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Training terrorists in America, from MEK to Khashoggi killers

Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Arab journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, June 23, 2021. The news is a reminder of a very similar story about the agents of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) that was revealed by Seymour M. Hersh of the New Yorker, in April, 2012.
Hersh reported that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) of the US military conducted training, beginning in 2005, for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a dissident Iranian opposition group known in the West as the M.E.K. in the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas.

According to the investigated report of the New Yorker, the training of MEK operatives ended sometime before President Obama took office, the former official said. A retired four-star general, who has advised the Bush and Obama Administrations on national-security issues, told Hersh that “he had been privately briefed in 2005 about the training of Iranians associated with the M.E.K. in Nevada by an American involved in the program”. They got “the standard training,” he said, “in commo, crypto [cryptography], small-unit tactics, and weaponry—that went on for six months,” the retired general said. “They were kept in little pods.”

According to Hersh, directly or indirectly, the MEK ended up with resources like arms and intelligence. “Some American-supported covert operations continue in Iran today, according to past and present intelligence officials and military consultants,” he added.

June 24, 2021 0 comments

Iran

Tehran Summons UK Envoy over Harassment of Iranian Voters

Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to voice protest at the problems that Iranian expatriates in the UK encountered as they wanted to attend the presidential election at the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic missions.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Saturday that UK Ambassador Rob Macaire has been summoned by the ministry in protest at the problems faced by the Iranian voters residing in England.

He said the British envoy has been notified of Iran’s strong protest at the “riotous and terrorist” conduct of a number of “anti-Revolution terrorist elements and those opposing democracy” who have disrupted the process of the 13th Iranian presidential election in a number of cities such as London and Birmingham by insulting the voters and the executive personnel and the assault and battery against one of the voters.

“The British ambassador has been told that the government and police of that country (UK) have failed to fulfil their duties to ensure the security of the polling stations and the voters,” Khatibzadeh said.

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The spokesman also noted that the Foreign Ministry officials have reminded the UK envoy that democracy materializes at the ballot boxes not in the moves of a few number of rioters on the streets.

“In the meeting, strong criticism has been leveled at the naughty and divisive performance of the UK-based Persian media, including BBC Persian and Iran International, which tried to promote a boycott of election, encourage people to attend street protests, and disrupt the process of election with their programs and types of news making. It was emphasized that such measures that run counter to democracy and encourage riotous moves will remain in the memory of Iranian people,” he added.

The British ambassador has pledged to convey the protest to London.

There are reports that a number of anti-Revolution forces in the foreign states have harassed and attacked the Iranian expats attending the presidential election in the polling stations abroad.

An Iranian woman in England’s Birmingham reportedly suffered injuries to her head in an attack as she was going to the polling place to vote.

June 23, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization's Propaganda System

MEK’s PR machine on the wrong track

While the objective of regime change in Iran has been seemingly firm since the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi) came into conflict with the newly established Iranian government in the early 1980s, the strategy to achieve the objective has changed from time to time based on the circumstances.
Having been disarmed by the US army in 2003 –after the collapse of the MEK’s former sponsor Saddam Hussein– the propaganda campaign of the group became comprehensive. Today, various events including gatherings and demonstrations, publications and media are considered as the group’s most important strategic weapons. Meanwhile, social media has helped it with more intensive activity. However, it has not been so simple for the group to run its propaganda machine.

Having been described as a terrorist organization, MEK has endured efforts to change the world community’s view of them. They have worked vigorously to make connections with Western politicians, and organize press conferences, rallies and demonstrations in North America and Europe. Maryam Rajavi has hosted the so-called NCRI conferences in Washington DC, Paris, Brussels and now in Tirana, Albania.

The offensive multi-million-dollar lobbying campaign of the group has yielded some results. The campaign has offered them support from some American and European politicians. For the United States’ part, it allegedly includes representatives, senators, ex-generals, former ambassadors and current policymakers of all political stripes including former United States security adviser John Bolton and Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudi Giuliani.
MEK also pays its guests large sums to speak at its rallies. It has been said that the group receives financial support from Saudi Arabia. Saudi speakers have participated in the group’s rallies, for instance Prince Turki al-Faisal, who is a former intelligence chief and diplomat attended and spoke in the group’s gathering in 2016.

