Supporters of Iranian Resistance demonstrate in Finland

AFP- December 4, The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) demonstrate outside the venue of the Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) at the Helsinki Fair Centre in Helsinki, on December 4, 2008.

AFP- December 4, The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) demonstrate outside the venue of the Ministerial Council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) at the Helsinki Fair Centre in Helsinki, on December 4, 2008.

A top European court ruled Thursday that the EU wrongly froze the funds of Iran's main opposition group in exile PMOI (People's Mujahedeen of Iran) and violated its rights by not justifying why it should be on a terror list. Founded in 1965 with the aim of replacing first the Shah and then the clerical regime in Iran, the PMOI — now led by exiled Iran opposition figure Maryam Rajavi — has in the past operated an armed group inside Iran. It was the armed wing of the France-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) but it renounced violence in June 2001.