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<\/p>\nThe so-called Free Iran Summit held annually by the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO\/ MEK\/ PMOI\/ NCRI\/ Cult of Rajavi) was supposed \u201cto push for more assertive global policies toward the Iranian regime, including policies that support a large and growing civilian protest movement\u201d, according to the MEK-run media. They also claimed that \u201cFree Iran World Summit will link together Iranian expatriate communities throughout the world\u201d. However, as a country with a large population of diaspora all over the world, there was no Iranian speaker as the representatives of the Iranian expatriate communities, in the Summit.<\/p>\n
All prominent speakers of the event were non-Iranians except the group\u2019s so-called president elect, Maryam Rajavi. The on-line audience was claimed to be connected from 50000 locations from all over the world to Camp Ashraf 3 in Albania which sounds quite implausible. Given that the MEK was really successful in linking such a crowd for the annual gathering, there should be at least a few prominent figures of Iranian political luminaries to address the Summit on behalf of the MEK.<\/p>\n
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Moreover, the \u201cfree Iran summit\u201d had no \u201cfree\u201d local audience. The crowd who was sitting in front of monitors of the alleged online audience and speakers, are actually prisoners of the Mujahedin Khalq. As members of the Cult of Rajavi, the individuals who are settled at Ashraf 3, are banned from leaving the group. This is the second contradictory point about the gathering organized by MEK.<\/p>\n
Such controversies are normally faced with critics<\/a> in a normal world, as the Socialist and Democrats of the European Union declared that they were \u201cshocked\u201d to learn that the prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Jan\u0161a, whose country is now chairing the EU rotating presidency, addressed the MEK gathering. \u201cThis anti-democratic, cult-like organisation, which was on the EU terrorist list until 2009, has a long history of human rights abuses documented by organisations such as Human Rights Watch,\u201d they argued in the official statement that they immediately published after the event. They denounced the act of the Slovenian prime minister to support \u201ca group with such a violent, anti-democratic record\u201d as \u201cdestructive behavior\u201d.<\/p>\n