{"id":2325,"date":"2009-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2009\/02\/21\/bulgaria-terms-mko-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:10:19","slug":"bulgaria-terms-mko-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2325","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria Terms MKO Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span class=\"style2\">Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Urdan Popov Wednesday called the anti-Iran group, Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization, a terrorist group despite European Union&#8217;s recent decision to strike the MKO off its terror list.<br \/>\n&#8220;According to the existing laws MKO is a terrorist group,&#8221; Popov said in a meeting with Chairman of the Iranian parliament&#8217;s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaoddin Boroujerdi.<br \/>\nThe remark by popov whose country is an EU member came after a controversial decision by the 27- nation bloc&#8217;s foreign ministers in Brussels to drop the MKO from the blacklist. The MKO had been blacklisted as a terror organization by the EU since 2002.<br \/>\nRegarding Iran-Bulgaria bilateral relation, Popov noted that there are no obstacles on expansion of mutual cooperation.<br \/>\n&#8220;Properties and capabilities of the two countries, particularly in energy, require new initiatives for the promotion and expansion of bilateral cooperation,&#8221; he went on saying.<br \/>\nAlaoddin Boroujerdi, for his part, expressed satisfaction over expansion of bilateral ties and stressed boosting bilateral consultations and cooperation between Iran and Bulgaria.<br \/>\nElsewhere, Boroujerdi referred to the sensitive conditions in the Middle-East, Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, and said, &#8220;The policy of the Islamic Republic is based on establishment of durable and long-term calm and stability in the region.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe also criticized West&#8217;s double-standard approach towards campaign against drugs and terrorism and solution of the crisis in Palestine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister Urdan Popov Wednesday called the anti-Iran group, Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization, a terrorist group despite European Union&#8217;s recent decision to strike the MKO off its terror list&#8230; The remark by popov whose country is an EU member came after a controversial decision by the 27- nation bloc&#8217;s foreign ministers in Brussels to drop the MKO from the blacklist. The MKO had been blacklisted as a terror organization by the EU since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[85,83,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[235],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-mko-news","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-fars-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}