UK parliament takes PMOI off the terro list

The [British] Government must recognize the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as well as the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, as being the legitimate opposition to the Iranian regime and engage in dialogue with them about the future

NCRI - Excerpts of speech by Mr. David Amess, a Conservative member of the British Parliament in a parliamentary debate in the British parliament on Monday that led to deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) in UK:

The PMOI [the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran] has been seeking to bring an end to the terrorist and barbaric regime ruling Iran. More than 120,000 members and supporters of the movement, including boys and girls as young as 12, have been executed by the regime. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi and her supporters should be congratulated on the huge sacrifices they have made on behalf of others.

I firmly hope that today the Government have turned a page in their relations with the Iranian regime on the one hand and the Iranian people and their legitimate resistance to that regime on the other.

The Government must take immediate steps to ensure that the PMOI (MEK) is removed from the European Union asset freeze list. The Government must accept that although the UK was a competent authority upon whose decision the EU listed the PMOI(MEK), now that that decision has been declared unlawful, the listing of the PMOI (MEK) in the EU is also unlawful.

At the same time, the Government must recognise the National Council of Resistance of Iran [NCRI], as well as the PMOI (MEK), as being the legitimate opposition to the Iranian regime and engage in dialogue with them about the future.

Of course I commend the Prime Minister on his announcement last week that Britain and a few other EU states would be imposing further sanctions on the Iranian regime's banking, oil and natural gas interests. However, the Government need to go much further. They should adopt a firm policy towards Iran, including blacklisting the revolutionary guard while applying comprehensive sanctions against the regime.

The message to the mullahs in Tehran needs to be very clear: Britain will no longer have anything to do with a mediaeval regime that stones women to death, hangs children in public, exports fundamentalism and terrorism across the middle east, trains, funds and arms terrorists responsible for the killing of innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as coalition troops, and pursues nuclear weapons.

The order is a matter for rejoicing for all those people who want freedom in Iran, and it is a matter of shame for Her Majesty's Government that it has taken them so long to bring it forward.

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