq. I know she didn’t want to come to Iraq at
all.
They were so eager to bring Setare to
Iraq before I leaved TIPF or Iraq. Unfortunately I got into some
troubles and I couldn’t get in touch with my daughter. Later I
figured out that they had convinced her to come to Iraq to visit her
father. They brought her to Iraq last March and told her to stay
there. She was told:”your mother has psychological problems and she
wants to take you to Iran.” She was also told other lies to keep her
in the camp as long as they can and of-course to manipulate her more
and more. The first step has been the interviews against me but my
daughter has resisted and hasn’t done it. But they have terrified
her so terribly that she doesn’t answer my phone calls turning off
her cell phone. Then she was taken to Ashraf to visit her father who
has treated her so unkindly- He has not been in a normal condition-
Then she was taken to their indoctrination system. They have
manipulated her so seriously that she is completely mixed up now;
she is in Netherland where my son is living. She was taken there to
work on her brother, Miaad who is totally confused now.
Miaad says:” How is it possible? I am
sixteen now, and I haven’t had any idea that I have a sister, mother
or father. I don’t know what’s happened that now I have a father and
I am repeatedly invited to go to Iraq to visit him or now I have
founded my sister after years, in another European country.”
I mean the organization had never
told them that they have a brother or a sister. But now that their
benefits require controlling them against me, they have brought my
daughter to influence her brother. My son chatted with me on
internet regularly but now has given it up and doesn’t answer his
cell phone or telephone. They are doing all these things to exhaust
me. They want me to keep quiet and not to aid the other defectors. I
try to tell the realities, the truth to my children but it’s up to
them to choose where they like to live. At least I should denounce
what the organization is indoctrinating to them.
One of my tasks is to go to a
European country to pursue the case legally to be able to visit my
children after 16 years. My son was 6 months old when the
organization separated him from me. I haven’t seen them for 16
years. I missed them a lot. I’d really love to see them but what
shall I do that the terrorist cult of Rajavi commits any crime
against the defectors.
(To be continued . . .)
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Issue No
6
of Sahar Family Foundation's Newsletter in Arabic was published and
widely distributed in Iraq
Link to the Newsletter No.6 (Arabic)
To subscribe the newsletter in Arabic
contact the SFF in Iraq or in Britain via e-mail, mail or telephone
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Open letter of the Sahar
Family Foundation to Dr
Alejo Vidal-Quadras
Roca, Vice President of the European Parliament, regarding the members of
the European Parliament visiting the base of the Mojahedin-e Khalq
Organization (MKO) in Iraq called the Ashraf garrison.
Dr
Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca
Vice President of the European
Parliament
Brussels, Belgium
Sahar Family Foundation
Baghdad
November 2008
Dear Sir
Please accept our warmest regards as
well as those of the families of the members captured in the
terrorist cult of Rajavi called the Mojahiden-e Khalq Organization
(MKO) in Iraq.
According to the news released by the
websites of the MKO, some MEPs as a delegation headed by you visited
the base of the organization called "Ashraf" and expressed some
opinions relating the garrison of the terrorist cult of Rajavi in
Iraq.
The Sahar Family Foundation which
consists of the former members of this organization and the families
of mental and physical captives in the Ashraf garrison in Iraq would
welcome such actions provided they are not one-sided and they do not
intend political purposes. We do hope that such visits would
continue and would also end to the savior of the captives in that
cult and rejoin them with their families who are anxiously waiting
to see their beloved ones for over two decades.
Referring to your expressions as well
as those of other MEPs reflected in the MKO sites; obviously this
visit was aimed for fact-findings about the cult garrison of the MKO
in Iraq. Such action is of course welcomed; but we would like to ask
you that: shouldn't a representative of those separated from the
organization and those who have been subject to abuses or a
representative of the families of those confined in that garrison
and have no way to the outside world be present in such a visit?
Recently in a meeting in the European
Parliament, Ms Nassrin Ebrahimi a former member of the MKO, talked
about hysterectomy and castration of women. Surely this has drawn
the attention of yours and that of the delegation that companied you
in Ashraf. Also Ms Batool Soltani a former member of the leadership
council of the MKO who is based in Baghdad and is the spokesperson
of our foundation has listed the names of nearly 150 individuals
(%10 of the total number of women in the organization) who have been
castrated in the cult of Rajavi. Shouldn't a physician be present in
your delegation to examine these miserable women for fact-finding?
