We sent it down in the Night of Power!
But how can you know what is the Night of Power?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months,
In it, the angels and the Spirit are sent swarming down
By their Lord’s leave, attending to every command
Peace is that Night, till the break of dawn. – Sura 97 of the Qur’an, usually known as Surat al-Qadr (“The Night of Power” or “The Night of Decree”).
Vahid Bani-Amerian and Abolhassan Montazeri were recently sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. At dawn on the 4th of April 2026 the Islamic republic executed both men.
The court claimed both men belonged to an organisation called the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), which predates the 1979 Revolution by 14 years. Their organisation campaigned against the US puppet, the Shah of Iran, but split with the clerics after the 1979 Revolution. Many of the Founders were arrested by the brutal SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, and executed in the early 1970s.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) was founded in 1965 by a group of young Iranian intellectuals, engineers, and university graduates who opposed the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. They sought to combine Shi’a Islamic principles with ideas of social justice, anti-imperialism, and revolutionary political change. Their objective was to overthrow the Shah’s monarchy, which they viewed as authoritarian and closely aligned with Western, particularly American, interests
During the 1988 Iran Iraq war, like the United States government, they sided with Saddam Hussein and the Ba’ath Party of Iraq conducting military operations from inside Iraq against Iran’s Islamic Republic. While MEK supported Saddam, the United States provided Iraq with intelligence, economic assistance, and military materiel, including chemicals and technology sent by American companies to Iraq for use in Saddam Hussein’s chemical-weapons program. The US chemical giant Alcolac exported thiodiglycol used to manufacture mustard gas and poison Iranian soldiers defending their country.
That war cost over one million Iranian lives, many of whom were child soldiers.
Facts are important and it is equally important to look behind the facts.
This reel was posted by okuntakinte who is critical of progressives for lack of solidarity with Iranians. We should not pretend that Iran is some kind of monolith it is a diverse and plural society where those in power execute their political enemies.
Ian Curr, 16 June 2026
Thanks Mitch.
Maybe we should talk more of the people. Especially since the problem is the lies. A fact is a fact. The facts should not be selected to cover up the lies of the West whose leader has only ever lived in hotels, far from reality.
Fact: The United States has blood on its hands in all these wars.
Aided by the Western narrative it’s interventions amount to a betrayal of the people of the ‘Middle East’ by constant bombing and support of genocidal Israel.
No peace without freedom for Palestine.
Ian Curr
16 June 2026
We are not talking about the people of Iran but the not so diverse theocratic regime which rules ruthlessly.
You mentioned the MEK which was a left wing group that fought hard for the downfall of the Shah in 1979, but were turned upon by the new Mullah regime and gaoled and executed. In that perspective one can understand why the remnants of the group incorrectly sided with the Iraqi Baath party
( which was secular and supported the education of women ! ) against the Iranian regime.
Mitch