Agence France PresseDecember 12, 2006 LUXEMBOURG – A European court annulled Tuesday a decision to freeze the assets of the main Iranian opposition group abroad, a move that could result in its removal from the EU terror list. The Court of First Instance, Europe’s second-highest, ordered the EU to cancel a decision from May 2002…
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European court overturns EU decision to add Iranian resistance movement to terror list
Associated PressDecember 12, 2006By CONSTANT BRAND BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Court of Justice on Tuesday overturned an EU decision to freeze the assets of the People’s Mujahadeen of Iran, an exiled Iranian resistance movement which is on the bloc’s terror blacklist. The court’s ruling annuls a 2002 decision to freeze all European assets of…
Court ruling forces rethink of EU terror list by Lorne Cook
Agence France PresseDecember 12, 2006by Lorne Cook A European court has annulled an EU decision to freeze the assets of the main Iranian opposition in exile, a move that will force the bloc to rethink the way it compiles its terror blacklist. The Court of First Instance, Europe’s second-highest tribunal, ruled that the EU had…
EU court annuls funds freeze of Iranian rebel group
German Press Agency (dpa)December 12, 2006Luxembourg- A European court on Tuesday annulled an EU decision to freeze the funds of the militant opposition group People’s Mujahedin of Iran, which says it was wrongly placed on an EU terror list. The EU’s order to freeze the Mujahedin’s assets infringed the right to a fair hearing, the…
Iranian Imbroglio Gives New Boost To Odd Exile Group
Iranian Imbroglio Gives New Boost To Odd Exile GroupCalled a Terror Cult by Many, MEK Wins Friends in U.S. Because It Opposes TehranA Rally Near the White HouseBy ANDREW HIGGINS and JAY SOLOMONWall Street JournalNovember 29, 2006; Page A1 Early this summer, as Washington fretted about Iran’s nuclear program, supporters of Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Iranian…