{"id":1604,"date":"2007-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2007\/12\/02\/uk-rejects-lifting-ban-on-mojahedin-khalq-mko-terrorist-group\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:25:30","slug":"uk-rejects-lifting-ban-on-mojahedin-khalq-mko-terrorist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1604","title":{"rendered":"UK rejects lifting ban on Mojahedin Khalq (MKO) terrorist group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government rejected a ruling Friday that the anti-Iran Mujahideen-e-Khalq terrorist organisation (MKO) should be removed from the UK&#8217;s proscribed groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am disappointed at this judgement. We don&#8217;t accept it and we intend to appeal,&#8221;Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the MKO would remain on the UK&#8217;s list of banned terror organisations during the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s rejection came after the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission in London ruled that the terrorist sect, which is also banned in Europe and the US, should be removed from Britain&#8217;s blacklist.<\/p>\n<p>The MKO, which has carried out wholesale terrorist acts in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, was among the first organisations to be formally outlawed under Britain&#8217;s Terrorism Act 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government rejected a ruling Friday that the anti-Iran Mujahideen-e-Khalq terrorist organisation (MKO) should be removed from the UK&#8217;s proscribed groups.&#8221;I am disappointed at this judgement. We don&#8217;t accept it and we intend to appeal,&#8221;Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said.<\/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":[74],"tags":[83],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[127],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-mko-news","module-news","ctype-story","blog-irna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/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=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}