{"id":225371,"date":"2020-09-06T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=225371"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:20:47","slug":"disinformation-about-irans-resistance-must-be-rooted-out-of-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/disinformation-about-irans-resistance-must-be-rooted-out-of-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation About Iran\u2019s Democratic Resistance, MEK, Must Finally Be Rooted Out of Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225374 aligncenter\" title=\"Fake-News-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fake-News-1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1-696x365.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1-1068x561.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Fake-News-1-800x420.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mullahs\u2019<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0regime has spent decades spreading disinformation globally about\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0democratic Resistance movement. The campaign has<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">supplemented the direct repression of dissent in the form of political imprisonment, attacks on public demonstrations, and the outright killing of activists.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">political violence has consistently failed to stem the growth of public support for the P<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eople\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(PMOI\/MEK)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Thus, mullahs have increased their demonizing campaign of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-the-mek-in-albania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Despite the regime\u2019s attempts, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/live-report-ncris-free-iran-global-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">international support<\/a> of the Iranian Resistance. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0hosts a gathering of Iranian expatriates every year, and it is regularly attended by a diverse roster of supporters from political, academic, national security circles in numerous countries spanning the globe. The latest iteration of that gathering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/ncris-free-iran-global-summit-in-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held virtually in July<\/a> as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, included dozens of American and European speakers, including current and former congressmen and members of parliament.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Many of these speakers made a point of highlighting and condemning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-the-message-of-iran-regimes-hysterical-propaganda-against-the-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disinformation campaign<\/a> that they recognize as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the regime\u2019s desperate move to tarnish the image of its viable alternative<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Some pointed out that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">allegations against the MEK<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> have repeatedly faced successful challenges in court after appearing in Western media. Former<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/free-iran-robert-torricelli-ashraf-3-mek-20200818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> US Senator Robert Torricelli,<\/a> for instance, called attention to two judgments by a German court, one in March 2019 and another in July 2020, that ordered the removal of disparaging claims about the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from articles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/hamburg-court-prohibits-der-spiegel-from-spreading-false-allegations-against-iranian-pmoi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Der Spiegel<\/a> and Frankfurter\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Algemeiner<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Zeitung.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terrorism, Repression of Dissent, &amp; Disinformation: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> regime&#39;s strategy <br \/>Tehran\u2019s obsession with destroying the MEK is so severe that authorities have targeted individuals simply for being related to the members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MEK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MEK<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wiEjaZ7wbY\">https:\/\/t.co\/wiEjaZ7wbY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9jc2KNNdwo\">pic.twitter.com\/9jc2KNNdwo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1300160157729665037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed to tell you the same would have happened with the New York Times, but for the fact that our laws and constitution are different, and the courts cannot as readily undertake such action,\u201d he said, apparently referring to a Times article that purported to describe the conditions of a PMOI compound in Albania which began to take shape in 2016 following the relocation\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the MEK members from Iraq to Albania.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Like Der Spiegel and FAZ, the Times has cited <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the so-called \u201cformer<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> members\u201d of the PMOI in its reporting but has apparently done so\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">while<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0those\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">so-called\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sources\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">are the paid agents of the regime\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Ministry of Intelligence\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">many of them\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had unsuccessfully sought to infiltrate the group. The German court cases established that one source who had heavily influenced the relevant reporting was misrepresented as having voluntarily left the group. Documents from the PMOI showed that he had\u00a0actually been\u00a0ejected on suspicion of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">spying and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0had signed his name to that effect.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While it may be reassuring to think that having been exposed, this particular scheme will cease to have an effect on international perceptions, the reality is that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the regime will continue using its network of \u201cfriendly journalists,\u201d to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">continue\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-source-reports\/iran-regimes-fake-news-in-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> demonizing campaign<\/a> of the Iranian Resistance<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is clearly\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evidenced<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by the fact that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">some of these media outlets<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">continue to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0repeat the Iranian regime\u2019s talking points and allegations against the MEK, calling it a terrorist group,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">despite having been freed of that designation in 2012, following multiple legal challenges demonstrated that there was no evidence of wrongdoing on the group\u2019s part.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Outdated and inaccurate reports continue to occasionally be cited maliciously, by contemporary media\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> keep regime-constructed talking point and disinformation alive. This will no doubt apply to those talking points that have appeared in Der Spiegel and the Times, even if prior instances are removed from both of those publications. After all, both have already been widely cited in Iranian state media, to legitimize the talking points that that media created in the first place. And with supposedly reputable sources backing them up, the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">state media reports will inevitably be taken up by semi-professional networks beyond Iran\u2019s borders, and ultimately recycled into major publications in the US and Europe.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From there, the same talking points will have to be challenged all over again, and the cycle will repeat until professional journalists begin\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">honoring their commitments\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and reject<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the information they receive about Iran\u2019s organized opposition<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from the regime and its agents<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Such professional skepticism has always been imperative where the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and the Iranian regime are concerned, but it has become significantly more so in recent years, as the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime became engulfed with the crisis. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In January 2018, Iran was the site of a mass uprising against the clerical dictatorship, and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged that the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had \u201cplanned for months\u201d to facilitate those protests and popularize uncommonly provocative slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nationwide movement<\/a> was largely suppressed by the end of that month, but it reemerged on an even larger scale in November 2019. In the interim, Khamenei and other leading officials issued numerous warnings to their supporters about the threat that the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">posed to their hold on power.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Now, the November uprising remains a recent memory, as does\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the regime\u2019s panicked response, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/over-1-500-killed-in-the-iranian-people-s-nationwide-uprising-names-of-504-martyrs-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which killed 1,500 peaceful protesters<\/a>. In time, the simultaneous displays of ruthlessness and vulnerability will surely prompt another outpouring of public demands for regime change. And until that happens, Tehran can be relied upon to step up its disinformation campaign against the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranian Resistance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which could and will play a leading role during<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the next uprising and to lay the groundwork for the democratic government that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">will<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0be founded on the collapse of the current regime.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u2019s commitment to democracy is certainly among the features that have been called into question by the propaganda and disinformation emanating from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence. But as US Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield noted in his speech to the NCRI\u2019s July conference, that commitment has been consistent, unmistakable, and unequivocal.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reflecting on his experience of investigating the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0ahead of its removal for the State Department\u2019s terror list, Bloomfield said, \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The more I looked, the more I found that the story of this group\u2026 has been erased. It has been entirely misrepresented. The MEK I learned was advocating democracy and freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and the practice of Islam that is consistent with modern life, and not to follow a grotesque abuse of religious faith to support political tyranny.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The organization he described is one that any modern democratic nation would openly support if their political calculations\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had not<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0been twisted by decades of propaganda and misinformation.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While the people of Iran showed their desire for regime change<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and when the regime\u2019s officials admit\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to the Iranian Resistance role in fulfilling\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime change<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, global media outlets must purge themselves of the false statements and disinformation that have come to dominate the discussion of Iran\u2019s Democratic Resistance. Those that have issued false reports about the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">MEK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the past\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">should honor their\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">commitments and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0side\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Iranian\u00a0people, rather than to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rush to the aid of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0Iranian regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mullahs&rsquo;&nbsp;regime has spent decades spreading disinformation globally about&nbsp;Iran&rsquo;s&nbsp;democratic Resistance movement. 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