Nejat Newsletter - ISSUE 17

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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

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:


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NEJAT NEWSLETTER PAG E 2

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.

[email protected]


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Press TV, reportingfrom SvD daily, Swe-

den,

November 15, 2007

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=31188&sectionid=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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