In an article in Asharq al-Awsat daily, Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former prime minister of Algeria, criticized European governments because of not abiding by the verdicts of European Court of Justice and the Proscribed Organizations Appeal Court (POAC) and emphasized that the price of ” politics instead of justice” is paid not only by the Iranian people but by the people of Iraq and the whole region.

The article entitled “Justice or Interests? and who is going to pay this heavy price?” reads: As an Arab citizen and a former political official in Algeria what is going on between the European governments particularly and the Western countries generally with Arabic and Islamic world is important to me. Therefore I have paid attention to what the Iranian Resistance and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) do. Undoubtedly, the Arab reader knows that terrorist labeling is the most effective instrument for limiting opposition forces and this is what has happened to the Iranian opposition; terrorist designation of the Iranian opposition in the US and European lists has restricted PMOI’s activities and has stopped it to perform its political, cultural and humanitarian duties.

Former Algerian Prime Minister added in his article: Iran is undoubtedly on the verge of change; a change that Iran’s history and people deserve, and the only real change that we could think of and try for is the democratic change by the Iranian people. And the only party that calls for such a change and is trying its efforts for that and is capable of bringing that about , is the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance; as long as the West has blocked and limited this force, it means that it has obstructed such a change in Iran.

Sid Ahmad Ghozali added: Even if we imagine that at this time West accepts the Court verdict and removes the PMOI off the terrorist list, this question remains that who will pay the price of the European countries not abiding by the verdict of their own court; because the price was very heavy not only for the Iranian Resistance, but for the Iranian people too; a policy that not only the Iranian people, but also the people of Iran and the people of Arab countries as well as the people of the world in general will have to pay the price for it.