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US mocking its alleged support for human rights by backing MKO

Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has said that the United States is deriding its own alleged support for human rights by pressuring the Iraqi government over its crackdown on Camp Ashraf residents.“The U.S. had better not make a further mockery of its hollow slogan of supporting human rights by pressuring Iraq over its clampdown on the members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO),” Larijani stated at the open session of the Majlis on Sunday.

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Iran raises probability of MKO members’ return

Referring to the situation of Iraq’s Ashraf Camp, Danaei-Far said that staying of these people[MKO/MEK/PMOI members] in Iraq is considered illegal on behalf of Iraqi government…”If the residents will and if there is no legal case opened against them either in Iran or Iraq, they may go to Iran or any other country they wish and they are granted passport,”he continued.The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad said,”less than 100 of the residents have legal cases, either in Iran or the both countries. Over recent years, more than 750 of them have left Ashraf Camp and come to Iran…

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Iran calls for EU to reform its approach towards terrorist MKO

Iran called for the European Union (EU) to reform its approach towards terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).”We expect all international organizations and countries, which claim they back human rights, to condemn terrorist acts without resorting to any dual-track political behavior,”said Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday in his weekly briefing session with reporters.

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MP Sees Iraq’s Resistance against MKO as Another US Failure in Region

“The Iraqi people and parliament seek expulsion of MKO from their country’s soil and they want to end its presence in Iraq, which has lasted for several years,”Hossein Ali told FNA yesterday.Reminding the crimes committed by the MKO members against the Iraqi people, specially Iraq’s Kurd population, in collaboration with the former Baath regime in previous years, Ali reiterated that the Iraqi government is determined to expel the terrorist group as well.

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Iran refutes MKO’s ‘secret’ factory claim

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday the factory mentioned by the MKO was not a “new discovery.”Salehi said the factory located in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, has been visited by reporters.”We manufacture components there [in the factory], but it is in no way a secret,”he said.

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MKO asylum grant violates intl. norms

The top general underlined the West backs any country and group which is of benefit to it, even if they are terrorists or dictators, but counters any nation which is opposed to the West.“In contradictory behavior, they (the West) try to show they are against terrorism by attacking Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the other, fully back the MKO,” he said.

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Iran Asks UNHRC to Probe West’s Ties with MKO, PJAK, Jundollah Terrorist Groups

Iran’s Envoy to the UN Human Rights Council also blasted the EU for striking off the name of the MKO/MEK/PMOI from the list of the terrorist groups and sheltering its members, and said the West should account for the blood of those innocent people spilled by these terrorist groups..Sajjadi raised the issue during a meeting of the UNHRC in Geneva, elaborating on the criminal actions taken by the terrorist groups in Iran in recent years, including hostage-taking, massacre of the people and bomb blasts..

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Iran MP slams West support for MKO

Such blatant support for terrorist organizations and groups is in contradiction with the West’s humanitarian claims,” the head of the Parliament (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said on Sunday…The Iraq-based group is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and is responsible for numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

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Iran lawmaker: West sponsors terrorism

Today, you are seeking the extradition of a terrorist named Cesare Battisti from Brazil over the murder of four of your fellow countrymen 30 years ago. This is while the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group has martyred 14,000 of Iranians and yet you have removed it from your list of terrorist groups. This is an instance of sponsoring terrorism..

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Iran condemns West for using MKO terrorists to assassinate scientists

… Reminding that questioning the western countries for their illogical attitudes and unjustified support for the terrorist groups and their silence on the assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientist, Majid Shahriari, was among the major issues pursued by the Iranian delegation.. He described the Iranian nation as the greatest victim of terrorism, and noted,”Iran has so far lost 13,000 citizens in terrorist attacks conducted by MKO (anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization) that is supported by the West. The same trend is repeating again.”…

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