{"id":12016,"date":"2012-06-15T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/12016-officialwire-euro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-oppositioneuro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-opposition"},"modified":"2023-01-14T04:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T03:32:16","slug":"officialwire-euro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-oppositioneuro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/officialwire-euro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-oppositioneuro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"OfficialWire: Euro MPs back Iranian Democratic Opposition.Euro MPs back Iranian Democratic Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.policymic.com\/articles\/9626\/3-options-for-hillary-clinton-to-avoid-war-with-iran-and-aide-the-iranian-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ap_clinton_geneva_480_28feb\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-36952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/ap_clinton_geneva_480_28feb.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" \/>London (United Kingdom)<\/a> June 13, 2012<br \/>Last Wednesday a meeting of Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI) intergroup in the European Parliament was held in Brussels.\u00a0 A declaration signed by over 220 Euro MPs was unveiled regarding the plight of the Iranian opposition, members of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) currently living in camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The Euro MPs were strongly critical of the UN Envoy in Iraq, Martin Kobler, and his close cooperation with the Iranian regime. Members also discussed a historic court ruling in Washington on 1 June against the blacklisting of the PMOI in the United States, a label that is widely viewed as the main obstacle to the peaceful resettlement of these refugees in third countries.<br \/>\u201cThe US blacklist has enabled the Iraqi authorities, pushed and cajoled by their sponsors in Tehran, to psychologically torture and bully the 3200 men and women in Ashraf and to pressurise them into moving to a new location &#8211; Camp Liberty &#8211; next to Baghdad Airport,\u201d Struan Stevenson, the President of the European Parliament\u2019s Delegation for Relations with Iraq, said at the meeting. \u201cMore than 2,000 PMOI refugees are now crushed into an area measuring less than half a square kilometre, with dilapidated sewage systems, no facilities for the disabled and inadequate supplies of water and electricity.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThey were persuaded to move to Camp Liberty on the pledge of the United Nations Special Representative, Martin Kobler, that this was simply a Temporary Transit Location (TTL) which would be their home for only a few weeks. Some have now been there over four months in unbearable conditions. The good name of the UN is being besmirched by their association with and apparent indifference to such blatant ill-treatment and repression. They must declare Camp Liberty as a long-term refugee facility and not a TTL and they must then insist on the full humanitarian provisions appropriate to a refugee camp.\u201d<br \/>Mr. Stevenson was supported by veteran Spanish lawmaker, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a senior Vice President of the European Parliament. \u201cWe are very frustrated of the way the UN envoy, Martin Kobler has been dealing with this issue. His praise for the role of the mullahs in the security of Iraq, and the reports about his meetings with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran over the fate of their opponents have shocked us.\u201d \u201cThis attitude is very damaging for Mr Ban Ki-moon and for the reputation of the United Nations.\u201d<br \/>Mr Vidal also pointed to the significance of the recent US Court of Appeals ruling in favour of the PMOI. \u201cThe Court could have said only: the State Department must decide about the blacklist. And that would have been significant. But it goes beyond that and says: If you don\u2019t decide within four months, we &#8211; the Court &#8211; will remove the PMOI from the blacklist. So the Court is effectively saying that in their opinion the PMOI should not be on that list.\u201d He went on to congratulate the PMOI \u201cespecially those in camps Ashraf and Liberty and inside Iranian prisons who have suffered the most from this listing.\u201d<br \/>\u201cIt is now time for Europe and the U.S. to recognise the political coalition of National Council of Resistance of Iran as a democratic alternative to this regime,\u201d Mr Vidal said. \u201cThe NCRI, formed in Tehran in 1981, has a secular program and strongly advocates the rights of women and minorities, rule of law, civil liberties and a nuclear-free Iran. This is the most effective way we have to confront export of terrorism and sheer violations of human rights by the mullahs and their endeavour to acquire nuclear weapons.\u201d<br \/>The importance of this latest decision in Washington is beyond any precedent legal victories for the PMOI. First of all, the U.S. legal system has a much more limited scope of jurisdiction when foreign policy issues are involved, decisions about which are traditionally solely the responsibility of the Secretary of State. In the past 230 years of U.S. legal history, there has not been a single case where a Secretary of State is ordered to act on a demand of a foreign entity &#8211; let alone one that is labelled \u201cterrorist\u201d by his or her department.<br \/>Second, the \u2013United States, as the world\u2019s number one super power, was the first state to put the PMOI on its blacklist fifteen years ago to curry favour with the mullahs in Tehran. Europe and others later followed suit. So when the instigator of the PMOI\u2019s blacklisting is told by its own court to remove the designation, this is the final nail in the coffin of the policy of appeasement vis-a-vis the Iranian regime. That policy was initiated by the West over two decades ago with the rise of the supposed \u201cmoderates\u201d in Iran.\u00a0 It was based on the sheer illusion that by bashing the main organised opposition, which seeks regime change, we would encourage a gradual power shift for the moderates. The result of that fatal policy was the rise of extreme radicals and the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<br \/>The court decision mocked the Obama administration\u2019s claim that the Secretary of State has been too busy to be able to decide on the designation after 600 days. It points out the fact that Congress was fully aware of the Secretary\u2019s demanding agenda when they gave her only 180 days to decide.\u00a0 The court also makes no connection between the evacuation of PMOI members from Ashraf and the blacklist, contrary to Ms Clinton\u2019s insistence. <br \/>Mrs Clinton now faces three choices:<br \/>One: Do nothing and let the court remove the designation after four months; a humiliating scenario for the State Department.<br \/>Two: Decide to remove the designation before the lapse of the deadline and save face. <br \/>Three:\u00a0 Decide to maintain the designation, which will of course embolden Tehran to increase internal repression and to accelerate its nuclear weapons project. It can also be interpreted as a green light to the Iraqi government to launch new brutal attacks against the defenceless refugees in Ashraf and Liberty; an embarrassing situation for Obama\u2019s foreign policy in the wake of the upcoming presidential elections.<br \/>Endless delays and foot-dragging are no longer an option.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialwire.com\/news\/euro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-opposition\/\">http:\/\/www.officialwire.com\/news\/euro-mps-back-iranian-democratic-opposition\/<\/a> <br \/>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (United Kingdom) June 13, 2012Last Wednesday a meeting of Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI) intergroup in the European Parliament was held in Brussels.&nbsp; A declaration signed by over 220 Euro MPs was unveiled regarding the plight of the Iranian opposition, members of the People&rsquo;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) currently living in 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