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Ebrahim
Khodabandeh,
Nov 11, 2007
Massoud Rajavi,leader of the Mo-
jahedin- KhalqOrganisation(MKO), issued astatement fromhis hiding on 29thOctober 2007 (7thAban 1358) whichappeared on theo r gan i s a t i o n ' sw e b s i t e"hambastegimeli"on 1st November
2007 (10th Aban1358).
In his lengthystatement he hastried to encour-age the US ad-ministration tolaunch a full-scalemilitary attackagainst Iran andhas also tried toprovide as many
excuses as possi-ble for that pur-pose. He clearlycomplains whythe Americans arein the state of "nowar" with the Is-lamic Republic ofIran and whythey don't finishoff the job.
Towards the endof his statement,Rajavi who is ad-dressing the Ira-nian regime inTehran warnsthem:
.......
"The last engage-ment of the Lib-eration Army withyou is in Tehran".That is, the Na-tional LiberationArmy (NLA) willfight all the waythrough to Tehran
and topple themullahs regimeforcibly.
In his statementRajavi clearlythreatens any-body who is notadvocating warand is opposingt h e r e g i m epeacefully. Thetitle of his mes-
sage of course is"War or Peace
with ReligiousFascism?" andRajavi clearly em-phasises thatthey [NLA com-batants] will notgive up their warwith the regime.
Rajavi ends his
statement by de-claring that:
......
"Maryam's solu-tion will win in
the capital of thelion and the sun".
Maryam Rajavihas proposed thatthe NLA be armedand backed bythe US Army inIraq and assistedto enter Iranianterritory and fightagainst the Irani-ans and move to-
wards Tehran.She has also of-fered that herforces in Iraq behelped and usedby the Americansto perform sabo-tage activities inTehran and othermajor Iranian cit-ies.
Rajavi's state-
ment c lear lyshows that by nomeans does hefavour any peace-ful solution to theIran problem andis absolutely cer-tain that he willuse violence toreach his politicalgoals.
Rajavi's latest statement: I am not aterrorist but I am going to kill you all
ISSUE NO 17
1 DECEMBER 2007Nejat Newsletter
THE BRIEFING PUBLICATION OF NEJAT SOCIETY
Rajavis latest state-ment
1
MKO exposed onFrench TV
2
Iraqi police arrests 4men and a womanmember of MKO
2
Iraqi MP: MKOmust be expelled
2
Woman brainwashedinto staying at guer-
rilla camp
3
Swedish MPsslammed over terror-
ist MKO meeting
4
US tripped up over
Iranian captives4
When Tanter di-vorces his wife to
please a cutl
5
British parliamentarydelegation visits
Nejat Society
6, 7
Professor Paul Shel-don Foote visit to the
British Parliament
8, 9
UK parliamentarydelegations visit to
Edalat Society
10
Iran for me is theforeign policy
11,12
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jor crimes unit, saidthe four men and awoman had beenfound in a car, with noidentification papersand speaking onlyPersian.
The Iranians, who were
travelling to Baghdad,said they had relatives atCamp Ashraf, a basenear Khalis for the Ira-nian opposition groupMujaheddin-e Khalq,which the U.S. govern-
ment has labelled a ter-rorist organization.
In Diyala province,which borders Iran,I raq i po l i ce an-nounced that five Ira-nians had been seizedin the town of Khalis.
Maj. Mohammed Zayi-
dan, director of the lo-cal police force's ma-
France 24 Television,November 04, 2007
The internationalFrench Television sta-tion FRANCE 24 broad-casted today a pro-gram about MojahedinKhalq Organisation(Rajavi Cult), exposingtheir true nature.Who are MojahedinKhalq (Rajavi Cult)(Video file, French)http://iran-interlink.org/userfiles
newspaper.
Al-Ameri referred to theMKO's active role in sup-pressing the Iraqi nationunder the Ba'ath regime,and said the group mustnot be allowed to remainon Iraq's soil.
He added that they wereasked to leave the coun-try at the beginning ofthe year because ofmeddling in Iraq's inter-nal affairs.
