{"id":1307,"date":"2007-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2007\/06\/07\/eus-secret-documents-against-mojahedin-khalq-organisation-rajavi-cult\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:22:47","slug":"eus-secret-documents-against-mojahedin-khalq-organisation-rajavi-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1307","title":{"rendered":"EU&#8217;s Secret Documents Against Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (Rajavi cult)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">the state which provided the documents does not consent to their disclosure,&quot; EU officials told PMOI lawyers in a letter on 14 May. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Otherwise the position of the EU in international cooperation in the fight against terrorism would be compromised,&quot; the letter goes on. <\/p>\n<p>The letter is the latest in a series of documents exchanged between the EU and PMOI since December, when EU courts annulled an EU decision of 2005 to keep the People&#8217;s Mujahidin Organisation of Iran on its list. <\/p>\n<p>Officially-named terrorist organisations have their financial assets frozen and are forbidden from fund-raising in Europe. <\/p>\n<p>EU officials say the court ruling does not cover a post-2005 decision to keep PMOI on the register, but all the evidence that Brussels has supplied to the group so far deals with pre-2001 activity, with PMOI claiming it has become a non-violent movement in the meantime. <\/p>\n<p>The PMOI says its inclusion on the terror register, initiated by the UK five years ago, is a political move to give the west a negotiating chip in its efforts to get Tehran to back down on nuclear technology. <\/p>\n<p>Some EU diplomats and Iranian expats believe the opposition group still has a sinister, fanatical fringe however. At least one of its high-profile supporters in the west has conceded the PMOI leadership is not a model of liberal democracy. <\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Euobserver, May 31, 2007 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU claims it has secret evidence that justifies keeping Iran opposition group PMOI on its terrorist register but cannot reveal the content for security reasons, in a situation stoking anger among some MEPs. &#8220;The council [EU states secretariat] is not in a position to give you access to other documents in the file, since<\/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":[167],"tags":[2,83,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[411],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-union","tag-mujahedin-khalq-list-fto","tag-mko-news","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-the-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","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=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/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=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}