Source: AFP*
“In a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, one hundred MEPs requested to follow the European example by withdrawing the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from its list of terrorist organizations.
According to a press release by conservative Spanish MEP Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Vice-president of the European Parliament, the letter was sent on Thursday.
Source: AFP*
“In a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, one hundred MEPs requested to follow the European example by withdrawing the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from its list of terrorist organizations.
According to a press release by conservative Spanish MEP Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Vice-president of the European Parliament, the letter was sent on Thursday.
MEPs wrote that the organization that was withdrawn in January from the EU blacklist has "clearly demonstrated that it is a friend of the West, freedom and democracy and an enemy of fundamentalism."
The text is signed by 103 MEPs from 24 EU Member States from the main political groups in the Parliament, Conservative, Socialist, Liberal and Greens.
After three years of legal battle, PMOI, the main Iranian opposition group, following a decision by the European Court of Justice was withdrawn from EU’s list of terrorist organizations in January.
The organization founded in 1965, with the first goal of overthrowing the regime of the Shah and the Islamic regime, has always insisted that it had no terrorist activity.”
*This is the English translation of the original report in French
Photo: Thousands of supporters of the Iranian resistance demonstrated on January 27, 2009 during a rally in front of the European Union council headquarters in Brussels. The rally came one day after the EU Foreign Ministers decided to remove People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the EU terrorist list. The European Union on 26 January 2009 removed PMOI, from its blacklist, bringing an end to a long legal battle.
