{"id":251386,"date":"2021-11-26T02:59:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=251386"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:18:21","slug":"hamid-noury-underlines-that-the-meks-name-is-a-red-line-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/hamid-noury-underlines-that-the-meks-name-is-a-red-line-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Noury Underlines that the MEK’s Name Is a Red Line in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A court in Stockholm, Sweden, held the\u00a0<\/span>second<\/span><\/a>\u00a0hearing for Hamid Noury on Wednesday. Noury is an Iranian prison official who participated in the\u00a0<\/span>1988 massacre<\/span><\/a>. In his remarks on Tuesday, Noury also acknowledged his role in different crimes committed by the mullahs\u2019 regime in the early 1980s.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During his first hearing,\u00a0Noury,\u00a0who had claimed he\u00a0was mistaken for someone else,\u00a0showed his\u00a0<\/span>true color<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by defending criminals like the regime\u2019s president Ebrahim Raisi,\u00a0the\u00a0eliminated terror-mastermind Qassem Soleimani, and Ruhollah Khomeini. Noury also blatantly denied the existence of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, despite this fact has been confirmed by regime top officials who defended their role in this crime against humanity.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In his remarks during his second hearing session, Noury continued rehashing the regime\u2019s baseless allegations against the\u00a0<\/span>Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK),<\/span><\/a>\u00a0whose members formed the majority of over 30,000 victims of the 1988 massacre. Last week, the court which transferred to Albania featured harrowing accounts by\u00a0MEK members who survived the 1988 massacre.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning of\u00a0today\u2019s\u00a0session, one of the lawyers objected to Nouri\u2019s use of the word\u00a0\u201cMonafeghin\u201d\u00a0to describe the MEK.\u00a0The judge\u00a0also\u00a0told him not to use\u00a0Monafeghin.\u00a0Monfeghin\u00a0is a derogatory term only used by the regime to call the MEK.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Noury told the judge that he is forced to use this term, as the MEK\u2019s name in Iran is prohibited, and if he says the MEK, he would be arrested once he returns to Iran. He said that the regime\u2019s current Judiciary Chief,\u00a0<\/span>Gholamhossain\u00a0Mohseni-Ejei<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0takes\u00a0this issue seriously. Noury even went as far\u00a0as\u00a0to tell the prosecutor that \u201cwhen you say People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization, it creates problems for me.\u201d Prosecutor told him he should not use this word, \u201cI would use the full name of the organization;\u00a0you should too.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Shahin Ghobadi, the MEK\u2019s spokesperson in this regard,\u00a0said: \u201cIn the court in Stockholm this morning, criminal Hamid Noury explicitly underscored that the name of People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization (MEK) in Iran is the red line and anyone who mentions the name of the Mojahedin will be prosecuted\u00a0and\u00a0arrested.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the court in Stockholm this morning, criminal Hamid Noury explicitly underscored that the name of People's Mojahedin Organization (#MEK<\/a>) in Iran is the red line and anyone who mentions the name of the Mojahedin will be prosecuted & arrested. #ProsecuteRaisiNow<\/a> #1988Massacre<\/a><\/p>\n

— Shahin Gobadi (@gobadi) November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n