Press release- 7 January 2019
Is Spiegelgate the Western press’ worst scandal?
What about Iran’s misinformation campaign?
Revelations of the deceit of journalist Claas Relotius, an editor of Germany’s prestigious Der Spiegel magazine, shocked advocates of the free press. It has now become apparent that most of the Relotius’s 60 reports for which he had won several journalism awards were based on lies. The German Journalists’ Union DJU called the case “the biggest fraud scandal in journ...
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“If you know the truth and call it a lie, you are a criminal” – Alejo Vidal-Quadras reply to The Guardian
By Alejo Vidal Quadras
The Guardian’s November 9th piece, “Terrorists, cultists – or champions of Iranian democracy? The wild wild story of the MEK,” is a disgraceful example of western media serving the interests of the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran.
Devoting three pages of a paper once admired as the voice of dissidents and freedom fighters to a barrage of stale and absolutely false allegations is a stain on Europe’s free press. Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebb...
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UN Geneva – Human Rights – 30th Anniversary of 1988 Massacre in Iran – Speech by Dr Alejo Vidal-Quadras
Speech by Dr Alejo Vidal-Quadras- UN- Geneva- Human Rights in Iran- 14 September 2018
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I want to thank the organisers of this Conference for their invitation to participate. It is for me not only a duty but a pleasure to be here.
Now that we are speaking about the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Massacre in Iran, we should remember the late Ms Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran who sadly passed away in February. She ...
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Europe should counter Iran’s cyber espionage, infiltration, terrorism
The more discord persists in the West over the means of responding to Iranian covert operations, the more impact these operations will have, writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Spanish professor of atomic and nuclear physics, was vice-president of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. He is currently the president of the Brussels-based International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ).
Both Facebook and Twitter recently announced that they had removed hundreds of accou...
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30th Anniversary of the 1988 Massacre in Iran – Speech by ISJ President Dr Alejo Vidal-Quadras – Amsterdam 25 Aug 2018
30th Anniversary of the 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran
Speech by Dr Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Former Vice-President of the European Parliament & President of the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ)
Amsterdam - 25 August 2018
Dear Friends,
I am very thankful to the Iranian community in the Netherlands for organizing this event on the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Massacre in Iran.
As it is well known, thirty years ago, more than 30.000 political prisoners were ...
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EU must respond firmly to Tehran terror plot on European soil
By Alejo Vidal-Quadras
The EU’s eagerness to further unconditional engagements with Iran seems to have only made Europe more vulnerable to state sponsored terrorism, writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Spanish professor of atomic and nuclear physics, was vice-president of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. He is currently the president of the Brussels-based International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ).
During the weekend of 30 June – 1 July, four suspects we...
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Condemnation of Iran Terror Plot in Europe
Call for Expulsion of Iranian Diplomats
The Belgian Intelligence and Security agencies have announced that they foiled a terrorist plot targeting the grand gathering of Iranian democratic opposition NCRI in Paris on Saturday 30 July.
Tens of thousands of participants from all corners of the world had gathered in Villepinte outside Paris to support the call by opposition leader Maryam Rajavi for a democratic change in Iran. Several hundred European, American and International political figures ...
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“Le ministre iranien Javad Zarif doit répondre des exactions du régime” Alejo Vidal-Quadras pour Le Soir
PAR: ALEJO VIDAL-QUADRAS, ANCIEN VICE-PRÉSIDENT ESPAGNOL DU PARLEMENT EUROPÉEN (1999 À 2014), ANCIEN PRÉSIDENT D’HONNEUR DE L’INTERGROUPE DES «AMIS D’UN L’IRAN LIBRE» AU PARLEMENT EUROPÉEN, PRÉSIDENT DU COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL POUR L’APPLICATION DE LA JUSTICE (ISJ COMMITTEE)*
A l’occasion du ministre iranien des Affaires étrangères, ce mardi à Bruxelles, l’auteur de cette carte blanche exhorte les instances et les dirigeants européens à adopter une attitude ferme vis-à-vis des autorités iraniennes...
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Europe should prevent Iran’s secret service from acting against Iranian refugees in Albania
International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) is alarmed about a new malicious campaign launched by the “Islamic Republic of Iran”, against its opposition members residing in Albania. It believes given the dangerous consequences of this campaign for the safety and security of Europe in general and the Iranian dissidents in particular, it is imperative to take proper and immediate steps to nullify Tehran’s plots.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), the principal Ir...
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“Need to Confront Iran’s Revolutionary Guards”
By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been leading Iran’s hidden invasion of several Middle-Eastern countries for years. The US administration’s recent decision to put the IRGC on the terrorist list makes it imperative to confront the regime and its proxies all over the region, writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Spanish professor of atomic and nuclear physics, was vice-president of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. He i...
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