TEHRAN -- The Islamic Society of Former Deputies of the Majlis, in a statement Sunday, blasted U.S. lawmakers who gave their support for the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) while calling on Washington to toughen its stance against Tehran.
In their statement, the deputies called on Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, currently chairing the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), to give a serious response to the babbling of the U.S. lawmakers.
It said that the move by the American lawmakers unveiled the faulty behavior of the "self-declared supporters of human rights," whose double standards resulted in massacre of innocent Palestinians.
On Saturday, Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hamid Reza Assefi, blasted the U.S. lawmakers, saying, "The move was aimed at diverting U.S. public opinion from the crimes of the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people." According to another report, during the annual demonstrations in front of former U.S. Embassy on November 3, the Iranian students and people are to condemn U.S. Congress for its call on Bill Clinton Thursday to omit the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from its black list of terrorists.
MKO, which is outlawed in Iran, adheres to an adulterated Marxist ideology which they profess to be religiously inspired. They have taken up arms against the Islamic Republic since 1980 and have frequently conducted, and assumed responsibility for many terrorist operations and assassinations in Iran since that time.
On November 3, 1980, a group of Muslim students following the Imam's line raided the American Embassy in Tehran and took more than 50 Americans hostage.