By IRNA,
London : Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Mehdi Safari, said here Wednesday that the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization’s (MKO) deproscribtion from the UK terrorist list will have adverse effects on the Tehran-London relations.
Safari further told British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security, Admiral Lord West, that regarding enormous evidence at hand, the MKO has been involved in countless crimes in Iran and Iraq.
He said British judicial organ and government’s reconsidering the move will be a step in line with global campaign against the organized crime.
The two sides also discussed a host of other issues, including the case of Iranian diplomat Nasrollah Tajik, joint cooperation for eradication of drugs transit and Iranians’ problems in the UK.
The Iranian official arrived in London on Monday to meet and confer with several high-ranking British officials, including British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband,, British Deputy Foreign Minister Peter Rickets, Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Chief Foreign Policy Advisor Simon McDonald, justice minister and head of the Foreign Relations Committee of the UK House of Commons.