Sun, 18 Nov 2007
The head of the Iraqiparliament's Securityand Defence Commit-tee says the MKO is a
terrorist group thatmust be expelled fromIraq.
"The Mojahedin KhalqOrganization is a terror-ist group that must beexpelled from Iraq," saidHadi al-Ameri in an in-terview with an Iraqi
Iraqi police arrests 4 Men and a woman members of Terrorist MKOin Diyala province
Mojahedin Khalq Organ isation (Rajavi Cult) exposed on French TVWho are Mojahedin Khalq?
Iraqi MP: MKO must be expelled
Al-Ameri commented onthe presence of otherarmed groups such asthe PKK in the countryand said Iraq is against
the presence of any for-eign armed group thatposes a threat toneighbouring countries.
He added that Baghdadwould try to expel thePKK from northern Iraqby any means possible.
/Media/movie/FRANCE-24-%20081107.wmv
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Woman brainwashed into
staying at guerrilla camp,
lawyer says
Bid to overturn refugee
board decision
Stewart Bell
National Post, Canada
Friday, November 09, 2007
TORONTO - A lawyer ac-
cused a Middle Eastern guer-
rilla group yesterday of lur-
ing a teenaged Toronto girl
to a paramilitary camp in
Iraq and brainwashing her
into staying.
Pamila Bhardwaj told a Fed-
eral Court judge thatSomayeh Mohammady had
effectively been kidnapped
by the Mujahedin-e Khalq,
or MEK, a rebel group based
in Iraq.
The lawyer made the accusa-
tion at a court hearing that
could ultimately decide
whether Ms. Mohammady
will be allowed to return to
Canada after a decade with
the guerrillas.
The MEK, a designated ter-
rorist organization under Ca-
nadian law, says it aims to
use "physical force, armed
struggle or jihad" to over-
throw Iran's repressive gov-
ernment, according to Ot-
tawa.
In the 1990s, the MEK was
recruiting within Canada's
Iranian community and Ms.
Mohammady, a refugee fromIran, volunteered with the
blessing of her parents, both
MEK activists.
In 1997, at the age of 17, she
travelled to Camp Ashraf,
the MEK guerrilla base northof Baghdad from which it
launched its attacks on Iran.
She has been there ever
since.
While she was away, the rest
of the family became Cana-
dian citizens. But Ms.Mohammady's landed immi-
grant status expired because
she was not residing in Can-
ada as required by law.
The MEK base was disarmed
after the U.S. military in-
vaded Iraq in 2003, but hun-
dreds of guerrillas remain at
the camp, including Ms.
Mohammady.
Mustafa Mohammady, her
father, has made several trips
to Iraq hoping to bring her
back to Canada, but Cana-
dian officials will not let herreturn because she no longer
has immigration status here.
The family challenged that
decision at the Immigration
and Refugee Board last year
but Ms. Mohammady torpe-
doed her own case when shetestified by phone from Iraq
that she did not want to re-
turn to Canada. "I would like
Woman brainwashed into staying at guerrilla camp
to be here," she said,
"because I'm Mujahedin my-
self and I want to be here."
Her family believes she has
been brainwashed or is afraid
to speak her mind, and Ms.
Bhardwaj said human rights
groups have reported that
"defectors" who try to leavethe camp are routinely
beaten and detained. "She's
under mind control of the
MEK," Mr. Bhardwaj said.
Ms. Bhardwaj told the court
yesterday the refugee board's
ruling should be overturned because it did not take that
into account, nor did it con-
sider that Ms. Mohammady
was a minor when she wasrecruited into the MEK.
"This decision simply cannot
stand," she said.
But Martin Anderson, the
lawyer representing the gov-
ernment in the case, said
there was insufficient evi-
dence Ms. Mohammady had
been subjected to psycho-
logical pressure. "That may
be, but there's not enoughevidence before the panel to
establish that."
He also said that even
though she was a minor
when she first left Canada
for the paramilitary camp,
she had turned 18 in 1998.
"After that time, she's an
adult," Mr. Anderson said.
