Part 8: Recent political activities
This article is a part of an eleven part series:
- What is this article about
- Early days of the democratic movement
- The kingdom of Pahlavi
Pre-revolution
Revolution
- Reza Pahlavi
- Rajavi and MEK
- Recent political activities 👈
Reformists
- Iran and superpowers
Conclusion
The far-right wing
In Iran, the far-right conservative parties support the idea of having a lifetime ruler with absolute power who can do anything. They support this mainly because then, by getting close to this person, they can easily steal the country's resources and hide from justice thanks to their "friends" who own the judiciary system, police, and media.
The main far-right wing parties are:
1) Paydari — One of the most radical groups in Iran that, similar to Pahlavi and Rajavi's cult, is against democracy and the right to vote. This group was founded by Ahmadinejad (from a Jewish family who converted their surname to hide their identity), and his close friends like Sadeq Mahsouli, and Ahmadinejad's mentor, Morteza Agha Tehrani. There were also other people behind the scenes, such as Saeed Jalili and Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi.
2) Ansar-e Hezbollah — Also known as "the pressure group". It was founded after the new leader came to power and has been mainly used to attack universities physically, cinemas, or basically "anyone who thinks"! This cult is a new clown copy of what Shah (the last king) created with thugs like "Shaboon Bi Mokh" (meaning Shaboon without a brain).
3) Basij — The non-military part of Sepah (IRGC—a part of the official army of Iran), who are mainly used by the leader (who is also the chief commander of the military) to suppress any opposition. Initially, this group was not supposed to interfere in politics, but these days they are almost mixed with everything. Basij is similar to the Rastakhiz party (the party of the last king), which had unlimited power, and the Shah wanted to make it "the one and only allowed party" in the country.
Of course, other far-right groups also exist that all support the leader and his absolute superpower.
The far-left wing
The main far-left parties are:
1) Hezbe Motalefe Eslami — The main far-left party still operating in the country is Motalefe, a party of merchants who run businesses with the money they get from Rohaniun (religious clerics). I have heared from my father who worked with some of those heads of the Grand Bazar of Tehran that those who are close to Motalefe "work" with the money that Ayatollahs earn from "Khoms" (a religious tax intended for the poor), and they return it with interest (usury or Nozul khori, in Farsi).
2) Tudeh (People's Party) — The main far-left party that operates outside the country is Tudeh, a party that was founded by the Soviet Union and is still supported by Russia. After the revolution, many of them were hanged for treason. At the time, they were a close ally of MEK. I remember Hashemi Rafsanjani, in one of his sayings, mentioned that Ayatollah Khamenei asked Emam Khomeini to stop hanging them. After that, their organization disappeared.
3) MEK — The main far-left party that operates outside the country is MEK, a party that was founded by the Soviet Union and then later collaborated with Iraq and Saddam Hussein against Iran. Nowadays, these extremist terrorist communists are supported by the US and European countries! You can learn more about them in part 7 of this series if you haven't already.
A bit about Ahmadinejad (far-right)
Ahmadinejad was "nobody" from a poor region near Garmsar, Iran. His parents moved to Tehran when he was still a
child. He studied at university and became a qualified engineer with a doctorate in traffic management. Later, he
became the mayor of Tehran, while no one even knew him (which is questionable)!
His degree is also questionable, as he was associated with one of the intelligence services and had close ties to
particular government gangs.
Someone even calculated that he should not have had time to study, as he was working full-time somewhere else.
A photograph of Ahmadinejad holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows that he was previously known as Sabourjian—a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. Some say that his father changed their surname to Ahmadinejad to cover their Jewish roots. Ahmad refers to the Prophet Muhammad, and Nejad means "from the path of." This way, they could pretend to be a "real" Muslim family to survive and grow in this new Islamic system. Remember that, in Iran, every family that converts to Islam usually also takes a new Islamic identity.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior. The "Jian" ending to the name also specifically shows that the family had been practicing Jews.
