{"id":5044,"date":"2013-02-03T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2013\/02\/03\/bahrain-regime-to-use-mko-to-suppress-protests\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:43:26","slug":"bahrain-regime-to-use-mko-to-suppress-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/5044","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain regime to use MKO to suppress protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The Al Khalifa regime is trying to support the terrorist MKO to suppress public protests in Bahrain and use the group in line with its objectives,&rdquo; Mohammad-Saleh Jokar, a member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Saturday.<br \/> <img alt=\"\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/News\/Terrorism\/MKO_Terrorism_4.JPG\"style=\"width: 240px; height: 160px; margin: 10px; float: right;\"\/>The Bahraini uprising against the Al Khalifa rule in the Persian Gulf island nation began in February 2011. The regime promptly launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring states.<br \/> Jokar, however, said that neither the MKO, nor any other force can confront Bahraini people&rsquo;s rightful protests.<br \/> An informed source at the UN office in Baghdad, Iraq, said earlier that Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al Khalifa had handed a message from King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa to US Ambassador to Manama Thomas Krajeski, announcing Bahrain&rsquo;s willingness to host the group.<br \/> The MKO is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and officials.<br \/> The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it received the support of Iraq&#8217;s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and set up its headquarters, Camp Ashraf, near the Iranian border.<br \/> Following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the members of the group, in several stages, were relocated to Camp Liberty near the Baghdad airport, which was a former US military site.<br \/> The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al Khalifa had handed a message from King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa to US Ambassador to Manama Thomas Krajeski, announcing Bahrain\u2019s willingness to host the MKO<\/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":[131],"tags":[6],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expulsion-from-iraq","tag-uncategorized","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/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=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}