The radio said: "The decision by the Paris Appeals court to lift restrictions on members of Iran’s main opposition group has upset Tehran. Leading members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran based in Auvers-sur-Oise outside Paris are now free to speak to each other, move freely about France and travel abroad. Last Friday a French court decided to lift the travel restrictions imposed on 17 of its members, following a police raid on the headquarters of the organization three years ago."
The report added: "The authorities in Tehran say the decision amounts to giving a green light to terrorism and violence, but Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said she was pleased the French judges did not give in to pressure from Tehran."
Mrs. Rajavi: "The decision proves once more that there is no case against us. The restrictions were unfounded. Each time that French judges investigate our activities, they conclude that our organization has a human face. Judges refute allegations that our organization has a terrorist image, they also come to terms that we are not a sect. The Court ruling shows that French judges are independent."
Rajavi says these allegations are unfounded and they are designed to curry favor with Tehran. "The restrictions imposed on our members are part of a wider French foreign policy which is all about pleasing the mullahs. But this policy has failed. The mullahs are not only a threat to the Iranian people, but to the entire world now. I really hope that the French government would give up on its politics of complacency towards the Iranian regime and start supporting the Iranian people.
The radio quoted Rajavi saying that the controversial statements made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reinforced the need for opposition groups, but she reiterated that being on the opposition in Iran is not easy. "Ahmadinejad is oppressing people. He is repressing all the demonstrations organized by the opposition; the police suppressed a demonstration staged by the women’s rights group in Tehran eight days ago." She added: "The National Council of Resistance of Iran is a coalition of groups which are fighting for democratic change in Iran. We want freedom and democracy in Iran and we want a secular republic."