The group also organizes demonstrations against Iran in several countries including Scandinavia. In the so-called demonstrations –that hardly ever comprise a dozen of participants– the group calls the West to isolate and put more pressure on the Iranian government through sanctions and even military actions.
In fact, the very famous proverb “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is often used to understand the support of Western politicians for MEK. It is suggested that this is easiest way to irritate and pressure Tehran, and not necessarily an expression of a real belief that MEK is an alternative to the Iranian government.

June 22, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Having grown up in the Cult of Rajavi

The Mujahedin Khalq Organization MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ the Cult of Rajavi) is considered a cult-like group if not exactly a cult, based on various western sources. Most members of the group got involved with it together with their family members. When in the 1980’s Massoud Rajavi fled to Iraq to found his so-called National Liberation Army —Saddam’s Private Army— a large number of MEK members took their family to join him. The group was sheltered in Camp Ashraf where Mujahed children were supposed to leave under the strict organizational rules.
“In order to understand the problems children in cults may experience, it is important to analyze how their parents operate,” asserts Anne Edelstam, a sociologist who experienced living in a cult led by a woman guru, Maud Pison. “The parents who are members of a cult are themselves manipulated and mentally controlled by their leader or guru.”

Mental manipulation, as used in a destructive cult, and certainly used in the MEK, is the influence a person or a group of persons have on an individual, through systematic mind control in order to achieve a change in the person’s feelings, thoughts, intelligence, behavior and will. “It can be difficult to understand how a person’s mind and thoughts can change so much,” Edelstam adds. “We are usually not educated to believe that ALL of us can be so easily manipulated.”

When in 2003, Elizabeth Rubin of the New York Times Magazine visited Camp Ashraf, she was stunned to see young women who were acting as female workers of a factory in Maoist China. “Most of the girls I was meeting had grown up in Mujahedeen schools in Ashraf, where they lived separated from their parents,” Rubin writes about the life of children at Camp Ashraf. “Family visits were allowed on Thursday nights and Fridays. When Iraq invaded Kuwait, many of these girls were transported to Jordan and then smuggled to various countries — Germany, France, Canada, Denmark, England, the United States — where they were raised by guardians who were usually Mujahedeen supporters.”

The life of children in Camp Ashraf and then, after they were totally separated from their parents, in the MEK-led orphanages in Europe was precisely the same as what Ann Edelstam describes about Maud Pison. “A cult leader, through systematic mental manipulation, is able to put an individual in such a stressful situation that he cannot use his mind correctly anymore,” she writes. “This stress or psychosis makes the cult member, mentally unstable, psychotic, emotionally unstable, cognitively unstable.

Nadere Afshari, former member of MEK was an eye witnesses who had first-hand account of the orphaned children of MEK. “Rajavi considers the family as an integral cell in his organization,” Afshari says. “He therefore feels free to intervene in the marital relations of members against their own will.”
In the book “Forbidden Love” Nadereh described the horrible situation of the children who were kept in the Cult of Rajavi, in isolated gender-segregated units located far from their parents, under a very abusive control that made them undergo severe sufferings.

“The children growing up in cults don’t have any real parents,” Edelstam suggests. “They belong to the leader and to its ideology. They are modeled to become ideal robots. This is a phenomenon that we’ve seen in Nazi Germany with the creation of the Hitlerjugend, in the Red Army and among children soldiers in different parts of the world etc. It’s unfortunately a phenomenon that is used by most tyrants, and gurus are nothing but tyrants.”
The couple guru of MEK, Massoud and Maryam Rajavi, are two of the tyrants who in February 1991, separated over 800 children from 2-months-old to 18-year-old from their parents and smuggled them to Jordan with fake IDs. They were then sent to European countries including Germany, Netherlands and Sweden where they were made adopted by European families and Iranian families who were sympathizers of the MKO or were kept in crowded buildings as the orphanages run by MEK commanders.

