{"id":1260,"date":"2007-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2007\/05\/16\/cult-like-characteristics\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:21:35","slug":"cult-like-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1260","title":{"rendered":"Cult-like characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism on April 30 released the list of designated terrorist organizations. Once again Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) continues to occupy the status it has been designated since 1997.in one part we read:  &quot;In addition to its terrorist credentials, the MEK has also displayed cult-like characteristics. Upon entry into the group, new members are indoctrinated in MEK ideology and revisionist Iranian history. Members are also required to undertake a vow of &quot;eternal divorce&quot; and participate in weekly &quot;ideological cleansings&quot; . children are reportedly separated from parents at a young age. &quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/DOS\/DOS_4.jpg\"class=\"postimsh\"alt=\"Cult-like characteristics\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to its terrorist credentials, the MEK has also displayed cult-like characteristics. Upon entry into the group, new members are indoctrinated in MEK ideology and revisionist Iranian history. Members are also required to undertake a vow of&#8221;eternal divorce&#8221;and participate in weekly&#8221;ideological cleansings&#8221;. children are reportedly separated from parents at a young age.<\/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":[54],"tags":[6],"module":[23],"ctype":[22],"blog":[3],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cult-rajavi","tag-uncategorized","module-cartoon","ctype-image","blog-nejat-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/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=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}