Agents from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), which leads the group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have been appearing on pro-Trump news stations and podcasts recently to promote their vision for Iran’s future to the American people, amidst widespread anti-regime protests in Iran.
What they are leaving out is the fact that MEK is a terrorist network that was responsible for the death of U.S. military officers and contractors in Iran between 1973 and 1976. The group has murdered American soldiers, conducted coordinated attacks on embassies worldwide in 1992, celebrated the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on New York City, and are longtime allies of the PLO Islamic terrorist organization.
A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry in 2014 attacked the group for its “violent and non-democratic inspirations,” “cult nature,” and “intense campaign of influence and disinformation.”
But don’t tell neoconservatives like Mike Pence, John Bolton, and John McCain, along with numerous elected Democrats, including former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who is currently in prison for accepting gold bar bribes from Qatar and Egypt.
Just because MEK supports the removal of the Islamic regime of Iran does not mean that the group supports the vision of a secular, peaceful Iran promoted by Reza Pahlavi and others.
MEK’s ideal governing structure for Iran is a far-left utopia that embraces similar cultural aspects of the current Islamic Republic. MEK hates Shah Pahlavi and his pro-Western ideals.
For decades, MEK was listed by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization. This changed when Barack Hussein “My Muslim faith” Obama came into office. His administration, including Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and the rest of Team Appease, Apologize, and Abandon, which got us into this situation, removed MEK as a foreign terrorist network in 2012, stating:
“With today’s actions, the Department does not overlook or forget the MEK’s past acts of terrorism, including its involvement in the killing of U.S. citizens in Iran in the 1970s and an attack on U.S. soil in 1992. The Department also has serious concerns about the MEK as an organization, particularly with regard to allegations of abuse committed against its own members.”
Obama proved himself a friend to Islamic oppression in Iran, sending them US tax dollars, and paving the way for the disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal, which he innocently named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He also renamed the War on Terror “Overseas Contingency Operations.”
After MEK was dropped from America’s foreign terrorism database, the organization began legally lobbying American politicians with a particular focus on sympathetic, naive neocons.
In 2023, Politico reported that MEK paid former Vice President Mike Pence nearly half-a-million dollars to carry their water. In 2024, former Vice President Pence was the headline speaker at the MEK-backed “Free Iran” 2024 conference. “I want the wider world to understand that the MEK and the NCRI share the same values,” Pence said.
MEK has also taken a keen interest in John Bolton. FARA records from 2022 and 2023 show the MEK-led National Council of Resistance of Iran paid Bolton to launder their talking points via U.S. media appearances. FARA records pertaining to Bolton, MEK, and NCRI also show that Alireza Jafarzadeh, the individual currently appearing on pro-Trump networks and podcasts, instructed John Bolton on pro-MEK talking points that Bolton then repeated on air.
Like Pence, Bolton supports MEK’s policies, stating in 2022:
“There is a viable alternative, the alternative that the MEK and NCRI are working inside Iran to create.”
Bolton and Pence’s fellow neoconservative Trump haters, John McCain and Mike Pompeo, also have connections to MEK. In opposition to President Trump’s Iran policy, MEK embraced McCain-like views in a 2017 X post. The MEK article associated with the 2017 X post has been deleted, but the article’s deletion, along with McCain calling for a new Middle East strategy, makes MEK and McCain’s intentions of undermining President Trump perfectly clear.
Trump’s former Secretary of State MIke Pompeo has also given speeches at MEK-backed conferences.
MEK has praised Trump-hater Thom Tillis, who is no longer seeking reelection in North Carolina due to his anti-Trump policies. A June 2024 post from MEK stated that the organization was proud to stand with Senator Tillis and Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
MEK also supported Democrat Senator Bob Menendez. A press release on MEK’s website from 2022 highlighted Senator Menendez’s support for the organization. Less than a year later, Menendez, along with his wife, was found guilty of taking gold bar bribes from Egypt and Qatar in one of the most odious public corruption cases in U.S. history.
Bob Menendez’s former coworker, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who testified on Menendez’s behalf, also gave a speech in support of MEK.
MEK’s decision to target neocons and globalist Democrats is no accident. MEK understands that its crazed communist-Islamist ideology will never align with the Trump administration or the people of Iran. They want an Iranian revolution that creates a power vacuum they can step into, just like Khomeini did in 1979.
Look at Iraq. Saddam Hussein was removed, but the failed neocon, globalist policies of McCain, Bush, and Obama failed to produce a stable government. This allowed ISIS and Iran to fill the void, cracking down on Western sympathizers and sowing chaos for years. ISIS is still the largest global Jihadist organization, inspiring attacks across the U.S. and Europe.
The Iranian people are fighting the regime, going to the streets in protest, running over corrupt security forces with their cars, and renaming roads after President Trump because they want peace, prosperity and a pro-Western government similar to the one they had before the 1979 Revolution.
Tehran was the jewel of the Middle East before the Islamic Revolution. The country has since been a nightmare of oppression, tyranny, and state-sponsored terrorism – all in the name of Islam.
Iran does not need another cult, another Marxist-Islamist experiment, or another foreign-backed pressure group masquerading as “the opposition.” The Iranian people are risking their lives for a future that looks nothing like MEK’s authoritarian fantasy — and everything like the free, pro-Western nation they lost in 1979. That future does not come from paid lobbyists, neocon war relics, or terrorists in new suits. It comes from a legitimate transitional path led by Shah Reza Pahlavi, backed by Iranians inside Iran, grounded in secular governance, national sovereignty, and democratic elections. President Trump holds this same view, which is why he’s meeting Pahlavi this week at Mar-a-Lago.
Pro-Trump media figures and conservatives must stop platforming MEK operatives and laundering their propaganda. Supporting regime change in Iran means standing with the Iranian people—not empowering the next disaster waiting to replace the current one.
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