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  • “The West’s ‘democratic alternative’ tortured my sister to madness” 2025-07-30 20:42

    By Sheida Sabzehvari 

    “The West’s ‘democratic alternative’ tortured my sister to madness”

    A look at the life of one of MEK’s countless victims, and the crimes the West is brushing off

    TEHRAN – Masoumeh Chaheh was 24 when she showed up at her family’s door in southern Tehran – bruised, scratched, and dishevelled. She couldn’t form coherent sentences about where she had been the past few years. "We were all shocked. We kept asking her what had happened, but she couldn’t explain anything. She just screamed, cried, and zoned out," said Leila, Masoumeh’s younger sister, one of the first to find her in that state. "We didn’t know what to do. She kept running away, and eventually, we lost contact with her again."  

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