{"id":229096,"date":"2020-11-04T21:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=229096"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:54:39","slug":"khamenei-express-fear-of-iran-protests-and-opposition-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/khamenei-express-fear-of-iran-protests-and-opposition-mek\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei Express Fear of Iran Protests and Opposition MEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-229099\" title=\"Khamenei_Iran_04112020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khamenei_Iran_04112020.jpg\" alt=\"khamenei\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khamenei_Iran_04112020.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khamenei_Iran_04112020-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khamenei_Iran_04112020-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, once again on Tuesday warned of possible \u201csecurity threats\u201d concerning his regime. He also complained about the opposition\u2019s role in society.<\/p>\n<p>While Iranian people are suffering from COVID-19 and its death toll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-142800-in-462-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues to rise<\/a>, Khamenei, as the country\u2019s highest authority, did not even mention this crisis and the people\u2019s suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei refused to address the coronavirus crisis because he was concerned about his regime\u2019s \u201csecurity.\u201d Khamenei previously <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fFtdtSmyrXE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had called<\/a> the COVID-19 pandemic \u201ca blessing,\u201d to control the restive Iranian society. In other words, Khamenei, and his regime, by inaction and cover-up intended to use the coronavirus outbreak and its high mortality rate to form a barrier against popular uprisings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as not that big a deal, even calls it a blessing!\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_fFtdtSmyrXE\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfFtdtSmyrXE%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFtdtSmyrXE\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M9S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-03-03T17:30:07Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_fFtdtSmyrXE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfFtdtSmyrXE%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as not that big a deal, even calls it a blessing!<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fFtdtSmyrXE\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FfFtdtSmyrXE%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as not that big a deal, even calls it a blessing!\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as not that big a deal, even calls it a blessing! While more than 1,000 people have died to the coronavirus in Iran, and while in shocking revelation, the Iranian regime&#039;s Deputy Health Minister Ghasem Janbabaei acknowledged in an interview with state TV that over 12,000 people have been hospitalized after being diagnosed with the coronavirus and this is only 20 percent of the individuals who have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei dismisses Coronavirus as &quot;not that big a deal&quot;, even calls it a &quot;blessing&quot;.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) announced on Wednesday that the COVID-19 death toll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-coronavirus-death-toll-surpasses-142800-in-462-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has surpassed<\/a> 142,800 people across Iran. The regime\u2019s own engineered statistics, which stand at 36,160, indicate the situation is out of the mullahs\u2019 control.<\/p>\n<p>On October 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-what-khameneis-special-reappearance-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khamenei met<\/a> with the regime\u2019s National COVID-19 Task Force, after eight months of absence and quarantine. This meeting, attended by the regime\u2019s top military and security officials, could rather be described as Khamenei\u2019s \u201canti-uprising\u201d task force meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolutionary Guards (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/irgc-s-38-year-record-war-crackdown-exporting-terrorism-fundamentalist-and-advancing-the-nuclear-weapons-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRGC<\/a>) Commander, Hossein Salami, on October 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/as-anniversary-of-iran-protests-approaches-regime-increases-its-oppressive-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> their plan of \u201csearching all houses,\u201d under the pretext of \u201ccombatting the COVID-19.\u201d But how could the regime\u2019s primary force of oppression help those diagnosed with COVID-19?<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei\u2019s remarks on Tuesday, his previous meeting with his security officials, and the IRGC\u2019s plan of searching all houses demonstrate how the COVID-19 crisis has got out of the regime\u2019s control. In fact, the rising death toll has increased the society\u2019s restiveness, preparing the ground for another nationwide uprising.<\/p>\n<p><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-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Khamenei express fear over the MEK\u2019s role<\/h3>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/general\/who-is-irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khamenei<\/a> in a speech expressed his fear about the MEK\u2019s role both inside and outside of Iran. The leader of the number one state-sponsor of terrorism, who has the blood of the millions of innocent people in Iran and abroad on his hands, complained about France \u201csheltering\u201d the Iranian Resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei\u2019s remarks once again showed his ultimate fear of the MEK. Since the nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tQACfCy_X8Q?list=PL-I2iQQcsqbtrEcaEuiN6l3GOV_u86JQf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iran protests in 2018<\/a>, particularly after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 2019 uprising<\/a> during which the MEK played a leading role, Khamenei has delivered not a serious speech unless they referred to the regime\u2019s security and the MEK influence in the society.