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Iran Seminar in British Parliament declares; it is time for change |
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Thursday, 07 July 2005 |
 Iran: Hardliners in power, Iranian Resistance, EU policy under UK presidency
In light of Britain’s Presidency of the European Union and G8, and the
recent sham Presidential election that took place in Iran,
distinguished members of both Houses of Parliament from the three major
political parties, as well as renowned jurists in Britain called on
their government to take the opportunity to lead the EU away from its
present policy of appeasing the Iranian regime towards a
firm policy, which will include the removal of the People’s Mojahedin
Organisation of Iran from the EU terrorist list.
 Speakers at the conference reflected on the fact that the
elections were neither free nor fair, and were largely boycotted.
They further condemned what they described as the appointment of a
torturer and “trained terrorist” as the President of Iran
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The call was made in a declaration adopted by a conference held at the
British Parliament on 7 July, which was sponsored by the British
Committee for Iran Freedom, Bindman & Partners Solicitors, the
Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute of London
Metropolitan University, Imran Khan & Partners Solicitors and 10-11
Gray’s Inn Square Barristers Chambers.
 In a video recorded message to the conference, Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran,
reiterated: “Every day that goes by, the mullahs inch closer to the
nuclear bomb. It is time to stop appeasement at once. It is time to
make a final choice between a theocratic state in Iran bent on
continuing its destructive policies, or supporting democratic change in
that country. If democratic change is the choice, then no first step
would be more effective than removing the terror label against the
PMOI.”
Eminent jurists in the conference also announced the formation of a
committee of British Lawyers to work for the deproscription of the
PMOI. The lawyers declared that they would be pursuing every
avenue, both legal and political, to achieve their aim.
 Speakers at this conference included: Lord Corbett of Castle
Vale, leader of Labour Peers; Rt. Hon. Lord Renton QC, leader of
Conservative Peers; Rt. Hon. Lord Fraser, former Scottish Solicitor
General; Rt. Hon. Lord Slynn of Hadley, President of the International
Federation of European Jurists and former judge at the European Court
of Justice and the Court of Appeal; Lord Alton of Liverpool, former
Liberal Party Parliamentary Whip; Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen,
former member of TUC General Council; Baroness Turner of Camden, former
member of TUC General Council; Claire Miskin, chair of the women’s
section at the International Bar Association; Lord Clarke of Hampstead,
Former Chair of the Labour Party; Lord King of West Bromwich, member of
the National Assembly of Policy-making; Andrew Mackinlay MP, member of
the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee; David Drew, Labour MP; Hugo
Charlton, human rights Barrister and chair of the British Green Party;
Stephen Grosz, human rights lawyer and member of advisory council of
the British Institute of Human Rights; Malcolm Fowler, member of the
International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society; Edward
Grieves, member of the Human Rights Committee of the British Bar
Council.
London - 7 July, 2005
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