From Ghezel Hesar, veteran prisoner Ali Moezzi marks the PMOI/MEK’s 61st anniversary (founded September 1965), calling it a “mighty tree” of “unity, emancipation, and freedom” that repression has not killed. He traces Shah-era guerrillas, 1980s resistance, the NCRI, the National Liberation Army at Ashraf, women in leadership, and today’s Resistance Units.

The article lists his prison record as the price of that loyalty: 1981–84 torture; arrests in 2008, 2011, 2015, 2022; 75 months from Judge Salavati in August 2023; a forced 2025 move to Ghezel Hesar while ill; solitary after the 29 March 2026 Unit 4 raid that preceded executions of PMOI prisoners including Vahid Bani-Amerian, Abolhassan Montazer, Babak Alipour, and Pouya Ghobadi. His brother Mohammad was executed in 1981.

The political ask: “Do not let others write our destiny.” Organized resistance needs the masses and the angry, hungry public needs that organization; join what he calls the independent democratic alternative. Slogan: “Death to the oppressor, whether the Shah or the Supreme Leader.” Similar anniversary notes are said to have come from other prisoners in Evin, Yazd, Vakilabad, and Karaj.

Veteran political prisoner Ali Moezzi has marked the 61st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) with a message from Ghezel Hesar Prison declaring that decades of repression have failed to halt the organization’s growth or extinguish resistance inside Iran.

Moezzi’s confrontation with the regime stretches back more than four decades. He was imprisoned from 1981 to 1984 in Ghezel Hesar, Evin, and Gohardasht and suffered physical and psychological torture whose effects persisted long afterward. He has subsequently been repeatedly arrested over his support for the PMOI.

Most recently, in March 2026, Moezzi was among political prisoners forced into solitary confinement during the violent Ghezel Hesar raid that immediately preceded a succession of executions of six imprisoned PMOI members.

Yet his anniversary message focuses not on his own suffering but on what he describes as the PMOI’s “61 years of evolutionary life,” built around enduring principles of “unity, emancipation, and freedom” and opposition to dictatorship and dependence.

From a sapling to a “mighty tree”

Moezzi describes the organization founded in September 1965 as a sapling that survived successive “bloody tsunamis” and was watered by the blood of Iran’s “best children.”

After 61 years, he writes, it has become “a mighty tree and a........

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