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UK Parliament
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Mullahs ruling Iran have nothing to do with Islam
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EP Visit Video Report
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Maryam Rajavi speaks to the European Parliament
At the European Parliament, Mrs. Rajavi, calls for abandoning appeasement, removal of terror tag on PMOI
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British MPs, Lords, lawyers and jurists call for removal of terror tag from PMOI |
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Tuesday, 22 March 2005 |
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale
London SW1A 0PW
Hundreds of UK MPs, Lords, lawyers and jurists call for removal of
terror tag from People's Mojahedin of Iran in a symposium in London.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: The only real solution for Iran is to support democratic change by the Iranian people and Resistance
Prominent British lawyers and jurists, including Geoffrey Bindman,
Imran Khan, Mark Muller, Claire Miskin, Stephen Grosz, and Bill Bowring
(Director, Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute, London
Metropolitan University) argued in the conference that from a legal
perspective, proscribing the People's Mojahedin was in contradiction of
the U.K. law.
Dozens of members of the House of Commons and House of Lords including
the Rt. Hon. Lord Archer of Sandwell QC, Lord Corbett of Castle Vale,
chair of the British Committee for Iran Freedom, Win Griffiths, MP,
Lord Alton of Liverpool, Lord Tony Clarke of Hampstead, David Amess,
MP, reiterated that the inclusion of the PMOI in the terror list was a
good will gesture to the mullahs, and was part and parcel of appeasing
the clerical regime. They pointed out that at a time when Iranian
regime has evolved as a major international concern on both sides of
the Atlantic, the terrorist designation of the main Iranian opposition
is major political blunder and must end.
In a live message by satellite, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect
of the Iranian Resistance, pointed out: "The terrorist label against
the Iranian Resistance is not only a move against an opposition
movement. It is capitulation to the dictates of the ayatollahs and a
barrier to change in Iran."
Mrs. Rajavi reiterated: "We have before us the experience of two
decades of appeasement, particularly during Khatami's presidency. This
policy has only led to the strengthening of the most hard-line factions
of the ruling clique. At the same time, no one wants foreign military
intervention. They only real and effective option is to support
democratic change by the Iranian people and its Resistance
organisation."
In their solidarity messages to the conference, Lord Slynn of Hadley
and Mr. Cherif Bassiouni, two renowned jurists supported the call of
the symposium.
In his message Lord Slynn pointed out: "It is to be remembered that in
the Explanatory Notes attached to Order 2001 of the Terrorism Act 2000,
the UK government clearly stated that the PMOI "has not attacked UK or
Western interests. At an international conference of 500 jurists
from several European countries and the United States in Paris in
November, legal opinions were presented to the effect that the PMOI had
not been shown to be such a group. It seems to Professor de Cara (an
eminent international lawyer in Paris) and to me, on what we have seen,
that there is a strong case for the removal of the PMOI from the
British list of terrorist groups."
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Future of Iran: Oppression or Democracy |
A Report on a meeting organized by the Friends of a Free Iran on Iran and EU's policy on that country
December 15
Maryam Rajavi: Democracy for Iran
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