{"id":228829,"date":"2020-10-31T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=228829"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:36:12","slug":"to-end-iran-regimes-terrorism-it-is-imperative-to-counter-its-campaign-of-misinformation-and-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/to-end-iran-regimes-terrorism-it-is-imperative-to-counter-its-campaign-of-misinformation-and-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"To End Iran Regime\u2019s Terrorism, It Is Imperative To Counter Its Campaign of Misinformation and Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For years, the ruling theocracy in Iran has used both domestic oppression and export of terrorism abroad as two methods of holding its grasp on power. To cover their tracks and justify their crimes, the mullahs also demonize their victims.<\/p>\n

Despite an international global outcry, the Iranian regime executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari<\/a>. To justify this criminal act, the regime\u2019s state media and officials tried to portray Navid as a murderer. Recently, to intimidate the public, security forces paraded and humiliated youths<\/a> in Tehran, and they justified this by calling them \u201cthugs.\u201d The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC<\/a>) forces gunned down 1500 protesters<\/a> during the November 2019 protests, and called peaceful protesters \u201crioters\u201d and \u201cforeign agents.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the regime\u2019s systematic demonization campaign<\/a> has targeted the democratic opposition, mainly the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>). With over 120,000 members massacred by the regime in the course of 40 years of struggle for freedom, the MEK has also been the first target of the regime\u2019s brutality.<\/p>\n

To justify their crimes against the MEK, the mullahs have resorted to a systematic demonization campaign against the MEK. Many of the regime\u2019s apologists abroad implemented the regime\u2019s strategy of tarnishing the image of the Iranian opposition, to not only justify the regime\u2019s crimes, but also to spread a false notion that there is no alternative to the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

The arrest of the regime\u2019s diplomat-terrorist in 2018 who was attempting to bomb the opposition\u2019s rally in Paris shocked the whole world. This so-called \u201cdiplomat,\u201d Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, had used his diplomatic cover to transfer 500 grams of TATP explosives with a commercial airliner to Europe. He then personally handed the bomb to two other operatives.<\/p>\n

Although arrested red-handed, the regime\u2019s diplomat-terrorist has constantly repeated the regime\u2019s talking points against the MEK<\/a> during his interrogation process. In addition to Assadi, other regime apologists use \u201cjournalistic\u201d covers and titles to demonize the MEK. They justify the regime\u2019s domestic oppression and terrorism abroad against the opposition members and supporters.<\/p>\n

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Iran's disinformation campaign against the MEK via 'friendly journalists'<\/div><\/div>
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