On invitation of the Canadian Committee of Friends of Democratic Iran, a parliamentary session titled “Iran’s Challenges” was held in Canadian Parliament on Thursday, November 20, 2008.

In this session that was held on the second day of re-opening of Canadian Parliament after that country’s new elections, a number of parliamentarians and their advisors participated. In their speeches, they supported the third option of the Iranian Resistance for democratic change in Iran. They regarded the unjust terrorist tag against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) an obstacle to the Iranian people’s just resistance and asked for annulment of this labeling. The speakers emphasized that along with parliamentarians of other countries, the Canadian parliamentarians could have a determining role in accomplishment of democratic change in Iran.

Mrs. Raymonde Folco, Canadian Member of Parliament, delivered her speech and described the history and reasons of terrorist designation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). She said: “The purpose of this session is to emphasize the removal of the PMOI as the Iranian regime’s biggest democratic opposition from list of terrorist organizations.”

Addressing the parliamentarians, Paul Forseth, former Canadian MP and Co-chair of the Canadian Committee of Friends of Democratic Iran, referred to the importance of their role in correction of the mistake that led to the unjust terrorist designation of the PMOI. He said “Iran has turned into an international problem today. Exportation of terrorism and threatening other countries, in addition to other cases like murder, torture, and execution of citizens, demands that we stand against this regime and defend the PMOI’s democratic opposition