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NCRI – In an interview with EuroNews on April 24, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran described the blacklisting of the People’s Mojahedin.Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as a result of “the politics of indulgence.”

“The President of the Iranian National Council of Resistance arrived in Strasbourg to demand that the PMOI be removed from the US and EU blacklist of terrorist organizations,” EuroNews reported from  Strasbourg, where Maryam Rajavi spoke at a conference attended by members of the French National Assembly and the European Parliament.

Text of the interview follows:

Euronews.com, April 24, 2008

Removal of Iranian opposition group from US and EU terrorist blacklist demanded in Strasbourg

Maryam Rajavi, the President of the Iranian National Council of Resistance arrived in Strasbourg to demand that the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) be removed from the US and EU blacklist of terrorist organizations.

In December 2006, the European Court of first instance ordered the EU to lift the ban and again in 2007 the British Appeals Commission ruled unequivocally that the organization is "not concerned in terrorism."

"To call members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran terrorists is the politics of indulgence and is preventing democratic change in Iran. The group must be taken off the list to show Europe is against the rule of the Mullahs, the Mullahs demanded the PMOI be put on the list. It is a concession to the mullahs...the politics of indulgence," she said.

Many believe that the ban should be lifted as a matter of urgency to allow Iran's opposition to work, without fetters, to bring about democratic change in Iran.