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International News Title: Iran Blasts West's Support for Israel's "State Terrorism" TEHRAN (FNA)- West's double-standard policies on terrorism and its support for Israel's "state terrorism" have created an atmosphere of hatred for certain western countries among other nations of the world, a senior Iranian legislator said on Monday. The United States and other Western states' unilateral policies over terrorism and also their support for Israel's "state terrorism" have culminated in widespread hatred towards these countries, member of Iranian parliamentary delegation to inter-parliamentary Union meeting in Bangkok Javad Jahangirzadeh said. "The image of terrorism has changed. Economic terrorism, state terrorism, assassination of individuals and figures, siege and the brutal killing of Palestinian people are the other manifestations of terrorism," he added. He also reiterated that Iran holds certain states' double standard policies toward terrorist groups accountable for thwarting international efforts to eradicate terrorism. "The European Union's decision to remove the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization from the EU's terror list or utilizing the terrorist groups to inflict damage on non-Western states are part of the EU's dual stance towards this heinous phenomenon (terrorism)," Jahangirzadeh said In February 2009, EU ministers removed the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their list of terror organizations, following a European court ruling in favor of the group, which has acknowledged responsibility for many deadly attacks against Iranian and Iraqi civilians and cooperated actively with the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The MKO has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries including the United States. The terrorist group targeted Iranian government officials and civilians in Iran and abroad in the early 1980s. The group also attempted an unsuccessful invasion of Iran in the last days of the Iraq-Iran war in 1988. The anti-Iran terror group has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries, including the US. The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988). A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations. According to the Human Rights Watch report, the outlawed group puts defectors under torture and jail terms. The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in a bid to take control of the newly established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran's new leaders in the early years after the Revolution, including the then President Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar and Judiciary Chief Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by MKO members in 1981. The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country. The terrorist group joined Saddam's army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.
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