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Press TV, reportingfrom SvD daily, Swe-
den,
November 15, 2007
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=31188§ionid=351020101
Two Swedish lawmakershave been criticized aftertheir recent participationin a panel organized by
an anti-Iranian terroristgroup.The Members of Parlia-ment Anne Ludvigssonand Bjorn Leivik at-tended a panel debateentitled Human Rights inIran aimed at removingthe terrorist group Muja-
hedin-e Khalq (MKO)from the EU's terror list.
"The meeting was re-portedly organized bythe Organization of theUnited Associations for aFree I ran (FFFI)[affiliated to the MKO],"the Swedish SvD dailywrote.
It is inappropriate forBjorn Leivik and AnneLudvigsson to have par-ticipated in a panel de-bate arranged by an or-ganization known to beterrorist, cult-like andbrutal, said Majed Sa-faee, an Iranian blogger
campaign to break up. . . . .
The US military was ap-parently operating onthe basis of informationfrom the Iranian armed
opposition group Muja-hideen-e-Khalq (MEK)that was badly out ofdate. The political arm ofthe MEK, the NationalCouncil or Resistance ofIran, which had beenproviding information toUS intelligence on theIranian nuclear programand on Iranian officialsoperating in Iraq, pub-
By Gareth Porter
Asia Times
November 20, 2007
WASHINGTON - TheGeorge W Bush administra-tion's campaign to seizeand detain Iranian Revolu-tionary Guards Corps(IRGC) officials in Iraq, pre-sented by Bush himself inJanuary as a move to break
up an alleged Iranian armssmuggling operation inIraq, appears to have runits course without havingbeen able to link a singleIranian to any such opera-tion.
Despite administrationrhetoric suggesting that theUS military had solid intelli-gence on which to base a
Swedish MPs slammed over terrorist Mojahedin Khalq meeting
US tripped up over I ranian captives
lished a detailed articleon Farhadi on Septem-ber 25 which claimedthat he was the com-mander of the QudsForce Zafar Base andsaid nothing about hisworking for Kermanshahon cross-border trade.
But an article in an I raqiKurdish-language dailyon September 24 re-
ported that an "informedsource" belonging to anunnamed "Iranian oppo-sition group" - obviouslythe MEK - had used thepast tense in regard toFarhadi's role as a QudsForce commander anda c k n o w l e d g e d t h a tFarhadi was now work-ing in a commercialdelegation.
residing in Sweden.He also underlined that
Human Rights Watch hasdescribed how the grouphad harassed ex-members and used tor-ture at their camps inIraq under Saddam'srule.The MKO has committedterrorist acts against theIranian nation and col-laborated with Saddam'sregime in its bloody
crackdown on IraqiKurds and Shiites.Iraqi officials have longtried to bring the group'sleader Masoud Rajavi to justice over his role inthe massacre of Iraqipeople.
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Novopress info,
November 22, 2007
http://be.novopress.info/?p=3367
At the end of Octobera symposium was heldin the French NationalAssembly, attended bya few second rate per-sons from the world ofFrance and politicswhich brought nothingnew to confront the
Iranian threat.
More interesting is theguest of honour: Ray-mond Tanter.
Interesting first in hiscapacity as a professorat Georgetown Univer-sity in the USA and as
a former member ofthe National SecurityCouncil at the WhiteHouse. But also be-cause it is a strikingexample of an ambigu-ous relationship be-tween a part of Ameri-can political circles andce r ta i n t e r ro r i s t
groups.
Indeed, Tanter cur-rently chairs the IranPolicy Committee (IPC)which performs lobby-ing for the Mojahedin-e Khalq (aka PMOI,MEK, MKO, NCRI,etc.), recognized as aterrorist organizationby both the European
Union and the USA.
But what is interestingis how Tanter has beenunder the control ofthe Mojahedin. At one
point his wife, Con-stance Anderson-Tanter, accused thePeople's Mujahideen ofbeing responsible forthe separation of thecouple.
In several testimoniesshe clearly accuses the
When Raymond Tanter divorces his w ife to please a cult
spokesman of the Mo- jahedin in the USA,Alireza Jafarzadeh, offirst becoming a friend,then the confidant andfinally mentor to herhusband. At that pointhe convinced Tanter toleave his wife.
