The selection of public initiatives in the post-Covid era certainly has the merit of bringing out initiatives, conferences and conventions in which, with a skillful work of clearing away castles in the air and frivolous speeches, implications, facts and events emerge that otherwise no one would know anything about.
This is the case of the seminar held on Saturday 12 in Modena under the theme Iran’s fight against internal and international terrorism in the multipolar world, organized by the Eurasianist movement La Terra dei Padri.
After a very brief introduction by Beatrice De Maio, former city councilor now in Indipendenza!, Stefano Bonilauri (director of the esteemed Anteo Edizioni) took the floor to summarize the Iranian fight against terrorism both in Syria and within it, against the “People’s Mujaheddin” (MEK); the topic was then covered extensively by the analyses of Maria Morigi, a scholar of Eastern religions and an expert on the Middle East, and by the direct testimonies of Javad Hasheminejad and Erisa Idrizi, respectively presidents of the Iranian Association of Victims of Terror and of the Nejat Society, its Albanian counterpart.
Hanieh Tarkian, a graduate in Islamic Sciences, excellently coordinated the translation work and presented the book she edited Courage and Faith. The example of General Qassem Soleimani in the fight against international terrorism (Passaggio al Bosco, Florence 2022). Shiite religious authority Abolfazl Emami formulated some reflections on the nature of Islam and its historical and theological aversion to any form of terrorism, the work was concluded by a speech by Gianni Alemanno.
The MEK, established in the 1960s and contributed to the overthrow of the Shah under the banner of an undefined ideology of eclecticism between Marxism and Islamism, but took up arms against the Islamic Republic immediately after 1979 and also allied itself with Saddam’s Iraq in the 1980-88 war, settling in Iraq for a long time.
Expelled when Baghdad began to draw closer to Iran, it settled in Albania under the cover of the USA and the EU: the leader, Mariam Rajavi, was welcomed with full honors also in Italy (bipartisan, as can be seen from some statements by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and MEP Susanna Ceccardi shown in the slide); here, now a sect in all respects, it has committed violence, imposed restrictions and brainwashed its members, under the guise of the cult of its leaders. Also expelled from Albania following a prolonged international mobilization, there is talk of establishing its center in Italy, which, clearly, has certainly not met with the favorable opinion of Tehran. As Emami has underlined, Italy and Iran have a long-standing relationship, and ruining it as happened with Albania (before 2012 there were embassies of the two countries in their respective capitals, today nothing) would not benefit anyone. Not to mention, we add, other public order problems that are added to those caused by the full-scale decommissioning. (JC)
IL Tazebao – translated by Nejat Society