Tehran’s newspapers spread the false rumor that Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian opposition and former Secretary-General of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), had been hospitalized due to illness. This came just a day after Le Monde published a lengthy four-page article attacking the PMOI, the main force of resistance against the Tehran dictator, using the same labels that the regime has been using for forty years. Worse, the dissemination and publication date were announced by “NGOs” linked to the regime’s intelligence services. But why?

In the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, falsely accused the Mojahedin of setting buses or farms on fire. This was all aimed at discrediting the organization, which enjoyed widespread support from the younger generation, particularly girls and women, and had a history of brilliant resistance against the Shah’s dictatorship.

In 1988, when the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), with the Mojahedin as its main pillar, managed to stop Ayatollah Khomeini’s warmongering ambitions—who claimed he would fight to the last house in Tehran—and forced him to “drink poison” (in his own words) and accept the ceasefire resolution. Khomeini paid the price for his withdrawal by massacring approximately thirty thousand PMOI prisoners. This war had cost the Iranian people........

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