About the life of children in the cults Ann Edelstam explains: “In several cults the children don’t get enough sleep either. They are awakened at night along with their parents to pray, read a mantra, clean or whatever excuses the leader might find to awaken them. Children who don’t get enough sleep don’t grow as well as others. They also become irritated and slow. They also get infections easier, which in some cases can even be deadly. In several cults, medicine and doctors are forbidden.”

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The memoirs of Nadereh Afshari in two books written in Persian are full of examples of maltreatments and abuses committed by commanders of the Cult of Rajavi against children. She even writes of newly born infants of MEK mothers who were beaten by a commander called Azam.
“Everyday life in a cult implies hard work often even for small children; with lots of work, little sleep and food, there is no time left to play,” Edelstam continues. “The children must early on be indoctrinated and drilled so that their personalities cannot develop and so that they learn humility.”
Considering the history of totalitarian movement like the Cult of Rajavi, one realizes that the cult system hinders the child to develop into a fully responsible adult and citizen. The cult denies the child’s right to his identity, his personality, a structure, an intellect and a critical thinking. The child becomes robotized and cannot move without the cult as a prothesis.

A number of current members of MEK are those teenagers who were taken back to Camp Ashraf after a few years of living in the group’s units in Europe. They have always been under the manipulative system of the group. It is very difficult for a child who has grown up in this weird, close, manipulative cult-world to become a normal citizen again. What is considered right and wrong for most of us isn’t at all that obvious for a former cult-member. “It is very difficult for a child who has grown up in this weird, close, manipulative cult-world to become a normal citizen again,” Edelstam. “What is considered right and wrong for most of us isn’t at all that obvious for a former cult-member.”

By Mazda Parsi

June 21, 2021 0 comments

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest

Iran Interlink Weekly Digest – 290

++ During the run up to Iran’s presidential election, Massoud Khodabandeh, Sarah Zahiri an Iranian historian in Canada and Vahid Farkhondeh a journalist in Switzerland took part in a discussion. They talked about the position of western countries which have been trying to stop people voting. Khodabandeh said that never have so many countries poured so much money and energy into opposing an election in foreign country: Iran. Although the collapse of the Reformists in Iran and the rise of the Principlists is mostly down to the Reformists putting their trust the Americans, the US is to blame for this shift. The Americans tried to convince the Iranian population in Iran to trust them, but then they assassinated the host (Muhandis) and guest (Soleimani) in Iraq. They tore up the JCPOA and spat on it. The result is anti-Western sentiment which the Americans have created themselves. During the discussion, Khodabandeh pointed out that the MEK are finished. In the 1980s they had a military presence. Now they have only an online presence. Soon they will all end up in Albania behind a computer.

++ Before the MEK supporters do end up online, a handful of them rallied outside Iranian embassies in various cities to ‘intimidate’ Iranians wishing to vote in the presidential election. One voter related via Twitter how shocked and disgusted she was at the base and uncouth language used by the MEK folk, swearing and shouting as she passed them by.

++ Several people wrote about the issuing of ID cards in Albania. This was seen as a sign that Albania is working hard to join the EU. This is a good sign, but commentators point out that this won’t happen while the MEK are given a free hand there. Anne Khodabandeh and others received a reply to letter sent to EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson about the MEK, saying the EU’s External Action Division has taken note of the MEK problem.

