Iran slams the West’s solid political and financial support for the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization group, saying the absurd and sinister dreams of the MKO terrorists and their supporters will never come true.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani made the comment in a post on his official X account on Thursday on the occasion of the National Day of Fight against Terrorism.
The occasion commemorates the 1981 assassination of then president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. The two and several other officials had convened at the Tehran office of the Iranian prime minister in a meeting of Iran’s Supreme Defense Council when a bomb explosion ripped through the building.
Kan’ani pointed to the dark record of the MKO’s criminal acts against the Iranian people, and said as mercenaries of the US and Israel, the terrorists have created and promoted state terrorism and played a role in assassinating Iran’s nuclear scientists.
On August 29, 1981, Iran’s then-President Rajaei, former PM Bahonar, and six other officials were assassinated by the Mojahedeen-e Khalq (MKO) terrorist group pic.twitter.com/IsqKqBSIy7
— Press TV 🔻 (@PressTV) August 29, 2024
He added that the disgraceful existence of the MKO, which is backed by certain Western countries claiming to advocate human rights, and their political and financial aid to the terrorists have led to the martyrdom of 17,000 Iranian people.
In line with enemies’ plots, the MKO sought to gain power in the Islamic and the Islamic establishment which was formed based on people’s vote, he noted.
Having failed to achieve the goal, the MKO terrorists resorted to “indiscriminate and organized” assassination of Iranian people and officials, the spokesman said.
He added that after fleeing to France, MKO terrorist leaders continued their criminal acts against the Iranian government and nation through the West financial support.
They also sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his 1980-88 war on the Islamic Republic, Kan’ani emphasized.
The MKO has conducted numerous assassinations and bombings against Iranian statesmen and civilians since the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Its members fled Iran in 1986 to Iraq, where they enjoyed Saddam’s backing.
The anti-Iran cult was on the US list of terrorist organizations until 2012. Major European countries, including France, have also removed it from their blacklists.
A few years ago, MKO elements were relocated from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former US military base in Baghdad, and later sent to Albania.
MKO terrorists enjoy freedom of activity in the US and Europe, and even hold meetings with American and EU officials.