It is worth mentioning that Ms Soltani in Baghdad has announced
several times that she is ready to visit the Ashraf garrison along
with any international delegation in order to find the truth about
the MKO.
Your visit and that of the delegation
along with you from the Ashraf garrison in Iraq is merely used as a
propaganda tool in the hands of a cult to further manipulate its
captive followers, since no representative from the opponents,
critiques or defectors of the organization were present. Cults do
need to justify their inhumane actions and that is why they try to
whitewash their faces using well-known people. Our expectation from
European politicians was that they act more rational and more
reasonable.
For your information it is worth
mentioning that the garrison that the MKO calls the "Ashraf city"
has the following characteristics:
1.
Lacks any
families or offspring. Children do not exist there. Women and men
live on two opposite sides of this so called city separately and
have no contacts with each other what so ever. That is sex apartheid
is imposed severely in there. Even gas stations are separated for
men and women.
2.
The
inhabitants of this garrison do not have the right to love anyone
but the spiritual leader i.e. Massoud Rajavi. Any kind of expressing
love or emotions towards any other person is prohibited and is
considered as committing a sin.
3.
Followers
must regard the members of their families as their main enemies and
therefore hate them. Reminding of spouses, offspring or parents is
considered as treason to the cult. This cult regards family as the
"nest of corruption".
4.
Those based
in this cult garrison are deprived from facilities such as
telephone, cell phone, post, radio, television, internet, satellite,
daily papers, gazettes or any form of connection with the outside
world and do not have the least of ideas to what is happening
outside the garrison. They are only fed with the information
provided by the MKO media. It is interesting to know that the
organization is even showing its own television programs with delay
and after being censored for these practically hostages in the
Ashraf garrison. This is done for preventing pictures of the normal
life be shown to the captives in order to avoid the awakening
effects on them.
5.
Members have
no right to criticize the actions and the policies of the leader of
the cult and the followers have no right to even doubt the political
and strategic lines of the organization.
6.
Individuals
have to attend inhumane sessions called "current operations" and be
damned for their deeds and thoughts and even their night dreams. In
these sessions which are the most immoral methods of psychological
pressures over people, the natural mental and emotional defense of
one is shattered in such a way that one submits oneself to any
unsound demand and has not the power to say "no".
7.
Finally the
MKO under the leadership of Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam is an
established cult according to modern scientific psychological and
sociological definitions which utilizes mind manipulation methods in
order to recruit, preserve and control its forces. This organization
is using brainwashing techniques to restore a kind of modern slavery
where individuals are both mentally and physically captives. Cults
do need an isolated remote place in order to impose their mental
methods over their followers and the Ashraf garrison in Iraq has
provided such facilities for over two decades for the MKO first
under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and then under the protection of
the US forces. In other hands the isolated European garrison of the
MKO called the Maryam garrison in a suburban area in the north of
Paris called Auvers-sur-Oise is used to theorize new mental
implementation methods and is used to produce human robots.
If the politicians visiting the
Ashraf garrison in Iraq have the least knowledge about the actions
of a cult, they definitely know that what they did is to help a
destructive terrorist cult to gain justification against its members
which are its prime victims in order to brainwash them more and
exploit them more.
We urge all MEPs who visited the
Ashraf garrison in Iraq to ask the MKO leaders that why they do not
allow free and without intervention visits of families with their
beloved ones in the Ashraf garrison to take place and why they
prevent them using all sorts of excuses.
Best regards
Sahar Family Foudation
Baghdad, Iraq
Copy to:
The European Parliament's
Presidential Committee
A number of MEPs
The public media
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Letter of Mr. Hamid Siah Mansouri
to the SFF
Mr. Hamid Siah Mansouri
is a former member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who
has managed to escape from the Ashraf Camp which is the base of the
MKO terrorist cult in Iraq. He could eventually reach to France
after waiting for a long period.
During his presence in
Baghdad he gave a letter (both in Farsi and in English) to the SFF
which appears below:
Who am I?
