{"id":8426,"date":"2018-07-02T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:55:43","slug":"senior-lawyer-wants-canada-to-probe-former-officials-links-with-mko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/8426","title":{"rendered":"Senior lawyer wants Canada to probe former officials\u2019 links with MKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent law expert from Geneva&#8217;s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies has urged the Ottawa government to launch an investigation into former senior Canadian officials\u2019 connection with anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO).<\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"700\" height=\"529\" class=\"wp-image-8428 size-full\"src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nasri_Reza.jpg\"alt=\"Reza Nasri\"width=\"700\"height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nasri_Reza.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nasri_Reza-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>\n<p>\u201c#Canada should seriously investigate the scope and nature of @stephenharper [Canada&#8217;s 22nd Prime Minister Stephen Harper] and @Baird&#8217;s [Former Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird] relationship with the #MEK [MKO] cult during their tenure as Prime and Foreign ministers,\u201d Reza Nasri wrote on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Harper attended the MKO gathering in Paris on Saturday. The event was addressed by Trump\u2019s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@stephenharper also spoke at the event, which lets presume that his irrational hostile policies toward #Iran (namely the closure of embassies and the de-listing of #MEK from terror list) were not predicted upon #Canada&#8217;s national interests as claimed, but upon lobby influence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent law expert from Geneva&#8217;s Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies has urged the Ottawa government to launch an investigation into former senior Canadian officials\u2019 connection with anti-Iran&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[112,642,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[432],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","tag-hot-topics","tag-paid-advocacy-for-mko","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-tehran-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","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=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}