{"id":343659,"date":"2026-03-20T09:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=343659"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:15:59","slug":"amid-bombing-tehran-reveals-its-fear-of-the-mek-and-another-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/amid-bombing-tehran-reveals-its-fear-of-the-mek-and-another-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Bombing, Tehran Reveals Its Fear of the MEK and Another Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even as Iran faces bombing and foreign air strikes, the clerical regime\u2019s own media and officials are showing that one fear still sits near the top of their agenda: the possibility that the MEK and a wider uprising could turn the crisis into a deadly force for ultimate change.<\/p>\n

That anxiety was unmistakable in an IRIB Channel 2 broadcast<\/a> on March 17, 2026. The program did not confine itself to denouncing foreign enemies. It repeatedly shifted the spotlight to the danger of an internal revolt, reading out messages from so-called viewers threatening the regime\u2019s domestic opponents, warning the \u201cmonafeqin,\u201d invoking slogans such as \u201cdeath to the monafeq\u201d and \u201cdeath to the traitorous homeland-seller,\u201d and amplifying calls for citizens to remain in public squares and confront what presenters described as the enemy within.<\/p>\n

Monafeq\u2014Arabic for \u201chypocrite\u201d\u2014is the regime\u2019s pejorative label for the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), used to discredit the group in Iranian society.<\/p>\n

That was not an isolated outburst. Iranian state and state-aligned media have been pushing the same line in recent days. Tasnim reported on the same day that State Security Forces chief Ahmadreza Radan urged<\/a> the regime\u2019s base not to \u201cempty the squares,\u201d calling the night \u201cdecisive\u201d and arguing that the enemy had expected people to withdraw after the killing of senior figures so that others could pour into the streets and the revolution would be lost. The significance of that message is hard to miss: even in wartime conditions, the regime was not speaking as though the main danger came only from the skies. It was openly warning that the street itself remained a battlefield.<\/p>\n

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