{"id":330386,"date":"2025-04-11T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330386"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:49:16","slug":"michael-rubins-anti-mek-rhapsody-from-tehrans-archives-to-washingtons-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/michael-rubins-anti-mek-rhapsody-from-tehrans-archives-to-washingtons-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Rubin\u2019s Anti-MEK Rhapsody from Tehran\u2019s Archives to Washington\u2019s Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Rubin\u2019s fixation on dehumanizing Iran\u2019s largest opposition, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), serves only one master: theocracy in Tehran. For decades, every major U.S. misstep on Iran\u2014from Washington\u2019s failed attempts to court Tehran, to the Iran-Contra scandal<\/a> in 1985, to the disgraceful 1997 blacklisting of the MEK as a \u201cgoodwill gesture<\/a>,\u201d and the 2003 U.S. bombing<\/a> of MEK camps in Iraq at Tehran\u2019s behest\u2014has only served to embolden the regime. By perpetuating this cycle, Rubin sustains the very regime he claims to criticize.<\/p>\n

When confronted with fact-based arguments, Rubin deflects with self-pity, portraying himself as a ‘victim’ of the MEK. This is not the stance of a serious scholar. It is the deflection of a man unwilling or unable to defend his baseless claims or his checkered past.<\/p>\n

True, Rubin\u2019s visits to Iran don\u2019t make him a regime agent. But they do raise questions like: Why did a regime notorious for its anti-Semitism grant Rubin access<\/a> to the archives of a notorious IRGC foundation directly supervised by Khamenei<\/a>?<\/p>\n

A foreign ‘academic’ reviewed documents in Tehran\u2019s security apparatus while independent scholars are arrested, tortured, and murdered in the infamous Evin Prison for much less. That is like Neville Chamberlain getting a guided tour of Hitler\u2019s war room while the Gestapo rounded up resistance fighters. How many Americans have ever received such extraordinary access from the IRGC? In the annals of contemporary Iranian history, the clerical regime has never bestowed such an exceptional privilege upon any group, not even the Communist Tudeh Party, which, in the early 1980s, brazenly clamored for the execution of MEK members with unabashed zeal.<\/p>\n

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Exposing Michael Rubin: A Propagandist Echoing #Tehran<\/a>'s Narrativeshttps:\/\/t.co\/oBD52xSU97<\/a><\/p>\n

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