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Dieudonn and Iran

The Dark Side of Comedy

March 2014

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Abstract

With the outburst of the 'Affaire Dieudonn ' in late 2013, the world discovered the French

comedian Dieudonn, his controversial jo es and his !uenelles"

Des#ite the number of articles written on Dieudonn and on the !uestion whether the !uenelle is

anti$%ewish or reflects anti$establishment views, we did not read much articles remindin& the

#rivile&ed relations Dieudonn has with ran or at least had with former ranian (resident )ahmud

Ahmadinejad"

*owever, such articles do e+ist and have been #ublished since 200 , when Dieudonn be&an to

dis#la- his #ro+imit- with .ehran"

We do not #retend to innovate, nor to discover hidden bounds with this #a#er, but rather to

remind the reader of the relations Dieudonn has with ran, in a wor &rounded on articles

#ublished in French #ress between 200 and 2013"

We will tr- here to sum u# our nowled&e about Dieudonn's ties with ran, drawin& the main lines

of a relationshi# which has #roved itself as central in Dieudonn's activities"

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Table of Contents

l. Ideological Ties......................................................................................................................4

1" /ommon &round"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""4 a) Negationism """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" b) Conspiracy theories and Shoah business """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" c) Sunna and Shi'a """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

2" eferences and mutual admiration""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""7

ll. The Facts...............................................................................................................................8

1" .ri#s to ran, ebanon and 4-ria"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""8 a) 2006: Lebanon and Syria """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" b) ran"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

2" An ac nowled&ed case of financial su##ort 6 L'!ntis " mite """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""12

lll. The Anti- ionist !ist and Iran...............................................................................................1"

1"(resentation""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""1" a)Main #atterns """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" b) Composition """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" c)$esu%ts""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

2" /ontrovers- about ran's involvment in the list"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""1# a) &ac ground: (irst Suspicions """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" b) Sora%'s inter ie* and dissidence o+ !hmed Mua%e , """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" c) $ue -.'s inter ie* o+ /ieudonn" and Sora% """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

3" Does the actual amount reall- matter7 e&al issues"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""18

Conclusions..............................................................................................................................2$

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l. Ideological Ties

1. Co%%on ground

Ahmadinejad's ran and Dieudonn shared a similar ideolo&- on certain to#ics, the main

common #oints bein& ne&ationism, anti$8ionism and cons#irationism"

We assume that the reader nows Ahmadinejad's #oint of view on these subjects and therefore

this #a#er will not dee#en in Ahmadinejad's ideolo&-"

a) Negationism

' esterday met an a%ien 3hy are you %aughing Shut up5 !%iens do e ist5 ts not %i e the gas chambers story

+or a%iens *e' e got proo+s '

9(o trot , 2012:

.his !uote is characteristic of Dieudonn" *e is alwa-s callin& into !uestion the veracit- of

the *olocaust and li es to as if ';We< could see the #lans' of the &as chambers"

=n December 2 th , 2005, Dieudonn invited onsta&e obert Faurisson, a well$ nown advocate of

*olocaust denial, and as ed the audience to a##laud him" %ac - 4i&au+, Dieudonn's lo-al assistant

and dressed as a concentration cam# #risoner for the occasion, then handed a fa e #ri>e to the

controversed historian 1"

Dieudonn shot several videos on ?outube and a movie 9 7he !nti8Semite , 2012: with Faurisson 2,

and often #raises the man and his wor s in his one$man$shows 3"

@oth of them are #roud of their mutual friendshi# and do not tr- to hide it, !uite the o##osite"

1 htt#6 www"-outube"com watch7vB =-aCa w# o , (aris, 2 "12"20052 For e+am#le6 htt#6 www"dail-motion"com video +5rr cEdieudonne$faurisson$le$s etchEfun

3 (articularl- in Mahmud 92010:" For e+am#le6 '*e ;Faurisson< is the onl- historian loo in& for the truth and toda-his life is in dan&er, the )ossad wants to ill him'

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.his #ublic friendshi# is even nown outside of

