{"id":1100,"date":"2007-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2007\/02\/22\/iraqi-government-clarified-its-position-regarding-mko\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:20:28","slug":"iraqi-government-clarified-its-position-regarding-mko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1100","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi government  clarified its position regarding MKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report from Baghdad on security measures in to combat insurgent activity, the Iraqi government again clarified its position regarding the Mojahedin Khalq organization (aka Rajavi cult). <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> 18 February 2007 <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Meanwhile, Iraqi cabinet spokesman Ali Al Dabagh said the government regarded the Iranian [Mojahedin] Khalq opposition group, which Iraq harboured during former President Saddam Hussein&rsquo;s reign, as &ldquo;a terrorist&rdquo; group.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> Al Dabagh said that the group should be forced to leave since &ldquo;the constitution forbids the presence of any organization that is engaged in or supports in terrorism in the Iraqi territories.&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> Less than a month before Al Dabagh&rsquo;s comments, a [Mojahedin] Khalq spokeswoman had told pan-Arab Al Sharq Al Awsat that the group&rsquo;s faction in Iraq, which lives in a camp east of Baghdad, has stopped its activities.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> &ldquo;We only have around 4,000 men, women and children who reside in Ashraf camp near Diyali,&rdquo; Dawla Norouzi said, adding: &ldquo;We respect the Iraqi government.&rdquo;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> Norouzi said that [Mojahedin] Khalq activities in were reduced to &ldquo;cultural and educational&rdquo; activities. <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"> [Mojahedin] Khalq has been struggling against the Iranian regime for more than two decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report from Baghdad on security measures in to combat insurgent activity, the Iraqi government again clarified its position regarding the Mojahedin Khalq organization (aka Rajavi cult).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[83],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[102],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraqi-authorities-positions","tag-mko-news","module-news","ctype-story","blog-irandidban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}