This kind of mentalmanipulation is usual
in the Mojahedin and isthe methodology of atypical type of sectar-ian group (cult) thathas been frequentlydescribed.
Although curious thishas been the fate ofRaymond Tanter. A USacademic who has be-
come faithful to a ter-rorist cult
It is, in this case, inap-propriate for him topretend to be an inde-pendent expert
Novopress World-wide
Quand un membrede ladministrationUS vire sa femmepour faire plaisir une secte
Thursday 8 November2007
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British parliamentarydelegation visits Nejat
(Rescue) Society in Te-hran
A parliamentary delegation
from Britain who is visiting
Iran, met with the members
and associates of Nejat
(Rescue) Society in their of-
fice in Tehran on Wednesday
14th November 2007.
The delegation headed by Mr
Mike Gapes, the chairman of
the foreign affairs committee
of the House of Commons,
consisted of the members of
that committee including Mr
Richard Younger-Ross, Mr
Ken Purchase, Ms Gisela
Stuart, Sir John Stanley, Mr
John Horam, Mr Fabian
Hamilton and other MPs.
Mr Ebrahim Khodabandeh,
an associate of the Nejat So-
ciety opened the meeting and
welcomed the guests and in-
troduced the officials of thesociety including Mr Babak
Amin the general secretary,
Mr Arash Sametipour the
international relations secre-tary and Ms Hura Shalchi the
public relations secretary.
Mr Amin described the goals
and purposes of Nejat soci-
ety and explained that the
NGO is formed by former
members of Mojahedin-e
British parliamentary delegation visits Nejat Society in Tehran
Khalq Organisation (MKO)
who have freed themselves
from both mental and physi-cal boundaries of the organi-
sation. He clarified that the
MKO lead by Massoud Ra-javi is a terrorist and destruc-
tive cult which primarily
threatens the life of its own
members. He emphasised
that the members of the soci-
ety are aiming to rescue their
former colleagues from the
confines of Rajavi cult.
Mr Sametipur discussed the
international activities of the
society and the trips they had
to European countries. Hementioned that last year they
had a press conference in
Paris to draw the attention of
the world's public opinion to
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what is going on in Ashraf
Camp which is the base of
Rajavi's cult in Iraq guarded by American forces. He
urged the parliamentarians to
make every effort in theircapacity to ensure a visit be-
tween the families and their
beloved ones in Ashraf
Camp.
Ms Shalchi described the
society's constant contact
with the families of the pre-sent members stationed in
Iraq. She talked about the
desire of the families to see
their relatives and beloved
ones captured in the hands of
the MKO.
Other members and associ-
ates of the society who spoke
about their experiences with
the MKO were Mr Ali Nemati who had come back
home to his family from Iraq
only three weeks ago, Mr
Reza Sadeqi, Mr Jamil Bas-
sam, Mr Kambiz Baqer-
zadeh, Mr Asghar Farzin,
and Ms Ronak Dashti.
Some British MPs from the
foreign affairs committee of
the House of Commons who
had previously learned aboutthe case of Khodabandeh &
Bassam were amazed to see
them safe and sound sittingopposite to them. They
wanted to learn more about
their present situation and
expressed their eagerness to
see them in Britain soon.
Mr Gapes the chairman of
the foreign affairs committeeof the House of Commons
and the leader of the delega-
British parliamentary delegation visits Nejat Society in Tehran
tion thanked everyone for the
information provided to the
MPs who are dealing withthe foreign affairs in the
British Parliament and prom-
ised to do whatever possibleto ensure a visit between the
families and their relatives in
Iraq through every possible
channel.
In the end some documenta-
tions about the MKO was
submitted to the MPs and photos were taken for the
society's memorial album.
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A report by
Iran-Interlink,
November 22, 2007
Members of Parliament inBritain got to hear whattraditional Republican Partymembers really think aboutthe US Administration'sneoconservative approachtoward Iran yesterday.
Professor Paul SheldonFoote on a short visit from
the USA was invited byConservative members ofparliament to present abriefing talk about US for-eign policy toward Iran.
