{"id":330582,"date":"2025-04-16T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330582"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:48:12","slug":"iranian-regime-escalates-show-trial-against-pmoi-amid-growing-international-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-articles-analyses\/iranian-regime-escalates-show-trial-against-pmoi-amid-growing-international-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime Escalates Show Trial Against PMOI Amid Growing International Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330583\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from the 31st session of the in absentia trial against PMOI members held on April 15, 2025, in Tehran\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/iran-sham-trial-against-pmoi-15042025-e1744808896196-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from the 31st session of the in absentia trial against PMOI members held on April 15, 2025, in Tehran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"557\"><strong><em>Two-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"557\">In a show of judicial theater aimed at countering mounting international pressure, the Iranian regime\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizanonline.ir\/fa\/news\/4830461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">judiciary held the 31st session<\/a> of its in absentia trial against 104 members of the People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) on Tuesday. The hearing, conducted at Branch 11 of Tehran\u2019s Criminal Court under the presidency of Judge Hojjatoleslam Amir Reza Dehghani, once again put on display the clerical regime\u2019s fear of its principal opposition movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"559\" data-end=\"912\">The IRGC-run Daneshjou News Agency<a href=\"https:\/\/snn.ir\/fa\/news\/1249638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> (SNN) reported<\/a> that the session focused not only on individual members of the PMOI but also targeted the organization\u2019s very existence as a legal entity. The plaintiffs&#8217; lawyer, cleric Masoud Maddah, delivered a series of incendiary remarks filled with recycled accusations, historic grievances, and ideological venom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1225\">\u201cUntil the legal personality of this organization is dissolved,\u201d Maddah warned, \u201cthese crimes will continue.\u201d He demanded that the group\u2019s legal identity be revoked, and its leadership tried and extradited \u2014 a desperate call in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/report-iranian-resistance-activities-and-achievements-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing international recognition<\/a> of the Iranian Resistance as a pro-democracy force.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran\u2019s Regime Scrambles to Defend Execution of Political Prisoners Amid Global Outrage <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6fzz625OXs\">https:\/\/t.co\/6fzz625OXs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U6xDhSbUDj\">pic.twitter.com\/U6xDhSbUDj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; M. S. Khansari (@khansari_m) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khansari_m\/status\/1911838260273311935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 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=\"1227\" data-end=\"1633\">Despite the circus of allegations, from long-debunked accusations about the group&#8217;s relations with foreign intelligence to crude attacks on its leadership, the regime\u2019s underlying anxiety was clear. \u201cHow can a group responsible for 17,000 deaths now appear in international forums as a peaceful, democratic organization?\u201d Maddah lamented \u2014 a revealing statement about the regime&#8217;s failed narrative warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"2187\">What truly stings Tehran is not the past, but the present:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delistmek.com\/court-rulings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the PMOI\u2019s success<\/a> in reversing its former terror label and gaining broad support in parliaments across Europe and North America. In his speech, Maddah obsessed over why the U.S. removed the PMOI from its terror list in 2012, and why European courts rejected the label years before. He went as far as to suggest that French prosecutors should take legal action against their own officials for removing the group from terrorist designations \u2014 an extraordinary and desperate rhetorical flourish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2588\">The court also indulged in testimonies from long-dead regime-era detainees and dubious quotes from Iraqi officials tied to post-Saddam politics, attempting to equate these with judicial evidence. Maddah cited claims that former Iraqi officials such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/iran-blog\/2015\/nov\/03\/ahmad-chalabi-obit-iraqi-nationalist-friend-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmed Chalabi<\/a> and Kadhim al-Shalaan had declared the PMOI illegal \u2014 a feeble attempt to inflate regime talking points into international consensus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deeply troubled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN<\/a> Special Rapporteur&#39;s report exposing its atrocity crimes and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/genocide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#genocide<\/a> in the 1980s, the world&#39;s leading executioner per capita is using a sham trial in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tehran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tehran<\/a> to attack the UN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TLSxwMB8an\">pic.twitter.com\/TLSxwMB8an<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1836733334094774613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2024<\/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=\"2590\" data-end=\"2916\">But the regime&#8217;s true panic lies in what it cannot control: the PMOI\u2019s political resilience and moral capital. Once dismissed by Tehran as marginal, the organization has now become the central target of a judiciary led by executioners of <a href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/1988-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 1988 massacre<\/a> \u2014 a haunting reminder of their failure to annihilate the movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"2918\" data-end=\"3286\">By repeatedly referencing the organization\u2019s revival, its support abroad, and the global campaign to proscribe the IRGC \u2014 the regime\u2019s own terrorist backbone \u2014 the Judiciary has only <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/news\/pmoi-resistance-units-across-iran-celebrate-anniversary-of-maryam-rajavis-election-as-ncri-president-elect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reinforced the PMOI\u2019s relevance<\/a>. In a moment of dark irony, Maddah\u2019s speech exposed not the PMOI\u2019s guilt, but the clerical state\u2019s desperation to resurrect the ghosts of old propaganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3288\" data-end=\"3631\">The regime\u2019s effort to invoke &#8220;legal personality theory&#8221; to criminalize dissent highlights the surreal inversion of law under theocratic rule. In a country where even state-registered NGOs are banned, Tehran now wants international recognition to reverse-engineer criminal charges against political opposition \u2014 a contradiction lost on no one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3633\" data-end=\"3801\">While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/iranian-regimes-mock-court-reveals-deep-seated-anxiety-over-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the proceedings continue<\/a> in Tehran, the real trial \u2014 one of legitimacy \u2014 is unfolding on the international stage. And by all signs, the clerical regime is losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read In a show of judicial theater aimed at countering mounting international pressure, the Iranian regime&rsquo;s judiciary held the 31st session of its in absentia trial against 104 members [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":330583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,845,5493],"tags":[197,218,5476],"class_list":{"0":"post-330582","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","12":"tag-demoni"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iranian Regime Escalates Show Trial Against PMOI Amid Growing International Isolation - 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