France6 Faurisson and Dieudonn have been invited

to&ether in .ehran, alon&side with re#resentants of

the Geturei Harta sect, to attend a conference

about '*oll-woodism and 8ionism' in Februar-

2012 within the conte+t of the 30 th nternational

Film Festival in .ehran"

b) Conspiracy theories and Shoah business

n a #ress conference &iven in Al&iers in Februar- 200 , Dieudonn #roclaimed that the

/ F is 'a mafia that has total control over French #olic- e+ercise'"

*e also uses a lot of antisemitistic fi&ures in his shows or videos such as the fictional character of

'Fin ielcrotte' 9litterall- 'Fin ielcra#', a #un created from the

name Fin iel raut, belon&in& to a well$ now French %ewish

#hiloso#her: who accordin& to Dieudonn #ossesses the e-s of

all French .I studios 9 $ende98nous "sus5 , 2011: or who &ives

orders to world's most #rominent leaders 9 'ai +ait %'con, 2005:

on the soundtrac of the ;od+ather "

*e also often de#icts the Jl-se as the 'most famous sraelior&ani>ation', su##osed to be waitin& for 'orders from above'"

About the D4H affair, he said6 '?ou now, elections are for jer s

who believe that the #eo#le #artici#ates" D4H alread- had his sli##ers in the Jl-se (alace" When

the- cau&ht him, all were shoc ed in the Kreat 4-na&o&ue of %erusalem L#ut -our dic s awa-,

&u-sML' "

/ F 9/onseil e#rsentatif des nstitutions juives de France N e#resentative /ouncil of French %ewish nstitutions:,

is an umbrella or&ani>ation of French %ewish or&ani>ations$ende98nous "sus , 2011

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Dieudonn also uses of another well$ nown #attern6 the belief in a 4hoah industr-" Got

onl- has the *olocaust been sta&ed, or at least did not ha##en as de#icted in the 'official *istor-',

but it has also been sta&ed on #ur#ose, in order to &rant %ews the ri&ht to 'rac et the world' and to

do whatever the- want to the (alestinian #eo#le"

.his is far awa- even from the most e+treme anti$8ionist and #ro$(alestinian movements which

claim that 'the victims of -esterda- have become toda-'s tortioners' but reco&ni>e the e+istence of

the *olocaust" For Dieudonn, the ver- e+istence of the *olocaust is to be called into !uestion6 it

has been sta&ed ans serves as a blan chec for srael which uses it to justif- ever-thin&" *olocaust

is a fictional 'memorial #orno&ra#h-' servin& as a #olitical levera&e tool"

c) Sunna and Sh'ia

Another as#ect that Dieudonn and Ahmadinejad have in common, althou&h not as well

nown as the #revious #oints, is their #articular stance toward 4unnism"

Althou&h he has been at first close to Abdela im 4ifrioui, leader of the Co%%ecti+ Chei h assineO,

Dieudonn #ro&ressivel- moved awa- from the 4unni movement, &ettin& closer and closer to 4hi'i

movements and, finall-, to ran"

With the time, there has been a clear evolution in Dieudonn's re#resentation of the Cmma" An

admirator of *amas 5 at first, he now sees the movement N and in fact ever- 4unni movement,

includin& Al$Paeda N as an =ccidental #awn, conned b- 4audi$C4 #etrodollars"

*is #ositions on the 4-rian /ivil War case led to &rave tensions within his 's#here' $ the

'Dieudos#here' $ and even to a micro$schism amon& his audience" .he defection of Ahmed )uale

in #articular, 4unni, o##osant to Asad's re&ime and the founder of La ban%ieue s'e prime , had

severe conse!uences for the 'Dieudos#here', as we shall demonstrate further"

htt#6 www"dail-motion"com video +33bu#Edieudonne$#orno&ra#hie$memorielle$sEnews , Al&iers, 1 "02"2007 A 4unni #ro#alestinian movement, #oliticall- and ideolo&icall- close to *amas and the )uslim @rotherhood $

http://soutien-palestine.blogspot.co.il/

8 *e sent his con&ratulations to the movement after it won decisive majorit- in the (alestinian (arliament in %anuar-200 6 htt#6 www"#rochoi+"or& c&i blo& inde+"#h# 200 01 30 1035$dieudonne$felicite$le$hamas

