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Iran condemns British court for removing group from terror list
May 7, 2008, 18:18 GMT
Tehran - Iran Wednesday harshly condemned a British court's decision to remove the People's Mujahedin, widely known as MKO, from the terrorist list.
The Appeal Court had earlier Wednesday ordered the British government to remove the MKO from the terrorist list.
'This is a political sentence without any legal basis and reflecting Britain's double-standard approach towards terrorism,' Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said in a press statement.
'The terrorist acts by this group against officials and people of Iran are widely known and the British (court) decision just leads to promotion of terrorism and violence,' the spokesman added in the statement.
Iran accuses the MKO of having been involved in several assassinations of high-ranking Iranian officials, including Iran's president and prime minister in 1980.
After the group was expelled from France in the 1980s, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein allocated a military base to the MKO near the border with Iran.
Before the collapse of Saddam, the MKO several times infiltrated Iranian territory, leading to clashes with Iranian forces and casualties on both sides.
Despite the British court's decision, the MKO is still on the terrorist list of the European Union and even Iran's political arch- foe, the United States.
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I hate the Islamic republic and know it as a Barbarian and cruel regime; but coming to this MKO Group, let me say that they are as bad as mullahs and real terrorists.
They were involved in the killing of several US Military officers before the Islamic revolution which they helped to happened.
In addition, their leadership is a dogmatic and backwarded circle carrying a Marxist-Islamist nostalgy.
God save the Iranian people from Mullahs and MKO both, and shame to any so-called 'democracy' that will play the machiavelian 'Enemy of my enemy is my friend'... This is shameful!
'I hate the Islamic republic and know it as a Barbarian and cruel regime'
Liar, you never fail to defend it here.
if the mojahedin had killed any US officers, who did it? are any of those people even alive?
in the 1970s the shah killed all the mojahedin leadership
know your history and then come here and blabber
It is a common knowledge that zionists forged whatever they come across. Forging my name is nothing. Read this;
The letter of Yusef, chief of the Jews of Constantinople that laid out a plan of infiltration and subversion of Christian Spain
Asked by the Jews of Spain how they could resist the King of Spain who was forcing them to convert or even killing them, Yusef replied:
Where you say that the King of Spain would convert you to Christianity, do it because you have no alternative. Where you say that they deprive you of your property, make your sons merchants so that little by little you can take theirs. Where you say that they are robbing you of your lives, make your sons doctors and apothecaries so that you can end theirs. Where you say that they are destroying your synagogues, make your sons clerics and theologians, so you can destroy their churches. And as far as your other troubles are concerned, make your sons advocates, administrators, lawyers, and advisors, and let them take part in affairs of state so that you can control those affairs and gain land.
He forgot to mention media, but it’s understandable by that time.
Try Google some time, Liar:
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waynoMay 7th, 2008 - 21:48:53
Does iran have no shame,look who's calling the kettle black.The free world should back these guys to the hilt....
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