SAN DIEGO, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Committee for Democracy in Iran (San Diego-CA) praises the ruling by the British Court of Appeal to remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK/PMOI) from the list of proscribed organizations. The Court ruled that "to the extent that the PMOI has retained networks and supporters inside Iran since, at the latest, 2002, they have been directed to social protest, finance and intelligence gathering activities which would not fall within the definition of 'terrorism' for the purposes of the 2000 Act."
This ruling is in line with the demands of Iranian-Americans across the United States and their representatives in Congress. In the 2006 National Convention for a Democratic, Secular Republic in Iran, Iranian-American organizations from nearly 40 states declared: "there is no amount of political concessions or economic incentives that would moderate Tehran's regime. It is time to erase all traces of appeasement policy including the blacklisting of Iran's main opposition groups, like the PMOI."
Addressing the 2007 international convention of 50,000 Iranians in Paris in support of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) said: "The first thing the US must do now is to take MEK off the terrorist list. We must recognize who our friends are. We must recognize who the resistance is. We must recognize who is taking the lead, on behalf of the whole world, for freedom in Iran."
In October of 2008, the U.S. State Department will review the terror labeling of PMOI[MEK]. It must act in accordance with the UK Court of Appeal and the EU Court of First Instance's rulings and issue a realistic and fair assessment of PMOI, independent of any appeasement-tainted policy and political considerations, and promptly remove PMOI from the terror list and close this shameful chapter once and for all.
The western governments must support the Iranian people and their just resistance against the murderers ruling Iran. As Mrs. Rajavi stressed in her response to the Court ruling, the designation has placed a "major road block on the path of change in Iran. The United Kingdom and Western governments owe the people of Iran an apology over this shameful designation."
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NCRI Editor’s note:The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, MEK) is a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.