by Mahmood Hakamian
One
of the most common reasons given for dismissing the Iranian Resistance,
specifically the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), is that it is
unpopular within Iran. This is simply untrue.
The
MEK is the largest and most popular people’s resistance movement within
Iran and it enjoys support from all sectors of the population. The
Mullahs’ Regime, on the other hand, is highly unpopular among the
Iranian people as evidenced by the hundreds of protests per day in 2017,
which was admitted to by the Regime and finally by the recent
nationwide protests and uprising in which the Iranian people clearly
expressed their desire for regime change as the one and only solution to
all the problems.
Getting
precise numbers of MEK members and supporters in Iran is impossible
because this organization has been banned there since the early 1980s,
shortly after the then Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini declared the MEK
to be enemies of the Regime.
The punishment under the Regime for being associated with
the MEK can be execution- under some vague charges of enmity against
god- so it is no wonder that MEK members have to keep their political
affiliation under wraps. Despite this, many Iranians will hold MEK
banners or flags during protests or hang them up in public places before
elections, so you can see that the MEK is incredibly popular in Iran.
If
you wanted a more precise way to measure support for the MEK within
Iran, one of the best ways is to look at the viewership figures for the
MEK’s television channel Face of Freedom. This channel presents unbiased
news to the Iranian people, bypassing Regime censorship, and also hosts
programs on Iranian history, literature, culture, art, music, and
comedy.
The
MEK’s television channel has about 10 million daily viewers, while the
website associated with Voice of Freedom gets tens of thousands of daily
hits. In 2017, the channel held a telethon to keep the channel going
and raised $5.5 million, which is a lot of money in Iran.
Regime knows that MEK is popular
Moreover,
if the MEK were just a fringe political group that was unpopular in
Iran, why would the Mullahs’ Regime dedicate so much time, money, and
effort into eliminating the MEK?
Over
the course of its existence, the Iranian Regime has murdered at least
120,000 people, majority of the supporters and members of the MEK. The
single biggest incidence was the 1988 massacre, when Khomeini issued a
fatwa calling for the extermination of the MEK. Over the course of just a
few months, 30,000 political prisoners again mostly MEK members and
affiliates, were murdered in mass executions and buried in mass graves.
This included people who had already served their sentence as a
political prisoner, children, the elderly, and the pregnant. No one was
spared.
If
120,000 is the number of the MEK members that have been executed, then
it stands to reason that the numbers who are still active in Iran are
much higher. It also does not take into account those who are
imprisoned, tortured, or otherwise punished for MEK membership.
Even
if we only took into account the supporters who have been killed by the
Regime, 120,000 is not a small number for support of a political party.
In the UK, the Scottish National party has about 120,000 members and
it’s the third-biggest party.
If
a political group is truly unpopular within a certain country, the
people in charge don’t need to demonise them, fight for them to be put
on terrorist watch lists, or murder them. Simply, the Regime sees that
the MEK is popular in Iran and a threat to the continued existence of
the Regime, which is why they try so hard to suppress the MEK.
Why is the MEK widely supported in Iran?
There
are many reasons why the MEK is popular amongst the ordinary Iranian
people- far too many to list here- but some include the MEK’s commitment
to democracy, its embracement of modern society, and its tolerant
interpretation of Islam.
The
MEK support a democratic, non-nuclear Iran with a commitment to human
rights and gender equality; something that most Iranians want.
The Iranian people are much more democratic, tolerant, and loving, than the Regime that rules them and want to see a Free Iran. They support the MEK and despise the Regime.
The Iranian people are much more democratic, tolerant, and loving, than the Regime that rules them and want to see a Free Iran. They support the MEK and despise the Regime.
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