By JENNY BARCHFIELD
Source: The Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a massive rally Saturday outside Paris.

The Paris-based National Council Resistance of Iran [NCRI] — an umbrella group that includes the blacklisted People's Mujahedeen of Iran, or PMOI [MEK] — held the rally at an exhibition center in the northern Villepinte suburb just days after Britain removed PMOI [MEK]from its list of banned terror groups.

"In my 16 years in the House of Commons, I have not known an issue that has united Members of Parliament from both Houses, and from across the political spectrum, as much as this one [deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran]"

NCRI - Excerpts of speech by Mr. Andrew Mackinlay, a Labour member of the British Parliament in a parliamentary debate on Monday that led to deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) in UK:

The Iranian Resistance welcomes the Italian government's decision to freeze the mullahs' assets and calls on other countries to follow the same lead

NCRI - The Iranian Resistance welcomes the Italian governments' decision to freeze the mullahs' regime assets and called a major step in hampering its attempts to obtain a nuclear bomb.

Mullahs resort to hollow show of force and threats following deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
NCRI - The Brig. Gen. Ali Larijani, speaker of the clerical regime's Majlis (parliament) resorted today to blackmail and threats to counter the international community's demand to halt its uranium enrichment activities. Addressing the Western countries he said, "Do not seek to provoke Iran because you may get to a point of no return and lose your chance for negotiation. Your wrong strategies in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan have caused nothing but hatred. With your double standards and deceptions, you are rapidly approaching a strategic deadlock in the region and the final whistle to a lost game is about to be blown."

The [British] Government must recognize the National Council of Resistance of Iran, as well as the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, as being the legitimate opposition to the Iranian regime and engage in dialogue with them about the future

NCRI - Excerpts of speech by Mr. David Amess, a Conservative member of the British Parliament in a parliamentary debate in the British parliament on Monday that led to deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) in UK:

NCRI - In a parliamentary debate in the British parliament that led to deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) in UK on Monday, Baroness Harris of Richmond, supported the order saying that the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) should have never been proscribed in the first place.

"By deproscribing the PMOI [MEK] from the terror list… this country sends this strong message to the mullahs and despotic rulers in Iran: 'You must immediately cease your despicable actions against your own people and your meddling in Iraq or face the consequences of your actions in the future,'" she added.