By Joe Churcher, PA Political Correspondent

Press Association - Legal action is being taken by MPs and peers to try to force the Government to remove an Iranian opposition group from a list of organisations banned under anti-terror law.

The 25 - from all parties - have lodged an appeal against the proscription of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), claiming it is non-violent and poses no threat to security.

Kuwait News Agency -- Legal action is being taken by British MPs and peers to try to force the UK Government to remove an Iranian opposition group from a list of organisations banned under anti-terror law, it was announced here Wednesday.

Agence France Presse - The British government is to face a legal challenge to force it to remove an exiled Iranian opposition group from a list of organisations banned under anti-terrorism laws, politicians said.

In a statement, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom said the continued proscription of the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) went against a European Court of Justice ruling last December.

Press Association, February 2 - Britain was accused by a Labour peer today of "shamefully" having persuaded the European Union to defy a ruling of the European Court on the status of Iran's principal resistance group.

The Foreign Office, however, denied that Britain had put pressure on the EU in this case.

NCRI - "I would like to praise Iraqi people for their support to the Mojahedin and the City of Ashraf. The regime's fear of Ashraf displays the role of Ashraf in preventing the infiltration of fundamentalism into Iraq," said Mogens Camre, Danish member of the European parliament in a conference on "Iraq with a future" on January 31, attended by a delegation of Iraqi political personalities and MPs, and Mohammad Mohaddessin, President of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee. Here is the text of his speech: