On Friday Dec. 14, the U.K. special court of POAC refused unanimously the British government’s appeal against the court’s order to the Home Office minister to lift a six-year ban on an Iranian opposition group, taking the PMOI one step closer to official legitimacy in the U.K., a lawyer assisting the legal team said.

“It’s very significant because they didn’t even allow a hearing to take place on the basis that the law says that there must be reasonable grounds for success,” he added.

The U.K. government has one last channel for appeal – it can make an application to the U.K. court of appeals, but the strong judgment from the commission in November makes that step less likely, Zabeti said.

Mrs. Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, congratulated this victory to the PMOI members in Ashraf an the leader of Resistance and said: “the court’s refusal of appeal by the Home minister doubles the need for implementing the court’s ruling for removing the bans from the PMOI.