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++ Speaking of Albania, two issues which do not directly mention the MEK are however linked to its presence in that country. Firstly, the US has sanctioned the former Albanian leader Sali Berisha over corruption. Berisha presided over the transfer of MEK from Iraq to Albania after 2013. Once in Albania, Berisha found a lucrative role in advocating for Maryam Rajavi and the MEK. His downfall reminds us of the ‘Rajavi Curse’. All political persons and groups make alliances, some work out well, some work out badly. It is well known linking themselves to the Rajavis will always work out badly for everyone. From Robin Corbett (UK MP) who had to write denying he took money from the MEK shortly before his death. To Struan Stevenson, Paulo Casaca and Alejo Vidal-Quadras who abandoned their roles as MEPs after the taint of Maryam Rajavi touched them. Of course, John Bolton, Rudi Giuliani and others in the US will be forever known as shills for the terrorist MEK. In Albania, former deputy anti-trafficking coordinator Elona Gjebrea, who fawned upon supreme slave owner Maryam Rajavi, was later linked to a mafia family. Ooops. Now Sali Berisha is added to the long list of unfortunates touched by the Rajavi Curse. Days ago, Edi Rama’s government which is notoriously corrupt itself, has impeached President Ilir Meta. It seems the Rajavi Curse is still toxifying all it touches.

++ Secondly, a report by Al Jazeera on the brain drain from Albania identifies corruption as a factor in why the society and economy does not grow and develop. Businesses are hampered by insecurity and lack of government support. Clearly joining the EU is not possible while corruption is so rampant. While in the past, migration from Albania was linked with low skilled workers, now young people feel the only way to use their skills and talents is to leave the country. Whether you regard the MEK as a foreign terrorist group advocating violent regime change, or a cult which practices modern slavery, the corruption which allows this entity to interfere in the security and foreign policy of the country on behalf of the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia, is not going to help the country progress, nor win favour with the EU.
Jun 18, 2021

June 21, 2021 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization members' families

Bro! I wish you were in my wedding party

“My beloved brother, I’m getting married and my only desire is that you be by my side on my wedding night”, wrote the sister of AmirAslan Hassanzadeh, a member of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi).

AmirAslan Hasanzade

AmirAslan Hassanzadeh was recruited by the MEK agents when he was very young. His mother Soraya Abdollahi has been endeavoring to liberate AmirAslan from the bars of MEK, for over two decades. She has taken every legal action to call on the international community to aid her release her son.

AmirAslan Hasanzade

Anna is the younger sister of AmirAslan who got married a few days ago. Before her wedding ceremony she wrote an open letter to her brother who has been taken as a hostage in MEK for over twenty years. “I am still living with your memoirs,” she writes. “What kind of rule bans you from calling your little sister? I feel so sad that you are not present in my wedding ceremony”.

June 21, 2021 0 comments

Iran

Iran to pursue attacking Iranian woman in Birmingham

Iranian Chargé d’affaires in London in a message said the attack on an Iranian national by counter-revolutionary elements will be pursued.

False claimants of democracy with terrorist backgrounds and their affiliation with foreigners, brutally injured a respected woman who just wanted to vote, Mehdi Hosseini wrote in his Twitter account on Friday.

As a result of the brutal attack, The Iranian woman who was participating in the polling station to cast her vote was seriously injured on the head.

Iran presidential election started in 11 polling stations in the UK.

Counter-revolutionary groups have gathered in front of polling stations trying to disturb the voting process.

Protestors have gathered in front of the Iranian consulate office in London and forced voters not to vote by pouring paint on them.

June 19, 2021 0 comments

Iran

Iranian Diplomat And the mystery of the bomb

Iranian Diplomat And Bomb Puzzle

Assadollah Asadi does not attend any of the court hearings, citing his diplomatic immunity as well as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization’s plotting against Iran. On February 4, 2021, the Court of First Instance of Antwerp, Belgium, sentenced him to 20 years in prison for transferring a bomb to Nasimeh Naami and Amir Saadouni, and announced that this sentence would be final due to Mr. Asadi’s failure to appeal.

Here we review some of the documents in this case…

When the issue of the transferring the bomb by Mr. Asadi via an Austrian plane was raised, Austrian Airlines immediately denied this issue in the OsterreichHeute newspaper that it was a malicious rumor. According to the international media the TATP explosives are really sensitive to any sudden movement and traveling by a plane can definitely make this material to blow and having half a kilo of this kind of explosives on a plane is not a possible thing. For anyone who has flown anytime in the past 15 years, it is obvious that getting bombs or related equipment on a plane is virtually impossible. Items as simple as nail files are found when going through security gates and now how can someone put a half kilo bomb in a suitcase and transfer it into a country by a plane.