Paul SheldonFoote is aProfessor atthe CaliforniaState Univer-sity and ano u t s p o k e n
critic of USneoconserva-tives andAmerican po-litical leaderswho support war on Iran.Professor Foote served asan elected member of theRepublican Party CentralCommittee, Los AngelesCounty (1990 to 1992) andas a conservative Republi-
can candidate for the Cali-fornia State Assembly en-
dorsed by the CaliforniaRepublican Assembly(1992). He is also a Viet-nam veteran. ProfessorFoote is married to an Ira-nian-American and hasconducted extensive re-search on Iran's politicaland cultural issues.
Professor Foote was wel-comed in London by someindividual members of par-
liament,research-ers andmediarepresen-tatives.
On Thurs-day, No-vember22, 2007
(Thanksgiving Day in Amer-ica), at the invitation of the
Conservative Middle EastC o u n c i l ( C M E C )http://www.cmec.org.uk,Professor Foote addresseda group of MPs in a Q & Ameeting in parliament with
the title 'USDivision ofForeign PolicyTowards Iran'.
The talk high-lighted the
false position-ing of neocon-servatives asrepresentingthe far right.
Instead, Professor Footeidentified their agenda asbeing in-line with commu-nist totalitarian ideology.From this position, neocon-servatives promote the ex-iled Iranian Mojahedin-e
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote visit to the British Parliament
Khalq organization (akaMKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi
cult) in the pursuit of'regime change'. As well asbeing a totalitarian cultwhich acted as SaddamHussein's private army fortwo decades, the MEK islisted as a terrorist group inthe EU and USA.
In this way, Professor Footeexplained, the neoconser-vatives have hijacked thetraditional right wing inAmerica. According to Pro-
f e s s o rFoote, op-p o s i t i o ntoward theA d m i n i -stration'sf o r e i g np o l i c ydoes notcome ex-c lus ive lyfrom the
American left and the De-
mocratic Party. America'straditional right is also out-spoken in criticism of theneoconservatives. Amongthese are CongressmanRon Paul and Patrick J. Bu-chanan author of 'Wherethe Right went Wrong'.
"Real American conserva-tives support setting an ex-ample of how to have agreat republic at home, nothow to invade other coun-
tries to steal resources"said Professor Foote.
Others include Justin Rai-mondo, Claes Ryn, LewRockwell and Bruce Laingen- a Republican and highestranking diplomatic hostagein Iran, who has supportedtalks and diplomatic rela-tions with Iran.
Professor Foote and Mas-
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soud Khodabandeh from"Centre de Recherche sur le
Terrorism (Paris)" met withmembers of the Home Af-fairs Select Committee andForeign Affairs Select Com-mittee inthe Houseof Parlia-ment dur-ing whichthey high-lighted thed a m a g ewhich the
British par-l i ament ' sreputationhas received worldwide byignoring the infiltration intoparliament of proscribedterrorist organization Moja-hedin Khalq (aka Rajavi
cult). The banned group'sabuse of democratic institu-
tions, including the misuseof privileges given histori-cally to some unelectedmembers appears to have
gone un-challenged.Mr. Khoda-b a n d e hpresenteddocumentsclearly il-lustrat ingthe gravity
of this is-sue andthe impact
it has already had on thereputation of Parliament.
Professor Foote participatedin a one hour round-table
Professor Paul Sheldon Foote visit to the British Parliament(cont)
review on the significantissues in the Middle East
during 2007 which will bebroadcast for Press TV's'Middle East Today' pro-gram on 26 December2007.
He also gave his expertview on the subject of theUS Administration and pos-sible ways of engaging inthe problems posed by theMiddle East, which will bepublished in next month's
edition of CFSOT (Centrefor the Study of Terrorism London) , the "IslamismDigest".
During his trip ProfessorFoote also met with AnneSingleton of Iran-Interlink.
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IRNA, November 21,2007
http://www1.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0711215855145947. h tm
British Ambassador to Te-hran, Geoffrey Adams,along with members andthe Chairman of the For-eign Affairs Committee ofthe House of Commonshave met and talked with
several families of victimsof terrorism at Edalat(justice) Society in order tobecome familiar with ter-rorist nature and deeds ofMojahedin-e Khalq Organi-sation (MKO).
