{"id":220212,"date":"2020-06-10T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T09:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=220212"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:30:27","slug":"iran-regimes-fake-news-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-documents-statements\/iran-regimes-fake-news-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime\u2019s Fake News in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220213\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-220213 size-full\" title=\"Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207.jpg\" alt=\"Iran Regime\u2019s Fake News in Action \" width=\"1200\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207-1024x527.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207-696x358.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207-1068x549.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Iran-Regime\u2019s-Fake-News-in-Action--e1591780465207-817x420.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iran Regime\u2019s Fake News in Action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler\u2019s Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, said: \u201cTell a lie that is big enough and repeat it often enough and the whole world will believe it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian regime has been fully implementing Goebbels\u2019 advice. Some of the lies the Iranian regime has said during the past 41 years, would have certainly never passed Goebbels\u2019 mind. In addition to oppression, tortures, execution, massacres, and export of terrorism, demonization and producing fake news are among the regime\u2019s advances.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian regime, to justify its crimes and pursue its demonization campaign against its main opposition, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, has dedicated a vast part of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to this work. The regime has wasted billions of dollars of the Iranian people\u2019s national wealth on writing, producing, and publishing thousands of books, films, and documents filled with fake news against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a>. These books and movies are based on spreading lies about and demonizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A glance at one of these lies and fabrications, which the MOIS has created and distributed among the state-run news agencies to publish, confirms this truth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/marjan-became-eternal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marjan<\/a>, a renowned and famous Iranian singer, who joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> and continued her activities against the Iranian regime alongside the Iranian Resistance abroad, passed away on Sunday at a hospital in Los Angeles. Her death saddened all the Iranian people, including artists and athletes inside Iran, who shared messages of condolences on their social media account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The mullahs\u2019 regime, infuriated by these actions, reacted in its media and said why some people are mourning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> singer\u2019s death?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When the messages of condolences increased, and even some athletes and artists inside Iran joined this wave, the MOIS conducted a clear lying campaign to force these artists to take a position against the MEK.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Speaking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> is a crime in the mullahs\u2019 regime, yet the MOIS published a fake journal, just like the MEK\u2019s journal, known as \u201cMojahed,\u201d and in this fake journal wrote about Marjan\u2019s death along with pictures of 16 athletes and artists, who are living inside Iran, expressing their condolences over Marjan\u2019s death.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The MOIS then distributed this fake journal among its media, so they claim that the MEK has published pictures of those artists inside Iran in its journal, trying to show these artists are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> supporters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s intention of publishing this fake journal and news is to put pressure on those artists to take a position against the MEK. The regime\u2019s media outlets, while publishing this fake news, threatened those artists who expressed their condolences over Marjan\u2019s death, and wrote: \u201cEveryone knows the MEK is the most infamous terrorist grouplet among the Iranian people, and those supporting them are the same for the people.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In other words, artists and athletes who simply send a message of condolences have been threatened to be considered as \u201cterrorists\u201d.\u00a0 The MOIS has created this fake journal, while the MEK has stopped publishing a paper journal for years, and all its news and positions are online.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The state-run Hamshahri journal\u2019s website is among the regime\u2019s media which published this fake news on June 9. The translation of some parts of Hamshahri\u2019s article is as follows:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220214 alignnone\" title=\"Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-1\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-1-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why are the pictures of Iranian athletes and artists in the MEK\u2019s journal?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mojahed Journal, which echoes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> grouplet\u2019s point of view, in one of its latest issues, has published the names and pictures of 15 Iranian artists and one athlete.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[The article] is about some of the Iranian actors\/actresses\u2019 reactions to the news of an old singer\u2019s death, who had cooperated with and supported the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> terrorist grouplet. Shahla Safi Zamir, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/marjan-became-eternal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marjan<\/a>, had repeatedly supported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi\/14237-maryam-rajavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the leader of this group, and their crimes against the Iranian people by attending the headquarters and gatherings of the MEK. Therefore, it was thought that the news of her death would not be reflected in the virtual pages of Iranian actors and actresses. Everyone knows that the MEK terrorists are the most hated grouplet among the Iranian people, and those who cooperate with them are no exception. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But what happened was the indifference of some celebrities to the dark background of this old singer. After the actors, actresses, and athletes expressed their condolences on the death of the singer on their personal social media pages, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mojahedin<\/a> Journal seized the opportunity to publish a picture of Ali Karimi and 15 other actors and actresses in its June 9, 2020, issue with the headline &#8220;Mourning of Artists in the Death of Lady <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/maryam-rajavi\/14237-maryam-rajavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marjan<\/a>.\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is not the first time that the Iranian regime has committed this dirty act. The regime has repeatedly produced fake Mojahedin journals and distributed them in prisons to put pressure on political prisoners and break their morale. An example of such a fake journal was published on June 18, 2003. In this fake journal, the regime wrote that the leader of the Iranian Resistance and four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> officials were arrested by US forces in Camp Ashraf and transferred to an unknown location to be exchanged with &#8220;al-Qaeda leaders in Iran.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-220215 size-full\" title=\"Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-2-e1591780662386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-2-e1591780662386.jpg\" alt=\"Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-2-e1591780662386\" width=\"524\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-2-e1591780662386.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-2-e1591780662386-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Fake-publicatin-of-the-regime-2-e1591780662386-314x420.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler&rsquo;s Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, said: &ldquo;Tell a lie that is big enough and repeat it often enough and the whole world will believe it.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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