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My name is Valiullah Safavi, pseudonym Kamran. I was the Student Sector's military commander of the west zone. Most of my activities during the period after the victory of the Revolution, related to the Students' Sector of the terrorist group of hypocrites.
At first I was appointed the military-security official of the student's northern and north-western zones and then became a member of the Boy Students' Military Security Federation of Tehran.
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‘The hardest thing is to regain your own identity,’ says Massoud Khodabandeh. But former members must also learn how to handle money, how to make even the simplest of decisions, like which shirt to buy. Stepping out of the Mujahedin Khalq is like quitting a heroin habit - it is a complete change of lifestyle. They have lost part of their past, and their comrades are no longer their friends, while new friends are hard to come by
(Judith Neurink)
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Judit Neurink was interviewed about her book "Misleide Martelaren" (Misled Martyrs), which covers the 40-year history of the Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK), Radio Farda reported on 7 November. Neurink told Radio Farda she got interested in the subject about two years earlier, when MEK members immolated themselves after their leader, Maryam Rajavi, was arrested in France.
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The MeK was a minor issue in the overall conflict in Iraq, but it was an important one because the issues that emerged in the course of detaining the MeK were, in many ways, a microcosm of the larger challenges posed by detainee operations in general. Thus, both the missteps and the small successes along the way provide valuable lessons for improving how the United States deals with “special populations” in future operations.
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Before introducing the participants, the majority of whom are among the former members and responsible authorities of the terrorist group of hypocrites (Mujahideen Khalq Organization), I consider it necessary, as a spokesman of those present, to begin with an introduction. In this introduction, we will deal with the subject, programs and methods of operation and the motives and goals…
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For many people the theft of their children was the last straw and led them to leave the organization. Sometimes they spent years relocating their children. Like Habib Khorami, who eventually found his son Bahador in Canada. But after they were reunited, the judge accused Habib of kidnapping his own son. Bahador now lives in Iran with his grandparents to keep him safe from the Mujahedin recruiters, but he longs to live with his father.
(Judith Neurink)
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The conference started with a documentary film showing Massoud Rajavi as he briefed his forces on their mission, along with eye witness accounts of the Mojahedin's offensives against civilian Kurdish populations in the Spring of 1991. The documentary revealed that the Mojahedin, acting as Saddam's private army, played a decisive role in the suppression of the 1991 internal uprisings in Iraq
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The United States had adopted the contentious policy of not applying the Geneva Conventions to foreign terrorists fighting in Iraq, though it did apply them to enemy forces in OIF, and OIF planners had named the MeK an enemy force. To further complicate the issue, the MeK asserted that it had not engaged coalition forces in combat, and many officers responsible for detaining the MeK accepted this claim, even though
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No sooner had the Iranian Islamic Revolution attained victory that the Western and Eastern powers embarked on fresh machinations aimed at inflicting new blows on the Islamic Republic.One of the unfortunate consequences of these concoctions, which brought irreparable damage upon the Revolution, was the birth of numerous political groups in Iran, which birth was initiated by the malignant hand of the criminal Superpowers, acting from behind the scene…
(Foreword )
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These events made me wonder how people reach the point where they believe that giving up their lives will benefit their leader. How did the political organization of God’s fighters of the People become a sect? What happened to the members for them to allow this to happen? Since there has not been much independently published on the group, I spoke to former members, visited their meetings and tried to find out how a political organization changes into a cult.
( Judith Neurink)
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