{"id":1948,"date":"2008-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2008\/08\/05\/eu-officials-keep-mko-blacklisted\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:27:35","slug":"eu-officials-keep-mko-blacklisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1948","title":{"rendered":"EU officials: Keep MKO blacklisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some European Union members have warned against removing the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the bloc&#8217;s list of terrorist groups. <\/p>\n<p><img height=\"145\"alt=\"MKO should be black listed again\"hspace=\"10\"width=\"200\"align=\"left\"vspace=\"10\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Org\/EU_1.jpg\"\/>A number of EU parliamentarians, in a letter have slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. <\/p>\n<p>The letter adds, the MKO claims to be a democratic Iranian opposition, while it is instead a terrorist group with totalitarian ideals. <\/p>\n<p>The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, it said, adding that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. <\/p>\n<p>According to Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts deserters under torture and jail terms. <\/p>\n<p>The MKO, whose main stronghold is in Iraq, is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Press TV, Aug 04, 2008<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=65572&#038;sectionid=351020101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of EU parliamentarians, in a letter have slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list.  The letter adds, the MKO claims to be a democratic Iranian opposition, while it is instead a terrorist group with totalitarian ideals.<\/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],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-union","tag-mujahedin-khalq-list-fto","tag-mko-news","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/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=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}