A number of Iranian MPs have criticized the European Union’s request that the United States remove the Mojahedin Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI from its list of terrorist groups.On Thursday, the European Parliament issued a declaration urging Washington to remove the MKO from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.
… Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said in a statement in August that while the Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to its cooperation with the international community in anti-terrorism campaign, the western countries and the US in particular followed a double-standard policy towards the issue. He said the example of such a policy was the extensive activities of the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) in these countries and their close relationship with the political figures there…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani strongly criticized the United States’ double-standard approach towards terrorism,..the example of such a policy was the extensive activities of the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in these countries and their close relationship with the political figures there.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says Washington has refused to comment on the fate of the eight Iranian prisoners held in the United States…Mottaki further dismissed the rallies held by the terrorist Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) during President Ahmadinejad’s stay in New York as ‘puppet shows.’
Mottaki further viewed the activities carried out by the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) in Norway as another negative issue affecting the ties between the two countries.Gahr Store, for his part, reiterated his country’s willingness to expand ties with Iran, and called for the continuation of such relations with Tehran.
… Iran on Friday categorically denied a claim by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) about a clandestine underground atomic site near Tehran.”We don’t have such a facility, if they have any details they should inform us so that we can thank them,”Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi said on Friday. The remarks by the Iranian officials came after MKO on Thursday had claimed that it had evidence of a new secret underground atomic site in the country …
A top Interior Ministry official has dismissed reports that Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI/NCRI/NCR members have been stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.“Iraqi officials do not allow such transfer,” Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Ali Abdollahi stated on Monday.
Mehman-Parast blasted the double-standard policy adopted by certain western countries, specially the US, on terrorism, and said while these states accuse others of sponsoring terrorism, they provide support for the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and the terrorist Jundollah group…Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States
… Washington has called on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants to allow members of the anti-Iran terrorist group [MKO/MEK/PMOI]access to the Qandil mountain rage along Iran’s northwestern border, Fars quoted an informed source close to PKK Leadership Council on Tuesday. The remarks came hours after an explosion damaged a gas pipeline near the eastern Turkish town of Dogubayazit, close to the Iranian border…
… In an interview with Radio Courtoisie of France, Iran’s Ambassador to Paris Mehdi Mir-Aboutalebi questioned the French government’s claim of support for human rights.”.. The Iranian ambassador called on France to provide an explanation as to why it allowed members of the MKO to celebrate on the 29th anniversary of a bombing attack in Iran, in which over 70 people were killed …