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Iranian-Americans of Texas Applaud UK Court Ruling on Reversing PMOI Terror Designation, Demand US to Follow Suit
Iranian-Americans of Texas Applaud UK Court Ruling on Reversing PMOI Terror Designation, Demand US to Follow Suit
HOUSTON, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Iranian-American Society of
Texas welcomes the May 7th ruling by the British Court of Appeal on the terror
designation of the People's Mojahedin Organization ofIran (PMOI/MEK). The
historic decision rejected the British government's appeal to challenge an
order by a lower court to de-proscribe PMOI.
The designation came about in 2001 as a result of a disgraceful attempt by
the then Home Secretary Jack Straw to placate the ayatollahs' tyrannical
regime inIran. To further appease the mullahs, the British government
pressed the European Union to follow suit and blacklist the PMOI in 2002.
Following the Wednesday ruling, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of
the National Council of Resistance (NCRI), remarked that "The ruling marked
the end of the grave insult to the People's Mujahedeen ... The terrorist
label has crumbled." Indeed this ruling is the triumph of justice and truth
over shameful policy of appeasement of a fascist regime.
The Iranian-American Society ofTexas calls on the U.S. Department of
State to base its upcoming October 2008 review of the terrorist designation of
the PMOI on the Court of Appeal's ruling which emphatically stated that the
organization is not "concerned in terrorism." The ruling of the British courts
as well as a similar verdict by the EU Court of Justice inLuxemburg in
December 2006, issued following the courts complete review of all open and
classified evidence and independent of any political and policy
considerations, behooves the U.S. government to promptly revoke the morally
and legally unjustified blacklisting of the PMOI.
The policy of appeasement pursued by the western governments has only
emboldened the mullahs as it did the Hitler's fascist regime. We must untie
the hands of the Iranian people and their just resistance to ridIran and the
whole world of this nuclear weapons seeking menace before it is too late. The
PMOI, with more than forty years of noble struggle for freedom and secular
democracy against two dictatorships inIran, is essential to the realization
of democratic change inIran. It is time to stand with the Iranian people and
support them in their resistance against the Islamic fundamentalist rulers by
lifting the terror designation from the PMOI.
SOURCE The Iranian-American Society ofTexas
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