By LORD FRASER OF CARMYLLIE, QC
Former Solicitor-General and Lord Advocate for Scotland

News.scotsman.com, 23 December - The decision earlier this month by the European Court of First Instance to annul for a third time the European Union's ban on the main democratic Iranian opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), was a critical confirmation that the group has been unjustly blacklisted.

Text of speech by Dr. Alejo Vidal- Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament.

Dr. Vidal-Quadras chaired a joint meeting of a group of members from the Jordanian and the European Parliaments at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect was the keynote speaker at the event.

By Christopher Booker

The Sunday Telegraph, 21 December - If the politicians who run the European Union were found to be acting repeatedly in gross breach of their own law, to appease one of the nastiest regimes in the world – and a senior British minister was found to have seriously misled Parliament in the same cause – might this not be thought worthy of some attention? Yet again last week, unreported here in Britain, the EU was reprimanded by its own courts for refusing to obey their ruling that it had acted illegally in outlawing Iran's main democratic opposition movement, the People's Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI).

Text of speech by Mr. Struan Stevenson, Vice-President of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament and Co-chair of the Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI).

He spoke in a joint meeting of members of the Jordanian Parliament and the European Parliament at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, the Vice-President of the European Parliament. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, was the special guest to the event.

In its fourth ruling, European court rejects demand by EU Council and France to delay annulment of terror label against PMOI (MEK) 

Maryam Rajavi: This puts an end to shameful deals with the mullahs; EU Council has no alternative but to comply with the court ruling which annulled PMOI's terror label 

The Court of First Instance of the European Communities (CFI), in its fourth ruling over the past two years, rejected a request by the EU Council and France to delay implementation of the December 4 court ruling on the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI [MEK]) until the deadline to submit an appeal against the ruling has ended. It described their demand as "clearly unacceptable" and ordered the Council to pay all legal costs incurred by the PMOI (MEK).

Maryam Rajavi calls for bringing the regime’s leaders before international tribunal

This evening, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning gross violations of human rights in Iran. Thus, the regime’s hysteric attempts at striking a dirty and despicable deal with some foreign governments and states with a poor human rights track record to prevent the adoption of this resolution were met with defeat as the international community took a united stance against the religious fascism ruling Iran.

By DAVID WADDINGTON, former UK home secretary under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former leader of the House of Lords

EUOBSERVER.COM, 19 December / COMMENT - As Barack Obama takes over at the White House, one clear danger is that European governments will proceed as if the war on terror is now finished, leading us vulnerable to attack, perhaps by radical fundamentalists with ties to Iran. Furthermore with George Bush gone, the Islamic Republic may itself sense new opportunities to further spread its fundamentalist ideology and terror tactics to Iraq and the Middle East.

AFP, 17 December- (Translation from original article in French) - The People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI MEK) must be promptly removed from the list of terrorist organizations drawn up by Brussels, called Thursday in Strasbourg Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).