{"id":18598,"date":"2019-12-26T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=18598"},"modified":"2019-12-26T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T02:28:13","slug":"the-mullahs-dreadful-response-to-the-mek-irans-role-in-iran-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/18598\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MULLAHS\u2019 DREADFUL RESPONSE TO THE MEK IRAN\u2019S ROLE IN IRAN PROTESTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE MULLAHS\u2019 DREADFUL RESPONSE TO THE MEK IRAN\u2019S ROLE IN IRAN PROTESTS<\/h1>\n

Written by\u00a0Esmail Mohades<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0December 26, 2019. Posted in\u00a0NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n

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The mullahs\u2019 regime is extremely disturbed about the revelation of the death toll of the November uprising by the\u00a0Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)<\/a>. The regime\u2019s media strongly reacted to\u00a0the Reuters report, citing the MEK<\/a>\u00a0was the source of the death toll of the report.<\/p>\n

Ahmad Tavakoli a member of the regime\u2019s Expediency Council, and former minister of labor, the former spokesman for the government and head of the regime\u2019s research center, in a piece on his website, writes about the role of the MEK in the November uprising. In his piece, he claims that the Reuters source for the death toll was the MEK.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the start of the recent uprisings, the MEK, with years of experience in lying, has been busy reporting casualties\u2026 the statement No. 43 of the MEK, which was released on December 5, under the title of\u00a0the National Council of Resistance<\/a>, announced that the number of deaths was 750. A day later they released statement No. 44, and the number reached 1000. A week later, on December 9, 2019, Brian Hook the U.S. State Department\u2019s Special Representative on Iran upheld the MEK\u2019s claim that more than 1000 people had been killed by regime forces in Iran,\u201d Reads the piece adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cStatement No. 55 of the National Council of Resistance\u2026announced the death toll to be over 1500. Surprisingly, this figure has now been republished in a controversial report by the Reuters news agency\u2026\u00bb<\/p>\n

The piece also refers to other revelations and attributes them to the MEK.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the first time Reuters has republished news\u2026 from the MEK. Another controversial example was when Reuters claimed there is evidence showing nuclear cooperation between Iran and North Korea\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MEK\u2019s language has even infiltrated into the speech Trump during his first remarks delivered at the United Nations General Assembly, clearly placing him in the front against the regime. Nikki Haley was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations when the UN Security Council session was held over the events of the January 2018 incidents. In her press conference following that session, she related various slogans to Iranian protesters that were repeated years before in the MEK\u2019s media outlets\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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#<\/span>MaryamRajavi<\/span><\/a>:”the massacre of1,500 youth intensifies the #<\/span>Iranian<\/span><\/a> nation\u2019s rage &strengthens Iranian ppl\u2019s resolve 4freedom.The bloody Nov.uprising dashed certain myths&illusions. It showed that no one in #<\/span>Iran<\/span><\/a> has pinned any hope on change from within the regime”.#<\/span>IranProtests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Mrs. @<\/span>Maryam_Rajavi<\/span><\/a> called on the #<\/span>UNSC<\/span><\/a> to declare #<\/span>Iran<\/span><\/a> regime\u2019s leaders such as Khamenei, Rouhani, Ali Shamkhani, secretary for the Supreme Security Council, and Hossein Salami, the #<\/span>IRGC<\/span><\/a>\u2019s commander, as perpetrators of #<\/span>CrimesAgainstHumanity<\/span><\/a> to face justice.#<\/span>FreeAllProtesters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The author then grumbles about the\u00a0MEK\u2019s international support<\/a>\u00a0and writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe position of Giuliani and Bolton at the Trump (administration) is also interesting because they are both public speakers of the MEK. However, Bolton, while he was the US National Security Adviser, in an interview recalled that Obama and Hillary Clinton had removed the MEK from the US terrorist list.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the BBC Persian TV, during its news reports in December, occasionally broadcast images with the logo of the MEK television. At least other anti-regime outlets have proven to be unreliable sources. Even Farsi outlets that are against the regime cannot compete at all with the MEK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the author, in fear of the MEK\u2019s power, warns the West that they should not support the MEK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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