The article states that Austrian Airlines believes that this information about explosives is completely fabricated and is unacceptable due to its incorrect details. It added that the idea that anyone could take explosives on board was fundamentally rejected, and that rumors of explosives on board were intended to put more pressure on Austria to comply with more anti-Iranian sanctions.

The German Police even hacked into the email of Assadollah Assadi, and in the police report, they mentioned no communication were found between the Iranian diplomat with two others defendants named Nasimeh Naami and Amir Saaduni, the only emails they find was from the ministry of foreign affairs of Iran that they exchange the normal working emails, whose screenshots you can see below.

In addition, the German police report states that no bomb was found in Assadollah Asadi’s car, and that only a number of personal belongings were found. In another report, the Austrian police inspectors’ report also stated that there were no traces of explosives or illegal items in his house in Vienna. However, what complicates matters is that Amir Saadouni and Nasimeh Naami claimed that they received the bomb in Luxembourg from Mr. Asadi, but there is no footage or document to prove this claim in the case file.

Let’s look at this a little more closely for a moment; a couple met a foreign diplomat in a restaurant and received a package from him as they confessed to the police, although the restaurant is equipped with cameras and Mr. Asadi wasn’t captured in any of the camera footages. They didn’t even inquire what the package contained; they were just pleased to accept it. Was it a gift, to be opened when they returned home? Or was it a bomb that they naively and innocently were going to take somewhere to detonate? Or was there no package at all? And it is all a scenario by MEK members to frame Iranian diplomat by giving false information to the German police.

Let’s look at the evidence

Another dark side of this conspiracy is clarified in the monitored conversation between Amir Saadoni and Nasimeh Naami. In this document, it is mentioned that Amir Saadoni says to Nasimeh Naami, “our prologue was a good one that led to the apprehension of Danial (meaning Asadollah Asadi)! “

Criticizing the process of this court case, Mr. Oliver Valach (Asadi’s German lawyer) has stated, “the fundamental reason of apprehending this Iranian diplomat, and accusations put on him is merely the confessions of Amir Saadoni and Nasimeh Naami, which they have expressed like two well-spoken nightingales!”

After the arrest of Amir Saadoni and Nasimeh Naami in July 2018, the MEK’s TV channel, known as Simaye Azadi, falsely announced that the two apprehended suspects did not belong to the MEK. Furthermore, when Mahdi Abrishamchi (a leading figure in the MEK, under the alias of Bahman Tehrani) was summoned by the Belgian police as an informed person, he denied knowing and having ever met Amir Saadoni! However, not much longer, the falsehood of this denial was revealed when photos of Abrishamchi and Saadoni were disclosed in the ceremonies of Mujahedin-e Khalq.

However, this case seems to face many ambiguities and questions, and the mystery of the bomb has not yet been solved. Let the readers decide, by a glance to the evidence, anyone, even a callow child, can understand that Mr. Assadi is innocent and all this was a plot designed by MEK, the terrorist group which was in the list of terrorist organizations up until 2012. MEK is the same group that killed 12000 Iranian people and thousands of Kurds and the interesting thing is that they even assassinated 6 Americans, folks of the same country that supports them. Now even the background of this group can reveal their true terrorist faces.

By Jack Turner, Geopolitica.ru

June 19, 2021 0 comments

Former members of the MEK

Petition: Formers demand compensation from MEK leaders for their lost rights

In Support of the Complaint of 42 Former Members against the Leaders of the MEK
Samad Eskandari started this petition to INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE and

In a lawsuit filed inside Iran, 42 former members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK, MKO, Rajavi Cult) have demanded compensation from the organization’s leaders for their lost rights.

