REUTERS BRUSSELS – The EU’s highest court upheld a decision Wednesday to remove an Iranian opposition group from the EU’s terrorism blacklist, a ruling that could affect the fate of thousands of the organization’s members stranded in Iraq. France had appealed against a decision by a lower EU court that ordered the European bloc to…
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Top EU court upholds removal of Iran’s PMOI from terror list
DEUTSCHE PRESSE AGENTUR Luxembourg – The European Union’s top judges on Wednesday endorsed a lower-court ruling that called for the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) to be removed from the bloc’s list of terrorist organizations. Founded in 1965, the PMOI operated a military wing in its early years, but says it renounced violence in June 2001…
Mrs. Rajavi calls on President Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to ensure the minimum guarantees for the relocation of Camp Ashraf residents to Camp Liberty
NCRI – The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, while announcing that the residents of Ashraf were in principle prepared to relocate to Camp Liberty, appealed to President Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for their intervention and assistance so that the United States, the United Nations and the European Union support and endorse,…
Sounding the alarm on Camp Ashraf
TORONTO STAR While the world prepares to celebrate the beginning of the New Year, the people of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, live in imminent peril. At the camp — set up by American forces — 3,400 Iranian refugees are facing prospective massacre at the hands of the Iraqi government. The majority of residents have survived until…
As US troops leave Iraq, an assault is planned that should shame us all
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A tragedy is presently unfolding in Iraq that makes a mockery of the boast by US defence secretary Leon Panetta that American forces are leaving it a “free, independent and sovereign country”. And in two weeks’ time it seems set to come to a bloody climax. For some years this column has…