People demonstrate to ask for the removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, on January 6, 2009 in Paris. Formed in the 1960s in opposition to the rule of the US-backed shah, the PMOI, the main Iranian armed opposition group, took part in the 1979 Islamic revolution but then took up arms against the Islamic republic. Banner reads: "France has to apply the four verdicts of the European justice court and remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the European Union's list of terrorism."
People demonstrate to ask for the removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, on January 6, 2009 in Paris. Formed in the 1960s in opposition to the rule of the US-backed shah, the PMOI, the main Iranian armed opposition group, took part in the 1979 Islamic revolution but then took up arms against the Islamic republic. Banner reads: "France has to apply the four verdicts of the European justice court and remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the European Union's list of terrorism."
