News - Middle East: The Iranian Embassy in London has strongly condemned the dual approach adopted by the United Kingdom on the issue of terrorism, based on which Britain has taken a lenient stance towards anti-Iran terrorists.

The diplomatic mission pointed to the UK’s removal of the name of the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) cult from its list of terrorist organizations back in 2008.

London took the move, despite the MKO’s members having been “long recognized as terrorists by the international community,” the mission said in a post on X, former Twitter, on Friday.

“They were removed from the list solely to pressure Iran,” it said.

To make matters worse, some British members of parliament host the group’s ringleader annually, and certain notorious right-wing newspapers in Britain provide it with a platform.

This is while, “the group remains unchanged,” the embassy said, adding, “This double standard is clear: Terrorism is tolerated when it targets Iranians, but condemned elsewhere.”

The diplomatic mission issued the condemnation on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the MKO’s assassination of the Islamic Republic’s then-president Mohammad-Ali Rajaei and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar.

The two and several other officials had convened at a meeting in Tehran when the notorious group set off a bomb that ripped through the venue.

Including the atrocity, the MKO has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against Iranian civilians and government officials over the past three decades. Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, about 12,000 have fallen victim to acts of terror carried out by the MKO.

Source: Press TV