The parliament-in-exile of the Iranian Resistance. http://www.ncr-iran.org Fri, 09 May 2008 15:49:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ncr-iran.org/images/M_images/LionAndSun.jpg http://www.ncr-iran.org The parliament-in-exile of the Iranian Resistance. http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5204/128/ LONDON (Reuters) - An Iranian opposition group won a seven-year legal battle on Wednesday when three top judges upheld a ruling that the government was wrong to ban it as a terrorist organisation.The judges at the Court of Appeal threw out a government challenge to a ruling last November that its refusal to remove the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI[MEK]) from its list of proscribed terrorist organisations was perverse. News - Resistance-International Fri, 09 May 2008 07:59:44 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5202/128/ Workers called for dismissal of company’s director general, board of directors and company’s security chief. They also demanded an end to false allegations and pursuit of labor activists.NCRI - Thousands of state-owned Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Company workers in southwestern Khuzistan province near the city of Shoush, have been protesting since Monday, demanding their unpaid wages for the past two months and also calling for an end to harassment of their co-workers by the company’s security office. Statements - General Fri, 09 May 2008 07:08:18 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5203/128/ By: Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian BorgerSource: The Guardian, May 8, 2008A long-standing and prominent Iranian opposition group must be struck off the government's list of proscribed terrorist organisations, the appeal court ruled yesterday. In a move attacked by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, and by senior Iranian officials, the court dismissed ministers' claims that the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI[MEK]) was concerned in terrorism . News - Other News Fri, 09 May 2008 07:32:20 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5201/128/ NCRI - The student protests in Shariati, Vali-e-Asr and Shamsipour technical colleges in Tehran which began on Monday, May 5, led to violent clashes with State Security Forces (SSF). The suppressive forces encircled and brutally attacked students using clubs and batons in a bid to disperse them. Statements - Human Rights Fri, 09 May 2008 02:34:18 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5200/128/ HOUSTON, May 9 -- 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 of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The historic decision rejected the British government's appeal to challenge an order by a lower court to de-proscribe PMOI. News - Resistance-International Fri, 09 May 2008 02:03:53 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5199/123/ By: Alireza Jafarzadeh (http://spcwashington.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=32 Itemid=43)Source: FoxNews (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354445,00.html)Almost a week after the U.S. Department of State branded the ayatollahs’ regime in Iran as the “most active state sponsor of terrorism,” there are reports from Baghdad that the Hezbollah of Lebanon has been training Iraqi terrorists at camps near Tehran. Tehran’s Terror Inc. certainly knows a thing or two about the art of outsourcing. Opinion - Commentary Thu, 08 May 2008 15:35:27 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5197/128/ WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will be under pressure to stop banning an Iranian opposition movement as terrorist following a court ruling Wednesday in Britain, a former opposition spokesman said.The Court of Appeal ruled there were no valid grounds to contend that a British panel made legal errors when it ordered the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI) to be removed from a terrorist blacklist. News - Resistance-International Thu, 08 May 2008 07:38:30 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5198/105/ NCRI - Families and local residents of Ivan-Gharb in Ilam province, western Iran, attended mourning ceremony of three teenagers killed by the special units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 30 April 2008, in a bloody crackdown of an anti-government demonstration. News - Human Rights Thu, 08 May 2008 11:02:57 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5195/105/ NCRI – Iranian regime has hanged four men on Wednesday in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, a state-run daily Etemad reported. The prisoners were only identified by their first names as Hassan, Majid, Mehdi and Hassan, the report said. News - Human Rights Thu, 08 May 2008 05:38:48 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5196/128/ Source: Business Wire“In light of the UK Court of Appeal ruling to delist the MEK and absence of evidence of terrorist capability and intent in Country Reports, the Secretary of State should delist the MEK when it comes up for mandatory review in October 2008”On 7 May 2008, the UK Court of Appeal denied the UK Government permission to challenge a November 2008 decision by the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission (POAC) that ordered the Government to remove the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK or P.M.O.I., People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, as it's known