“The US police’s indifference emboldened the MKO [supporters] to step up their act of affront,” Ramin Mehmanparast said, IRNA reported on Wednesday.
The police “are now trying to rationalize their inaction,” he noted.
MKO supporters attacked Mehmanparast near the United Nations headquarters and in the presence of New York City police on September 26.
The New York Police Department and American security forces made no arrests as the attackers physically abused members of the Iranian delegation accompanying Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his visit to the United States to address the 67th session of the UN General Assembly.
The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.
Just a day after the incident, the US State Department removed the group’s name from its list of terrorist organizations.
Mehmanparast said, “The group has an ugly terrorist and inhumane nature and [hence] the behavior, they displayed that day was in no way strange.”
He referred to the short interval between the attack and the removal of the group’s name from the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations and said, “The move (the delisting) was in a way [an act of] heartening them [showing] that [they] can, with Western countries’ support, expand their offensive behavior and insult and affront our country’s authorities, although, this incident further revealed their nature to the public opinion in the international community.”
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman strongly criticizes the US police inaction during the recent attack on him by the supporters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in New York.
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