The British parliamentari-ans visited Iran recently onthe invitation of the Iranianparliament (Majlis).
Ms Sepehri, a member ofthe society whose father (a
45-year-old tailor) wasmartyred by the MKO's ter-ror teams in 1984, whilereferring to the memoirsfrom his father, said thatthe MKO has assassinatedover 12000 individuals inIran besides cooperatingwith Saddam Hussein inkillings of many Kurds andShiite Moslems in Iraq.
Mr Mike Gapes, the Chair-man of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House ofCommons who was presentin the meeting said, "MKOare quite known to us; wed o k n o w t h e mthrough Amnesty Interna-tional and the HumanRights Commission of theUnited Nations."
Then Ms Sobhani whosefather (a 46-year-old shop-
keeper) was martyred bythe MKO's terror teams in
1982 said: "Utilizing terroris not a tactic or a strategyfor the MKO. It is part oftheir ideology and that iswhy they could never givein using violence; and thisis an important and crucialpoint for those foreign sup-porters of the MKO who areaiming to use them as atool.
"The leaders of this organi-sation are
not trust-w o r t h yeven fort h e i rfriends."
The visit ofthe UKparliamen-tarians toT e h r a nand theirm e e t i n gwith the society of the
families of victims of terror-ism took place while theMKO is claiming that theyare enjoying the support ofUK peers.
The MKO is currently in thelist of designated terroristgroups in the UK, and theFCO has warned the states-men not to have any con-tact with the members ofthis organisation.
During the one-hour meet-
ing, Ms Sepehri addressedthe members of the delega-tion and said, "Those whohave sold their nation andtheir country to the alienscould never claim to be theadvocate of the interests ofthe other nations and coun-tries. This is a historic les-son that tells us one shouldavoid those opportunist
UK parliamentary delegation's visit to Edalat (Justice) Society(Victims of Mojahedin-e Khalq terrorism)
groups who are terroristsand easily change color and
tell lies."The chairman of the UKdelegation, Mike Gapes,said after receiving somedocuments indicating theviolation of human rightsand terror by the MKO,"This documentation andother reports published bythe international bodiesabout the MKO show thatthere is no doubt about
their vio-
lent back-grounds.We arevictims ofterrorismtoo andthe Britishp e o p l eare alsosevere lysufferingfrom thisphenome-
non." Some documentationabout the terrorist activitiesof the MKO was handedover by the Edalat Societyto the UK delegation.
Finally, the Chairman of theForeign Affairs Committeeof the House of Commonsemphasised, "We have is-sued a joint statement be-tween the governments ofFrance, Germany, and theUK with the Islamic Repub-
lic of Iran in Paris. In thisstatement we reached anagreement that one articleof it indicates that threeEuropean countries andIran are decisively willingto tackle against terrorismand they are determined todo so. These groups includeAl-Qaeda and other terror-ist groups such as theMKO."
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Farah Karimi / talking toSoheila Vahdati
Farah Karimi made a trip to
the US in Aug 2007. In her
short visit to the Northern
California, I found an oppor-
tunity to sit and talk with her
and raise some questions
regarding her private life,
immigrating from Iran, the
experience of being a deputy
in Dutch Parliament, and
her other international ac-tivities. Following is the out-
come of our talks. While
thanking Farah Karimi and
wishing her every success, I
present you the text of her
sayings.
The chronicle of my life and
struggle in Iran and in the
Netherlands has been pub-
lished in a book called "themystery of fire" which has
been translated into Spanish,
but it has not been translated
into Persian or English. I
have written some details
about my life in this book.
For instance, I have de-
scribed about my political
activities in length and even
about how individuals are
recruited into radical politi-
cal movements. Here I point
out some of the incidentsbriefly.
I was born in November
1960 in the village of Has-
san-Abad of Garus in the
province of Kurdistan. When
I reached the age to startschool we immigrated to Te-
hran and so I was raised in
Tehran.
In October 1979, I entered
the Technical University ofEsfahan, but like most peo-
ple of my age on those days I
got involved in revolutionary
activities. Some time later,
while the "cultural revolu-
tion" began (in the universi-
ties), I returned to Tehran.
