An Iranian resistance group has urged European leaders to stop engaging with the current regime as Tehran threatens military action against its opponents – even on foreign soil. The Fars news agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), published an article on July 27 calling on the Islamic Republic to “put on the agenda military action against the MKO headquarters in Albania,” arguing that the action would help maintain “international peace and security.” Iran refers to the group as “MKO”. PROTESTERS ENTER THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT IN BAGHDAD People wave flags during an event at the Ashraf-3 camp, which is a base for the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (MEK) in Manja, Albania, July 13, 2019. (Reuters/Florion Goga) The agency even cited Article 51 of the UN Charter, which confers a member state’s right to “individual or collective self-defense.” Ali Safavi, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, denounced the Fars report and urged Western allies to do more to oppose the current regime. “The brazen threats by Iran’s ruling theocracy against its main opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) reflect first and foremost the extent to which the mullahs are appalled by the growing prowess and influence of resistance units linked to the MEK inside Iran”, Safavi. he said, calling the report “a pathetic attempt to blackmail Western governments into making concessions. IRANIAN GOVERNMENT AGENTS ALLEGEDLY SHOOT OVER 1,000 DOGS DESPITE NEUTRATION, VACCINATIONS “Stability is the only effective policy to counter Tehran’s terrorism and warmongering beyond its borders.” Fars referred to the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK or MOK) as a “terrorist sect” or “terrorist sect,” but the group has developed healthy relations with the United States and other countries over the past two decades. The US once designated the MEK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization for allegedly killing personnel in Iran during the 1970s, but the State Department changed the group’s status after disavowing violence in 2012. Since then, former Secretary of State John Kerry visited in 2016 with members of the MEK during their tour of Albania, and former Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with members of the MEK team in 2022. Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Jerusalem Post’s annual conference, Oct. 12, 2021, in Jerusalem. (Amir Levy/Getty Images) BAHRAINI OFFICIAL: Iran proxies ‘NOTHING NEW’, NUCLEAR DEAL ‘CRITICAL’ TO FIGHTING ‘COMMON THREAT’ Tehran went so far as to sanction 61 US officials this month for their support of the MEK, including attending MEK events and vocal support for the group and its opposition to Supreme Leader Khamenei, Reuters reported. “The Iranian regime’s State Department has sanctioned 61 very senior former US officials, including Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and General Jim Jones … a whole host of very prominent Americans for their long-standing support for the MEK,” Safavi noted. “Of course, the same kind of support that you see in the United States … also happens in Europe, where many MPs from different European countries, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, national parliaments … have all repeatedly expressed their support for a stable policy with the regime and the need for the West to abandon the policy of appeasement and engage the Iranian people and the Iranian resistance.” Safavi argued that this more aggressive stance by the current regime shows that leaders in Tehran “fear the impact” the MEK is having on Iran itself. The West, he said, must start taking stronger positions against Iran, including ending appeasement. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, March 21, 2022. (Supreme Leader of Iran website via AP) “Remember that, in 2018, a very senior Iranian diplomat in Vienna transported 500 grams of explosives from Tehran to Vienna on a commercial airliner to deliver to two of his agents in Luxembourg to try to blow up the entire annual Free World Iran. Summit near Paris.” He said the European Union’s response was a “mere slap on the wrist” that would only encourage Iran to act so “brazenly”. He also argued that the JCPOA will not prove effective and that the US should abandon its attempt to revive a “hopeless and worthless” plan that Iranian officials have never stopped “cheating and violating.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “This deal has never permanently prevented Iran from galloping toward nuclear weapons,” Safavi argued. “In fact, the entire time the JCPOA has been in place, the mullahs have been cheating and violating their obligations. “If Iran is interested in peaceful energy, peaceful nuclear energy, it doesn’t need to enrich uranium like many other countries. It can be imported from abroad.” Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news.
