The restaurant’s management took advantage of the official’s speech to prepare an ad-produced film
Yesterday, Thursday, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in Iraq filed a lawsuit against a restaurant known as “Mado” in the Al-Jadriya district of Baghdad, summarizing its merits and obligations, that the restaurant is almost specialized in Turkish food and its accessories, he took advantage of the presence of Minister Ahmed Al-Asadi in it last Monday “for the purposes of propaganda,” according to what the media advisor at the ministry, Kazem Al-Atwani, said in a press statement.
The statement also stated: “We were surprised by a video clip produced by the management of one of the restaurants in which a breakfast banquet was held for a number of elderly inmates in Dar Al Rashad in the presence of the minister. During the banquet, the restaurant management asked the minister for his opinion about the restaurant, and in complete spontaneity he praised and praised their work As a kind of encouragement for private sector projects.” It is a video shown by Al-Arabiya.net below, after I searched for it and found it spread on social media, in which the minister praises “Madou” in a way that made him appear as a propaganda star for the restaurant.
However, the reality of the situation was different, according to the rest of Counselor Kazem Al-Atwani’s statement, from which it is clear that the minister was exposed to something like a set trap, because: “The restaurant management took advantage of this conversation to cut part of it and put it in a produced advertising film, which is contrary to the literary contexts, and accordingly a lawsuit was filed A court case against the restaurant’s management for exploiting a private conversation and cutting a section of it for propaganda purposes inappropriate for the minister’s person.” With these words, the statement published in a number of Iraqi media outlets ended, as well as on the communication sites yesterday and today.
The restaurant’s management responded yesterday, Thursday, in a Facebook statement, in which it said that Mado “holds free breakfast meals every year, during the holy month of Ramadan, for the elderly residing in the El-Rashad Elderly Care Home, and the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who praised this initiative, which is considered new, was invited.” Of its kind in our Iraqi society, and encouraged the establishment of such humanitarian initiatives that support this important segment, and there is no truth to what was published in some media institutions and social networking sites of fabricated news,” without the statement addressing the lawsuit or the type of fabricated news.
