France 3, French TV, December 12 – The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, founded in 1965 in opposition to the Shah’s regime in Iran, and then to the Islamic Republic, won its case before the European justice. Considered as a terrorist movement, the Mojahedin had its European assets frozen. The EU Court of First Instance reckoned that this decision was taken in violation of the right to defense and decided to overturn it.
Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian Resistance, invited to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, heard about the removal of sanctions against her organization labelled as terrorist by the European Union with joy. This represents rehabilitation for this activist who struggles against the Iranian mullahs’ regime.
Maryam Radjavi: “This is the victory of justice over compromise with the mullahs, because this label was imposed on the request of the mullahs’ regime’s.”
The European Union is extremely embarrased. It might be obliged to remove the Mojahedin from its list of dangerous organizations, a backlash against its antiterrorist policy, modelled on the United Nations’.
Also a backlash for the French antiterrorist justice and Judge Bruguière. In 2003, soon after the war in Iraq, he launched a vast police operation against the Mojahedin based in Paris suburb. Militants who had been in France for 20 years, were suddenly designated as dangerous terrorists. 17 of them, including Maryam Rajavi, are still indicted in this case.
But today, the interests of the Mojahedin are very similar to that of the international community which is wrestling with Iran on the nuclear file.