{"id":223645,"date":"2020-08-09T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=223645"},"modified":"2023-01-25T06:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T05:20:45","slug":"iran-the-mek-resilience-could-be-an-existential-threat-to-the-clerical-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-the-mek-resilience-could-be-an-existential-threat-to-the-clerical-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: The MEK\u2019 Resilience Could be an Existential Threat to the Clerical Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the past several days, fires have been reported at no fewer than eight sites associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or its civilian militia, the Basij. The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) has attributed those incidents to rebellion youths and has posted videos of some of the fires being set. Those same activists have also burned public banners images celebrating the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini, and the current Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
\nThese attacks on symbols of the regime\u2019s authority come after activities that focused on spreading MEK messages via graffiti. Many of these messages focused on the anniversary of the regime\u2019s massacre of political prisoners, which began with the establishment of \u201cdeath commissions\u201d on July 19, 1988, then proceeded through several months of interrogations and hangings.<\/p>\n

The death commissions primarily targeted the MEK, demanding that known or suspected members disavow the group and swear loyalty to the theocratic dictatorship. It has been reported that something like 95 percent of people refused this ultimatum, proudly declaring their commitment to the MEK\u2019s democratic platform, even knowing it could cost them their lives. The mullahs might have recognized what this implied about the resilience of the underlying movement, but they still made every effort to destroy the organization in one fell swoop.
\nBefore the end of 1988, over 30,000 political<\/a> prisoners had been hanged, with most being interred in secret mass graves. The killings were positively indiscriminate, including men who had already served out their designated prison sentences, as well as some teenagers and pregnant women. These facts had long been reported by the MEK and its affiliates, but they were confirmed for a much larger audience in 2016 with the release of a contemporary audio recording in which one regime official, Ali Hossein Montazeri, broke away from his colleagues and condemned the \u201cworst crime of the Islamic Republic.\u201d
\nSince then, a longstanding veil of silence has been lifted on the history of the massacre. But rather than acknowledging wrongdoing, much less offering to make amends, participants in the death commissions have actively defended their actions. Some, like former Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, have even gone so far as to say that they are proud of having carried out \u201cGod\u2019s command\u201d of death for the MEK.
\nThis language closely echoes that of Khomeini\u2019s fatwa, which set the massacre in motion. Ahead of a begrudging ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War, the regime supreme leader recognized that his regime was exceptionally vulnerable, and so he sought to erase all sources of organized dissent. Toward that end, his fatwa declared opponents of the theocratic system, like the MEK, to be inherently guilty of waging war against God himself. Thus, all such individuals were deemed worthy of execution, regardless of any actual details about their conduct and activities.
\nThe massacre may have succeeded in driving much of the support for the MEK underground, but it certainly did not succeed in destroying the organization. Quite to the contrary, the MEK has only grained in both popularity and organizational strength ever since then. It now stands at the head of the coalition the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which attracts as many as 100,000 Iranian expatriates to an annual rally in support of regime change.
\nSuch actions on the international stage are just a supplement to the domestic activism of the MEK\u2019s resistance units, which were prominently celebrated in the latest version of the international rally, a wide-ranging video conference titled the Free Iran Global Summit<\/a>. Participants in that summit, including hundreds of American and European dignitaries, made efforts to bring broader international attention to the escalating conflict between Iran\u2019s regime and its people and to highlight the implications for Western approaches to dealing with that regime.
\nFor much of the past 40 years, policymakers have been subject to undue influence from Iranian propaganda. A great deal of this propaganda has been dedicated to portraying the Iranian Resistance as a movement with little to no support inside the country. But this narrative is plainly undermined by the long history of resistance unit activities. The latest activities of MEK resistance units are indicative of the fact that this history is still unfolding, and that MEK supporters now appear more confident than ever in their ability to confront the clerical regime directly, and triumph.
\nSome of that confidence stems from the ever-growing body of support that the Resistance enjoys throughout the world. The Free Iran Global Summit brought that support into the light once again. But the greatest sign of an approaching victory for the MEK comes in the form of two nationwide uprisings that shook the regime to its core and prompted leading authorities to acknowledge, for the first time since 1988, that there is still a viable and influential alternative to the theocratic establishment.
\nWhile the first of those uprisings was underway in January 2018, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Khamenei delivered a speech in which he attributed its rapid spread and anti-government message to months of planning by the MEK<\/a>. MEK was given credit for even more widespread protests in November 2019<\/a>, and the regime\u2019s fear of overthrow prompted what may have been the greatest crackdown on dissent in three decades. In a matter of only days, security forces and the IRGC fatally shot approximately 1,500 peaceful protesters. Thousands of others were arrested, and many remain at risk of execution.
\nThis only adds to the significance of the resistance units\u2019 latest shows of defiance. In the face of such unrestrained political violence, even the painting of graffiti takes on the appearance of a revolutionary act. By burning the regime\u2019s bases of repression and the images of its leaders, the MEK is now making it clear that the activist community is every bit as resilient as it was in 1988.
\nIf at the time, the international community had paid appropriate attention to the killings and made efforts to hold the regime to account, there is no telling how much more ineffectual its crackdown on dissent would have been. Now, the world has another chance to confront Tehran\u2019s human rights abuses and give the Resistance a leg up in its fight for a democratic future in Iran. Let us not squander it by turning a blind eye to that fight once again.<\/p>\n

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