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Militant Shiite MEK Cult Rebranded for Western Politicians against Iranians

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02.03.2026

The Iranian people are dying in the streets, imprisoned, tortured, and executed for wanting a free nation — and yet Western politicians are giving a stage, a microphone, and legitimacy to the enemy of Iran. The Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO) is not an opposition. It is a terrorist, militant, anti-Iranian cult. Its history is soaked in blood — Iranian blood, American blood, and British blood. And yet, heavily paid appearances and endorsements by Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pence, John Baird, and Candice Bergen give it a veneer of respectability. This is not solidarity. It is outright betrayal.

Paid Endorsements for a Cult

Let’s call it what it is. The MEK is not a political party. It is a coercive, authoritarian cult masquerading as a democratic alternative. Inside Iran, it is despised across generations and political factions. Its leaders force divorces, ban family life, crush dissent, and demand absolute loyalty. Its operatives murdered civilians, killed American and British advisers in the 1970s, and fought alongside Saddam Hussein against their own countrymen during the Iran–Iraq War.

Yet these Western politicians climb their podiums, accept their money, and pretend that this cult represents the Iranian people. That is paid propaganda, pure and simple.

Former Western Politicians: Opportunists Over Principles

Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pence, John Baird, Candice Bergen , Tony Clement — and the rest of you Western politicians who support this cult Shiite militant group — you did not stand with Iranians. You stood with a terrorist Shiite cult. You ignored the voices of millions inside Iran who reject this organization. You turned your back on history, morality, and truth for speaking fees and political theater.

You did not represent Iran. You represented yourself and your bank account.

The MEK’s Record Is Irrefutable

Assassinations of Iranian civilians

Murder of American and British military advisers

Bombings and organized political violence

Fighting alongside Saddam Hussein during the Iran–Iraq War

Assisting in suppression of Kurdish and Shiite uprisings

Internal cult practices: forced divorces, family separation, ideological conditioning, and total obedience

This is not a smear. It is documented reality.

Every stage, every photo-op, every Western endorsement cannot erase that fact.

Iranians Have Spoken — Loud, Clear, and Bitter

Inside Iran, across generations, across politics:

No to the Islamic Republic

No to leftist Marxist groups

No to clerical tyranny

Western politicians who prop up the MEK are not helping the Iranian people. They are betraying them, repeating the same disastrous errors that helped empower the Islamic Republic in 1979.

Bought, Blind, and Complicit

Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pence, John Baird, Candice Bergen, Tony Clement, and the rest— take a hard look in the mirror. You have lent credibility to a terrorist, militant, anti-Iranian cult. You have taken money to speak on stages that celebrate betrayal, murder, and ideological oppression. You have silenced the voices of millions of Iranians who reject this organization.

This is not political theater. This is complicity with a group that killed civilians, fought against Iran, and destroyed families from the inside out. Every applause you earned, every paycheck you collected, is stained with blood.

Iranians will not forget. History will not forget. And when Iran rises, the world will remember which politicians chose loyalty to a cult over loyalty to a nation.

You are not defenders of freedom. You are moranic facilitators of a criminal enterprise masquerading as “opposition.” You are on the wrong side of history.


© The Times of Israel (Blogs)