Brussels, 16 sep (EFE) – Members of the European Parliament and national parliaments of EU countries have formed a committee with the aim of making the main opposition group to the fundamentalist Iranian regime will be removed from the list of European terrorist organizations.
The European Union governments decided last July 15 at keep the Organization of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (OMPI) in the list, despite three court rulings, two in the UK and one in the European Court in Luxembourg , Who ordered his exclusion.
"We are convinced, for legal reasons, political and moral, that the CNRI and WIPO should be removed from the list. We were already convinced for years, but now is a scandal that they are still on the list, a real scandal," said one of the initiators of the initiative, Vice President of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal Quadras (PP).
According to the EU, "it is time to remove them from the list. The battle in the courts and won, several times also, and what now is a political decision, it is clear that legally should not appear on the list ".
Last May, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales ended a long process in the United Kingdom and ordered the exclusion of WIPO from the British list of terrorist organizations, a decision that was executed on June 24.
The United Kingdom had been the promoter of the inclusion of the Mujahideen in the list of the EU in May 2002.
The chairwoman of the National Council of Iranian Resistance (CNRI), Maryam Radjavi, present at the ceremony in Brussels, said that what is behind the European decision is a "marketing" with the regime of the mullahs that the West wants to convince to abandon its uranium enrichment program.
"The negotiation is not yielding results, but providing time for the Tehran regime to obtain the atomic bomb," warned Radjavi in statements to the media at the headquarters of the European Parliament.
Before the introduction of the new committee, the Iranian opposition gathered a group of international lawyers to discuss the European list of terrorist organizations.
According to Vidal Quadras, "there has been unanimity in that neither the National Council of Resistance of Iran or the People's Mujahideen should be included in it."
In July, the French presidency of the European Union gave no reasons to further consider a terrorist organization in Iran, according to the MEP.
"That's the problem: when you are accused of something that does not tell you what it is, it is impossible to defend," argues the deputy Spanish.