SON OF FORMER IRAN DICTATOR PAHLAVI DEFENDS RELIGIOUS FASCISM ATTACKS PMOI/MEK INU - Once again demonstrating his hostility towards democracy and popular sovereignty, in an interview with Bloomberg News on June 19th, Reza Pahlavi, the son of a former Iranian dictator who was overthrown by the Iranian people rehashed a number of false accusations against Iran’s democratic opposition, the   People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran’s rebuttal to the interview, as provided to the Bloomberg News, is reproduced below: Since the beginning of the twentieth century and the Iranian people’s fight for democracy and national sovereignty, they have been confronted by two separate dictatorships: Monarchy and theocracy. In spite of all their contradictions, these two currents are united on one point: hostility to democracy and the brutal crackdown on its advocates. Democracy means the end of dictatorship in any form. In 1953, ...