The weekly Sunday Telegraph in an article titled as “EU flouts its own law to appease Iran” emphasizes on necessity of removal of PMOI from the terrorist list.
At the beginning of the article, Sunday Telegraph criticizes the European Union for its appeasement policy toward the Iranian regime: “Recent events have again highlighted the most baffling riddle of our foreign policy. Why, in striking contrast to the new hard line of Washington, is the European Union, led by the British Government, going out of its way to appease the brutal and fanatical regime whose terrorist activities do more than anything else to destabilize the Middle East, from the Lebanon to Afghanistan?”

This weekly, pointing to IRGC designation in the terrorist list, adds: Washington has taken a much more sympathetic line lately to the main Iranian OPPOSITION group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which for 30 years has campaigned for a democratic, secular state, and more than 100,000 of whose supporters have been killed by the Guards.

After a lengthy investigation, the US authorities found no evidence for placing the largest group in the NCRI, the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI), on its list of terrorist organizations.

The Sunday Telegraph added:” All this is in startling contrast to the record of the EU, and our own Government in particular. In 2001, the British Government led the way in proscribing the PMOI (at the bidding of the Teheran regime, as Jack Straw explained last year). When the rest of the EU followed suit, the European Court of Justice last December ruled that it had acted unlawfully.

But in January, at Britain’s behest, the EU’s Council of Ministers agreed to ignore the judgment. A thousand parliamentarians from all over Europe protested, including more than 100 members of our own Parliament, but the Council of Ministers again agreed, in June, to flout the ECJ’s ruling.

Astonishingly, this leaves us not only prohibiting, in flagrant breach of EU law, the chief body that campaigns peacefully for a democratic Iran, but explicitly doing so to appease a regime which itself orchestrates terrorism, supplying the rockets and roadside bombs that are killing British and other allied troops.

Referring to the stances of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance President-elect, Sunday Telegraph continued: “The unlawful decision by the EU on June 28, 2007 to maintain the PMOI on its list of terrorist organizations gave a green light to the regime to expedite the killing of prisoners in Iran. By erecting cranes that bring Iran’s youth to their death, Khamenei, AhmadiNejad and other criminal leaders of this regime have challenged the dignity of humankind.”