Report on the 28th Session of the Court Investigating the Charges of the MEK

 

 

Maddah, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, told the court that the leaders of the MEK prioritized advancing their own goals and did not care about the lives of the people. Quoting from Mehran Asdaqi, the arrested member of an MEK team house, he said, “When we entered the new team house, we saw that they had made lead objects for us and taught us to hit people on the back of the head with these objects to quickly knock them unconscious; they had equipped the bathroom in the house and the bathroom was insulated so that if we wanted to torture them in it, the sound would not escape, and they had already sent teams to dig graves so that we could quickly bury the bodies.”

Mahmoud Asemanpanah, a former member of the MEK who appeared as a witness in court, explained his 17-year involvement in the terrorist group MEK.

He said that in 1988, after being deceived by the MEK terrorist group’s propaganda, he went to Ashraf through a difficult path.

Asemanpanah’s account of his journey to join the MEK, his life in the group, and his efforts to leave and return home to his family is interesting, but even more interesting is the concern of this defected member for his friends who are still members of the group.

He said that he is doing everything he can to discredit the MEK and encourage his remaining friends in Ashraf to return to the country.

Telling the story of his carefree return to the country, Asemanpanah said: “I am now working as a painter; I have my own family and life, and I want to inform those who remain in Ashraf that everything the group says about the consequences of returning to Iran is a lie.”

Ardeshir Darvishi, another defected member of the MEK, was also present at the 28th court session.

Darvishi said: “When I joined the group, I touched and felt some realities and realized that what the organization had told the world about itself was completely different from what I was observing; the group ruined our understanding, intelligence, or humanity; it took away our emotions.”

Darvishi spoke of the suffering and psychological pressure that had plagued him since 2004, when he separated from the MEK terrorist group.

This defected MEK member said: “When I escaped from the group, the mobile phone that is available to everyone was unknown to me; I was deprived of having a phone or even a radio; in Camp Ashraf, which was built with the help of Saddam and the Western world, they had cut off our connection with the outside world.

Then, the lawyer mentioned the two major crimes of the terrorist group, the MEK, in the 1980s, namely the bombing of the Prime Minister’s office and the Republican Party. Jafar Khoramdal, the committee’s operations officer and a member of the Central Committee, also took the stand to explain.

While providing details about the incidents, he made some points regarding the torture committed by MEK members, saying: “I was given the responsibility of identifying the people who had been tortured by the MEK agents; the condition of some of the victims was so bad that no one was willing to accept this responsibility.”

Ahmad Karimpour, head of the country’s bomb check and neutralization unit, also attended the stand and provided specialized explanations about the explosion of the Republic party building.

He pointed out an important point and said: The bomb used had a complex system and the four countries, England, Germany, America, and France, had the ability to manufacture that bomb, but we were unable to determine which country the bomb was manufactured in.

In response to Judge Dehghani’s question about the possibility of purchasing this bomb on the black market, Karimpour stated: “The type of bomb was not such that it could be purchased on the market.”

During the twenty-eight sessions of the court investigating the crimes of the MEK, numerous related books and films were introduced; although the films introduced were all about the crimes of the MEK, the books introduced covered a wider range of topics, from MEK approaches to legal debates.

It was around 1:00 p.m. when Judge Dehghani announced the end of the twenty-eighth court session and said the next court session would be held on February 18.