In the summer of 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon (the 33-day war) and began killing innocent people in the neighboring country. That was similar to the recent genocide that Israel did to Gaza, the one that we witnessed with our eyes while the West was supporting it! People all around the world began questioning this illegal, barbaric invasion, and countries started to condemn it. It was this close to seeing, finally, the UN Security Council do something and take action against the Israeli apartheid neo-fa$cist regime. But it was exactly that moment when Ahmadinejad publicly said:
"Israel should be wiped off the map!" — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
That was enough for Israel to be rescued by its favorite asset. As a result, Israel was not condemned; instead, Iran faced multiple solitary UN sanctions! Imagine, Israel invades another country, kills civilians, and then instead Iran gets punished!
Some say that by making anti-Israeli statements, Ahmadinejad was trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. But one of his assets, Khavari, stole nearly 3 billion US dollars from Iran, moved to Canada, and later became a partner of Reza Pahlavi, who is an Israeli asset. Also, some say whener Ahamadi Nejad travels outside the country, he contacts Israeli agents. With all that, many think he was just another anti-Iranian ZiØn1st traitor who could find his way to power.
Later, after convincing Mojtaba Khamenei (who wanted to become the next leader) and the leader to run the coup in his favor, he founded "Paydari party" together with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi (Ayatollah Crocodile), who was promoting the exact "end of the world" story that ZiØn1st believes in. The exact same story that has been used to recruit neo-fa$cist haters from all around the world to join them in Project Israel.
You can read this article from The Telegraph for more information about Ahmadinejad's Jewish roots. Interestingly, a bit after that, in another article Meir Javedanfar, an Israeli ZiØn1st propaganda machine (with roots to Iran + supports the exact Aryan-Nazi suprematism), tried hard in his article to prove that Ahmadinejad has no Jewish roots! Interestingly also, Mehdi Khazali, an internet blogger who called for an investigation of Mr Ahmadinejad's roots, was arrested. Guess who wants to help hide Ahmadinejad's real roots? ✡️
The outside "opposition" and the West, which promote dictatorship
The West helps the far-right wing and supports the idea of having a lifetime dictator with absolute power. Here is how:
1. The US Sanctions against the society's middle class
In the past couple of decades, US sanctions have mainly (not if only) targeted the middle class of the society in Iran and anything related to Persian culture. The middle class, who have studied at university, do not easily bend to any sort of dictatorship and do not readily accept any kind of fundamentalism.
Unfortunately, the two main US-backed "opposition" groups (those who pretend to be the opposition, while all they have done in the past two decades was in favor of the radical parts of the government) support such blind sanctions. Primarily, because they benefit financially from it and have misused it to their advantage.
2. Rajavi and Pahlavi pretending to be the "leader"
Right after each demonstration, Rajavi and Pahlavi were pretending to be the "leaders" of the movement, and that was the main reason people were terrified of their sacrifices being stolen by these two groups. This is the primary reason why people leave the streets.
3. Cyber armies & media: United against the democratic movement
All three groups of followers of these dictators have created their cyber armies, and together with their media, they have been united against the reformists and anyone who promotes democracy. Most of this anti-reformist propaganda is supported by the US, Israel, and some anti-Iran Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
As an example, if you have recently listened to the Persian Voice of America (VOA) (backed by the Mafia of Reza Pahlavi in the US), you can obviously see that they are furious about the fact that the new president, Pezeshkian was elected, representing one of the reformists' parties. Pahlavi, VoA, and Israel are obviously furious that Saeed Jalili, who is a radical Islamist from the Paydari group, was not elected! As a result, every day, they find something negative to fool Iranians and to spread hate against this new anti-extremist president and Javad Zarif, who signed the JCPOA agreement with the US. If you remember, Obama got a Novel Prize for the JCPOA agreement; Instead, Java Zarif (the foreign minister of Iran who led this achievement) received 2+ sanctions from the US to please their beloved dictators, Pahlavi, Rajavi, and other anti-democratic extremists!
