In an article in Global Politician, Baroness May Blood, Member of UK House of Lords, asked for removing of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the terrorist list and wrote: Finally, the UK should abandon its fruitless efforts to placate the mullahs and as a first step end its injustice towards the Iranian opposition. This would send a message to the brave people of Iran that the free world is on their side.

In that article entitled “Hear the cry of the people of Iran for freedom”, Baroness Blood wrote: In fact, for the past 15 years the Iranian Resistance has been led by a charismatic woman, Maryam Rajavi.

Mrs. Rajavi, who has been nominated by the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) as interim president for the transitional period following the demise of the current regime, was recently a guest of honor at both the European Parliament and the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, where she outlined her vision of a future free and democratic Iran which would live in peace with its neighbors and offer its citizens equal opportunities and freedom of thought and speech.

Baroness Blood added: The NCRI’s political platform prohibits use of the death penalty and thankfully for us in the West rules out the need for nuclear development. Yet, rather than supporting the brave men and women of Iran to bring about democratic change in Iran, the West has disgracefully sided with their oppressors. In an unfortunate act of appeasement, the UK government and the European Union blacklisted the PMOI in the first half of the decade.

This act is a direct challenge to the people of Iran and has angered European Parliamentarians. In the resolution it adopted last week on rights violations in Iran, the European Parliament also pointed out that two separate courts in the UK and EU had ruled that the PMOI was not terrorist. The resolution recalled the “decision of the European Court of First Instance of 12 December 2006″ that annulled the inclusion of the PMOI in the EU terror list. It also took note of the “decision of the British Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission of 30 November 2007, calling on the British Home Secretary to remove the PMOI from the list of proscribed organizations immediately.”