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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Maziar Motamedi

Iran condemns MEK rally in France as support for ‘terrorism’

Former US Vice President Mike Pence, who addressed an MEK meeting at the weekend in France, is seen at a similar gathering last year in Albania. [File: Gent Shkullaku/AFP]

Tehran, Iran – Iran has lashed out against France for allowing a meeting and rally by the blacklisted Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), or People’s Mujahidin Organization, which Tehran says amounts to support for “terrorism”.

French officials need to “make up for their past mistakes” in backing the “murderers of Iranian people” and focus on the country’s “deep internal crisis” and discriminatory behaviour against its own citizens, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement late on Sunday.

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