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2. &eferences and %utual ad%iration

eferences and com#liments for the ranian re&ime, and its allies 9mainl- Asad's 4-ria and

*e>bollah: are #articularl- #resent in his show Mahmud 92010:, so called as a tribute to

Ahmadinejad, and where he describes the former iranian (resident as a true and charismatic

leader, a hero fi&htin& almost alone the evil forces of C"4" im#erialism and %ewish neo$colonialism"

nterviewed b- ranian media in Juro#e and durin& his visits in ran, he alwa-s have been ver-

laudator- towards .ehran's re&ime"

.his admiration for the re&ime and its allies is

e+#ressed throu&h different forms6 in his shows

of course, but also in the videos he u#loads to

?ou.ube where he often affirms his su##ort to

Asad, on the #osters of his one$man$shows or

even in the name of the loun&e in his .hQtre

de la )ain d'=r6 the '*e>bollah /lub'"

Dieudonn and Ahmadinejad's ran thus clearl- shared a common ideolo&- &rounded on

ne&ationism, official anti$8ionism and cons#irac- theories but also on a distrust towards 4unnism

seen as corru#ted b- #etrodollars and which has bowed down to the C"4" and &lobal %ewr-" .he-

share &ood friends and allies and this relation is #ublicl- claimed b- Dieudonn"

4ince 200 , claims have become facts and Ahmadinejad also had the occasion to show his

admiration to the French comedian"

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ll. The Facts

Words have been translated into action since 200 " .herefrom, Dieudonn has often been

seen in .ehran or Damascus" *ere follow some e+am#les of his )iddle$Jastern travels and

businesses"

1.Tri's to Iran( !ebanon and )*ria

a) 2006: ebanon and Syria

Dieudonn travelled to southern ebanon in late Au&ust 200 9he landed on Au&ust 25 th : to

su##ort *e>bollah fi&hters and ebanese #o#ulation after the end of the 200 ebanon war"

*e was accom#anied $ amon& others R$ b- Alain 4oral 10 and .hierr- )e-ssan, founder and chairman

of the Ioltaire Getwor , an or&ani>ation officiall- #romotin& freedom of e+#ression and

secularism, and denouncin& C4 im#erialism 11"

t is interestin& to notice that one of the de#ut- chairmen of )e-ssan's Ioltaire Getwor is no

other than ssa Jl$A-oubi, who is also a #rominent member of the infamous 4-rian 4ocial

R .he full team included Dieudonn, 4oral, )e-ssan, /hatillon and Ahmed )uale10 Alain 4oral is a French #olitician, essa-ist and #ublisher" (revious #un , communist, and e+$ Front Gational activemember, he calls himself a leftist$nationalist"

*e wrote ?nderstanding the @mpire , where he drew the o##osition between nations and the 'Jm#ire' ruled b-ban in&, #rotestantism, free$masoner- and srael"For him, srael and the %ews use the #ower of their mone- as a mean of &lobal &overnance"*e sees himself as a hero who stands a&ainst mainstream conformism, sa-in& what other #eo#le do not dare to sa-because of the dreadful mi&ht of the #rinci#al enem- N srael"4oral is the founder of J&alit S conciliation, a #olit ical association mainl- active online and which has #roven itselfas !uite efficient6 'soralian' is now a stand#oint in French far$ri&ht world" )an- neo$nationalists indentif- to hisa##roaches and call themselves 'soralians'" *owever, the- are often moc ed b- 'white nationalists' who nic namethem 'baboosh suc ers' as 4oral #rones 'national reconciliation' and union between '#ure' French and 'new' French $mainl- Gorth African and 4ub$4aharan immi&rants N in order to fi&ht a&ainst mondial %ewr-"An old friend of Dieudonn, he was also #resent on the anti$8ionist list led b- Dieudonn and ?ahia Kuasmi for theJuro#ean elections of 200R

11 .hierr- )e-ssan is also the author of the cons#irationist best$seller .A11: 7he &ig Lie 9/reate4#ace nde#endent(ublishin& (latform, 2003:

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Gationalist (art- 944G(: 12" Go wonder then that Dieudonn and his friends met the current leader

of this movement, Ali Panso 13"*e had been with )ichel Aoun and his Free (atriotic )ovement

