Iran

Jordanian Envoy Called to FM

Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Jordan’s Ambassador to Tehran Ahmad Jalal al-Mefleh on Saturday to voice Iran’s protest against Amman’s support for the terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, and participation of the Arab country’s officials at an MKO banquet in Paris. …The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list

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Iran mulls repatriation for MKO members

Hasan Kazemi-Qomi said,”Apart from their criminal leadership, many members of this little group [PMOI / MKO/MEK] are repentant and regretful. In the past couple of years we have witnessed a number of them repatriated and returned to their families. What they explained is a picture of dejection and suffering. Many have endured hardship and they would have taken any opportunity to remove themselves from this grouplet earlier had it been available. Currently, many of them those who were duped and are repentant, would like to return to Iran and we would have to review this matter.”

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Iran commentary on UK’s de-listing of group

The American and British failure in containing the Islamic revolution movement and the ever increasing role of Iran in regional and international developments has led them to consider all possible alternatives against the Islamic revolution and has forced Britain to resort to a burnt-out element which is”Munafeqin”[Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization -MKO]. This requires a closer look because the British were famous for their”wisdom”and”ingenuity”in politics.

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Accomplices in MKO crimes

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday that countries involved in removing the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the terrorists’ list are accomplices in the terrorist crimes committed by the grouplet.

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Iran not pleased with Polish students Mujahedin party

Saturday’s ‘party’ thrown by the People’s Mujahedin,was attended by several thousand young Poles. They travelled to France after being offered the journey at a cost of under ten euros conditional upon taking part in an accompanying demonstration…..“It is very important for academia, and especially students, to cut themselves off such terrorist organisations. It is regrettable that this organisation deluded the Polish [students],” said the Ambassador.

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London responsible for MKO terrorist acts

Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, talking to reporters, denounced London’s move to remove the name of terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization from its terrorist blacklist.”The British government which supports the terrorist MKO should accept consequences of its acts,”he reiterated.

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Terrorists arrested in Iran were trained abroad

…Nekoui said the groups, armed with missile launchers and other weapons, were trained outside the country, without elaborating. Iran has blamed US and British agents based in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan for launching deadly attacks in border provinces in recent years…

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London’s new policy of using terrorists in the region

“This ruling will without a doubt isolate the UK,”Hosseini cautioned, adding that the move was in line with London’s new policy ‘to use the terrorist card’ to step up pressure on regional nations and governments. “By adopting a policy of supporting terrorist groups, it (Britain) is pursuing certain provisional interests.”

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‘UK knowingly ignored truth about MKO’

“During our discussions we have provided several delegations from the United Kingdom relevant documentation reveling the terrorist activities of the Munafiqin (Mujahedeen Khalq Organization),” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said in a letter to his counterpart in the British parliament, Mike Gapes.

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