Unsaid stories from Julian Assange’s case in “Hidden Files”

According to Fars News Agency, on March 21, 2003 (April 8, 2003), under the shadow of a hidden game with the deceptive slogan of fighting terrorism and destroying the opponents of democracy in Iraq, the United States of America invaded this country in an illegal action. and occupied it. The most important reason for America in this barbaric invasion was the extensive and grandiose propaganda from all sides about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

With the fall of Baghdad, this cunning game took on new dimensions and entered the arena under the title of “Most Wanted Iraqis”. A heroic adventure to capture the leaders and other agents of the deposed Saddam regime.

Although the fakeness of the accusation of “unconventional weapons” was obvious from the very beginning to those in the field of political propaganda, the rulers of the United States and England, with the help of mass media under their control and influence, organized the news reporting process according to their will in a musical way and by creating a The global coalition, with the appearance of “anti-terrorism”, has become the sworn enemy of the land and residents of Iraq.

Following the expansion of the brazen crimes of the US-led coalition in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Guantanamo detention center, “Julian Assange”, a 51-year-old Australian journalist and the founder of the “WikiLeaks” website, made a revelation.

In April 2010, Assange released classified documents from the Afghanistan-Iraq war, including a video of the killing of Iraqi civilians by US military helicopters, on WikiLeaks. Two months later, the Swedish government issued an international arrest warrant for Assange following the complaint of two citizens of this country who claimed that Julian Assange sexually harassed them. On June 19, 2012, he sought asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and was granted asylum on August 16 of the same year. In May 2017, Swedish prosecutors ordered a halt to the investigation into the sex allegations against Assange. Two years later, on April 11, 2019, the British police entered the embassy and arrested Assange and transferred him to Belmarsh maximum security prison in South London.

In the new episode of the “Hidden Files” program, Marzieh Hashemi, the host of the program, along with her guests, Dr. “Dipa Driver”, the legal supervisor in the case of Julian Assange and “John Kiriakou”, a former CIA officer, review the case of Julian Assange and Zawayi. Its hidden and its obvious.

On May 23, 2019, the US government charged Assange with 17 counts of violating the controversial US Espionage Act (passed in 1917). A crime that is punishable by 175 years in prison.

In just one revelation against the US military in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, WikiLeaks disclosed 832,391 classified documents. These documents were related to the death of 66,081 civilians out of a total of 109,000 registered casualties. In other words, more than 60% of the number of people killed in Iraq were non-combatants, and this revelation should have brought many American and British officials to trial, which, contrary to public opinion, did not happen.

Yes, the world turned upside down and anti-values ​​replaced values. “Tony Blair”, the fiery Prime Minister of England, received the Royal Medal for his crimes against humanity, and “Julian Assange” was sent to prison on charges of whistleblowing against civilians.

Dr. Driver oversaw Assange’s case as legal supervisor for three years. He considers disclosure as the only way to monitor the performance of governments behind closed doors. While praising Assange’s daring action in challenging the superpower of time and exposing his crimes in this and that corner of the world – including the Guantanamo detention center, Afghanistan, Iraq and Germany – he called the American reaction against WikiLeaks an illegal act in the direction of spreading the atmosphere. suffocation expresses.

Especially considering the fact that Assange was not only an American citizen, but outside the borders of the United States, he began to expose against the war crimes of that country’s military. According to Dr. Driver, the accusation of espionage against journalists is a bitter and worrying event for media members in all parts of the world.

He told Marzieh Hashemi, host of Press TV, that America’s purpose for this action is to poison those who want to expose America’s interests anywhere in the world in the future. Dr. Driver also condemns England’s role in the arrest of this Australian journalist and considers London to be complicit in the crimes and crimes committed by the United States, and calls for the cancellation of the British Supreme Court’s decision to extradite Assange to the Americans. It has been collected all over the world. Driver considers the action of the British police in entering the Ecuadorian embassy in London to arrest Assange, who had previously received Ecuadorian citizenship, a shameless action and contrary to the most basic standards of interaction and cooperation in the international arena. In the continuation of his statements, he refers to the process of dealing with Julian Assange’s accusations at the current stage.

The disclosure of the details of the American intelligence agency (CIA) spying on Julian Assange during his stay in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​as well as the disclosure of the CIA’s plan in 2017 to kidnap or assassinate Assange at the embassy in London, was a double scandal for the American authorities on the sidelines of the controversial case. Founder of WikiLeaks. The year 2017 coincided with the disclosure of this site about the spying mechanisms of the CIA.

John Kiriakou, the second guest of the program, who was fired from his position in this organization in 2012 on charges of passing confidential CIA information to a journalist, answered the question of Marzieh Hashemi, the host of Press TV’s “Hidden Files” program, regarding the consequences of disclosure. He says: Whistleblowing is a difficult and troublesome task that can cost not only the life of the whistleblower, but also the loss of his job and family position, apart from heavy criminal penalties. In such a way that even his closest friends refuse to meet him in public.

He continues: What happens to whistleblowers in America is beyond legal punishments. In fact, it is a calamity that they bring on the whistleblower with the aim of getting the attention of others and, in the best case, they make him disappear. John Kiriakou, who exposed the “torture program” of the CIA organization, considers this program to be a clear violation of the US Constitution, contrary to human rights and dignity, and contrary to moral principles.

According to this writer and television consultant, the crime is not justifiable and regardless of who commits it from what position, it should be exposed and prosecuted. He does not consider any of Julian Assange’s revelations to be against the national security of the United States and considers it a form of individual and social responsibility of individuals in a civil society.

The end of the program is dedicated to showing one of the series of revealing videos of Julian Assange in connection with the violent actions of the American occupation against civilians and journalists in Iraq. A video that confirms the recent statements of the President of Mexico – that if the founder of the whistleblower site WikiLeaks is sentenced to the maximum punishment in the United States, the Statue of Liberty should be destroyed.

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