{"id":5757,"date":"2014-07-01T11:38:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2014\/07\/01\/grand-iranian-gathering-or-huge-misinformation-campaign\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T07:14:29","slug":"grand-iranian-gathering-or-huge-misinformation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/5757","title":{"rendered":"Grand Iranian Gathering or Huge Misinformation Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year after year, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (the MKO) holds its so-called Grand Gathering in Villepinte, Paris where a large crowd &#8211;including paid Western former politicians, black Africans and <img alt=\"\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/MEK\/MEK_R\/Advocacy_MKO_L.jpg\"style=\"width: 240px; height: 160px; margin: 10px; float: right;\"\/>European students&#8211; is assembled from all over the world. Ordinary attendees who are eager to go on a free trip to the most eye-catching European capital are bused to the gathering show by different means of propaganda effectively used by the MKO.<\/p>\n<p>Although the leader of the MKO cult of personality Maryam Rajavi claims that &quot;today&rsquo;s gathering reflects the will of the Iranian people from all walks of life&quot;, the documented reports, photos and testimonies of the attendees of previous Villepinte rally has always proved the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Just like a tradition these revealing stories are published a few days after the alleged Grand Gathering every year. You may remember the Polish students who could not resist the offer of a three-day trip to the French capital for only 6 Euros! [1]<\/p>\n<p>Or you must recall the diary of a Kyrgyz student Alina Alymkulova who recounted in Radio Free Europe how she was recruited to travel from Prague to Paris to attend a rally for the MKO in June 2013. [2]<\/p>\n<p>But this year&#8217;s gathering was encountered with an immediate harsh reaction by the French Government. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal criticized the People&rsquo;s Mujahedeen of Iran, or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, for &ldquo;its violent and non-democratic inspirations,&rdquo; &lsquo;&rsquo;cult nature&rdquo; and &ldquo;intense campaign of influence and disinformation&rdquo;, reported the Associated Press. [3]<\/p>\n<p>Romain Nadal also stated that France has no contact with the MKO &quot;which is known for resorting to violence&quot;. The group has &quot;no legal existence in France in the form of an Organization,&quot; Nadal stressed referring to its &quot;sectarian practices&quot;. &quot;We express our greatest reservations faced with the intense lobbying and disinformation campaign being carried out&quot; by the MKO, He warned. [4]<\/p>\n<p>While Rajavi criticizes the Unites States and the United Nations for their failure to relocate residents of camp Liberty in third countries, the expenses of organizing such a huge rally &ndash; at least one hundred politicians are offered first class flights and luxurious hotels in Paris by the MKO propaganda arm&mdash; could have been spent for the resettlement process of 3000 individuals who are taken as hostages by the cult leaders in the critical situation of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The long list of former Western high profiles &ndash;mostly from warmonger parties&#8211; who address the MKO rally in Villepinte indicates that the rally is actually a misinformation campaign that never seeks the aspirations of the Iranian public. It is absolutely a heavy-funded act of propaganda for Maryam Rajavi to show off its fake prominence among Iranians.<\/p>\n<p>Mazda Parsi<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>[1]https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2112<\/p>\n<p>[2]Alymkulova, Alina, Diary Of An MKO Rent-A-Crowd Demonstrator, Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty, June 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p>[3]Associated Press ,France lashes out at Iranian opposition group, June 27, 2014<\/p>\n<p>[4]KUNA, France warns against &quot;disinformation&quot; campaign by MKO, June 27, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the leader of the MKO\/MEK\/PMOI cult of personality Maryam Rajavi claims that&#8221;today\u2019s gathering reflects the will of the Iranian people from all walks of life&#8221;, the documented reports, photos and testimonies of the attendees of previous Villepinte rally has always proved the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[79,85,15],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organizations-propaganda-system","tag-mujahedin-khalq-declining","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-hypocrisy_mko","module-article","ctype-story","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}