{"id":13034,"date":"2021-07-19T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13034"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:31:27","slug":"sds-call-for-clarification-on-pms-participation-in-mek-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13034","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;Ds call for clarification on PM&#8217;s participation in MEK meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;Ds call for clarification on PM Janez Jan\u0161a\u2019s participation in a meeting sponsored by the People\u2019s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran<\/p>\n<p>The Socialists and Democrats are shocked to learn that the prime minister of Slovenia, Janez Jan\u0161a, whose country is now chairing the EU rotating presidency, addressed an online gathering on Saturday, which was organised by the so-called National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also known as the People\u2019s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MEK). This anti-democratic, cult-like organisation, which was on the EU terrorist list until 2009, has a long history of human rights abuses documented by organisations such as Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13009 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Janez-Jansa.jpg\" alt=\"Janez Jansa Prime Minister of Slovenia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Janez-Jansa.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Janez-Jansa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Janez-Jansa-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonino Picula S&amp;D spokesperson on foreign affairs and Jytte Guteland, S&amp;D shadow rapporteur on Iran, made the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupport for a group with such a violent, anti-democratic record, at the level of the prime minister of a country holding the rotating presidency of the EU, is extremely irresponsible and grave. It undermines the ongoing efforts of the EU and its High Representative Josep Borrell to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran, a key foreign-policy priority for the EU.<br \/>\n\u201cWe call on the EPP Group to immediately and clearly distance themselves from such destructive behaviour from one of its members, and clarify whether it supports such a key EU foreign policy objective as the restoration of the nuclear agreement with Iran, or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Socialistsanddemocrats.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;Ds call for clarification on PM Janez Jan\u0161a\u2019s participation in a meeting sponsored by the People\u2019s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran The Socialists and Democrats are shocked to learn that the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[85,642,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-13034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-paid-advocacy-for-mko","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034","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=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}