{"id":16235,"date":"2026-05-06T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:54:56","slug":"american-zionist-the-mek-is-a-fake-iranian-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/16235","title":{"rendered":"American Zionist: The MEK is a Fake Iranian Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

An American-Israeli social activist considers the MEK a terrorist group that will never change. In an article in Townhall<\/em>, Jonathan Feldstein, an American living in Israel, called the MEK a fake Iranian opposition and described them as “wolves in different wolves’ clothing.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Feldstein is an American who immigrated to Israel in 2004. \u00a0He has a three-decade career in fundraising and marketing for Israeli foundations. He is also an author who is considered a \u201crespected\u201d bridge between Jews and Christians, in Israel.<\/p>\n

His piece is actually a response to a MEK agent who claimed that the MEK has changed and is no longer repeating its terrorist past. In response, Feldstein tries to acknowledge, while reviewing the MEK’s background, that the MEK has never changed to better; has no political or social legitimacy for Iranians and that this MEK “agent” is actually selling himself to clear the bloody record of his employers.<\/p>\n

The Zionist author, Feldstein begins the article with a question about the MEK agent and gives a comprehensive answer:<\/p>\n

Who is the \u201cagent\u201d selling out for, why, and why does it matter?<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) is one of the most prominent and controversial Iranian opposition groups. Founded in 1965, it evolved from a student-led Marxist revolutionary movement to an exiled organization advocating for regime change in Iran. Its history is of violent confrontations, forced exile, and robust international public relations and lobbying. It\u2019s front organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) seeks to pasteurize its terrorist origins and position it as a legitimate player in the broader Iranian landscape.<\/p>\n

MEK and NCRI are one and the same, a hand-in-glove relationship. Rather than a legitimate opposition, they represent a disgruntled and isolated \u2013 and very well-funded \u2013 terrorist group. They are nothing more than wolves in different wolves\u2019 clothes. Sadly, there are many Western leaders who are in their pockets, literally, and others like their \u201cagent\u201d who are on the payroll.<\/p>\n

When one speaks of the red-green alliance, the MEK\/NCRI is the embodiment of that. They blend radical Islam with Marxist revolutionary ideology. MEK always emphasized armed struggle against oppression to achieve its goals. Massoud Rajavi joined in the late 1960s and rose to its leadership after the Shah\u2019s regime executed the founders and other leaders.<\/p>\n

In the 1979 Islamic Revolution, MEK supported Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It gained popularity for its anti-monarchy stance and organizational strength. But they had a fallout with \u201cSupreme Leader\u201d Khomeini and, after being violently put down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), they turned to terror inside Iran, leading to a brutal crackdown against its members and supporters. Its leaders fled Iran to protect themselves.<\/p>\n

Rajavi fled to Paris, establishing NCRI as part of its exiled underground network. It relocated to Iraq in 1986, allying with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War. This, and participating in the killing of Iranians in order to carry out their terrorist goals, alienated many Iranians and fueled accusations of collaboration with arch-enemy Saddam. Still today, MEK is wildly unpopular and viewed with hatred, as treasonous, by many Iranians.<\/p>\n

Through the 1990s and early 2000s, MEK was designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., U.K., E.U., and Canada. But after purportedly renouncing violence in the early 2000s, with no confirmed terrorist acts for which they took credit for over a decade, the West delisted it as a terror group. These decisions were driven largely by geopolitical considerations and challenges in relocating MEK members from Iraq to Albania. After all, nobody wants a terrorist group in their backyard, so a thick coat of whitewash, a slick PR campaign, and international declarations of \u201creform\u201d made them suddenly palatable. Good neighbors.<\/p>\n

But more than actually renouncing terror, the reversal was the product of well-funded intense lobbying, and a media smoke and mirrors scheme such as that which their \u201cagent\u201d is involved. It bears repeating that there are no known instances of Islamic terrorist groups truly renouncing their ideology or use of terror to achieve their goals. Pigs flying and hell freezing over are appropriate metaphors.<\/p>\n

Today, MEK\/NCRI supporters worship Maryam Rajavi, Massoud\u2019s wife. He has been missing for two decades and presumed dead. They view her words as gospel, her ten-point plan for Iran as coming from Mt. Sinai. On the surface, they claim to support a plan for Iran rooted in secular democracy, gender equality, and without nukes. But follow Iranians in Iran and in the diaspora, and you\u2019ll more often than not find them deriding and delegitimizing MEK\/NCRI and Rajavi.<\/p>\n

Further accusations of MEK\/NCRI being cultlike are echoed in the absolute uniformity of \u201cthought\u201d that they present, minimally, as if they are reading from the same script, to, in fact, being brainwashed.<\/p>\n

After a personal encounter that became a heated on-air debate with one of their speakers placed by the \u201cagent,\u201d I confronted their \u201cagent\u201d when I heard about him promoting them. \u201cI heard you\u2019re promoting NCRI. Is that correct?\u201d Usually, a publicist helps clients formulate the talking points. In this case, the \u201cagent\u201d has been indoctrinated by the client.<\/p>\n

After he admitted it, he pedaled that they are \u201cformer\u201d terrorists, as if singing a John Lennon anti-war song, insisting \u201cpeople change.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had a prior professional connection with the \u201cagent\u201d and challenged him, \u201cI remember exactly where I was when you called me to ask about them. Your take on who they are and what they represent is mistaken. They are misleading you and the world. You\u2019re being used. Shame that you are placing booking terrorists over integrity.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The \u201cagent\u201d doubled down, \u201cFormer terrorist entity. There’s a difference. People change. They (MEK\/NCRI) are better than imposing a King on them for the new regime. Ninety-four million mostly-Persian citizens deserve better than a King (aka Shah). Don’t you think?\u201d<\/p>\n

No, sir, don\u2019t YOU think? Clearly not. Not as long as the Marxist-Islamist checks are being cashed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ironic to defend MEK\/NCRI as democratic when the Rajavi dynasty has been in control since the 1980s. Her colorful hijab, as compared to the Islamic Republic\u2019s preferred black, suggests openness, but it\u2019s just a ruse to make you think they want democracy, secular reforms, and gender equality<\/p>\n

The \u201cagent\u201d is pushing MEK\/NCRI and Maryam Rajavi as an addicted drug dealer would do to fund his own addiction. Ultimately, the future of Iran needs to be decided by Iranians. But don\u2019t let people like their \u201cagent\u201d and others pull the hijab over your eyes. MEK\/NCRI are not to be trusted and, yes, the Iranian people deserve better.<\/p>\n

Taken from Jonathan Feldstein\u2019s article in Townhall<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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