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Last week, the MENA Research and Study Center published an article that sought to detail the motivations and techniques behind a campaign whereby the Iranian regime has \u201cdemonized its opponents<\/a>,\u201d specifically those affiliated with the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK). The article described that organization as a real alternative to the country\u2019s existing theocratic regime, and it noted that Iranian propaganda has long sought to suppress this notion by depicting the MEK<\/a> as having very little organizational strength or support among Iran\u2019s domestic population.
\nThis propaganda was challenged and eventually undercut by none other than the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in January 2018, when Iranian society was rocked by a series of protests that encompassed well over 100 cities and towns while featuring anti-government slogans that are closely associated with the MEK.<\/p>\n

At the height of that nationwide uprising, Khamenei acknowledged that the pro-democracy opposition group had played a prominent role in popularizing those slogans and facilitating the unrest. Regime authorities have been warning one another about MEK influence ever since, and have revised their \u201cdemonization\u201d campaign accordingly.
\nSince the 2018 uprising, Tehran has been forced to lean more heavily upon narratives that portray the MEK as a danger to the world instead of denying that it poses a danger to the clerical regime. Allegations of terrorist behavior and cultish ideology are nothing new, but have only become more important to the regime\u2019s strategy as the international community has steadily inched closer to a situation in which it might be compelled to choose a side to support in Iran\u2019s looming civil conflict.<\/p>\n

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In July, at a virtual summit on Iranian affairs<\/a> organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the NCRI\u2019s<\/a> President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a> delivered a speech in which she argued that such conflict would be a defining feature of the \u201cnew era\u201d defined by the presidential administration of longtime clerical judge Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>. \u201cIn the new era, the hostility and enmity between the Iranian regime and society will intensify more than ever before,\u201d she said as part of remarks that also referenced the lasting impact of the 2018 uprising.
\nThat uprising spawned a sequel of sorts in November 2019<\/a>, which spanned nearly 200 localities and prompted an exceptionally violent response from regime authorities. About 1,500 people were shot dead by security forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> in a matter of days. Thousands of others were arrested, and the judiciary initiated a campaign of systematic torture which went on for months.<\/p>\n

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In 1988, a fatwa<\/a> from the regime\u2019s founder Ruhollah Khomeini declared that all members of the PMOI were inherently guilty of \u201cenmity against God\u201d. As a result of that religious edict, \u201cdeath commissions\u201d were assembled throughout Iran and over 30,000 political prisoners were put to death over the course of about three months after being subjected to mock trials that established they remained sympathetic to the MEK and its cause.
\nThe legacy of this massacre gained newfound significance in June when the regime confirmed Ebrahim Raisi as its new president. In 1988<\/a>, Raisi had been a leading figure in the country\u2019s foremost death commission, and in recent years he continued to defend the killing of MEK members as an expression of \u201cGod\u2019s command.\u201d During the crackdown that followed the 2019 uprising, Raisi was in charge of the national judiciary, which provided him an opportunity to compound his legacy and prove his readiness to oversee further crackdowns in the office of the president.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s MENA Research report highlighted the fact that Tehran\u2019s justification of violence against the MEK is part of a campaign that is directed not just at domestic audiences but also at the international community, with the aim of preventing major world powers from offering political support to an ascendant Resistance movement. \u201cThe regime has always been trying to pain a general perception that it is the best among worst-case scenarios,\u201d the report stated, adding that the regime\u2019s failure to scrub its own image of human rights violations is irrelevant to its strategy as long as it can hope to convince foreign policymakers that the MEK is worse.
\nOf course, this is increasingly difficult to do at a time when rising numbers of Iranian civilians are increasingly open about their support for the group and its pro-democracy message. Indeed, the MEK and the NCRI have accumulated substantial international backing over the years, as evidenced by the presence of a politically and geographically diverse list of participants in July\u2019s online summit. Yet even these supporters have struggled to overcome the obstacles created by Iranian propaganda, largely because that propaganda is backed up by an extensive network of paid operatives and friendly or oblivious media outlets.<\/p>\n

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The MENA Research report confirms that Tehran has dedicated vast intelligence resources to recruiting individuals who present themselves in international media as independent experts, former MEK members, or even opponents of the Iranian regime, in order to provide a veneer of legitimacy to propaganda that actually has its origins in Iranian state media and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
\nThe MENA\u2019s report also specifies that when state media talking points find their way into more legitimate international media outlets via these sources, they often enter into a sort of feedback loop which perpetuates false talking points even after they have been corrected. Those talking points, the report says, \u201care passed on to other media outlets until the original source is almost forgotten. Then, the regime websites start talking about them as objective aspects quoted from world famous news outlets.\u201d
\nIn February, details of the underlying propaganda strategy were revealed to the world via a letter from a former paid operative of Iranian intelligence, Hadi Sani-Kani. In it, the former MEK member offered to \u201ctestify before any court or impartial authority\u201d regarding his experience of having been recruited shortly after his departure from the organization to begin writing articles and conducting media interviews on behalf of the Iranian regime while using his background as a shield against uncomfortable questions about the overlap between his claims and Tehran\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Sani-Kani also referenced other contributors to the demonization campaign such as Masoud Khodabandeh, a so-called expert in counterterrorism and extremism who still occasionally receives bylines in major media after years of openly dedicating his career to defaming the MEK and propagating claims that unmistakably have their origins in Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cA look at the long and varied list of misleading and incorrect government allegations shows the great hostility the Iranian regime officials have against MEK,\u201d wrote MENA Research. \u201cBut, at the same time,\u201d the report went on, this list of talking points \u201cexhibits the importance and increasing influence that the MEK has successfully gained during its long course of struggle.\u201d As Mrs. Rajavi sees it in the wake of the July summit, that influence is poised to continue growing in spite of the regime\u2019s best efforts to disseminate propaganda, and the consequences could soon prove fatal for the theocratic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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