{"id":322665,"date":"2024-07-28T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=322665"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T15:11:26","slug":"thirty-six-years-after-nlas-grand-operation-irans-regime-shivers-while-hailing-its-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-articles-analyses\/thirty-six-years-after-nlas-grand-operation-irans-regime-shivers-while-hailing-its-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-Six Years After NLA\u2019s Grand Operation, Iran\u2019s Regime Shivers While Hailing Its Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-312165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iran-nla-mek-army-women-1.jpg\" alt=\"iran nla mek army women (1)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iran-nla-mek-army-women-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iran-nla-mek-army-women-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iran-nla-mek-army-women-1-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iran-nla-mek-army-women-1-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iran-nla-mek-army-women-1-696x394.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;\">Every year from July 24 to 26, the Iranian regime commemorates the anniversary of the last major military operation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/meks-impact-on-the-iran-iraq-war\/\">National Liberation Army<\/a> of Iran, celebrating its continued hold on power. Through extensive interviews and elaborate storytelling, officials remind the Iranian people that despite the NLA\u2019s vast and daring efforts, the regime has managed to survive and cling to power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the regime\u2019s televised propaganda and officials\u2019 statements go beyond celebrating survival. They aim to remind their forces to stay united against a real and present threat and to dishearten the new generation increasingly drawn to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Iranian Resistance refers to this operation as &#8220;Eternal Light,&#8221; while the clerical regime calls it &#8220;Operation Mersad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 26, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawzahnews.com\/news\/1172581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mohammad-Mehdi Hosseini Hamedani<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the Friday prayer leader of Karaj, said, \u201cThe anniversary of Operation Mersad is an opportunity to discuss something about the hypocrisy [a pejorative used by the regime to defame the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization]&#8230; Several factors led the hypocrites to carry out this operation. The most important was their incorrect analysis of Iran\u2019s political and military situation. They believed Iran had accepted the resolution due to military weakness and a political deadlock. They planned to move from Iraq within 33 hours, capture Tehran, and overthrow the regime in five stages using 25 brigades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MEK\u2019s Impact on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>-Iraq War<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQC5tILQhe\">https:\/\/t.co\/DQC5tILQhe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1709708979344159045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 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;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He continued with regret, \u201cThese are the same people who today gather crowds in some countries against the Islamic Republic, make pacts with the enemies of the state, create trouble for the country, and incite the people to dissent. They use propaganda to besmirch our martyrs and hail the terrorists. This continues today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He warned, \u201cWe must not forget that as long as there is hypocrisy and hypocrites, there is infiltration in our state institutions. We must carefully monitor this hypocrisy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, former Minister of Intelligence and current Friday prayer leader of Arak, said, \u201cThe MEK had entered the country and were near Kermanshah, in the Charzebar Pass. They did not stop in Islamabad. They sped through in Japanese pickup trucks, hoping to pass Kermanshah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State television also reported, \u201cOperation Mersad was the last combat operation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the eight-year imposed war, with the difference that this time the enemy forces were not Iraqi but rather members of the paramilitary forces known as the National Liberation Army under Massoud Rajavi\u2019s leadership. Operation Mersad was a response to the MEK\u2019s operation known as Eternal Light, which aimed to capture Tehran within a 33-hour timeframe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IRGC Commander Shahrokhi narrated, \u201cThey started the operation at 2:30 AM, capturing a city every two hours. By midnight, they were supposed to reach Kermanshah, and from there, proceed to Hamedan and eventually Qazvin. Their main goal was to reach Tehran\u2019s Azadi Square within 24 hours. If unsuccessful, they planned to declare an independent government in Kermanshah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 24, state television interviewed Mohammad-Javad Hasheminejad, a torturer and intelligence officer, absurdly titled as the Secretary-General of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/habilian-association-propaganda-tool-of-irans-mois-or-an-ngo\/\">the Habilian Organization<\/a>, to warn various factions within the regime about the threat posed by the MEK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program\u2019s narrator reminded viewers, \u201cIn 2002, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/exclusive-report\/timeline-of-ncris-revelations-to-prevent-a-nuclear-armed-iran\/\">the MEK provided<\/a> the International Atomic Energy Agency with mixed and false information about Natanz and the Arak heavy water reactor, leading to suspicion about Iran\u2019s peaceful nuclear activities. Their presence in recent internal disturbances [citing popular uprisings] has been so prominent that they are considered a major force for overthrowing and creating chaos in Iran.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A young Tehran University student questions the inaction of political groups in the face of Iran\u2019s regime crimes in continuing the war while peace was within reach in Iran Iraq war. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranRevolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranRevolution<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranRevoIution2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranRevoIution2023<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%DA%AF%D8%B1_%DA%86%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%87_%DA%86%D9%87_%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A8%D8%B1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0645\u0631\u06af_\u0628\u0631_\u0633\u062a\u0645\u06af\u0631_\u0686\u0647_\u0634\u0627\u0647_\u0628\u0627\u0634\u0647_\u0686\u0647_\u0631\u0647\u0628\u0631<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7YRRTLWqLN\">pic.twitter.com\/7YRRTLWqLN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1617281830939508738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 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;\">Referring to the regime\u2019s sham trials against the MEK, Hasheminejad said, \u201cI must thank the esteemed Judiciary and Mr. Mohseni Ejei, Head of the Judiciary, for finally prosecuting the hypocrites after decades.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added, \u201cAfter Trump left office, we saw Mike Pompeo, a major architect of these plans, along with Mike Pence and many other U.S. officials, attend the hypocrites\u2019 meetings, viewing them as the future leaders of Iran. They see this group as their desired alternative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expressing concern over the MEK\u2019s influence internationally and within Iran, Hasheminejad warned, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\/\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the current leader of the hypocrites, is being encouraged by U.S. and European congresses as a symbol of freedom and prosperity for the Iranian people. Our new generation needs better information about the crimes committed by these groups in the 1980s. Our wise leader foresaw decades ago the enemy\u2019s plan to rewrite history and replace the martyr with the terrorist.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonetheless, no matter how much the clerical regime tries to rewrite history and narrate its version of the truth, the constant repetition of these attempts and the unending need to warn the youth about the &#8220;true nature of the MEK&#8221; speaks volumes about what is truly going on in the minds and hearts of the Iranian people.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read Every year from July 24 to 26, the Iranian regime commemorates the anniversary of the last major military operation by the National Liberation Army of Iran, celebrating its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":312165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,845,5493],"tags":[197,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-322665","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-mek-iran","11":"tag-demonizing-mek"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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