++ Maryam Rajavi\u2019s event on November 26th was her most feeble ever. Even the MEK couldn\u2019t make anything of it in terms of media (or anyone else\u2019s) interest and resorted to incorporating old videos into their report simply to make it look decent. All the MEK\u2019s usual speakers have abandoned them and the group was left with third rate speakers and their paid lawyer.\u00a0 The MEK introduced Shabnam Madadzadeh and Arash Rezai as \u2018victims\u2019. Madadzadeh had been imprisoned in Iran and as soon as she was released came to Europe where she aligned herself with the MEK. This created a backlash against human rights advocates outside Iran because they had claimed false imprisonment. Now it appears that Iran was right and she really was involved with an anti-Iran terror group. Fars News published sensational titles such as \u2018Failed Coalition of Human Rights activists and MEK terrorists\u2019 to smear the rights groups\u2019 reputations. In this respect, an individual known to Iran Interlink who is from Jolfar where Madadzadeh originates, has written a piece revealing that Madadzadeh and her family are known in Jolfar as notorious charlatans and con artists. She and her brother have corrupted and cheated many people in their small city. \u201cThis in itself is not shocking\u201d the author writes, \u201cwhat is shocking however is that the MEK have stooped so low as to encompass her and welcome her as one of their own\u201d. Others have written that human rights organisations shouldn\u2019t have to suffer because of people like her. Human rights in Iran is a serious issue. The MEK haven\u2019t conned Iran, they have conned human rights groups instead.<\/p>\n
++ There has been further reaction to Rajavi\u2019s Day of Students message. Commentators dismiss Rajavi as unrelated to the student organisation which was involved and unrelated to any students at all \u2013 no student supports Giuliani and Bolton. In the end, they say, you are doing this to benefit the hardliners in Iran. Writers ask \u2018can Maryam replace Massoud?\u2019. The answer: \u201cNo way!\u201d Even if he was alive today he couldn\u2019t do it, but her copying him, trying to do what he did twenty years ago, jumping on the bandwagon of anything to do with Iran, no way can she lead anyone or anything.<\/p>\n
In English:<\/p>\n
++ The questions relating to the past of some of Donald Trump\u2019s potential cabinet members rumble on with a variety of articles devoted to either supporting or damning Rudy Giuliani in particular over his support for the MEK. Those rooted in truth and reality point to Giuliani\u2019s own admission that he gave support to the MEK while they were listed as a terrorist entity in the USA; a criminal and moral offence. This particular aspect was pounced upon by Press TV which gleefully reported the anomaly. Jacob Sullum in Newsweek also pursued this issue arguing that if Hillary Clinton belongs in prison over the email scandal, so much more so does Rudy Giuliani belong in prison for supporting terrorists. Other articles variously try to whitewash the MEK\u2019s past [not published by Iran Interlink] or to expose it. Daniel Larson writing in The American Conservative says \u201cOne of the more troubling things about American MEK supporters is their willingness to whitewash the group\u2019s past as well as its present-day behavior. They aren\u2019t content to work with an avowedly bad group against a common enemy, but feel compelled to pretend that the group is upstanding and noble.\u201d In The Unz Review, Philip Giraldi writes about the \u2018Iranophobes on Parade\u2019 as Donald Trump seems to be filling his foreign policy and national security roles with \u2018Iran haters\u2019, notably those with links to the MEK. Referring to the MEK role in helping Israel to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, Giraldi argues \u2013 as many others do \u2013 that building on the diplomacy involved in creating JCPA is America\u2019s best option, not war.<\/p>\n
++ Mazda Parsi in Nejat Society uses the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25, as an occasion to expose Maryam Rajavi\u2019s false and deceptive pretence to be the voice of Iranian women. Parsi argues that what happens to women inside the MEK is probably the most significant example of hidden violence against women. He quotes the RAND report to explain that the group leaders are \u201cskilled manipulators of public opinion\u201d, but that evidence of MEK violence against women is countless. The article provides several helpful links to information in English about this situation.<\/p>\n
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