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Bashing Iran’s Democratic Alternative?

French Renaissance writer, Michel de Montaigne, once said, “Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.“True to form, in the face of stubborn facts, Michael Rubin has again displayed a pattern of cognitive dissonance and ardent clinging to his erroneous opinions about the principal opposition movement in Iran, the Mujahedin‑e Khalq (MEK), particularly at a time when the movement has made major political strides on the world stage.  Rubin argues, “It is time to retire any support for the Mujahedin‑e Khalq,”  a pleading that he has vociferously made during the past two decades, as the MEK won court case after court case against the politically motivated terror tag aimed at appeasing the criminal Iranian regime, and as hundreds of reputable and respected US and European politicians, human rights defenders, intellectuals, and public figures flocked to the MEK’s side in bringing about fundamental change in Iran.Rubin should know that the ever more forceful hurling of political epithets at the MEK does not make them true. “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,” said Mahatma Gandhi aptly.The religious dictatorship in Iran is paranoid about the MEK and publicly shows, in rhetoric and action, that it views the organization as an existential threat, to the extent that it continues to plot terrorist actions against it. Just this past month, when the MEK’s parent organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), was planning to hold its annual Free Iran World Summit in Albania, the US government issued a security alert, about “a potential threat targeting the Free Iran World Summit to be held near Durres, Albania on July 23–24, 2022.“On July 27, the mouthpiece of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Fars News, publicly called for missile and drone attacks on the MEK’s headquarters, Ashraf‑3, in Albania. “Authorities …

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