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Envoy Blasts West’s Double-Standard Policy on Terrorism

Iranian Deputy Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Eshaq Ale-Habib strongly criticized the West for its double-standard policy on terrorism.Al-e Habib made the remarks in the meeting Friday evening in the UN on combat against terrorism. The Iranian envoy said the recent EU decision on removing the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), from its list of terrorist groups is an indication of the West’s double-standard policy on the issue.

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Iran sees less threat in exiled MKO militants

“I think you would find the current President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad more democratic than the Mujahideen,”says Mr. Abrahamian.”Even in the early 1970s, it had turned into a cult organization…. The remaining members … will do whatever [MKO leader Massoud] Rajavi tells them.” The State Department’s terrorism report last year said the MKO maintains”the capacity and will to commit terrorist acts in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Canada and beyond.”

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In Iran, three ‘terrorists’ are placed on death row

Iran’s Judiciary says three Iranians — two are responsible for a deadly bombing and the remaining convict is a member of a terrorist organization — have been shipped to death row. Reports indicate that two of the convicts are professed members of the Iran Royal Association..The other convict is a member of the anti-Iranian terrorist organization known as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI).

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Iran, Iraq cooperate to expel MKO from the region

Speaking to the reporters in a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Larijani expressed the hope that close cooperation between Iran and Iraq will lead to expulsion of anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK), from the region.Larijani told reporters that Tehran-Baghdad security cooperation would help expel the MKO members ..

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Washington backed MKO terrorists in Iraq are still active

IRI Ambassador to London in a letter to Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury warned about his statement in support to the Mojahedin Khalq Grouplet in Ashraf Camp in Iraq. Rasoul Movahedian addressed Williams, a UK high ranking religious official for his clear support to the MKO grouplet and said Williams message in support of the terrorist grouplet is dangerous and has a political consequence.

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Jalili Accuses Germany of Backing MKO

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili accused Germany of supporting anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), by allowing the group to have”bases”in that country. Talking to the online site of the Hamburg-based weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, Jalili said,”The Berlin government is promoting (MKO) terror”… by permitting it to have”bases in Germany.” held the MKO responsible for attacks in his country, the Islamic republic news agency reported.

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Mojahedin neither migrants nor refugees

According to the Iraqi constitution, members of terrorist MKO cult can either go to a third country or voluntarily return to Iran under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross; but they won’t be allowed by the Iraqi government to stay in Iraq.Iranian ambassador to Iraq draw attention to the fact that MKO members in Iraq are never accepted as immigrants or refugees and stated..

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Iran condemns US double standards on terrorism

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Tuesday that the US administration has taken double-standard stance on terrorism, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.Referring to the United States’ approach to the anti-Iran”terror group,”the Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), Larijani said that”it was obvious to us that the US (on one hand) has been using the group as a tool… and (on the other hand) Americans said that they have nothing to do with MKO ..

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Iran Calls on Iraq to Extradite Interpol-Wanted MKO Members

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged Iraqi officials to extradite to Iran those criminal members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) wanted by the Interpol..Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last month and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group. The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.

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Iran urges Iraq to extradite ‘criminal’ MKO members

Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki calls on Baghdad to extradite the criminal members of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MKO)..”The continuing presence of Camp Ashraf in Iraq did not suit the growing and friendly ties between the two countries,”Mottaki explained.”Tehran would like those MKO/MEK/PMOI members who are responsible for series crimes and who are wanted by the Interpol to be sent back to Iran,”he added.

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