Mojahedin Khalq, Tehran’s Trojan Horse

Until the horrific and terrorist disaster of October 7, most world powers were helpless in the face of this Islamic monster of the Islamic Republic, and even tolerated it as a regional power. Of course, Israel paid the price for this irresponsible appeasement, and it led to the largest Jewish genocide since the Holocaust.

After this inhumane event, Israel realized that to confront the borderless terrorism of the occupying mullahs in Tehran, it must take direct action itself; otherwise, another Islamic regime will pop up next door. The Israeli government and army, with the sympathy of the bereaved people, destroyed Tehran’s defensive embankments from Dahiyya to Gaza in the shortest possible time.

A year ago, no one would have believed it, but a year later there was no trace of Hassan Nasrallah, Hashem Safi al-Din, Ismail Haniyeh, and Yahya Sinwar. It was not just the killing of four people, but also the amputating of the octopus’s limbs by Israel in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and even Iraq, which caused the collapse of the terrorist arms of Ali Khamenei, the Islamist dictator of the Islamic Republic.

Currently, the Khamenei regime, having lost its proxy terrorism, is trying to ensure its survival by acquiring nuclear warheads and has used all its strength for this purpose. On the other hand, the Iranian people’s contempt for the chaotic situation due to the corruption, incompetence, disregard, and destruction by the mullahs’ regime grows stronger by the day and has caused the entire Iranian administrative, economic, and industrial sectors to halt five out of the seven days of the week under various pretexts.

The daily increase in the price of the dollar, along with the fall in the value of the national currency and the unbridled hourly inflation, indicating the collapse of the clerical economy, has prepared the ground for a popular revolution. What everyone is facing in the meantime is the possibility of the collapse of four decades of Khomeinist Islamism, signs of which suggest that this event is inevitable in Iran, and although its date cannot be specified, it can be said with certainty: it is imminent.

Since the Iranian and Israeli peoples have shared interests and empathized from a historical, cultural, and political perspective, and the Islamic regime has always tried to undermine this issue with anti-Israelism, the manner and behavior of the government after the fall of the mullahs is an important point for Iranians and Israelis.

Today the Iranian people demand the establishment of a secular government based on democracy. Unfortunately, in the past week, 151 legislators from both the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States passed a resolution led by California Representative Tom McClintock, in which they supported the People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI). This organization also goes by the names: The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) and National Council of Resistance (NCRI). This proposes to establish an interim government after the fall of the Islamic Republic, which, in addition to being hated by the Iranian people, is no different from the current Ayatollah regime.

Right to left: Massoud Rajavi, Khomeini and Musa Khiabani/ Source: Public Media

Up until 2012, the organization was on the US terrorist list and is even now on the terrorist lists of countries such as Japan and Iraq. Its dark history has been reported for decades, and therefore it is surprising that US senators have stepped up to promote and protect the organization.

Just like Tehran’s authorities, the MEK/MKO/PMOI/NCRI leaders too employ propaganda to create confusion in public opinion. By inviting retired politicians (and in other instances, political figures such as Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Mike Pence, et al) they try to present themselves as a different face from that of their past. However, the ideological Islamism in the internal relations of this organization shows: the difference between the current Mujahedin organization and those of 30 years ago is like the Taliban of the 1990s and those of today in Afghanistan.

Red-scarved women in the Marxist-Islamist Organization/ Source: Public Media

The history of the organization before the Islamic Revolution in Iran includes the assassination of American diplomats. With an anti-imperialist or anti-American policy, the MEK, supported Khomeini, resorted to armed guerrilla warfare and assassinated American military advisors in Iran; Colonel Lewis Lee Hawkins, Colonel Paul Schaefer, and Jack Turner were among the military personnel killed.

COL. LEWIS L. HAWKINS VICTIM / Source: Public Media

Although in the early days of the Islamic revolution the organization led by Massoud Rajavi joined Khomeini, carrying out hundreds of flagrant summary executions of innocent Iranians, later they acrimoniously parted ways and to this day this organization and its members consider themselves the original owners of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and believe that their revolution was stolen and they must take it back from Khamenei.

Of the 151 American politicians who signed and back these Islamic Pol Pots, many of them are over 70 years of age, whose worldview is frozen in time, to the 1970. Their actions are both a contradiction of the will and spirit of today’s generation in Iran and contrary to the policy of President Trump’s administration, whose slogan is based on “common sense.”

