Le Vif-L’Express (Brussels) – The Iranian government summoned on Sunday the
ambassador of Belgium in Tehran to protest against Tuesday’s visit of the
Iranian opposition figure, Maryam Rajavi, to the Belgian Senate. She was
welcomed by the Senate President, Anne-Marie Lizin, and several senators,
according to the Belgian Foreign Affairs Department.
The Iranian authorities stated that Maryam Rajavi was a member of the People’s Mojahedin, the armed wing of the Iranian Resistance, which appears on the European list of terrorist organizations. Yet it did not
brandish the threat of sanctions, a spokesperson of the Federal public services for foreign affairs said.
Mrs Rajavi, who lives in France, does not namely appear on the list and is greeted as the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, he indicated.
Published on 25 October
