Tag Archives: Mohammad Javad Zarif
2019/05/10
Dan Spinelli, Mother Jones, May 10 2019:... Bolton once argued for a preemptive military strike to wipe out Iran’s nuclear program and received $40,000 in 2016 to speak before the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a radical anti-regime organization formerly designated as a terrorist group by the United States. “The regime in Tehran needs to be overthrown at the earliest opportunity!” he told attendees at one MEK event. Bolton has his own proxy…
2019/05/03
Massoud Khodabandeh, Lobe Log, May 03 2019:... Hillary Clinton did not take money from the MEK while it was listed as a terrorist entity. And taking the group off the U.S. terrorist list, though controversial at the time due to the MEK’s own well-funded pressure campaign, was not wrong, as it enabled the UNHCR to relocate the members to the safety of…
2019/05/01
Press TV, May 01 2019:... Bolton had been promoting the notorious and deadly anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, Rajavi cult) as “viable opposition” and an alternative to the establishment in the Islamic Republic. Zarif also attached another image captured from a profile published by The New Yorker on Monday that detailed Bolton’s idiosyncrasies, including by citing a former senior advisor…
2019/04/29
CNS News, April 29 2019:... Bolton haunted by MEK association. Zarif also brought up Bolton’s past associations with the exiled Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)/Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK). The group was a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization until delisted by the Obama State Department in 2012, citing its renunciation of violence and “the absence of confirmed acts of…
2019/04/15
Iran Front Page, April 15 2019:... Zarif pointed to the presence of the MKO terrorist group on French soil, and described it as a problem between Tehran and Paris. The Iranian foreign minister also announced the Islamic Republic’s readiness to hold talks and have cooperation with the French officials to solve the problems of the region. Pointing to the dangerous developments…
2019/02/18
The Independent, Tehran Times and Sun Daily, February 18 2019:... “John Bolton is now angry because he said he would celebrate with MEK in Tehran in 2019 and that is not going to happen,” said the foreign minister. Iran needed to manufacture defence equipment because it does not get supplies from elsewhere, said Mr Zarif, while the US was selling billions…
2019/02/16
Thomas Erdbrink, The New York Times, February 16 2019:... Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, in a posting on his Twitter account, quickly drew a link between the Warsaw meeting and the deadly bus attack.“Is it no coincidence that Iran is hit by terror on the very day that #WarsawCircus begins?” he wrote. “Especially when cohorts of same terrorists cheer it…
2019/01/13
Tehran Times, January 13 2019:... Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told Europeans that making accusations against Iran won’t absolve them of the responsibility for harboring the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) - also called Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) -- who has murdered tens of thousands Iranians. “Europeans, incl Denmark, Holland & France, harbor MEK—who killed 12000 Iranians & abetted Saddam’s…
2018/11/01
Iran Press, Novmeber 01 2018:... he said: "Whenever relations between Iran and the European Union begin to expand, invisible hands taking their cue from certain countries go to work, trying to harm these relations. Thus, the Danish government's accusations against Iran, and recalling of Denmark's ambassador from Tehran can all be looked upon from this angle." On Tuesday, Danish intelligence chief Finn…
2018/09/22
Press TV, Mehr News, September 22 2018:... Zarif noted that children and journalists are among casualties. According to reports, the death toll has risen to 11, and over 30 people, including women and children, have been injured. The Iranian top diplomat further added that “Iran holds regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attacks.” He stressed that “Iran will…
2018/09/17
Reuters, September 17 2018:... Zarif said in a tweet, addressing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. "How about looking at actual bots in (the Albanian capital of) Tirana used to prop up 'regime change' propaganda spewed out of (Washington) DC? #YouAreBots," Zarif said. Twitter declined to comment when contacted by Reuters in the United States ... Mojahedin Khalq (MEK, MKO, NCRI, Rajavi…
2017/07/03
Iran Front Page (From Iranian Diplomacy), July 03 2017:... Perhaps here we should change the diplomatic language from a “moot point” to the “element of accusation”. Governments which have fallen victim to terrorism “enjoy the legitimate right to defend themselves against armed operations conducted by non-governmental dissident groups in a third country.” Under the current circumstances, Iran-France relations need a ...…