{"id":253467,"date":"2021-12-26T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=253467"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:34:48","slug":"iran-friday-prayer-leaders-warn-of-another-uprising-and-meks-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-friday-prayer-leaders-warn-of-another-uprising-and-meks-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Friday Prayer Leaders Warn of Another Uprising and MEK\u2019s Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_252826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252826\" style=\"width: 1001px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"isfahan-protests-1\" class=\"wp-image-252826 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/isfahan-protests-1.jpg\" alt=\"isfahan-protests-1\" width=\"1001\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/isfahan-protests-1.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/isfahan-protests-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/isfahan-protests-1-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 10, 2021 &#8211; Residents of Isfahan protest against water shortages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In their Friday prayer congregations, which serve as a platform to state the ruling regime\u2019s official policies vis-\u00e0-vis current issues facing the country, the prayer leaders again displayed their fear of the organized opposition, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and a looming uprising due to the social and economic crises.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday prayer leaders are carefully handpicked and in effect act as the mouthpiece of the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA serious menace is the [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a>]. We confronted them at the beginning of the revolution. This is a perilous movement that sometimes lures people with good backgrounds. You saw that at the beginning of the revolution, this movement instigated street riots and clashed with the system,\u201d said Hassan Alidadi, Khamenei\u2019s representative in Kerman, southeast Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have experienced many seditions [a term the regime uses for uprisings]. We had the MEK\u2019s sedition, the [students] sedition [protests] in 1999, and the 2009 [uprisings]. The latter was a huge challenge for the country, resulting in the system\u2019s collapse. This sedition caused us many damages, and many [of the regime\u2019s] sacred institutions and individuals [such as the Supreme Leader] were questioned,\u201d said Reza Noury, Khamenei\u2019s representative in Bojnourd, in Khorasan province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey pursued a multi-dimensional campaign. The maximum pressure [campaign] sought to instigate protests and have people topple the regime. They wanted to put pressure on people, so they confronted the system. They wanted to topple the [regime] without shooting a bullet or going to war. They had three methods. The first method, the maximum pressure, was their economic leverage. They also had political and intelligence methods to cause riots in Iran. The media started their propaganda, and they continue,\u201d said Seyed Hashem Bushehri, Khamenei\u2019s representative in Qom.<\/p>\n<p>While referring to the country\u2019s social and political grievances, Bushehri also warned the regime\u2019s president Ebrahim Raisi. \u201cAnd for the 2022 budget\u2026. people have expectations about the rampant inflation, decrease of salaries, national currency\u2019s value and their purchasing power, and their business problems as well as the banking system\u2019s issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246866 aligncenter\" 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\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png 250w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere we able to get rid of the 2009 sedition? We did [oppress] it at that time. But after that, 42 years after the revolution, we hear the news of officials\u2019 shortcomings. But when we delve into people\u2019s economic and living problems, we realize that the [opposition] tries to aggravate these problems. So, the sedition has not ended, and it\u2019s luring. This is a war, and it won\u2019t be easy,\u201d said Mehdi Rahim-Abadi, Khamenei\u2019s representative in Birjand.<\/p>\n<p>Such warnings will have very little impact, if any, on resolving the irremediable crises facing the regime, especially in view of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-officials-and-state-media-confirm-the-bleak-economy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">appalling conditions<\/a> millions of Iranians must endure, not least extreme poverty, starvation and lack of adequate welfare and social services. These, coupled with endemic corruption, ineptitude, and mismanagement, will only fuel further anger and pave the way for more uprisings in the near term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In their Friday prayer congregations, which serve as a platform to state the ruling regime&rsquo;s official policies vis-&agrave;-vis current issues facing the country, the prayer leaders again displayed their [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":252826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[246,997],"class_list":{"0":"post-253467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"tag-iran-opposition","9":"tag-iran-mek"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran: Friday Prayer Leaders Warn of Another Uprising and MEK\u2019s Role - NCRI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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