{"id":343779,"date":"2026-03-24T21:57:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=343779"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:00:24","slug":"what-tehrans-own-officials-are-saying-about-fear-control-and-the-pmoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/what-tehrans-own-officials-are-saying-about-fear-control-and-the-pmoi\/","title":{"rendered":"What Tehran\u2019s Own Officials Are Saying about Fear, Control, and the PMOI"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran Nationwide protests, January 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The most revealing evidence that Iran\u2019s ruling establishment fears another uprising<\/a> is not found in opposition rhetoric. It is found in the words of the regime\u2019s own officials, delivered over the course of the last few days in March 2026.<\/p>\n

The sequence begins with the security apparatus itself. On March 19, 2026, Hamidreza Moqaddam-Far, an adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, spoke in unusually concrete terms. After repeating the regime\u2019s old accusations against the PMOI, he turned<\/a> to the present tense: \u201cThese people sometimes come now. I have seen some suspicious faces; for example, groups of motorcyclists. They try to move together, several of them; they wear masks.\u201d He then became even more specific: \u201cYes, they try to do this, but they are together, two or three of them, it is quite obvious, with motorcycles, with cars, girls and boys, in any form, women and men, they come.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the usual register of ideological sloganeering. It is operational language: suspicious faces, motorbikes, masks, twos and threes, mixed-gender movement, cars, mobility. It is the vocabulary of surveillance and street-level anxiety. More to the point, it is how a regime official sounds when he is describing not a distant memory, but a present concern.<\/p>\n

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Amid Bombing, Tehran Reveals Its Fear of the MEK and Another Uprising https:\/\/t.co\/agsw8BR5q2<\/a><\/p>\n

— M. S. Khansari (@khansari_m) March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n