{"id":7810,"date":"2018-01-03T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T07:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:54:41","slug":"rouhani-calls-macron-act-anti-iran-terrorists-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/7810","title":{"rendered":"Rouhani calls on Macron to act over anti-Iran &#8216;terrorists&#8217; in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani phoned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to demand action against a&#8221;terrorist&#8221;Iranian opposition group he accused of fomenting recent protests.<\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"700\" height=\"499\" class=\"wp-image-7813 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rouhani_Macron_France.jpg\"alt=\"\"width=\"700\"height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rouhani_Macron_France.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rouhani_Macron_France-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\n<p>&#8220;We criticise the fact that a terrorist group has a base in France and acts against the Iranian people&#8230; and we await action from the French government against this terrorist group,&#8221;Rouhani told Macron, according to a report on Iranian state television.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to an exiled Iranian opposition group based in Paris and called the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian authorities accuse the group, which the regime describes as&#8221;hypocrites&#8221;, of fuelling the unrest rocking the Islamic republic and of links with regional Sunni rival Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>General Rassul Sanairad, a political deputy to the head of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, said Tuesday the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq had been instructed by the Saudi rulers and some European states to&#8221;create insecurity&#8221;in Iran, Tasnim news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a week of unrest has seen 21 people killed and hundreds arrested in Iran, in the biggest test for the Islamic regime in years.<\/p>\n<p>It began in second city Mashhad on Thursday and quickly spread to other towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tehran&#8217;s deputy mayor said the city, which had witnessed small protests the past three nights, was calm on Tuesday night and no incidents had been reported, ISNA news agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani phoned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to demand action against a&#8221;terrorist&#8221;Iranian opposition group he accused of fomenting recent protests. &#8220;We criticise the fact that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[85,96,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[92],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-crisis-mongers","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-afp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","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=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}