{"id":14148,"date":"2022-07-05T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=14148"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:13:31","slug":"the-mek-should-be-blacklisted-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/14148","title":{"rendered":"The MEK should be blacklisted again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe main reason for de-listing the MEK from British, EU &amp; U.S. terrorist lists (FTO) was the organization\u2019s public claim &#8211; and subsequent legal guarantee &#8211; that they had renounced violence since 2001 and would continue to do so,\u201d Reza Nasri, an international lawyer and legal expert, wrote on Twitter on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, a minor explosion in a southeastern Tehran in the Malek Ashtar Basij headquarters on Saturday night, resulted in minor infrastructure damage. In a statement, the MKO claimed responsibility for the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>In their statement issued on the same night, the terrorist group claimed the attack was carried out by \u201crevolutionary cells\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14149\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14149\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nasri-Reza.jpg\" alt=\"Reza Nasri\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Nasri-Reza.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Nasri-Reza-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Nasri-Reza-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reza Nasri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this recent development, the UK, EU and U.S. &#8211; along with Canada &#8211; should seriously consider revising their past decision and designate MEK again as a terrorist organization,\u201d Nasri continued in his thread of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>According to the legal expert, aside from doing justice to the thousands of Iranian, Iraqi and Kurdish victims that were killed or maimed by this brutal cult over the years, designating MEK again would be viewed as a good-faith gesture that will have a positive impact on the ongoing JCPOA negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the Western countries&#8217; opportunity to show good-faith, break the negotiations&#8217; deadlock and set the ground for a sustainable and long-term cooperation with Iran. Don&#8217;t miss it!\u201d Nasri noted, advising the Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe main reason for de-listing the MEK from British, EU &amp; U.S. terrorist lists (FTO) was the organization\u2019s public claim &#8211; and subsequent legal guarantee &#8211; that they had renounced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2,64,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[432],"class_list":["post-14148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization-as-a-terror-group","tag-mujahedin-khalq-list-fto","tag-mkos-terrorist-activities","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-tehran-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148","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=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}