The political form and thinking of the Mojahedin Khalq to this day shows that they are the flip side of the Islamic Republic coin. Their leader Massoud Rajavi simply vanished more than a decade ago, never to be heard from, nor has his disappearance been explained. According to his followers, Rajavi and now his wife, Maryam, who is the de facto ruler of the organization, follow an apocalyptic ideology and religion, just like the Islamic Republic.

Just like the Islamic Republic, the Mojahedin are also known for their open antisemitism as a part of their ideology. On May 9, 1979, on the orders of Khomeini, Habibollah Elghanian, a patriotic Iranian entrepreneur and industrialist, who also headed up the Iranian Jewish Association, was savagely executed. After his inhuman execution, Massoud Rajavi, gleefully congratulated Khomeini in a letter expressing his happiness for the execution of a “connected capitalist” and “agent of Zionism;” the letter was published in the newspapers of that time.

Left: The book cover of ‘Titan of Tehran.’ Right: Habib Elghanian, a prominent leader of Iran’s Jewish community, seen during his trial in Iran that led to his 1979 execution. (Collage by Grace Yagel/JTA)

Massoud Rajavi’s meeting with Hani al-Hassan and Yasser Arafat and his defense of Palestinian terrorist movements are a small part of the anti-Israel activities of this dreaded organization, and this support continues to this day, as even after the October 7 attacks, no message of condemnation or expression of regret in sympathy with the people of Israel is seen from its current head, Maryam Rajavi. In April 1980, after Fatah’s terrorist attack on the Misgav am kindergarten, Massoud Rajavi sent a congratulatory message to Fatah and met with Hani al-Hassan.

Hani Al Hassan and Massoud Rajavi/ Source: Public Media

Massoud Rajavi and Yasser Arafat / Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Massoud_Rajavi_and_Yasser_Arafat.jpg

Maryam Rajavi and Mahmoud Abbas/ Source: Public Media

Maryam Rajavi speaking at a memorial held by the organization for Yasser Arafat, following his death/ Source: Public Media

Maryam Rajavi speaking at a memorial held by the organization for Yasser Arafat, following his death.

After their falling out with Khomeini and his cronies, Rajavi and his organization fled to Iraq where they stayed until the fall of Saddam Hussein. During those 22 years, they operated like Saddam’s private army, using Iraqi financial support, weapons and strategic resources. They fought alongside Saddam’s army during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, slaughtering more Iranians and carrying out attacks on Iranian soil alongside Iraqi forces. They killed and wounded thousands of Iranian soldiers in operations Aftab, Chalcheragh and Forough Javidan, and this, among others, is one of the reasons why the Iranian people despise this organization.

Massoud Rajavi meets Saddam Hussein/ Source: Public Media

In the same vein, the Mojahedin are also notorious among the Kurds, especially the Iraqi Kurds. In the minds of the Kurdish people, the cooperation of this organization’s forces in the massacre of the people of Kurdistan remains, to this day, a painful and horrific memory. The “Anfal” disaster in the minds of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan is the same as the Holocaust of the Jewish people. In this genocide, which took place from 1988 to 1991 in the provinces of Diyala, Kirkuk and Salahuddin, three thousand villages were destroyed and more than 180,000 people were killed. In this ethnic cleansing, the forces of the People’s Mojahedin Organization cooperated alongside the Iraqi forces and have so far escaped punishment due to the deception of world opinion.

In the past 20 years, when the Islamic Republic has faced uprisings and popular protests, the People’s Mojahedin Organization has smoothly acted as a Trojan horse for the mullahs in the guise of opposition. The Islamic Republic, which is aware of the hatred of the Iranian people towards them and the MEK, has, in times of pressure, instilled in the people that if it falls, the West will bring in the MEK because the current government of the Islamic Republic believes that the MEK is the real Islamic Republic!

The Islamic Republic which has always been in loggerheads with the Iranian people’s open resentment toward them, has attempted to instill terrifying scenarios such as ISIS, becoming Syrian (before the fall of Assad), and the MEK. Many people do not see any difference between the Islamic Republic and the MEK because they are both rotten fruits of the same tree.

Now, following the 150 American politicians’ absurd support for the MEK, many Iranians are saying: If after the fall of the Islamic Republic the Iranian people themselves are not being permitted to have a role in forging their own future, and the MEK are going to be installed in the place of the Mullahs, then why should they start a revolution? Better, stay with the devil you know!

In fact, this exact notion is what the Islamic Republic wants and counts on, and of course, it is a huge and self-defeating mistake on the part of said politicians to support and trust these Islamic Pol Pots, who have access to abundant, non-transparent financial resources and like the Khomeinist rulers, have no commitment to the free and democratic choice of the Iranian people!