{"id":337170,"date":"2025-09-19T17:29:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337170"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:29:49","slug":"from-2002-nuclear-revelations-to-brussels-2025-pmoi-remains-tehrans-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/from-2002-nuclear-revelations-to-brussels-2025-pmoi-remains-tehrans-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"From 2002 Nuclear Revelations to Brussels 2025, PMOI Remains Tehran\u2019s Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Large crowds at NCRI rally in Brussels on September 6, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The clerical regime\u2019s officials and propaganda outlets have once again revealed their deepest fear: the role of the Iranian opposition, particularly the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), in exposing secrets, driving uprisings, and mobilizing support abroad. From the first disclosure of Tehran\u2019s clandestine nuclear sites to the 2017 nationwide protests and this month\u2019s rally in Brussels, the same thread runs through the regime\u2019s narrative \u2014 that the PMOI is its most dangerous adversary.<\/p>\n

Admissions on the 2017 uprising<\/h2>\n

On September 17, 2025, former communications minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi recalled<\/a> how the protests that erupted in Mashhad in December 2017 quickly spiraled beyond control. He claimed that the initial demonstration had been organized by pro-regime groups, but that it was rapidly overtaken: \u201cAnother current came in and started shouting slogans against the structure. The PMOI rode on the issue and unrest broke out in the provinces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jahromi acknowledged that state forces effectively abandoned the scene, allowing anti-regime slogans to spread nationwide. According to him, PMOI sympathizers \u201cheated up the political atmosphere\u201d and \u201ccreated unrest across the provinces.\u201d His account underscores what the regime has long tried to deny publicly: that the PMOI channeled widespread frustration into a coordinated nationwide challenge.<\/p>\n

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Oct 7- Mehdi Rahimabadi, Khamenei\u2019s rep in Birjand: \u201cParents have a very serious responsibility to make sure their children don\u2019t end up in the traps set by the infiltrators and the #MEK<\/a>.\u201d
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— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) October 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n