{"id":268578,"date":"2023-01-05T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=268578"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:13:38","slug":"iran-regime-officials-acknowledge-failing-to-demonize-the-opposition-mek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-documents-statements\/iran-regime-officials-acknowledge-failing-to-demonize-the-opposition-mek\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime Officials Acknowledge Failing to Demonize the Opposition MEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268580\" title=\"iran-mek-resistance-units-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/iran-mek-resistance-units-1.jpg\" alt=\"iran-mek-resistance-units-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/iran-mek-resistance-units-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/iran-mek-resistance-units-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/iran-mek-resistance-units-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/iran-mek-resistance-units-1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/iran-mek-resistance-units-1-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A video from Iran showing a group of young Iranians chanting slogans against the regime and in favor of Iran\u2019s principal opposition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrius.org\/who-is-the-mek.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)<\/a>, in Tehran has been circulating on social media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youth in Tehran carried out that courageous act while knowing that the slightest connection with the opposition has severe consequences.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">January 3 &#8211; Tehran, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a><br \/>Locals chanted anti-regime slogans:<br \/>&quot;Death to Khamenei! Hail to Rajavi!&quot;<br \/>&quot;We&#39;re the MEK &amp; we&#39;re fighting the mullahs!&quot;<br \/>&quot;We have written with our blood that we sacrifice our lives for the people!&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranRevolution2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranRevolution2023<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2023<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f3YIe79YAX\">pic.twitter.com\/f3YIe79YAX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1610546695682789377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their action foretells a growing trend of youth joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/iranian-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK\u2019s Resistance Units<\/a> network in the ongoing uprising, a fact that has caused much stir in the regime. This fact has been acknowledged by several top authorities recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe must address our shortcomings and attract youth, our children, to the system. If the younger generations knew about the MEK grouplet\u2019s crime, they would never follow them,\u201d \u00a0Ramezan Sharif, the spokesperson of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrius.org\/publications\/books\/iran-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-irgc-the-machinery-of-terrorism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/a>, said on January 2, 2023, according to the state-run Fars News Agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur youth do not have much information about the past incidents, especially the MEK\u2019s activities. This is our shortcoming and failure, particularly as far as it concerns our media. Many of our youth do not know what happened 20 years ago. They are unaware of the Mujahedin\u2019s actions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/farsi.khamenei.ir\/speech-content?id=51528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Khamenei<\/a>, the regime\u2019s supreme leader, acknowledged on December 20, as broadcasted by the state TV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe owe an apology to our dear youths because we failed to educate and emancipate them. Now the enemy wants to turn the younger generation against us,\u201d IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohammad-Hossein Sepehr, Deputy Minister of Interior, said in an interview with state TV on January 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nationwide Iran uprising has rattled the regime\u2019s foundations. After decades of oppression, the authorities faced a restive society, particularly a defiant generation, who fought back fully armed security forces with bare hands. They are not afraid of torture and executions and have confirmed their goal is the regime\u2019s overthrow and nothing less.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The persistence of what many consider a revolution in the making in a country where the entire military and security apparatus is designed to quash popular protests suggests that this uprising is indeed organized.\u00a0 Seeing the role of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/resistance-units-iran-societys-response-to-mullahs-rule-of-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK\u2019s Resistance Units<\/a> as a driving force behind these protests doesn\u2019t need any peering into the gloom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials have been trying to portray the growing trend of youth joining the MEK\u2019s Resistance Units, or the organization\u2019s strategy to topple the regime at any cost, as a mere effect of social media and the regime\u2019s failure in \u201ceducating\u201d the youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the contrary, the clerical regime has used its full potential and squandered billions of dollars of national wealth on demonizing the MEK. This includes producing hundreds of so-called documentaries against the organization, publishing many books, and thousands of hit pieces against the MEK. The mullahs have used their extensive network of so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/albanian-police-operation-debunked-mois-agents-disguised-as-sources-to-western-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cfriendly-journalist\u201d<\/a> in Western media outlets to parrot the regime\u2019s talking points against the MEK, portraying it as a fringe grouplet with no popular support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the recent \u201cQatargate\u201d scandal in the European parliament,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/eldar-mamedov-an-advisor-to-brussels-or-a-friend-tehrans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Eldar Mamedov<\/a>, foreign policy adviser to the Social Democratic Group at the European Parliament, was suspended from his position and went under investigation for his ties with Tehran. Mamedov was actively pursuing Tehran\u2019s agenda in the European Parliament in demonizing the MEK. He wrote many articles vilifying the MEK, and this was part of his mandate as a paid agent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides the undeniable presence of the role of the MEK\u2019s supporters in the current uprising, the pathetic acknowledgment by officials like Khamenei of their failure to prevent youth from approaching the MEK debunks all those allegations Tehran and its apologists have been blaring for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a classified report exposed by the Iranian Resistance, IRGC expressed its fear of the MEK\u2019s activities inside Iran. \u201cSince the beginning of the protests and due to their expansion and intensity, the MEK\u2019s activities have increased,\u201d the report reads in part.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Documents pinpoint student leaders as inspiring the protest, with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ResistanceUnits?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ResistanceUnits<\/a> standing up to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>&#39;s paramilitary guards despite crackdowns on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> sparked three months ago over the death of Kurdistan woman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MahsaAmini<\/a>,&quot; wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MailOnline<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JI58GnltuB\">https:\/\/t.co\/JI58GnltuB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1609641043774898176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In its article on January 1, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11521571\/Leaked-Iran-files-young-people-leading-fight-against-Islamic-theocracy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dailymail published<\/a> an interview with a Resistance Units who said: \u201cThe day I joined the resistance units, I never thought that one day, when we go to the streets with our team, we might see that 50 meters away, or 100 meters away, and around us [it is] completely full of resistance units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These facts only highlight the Iranian people and their organized Resistance movement\u2019s unwavering determination to topple the regime and establish a democratic country. The regime fears this outcome and has mobilized its forces to counter it. The world should not be silent regarding the regime\u2019s brutality and should recognize the Iranian people\u2019s desire and will for regime change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video from Iran showing a group of young Iranians chanting slogans against the regime and in favor of Iran&rsquo;s principal opposition, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), in Tehran has been circulating [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":268580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,45,9,845,5495],"tags":[130,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-268578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-news","9":"category-iran-protests","10":"category-demonizing-mek","11":"category-demonization-documents-statements","12":"tag-iran-protests","13":"tag-mek-iran"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This 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