{"id":237435,"date":"2021-04-07T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237435"},"modified":"2023-01-26T20:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:26:02","slug":"iran-the-mullahs-farm-out-propaganda-ops-to-their-daily-beast-of-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/srs\/iran-the-mullahs-farm-out-propaganda-ops-to-their-daily-beast-of-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: The Mullahs Farm Out Propaganda Ops To Their &#8220;Daily Beast Of Burden&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"breakingfakenews\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-229732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Mother Jones recent article amounts to nothing more than regurgitating Iran regime\u2019s often-debunked allegations against it main opposition.\" width=\"804\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews-1068x705.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/breakingfakenews.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>By Ali Safavi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This week, as informal negotiations are held in Vienna to bring the Iranian regime into nuclear compliance, Tehran&#8217;s delegation is desperately trying to portray an image of strength and influence to extract concessions from its foreign interlocutors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In reality, after a series of nationwide uprisings calling for democratic change, an economy in complete ruin, tens of millions of people in poverty, and an uncontrollable global pandemic wreaking havoc in Iran, the regime is fighting for dear life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The only thing it really needs right now is to score some sort of victory &#8211; anything &#8211; against its main enemy, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mujahedin-e Khalq<\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a>), whose popularity and influence inside Iran are growing by the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Suddenly, pro-regime zombies are creeping in to help it. These include the mullahs&#8217; familiar vestibules on the web, including the Daily Beast, which is essentially turning into one of the regime&#8217;s billboards after running a frenzy of anti-MEK <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iranian-propaganda-operates-freely-in-the-west-with-sources-both-overt-and-subtle\/\" rel=\"noopener\">propaganda<\/a> for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Tuesday, the Daily Beast ran another sensationalist headline celebrating Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;busting&#8221; of Iranian dissidents&#8217; &#8220;elaborate troll farm operation.&#8221; The Daily Beast&#8217;s latest hyperbole is peppered with ingredients unabashedly copied and pasted from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/study-of-irans-regime-cyber-activity-exposes-demonization-campaign-against-the-iranian-resistance\/\" rel=\"noopener\">websites<\/a> known to be controlled by the regime&#8217;s intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Talk about being busted for engaging in a troll operation &#8211; from Tehran!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The old and stale watchwords of the mullahs&#8217; troll farms mysteriously infiltrate the otherwise pitiable juvenile detective work in the latest edition of the Daily Beast&#8217;s MEK paranoia: &#8220;Marxist,&#8221; &#8220;strict control of members,&#8221; &#8220;cult,&#8221; &#8220;torture,&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And in an original take on comedy, the &#8220;Beast&#8221; even reinvents Iran&#8217;s history by forging a MEK-IRGC alliance against the Shah in the 1970s. Funny, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC<\/a> wasn&#8217;t even around until after the Shah&#8217;s overthrow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Still, why the infantile cheers and applause for the supposed busting of a troll farm if the MEK is nothing but an insignificant &#8220;cult&#8221; as the regime and its American billboard claim?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The creator of the world&#8217;s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, once wrote, &#8220;No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Could the Beast&#8217;s good reasons be to prop up a decaying regime by bashing its main opposition to make way for US concessions to Tehran?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is common knowledge that all the rusty anti-MEK <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/unmasking-details-on-demonization-campaign-espionage-terrorist-plots-by-the-iranian-regimes-ministry-of-intelligence-embassy-in-albania\/\" rel=\"noopener\">propaganda<\/a> manufacturers are the regime&#8217;s intelligence services troll farms. In fact, the MEK&#8217;s &#8220;troll farms&#8221; were first &#8220;discovered&#8221; and widely publicized by none other than the regime&#8217;s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and its ambassador to Britain in 2018. And then the allegations were ceaselessly rehashed by the regime&#8217;s troll farms in Tehran. Go figure!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zafifs-tweet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zafifs-tweet\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-237416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zafifs-tweet-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Zafifs-tweet\" width=\"638\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zafifs-tweet-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zafifs-tweet-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Zafifs-tweet.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The MEK has, time and again, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-resistance\/accounts-affiliated-with-pmoi-mek-and-ncri-have-not-been-removed\/\" rel=\"noopener\">denied<\/a> such allegations while inviting tech giants to contact its offices to investigate the claims of the illusory troll farms in Albania. The burden of proof is on the other side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the end, both the mullahs&#8217; hirelings and their incompetent amateur advocates should know that with or without the Iranian regime&#8217;s lies about &#8220;troll farms,&#8221; the regime&#8217;s days are numbered, just like any other dictatorship in history. As the leader of India&#8217;s Independence Mahatma Gandhi said, &#8220;Remember that all through history\u2026. there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it&#8211;always.&#8221; Rational or sane people do not need to be under the influence of troll farms to come to grips with that reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Beast of burden&#8221; is defined as an animal employed to carry heavy loads (such as pulling a plow).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian regime&#8217;s farmers of death and misery are farming out their propaganda operations, and The Daily Beast is, sadly, the mullahs&#8217; &#8220;Daily Beast of Burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ali-Safavi-100.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ali-Safavi-100\" class=\"wp-image-52345 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ali-Safavi-100.jpg\" alt=\"Ali-Safavi-100\" width=\"121\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Safavi (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amsafavi\" rel=\"noopener\">@amsafavi<\/a>) is an official with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ali Safavi This week, as informal negotiations are held in Vienna to bring the Iranian regime into nuclear compliance, Tehran&rsquo;s delegation is desperately trying to portray an image of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":229732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[129,218,246],"class_list":{"0":"post-237435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-srs","8":"tag-iran","9":"tag-demonizing-mek","10":"tag-iran-opposition"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran: The Mullahs 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