Name: Hamid Siah Mansouri
Date of birth:
26/6/1956
Place of birth: Varamin /Tehran
/Iran
Father's name: Khodadad
Mother's name: Narenj
I left Tehran for India in June 1979
with legal passport via Tehran airport with the intention of
promoting my education further. I was graduated from Jamia
University in 1984, in M. A. Political Sc. Then I left India for
Canada with a fake passport to find a job and also to continue my
educations. I introduced myself to Canadian immigration officials as
an Iranian Regime defected from the Islamic Republic. So, after 3
months I was accepted as a political refugee. I was occupied in
Toronto city. I did international law in Toronto University. During
studying, I established a company which gave flyer-distributing
service.
Acquaintance and cooperation with the PMOI
In 1966, I met an Iranian man called
Hamid who introduced himself as a supporter of the "National Council
of Resistance of Iran". He invited me to found a society called the
"Iranian Professionals Society" in Canada. I accepted to make such
an organization. On the eve of the year 1988, I was acquainted to
the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, and PMOI) by a member
called Reza Khaki who asked me to cooperate with organization. Then
I gave in to the MKO after frequent persistence to join their armed
wing called "National Liberation Army of Iran" (NLA) based in Iraq
on a three-month mutual agreement. Actually, I myself intended to
realize truths too.
Dispatch
to Iraq under Saddam's rule
During 3 months that I joined to the
MKO flank under Saddam's rule, I had found their ominous aims under
the cover of the creation of the "ideal state or classless theistic
state" as well as the forged slogan of peace and democracy which
made optimistic viewers amazed. In reality, they took steps into the
path of absolute dictatorship.
As a matter of fact, I faced a
terrorist cult which had been found on the basis of the "force and
hypocrisy", tried to attract the public opinion and politicians in
the west with sham moderate facet and shape.
After 3 months, I referred to the
related officials to determine legal status of my return to Canada.
Incredibly, I found out that this organization with the
collaboration of Iraqi Govt. transferred me to Iraq illegally. This
was while they were claiming law and discipline in their agenda and
primary targets and principles. Meanwhile I observed my passport in
the hand of the MKO officials without entry stamp to the country of
Iraq.
Kurdish
massacre in Morvarid clashes
The MKO officials vowed me to
dispose legal conditions of my return to Canada. However, in
practice, they never accomplished their pledges with lure, decoy,
and killing time. We encountered Persian Gulf dilemma and the war.
Then by giving the false information that the forces of the Iranian
regime have invaded and seized our bases, they compelled me and
other opponents to participate in the Morvarid clashes with the
Kurds. Unfortunately however during the war, we found out that we
are fighting against the Kurdish people. Therefore, I refused to
prolong with the oppressed Kurdish people's massacre. Nevertheless,
the MKO officials made me and other opponents fight against
immaculate Kurdish people using threats and force. Finally, after
the first Persian Gulf War, I requested them to allow me to go back
to Canada, but they threatened me and told me that I either stay
with them or they would hand me over to the Iraqi security forces.
As a result, I could be convicted for the long term of eight years
in jail due to illegal entrance to the Iraqi territory.
Consequently, the MKO took me as a hostage and prisoner for long
years using threats and psychological and physical tortures in the
horrible prison of Camp Ashraf.
A glimpse
at the MKO'S internal relations
I briefly try to glance at the
crimes of Rajavi's cult and illicit activities at the level of
intra-organization relations during the first and second Persian
Gulf War:
Massoud Rajavi and his wife Maryam
Rajavi, the self-appointed ringleaders of the MKO intend to balk
responsibility in relation to the existed fatal political and
ideological fiascoes and impasses. Because of wide flexibilities
either political or ideological of the 1980s, and owing to the
ideological nature, which means that, the idea of violence
implementation is the only key solution of any problem, the
organization has reached to a dead end. So they chose the mock and
deviant way that, the criminal and immoral effects of their way
would bother the human beings soul. Moreover, the next generations
will be embarrassed regarding such a human catastrophe and
calamity.
Undoubtedly, "ideological divorce"
was the only, final deceitful and repressed tool to justify the end
that ringleaders of this cult used to survive politically.
Therefore, they perpetrated any criminal action to achieve this anti
human and devious invention.
In fact, they compelled the victims
to join this trend regardless of their internal tendencies by
threat, infliction, and the "brainwash", so that married men had to
divorce their wives then, these divorced women obligated to marry
with Massoud Rajavi. Even, unmarried men and women were under this
anti human and deviated trend, so they had to divorce whatever was
in their mind and brain regarding prospect wife, dreams, wishes,
family, father, mother and etc. The most painful reality was that
every victim had to prove and pretext his harmony and blessing with
such inhuman and wicked conditions in a vast rally held in the
presence of MKO torturers and inquisitors and from time to time with
the presence of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. In case, some unfortunate
sufferer accused to be indifferent or against this persecuting
process, he or she could severely be tortured psychologically and
physically. However, at the end, the victim had to be changed and
accepted their ideology or his disappearance and unknown destiny
could be expected in perspective.
