Agence France Presse, LONDON – A host of British parliamentarians on Tuesday called on the government to drop its ban on an Iranian opposition group proscribed under anti-terror legislation.
Some 279 of the 646 members of Parliament from the House of Commons and 126 lords called for the "removal of the terror label" against the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI).
Agence France Presse, LONDON – A host of British parliamentarians on Tuesday called on the government to drop its ban on an Iranian opposition group proscribed under anti-terror legislation.
Some 279 of the 646 members of Parliament from the House of Commons and 126 lords called for the "removal of the terror label" against the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI).
The group was proscribed by former interior minister David Blunkett in 2001 due to allegations that it had links to terror.
The parliamentarians signed a statement calling the ban "the most important impediment" to democratic change in Iran.
Lord Robin Corbett, chairman of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, said: "The only reason the PMOI was proscribed was in a shabby deal to please the mullahs.
"The policy of appeasement is in ruins as Iran moves nearer to developing nuclear weapons and continues its gross interference in Iraq."
