دوستان... سوال مرگ مسعود رجوی را یک بار از یکی از طرفداران مجاهدین را در برنامه آقای سربی را پرسیدم ولی ایشان مثل همیشه جواب منفی داد. به این خاطر که روزنامه های « اورنج کانتی» کالیفرنیا به مرگ وی اشاره کرده بودند.
This is not the first time a rumor goes around that Rajavi is dead or detained, wrote Arash Bahmani in Roozonline. Those rumors, Bahmani added, are usually circulated by pro-government media outlets.
According to Bahmani, the most famous rumor was in 2003 when Rajavi was reported dead after his house in Iraq had been bombed during the U.S. invasion of the country.
The last time Rajavi was heard of was in 2003 when he issued a statement on Ashura Day, the commemoration of the death of al-Hussein. Since then, no video or sound clip of him has appeared.
Last year, several media outlets in Iraqi Kurdistan reported that Rajavi was in the intensive care unit for a serious illness and that the hospital in which he stayed was under very tight security.
A Canadian journalist residing in France, where Rajavi fled in 1981, reported that Rajavi held a meeting with the advisor of U.S. president Barrack Obama in a yacht. There have also been reports that Obama has repeatedly refused meeting with Rajavi.
Amid all rumors about Rajavi's fate after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, statements from the People's Mujahedin of Iran reiterated that the organization's leader is alive and hiding in a safe place.