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Iranian interior minister barred from EU, comes anyway

By Michael Petrou

March 13, 2013

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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar is in Vienna this week to attend a session of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

He is listed in a 26 July 2010 decision of the Council of the European Union as an individual members states should bar from entry because of his links to nuclear and ballistic missiles activities.

Austria is a member of the EU.

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Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

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