Ali Safavi, Originally published by Washington Examiner, September 1, 2026 The regime in Tehran is reeling under a collapsing economy, public anger, systemic corruption, and its inability to resolve Iran’s multiplying crises. International attention is therefore turning toward the decisive internal factor: the Iranian people and organized resistance.
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Ali Safavi, Originally published in Townhall, March 18, 2025 Michael Rubin’s latest tirade against the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is as predictable, as it is monotonous, a tired attempt to resuscitate long-debunked smears with the same desperation as Iran’s regime clinging to its last breath. At
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, June 24, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director In recent weeks, the surge of misinformation and propaganda originating from Iran against the Iranian Resistance and its key component, the MEK, has significantly intensified. The Resistance and its President-elect Maryam Rajavi’s
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, June 14, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director In a farcical spectacle held every Tuesday under the guise of a trial against the main organized opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), the clerical dictatorship regularly calls on foreign
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, April 3, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director For decades, Iran’s regime has relentlessly cracked down on the organized democratic opposition movement, the MEK, which advocates for a secular republic. Despite labeling them insignificant, the regime’s extensive efforts to dismantle
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, November 29, 2023, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director A recent study by Friends of a Free Iran at the European Parliament probes into an intense campaign by the fundamentalist regime in Iran to vilify the democratic opposition through a network
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, November 16, 2023, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The recently published book, “IRAN: The Ayatollah’s Hidden Hand – Tehran’s Covert Campaign to Undermine Its Principal Opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK),” offers an insightful look into Tehran’s ongoing influence operations in
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By Ivan Sascha Sheehan, Originally Published in the Town Hall, October 09, 2023 In 2014, Ariane Tabatabai – then a predoctoral fellow at Harvard University – published an article which pointedly advised policymakers to “Beware of the MEK.” It repeated serious accusations against the Iranian regime’s principal
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 29, 2023, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director NCRI-US Deputy Director Alireza Jafarzadeh explains the Iranian regime’s disinformation campaign and why it persistently targets the MEK. The MEK is and has been the target of the Iranian regime’s lies, accusations,
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 27, 2023, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director In a meticulous campaign to refurbish its tarnished global image, especially surrounding its controversial nuclear program, the Iranian regime, as disclosed by today’s revelations, embarked on a covert initiative known as the
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