Don’t buy Tehran’s propaganda that the MEK is a terrorist group
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-02/response-from-mek-iran Don’t buy Tehran’s propaganda that the MEK is a terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq members wave Iranian flags during the conference “120 Years of Struggle for Freedom Iran” in Manza, Albania, on July 13. (Gent Shkullaku / AFP/Getty Images) UG. 3, 2019 3 AM To the editor: This article fails to mention the real source of the Mujahedin Khalq’s (MEK) power: its network inside Iran, which has enabled it not only to reveal the most sensitive information on the mullahs’ two-decade-long clandestine nuclear weapons program, but also to organize and direct the nationwide protests that erupted in Iran in 2018. In April 2019, Iran’s intelligence minister admitted that the regime had arrested operatives from 116 MEK-affiliated teams. Dozens more, according to intelligence officials, were detained in East Azerbaijan province. Tehran has also waged a sophisticated propaganda ca...