Update: September 12, 2016

The four-and-a-half-year-long process of relocating members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) to countries of safety was successfully completed on September 9, 2016 when the last 280 Camp Liberty residents left Iraq for Albania.

NCRI.  “MEK resettlement from Iraq marks another blow for the Iranian regime.”  September 10, 2016.

Displacement is not a “win”, but give the “People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran” its due: it appears to BackChannels as one of very few organizations that have moved from U.S. status as a terrorist organization to de-listing on that score.  In the years tracked here, it has consistently spoken a democratic-egalitarian and peace line, so here it may be considered good that the people involved have found a less contentious and more secure home.

Posted to YouTube December 16, 2014.

Khamenei, Ahmadinejad, and Rouhani do not represent our nation Iran.  The Iranian regime holds the record in the number of executions.  It holds and is a symbol of bankrupt terrorism.  It must be overthrown.  This the verdict of history.  This is what 120,000 martyrs of freedom have called for.  This is the message of our gathering today: religious fascism must be overthrown.

Posted to YouTube June 27, 2014

And even though I want to believe that no Judiciary seeks to execute innocent people, the Iranian system makes the likelihood of unfair trials and arbitrary killings unacceptably high. Iranians are routinely subject to arbitrary detentions, beating and interrogations without the presence of a lawyer, vaguely worded national security laws, and prejudiced institutions that fail to protect them.

http://blog.iranrights.org/no-more-talk-its-time-for-iran-to-act-roya-boroumand/ – 10/16/2014.

HRANA News Agency – After seven months of Saeed Shirzad’s arrest, he is still kept as detainee and under uncertain condition. His attorneys are not permitted to review his case.

https://hra-news.org/en/saeed-shirzad-seven-months-evin-prison-without-trial – 1/13/2015.

An informed source regarding Nahid Gorji’s condition, told HRANA’s reporter, “She used to have contact with her daughter every week, but since three weeks ago she has not been allowed to make a phone call and has had no visit with her family which has made her family and relatives worried.”

https://hra-news.org/en/nahid-gorji-contact-family-since-3-weeks-ago – 1/13/2015.

HRANA News Agency – Atena Dayemi, civil rights and children’s rights activist, is still being kept in solitary confinement after nearly three months.

According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Atena Dayemi who was arrested on October 21, 2014 in her house and transferred to ward 2-A in Evin Prison which is controlled by IRGC, is still being kept in solitary confinement although the interrogation process has been finished.

https://hra-news.org/en/atena-dayemi-still-kept-solitary-confinement – 1/10/2015.

This abominable crime has a special character: the savage assassination of writers and journalists under the name of Islam. For this reason, on behalf of the Iranian people and Resistance, I condemned this crime in strongest possible terms and state as a Muslim woman that the religion of Islam and the conduct of its great Prophet reject such acts of barbarism.

Today, the people of France hold a great gathering of solidarity, which we also participated, and we express our solidarity with them.

“Maryam Rajavi: Terrorist attacks in Paris fundamentally incongruent with Islam that advocates tolerance and coexistence.”  Maryam Rajavi, January 14, 2015.

Eric Shawn: You mentioned the nuclear issue and of course, July 20th is a deadline for the nuclear agreement. Do you think Tehran can be trusted?

Maryam Rajavi: Certainly not. The mu↑llahs are masters of deception, duplicity and charlatanism. For this reason they can in no way be trusted. You know full well that Rouhani, himself, acknowledged during the election campaign that he had deceived the West in order to continue the nuclear activities inside Iran while the West being misled that thee regime has engaged in negotiations in order to halt their nuclear program. Therefore, they cannot be trusted.

“Interview with Maryam Rajavi with Fox New,” July 4, 2014.

Where is the parade?

Am I standing where I am waiting for it?

Or has it already passed, and I am watching the stragglers?

I don’t think I am watching the stragglers, but I have been watching this parade for a while.

Additional Reference

My ears have been seduced, for Rajavi speaks well.  However, the MEK past and perhaps her own present online behavior or encouragement of behavior carries forward a whiff of “KGB-itis” in the malignantly narcissistic signal of faith and investment in control of constituent perception through unsavory manipulations in information space.

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Of course, when on the internet, like-minded people, especially those who strongly support parties or causes, will naturally act in a like-minded way; changing their pictures to similar ones, using similar backgrounds and slogans, etc.

But these accounts are literally identical in almost every respect. Similar pictures, similar slogans, similar lack of any personal touch whatsoever, and all devoted to either retweeting or paraphrasing Mrs Rajavi’s every word.

https://unfetteredfreedom.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/rajavis-cyber-army-the-meks-twitter-legions/ – 12/2/2014.

Throughout the decade, the MEK orchestrated terrorist attacks against the state that killed several Americans working in Iran, including military officers and civilian contractors, according to the U.S. State Department. (By 1978, some 45,000 of the 60,000 foreigners working in Iran were Americans.) The MEK denies any involvement with these incidents, asserting that they were the work of a breakaway Marxist-Leninist faction, known as Peykar, which hijacked the movement after the arrest of Rajavi.

Some analysts support this. “Rajavi, upon release from prison during the revolution, had to rebuild the organization, which had been badly battered by the Peykar experience,” said Patrick Clawson, director of research at the Washington Institute, in a CFR interview.

http://www.cfr.org/iran/mujahadeen-e-khalq-mek/p9158 – 7/28/2014.

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Iran – References to the Serial Murders and Related – From April 22, 2009