Why Rajavi and Pahlavi support US sanctions?
Primarily due to the substantial financial funding they receive from the US and the West. Also, who doesn't want to become the next dictator of a large country like Iran, with a vast amount of natural resources?
Additionally, they could use these sanctions to eliminate their opponents.
As an example, a few years ago, a woman named Niloufar Bahadorifar, living in California, was an activist
on Twitter during the "Zan Zendegi Azadi" movement, and she was promoting women's equal rights there while
defending Iranians against these Pahlavi/Rajavi fundamentalist gangs.
A while after that, Masih Ali Nejad (close to Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad's gang and the far-right extremists in Iran who
are against reformists, but she pretends to be a "women's rights activist" and "leader of the opposition" while she
is just an asset of the far-right gang close to Ahmadi Nejad), together with an Iranian intelligence agent
(also close to Ahmadi Nejad), one of her relatives, and a third person who played the role of "kidnapper" altogether
framed her and used the US sanctions as an excuse to get her imprisoned, while she was a manager in a big company
and obviously didn't have to get involved in any trouble.
Then, in the chain of propaganda/media that these "pretending to be the opposition" international gangs control (VoA, Iran International, and ManotoTV), they all started saying that she was arrested for "attempting to kidnap Masih Ali Nejad", to create an image of a "hero" for Ali Nejad, and to cover up the whole thing with a fabricated story.
Remember, she was sentenced to four years for "bypassing sanctions" = giving a random person a few hundred dollars!… while she was a manager in a large brand, and obviously didn't need that money. Exchanging money among Iranians who live abroad is a common thing due to all these stupid, inhumane, hate-based sanctions, and these gangs use it as one reason to eliminate their opponents.
I remember her account (Niloofar from California) on Twitter during the Zan Zendegi Azadi movement, advocating for gender, ethnic, and religious equal rights. I also remember she was under constant harassment and even threats from supporters and members of Reza Pahlavi and Maryam Rajavi's cyber cults. I tried to find her Twitter account for this article, but I couldn't find it anymore. I guess she had to close her account on Twitter/X due to the court order, which is exactly what those anti-democratic gangsters wanted.
Ms. Bahadorifar was not the only person eliminated by these international mobs, but a less-known one. They have politically t3rrorized many Iranian human rights activists, including but not limited to Akbar Ganji (an independent journalist), Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks (a Human Rights Lawyer), and Farnaz Fassihi (a journalist who works for the New York Times) by spreading lies and propaganda against them. For example, Reza Pahlavi has paid a big American PR agency to engineer public opinion against all these independent human rights activists. This is done to preserve the financial benefits of these international Mafia-like US/Israeli-backed gangs. They accuse people with made-up stories, use their cyber armies to harass them, or even threaten them with death!
Another example was Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian activist who was kidnapped by the Iranian intelligence service, the side close to Ahmadi Nezhad, which is close to Pahlavi, and then was eliminated/executed. Reza Pahlavi was not happy with the fact that 1) Zam was quite popular amongst the opposition, and 2) Zam was against Pahlavi, Rajavi, and all other dictators.
An example of what Zam said about Pahlavi and his Basiji gangsters:
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Another example:
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Both videos are in Farsi/Persian. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to translate them into English, but you can use AI text extraction and translation services to get the idea. For example, you can use M2Text.com, which has a free tier or similar services.
Supporters of the US sanctions
In the past 20 years, supporters of the US sanctions have mainly been these three groups:
1) Monarchists who support Reza Pahlavi - Far-right anti-democratic extremists
2) Mojahedins (MEK) who support Rajavi - Far-left anti-democratic terrorists
The last two groups mainly support these blind sanctions because it has helped them get financial funding from foreign nations, and, more importantly, they could use them to eliminate all the independent political and social activists who promote democracy (not their version of a dictatorship crap - poorly copied from the existing system).
