{"id":3723,"date":"2011-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2011\/06\/09\/iran-us-human-rights-stance-contrary-to-their-support-for-mko\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:36:53","slug":"iran-us-human-rights-stance-contrary-to-their-support-for-mko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3723","title":{"rendered":"Iran: US human rights stance contrary to their support for MKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Judiciary chief has criticized Western countries for imposing their viewpoints of human rights on other states by using their &ldquo;media domination.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> &ldquo;There is a contradiction between the words and actions of Western countries on human rights and they impose their viewpoints of human rights on other states by media domination,&rdquo; said Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani on Tuesday, Mehr news agency reported.  <\/p>\n<p> He added that the US and other Western nations &ldquo;repeat their human rights allegations&rdquo; against other countries in an attempt to destabilize them. <\/p>\n<p> Ayatollah Larijani noted that the US and its Western allies, in contradiction to their claims of human rights, support a number of regional regimes that have no regard for human rights and democracy in their countries. <\/p>\n<p> The Iranian Judiciary chief also criticized the West&#8217;s support for certain terrorist groups such as Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) &ldquo;that clearly violated human rights and killed many people.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has carried out numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials. <\/p>\n<p> The Iraq-based group is also known to have cooperated with executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in suppressing 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. <\/p>\n<p> The European Union removed the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations in 2009. <\/p>\n<p> In 2010, the European Parliament also issued a declaration and urged the US to remove the MKO from Washington&#8217;s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The MKO, which has been on the US terror list since 1997, filed a petition against the blacklisting in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Judiciary chief also criticized the West&#8217;s support for certain terrorist groups such as Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) \u201cthat clearly violated human rights and killed many people.\u201dThe MKO\/MEK\/PMOI is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has carried out numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.<\/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":[221],"tags":[85],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/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=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}