French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government.
Speaking to members of a parliamentary committee on Iran [1], Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran [2](NCRI), said it was time her group was taken seriously as a force for democracy in Iran.
"The biggest political error in the West is to ignore the key movement of change in Iran," Rajavi told the conference.
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[1] //www.reuters.com/places/iran
[2] //www.reuters.com/places/iran?lc=int_mb_1001