{"id":3859,"date":"2011-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2011\/08\/27\/hundreds-demonstrate-in-dc-for-mojahedin-khalq\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:37:40","slug":"hundreds-demonstrate-in-dc-for-mojahedin-khalq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3859","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds demonstrate in DC for Mojahedin Khalq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; Hundreds of people are demonstrating in Washington to demand that an Iranian opposition group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq be removed from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations <\/p>\n<p> Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy were among those speaking in support of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. The midday crowd filled a street outside the State Department for a rally with confetti and doves released into the air. <\/p>\n<p> The U.S. declared the group a terrorist body in 1997. But a court last year ordered the State Department to reconsider the designation. <\/p>\n<p> The MEK carried out a series of bombings and assassinations in Iran in the 1980s, and fought alongside Saddam&#8217;s forces in the Iran-Iraq war. The group says it renounced violence in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy were among those speaking in support of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. The midday crowd filled a a street outside the State Department for a rally with confetti and doves released into the air. The U.S. declared the group a terrorist body in 1997. But a court last year ordered the State Department to reconsider the designation. ..<\/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":[99],"tags":[85,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[89],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-organizations-propaganda-system","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/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=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}