9F(): a central actor in the creation of the 5 )arch Alliance, a coalition created with *e>bollah as

a reaction to the /edar evolution and than in& 4-ria for its hel# in ebanon"

4uch a #leasant com#an- allowed Dieudonn to meet *e>bollah senior officials 1 , and even to #a-

a visit 1 to *e>bollah's .I channel Al$)anar 1 "

n 4-ria, the role of another member of the dele&ation is to be hi&hli&hted N Frdric

/hatillon, /J= S founder of a communication a&enc-, iwal" .his a&enc- is nown for bein& a

service #rovider to the French nationalist #art- Front Gational 1O" *owever, there is a less$ nown

facet of the societ-6 its ' iwal$4-ria' branch, wor in& for Asad's re&ime and close to the (resident's

inner circle 15" .his coo#eration with the hi&hest authorities e+#lains how Dieudonn succeeded to

meet senior 4-rian fi&ures such as the @ri&adier Keneral of the 4-rian e#ublican Kuard )anaf

.lass 9who then was still lo-al to Asad's re&ime:"

12 .he 44G( is a #an$4-rian secular #olitical #art-, founded in @eirut in 1R32" t has been the object of wide criticism

due to ideolo&ical, or&ani>ational and s-mbolical resemblances to Ga>ism" After the ebanese /ivil War, *e>bollah,facin& a lac of recruits, offered the 44G( to join the resistance in southern ebanon and created the Sayara a%Mu a*ama , a 44G( formation militaril- de#endent of *e>bollah, but reli&iousl- inde#endent" Abdel HarimGasrallah, the father of *asan Gasrallah, was a member of the 44G(

13 Conspiracy 3atch , 2 "0 "200R1 4ee 4oral's interview about his journe- in southern ebanon6 htt#6 www"e&aliteetreconciliation"fr Alain$4oral$

raconte$son$vo-a&e$au$ iban$en$200 $1 552"html 15 ' iban6 )bala )bala au chevet du *e>bollah', www"iran$resist"or&, 01"0R"20016 ?ou can also find an interview of Dieudonn, 4oral and )e-ssan6

htt#6 www"dail-motion"com video +l11jeEdieudonne$alain$soral$et$thierr-$me-ssan$en$s-rie$1$2Enews Shtt#6 www"dail-motion"com video +l11 mEdieudonne$alain$soral$et$thierr-$me-ssan$en$s-rie$2$2Enews

1O 'Frdric /hatillon, l'im#rimeur radical du Front national', Les nroc s, 2 "0 "2012

15 '/omment un ancien du KCD fait la #romo de la 4-rie', Le Monde , 15"12"200R S 'Des rseau+ francais au service dela 4-rie', Lib"ration , 0R"02"2012

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7he *ho%e team, (rom %e+t to right: !hmed Mua%e /ieudonn" 7hierryMeyssan !%ain Sora% and (r"d"ric Chati%%on
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n his show Mahmud 92010:,

Dieudonn relates his tri# to 4-ria in

200 , statin& that he met in Damascus

several *e>bollah senior members and

even (resident *u&o /hTve>" Althou&h

bac ed b- the Ioltaire Getwor 1R, this

information is difficult to chec "

n 200 , Dieudonn did met in ebanon and 4-ria senior officials of different or&ani>ations, all

havin& a stron& relationshi# with ran"

b) !ran

Dieudonn has been several times in ran, for e+am#le for a 'Wee $end of resistance in

.ehran '20in 200O, where he met )ohammad *onardoost, Iice (resident /ommunications S

nternational Affairs of the @ 21 and Iice (resident of the Asia$(acific @roadcastin& Cnion"

n Govember 200R, there were #reliminar- tal s about a cinemato&ra#hic coo#eration between

Dieudonn's #roductions de %a #%ume, the ranian /ocumentary and @ perimenta% (i%m Center

9DJF/: 22 and the ranian )inistr- of /ulture and slamic Kuidance 23"

'We received a substantial bud&et allowin& us to ma e movies, on #ar with *oll-wood, which

serves as the lon& arm of 8ionist culture' commented Dieudonn, durin& a #ress conference in his.hQtre de la )ain d'=r a few da-s later"

