{"id":1749,"date":"2008-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2008\/03\/30\/iran-slam-us-for-supporting-iraqi-based-terrorist-mojahedin-khalq\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:56:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:26:21","slug":"iran-slam-us-for-supporting-iraqi-based-terrorist-mojahedin-khalq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1749","title":{"rendered":"Iran slam US for supporting Iraqi based terrorist Mojahedin Khalq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma\"><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">While US issued no direct rebuttal onthe comments <span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma\">An Iranian envoy also addressed the council, accusing the United States of supporting the Iraq-based People&#8217;s Mujahideen (MKO) guerrilla group. The MKO is banned as a terrorist group in Iran, the United States and the European Union. &#8220;Its elements and members continue to enjoy support and receive safe haven in the US and some European countries, including some member states of the EU,&#8221;the envoy said.  The MKO&#8217;s political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is banned in the United States as a terrorist organisation but remains legal in the EU. The MKO advocates overthrowing the Islamic leadership of Iran.  Washington issued no direct rebuttal of the comments.  But Richard Grenell, a spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations, responded by referring to the Security Council&#8217;s March 3 adoption of a third round of UN sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt its enrichment work. &#8220;Our response to the Iranians was the &#8230; Security Council resolution in which the international community said again Iran was in violation of international (nuclear) demands,&#8221;he said.  Washington also accuses Iran of supporting Middle Eastern militant organisations including Hezbollah and Hamas.  The NCRI first revealed the existence of Iran&#8217;s clandestine uranium enrichment program in August 2002. The United States and other Western countries fear it is part of a plan to get the capability to produce atomic weapons but Tehran says is at the heart of a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program. <\/span><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"><\/span> <strong><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: ' mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma\">By Louis Charbonneau at the UN Security Council meeting | March 20, 2008<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian envoy also addressed the council, accusing the United States of supporting the Iraq-based People&#8217;s Mujahideen (MKO) guerrilla group. 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