in Europe) from its list of terrorist organizations. News - Resistance-International Thu, 08 May 2008 07:10:12 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5193/128/ Maryam Rajavi: Europe must recognize the Iranian Resistance for democracy and popular sovereignty in IranUK Court of Appeal issues definitive ruling to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from terrorist list Statements - Terrorist Label Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:08 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5194/128/ LONDON (AFP) — The British government failed Wednesday in a bid to overturn a ruling that it must end the perverse listing of an Iranian opposition group as a banned terrorist group.The Court of Appeal in London ruled there were no valid grounds to contend that the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission made legal errors when it ordered the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK) to be removed from the blacklist. News - Resistance-International Wed, 07 May 2008 15:43:40 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5192/128/ By: Sean O'NeillSource: Timesonline.co.ukThe PMOI campaigns for a change of regime in Iran and has cross-party political support in Britain.The Government was ordered today to remove an Iranian resistance group from its list of banned terrorist organisations. Delivering another blow to anti-terror legislation, Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, said there was no evidence that the Peoples Mujahidin Organisation of Iran was currently involved in terrorism. News - Resistance-International Wed, 07 May 2008 06:12:46 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5191/128/ LONDON (The Associated Press) - A British court was due to rule Wednesday on whether an Iranian opposition group should be removed from the government's list of banned terror organizations.The People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI [MEK]) is considered a terrorist outfit by the United States and the European Union — but high-profile backers in Britain have waged a legal campaign to overturn its status as a proscribed group. News - Resistance-International Wed, 07 May 2008 01:28:46 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5189/128/ NCRI - On Tuesday workers of the state-owned Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane Company in southwestern Khuzistan province near the city of Shoush, staged a protest to demand their unpaid salaries and called for an end to the harassment of their co-workers.More than 2,000 workers of the company demonstrated in front of its management offices. The protesters did not permit the company’s deputy manager to enter his office. News - Inside Iran Tue, 06 May 2008 13:56:13 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5190/107/ PARIS (AP)--French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Tuesday that an incentive package offered by leading powers to draw Iran into dialogue is very generous and will be delivered to Tehran within days.Kouchner, speaking to reporters, wouldn't reveal details of the package before it was seen by Iran. However, he said that if Iran doesn't make the proposal public once it has been delivered, it will be put on the Internet so the Iranian people can learn about it. News - Nuclear Tue, 06 May 2008 14:00:08 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5188/107/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World powers very soon will present Iran with a revised package of incentives to give up its sensitive nuclear work, U.S. officials said on Monday, but expectations for a positive response are low. I think this will move very quickly, said a senior U.S. official, when asked when the incentives package agreed on by major powers in London last Friday would be formally offered to the Iranians. News - Nuclear Tue, 06 May 2008 10:15:19 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5187/128/ NCRI- Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jaffari, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that the main mission of his organization is to counter internal threats, state-run media reported on Sunday.Speaking at a ceremony introducing the new commander of Tehran’s paramilitary Bassij Force, Jaffari reiterated the philosophy of IRGC’s existence as the sole protector of the Iranian regime, adding that “in the past few years” there has been “negligence” with this regard, state-run news agency ISNA reported. News - Regime Tue, 06 May 2008 09:52:54 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5186/128/ Twelve prisoners hanged in Bojnourd and AhwazNCRI - On Sunday, the mullahs' inhuman regime hanged nine prisoners, one of them in public, in the northeastern city of Bojnourd, according to the state-run news agency Fars.The prosecutor general for the province of North Khorasan requested the death penalty for 80 prisoners, nine of which were carried out in Bojnourd yesterday. Statements - Human Rights Mon, 05 May 2008 14:13:48 +0100 http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/5183/105/ NCRI – In the latest series of executions and public hangings in Iran twelve prisoners were hanged in northeastern city of Bojnourd southwestern city of Ahwaz, the state-run media reported. Nine prisoners were hanged, one of them in public, in the northeastern city of Bojnourd, Kayhan newspaper reported, without giving the date that the executions were carried out. News - Human Rights Mon, 05 May 2008 03:14:20 +0100