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Source: Agence France-Presse PARIS (AFP) More than 70,000 supporters of Iran's opposition protested near Paris on Saturday, urging the international community to remove bans on the country's armed opposition group, organisers said.<\/p>\n
Source: Agence France-Presse
PARIS (AFP) More than 70,000 supporters of Iran's opposition protested near Paris on Saturday, urging the international community to remove bans on the country's armed opposition group, organisers said.<\/p>\n
The protest came just days after Britain's decision to lift its ban on the People's Mojehedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI)[MEK], a move Iran denounced as a "disgrace".<\/p>\n
Source: Agence France-Presse
PARIS (AFP) More than 70,000 supporters of Iran's opposition protested near Paris on Saturday, urging the international community to remove bans on the country's armed opposition group, organisers said.<\/p>\n
The protest came just days after Britain's decision to lift its ban on the People's Mojehedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI)[MEK], a move Iran denounced as a "disgrace".<\/p>\n
Delegations of Iranian PMOI supporters from Germany, Australia, Belgium, Canada, the United States, Britain, Iraq and Jordan took part in the assembly in a hall in the Villepinte suburb of Paris, according to organisers.<\/p>\n
"I call on the Council of Ministers of the European Union to erase the name of the PMOI [MEK] from the list of terrorist organisations," opposition leader Maryam Radjavi told supporters.<\/p>\n
By labelling the group as terrorists, Western governments "have helped the world's most powerful supporter of terrorism," said Radjavi.<\/p>\n
"Remove this chain with which you have bound the hands and feet of the resistance against the religious dictatorship" in Tehran, she said.<\/p>\n
Formed in the 1960s in opposition to the rule of the US-backed shah of Iran, the PMOI [MEK] took part in the 1979 Islamic revolution but then took up arms against the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n
Organisers on Saturday called the opposition assembly "particularly significant three days away from the French presidency of the EU" because "France plays a major role in the Iran crisis."<\/p>\n
France takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union on July 1.<\/p>\n
The assembly supported the decision in London to remove the ban on PMOI.<\/p>\n
British lawmakers approved the move following a court verdict last month ruling that the government had to remove the group from a terrorist blacklist.<\/p>\n
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