Political activitiesAfter the revolution of 1979,
I was first working with theShariati Centre. In 1981 I
was arrested and after aweek on the verge of 20th of
June incident I was realised.
After the 20th of June
( d e m o n s t r a t i o n s a n d
clashes), the suppression and
executions escalated.
Amongst the first group of
people being executed after
the 20th of June there was a
leftist fellow from our uni-versity who was arrested
some time before that and
then executed. These inci-
dents motivated me to be-
come more radical and join
the Mojahedin-e Khalq Or-
ganisation (MKO). I married
a supporter of the MKO in
January 1982. My husband
"Iran for me is the foreign policy"
and I formed a team house,
but I did not have any mili-
tary activities since I had be-gun supporting the MKO
recently.
Life in KurdistanWith the number of arrests
and executions arising, we
had to leave Tehran. Many
of my friends were executed
at that time. After leaving
Tehran, we moved to Kurdi-
stan, and we lived there forfive months including the
winter time. I was then preg-
nant and my boy was born in
one of the villages of Kurdi-
stan. Afterwards we moved
into Iraq through the Sar-
dasht boarder and we stayed
there for 24 hours and thenwe moved to Istanbul and
lived there in a very harsh
condition. I personally had
problems with the MKO whowere badly treating their own
members and using them in
espionage activities against
the people inside the organi-
sation and also using them as
a tool. They tried to destroy
the relationship between the
couples. I was then a young
woman and I was passing
my pregnancy period and
surely my relationship withmy husband had some ef-
fects on me. I had many
criticisms against the organi-
sation and they thought I did
not have enough motivations
for the struggle.
Fleeing from IranThe MKO members helped
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could see that the
organisation, whichI would call it a
"monster" would
take everything ever
a person's child. I
could not see my
son inside the or-
ganisation and it
looked if though hewas a property be-
longing to the or-
ganisation and did
not have anything todo with me. These
harsh Stalinist ways
of personality terror-
ism which were very
hard became impos-
sible to be tolerated.
From the year 1986,
I moved back to
Germany. My hus-
band who loved me
very much moved
back to me to Ger-
many. But the or-
ganisation imposed
pressure on him so
he was made to go
to Iraq and stayed
there for one year
while swinging rig-
orously between the
organisation and hisfamily i.e. my son
and me. But nothingwas left between us
so we were likestrangers to each
other, therefore we
eventually got sepa-
rated.
us to move out of
the country. Butthey left us alone in
Turkey and there-
fore we had a very
hard time there. We
managed to go to
Germany from there
with many difficul-
ties. We weregranted political
asylum in Germany
and once again we
had house and facili-ties. The MKO
found us again and
once more we were
recruited in and our
house became a cen-
tre for the MKO's
activities. Others
kept going to the
MKO's headquarters
in Paris and we be-
came active too. Af-
ter the marriage ofMassoud Rajavi
with Maryam Azo-
danlou, or as it is
c a l l e d t h e
"ideological revolu-
tion" we moved toFrance and lived
there for one year.
After that I could
not tolerate the ruin-ing system of crash-
ing human beings
personalities and it
was ever so disturb-
ing to me. On one
hand I had motive to
work due to the
situation in Iran, and
on the other hand I
Immigration to
the NetherlandIn 1989, I got mar-ried to my present
husband and after
some time I immi-
grated to the Nether-
lands with my fam-
ily and I started a
new life there.
When I started my
life in the Nether-
lands I was totally
disappointed withthe political affairs
inside Iran. The in-
ternal situation ofIran looked gloomy.
My sister was killed
in 1988 in the
MKO's attack into
Iran in an operation
called the "eternal
light". I had seen
MKO closely and I
knew that this or-
ganisation cannot be
a political alterna-
tive. Both the Ira-
nian regime and the
MKO were acting so
inhuman that I did
not want to do any-
thing to do with
Iran.
(The rest of the arti-cle is about the ac-
tivities and experi-
ences of Ms Karimi
in the social and po-
litical scene of the
Netherlands)
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