The irrefutable crime of the MKO was
to make everyone get training several weapons with the intention to
achieve terrorist operations in the cities of Iran. The priority was
given to the opponents, because Rajavi intended to inflict two marks
with one bullet (to kill two birds by one stone). So that Rajavi
might get rid of his opponents and attain his terrorist aims too.
Which way
will I opt for the future?
One of the incontestable crimes of
this vicious bandit (Massoud Rajavi) is that, he confiscated
personal identity, and then he embezzled and grabbed identification
cards (identity criteria) and bank credit cards (financial abuse) of
his victims. I have also been one of these victims, so I am
determined to litigate him based on international laws at the first
possible opportunity in an accessible free country.
Now, I survived to divulge the
truths, so that, others can use my experience to live up.
Now, I must acknowledge that the
existent destructive political and ideological deadlocks in the MKO
make them commit suicide, but I decided to survive because of the
following reasons. I survive to disclose precise truths afterward;
the others can have the right and opportunity to a quite quiet life.
Without any doubt, this is the legal and natural right of every
individual to have the opportunity to an honorable life, which is
full of love and feelings. Actually, the spirit of the laws cited
"Universal Declaration of the Human Rights" based on saving human
beings life as well as welfare and auspiciousness. As a result, it
batters ideological and geographical borders, so that the principle
of the defense, attaining "human rights" has always been its
everlasting wishes and dreams.
Sometimes, when I remember Massoud
Rajavi's anti human speeches which took place in the day of the
painful disaster of the "September 11 terrorist act", so that he
exposed his "sectarianism thought" with this speech, "this was the
reactionary Islam which did this function, so we would do much
better because of our revolutionary Islam".
Whereas, his terrorist involvements
during last 3 decades, as I was also victimized by his terrorist
activities, this question abruptly comes to my mind. What is the
basic difference between Rajavi and Ben Laden?
Based on this logic, if the laws of
dangerous and complex phenomena can be distinguished, getting
involved with them and dominating them is very easy. Therefore,
because of this reason, Ben Laden is not a threat any more against
human beings, owing to the fact that his sectarian thoughts and
tactics have been discerned and exposed to the public opinion of the
world. Nevertheless, Rajavi's sect is a vague and unknown sect.
Though, all cults based on the same thought, pattern and
methodology, as the Mojahedin cult is subject to this logic and
sectarian laws, it cannot be recognized as an innovative phenomenon.
Nevertheless, the MKO cult pretexts a moderate complexion and
specious to deceive the west public opinions and this cult could
almost decoy some groups of the west public views. As a result,
terrorist gang of this cult has widely expanded its activities in
Europe under the cover of charitable activities, but they bait
Iranian refugees to hunt these sinless refugees with intention to
attain its sectarian targets. Terrorism and sectarianism does not
recognize time or geographical and human borders, in any place at
any time it can intend to protect its sectarian benefits with
waiving the life of sinless and defenseless individuals via any
inhuman way. e.g. terrible carnage and commit suicide and
self-burning in U.S.A. and so on.
An overt example of such a bitter
reality, which shocks wakeful consciences of humanity, it was an
ideological self-burning command by Rajavi's religious cult to the
impeccable and deceived individuals of this cult in Paris that led
in painful and ugly death of them. Therefore, any European national
has the right to be sensitive and affected as concerned vis-à-vis
his or her infelicitous and indistinct future. As a result, put a
question to European liable politicians and free thinkers and ask
them shouldn't Rajavi's cult be controlled by the West, instead
being supported? Inevitably, the more thought the easier discover of
the truth that Europe is under the terrorist threat and jeopardy.
Therefore, now, it is the appropriate time for the Western public
opinion, in particular the politicians, to take serious the raising
trend of susceptible threat and peril of the "terrorism and
sectarianism". As they should familiar themselves to the complicated
and modern intriguing and trapping of the Rajavi's sect, and pay
attention to the violent nature of this sect, meanwhile not to be
neglected by its mortal poison. According to an Iranian axiom, "the
scorpion does not bite because of its vengeance; however, its
expedient nature is so". Therefore, the wisdom, futurism, and secure
life of the human beings bid the West to consider and heed the
violent nature of this indistinguishable cult not to be entrapped,
otherwise, the human beings will be faced and surprised by another
"awful September eleven".
