Timeline of Critical Events:
- Jan 5, 2023 — Priming. Yasmine Pahlavi posts “Death to… mojahed (MEK)” (Doc 1)
- Jun 20, 2023 — Real Event. Albanian police raid MEK’s Ashraf-3 (AP). (Doc 2)
- Jun 20, 2023 — Post-raid blame-shift signal & priority-swap cue. Yasmine Pahlavi: “Pushing back MEK helps terrorist designation of IRGC,” posted concurrently with the Ashraf-3 raid, redirecting the narrative away from IRGC accountability. (Doc 3)
- Aug 12, 2023 — 10:51 IRST — State seeding. IRGC’s Tasnim claims the MEK is moving from Albania to Canada. (Doc 4)
- Aug 12, 2023 — 15:27 IRST — “Reformist” laundering. Shargh daily published an identical article the same day, repeating the claim with the same headline (Doc 5)
- Aug 12, 2023 — Same-Day Local Relay (Vancouver). Ramin Joubin, Arezou Soltani and Seyyed Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi Ghomi (“Mehdi Stone”) began circulating the rumour without citing the source, with Ahmadzadeh claiming he was “personally informed.”
- Aug 15, 2023 — 07:56 AM PDT — Local uptake & explicit notice. Arezou Soltani repeats “MEK will arrive here in a few months”; in the same chat, the author explicitly told her the rumour was a hoax sourced from Tasnim/IRGC, stating it was a fabricated hoax and putting her on clear notice from that date. (Doc 6 and Doc 7)
- Feb 7, 2024 — 11:45 PM PT — Pre-letter mobilization (Vancouver). Pourandokht Rostamian messaged Arezou Soltani on WhatsApp, rallying a counter-demo and framing MEK as an imminent threat—the eve of a public letter push. (Doc 8)
- Feb 8, 2024 — Operationalizing the Hoax into Policy Pressure. A “collective statement to all Canadian MPs” drafted by Ramin Joubin and posted on X by Pahlavi-aligned “activists” warned the Canadian politicians that MEK is transferring camp members to Canada and threatened to withdraw community support from parties seen as supportive. (Doc 9)
- Mar 21, 2024 — 10:36–10:41 AM PT — Advancing the Priority-Swap Narrative. Arezou Soltani condemns the closure of the Islamic Republic’s embassy in Canada, shames Nazanin Afshin-Jam for her involvement in that event, calls Stephen Harper “filthy,” and links that 2012 embassy shutdown to MEK’s Canadian delisting later that year—then urges a mass letter to Pierre Poilievre. (Doc 10)
- May 13, 2024 — 10:10–11:05 PM PT — Vancouver escalation & priority-swap made explicit. Mehdi Ahmadzadeh (“Mehdi Stone”) and Arezou Soltani assert: (1) “all MEK members will receive PR cards and live in Vancouver,” (2) a 15-acre site was bought ~2 years earlier for them, and (3) “all staff/volunteers of one Canadian party are MEK” — implicitly referring to the Conservative Party (by their own context), while concluding: “IRGC will be listed, but MEK is worse.” (Doc 11)
Douments
Document #1
Translation:
[Yasmine Pahlavi:] “Death to three corrupts: Mullah, Leftie, and Mojahed [MEK member]”
Document #2
Document 3
Translation:
[Yasmine Pahlavi:]
“France’s decision to ban the MEK gathering in Paris for security reasons both helps push back the MEK and helps with recognizing the IRGC as a terrorist organization.”
Document 4
Document 5
Document 6 and translation:
[2023-08-15] Arezou Soltani:
“Maybe you won’t take what I’m saying seriously right now, but the filthy Mojahedin will set foot here in a few months, and [REDACTED] plus MPs will be coming and going to their Ashraf camp—then we’ll read these texts again.” (7:56 a.m.)
Document 7 and translation:
[2023-08-15] Masood Masjoody:
“This is the very same rumour that was cooked up on an IRGC-affiliated website and then hurled toward Canada. Nonetheless, some people are still treating that ridiculous rumour as ‘news,’ and lately—under the banner of opposing the regime—they’ve started attacking the Conservative Party [of Canada] and creating a toxic atmosphere (whose effects have even reached our small group). The saying ‘find the orange seller’ fits perfectly here—meaning trace it back to the real instigator: the IRGC, via its Tasnim website.” The saying ‘find the orange seller’ fits perfectly here— where the seller is the IRGC, and the shop is the IRGC’s Tasnim website.” (8:47 a.m.)
Document 8
[2024-02-07, 11:45:39 PM] [Porandokht Rostamian:] “Dear Arezou [Soltani]
My dear, on Saturday I work from 4:00 a.m. to 8:30 so I can’t come; otherwise I would definitely come to the other side of the street and hold a counter-demonstration separate from them [MEK]. I completely agree that we should go the same day and stand in front of them with the Lion-and-Sun flag and the slogan ‘Long Live The Shah,’ and probably ‘death to the corrupt Mojahed (MEK) and Khomeini’s accomplice.’
And definitely without headscarves—not with headscarves that would make their crowd look bigger.”
Document 9
Document 10 and translation: Member of Pahlavi cult, Arezou Soltani, shaming Nazanin Afshin-Jam and calling Stephen Harper “filthy” for shutting down the Islamic Regime’s embassy in Ottawa (WhatsApp Messages, March 21, 2024)
Document 11:
Translation of Document 11:
Courts protecting Islamic terrorism 