1) Some corrupt politicians and military generals
Since Ahmadi Nejad's presidency, numerous Mafia-like gangs have been formed, and they all financially benefit from monopolizing import/export and the country's economy, and restricting the internet in Iran. So then, each year, they could earn millions of dollars from selling anti-filtering VPNs, and increasing the prices of goods and services. Ever since we have seen the rise of embezzlers like Babak Zanjani, Khavari, and many others who were mostly close to Ahmadi Nejad and his gang. Some say Khavari has become a partner of Reza Pahlavi since he moved to Canada. A financial connection between the two Israeli/Mossad assets.
The business of "pretending to be the opposition"
It has been years since the West has welcomed the corrupt "immigrants" who pretend to be "refugees" with fake stories or even fake identities. Some of them have been sentenced to prison for serious crimes like rape, homicide, etc. While Europe, the US, etc., are closed to highly educated Iranian talents, at the same time, Western countries have been open to all these criminals for decades.
Additionally, the US has been financially supporting mobsters like Reza Pahlavi and Maryam Rajavi, and they have done nothing but build their Mafia-like international gangs, kill Iranians for them, and destabilize the country in favor of Israel's inhumane interests.
On the 20th of January 2025, Trump suspended US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews. That caused panic among all these businessmen/businesswomen who had made a fortune from the US taxpayers' money; Enjoyed their luxurious life in the US, and extended their gangs, again with the US taxpayers' money. I'm pretty sure the Mafia-like gang of Pahlavi will soon continue receiving his funds because he has already been partnered with Trump and his Zio-banker bosses for years. He is a traitor who cares only about money and power.
The death of Mahsa Amini
Previously, I wrote an article about Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died in Iran.
After her death, people started to protest against the extremists who had found their way into the system and pushed back the reformists after the 2009 election. Many still think that those extremists are backed by the US and Israel. Why? Because Gasht Ershad (the police who are responsible for enforcing the hijab law) was introduced at the time that Ahmadi Nejad was in power, who is known to have a Jewish background. Later, Paydari, a group close to him and Mesbah Yazdi pushed to tighten those restrictions even more, so that people would become unhappy, in favor of Israel. Interestingly, outside Iran, Maryam Rajavi (the terrorist dictator of MEK) and Reza Pahlavi (the dictator of monarchists) started to promote themselves as the "leader of the movement". Later, some US/Israeli-backed armed separatist terrorists, like the PJAK, PKK, etc., pretended that all the protests were in favor of them! Even though the majority of Iranian Kords who live in those borders do not support them, as they even kill civilian kords in Iran! That was the main reason why Iranians were terrified of their sacrifices being stolen by such foreign-backed extreme anti-democratic anti-Iranian cults, so they left the streets, and the protests stopped. For example, I was also one of the people who later realized this was an anti-Iranian Israeli propaganda program and then stopped attending those protests in Denmark.
NOTE 1: Some think she was assassinated by Israeli agents, or Pahavi's terrorists, or MEK Mojahedin's terrorists. The main reason for that is, as far as I remember, from the first hours, they started a campaign on social media and were speaking the "army language," saying things like #MahsaAmini is our operation's code! I have seen many Iranians mention on social media that now that we see that Israel is using its Israeli/US/NATO-backed terrorist forces to kill Iranian civilians in 2025, they could absolutely do the same back in 2023 when Mahsa Amini died.
NOTE 2: If you remember, in one of the protests, they said Iranian police killed 1500 protestors.Right? And then they used that to impose sanctions on Iranian civilians! The Iranian police said the number of casualties was much lower than that, which is what the majority of Iranians also believe. Many also think most of those are being targeted by the same Israeli-backed terrorist groups.
Evolution of Iran's recent political system
Remember, when we talk about the recent "coup against reformists", unlike what Pahlavi and Rajavi say, it was not "just Sepah" who did it. (which is the main reason many Iranians hate Sepah and are calling it a terrorist organization, which is a cultural thing in Iran to call others terrorists when they don't like them. Remember, Sepah is Iran's military and is not what the US and Israel say).