Unfortunately, sectarianism and the
foundation of cult are not visibly counted a crime at the level of
international laws. On the other hand, the outcomes of the cults'
functions and actions led in extremism, human tragedies and
victimization of numerous innocents, as the cults with their most
effective tool and weapon called "brain wash" reconstruct the human
psyche and brain; consequently, make a vital change in human
creation so that capture human soul, brainpower, mentality and wits.
Hence, whereas the ruling spirit of morality over international laws
including mentioned articles in "universal declaration of human
rights", these actions together with "brain wash" are vs. human
life, security and peace as well as criminal and they are ipso facto
counted crime and offence. Henceforth, these above mentioned
functions and deeds can per se be considered by the essence of the
international principles as a perpetration and action of the "crime
v humanity". Henceforward, these criminal actions can be indictable
in the international and domestic courts. Unquestionably, consistent
with above considerable truths, a historical and imperative
necessity is felt by the society psyche security, in order that the
West political elites should feel conscientiousness and not allow
any hesitation and impediment to take necessary legal and political
action to salve the humanity and salvage the Ashraf caged and
vulnerable immaculate victims in Iraq. Or else, they will be blamed
and curst by the next human generations because of their defaulting
and evasion versus "terrorism and sectarianism".
Base on the U. N. charter measures,
the incentive and inducible element of the international crises,
threats, predicaments and disputes must be discerned, prosecuted,
and chastised by the international authorities. Thus, whereas the
head of the cult has ultra- absolute power, it means that he is
superior to "absolute power" (God), because, the obedience of his
victims from his rules are much more essential than God's rules. As
such, suspicion and qualm in relation to the entity and being of God
could be relinquished in the intra relations of the cult, but any
doubt and distrust as regards cult leadership is mortal sin and
inexcusable. While considering such reigned rituals, traditions, and
rules over a cult, there should be no more justifiable permission
for anyone to hesitate and doubt that, the members of the cult are
the first guiltless victims of the cult leader. Then, the head of
the cult is the main incentive and inducible of all perpetrated
crimes and grave accountable to any would-be terrorist threats of
the cult at the moment plus in future. Now, with consideration of
raising trend of the potential security threat and its daily
extension in the West, as such, it is the pressing legal duty of the
legitimate and lawful international organizations to perform their
legal and historical responsibility and prepare necessary facilities
of the Massoud Rajavi's open trial. With the intention of ensuring
the security and peace for the present world and the next human
generations, these terrible criminals must be disclosed.
I and other separated members of the
MKO cult declare that we are truthfully ready to transfer our
experiences to the "human rights enthusiasts" to help the victims
who are under the MKO thought control. As a result, Rajavis'
fraudulent business must be eradicated and the victims of this cult
are allowed to have choice to be connected their own self-selection
out of isolated scopes as Ashraf military base in Iraq and Maryam's
base in Paris. Therefore, the mechanical exploitation of the MKO
over victims' brainpower, soul and life must be stopped.
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Ashraf Base in
Iraq, from inside and from outside
Sahar Family
Foundation, Iraq, 31 August 2008
The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization
(MKO) is a destructive cult according to all modern psychological
and sociological definitions of cults. This cult is of course fully
developed and has exposed all known cultic characteristics. All
cults behave in a similar manner both from inside and from outside
although they defer vastly in their publicized ideas.
All cults are known by three
categories where they could be distinguished from other even
undemocratic establishments.
1.
Charismatic
authoritarian leader who has control over every aspect of his
followers and owns the lives and properties and chastity and even
thoughts of individuals. The leader in a cult practically sits in
the place of God and is not responsible against anyone.
2.
Totalitarian
pyramidal structure where the superior of every individual sits in
the place of the leader and plays the same role. Followers are
totally dependant to the organization and to their superiors. As
they say breathing outside the organization and without the presence
of the superior is impossible.
3.
Psychological techniques are used to control the minds of the people
under the tag of ideology. It is worth noticing that the
philosophical or theological ideas of a cult have no significance
and are just used as excuses. What keeps the followers attached to
the cult and its leader is just utilizing mental methods of
brainwashing.