.he same -ear, he has been received b- )ahmud Ahmadinejad 2 and ';the-< discussed that the

1R htt#6 www"voltairenet"or& article1 32 "html 20 htt#6 www"labanlieuese+#rime"or& , 1R"02"200O21 .he slamic e#ublic of ran @roadcastin& =r&ani>ation, which notabl- launched lastl- a Hu$band television

broadcast over Juro#e and the )JGA re&ion via the Juro#ean .elecommunications 4taellite =r&ani>ation 9Jutelsat:22 htt#6 www"defc"ir en23 'U.he Anti$4emiteU comin& to Fajr film festival', 7ehran 7imes , 02"01"2012

24 4ee L'@ press, 2 "11"200R6htt#6 www"le+#ress"fr actualite monde dieudonne$ahmadinejad$nouveau$tandem$tra&i$comi!ueE530 "html

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world is dominated b- im#erialism and that one cannot ma e use of art to de#ict this" We also

discussed the censorshi# conducted b- the 8ionist lobb- in Juro#e and their influence on the

media'"

n 2012, Dieudonn has been invited once a&ain b- (resident Ahmadinejad, this time with

*olocaust denier obert Faurisson for the 30 th nternational Film Festival in .ehran 2 "

Accordin& to a document released b- the )iddle Jast )edia esearch nstitute 9)J) :

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2. An ac+no,ledged case of financial su''ort '"ntis # mite

As reminded before, Dieudonn, the ranian )inistr- of /ulture and slamic Kuidance and

the /ocumentary and @ perimenta% (i%m Center hold #reliminar- tal s on their coo#eration for the

#roduction of Dieudonn's movie 7he !nti8Semite 9released in 2012: in Govember 200R"

Jventuall-, Dieudonn's #roductions de %a #%ume teamed u# with =a+t !seman Cinematic Company

9*A//: and the DJF/, as #recised in the o#enin& credits of the movie"

)ohsen Ali$A bari, /J= of *A// 25

underlined to a French news#a#er

that ';he< acce#ted to #roduce the

movie because of ;his< anti$8ionist

beliefs'"

.he information of the co#roduction

has been confirmed b- Alain 4oral's

own website, J&alit et conciliation"fr" n an article entitled 'Dieudonn #roduces his movie in

ran'2R, his or&ani>ation confirms the information s#read b- L'@ press one da- before 30"

4ince 200 , Dieudonn multi#lied his visits in ran and allied countries" Jnjo-in& an

e+cellent re#utation in ran, Dieudonn has found there what he could not reach in France6 a

media #latform, business contacts, and last but not least, a si&nificant financial su##ort"

@ut this su##ort could even have ta en an ille&al as#ect in the case of the anti$8ionist list"

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lll. The Anti- ionist !ist and Iran

1. resentation

.he Anti$8ionist ist has been #resented b- the anti$8ionist (art- 9(arti Antisioniste, (A4: for

the Juro#ean (arliament elections in 200R"

a) $ain patterns

.he (A4 has been founded in 200R b- ?ahia Kuasmi, who is also the (resident of the French

4hi'i Federation and the founder of the /entre 8ahra 31, a 4hi'i or&ani>ation based in northern

France"

/entre 8ahra is not onl- a reli&ious foundation su##ortin& the

develo#ment of 4hi'ism in France, where 4unni slam is

dominant, but also a #olitical or&ani>ation, havin& a ver- clear

stand#oint about srael and 8ionism6 'We, /entre 8ahra France,

alon&side with some 4unni brothers who join us on this #oint,

curse the 8ionist 4tate of srael in each and ever- of our five dail-

#ra-ers, for we now that this 4tate is evil'32

".he website hosts articles on ran, interviews and declarations of

some #rominent fi&ures such as Ali Hhameini or *assan Gasrallah

and even ranian reli&ious .I series"

(osterior to the /entre 8ahra, the (A4 has been founded after =#eration /ast ead, durin&

the first months of 200R" .he declared &oal of this #art- is 'to liberate France from 8ionist

