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Fabricating lies, character assassination, and trumped-up cases against the Iranian Resistance only embolden the Iranian regime to escalate hostage-taking and further repression.
Iran’s ruling religious fascism and its media welcome and propagate slanderous allegations against Mrs. Rajavi, who already faces a death sentence from the regime’s judiciary.
The Iranian Resistance and its lawyers stand prepared to bring this case and its defamatory claims before the European Court of Human Rights.
Kowtowing to this regime and making repeated concessions at the expense of the Iranian Resistance, especially the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), has rendered hostage diplomacy lucrative for the Iranian regime, a practice it has pursued consistently for the past 46 years. The consequences of this misguided approach were evident in the cases involving the handover to the regime of terrorist diplomat Assadollah Assadi and notorious torturer Hamid Noury.
Character assassination, fabrication of dossiers, and slander against the Iranian Resistance, alongside baseless smears such as accusations of money laundering and absurd claims like a “coercive telethon,” have become prevalent tactics in the Iranian regime propaganda campaign. These false narratives have replaced previous fabrications alleging funding from the Soviet Union, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. The hastily published fake news by Le Canard Enchaîné regarding purported expenditures by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi and the PMOI/MEK—the declared “number one enemy” of Iran’s ruling religious fascism—is a notorious example of such defamatory operations whose motives and methods are transparent and widely recognized.
In a statement released on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, the press spokesman for the MEK in Paris clarified key points regarding misinformation deliberately provided to certain French media outlets, specifically citing the case published by Le Canard Enchaîné on March 18, 2015.
On the morning of Wednesday, March 19, the website of Radio Europe 1 wrote: “From December to last month, two reports have been sent to the prosecutors of Île-de-France and les Hauts-de-France on suspicion of money laundering under Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. They are related to front companies affiliated with the PMOI.”
At the same time, the state-controlled media of Iran’s ruling religious fascism enthusiastically echoed this fabricated report in a coordinated campaign. This blatant propaganda served as fuel for the ongoing absentia trial of Mrs. Rajavi, who has faced more than 30 court sessions over the past year and a half under the regime’s judiciary on charges of “rebellion and war against God”—charges that carry a pre-determined death sentence.
Nine months earlier, the regime’s judiciary court welcomed the storming of the building of the Cima Association. On June 19, 2024, Le Canard Enchaîné wrote, “The PMOI were on the other side of the scale in the sudden release of a French hostage on June 13…” Referring to the raid on the Cima Association building, the publication noted, “This operation was broadcast by LCI television at 5:43 p.m. that same day, and the news was immediately republished by the Iranian website Tasnim, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force. Iran’s judiciary vice-president later praised the French police raid on what he called the headquarters of a ‘terrorist group,’ asserting that Iran had been able to follow the operation in real time—suggesting direct access to the body cameras of the French officers.”
The Iranian Resistance and its legal team stand prepared to bring this case and its defamatory accusations before the European Court of Human Rights following proceedings in the French courts, ensuring that those responsible for spreading falsehoods are held accountable and discredited.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
March 20, 2025