MEK Recruiting on the Front Page of Iranian.com & Censored Facts About that Information

This blog is to note falsehoods in the article titled ‘Mujahedeen’s Moment’ and featured on the front page of Iranian.com.

 

1.  It has been established that  the statement, “The unprecedented, massive turnout of 100,000-plus participants” is a lie.  An aerial photo of a 100,000 person population from the town of Lodi, California was included for comparative purposes to show the suspect nature of the claim that 100,000 people attended the MEK rally. 


2.  It has been established that the source for 100,000 figure was the MEK itself, and that it used shell organizations masquerading as news-outlets to disseminate the false claim about the size of the rally, which was also re-published on the front page of Iranian.com as a fact without any form of independent verification of the claim.  Iranian.com then excluded two of our contributions critical of the unchecked and deceptive attendee figure in which we also noted that inflated attendance records are commonly used as a recruiting device to give the false impression that a group is more popular than it is.


3.  The so-called news outlets below are the MEK. We have verified many many Iranian organizations and news sources (not just the MEK) hiding pertinent facts about the nature of their group through the use of a multiplicity of names.     


a.  MEK = http://www.stopfundamentalism.com/

b.  MEK = http://www.occdi.org/   “Organizing Committee for Convention for Democracy in Iran”

c.  MEK = http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/  “The National Council of Resistance of Iran”

 

 

 

4.  Previously the MEK has used rent-a-crowd audiences — who have been shown in up close footage and interviews to not have been “Iranians.”  Given these verified past practices, this article’s claim that the attendees were “100,000 Iranians” is doubly suspect both as to the overall figure and as to the ethnicity of the attendees in light of the prior deceptive practice.   


5.  The statement, “Since no government provides material support to the PMOI…” is false.  We have verified that funding has been provided through various means, including through a Swiss company called Interop that is headed by Danny Yatom, the former head of Israel’s Mossad.   France also provides material support in allowing the MEK to base its organizing activities from its soil (as did the former government of Iraq), and a number of recently retired US government figures support the MEK, raising the inference that prior to leaving government service MEK enjoyed support among some of these figures.   The government of France also looks the other way to MEK fundraising characterized as ‘charities helping foreign people in need,’ that include offers of ‘sightseeing and tourism’ to recruit supporters and raise money. 

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