{"id":329588,"date":"2025-03-18T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=329588"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:29:25","slug":"exposing-michael-rubin-a-propagandist-echoing-tehrans-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/exposing-michael-rubin-a-propagandist-echoing-tehrans-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing Michael Rubin: A Propagandist Echoing Tehran’s Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Rubin’s articles and interviews featured prominently in multiple Iranian state-run newspapers, echoing the regime\u2019s propaganda narratives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Ali Safavi, a member of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, has published a comprehensive rebuttal in Townhall<\/em> dismantling Michael Rubin\u2019s latest baseless allegations against the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK\/PMOI)<\/a>. In his piece, Safavi exposes Rubin\u2019s longstanding alignment with Tehran\u2019s propaganda machine, highlighting how his selective outrage ignores the Iranian regime\u2019s brutal crimes\u2014most notably the execution of minors. Safavi also underscores Rubin\u2019s unsettling ties to the Iranian regime, including his access to Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps archives, questioning his credibility as an analyst. Rather than being an impartial observer, Rubin\u2019s relentless fixation on smearing the MEK only serves the interests of a tyrannical regime. Read the full piece here<\/a> or continue below for the re-published version:<\/p>\n

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Michael Rubin\u2019s latest tirade against the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is as predictable, as it is monotonous, a tired attempt to resuscitate long-debunked smears with the same desperation as Iran\u2019s regime clinging to its last breath. At this point, Rubin is plagiarizing himself by hyperlinking his own articles and parroting Tehran\u2019s official narrative with all the enthusiasm of a washed-up propagandist running out of material.<\/p>\n

For nearly two decades, I and many others have dismantled his baseless political fan fiction (in\u00a02006<\/a>,\u00a02011<\/a>,\u00a02021<\/a>,\u00a0August 2022<\/a>,\u00a0November 2022<\/a>,\u00a0January 2023<\/a>,\u00a0February 2023<\/a>,\u00a0April 2023<\/a>,\u00a0June 2023<\/a>,\u00a0October 2023<\/a>,\u00a0March 2024<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0January 2025<\/a>; also see reputable research by\u00a0academics<\/a>,\u00a0experts<\/a>,\u00a0scholars<\/a>,\u00a0political leaders<\/a>, and\u00a0observers<\/a>\u00a0around the world).<\/p>\n

His latest gem? The absurd claim that the MEK \u201cisolates children\u201d so completely that few, if any, attend public or multicultural schools. It\u2019s a smear so lazy it barely qualifies as propaganda\u2014more an insult to his readers\u2019 intelligence, assuming, of course, he has any to begin with. Does Rubin cite a credible study? An eyewitness account? Even a halfway-believable anecdote? Of course not. His standard of evidence is whatever Tehran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) happens to be peddling that week.<\/p>\n

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The Michael Rubin Rubik\u2019s Cube: Parroting #Iran<\/a> Mullahs https:\/\/t.co\/tKycYPH6Gq<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/m4Jw0qWCeX<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ali Safavi (@amsafavi) March 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n