On Tuesday, Feb. 5, the US independent magazine ‘Global Politician’ in an article written by Mark Williams, UK Member of Parliament from the Liberal Democrat party and one of the Shadow Ministers of his party since 2006, pointing out : “The best solution is real democratic change in Iran. Britain and the EU must stop hindering the democratic Iranian Resistance as it strives for change.”
The article continues, the British Government must now accept that it was wrong to blacklist the PMOI and remove the group from the proscribed organisations list. It should also urge the UN Security Council to impose comprehensive economic, arms, technological and oil embargo against the Iranian regime.
The best solution is real democratic change in Iran. It is after all the people of Iran who have paid the greatest price for years as diplomatic initiatives took place by EU officials with Iran ’s ruthless rulers.
Britain and the EU must stop hindering the democratic Iranian Resistance as it strives for change. In 2001, at the behest of the regime, then Home Secretary Jack Straw banned the main democratic Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). In 2002, and as Foreign Secretary, Mr Straw was successful in urging the EU to freeze the PMOI’s assets.
The PMOI, 120,000 of whose members and supporters have been executed by the regime, was the first to blow the whistle on the mullahs’ ominous nuclear projects, exposing key nuclear sites including Natanz, Arak and Lavizan-Shian. The group, which has several thousand members near the Iranian border in Iraq , has garnered significant support among Iraq ’s Shiite, Sunni, Kurdish and even Christian population. It has the support of a large number of Parliamentarians across Europe.
In December 2006, the Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance of the European Communities handed down a landmark judgement, annulling the EU’s decision to impose a ban on the PMOI. To its shame, however, the British Government has since persuaded the EU to defy the court ruling.

Mark Williams is a Member of UK Parliament for the Ceredigion constituency from the Liberal Democrat party. He sits on the Welsh Select Affairs Committee, and has been a Shadow Minister for Wales under Menzies Campbell since 2006.