{"id":2308,"date":"2009-02-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2009\/02\/14\/uk-mindful-on-mek-history\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:29:27","slug":"uk-mindful-on-mek-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2308","title":{"rendered":"UK mindful on MEK history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Verdana\"><strong>David Lidington<\/strong> (Shadow Minister, Foreign Affairs; Aylesbury, Conservative) To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what the Government&#8217;s policy towards the People&#8217;s Mojahedin of Iran is in the light of <img alt=\"we remain mindful of the MeK's history as an organisation responsible for a number of serious terrorist attacks&mdash;it claimed responsibility for large numbers of violent attacks inside Iran\"hspace=\"10\"align=\"right\"vspace=\"10\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Politician\/Lidington_Rammell.jpg\"\/>the recent judgment by the European Court of First Instance.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Bill Rammell <\/b>(Minister of State, Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office; Harlow, Labour) | Hansard source <\/p>\n<p> On 26 January 2009, taking account of the judgment by the Court of First Instance on 4 December 2008, the General Affairs and External Relations Council adopted a list which did not include the MeK (Mojahedin-e-Khalq, also known as the People&#8217;s Mojaheddin of Iran).<\/p>\n<p> However, we remain mindful of the MeK&#8217;s history as an organisation responsible for a number of serious terrorist attacks&mdash;it claimed responsibility for large numbers of violent attacks inside Iran for a number of years, including 96 in a three-month period in early 2001. We do not agree with its claim that it represents a credible democratic opposition in exile.<br \/> 10 Feb 2009 : Column 1846W<br \/> Written answers&nbsp;| Hansard source <br \/> Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we remain mindful of the MeK&#8217;s[PMOI\/MKO] history as an organisation responsible for a number of serious terrorist attacks\u2014it claimed responsibility for large numbers of violent attacks inside Iran for a number of years, including 96 in a three-month period in early 2001. We do not agree with its claim that it represents a credible democratic opposition in exile.<\/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":[112,2,85,83,64],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[199],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-hot-topics","tag-mujahedin-khalq-list-fto","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-mko-news","tag-mkos-terrorist-activities","module-news","ctype-story","blog-hansard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/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=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}