31 A sin&le visit on the website 9 htt#6 www"centre$>ahra"com : of the association shows the reader what relations

/entre 8ahra ee#s u# with the ranian re&ime32 htt#6 www"centre$>ahra"com actualite e+istence$fin$israel$1O12"html

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occu#ation '33" ts fiteen$#oints #ro&ram is all about 8ionist occu#ation N not of (alestine, but of

France6 for e+am#le the first #oint, e+#ressin& the wish 'to s#irit awa- 8ionist interference in

national affairs', or the si+th one, callin& for the 'liberation of the media from 8ionist

stran&lehold' 3 "

Accordin& to the website ran

Focus 3 , Kuasmi is 'a son of

Hhomeini in France' and is a

re#resentant of the core &rou# of

the su##orters of the ranian

re&ime, as he calls Ali Hhameini

' eader of )uslims'" For the

author, this conce#tion clearl- shows that Kuasmi is a member of the most e+treme #ro$ ranian

fran&e which sees Hhameini the leader not onl- of the 4hi'i world 9and even this #oint is dis#uted

amon& the 4hi'a, as man- A-atollahs do not reco&ni>e Hhameini's leadershi#: but of all the

Cmma 3 "

f we have a loo to the com#osition of the list of the (A4 for the 200R Juro#ean Jlection, we find

other infamous #ersonalities"

b) Composition

.he list was led b- Dieudonn and counted into its ran s several #ersons nown for their

33 ?ahia Kuasmi in an interview &iven to L'@ press" 4ee ' es amis tr s #articuliers du /entre 8ahra', L'@ press,2 "02"200R

34 .he fifteen$#oints #ro&ramm of the (A46 htt#6 www"#artiantisioniste"com #ro&ramme " (lease note the lo&o of the#art-" .he numerous articles concernin& ran on the website are ver- hel#ful to understand the nature of therelation, and the stren&th of the ties between the (A4 and ran

35 Puoted b- Mediapart 6htt#6 blo&s"media#art"fr blo& jean$moulin$france 2O1012 -ahia$&ouasmi$un$enfant$de$limam$ homein-$en$france

3 For more informations on ?ahia Kuasmi, #lease refer to %ean$GoXl /o&he, Le b%ues du reporter 9 e /astor Astral,2002:" n this boo , /o&he, who has been a re#orter in the )JGA re&ion for French radio . from 1ROR to 1RR5

relates his interviews with '?a>id', a #seudon-m for ?ahia" Amon& other informations, the author ar&ues thatKuasmi has been sus#ected for the attem#t to murder an ranian o##osant in ondon in 1R5

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#articular stance toward the *olocaust or the cons#irac- theories"

?ahia Kuasmi was of course #resent on the list, and so were Alain 4oral and Ahmed )uale " .here

were also Gomie )onta&ne $ Dieudonn's #artner, )aria (oumier, a well$ nown French$/uban

*olocaust denier, and Kinette *ess$4 andrani who had been de#icted as an anti$4emite and a

ne&ationist b- Juro#alestine 3O, which denounced her 'dis&ustin& words' 35"

*ess$4 andrani and )aria (oumier founded @ntre %a #%ume et %'@nc%ume, a website s#eciali>ed in

the denunciation of the 4hoah business" As #roclaimed on the website's home#a&e6 '.he *olocaust

is the #rinci#al wea#on of srael's #ro#a&anda arsenal" we bear witness that the *olocaust was a

m-th, then srael will lost its central wea#on' 3R"

c) %esu&ts40

.he anti$8ionist list reached a &lobal score of 1"30Y in the whole le$de$France re&ion 93

3O voters:"

3O Juro#alestine is a French GK= which sees its #ur#ose in #ressurin& the Cnited Gations, the Juro#ean Cnion andthe French &overnment in order to 'end the occu#ation of the (alestinian territories', in com#liance with CG4/

esolution 2 2" .he or&ani>ation also su##orts the scientifical and academical bo-cott of srael" Dieudonn ran inJuro#alestine's list for the 200 Juro#ean Jlection, but !uic l- distanced himself from the or&ani>ation, &ettin&closer to 4oral N and *ess$4 andrani

