{"id":318830,"date":"2024-04-30T06:15:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T05:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=318830"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:23:08","slug":"leading-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-fears-irans-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-articles-analyses\/leading-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-fears-irans-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism Fears Iran&#8217;s Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-309342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iranian-resistance-rally-paris-july-1-2023.jpg\" alt=\"iranian resistance rally paris july 1, 2023\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iranian-resistance-rally-paris-july-1-2023.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iranian-resistance-rally-paris-july-1-2023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iranian-resistance-rally-paris-july-1-2023-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iranian-resistance-rally-paris-july-1-2023-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/iranian-resistance-rally-paris-july-1-2023-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Three-minute read<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent years, particularly since the eruption of radical uprisings in late 2017, there hasn&#8217;t been a week or even a day when the Iranian regime hasn&#8217;t taken action or plotted against the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its principal member organization, the People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-of-iran-pmoi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(PMOI\/MEK).<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These actions range from domestic propaganda campaigns, spreading unfounded rumors, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-3626-mek-supporters-have-been-arrested-or-disappeared-during-the-uprising\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mass arrest of thousands of their supporters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> within the country to international tactics such as assassination plots, conspiracies, and diplomatic demonization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just this past week, the regime once again demonstrated its relentless pursuit of suppressing its significant existential threats, despite grappling with severe economic, social, and political crises at home, international isolation, and major security challenges in the region. This was evident following Argentina&#8217;s request for the arrest of the regime&#8217;s interior minister during his visits to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, followed by the abrupt cancellation of Ahmad Vahidi&#8217;s trip and his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/anews\/iran-news-interior-minister-ahmad-vahidi-abruptly-returns-amid-fears-of-interpol-warrant\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subsequent return to Iran<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response, certain state media outlets resurrected claims that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonisman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2006-Nisman-indict-AMIA-full-ENG_.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the AMIA case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a long-standing source of contention between Tehran and Buenos Aires\u2014was fabricated, citing supposed disclosures by Iran&#8217;s Resistance. Mehr News Agency on April 28 quoted an American researcher claiming that &#8220;all the allegations against Iran and Hezbollah, in this case, are instigated by the terrorist <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">monafeqin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> group.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monafeqin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Arabic for hypocrites), an epithet derived from the Quran, has been cynically exploited by the regime to defame the PMOI within Iranian society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/news\/6076276\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mehr wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, &#8220;The complete text of the arrest warrant issued by Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor of the AMIA case in 2006 against Iranian officials, reveals that the entire indictment is based on allegations orchestrated by the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alberto Nisman was a federal prosecutor in Argentina who, on January 18, 2015, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/president-elect\/maryam-rajavi-nisman-is-a-martyr-for-peace-and-humanity-and-iranian-people\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was assassinated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Iranian regime in collusion with its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/nov\/06\/argentinian-lawyer-alberto-nisman-was-murdered-police-report-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corrupt allies in high positions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the former Argentine government.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maryam Rajavi: Prosecutor Nisman is a martyr for peace and humanity and not just a martyr of the Argentinean people <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/t6gAqimNDp\">http:\/\/t.co\/t6gAqimNDp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maryam_Rajavi\/status\/560562301703839744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2015<\/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;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, a senior official of the Iranian regime requested Albania to extradite members of the PMOI to Tehran. On April 27, state media <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/basirat.ir\/fa\/news\/358856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">quoted Mohammad Dehghan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the legal deputy to the president of the Iranian regime, as saying, &#8220;Documents of the crimes and betrayals of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization have been collected by the Ministry of Intelligence and handed over to the judiciary, and fortunately the judiciary has also formed courts and is in the process of prosecution.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dehghan&#8217;s reference is to a staged trial that was instigated last year, targeting the PMOI, along with 104 members and officials of the NCRI. This trial follows 40 years marked <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by massacres<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1993\/03\/17\/iranian-opposition-leader-killed-in-rome\/4bf0473f-4001-4a34-9a9f-5a2520b12406\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assassinations of NCRI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> members both inside and outside the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dehghan said, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We are anticipating the verdict&#8217;s issuance to enable its enforcement beyond our borders. Since the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization has not faced appropriate consequences within the country in past years, their audacity has only grown, and despite having killed over 17,000 of our compatriots, they now feel very much entitled. In fact, they may be considered the largest terrorist organization in the world in recent years.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s legal deputy also asserted that the United States has supported the PMOI in recent years, providing them with equipment, facilities, and funds to commit crimes against Tehran. It appears that this legal deputy is not only ignorant of legal principles but also lacks an understanding of contemporary history. Over the past three decades, Western governments, pressured and demanded by Tehran, have blacklisted the PMOI, confiscated their properties and assets, disarmed their forces at the Iran-Iraq border, and expelled them from their military bases along the Iran border to reassure the Iranian regime&#8217;s security. However, the regime\u2019s words and actions suggest it is still far from feeling secure.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justice in Absurdity: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Lawless Dictator Holds Trial of Sworn Enemies<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMVIRpmuT0\">https:\/\/t.co\/gMVIRpmuT0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1739390561801396249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 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;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the staged court in Tehran, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/inn.ir\/news\/article\/62618\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the appointed judge stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during a session last Tuesday, April 23, &#8220;I declare to the people of Albania and some European countries that indictments have been issued for individuals. They have been granted the right to choose a lawyer for their defense, and a fair and impartial trial has been held for them. An action that seems other countries have hesitated to take for their people [referring to the PMOI members residing in other countries], failing to inform them about a fair and just trial. These governments should prioritize the security of their people and, like any other accused group, take actions in line with their national interests in extraditing them [the PMOI] to the Islamic Republic of Iran.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s clear that these public statements are just the tip of the iceberg, hinting at significant actions happening behind the scenes. The regime, which has repeatedly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-regime-blames-the-pmoi-mek-for-the-ongoing-protests\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">emphasized the PMOI&#8217;s role<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in its nationwide illegitimacy and i<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/iranian-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ts leading role<\/a> in popular uprisings, attributes the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/exclusive-report\/timeline-of-ncris-revelations-to-prevent-a-nuclear-armed-iran\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disclosure of its nuclear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/exclusive-report\/timeline-of-irans-opposition-exposing-the-regimes-terror-networks-ballistic-missile-projects\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and regional ambitions to the NCRI as another grievance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, whenever the international community seeks to address the root causes of crises in the Middle East, rather than relying on self-proclaimed &#8220;Iran Experts&#8221; in Washington, London, Paris, or Berlin, it would be more insightful to consider what is being said and printed in Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read In recent years, particularly since the eruption of radical uprisings in late 2017, there hasn&rsquo;t been a week or even a day when the Iranian regime hasn&rsquo;t taken [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":309342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,845,5493],"tags":[218,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-318830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-resistance","8":"category-demonizing-mek","9":"category-demonization-articles-analyses","10":"tag-demonizing-mek","11":"tag-iranian-resistance"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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