I Didnt Speak Or Have Sex With My Wife For 37 Years – Iranian Opposition Fighter

An Iranian opposition fighter has told his story on what he went through as a member of Iran army who has been away from home to one of Iran’s main opposition groups, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK in albania.

For six years, Albania has been home to one of Iran’s main opposition groups, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK. However, a lot of its have walked out.

Some of the members complained about the organisation’s rigid rules enforcing celibacy, and control over contact with the family. Now, dozens languish in the Albanian capital, Tirana, unable to return to Iran or get on with their lives.

“I didn’t speak to my wife and son for over 37 years – they thought I’d died. But I told them, ‘No, I’m alive, I’m living in Albania…’ They cried.”

Gholam Mirzai, admitted that the  first contact by phone with his family after so many years was difficult.

He is 60 and absconded two years ago from the MEK’s military-style encampment outside Tirana.

Now he scrapes by in the city, full of regrets and accused by his former Mujahideen comrades of spying for their sworn enemy, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.