Iranian resistance wins ruling against UK ban

LONDON-An Iranian resistance group claimed victory on Wednesday in a seven-year legal battle when three top judges upheld a ruling that the British government was wrong to ban it as a terrorist organization.The judges at the Court of Appeal threw out a government challenge to a ruling last November that its refusal to remove the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from its list of proscribed terrorist organizations was perverse.The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Nicholas Phillips, said the appeal bid by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had "no reasonable prospect of success", and added: "The appropriate course is to dismiss her application."Maryam Rajavi,(picture left) head of the PMOI's political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told Reuters:"The ruling proves the terror label against the PMOI was unjust."In a telephone interview from Paris, she said:"Western governments and the UK owe the Iranian people and the resistance an apology for this disgraceful labeling. It's time for them to recognize the Iranian people's struggle for democracy."Removal from the British list will unblock frozen assets of the PMOI and enable it to raise funds from supporters in Britain, Rajavi said, adding that she hoped the ruling would lead to the end of similar sanctions by the European Union.Britain and the EU should recognize and open negotiations with the Iranian resistance, she said."Regime change by the Iranian people and organized resistance is the only option to confront the increasing threat of the mullahs' regime."
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