The Associated Press, Brussels, Belgium, September 16, 2008 (excerpts): A European parliament official says hundreds of lawmakers have joined efforts to remove a prominent Iranian opposition group from the bloc’s terror blacklist.

Alejo Vidal Quadras, a vice president of the European Parliament, says national lawmakers from across Europe are joining with EU assembly members to lobby France, which currently holds the EU presidency, to delist the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or Mujahedeen Khalq.

EU nations have refused to do so even though a British court ruled in May that the group should no longer be considered terrorist.