{"id":340071,"date":"2025-12-03T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340071"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:18:29","slug":"iranian-regimes-sham-trial-turned-into-a-censorship-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/demonizing-mek\/iranian-regimes-sham-trial-turned-into-a-censorship-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Regime\u2019s Sham Trial Turned into a Censorship Campaign\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_330583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330583\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330583 size-full\" 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;\"><strong><em>Four-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">By its own official account, the clerical regime in Tehran has now held the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/news\/6675100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">46th hearing<\/a> of a mass trial in absentia against 104 members of the Iranian Resistance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On paper, the case is about \u201cterrorism.\u201d In reality, the latest session laid bare something very different: a frightened regime using its judiciary to attack an opposition satellite channel in Europe, to threaten France with legal consequences, and to rewrite the history of its own crimes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If this is \u201cstrength,\u201d it is a very peculiar kind of strength.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">When a judge sounds like a satellite lobbyist<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The most striking feature of this hearing was not the routine repetition of decades-old accusations. It was the judge\u2019s obsession with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/en_simayazadi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simaye Azadi<\/a>, a satellite television channel which is affiliated w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ith\u00a0the Iranian resistance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Instead of confining himself to the charges, he launched into a long speech about:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">European and French laws on communications,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the French operator Eutelsat and its Hotbird satellites,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the French media regulator ARCOM, and<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">why France, in his view, must stop allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/en.iranntv.com\/news-simay-azadi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simaye Azadi<\/a> to broadcast.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sham Trial in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> Highlights Clerical Dictatorship\u2019s Desperation<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Hi31hfMQK\">https:\/\/t.co\/6Hi31hfMQK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1800635618411663430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He even cited the case of al-Manar, previously taken off French-controlled satellites, and argued that France must treat Simaye Azadi in the same way\u2014because it belongs, as he put it, to the \u201cfirst defendant\u201d in this trial.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Think about that for a moment: a Tehran criminal court is using a so-called terrorism trial primarily to deliver a political message to a foreign democracy and to demand the censorship of an opposition TV channel outside Iran\u2019s borders.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/demonization-documents-statements\/questioning-irans-obsession-the-meks-rise-as-a-national-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resistance were marginal<\/a> and irrelevant, would the regime\u2019s judiciary devote its time to lecturing Paris about satellite uplinks and the legal duties of ARCOM? Would it transform a domestic trial into an open pressure campaign on France to silence one station?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This is the behavior of a state that knows it is losing the information battle at home and fears the organizational power that comes from an independent, nationwide voice beamed into Iranian living rooms.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Exporting censorship under the banner of \u201ccounterterrorism\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The judge\u2019s argument was simple and dangerous: because the clerical regime calls the Resistance \u201cterrorists,\u201d European governments must treat any platform they use as a violation of counter-terrorism conventions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There is no mention, of course, of the fact that European and other Western courts and governments have already examined these allegations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delistmek.com\/court-rulings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removed the Resistance<\/a> from their terrorist lists. Those legal battles are simply erased. The regime\u2019s designation is presented as the only reality that matters, and Europe is warned to fall in line.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In other words, Tehran is trying to export its blacklist into European law, not through diplomacy but through the mouth of a judge in a show trial.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rewriting the 1988 massacre out of fear of justice<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The trial also wandered into another revealing territory:<a href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/1988-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 1988 prison massacre<\/a>, when thousands of political prisoners \u2013 the vast majority from th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)\u2013 were executed following a secret fatwa.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s representatives now attempt to rebrand the infamous \u201cdeath commissions\u201d as \u201camnesty committees.\u201d They claim that prisoners were generously pa<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">rdoned without even needing to repent, that they simply had to \u201cannounce they were no longer with the organization.\u201d They even set this fabricated \u201cmercy\u201d against episodes of mass killing in European history, as if the clerical dictatorship could present itself as a benchmark of humanitarian justice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This narrative is not aimed at the Iranian people. They know too many victims, too many families who never saw the bodies of their loved ones, too many unmarked graves.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is aimed at the international community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why? Because survivors and the Resistance have kept the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.un.org\/en\/A\/C.3\/80\/L.30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memory of 1988 alive<\/a>. Names have been recorded. Locations of mass graves have been exposed. Former officials have been identified. Cases have already reached European courts. UN experts now speak openly about the 1988 killings as possible crimes against humanity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In that context, the regime\u2019s need to transform executioners into \u201cmembers of an amnesty committee\u201d is not historical curiosity. It is legal panic.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Resistance\u2019s crime, in the eyes of the regime, is not only that it continues to organize. It is that it insists on naming the crimes of the past and calling for justice under international law. The sham trial, with its grotesque revisionism, is part of a defensive wall against that justice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clerical Regime\u2019s Court Theater Against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mojahedineng<\/a> Reveals Fear of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Rising Resistance Generation<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rLXARmKOKM\">https:\/\/t.co\/rLXARmKOKM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1917543086244106541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">What the regime is really indicting<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Strip away the propaganda and the slogans, and the picture is clear.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this so-called courtroom, the clerical regime is not really putting 104 absent individuals on trial. It is putting on trial:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A television channel that breaks the state\u2019s monopoly on information and broadcasts images of protests, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/pmoi-resistance-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resistance Units<\/a> and uprisings.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A political alternative that challenges the regime\u2019s favorite argument to foreign governments: \u201cIt\u2019s us or chaos.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A memory of massacre that refuses to die, and that increasingly speaks in the language of international criminal law.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That is what this 46th hearing is about. Not justice. Not security. Fear.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Desperately attempting to spin new narratives about the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mojahedineng<\/a> during its staged trial, the clerical regime is essentially undermining its own decades-long <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/propaganda?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#propaganda<\/a> against the movement. This not only weakens Khomeini&#39;s defamation tactics but also inadvertently\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WkAzHs3ZGC\">pic.twitter.com\/WkAzHs3ZGC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1789752920147206202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">A message to Western democracies<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335559738&quot;:160,&quot;335559739&quot;:80}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The clerical regime cannot defeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran-ncri\/\">organized Resistance<\/a> in open political competition. It cannot answer the demands of the Iranian people for freedom, equality and an end to clerical rule. So, it turns, once again<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, to propaganda, fake news, prisons, and satellite jamming \u2013 and now to public \u201cwarnings\u201d aimed at Western capitals.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A regime that needs 46 hearings, a mass trial in absentia and a campaign against one satellite channel is telling the world something important about itself.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is not confident. It is not secure.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is afraid of its organized Resistance \u2013 and of the day it will be held to account.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-minute read By its own official account, the clerical regime in Tehran has now held the 46th hearing of a mass trial in absentia against 104 members of the Iranian [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":330583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845],"tags":[218],"class_list":{"0":"post-340071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-demonizing-mek","8":"tag-demonizing-mek"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iranian Regime\u2019s Sham Trial Turned into a Censorship Campaign\u00a0 - 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