Addustoor (Jordan), 1 Oct 2012 – Thousands of Iranian dissidents from the People’s Mojahedin Organization celebrated yesterday the removal of their organization from the US black list of ‘terrorist’ organizations.
Iranian dissidents with yellow-colored clothing in Auver-sur-Oise near Paris, the headquarters of the Iranian dissident organization, gathered and celebrated their “great victory”.
“This is the victory of justice and the law against injustice and demonizing measures, a historic pride for all Iranian people and the biggest defeat for the velayat-e faqih regime in its face-off against the Iranian people and resistance during the past three decades” President Maryam Rajavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (Iranian opposition in exile) said.
“Now, following this delisting, there is no pretext or excuse to deny the rights of PMOI members,” she added.
“The US no longer has any excuse to deny the rights of Ashraf and Liberty residents,” said Maryam Rajavi, ‘President-elect of the National Council of Resistance for the period of transition of sovereignty to the Iranian people’, in a reference to the location where these Iranian dissident refugees in Iraq live.
“The US must seek the recognition of Liberty as a refugee camp and call on Iraq to lift any restrictions on freedom of movement, access to lawyers and also limitations on the residents’ right to moveable and immovable properties,” she said.
Leila, a 65-year old Iranian taking part in the celebrations described it as “a great victory.”
This physician, jailed and tortured in Evin Prison in Iran from 1981 to 1985, said, “The mullahs can no longer use the black list as an excuse to kill our people.”
On Friday the US removed this group of dissidents from its black list of ‘terrorist’ organizations.