But a cult needs particular
facilities to impose those rational techniques to control the minds
of the followers. The most important of course is a remote place
isolated from the outside world since the cults need to disconnect
the contact of their followers from the outside world, particularly
from their families and fiends and even from their past, in order to
impose their control over their lives and their minds.
Ashraf base in Iraq has provided a
good opportunity for the MKO for two decades. The base of the MKO in
Paris (Auvers-sur-Oise) and other safe houses of the organization
round Western Europe and Northern America are serving the same
purpose for the cult.
The MKO is claiming that the Ashraf
Base is its strategic vessel (armed struggle) which is based on the
National Liberation Army (NLA). This is true, but prior to that the
base is the organization's ideological vessel (or the mental
methodology).
The Ashraf base facility has the
following advantages for the MKO:
1.
Ideologically and organizationally or better to say regarding the
mental methods to control the minds of the followers, this base is
providing a good opportunity for the organization since the
connection of the individuals with the outside world is totally cut
off. Such facility for a great number of people would certainly not
be found anywhere in the world.
2.
Strategically the NLA as an army has two elements from the three
basic elements needed (military base, border with Iran, and
weapons). The view that the third element (weapons) would be
provided keeps the individuals hopeful and therefore fix them to the
organization in that base.
3.
Politically
and regarding propaganda for the MKO the Ashraf base is known as the
symbol of power for the organization which has its special effects
on Iranian and non-Iranian supporters and western politicians. In
fact this base is the major instrument in the organization's
political and propaganda work and also to recruit new members in the
western countries.
Therefore the Ashraf base, which the
MKO prefers to be on the boarder with Iran, provides a unique
opportunity for the organization to sustain and control the
followers, to keep the structure of an army although too small, and
to show the power of the MKO in its political and propaganda
activities.
The MKO is not considered a threat
for the Islamic Republic of Iran when it is by itself. But if they
can find a substitute for Saddam Hussein as an external backer, then
it could be turned into a threat as far as security is concerned. It
is worth mentioning that this threat is of course limited to
espionage and terrorist activities and the MKO slogans to overthrow
the Tehran regime is out of question.
Then the Ashraf base is an
opportunity from inside to preserve and control the forces and is an
opportunity from outside for propaganda.
But what would happen if the Ashraf
base is dismantled?
Initially a place must be found for
the 3400 inhabitants of the base. The westerners are striving to
send these people towards Iran. Surely they do not welcome these
people who are the outcomes of a terrorist cult into their country.
But any number of people who can reach to the western countries
would not have the same use for the organization and they would not
have the same ideological dependency. Many of them after having free
contact with the outside world and realizing that they have been
subject to psychological methods of brainwashing would gain the
potentiality of countering the MKO and revealing the cultic internal
relationships (historically the cults are doomed to be dismantled by
their defectors).
In the next step the MKO would loose
a strategic facility which is the boarder and the military base, and
the strategy of armed struggle which is now on the halt would be
finished.
And finally the MKO would loose its
political and propaganda and recruiting opportunity and would face
political and manpower crises in the western countries.
Specifically if the Ashraf base is
dismantled and the forces are driven towards the western countries,
not only the capability of diplomatic and propaganda of the
organization would not increase, it would add to the many problems
of the MKO and would face it with a dead-end.
In one word the cult would loose its
main vessel and without that no content of the MKO would exist.
But this does not mean that the cult
would go down completely since the organization could live as a cult
in a very limited form with the facility of Auvers-sur-Oise (the
European base of the MKO in France) and other safe houses they have
in the western countries, but it would not have the same function as
a political force.
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Issue No
5
of Sahar Family Foundation's Newsletter in Arabic was published and
widely distributed in Iraq
Link to the Newsletter No.5 (Arabic)
To subscribe the newsletter in Arabic
contact the SFF in Iraq or in Britain via e-mail, mail or telephone
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SFF statement on controlling the
Ashraf Camp
Communiqué no 3
6 September 2008
In the past two statements, it was
emphasized that the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq
Organization (MKO) captured in the Ashraf military camp are
demanding an urgent meeting with their beloved ones in a place other
than the Ashraf camp and without the presence of any person but the
members of the family and for adequate duration. They also urged the
Iraqi government to fulfill its resolution on the MKO.
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