Whenever Tehran faces a crisis, it predictably dispatches its proxies to disseminate venomous propaganda against its principal opposition: the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the broader coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), of which the MEK is a prominent member.

In this ongoing saga, Eldar Mamedov, a Latvian, has re-emerged with an article replete with stale and thoroughly discredited claims churned out by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), targeting Javier Zarzalejos, a notable member of the European People’s Party (EPP) and chair of the EP’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).

This latest tirade, titled "MEK’s shadow in European Parliament," by Mamedov, ever-so-dedicated to Iran’s theocracy, appears in the so-called "Responsible Statecraft," a lofty title for a platform run by the notorious Tehran lobbyist in Washington, DC, Trita Parsi. Here we go again with Mamedov's typical recipe for drama.The litany of old, patently false, and often-debunked allegations in the article hardly merits a response, given the wealth of well-researched, documented, and scholarly work that has previously refuted these claims.

It's unsurprising why Mamedov has aimed his sights at Mr. Zarzalejos. In a January 2024 meeting in Brussels, attended by several MEPs, Zarzalejos unveiled a damning report........

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