{"id":330429,"date":"2025-04-12T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330429"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:48:52","slug":"iran-news-senior-regime-cleric-warns-of-grave-threat-from-pmoi-in-friday-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-documents-statements\/iran-news-senior-regime-cleric-warns-of-grave-threat-from-pmoi-in-friday-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News: Senior Regime Cleric Warns of \u201cGrave Threat\u201d from PMOI in Friday Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330430\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025.jpg\" alt=\"Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi delivers the Friday prayer sermon in Arak on April 11, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025-739x420.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ghorbanali-Dorri-Najafabadi-Friday-prayer-leader-of-Arak-11042025-696x395.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi delivers the Friday prayer sermon in Arak on April 11, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"470\">In a stark Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabnak.ir\/fa\/news\/1298607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prayer sermon in Arak<\/a> on April 11, 2025, Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, Friday prayer leader of Arak and former Intelligence Minister, issued an impassioned warning about what he called the \u201cgrave and urgent threat\u201d posed by the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), accusing the group of being the regime\u2019s most dangerous adversary since the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"815\">\u201cThe serious threat today to the Islamic society is the danger of hypocrisy and the hypocrites,\u201d he declared, using the regime\u2019s pejorative label for the PMOI. He warned the audience not to \u201cfall in line behind them or become their tool,\u201d insisting that recognizing and resisting their influence is \u201cone of the most sacred and critical duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1319\">Dorri-Najafabadi emphasized repeatedly that many of the regime\u2019s greatest blows have come at the hands of the PMOI. \u201cFrom the beginning of the revolution, many of the strikes we suffered were from these hypocrites,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clerics Sound Alarm Over PMOI\u2019s Influence in Iran and Growing Despair Among Regime Forces <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KGnha78SAN\">https:\/\/t.co\/KGnha78SAN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M. S. Khansari (@khansari_m) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khansari_m\/status\/1879435924943385011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1820\">Referencing Khomeini-era events, Dorri-Najafabadi attempted to paint the PMOI as insidious and deceptive, but his own rhetoric betrayed the regime\u2019s underlying concern: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-news-regimes-fear-of-pmoi-surfaces-in-political-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposition\u2019s growing influence<\/a>, particularly among the regime\u2019s traditional base. \u201cThey infiltrate society with different appearances and forms\u2026 their external shows one thing, but their internal is a hundred times more dangerous,\u201d he said, invoking verses from the Qur\u2019an to frame the PMOI\u2019s threat as both moral and political.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"2070\">He lamented that even Islamic unity and solidarity were being undermined from within by these \u201cforces of discord,\u201d adding: \u201cIf we were a united front, the Islamic world would rise up against Israel, but instead, these elements distract and divide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2072\" data-end=\"2439\">Though delivered in the language of ideology, the sermon was as much a confession of weakness as a call to vigilance. Dorri-Najafabadi&#8217;s remarks\u2014aimed squarely at the regime\u2019s core supporters\u2014suggest that concern over PMOI influence is no longer confined to the opposition. The regime appears to believe that even among loyalists, the opposition\u2019s appeal is spreading.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The MEK\u2019s Growing Influence Sparks Iran Regime\u2019s Fear and Desperation<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2cUTDRbhXp\">https:\/\/t.co\/2cUTDRbhXp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1661024198054285316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2441\" data-end=\"2867\">By concluding that \u201cidentifying and resisting these elements is among the most sacred and essential acts,\u201d Dorri-Najafabadi inadvertently signaled the depth of the crisis within the ruling clerical establishment. His invocation of Qur\u2019anic verses and historical grievances underscored the fact that the regime is no longer confident in its ideological grip, neither over society at large nor even over its most trusted circles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2869\" data-end=\"3140\">The sermon was less a show of strength than a warning cry from a regime that knows its time may be running short, increasingly rattled by <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/iranian-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an organized movement<\/a> whose message resonates with a population exhausted by decades of repression, economic failure, and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stark Friday prayer sermon in Arak on April 11, 2025, Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, Friday prayer leader of Arak and former Intelligence Minister, issued an impassioned warning about what he [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":330430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845,5495],"tags":[197,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-330429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-demonizing-mek","8":"category-demonization-documents-statements","9":"tag-mek-iran","10":"tag-demonizing-mek"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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