Iran to MKO circus: Western politicians sell themselves cheaply

Iran has denounced the presence of certain Western politicians at a hybrid physical and virtual meeting organized by the terrorist group Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), which has carried out numerous attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They were said to be selling themselves cheaply for the circus.

The event on Saturday linked MKO terrorists at their camp in Albania with hired supporters among U.S. senators, British MPs and French lawmakers, as well as protests in cities such as Berlin.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa also spoke at the summit.

Enraged by the massive turnout of Iranians in the June presidential election, Pompeo claimed in his online address that the vote was “actually a boycott and the regime knows it.”

Similarly, Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the MKO terrorist organization and president of its umbrella organization, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NWRI), claimed the poll was a “sham.”

The speakers agreed with the MKO on two points: further sanctions on Iran and no negotiations with the country.

In response, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh tweeted, “Bought Western politicians (including LyingCheatingStealing Pompeo) are selling themselves cheap for a circus staged in Europe, arranged by a once Saddam-backed terrorist cult with Iranian blood on its hands.”

“Unquenchable thirst for $$ and anti-Iran obsession drives shameful Western hypocrisy,” he added in his tweet published Saturday evening.

The MKO has carried out numerous assassinations and bombings against Iranian statesmen and civilians since the 1979 victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Its members fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where they were supported by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and helped him of the 1980-1988 Iraq War against Iran.

The MKO had been classified as a terrorist organization by the United States for 15 years before it was delisted in 2012 after an intense lobbying campaign by interest groups in Washington and Iranian exiles.

The European Union (EU) also removed the MKO from its list of terrorist organizations in 2009, seven years after blacklisting the institution.

Since then, the sect, responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 Iranians, has been heavily promoted by the West as an “Iranian opposition group.”

Several years ago, MKO members were transferred from their Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province to Camp Hurriyet (Camp Liberty), a former U.S. military base in Baghdad, and later sent to Albania.

MKO terrorists – described by many experts as a dangerous sectarian group – enjoy the freedom of activity in the U.S. and Europe and hold lavish conferences in the French capital every year, attended by high-ranking American, Western and Saudi officials as guests of honor.

This fact only shows the double standards of the European Union, in its dealings with terrorist groups.