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NBC’S “GIULIANI'S WORK FOR IRANIAN GROUP … LEAD TO MORE LEGAL WOES” IS YELLOW JOURNALISM 24 October 2019 You can tell a smear piece in today’s highly charged and partisan journalism when it starts off with the media’s most powerful weapon: the selective backgrounder aimed at guiding the uninitiated reader to the conclusion of the writer wishes to sear into our minds. So it is with  NBC’s  October 17 article titled, “Giuliani's work for Iranian group with bloody past could lead to more legal woes,” written by Julia Ainsley, Andrew W. Lehren, and Rich Schapiro and published on NBC News website. The article is aimed at Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, and famed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. It is a take-down of the current personal lawyer to US President Donald J. Trump. But what irks me most is the liberty the all-knowing authors take in smearing the historical and heroic resistance movement to the Ayatollahs in Iran that th...

Rebuttal to NBC News Hit Piece Against MEK and Its Popular Support in Iran Published on  20 October 2019 . THE FOLLOWING IS A REBUTTAL TO AN ARTICLE BY THE NBC NEWS ON OCTOBER 17, 2019, REPLETE WITH BASELESS AND THREADBARE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE MUJAHEDIN-E KHALQ (PMOI/MEK) AND THE SUPPORT IT HAS ENJOYED OVER THE YEARS AMONG PROMINENT FORMER SENIOR U.S. OFFICIALS.  By Ali Safavi The article  (NBC, October 17, 2019) is the latest in a series of pieces that have rehashed stale and universally debunked allegations against the main Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Any fair-minded person can effortlessly discover that the main source of these allegations is the religious fascism ruling Iran.  Regrettably, NBC has refused to publish the MEK’s rebuttals to such false allegations in the past. To set the record straight, the following points need to be reiterated. For the past 40 years, the MEK has proudly waged a campaign for democracy against the...