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, is also the Chief Commander of the army since they silently changed the constitution around the time he took power. So, all wings of the army (Sepah, Artesh, and any other Iranian military force) are directly under the leader's control.
Some say it was the leader who ordered the coup, because he didn't personally like Mir Hossein Mousavi. But others say the close circle of Ahmadi Nejad (known to be a ZiØn1st) fooled the intelligence system, and they misadvised the leader. Some also say it was the leader's son, Mojtaba, who wanted to be the next leader. You should also consider the billions of dollars of the country's money that Ahmadinejad gave away to bribe top general commanders, politicians, and even the intelligence service. Top Commanders like Mojtaba Zonnour, who, back then, was the head of one of the Intelligence Services.
Western propaganda to brainwash Iranians
Western propaganda targeting Iranians has taken a sophisticated and multi-channel approach over the past few decades, with various foreign-funded Persian-language media outlets actively shaping narratives to serve the colonial Israeli/Western political interests. These include TV networks such as Iran International (or better to call it "Radio Israel"), Manoto TV, BBC Persian, Voice of America Persian (VOA), and Euronews Farsi. Despite branding themselves as independent news sources, their editorial lines often mirror the strategic agendas of the governments and interest groups that fund them. Iran International, for instance, is financed by Saudi Arabia and Israel and has become a de facto mouthpiece for Israeli intelligence narratives—echoing Tel Aviv's talking points and justifying military aggression under the guise of “self-defense.”
Manoto TV, another major player in this landscape, heavily promotes monarchist ideology and functions almost exclusively as a propaganda machine for Reza Pahlavi, portraying him as Iran’s rightful savior while ignoring dissenting voices or critiques of his past affiliations. Meanwhile, Euronews Farsi—despite operating under the broader European banner—has long been infiltrated by members of the MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq), a terrorist cult with a history of collaboration with Saddam Hussein and Western intelligence. As I mentioned earlier, MEK terrorists now live in Europe! These networks present a polished, well-funded image to gain credibility among Iranians, but their core mission remains the same: to manipulate public opinion, undermine Iranian sovereignty, and manufacture consent for foreign intervention under the illusion of “freedom” and “democracy.”
To have a better understanding of how much propaganda exists against Iranians, just look at the list of some of those TV channels:
— Iran International – Funded by Saudi Arabia and Israel
— BBC Persian – Funded by the UK
— VOA Persian (Voice of America) – Funded by the United States
— Manoto TV – Funded by the British intelligence and Reza Pahlavi
— Radio Farda – Funded by the United States (via U.S. Agency for Global Media)
— Deutsche Welle (DW) Farsi – Funded by Germany
— Euronews Farsi – Funded by the European Union, run by MEK members
— Radio Zamaneh – Funded by the Netherlands
— Raha TV – Backed by monarchist circles in the UK
— Keyhan London – Supported by the UK and U.S.
— Pars TV – Based in the United States, linked to monarchists
— IranWire – Funded by U.S. and the UK
— Mihan TV – Based in the U.S., linked to monarchists
— Gem TV (now defunct/restructured) – Based in Turkey, with unclear but foreign backing
Western propaganda against Iran
In another article, Iran: Reality vs Western propaganda, I have shared quite a few examples and photos of how Iran really is versus what the Western propaganda says.
If you haven't already read that, as an example, you might think that in Iran, Jews do not have an ordinary life, right? Because of the lies that Israel keeps saying. But the reality is that, for example, Jews in Iran have their own dedicated representative in the parliament. In Iran, we have places where mosques, churches, and synagogues are next to each other, and people from different religions live together in peace. We love our Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, and other brothers and sisters, unlike what you hear in Western propaganda. Some of us are atheists, some agnostics, and some are religious, and the majority of us respect each other, except for the minority of extremists who are supported by either the Western or the Eastern superpowers.
List of minority MPs in recent Iranian parliament
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