| Thousands rally in France in support of Iranian resistance group |
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International Herald Tribune, June 29 - PARIS: Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a large weekend rally outside Paris.
 Supporters attended a rally in support of Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran near Paris on Saturday. (Reuters) International Herald Tribune, June 29 - PARIS: Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a large weekend rally outside Paris. The National Council of Resistance of Iran - an umbrella group based in Paris that includes the blacklisted People's Mujahedeen, or PMOI [MEK] - held the rally at an exhibition center in the northern suburb of Villepinte just days after Britain removed the group from its list of banned terrorist organizations. A leader of the National Council, Maryam Rajavi, said the status of the member group in the United States and the EU was hindering its ability to fight for regime change in Iran. In a speech at the rally Saturday, she called the terrorist labels "unjust." "Do not deprive the world of the most effective means to combat the religious fascism and terrorism," Rajavi said. "Instead, side with those who can bring the Iranian people freedom." Although the People's Mujahedeen participated in the Islamic Revolution in Iran, it later became opposed to the clerical government. Members of the group moved to Iraq in the early 1980s and opposed the Iranian government from there until the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. American troops have since disarmed thousands of members of the group, which says that it renounced violence several years ago. The National Council that said more than 70,000 people had attended the rally, including many bused in from neighboring countries in Europe. Some participants arrived from the United States, Canada and countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa, it said. There was no independent confirmation of the organization's crowd estimate. British lawmakers removed the People's Mujahedeen [PMOI /MEK] from the country's terror list last Monday, giving it more freedom to organize and raise money in Britain. Fifteen British lawmakers came to France for the rally, including former Home Secretary David Waddington, organizers said. Waddington said in a speech at the rally that the British decision was "an important step" and that he had attended to "celebrate." "Now the PMOI [MEK] can get on with its work," he said later in an interview by telephone.
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Supporters attended a rally in support of Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran near Paris on Saturday. (Reuters)
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Mayors and members of city councils,
Dear friends of Iranian resistance,
We have gathered here as a good tradition, like every year, to start the New Year with our closest friends of the Iranian Resistance to wish for a happy year ahead.
This is also an opportunity for us to express our gratitude for your loyal and lasting friendship in a hard struggle.
But I believe that we are not here just to exchange greetings an good wishes, rather, to inspire hopes that are based on realities which have already started to materialize.
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Delfi, November 11 - The leader of the Iranian opposition in exile Maryam Rajavi arrived Sunday evening in Tallinn. A large number of her compatriots living in Scandinavia came to welcome joyfully shouting: "Welcome!" Tunne Kelam MEP and MP Juku-Kalle Raid were among the dignitaries who welcomed her.
Juku-Kalle Raid told Delfi that Maryam Rajavi came to Estonia on their call for a three-day visit, she has planned a series of meetings, including with members of parliament.
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TSR Info.ch, the newspaper, September 22:The situation in Iran is explosive. Popular discontent is huge against the clerical regime and there are many events each and every day happening in every city, i.e. last week in Tabriz and Orumieh, there was a major protest and many arrests.
There have been lots of public hangings as of late throughout Iran, and despite enormous obstacles and many difficulties, the Iranian people continue their protests against the Tehran regime.
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The New Year will the year of mullahs' overthrowIn a ceremonie at Auvers-sur-Oise for celebration of the Iranian new year, . Maryam Rajavi, congratulated all Iranians, political prisoners, families of martyrs, and supporters and members of the Iranian Resistance, especially PMOI members in Ashraf and Camp Liberty, on the occasion of the coming of spring of 1392 and wished that this would be the year of mullahs’ regime downfall and realization of freedom and democracy in Iran.
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She noted that the year that ended was a year of crises, deadlock and wretchedness for the mullahs and that the New Year would be the year of downfall of mullahs.
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PARIS, April 3, 2013 / On Tuesday April 2,a celebration on the occasion of Iranian New Year, Nowrouz, was held in the French National Assembly's Questure Hall. Members of Parliament representing various parliamentary groups participated in this celebration initiated by the French Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran (CPID). Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was the special guest of this event that was chaired by Mr Dominique Lefebvre, the President of French Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran.
French parliamentarians supported the Iranian people's resistance for the establishment of human rights and democracy in Iran and expressed the hope that the Iranian New Year would be the year of great change in Iran, the end of religious dictatorship and the establishment of democracy and freedom for the great people of Iran.
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