{"id":3152,"date":"2010-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2010\/06\/19\/uk-government-denies-any-contact-with-mko-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:33:41","slug":"uk-government-denies-any-contact-with-mko-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3152","title":{"rendered":"UK government denies any contact with MKO terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British Foreign Office Thursday denied any links with the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist organisation despite removing the anti-Iran group from its proscribed list two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Politician\/Marston\/Marston_Barry.jpg\"alt=\"\u201cThe MKO was responsible for a number of horrible acts of terrorism against ordinary Iranians and have never unambiguously renounced violence,\u201d Marston told IRNA.\"vspace=\"10\"hspace=\"10\"align=\"right\">\u201cThe British Government has no form of contact with this organization, as a point of principle,\u201d Foreign Office spokesman Barry Marston said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MKO was responsible for a number of horrible acts of terrorism against ordinary Iranians and have never unambiguously renounced violence,\u201d Marston told IRNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither do we believe this group enjoys any kind of popular support inside Iran,\u201d he said after British Ambassador Simon Gass was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Tehran following accusations of UK involvement in terrorist plots.<\/p>\n<p>The MKO were among the first terrorist groups to be outlawed in the UK in 2001, but also became the first to be deproscribed two years ago, leading to suggestions that the move was politically motivated coming at a time of deterioration in relations.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has always accepted that the anti-Iran group have never categorically given up terrorism but insisted that it was forced to remove it from their banned list after losing a court ruling that was supported by many MPs in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Marston said Britain \u201ccondemned acts of terrorism in Iran by criminal groups like Jondallah &amp; 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