These people, who were enslaved and contained in the closed and remote Camp Ashraf in Iraq, isolated from the outside world, and subjected to the conditions of severe cultic abuse, found the opportunity to escape from the organization with the fall of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq and they returned to Iran.

Now, in the context of Iranian judicial law and international justice they are seeking compensation from the leaders of the MEK.

These former members of the Rajavi Cult raised their complaint in the Iranian judicial system in March 2019. Branch 55 of the Tehran International Legal and General Court officially registered their complaint, and on March 7 and 8, 2021, court hearings were held. The primary verdict of the Court was issued on March 16, 2021. The Iranian judiciary, in accordance with civil procedures, sent notices to the governments of France and Albania to notify the defendants, who are residents there, of the verdict.

Now, with the final verdict of the Iranian judiciary and the accompanying media coverage of the case at domestic and international levels, the number of plaintiffs has reached more than 200 – which is constantly increasing – who are seeking to file a complaint with international judicial bodies against the MEK leaders.

We, the signatories of this petition, call on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, as well as the governments of France and Albania, to work for the realization of the rights of the material, physical and spiritual victims of the MEK.

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They are those who, through behaviors such as slavery, solitary confinement, torture and severe bodily harm, great suffering and irreparable psychological damage, sexual slavery, etc. are clear examples of Article 7 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court as victims of a crime against humanity.

We urge the International Criminal Court in The Hague to prosecute the MEK leaders who continue to practice cultic abuse and freely violate the most basic rights of their members on European soil, and to administer justice, while ordering compensation for some of the damage caused by years of modern slavery. And to further come to the rescue of the hundreds of other captives currently being held in the closed, remote and isolated camp of the Rajavi Cult in Albania.

June 17, 2021 0 comments

The cult of Rajavi

Rajavi built up criminals out of the Elite Council women

Batul Rajaee was a top commander of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO/ MEK/ PMOI/ Cult of Rajavi). She died of cancer in 2012. The news of her death was a pleasing one for a large number of members and former members of the group.
Batul Rajaee is the symbol of an oppressive violent commander of the Cult of Rajavi who always wanted to serve “Sister Maryam” (Maryam Rajavi) by punishing the rank and file. After her death, at least four defectors of the group gave testimonies about the atrocities committed by Batul. Foad Basri, Hadi Shabani, Ali PourAhmad and Kambiz Bagherzadeh confirm that she was so devoted to the leaders of MEK that the rank and file could hardly ever stay safe from her violent abusive behavior.

Batul Rajaee

“When I first entered MEK in the Winter of 1984, as a 19-year-old boy, there was no woman in the entrance section until the day I saw Batul Rajaee,” Ali PourAhmad writes about her. “I was shocked to see her. I wondered if all women in the MEK were like her?”
Batul Rajaee was also the commander of prisons in Camp Ashraf, for a period of time. “She was so aggressive that you can simply imagine what she would do with the prisoners of the group—who were also members of the group,” Hadi Shabani writes. “Rajavi needed such atrocious women to control his cult. Batul Rajaee had been turned into a person that no one was willing to encounter her, even for a second.”

Not all women in the cult of Rajavi were such monsters as Batul Rajaee was. However, most female commanders have been cruel people who go crazy easily and abuse their lower ranks verbally and physically. Mahvash Sepehri, Fahimeh Arvani and Mozhgan Parsaee are a few of dozens of female commanders of MEK. They are notoriously known as most hated figures of the group.

Considering testimonies of both male and female defectors of MEK, one can find a very destructive culture that rules the group’s female members. The cult around Massoud Rajavi’s personality that practices many suppressive jargons and is committed to polygamy has been simply able to demolish emotions in the inner self of these women.

“Salvation Dancing” is one of the most notorious jargons in the Cult of Rajavi in which female members of the group’s Elit Council had to remove their clothes and dance nude before the eyes of Massoud and Maryam Rajavi. “These fierce female commanders are the outcome of salvation dance,” Hadi Shabani writes.

By Mazda Parsi

June 16, 2021 0 comments

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