<\/p>\n<p>This is chiefly because the uprisings and their extensiveness, which undermined and showed the fragility of the regime\u2019s oppressive organs, that failed to preserve the regime\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>After the nationwide Iran protests in 2018, Khamenei acknowledged the MEK had \u201cplanned for months\u201d and organized for the uprising. Khamenei threatened that the regime will respond to them. A few months later in 2018, the regime\u2019s diplomat-terrorist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iranian-diplomat-and-three-accomplices-on-trial-for-planned-bombing-of-a-massive-rally-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a> and three accomplices were arrested while <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kyhYBQEiw5E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trying to bomb<\/a> the June 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/free-iran-2018-gathering-30-june-2018-villepinte-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iranian opposition rally<\/a> in France.<\/p>\n<p>Following the November uprising, Khamenei once again showed his fear of the Iranian opposition on January 8, 2020. Referring to the MEK and Albania, where the MEK members are situated, Khamenei complained about the MEK\u2019s leading role in the uprising.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran&amp;#039;s supreme leader Ali Khamenei&rsquo;s attacks Albania for hosting PMOI\/MEK Iranian opposition members\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_X6T3xIB6C0I\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FX6T3xIB6C0I%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X6T3xIB6C0I\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M45S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-01-16T11:04:35Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_X6T3xIB6C0I\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FX6T3xIB6C0I%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran&#039;s supreme leader Ali Khamenei\u2019s attacks Albania for hosting PMOI\/MEK Iranian opposition members<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X6T3xIB6C0I\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FX6T3xIB6C0I%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran&amp;#039;s supreme leader Ali Khamenei&rsquo;s attacks Albania for hosting PMOI\/MEK Iranian opposition members\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Iran, January 8, 2020\u2014It is worth noting that in his last public remarks Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei described Albania as an \u201cevil and sinister\u201d country for hosting members of the Iranian opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) on their soil. Khamenei went on to directly hold the MEK responsible for plotting the November 2019 uprising that spread to over 190 cities across Iran and shook the very pillars of the mullahs\u2019 regime like never before. \u201cA few days prior to the [November uprising], the issue about gasoline, in a European country [Albania], a small but very evil country in Europe, an American figure [General James Jones] gathered with a number of Iranians[PMOI\/MEK], and they started plotting against the Islamic republic. Their plan was played out in what we witnessed a few days later in the gasoline [protests]. People were angry about the gasoline issue. A number of people came out in the name of protests, and when others joined their ranks, while their numbers were very low, these deceived people came out with a plot and carried out that very plan; to destroy and torch government centers, popular sites and start a war. This was a premeditated plot. And when I say a few days prior to these events, they were re-checking their plans because they had previously blue-printed their measures, preparing their people,\u201d Khamenei said. Albanian President Ilir Meta responded to Khamenei\u2019s remarks in strong fashion. \u201cThe missiles fired by Iran towards two Iraqi military bases that housed the US military and coalition personnel are a provocative act with dangerous consequences for the region and its stability. Iran must respect international agreements, international laws and its obligations in the interest of peace. \u201cAlbania is not an evil country but a democratic country that has suffered from an evil dictatorship unparalleled in its kind therefore considers human rights sacred. \u201cSince two decades Albania remains firm in its commitments alongside the US and NATO countries in the fight against international terrorism and any act that endangers world stability and peace,\u201d Albanian President Ilir Mata emphasized. https:\/\/twitter.com\/ilirmetazyrtar\/status\/1214949160669061120?s=20 Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama also lashed out at Khamenei\u2019s remarks. \u201cWe have taken action that is the honor of Albania and in line with Albanian tradition. This has been an indisputable agreement with the U.S. to welcome and open our doors to a group of people whose\u00a0lives are in danger. We have lived under dictatorships and know very well how dictators act how they control everything to destroy their dissidents across the globe,\u201d Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama highlighted. Former Albanian Prime Minister, and current Minister of Diaspora in Albanian government, Pandeli Majko said, \u201cThere is no threat for our country with the presence of three thousand members of the Iranian opposition in Albania.\u201d\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral days before the uprising, in a small and sinister country in Europe, an American and a number of Iranians drew up plans, which we saw in the gasoline incident. As soon as (protesting) people came to the scene, the enemy\u2019s operatives began. Demolishing, torching, murdering, destroying, and fomenting war. This was a renewal of the work they had carried out before. And they continue to do these, and they will do whatever they can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei\u2019s constant warnings and fear of the \u201csecurity\u201d of his regime is because as time has passed, the uprisings have taken place at shorter intervals, more widely, and much deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei\u2019s remarks also suggest that the regime has failed to quell the restive society, and the November 2019 uprising and people\u2019s anger are like fire under ashes. In other words, the regime is unable to prevent the uprising from happening.<\/p>\n<p>As the state-run Etemad daily on October 28 wrote: \u201cThe officials should fear \u2018that\u2019 [upcoming uprising]. Because when it comes, it penetrates all protections and burns [the regime\u2019s] roots and hopes. There will be no time to regret [years of] oblivion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime&rsquo;s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, once again on Tuesday warned of possible &ldquo;security threats&rdquo; concerning his regime. He also complained about the opposition&rsquo;s role in society. 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