Speaking to reporters here in Tehran today, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said that the attack was carried out inside Iraqi soil and”Iran has nothing to do with it”. He said that the move is part of the MKO’s efforts to portray itself as an oppressed community …
Relations between Iran and the United States were severed in 1979 after the victory of Islamic Revolution and the overthrow of Iran’s pro-Western regime. Other factors behind the stalemate include Washington’s backing of the former Iraqi regime in its 8-year war against Iran..
Dehqani also condemned the politically-tainted and double-standard behavior of certain states towards terrorism, and describing it as an obstacle on the way of decisive campaign against terrorism. …Western spy agencies, collaborated by the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have assassinated several Iranian scientists in the last three years.
“The move by the Canadian and the US governments to remove the MKO aka MEK/PMOI from the list of terrorist organizations is in line with Western countries’ support of this group in order to use its remaining members for achieving their meddlesome and aggressive political and economic objectives in the region,..
Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement today and said the irresponsible act by the Canadian government is in contrary to the host country’s commitment to protect Iranian nationals residing in Canada and also in terms of safeguarding assets of Iranian government, referring to possible acts of violence and terror by MKO/MEK/PMOI on Canadian soil.
“The Canadian government is not an independent government and all its measures are rooted in the British government’s moves,”member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Saleh Jokar said Saturday…
He pointed to the $3,000bln cost of the US war in Iraq, and said Saddam’s overthrow and expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organizations (MKO), have gifted Iran with”political interests”.
Based on the proposal, the US should accept a dialogue “in mutual respect” and agree that Iran put the following aims on the agenda:1) Halt US hostile behavior and rectifications of status of Iran in the US.. 6) Terrorism: pursuit of anti-Iranian terrorists, above all the MKO/MEK/PMOI and support for repatriation of their members in Iraq, decisive actions against anti-Iranian terrorists, above all MKO …
An Iranian lawmaker has criticized the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s recent call on countries to grant asylum to the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). “The MKO terrorist cell is under the guardianship and leadership of the US, and the UN chief has asked UN member states to give asylum to the MKO based on…
Larijani rapped the double-standard polices and behavior of the western states towards the human rights issues in Iran. On one hand, the western states shelter and support terrorist groups like the MKO (also known as the MEK, NCR and PMOI) and the PJAK terrorist group and cooperate with the US in imposing unilateral sanctions against Iran which have inflicted great losses on the Iranian people and is a blatant violation of human rights, .