EURONEWS: Maryam Rajavi in Strasbourg (24 april 2008)

Removal of Iranian opposition group from US and EU terrorist blacklist demanded in Strasbourg

http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=europa&article=482830&lng=1#

Maryam Radjavi, the President of the Iranian National Council of Resistance arrived in Strasbourg to demand that the The People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran be removed from the US and EU blacklist of terrorist organisations. In December 2006, the European Court of first instance ordered the EU to lift the ban and again in 2007 the British Appeals Commission ruled unequivocally that the organisation is " not concerned in terrorism."

"To call members of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran terrorists is the politics of indulgence and is preventing democratic change in Iran. The group must be taken off the list to show Europe is against the rule of the Mullahs, the Mullahs demanded the PMOI be put on the list. It is a concession to the mullahs...the politics of indulgence," she said.

Many believe that the ban should be lifted as a matter of urgency to allow Iran's opposition to work, without fetters, to bring about democratic change in Iran.

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