The message is clear: the government is corrupt and illegitimate, but the opposition is even worse. This narrative has served to justify an already willing West’s willingness to maintain the status quo and pursue engagement with Tehran at the expense of the Iranian people. It has offered regime incentive after incentive in an attempt to persuade it to change its behavior.

The People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is the organization, which is the main constituent of the coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The regime’s brutality, terrorism, and propaganda have primarily targeted it.

 

 

When the NCRI organizes a conference or a political gathering to criticize the regime on human rights violations, nuclear advances, or regional adventurism, the aforementioned coalition of MEK opponents becomes vocal and warns Western media and politicians that “this group has no domestic support.” The MEK/NCRI are therefore not deserving of international support, the argument goes.

One wonders how the MEK has survived financially and logistically for four decades with “no domestic support.” There are a few undeniable facts that may help address the problem:

Since 1979, the regime has killed more than 120,000 MEK members and supporters, according to the MEK. Human rights organizations and even opponents of the MEK have repeatedly stated that the MEK has suffered the most as a result of the regime’s brutal crackdown.

 

 

The MEK has been Iran’s largest political opposition since 1965. By far the most enduring and largest coalition of Iranian groups and individuals is the NCRI. It was founded in Tehran in 1981 as a viable alternative to the clerical regime. Since 1982, the MEK has been capable of mobilizing tens of thousands of supporters in exile, and it continues to be capable of organizing the largest conferences, rallies, and meetings in exile.

Inside Iran, the MEK and NCRI have revealed a staggering amount of information about the regime’s nuclear and biochemical weapons programs, ballistic missile arsenal, Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC Quds Force, Ministry of Intelligence, the regime’s global terrorist network, and human rights violations, among other things. No other entity even comes close.

 

 

Gauging one’s popularity is unrealistic and unscientific in the absence of even the smallest amount of freedom and free elections under a brutal dictatorship like Ali Khamenei’s reign. Even polls in Western democracies have flaws, let alone political polls conducted within the Iranian dictatorship. How can anyone expect an objective assessment of the popularity of a banned organization like the MEK? The regime regards it as an existential threat. Thousands have been executed for refusing to reject the MEK.

 

 

 

 

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The seven-week-long nationwide Iranian uprising culminated with chants of “Death to the dictator” and “Death to [Ali] Khamenei,” referring to the regime’s supreme leader, echoing throughout the country and forcing the clerical regime to resort to pitiful moves to justify its rule. On Friday, October 28, the regime made a ridiculous gesture by rallying supporters in a dozen Iranian cities in an attempt to intimidate protesters. Instead, Iranians continued their protests on Friday, and unlike the state-organized rallies, many people from all over the country took part in popular demonstrations.

 

Iran’s nuclear program is “galloping ahead,” according to International atomic energy agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi, who spoke to Spain’s El Pais newspaper on July 22. Analysts have described these remarks as a serious warning about Tehran becoming a nuclear threshold state in the near future. On July 25, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “The Iran Nuclear Deal’s Convulsive Death.”

 

Theocratic Iran updated its list of American officials who have backed the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the country’s main opposition group, in an absolutely absurd move.

 

On Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in continuation of the anti-repression campaign, supporters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) and the Resistance Units in Tehran and various cities including Ahvaz, Shiraz, Tabriz, Gorgan, Rasht, Mashhad, Isfahan, Sabzevar, Qom, Falavarjan, Shahriyar, Meshkinshahr, Minab, Bandar Abbas, Islamabad, Shahr Rey, Chabahar, Ramshir, Ramhormoz, and Jahrom posted banners and placards and wrote graffiti, encouraging the public to rise up to overthrow the clerical regime and to liberate Iran from the clutches of the mullahs, and expressed their solidarity with the people of Abadan by sending audio, video and photo messages.

 

 

.Khosrow, who is assisting in the organization of anti-regime demonstrations, stated that the Iranian people have always relied on themselves to build a free Iran and do not expect anyone else to do so for them.”However, as a representative of the Resistance Units, we want the United States and the international community to end their appeasement policy toward the regime and impose sanctions on this octopus, which has so many hands and causes so much death and destruction,” he said.

Farmers have gained support across Iran as their demonstrations for water rights have persisted. Resistance Units, a network of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), took part in events in support of the Isfahan demonstrators and in criticism of the regime’s violent suppression of their rightful demands.

 

On October 21, the District Court in Stockholm convened for the thirty-second session of the trial of Hamid Noury, an Iranian prison officer accused of torturing inmates in the Gohardasht prison (Karaj) and participating in the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.

 

With the reopening of schools in Iran, the Resistance Units and supporters of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran), called on students to rise up for freedom and democracy in Iran and to liberate the country from the clerical dictatorship by posting banners and placards and writing graffiti.

 

Three progressive Muslim intellectuals and university graduates, Mohammad Hanifnejad (commonly referred to as Hanif), Saeid Mohsen, and Ali-Asghar Badizadegan, created the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI / MEK Iran).