Nejat Association: The Intelligence Ministry’s Arm Behind the Mask of Families — انجمن نجات؛ بازوی وزارت اطلاعات زیر نقاب خانوادهها
Nejat Association: The Intelligence Ministry’s Arm Behind the Mask of Families — انجمن نجات؛ بازوی وزارت اطلاعات زیر نقاب خانوادهها
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The so-called Nejat Association is a front organization created by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) in 2001 to wage psychological and propaganda warfare against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Under the false guise of a “family NGO,” it recruits ex-members, collaborators, and security agents to manipulate families and feed the regime’s global disinformation network.
This report exposes its creation, structure, and real mission.
1. Origins of the Nejat Association
After the regime failed militarily and politically to dismantle the MEK’s stronghold in Camp Ashraf, the Ministry of Intelligence sought a new tool of warfare — not with guns, but with lies.
In 2001, it launched a new front organization called the Nejat Association (“Rescue Association”), presented as a “non-governmental” group helping families contact their relatives in the MEK.
In reality, it was designed by MOIS’ Anti-Monafeqin Department (the special branch dedicated to suppressing the MEK) as part of a nationwide psychological operation.
The project was overseen by senior MOIS officers such as Abouzar Eslami, Bateni, and Javadi-Nia, who recruited former prisoners, broken ex-members, and local informants to form the backbone of this “association.”
2. Structure and Expansion
Nejat branches were established in almost every province — Mazandaran, Gilan, Isfahan, Khuzestan, Fars, and East & West Azerbaijan — each directly controlled by the provincial Intelligence Office.
Their task: identify families of MEK members, approach them with pre-written narratives, and use emotional manipulation to turn them into tools of propaganda.
By 2004, the network extended abroad.
Using the label Nejat NGO, the regime registered cover organizations in France, Germany, and Switzerland to participate in so-called human-rights forums and conferences.
In these arenas, regime agents posing as “family representatives” sought to discredit the MEK and legitimize Tehran’s repression.
3. True Purpose and Mission
According to internal MOIS documents, Nejat’s mandate was:
“To create rifts between MEK members and their families, to utilize parental emotions to bring members back, and to provide media material to counter the enemy’s propaganda.”
In essence, the Nejat Association became the regime’s official psychological-warfare arm — manufacturing defectors, producing fake testimonies, and spreading emotional blackmail in the name of family ties.
Through terms like “rescue,” “de-programming,” and “freedom from cults,” the association masked its dark objective: destroying the identity of political resistance.
4. NGO Façade and Media Operations
To gain legal cover, the MOIS registered Nejat as a domestic NGO under the Ministry of Interior.
Its website, NejatNGO.org, operates as a 24-hour propaganda platform against the MEK — filled with forged interviews, fabricated stories of “repentance,” and slanderous content recycled by state-run media.
Internationally, MOIS agents dispatched under Nejat’s banner attend European meetings as “family advocates.”
Many of them are in fact former interrogators from Evin and Gohardasht prisons, now rebranded as “human-rights activists.”
5. Official Admissions
Even regime officials have inadvertently exposed the truth.
In 2004, Hossein-Ali Amiri, then Director-General of Justice in Fars Province, stated:
“Nejat Associations are formed by defectors from the Monafeqin [MEK] and operate under the supervision of the Ministry of Intelligence.”
The same year, Ali Younesi, then Minister of Intelligence, openly boasted:
“We arrest the Monafeqin terrorists alive and turn them into people who defend the Intelligence Ministry.”
These statements are undeniable proof that Nejat is the institutional continuation of the MOIS’ “repentance and defector manufacturing” project — merely wrapped in civilian clothes.
6. Conclusion
The Nejat Association is not a humanitarian or family-oriented organization.
It is an intelligence and propaganda arm of the Iranian regime, built to demonize the democratic opposition and to weaponize family emotions for political warfare.
For more than two decades, it has served as a psychological-war machine — producing disinformation, faking compassion, and silencing truth.
Behind its soft name, Nejat is the Ministry’s iron hand —
the same prisons and interrogations, merely hidden under the mask of love and “rescue.”