38 'Dieudonn sur une #ente tr s &lissante', Juro#alestine's website, 2R"10"200 6htt#6 www"euro#alestine"com article"#h#37idEarticleB1 10Slan&Bfr

39 4ee the website, full of such affirmations and of cons#irac- theories6 htt#6 www"#lumenclume"net " As ofFebruar- 201 , the website also hosts man- articles in su##ort of Dieudonn, #resentin& him as the sca#e&oat ofthe 8ionist s-stem

40 =fficial results, the data is on free access on the website of the French )inistr- of nterior9htt#6 www"interieur"&ouv"fr Jlections es$resultats Juro#eennes elecresultEEeuro#eennesE200R :

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n 4eine$4aint$Denis, a de#artment nown for the massive #resence of new immi&rants 9most of

them from the )JGA re&ion or 4ub$4aharan Africa:, 2"53Y of the #o#ulation voted for the anti$

8ionist list, with #ea s reachin& "15Y in /lich-$sous$@ois and "R2Y in 4tains"

.hese elections has been a failure for the (A4, as the list #resented b- Juro#alestine &athered 10Y

of the voters in some cities in the le$de$France re&ion"

@ut whatever the results were, there has been a controvers- over ran's im#lication in the

list" f this su##osition is to be ascertained, the conse!uences could be ver- severe for the

'Dieudos#here'"

2. Contro/ers* about Iran0s in/ol/%ent in the list

a) ackground: first suspicions

.he fact that a well$ nown 4hi'i or&ani>ation &rounded a #olitical list naturall- arose

!uestions about a #ossible financial su##ort b- other 4hi'i or&ani>ations N and b- ran"

.he com#le+ #ersonalit- of Kuasmi and his mist- #ast onl- stren&thened the !uestionin&" ac in&

of facts, those who considered the fundin& of the list as sus#icious have remained relativel- !uiet"

b) Sora&'s inter(ie and dissidence of "hmed $ua&ek *20+,)

.he turnin& #oint occurred lastl-, in 2013, four -ears after the election" .wo main events

allowed to re$o#en the case and to !uestion a&ain ran's role in the fundin& of the anti$8ionist list".he first revelation has occured in the joint interview &iven b- Alain 4oral and Kabriele Adinolfi, an

talian neo$fascist 1, to J&alit S conciliation .I 2 in Gice on )arch R th , 2013"

.he interview becomes interestin& after 1 620, when 4oral e+#licitl- affirms that 'if we ;the (A4ation that &uards )ussolini's &rave

2 4oral's channel, #articularl- active on ?outube43 .he video is on free access on ?outube for the moment6 htt#6 www"-outube"com watch7vBvhP1ehAwObsVtB O2

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A few months later, another catastro#he for the 'Dieudos#here' and the (A46 Ahmed

)uale slams the door and leaves his alliance with Dieudonn, JS and the (A4, as a result of his

isolation concernin& the /ivil 4-rian War N he was the sole fi&ure within this &rou# to o##ose

Asad's re&ime"

n a video #ublished in Au&ust 2013 and entitled 'Alain 4oral, where is the war boot- of the (A47' ,

he calls his #revious friends to accounts and char&es them with financial malfeasance6 'As far as

new, the anti$8ionist list was #rovided with financial su##ort of 300"000 euros 4oral, where is

the war boot-7 Where are those three million 7'"

t is overtoned here that ran did finance the anti$8ionist list, the dis#ute dealin& onl- with the

#oint of the amount of such a su##ort"

For )uale , the fundin& is about three million euros and he &rounds his belief on 4oral's interview

of )arch 2013" .hree da-s after )uale #ublished his video, JS #ublished an article on their own

website e+#lainin& that 'three million was a sli# of 4oral's ton&ue' due to his 'tiredness' "

t is interestin& to not that 4oral did not contradict the insinuation of ranian su##ort, claimin& that

'dissidence could have to ta e the sha#e of a more #olitical institution and should be aware of

the #olitical realit-'"

n a word, he invalidated the three million, but did not refute the ori&in of the fundin&"

44 4till available on ?outube6 htt#6 www"-outube"com watch7vBH 54JeitG() 45 htt#6 www"e&aliteetreconciliation"fr Ahmed$)ouale $s$en$#rend$lui$aussi$a$Alain$4oral$1RORO"html

