{"id":2260,"date":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2009\/01\/29\/mkos-removal-from-eu-terror-list-draws-mixed-reactions\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:29:13","slug":"mkos-removal-from-eu-terror-list-draws-mixed-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2260","title":{"rendered":"MKO&#8217;s Removal From EU Terror List Draws Mixed Reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">A former member of the Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has welcomed the European Union&#8217;s decision to take the MKO off the EU&#8217;s list of terrorist organizations.<br \/> &nbsp;Massud Khodabandeh said the ruling will give thousands of MKO members &quot;the right to return to their families,&quot; RFE\/RL&#8217;s Radio Farda reports.<br \/> &nbsp;Khodabandeh said the ruling will &quot;save some of those individuals from the situation they&#8217;re facing in Iraq,&quot; where they number some 3,000.<br \/> &nbsp;The MKO seeks the overthrow of the Iranian government, and the EU decision has prompted sharp words from Tehran.<br \/> &nbsp;Organizations such as Human Rights Watch have accused the MKO of subjecting dissident members to torture.<br \/> &nbsp;It is still considered a terrorist group by the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former member of the Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) has welcomed the European Union&#8217;s decision to take the MKO off the EU&#8217;s list of terrorist organizations. Massud Khodabandeh said the ruling will give thousands of MKO members&#8221;the right to return to their families,&#8221;RFE\/RL&#8217;s Radio Farda reports.  Khodabandeh said the ruling will&#8221;save some of those individuals from the situation they&#8217;re facing in Iraq,&#8221;where they number some 3,000.<\/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":[36],"tags":[276,14,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[108],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organization-as-a-terror-group","tag-camp-ashraf-inhabitants","tag-defectors-of-mujahedin-khalq","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-radio-free-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","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=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/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=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}