{"id":13044,"date":"2021-07-20T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=13044"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T05:31:11","slug":"eu-foreign-policy-chief-jansa-doesnt-represent-the-eu-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/13044","title":{"rendered":"EU foreign policy chief: Jan\u0161a doesn\u2019t represent the EU on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday (12 July) sought to distance the bloc from comments made by Slovenia\u2019s Prime minister at a meeting of an Iranian opposition group that enraged Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s foreign ministry has slammed Slovenian premier Janez Jan\u0161a for participating in \u201cFree Iran\u201d conference of the exiled People\u2019s Mujahedin (MEK) and summoned the country\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\n<p><em>Janez Jan\u0161a, Prime Minister of Slovenia #Iran&#8217;s people deserve democracy freedom &amp; human rights &amp; should be firmly supported by the int&#8217;l community. The regime must be held accountable for human rights violations. #FreeIran2021https:\/\/t.co\/as6lOrWZmR<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2014 People&#8217;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) July 10, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jan\u0161a told the meeting in an online message that the \u201cIranian people deserve democracy, freedom and human rights, and should be firmly supported by the international community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also demanded that the \u201cIranian regime must be held accountable for human rights violations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell said the statements from the Slovenian leader did \u201cmost definitely not\u201d reflect the EU\u2019s position, despite the country currently holding the bloc\u2019s rotating six-month presidency.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13036\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13036\" class=\"wp-image-13036 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Farsnews-MEK-202107.jpg\" alt=\"Fars news report on MEK meeting\" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Farsnews-MEK-202107.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Farsnews-MEK-202107-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Farsnews-MEK-202107-768x354.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe EU\u2019s position when it comes to Iran is balanced,\u201d Borrell said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in bringing to bear political pressure, when necessary, in lots of areas and at the same time trying to find cooperation when necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had on Sunday called on the EU \u201cto clarify its stance\u201d in a phone call with Borrell, Tehran said.<\/p>\n<p>EU ties with the Iran are currently at a highly sensitive moment as the bloc is seeking to broker the return of the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran at long-running talks in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>We 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>EURACTIV.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Monday (12 July) sought to distance the bloc from comments made by Slovenia\u2019s Prime minister at a meeting of an Iranian opposition group&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[85,642,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-13044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-union","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\/13044","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=13044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=13044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}