4oral li es to see himself and his friends as the 'Dissidence', i"e" as the few who success to thin out of the frameim#osed b- the 'Jm#ire' and to o##ose the mainstream

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c) &ue 8 's inter(ie of Dieudonn# and Sora & O

n Audre- /erdan and Golwenn e @levennec's interview for $ue -. , 4oral this time denies

an- forei&n financial involvment in the list6 ' said ran because made an association of ideas in

fact we could not have raised this list without the hel# of ?ahia Kuasmi, who embodies 4hi'ism in

France'" Dieudonn then added to the journalists that 'the '4hi'i leaders are in ran, so it ma es

sense to draw the lin between Kuasmi and ran'"

t surel- does ma e sense, but this lin could be more than a verbal a##ro+imation, #articularl-

when we now the su##ort Dieudonn &ot from ran in other fields before"

".Does the actual a%ount reall* %atter !egal issues

Go need to be a mathematician to understand that there is somethin& weird in this stor-"

First, 4oral s#ea s about 3 million euros" .hen Ahmed )uale as s where the mone- is and as an

answer the 'Dieudos#here' seems to a&ree on the sum of 300"000 euros"@ut there is a #roblem since accordin& to the Gational /ommission for /am#ai&n Accounts,

Dieudonn's list received onl- OR euros in donations, for a &lobal income which never e+ceeded

O3 euros 5"

Where did the 300"000 euros come from, and wh- were not the- declared7 .here could be here a

O Golwenn e @levennec S Audre- /erdan6 ' es raniens ont$ils financ la liste antisioniste de Dieudonn7', $ue -. ,21"10"2013

48 .he data is from the official re#ort on the cam#ai&n accounts for the Juro#ean Jlection of %une 200R, #ublished in

the %ournal =fficiel, 15"02"20106htt#6 www"cnccf#"fr docs cam#a&ne cnccf#E200REeuro#eennesEdaeE20100215"#df

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financial malfeasance"

@ut the im#ortant #oint here is that if Dieudonn's list indeed &ot mone- from ran, it is #unishable

under the law, as e+#licited in Article 2$5 of the French Jlectoral /ode6 'Aucun candidat ne #eut

recevoir, directement ou indirectement, #our !uel!ue d#ense !ue ce soit, des contributions ou

aides matrielles d'un Jtat tran&er ou d'une #ersonne morale de droit tran&er' N 'a candidate

cannot acce#t, whether directl- or indirectl- an- contribution or material su##ort from an-

forei&n 4tate or le&al entit-'"

Actin& in contravention with this article e+#oses the offender to a fine or a jail sentence, accordin&

to Article 113$1 of the same Jlectoral /ode"

.he fundin& of the anti$8ionist #art- is a twili&ht >one, but is it reall- outside le&alit-7 =nl-

an official in$de#th in!uir- could determine whether or not the (A4 acted wron&full-"

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Conclusions

Dieudonn and ran have maintained close contacts since 200 " nvited in ran b-

#rominent #ersonalities, Dieudonn found there a su##ortive re&ime" *imself admirative of

Ahmadinejad, he discovered this admiration as bein& mutual and was #rovided a well$#ac ed

adress boo which allowed him to develo# business contacts and to enjo- a si&nificative financial

su##ort" .his su##ort is not a m-ster- concernin& his #ersonal #rojects such as the fundin& of a

film or the coo#eration with ranian cinemato&ra#hic com#anies"

*owever, the nature of this su##ort is wa- less clear concernin& the anti$8ionist list he led with

Kuasmi, a #rominent 4hi'i leader in France" f the nature of the coo#eration between the anti$

8ionist (art- and ran were to be financial, it would be #unishable under the French Jlectoral /ode"

.he ties between Dieudonn and ran are not secret and not fran l- sur#risin& considerin& the

ideolo&ies Ahmadinejad and Dieudonn share"

t is ironic that Dieudonn, who denounces C"4" and Patari 'occu#ation' of France, serves as a

#olitical brid&e to Ahmadinejad in France and Juro#e"

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