{"id":236222,"date":"2021-03-12T13:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=236222"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:04:04","slug":"irans-regime-trail-case-is-disinformation-campaign-against-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/irans-regime-trail-case-is-disinformation-campaign-against-mek\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Regime Trial Case Is Unusually Obvious Revelation of Regime’s Disinformation Campaign Against MEK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Judiciary of the Iranian regime recently began a sham trial against its longtime arch-nemesis, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI-MEK<\/a>). The case relies upon more than 40 individuals whom the regime’s Judiciary is presenting as “former members” of the democratic opposition, MEK, with insider information about its structure and practices. In reality, these individuals are all longstanding agents of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, involved in an elaborate scheme of circulating propaganda about the MEK not just inside Iran but also throughout the world.<\/p>\n

The so-called Judiciary of the Iranian regime’s preoccupation with the MEK has been a matter of public record, at least since the 1980s. In the summer of 1988 alone, members and supporters of the MEK comprised the overwhelming majority of over 30,000 political prisoners<\/a> who were systematically executed for failing to disavow their political beliefs. The massacre stemmed from a fatwa issued by the supreme leader at the time, Ruhollah Khomenei, which declared that the MEK was at war with God himself, and therefore immediately subject to capital punishment.<\/p>\n

The regime has honored that fatwa in many other ways since the 1988 massacre, and so it is recorded that the mullahs’ regime has executed more than 100,000 MEK members and supports. The persistent threat of violence has been prominently highlighted in recent years as authorities have retaliated fiercely against a dramatic upsurge in domestic protests. However, in the nearly three decades between the 1988 massacre and the first in a series of recent, nationwide uprisings, Tehran’s strategy to undermine and destroy the Resistance relied both on execution and torture from one hand and “psychological warfare” on the other hand.<\/p>\n

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