UK's 'terror' ban appeal denied
BBC
11-May-2008 (16 comments)

The government has been denied permission to challenge an order that it take an Iranian opposition group off a list of banned terror organisations.

The Court of Appeal ruled an appeals panel was right to order the removal of the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from the blacklist.

The appeals panel had said the PMOI was not "concerned in terrorism" for the purposes of the 2000 Terrorism Act.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she was very disappointed with the ruling.

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Iranians Resistance is...

by Anonymous500 (not verified) on

Logic ala-Mehdi: If PMOI remains in the Terror List, Iran will not be bommbed, Iranian people won't pay with their bloods, abd weapons companies won't win.

If PMOI is taken off the list, Iran will be bombed, Iranian people will suffer and the weapons companies will win big time.

Imagine: according to this character Mehdi and a bunch of other shady Hezbollahies, the PMOI is noting more than an insignificant religious cult that has no popular base and/or support in Iran because it is despised by all Iranians, right? Right.

Now, how in the Hell, this no-entity that is even worse than IRI in all aspects according to these "smarties" suddenly is proped up as the main factor determining the future of Iranian people and "bombing" of Iran by a super power such as the USA, is beyond me.

Can this Agha Mehdi explain to the rest of us how this "tokhmi" logic works? Why when PMOI is on the Terror List everything is good and dandy for Iran (aka his mullah masters), but everything turns bleake when the PMOI is taken off the list?

Let us see how Agha Mehdi will get himeslf out of this mud?


Mehdi

This will help bombing of Iran

by Mehdi on

As the MEK has been working very hard to present a case for bombing Iran, this is another step to increase that effort. Again, arms manufacturers win; people pay with their blood.


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Not much can be said for a

by Mehran from San Ramon (not verified) on

Not much can be said for a supposedly nationalistic movement that gets its accreditation, energy, momentum, money, weapons, resources, green lights for actions and ideas from Iran's historic enemies, namely Iraq and Britain, who have their own plans for an unstable Iran.
On the other hand not much can be said about a country that its strongest and most organized opposition to its ruling Islamic Junta is this other Islamic junta or cult called PMOI.


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The West Regrets dealing

by Anonymousaa (not verified) on

The West Regrets dealing with the mullahs. The 30-year old honeymoon is over.


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De-proscribing the People's

by Anonymous500 (not verified) on

De-proscribing the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran is a great victory for this organization and its many supporters among Iranians at home and in diaspora; this is an historical moment for the PMOI, the NCRI, and those segments of the Iranian Oppositional Forces that truly are dedicated to overthrow this GOH that Khomeini created (the IRI) and fed to his Hezbollahi partisans in Iran and in Europe.

This verdict of the High Appalete Court in Britain shows beyond a shadow of doubt that in democratic socities that the rule of law is supreme, the PMOI will win its case.

Those Hezbollahi "Intellectuals" who call the PMOI a terrorist organization should take a lesson from those honorable British MPs and baristers and learn how to write logical Op-eds rather than repaeting these idiotic and dated dime-a-dozen slogans i.e., the same GOH that Khomeini tried to feed these Hezbollahi with as he was involved in killing Iranian people left and right and looting their national wealth.

The time for regergitating Khomeini's and his diciples slogans is over. The PMOI has won, and the Hezbollahi Arazel Owbash have lost.


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Traitors, terrorists, MKO!

by Anonymous14 (not verified) on

West would regret dealing with this criminal cult
as much as it regretted helping Ben Ladan in 80s.

Rajavi's hubris and opportunism knows no boundries.
He will sell anyything and kills anyone to get to power.


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Shah said we will copy the

by Mehran in San Ramon (not verified) on

Shah said we will copy the West.
Khomeini said we copy the Arabs.
MKO says we will copy whoever pays the most. "Equal opportunity opportunitists!"


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What is "Vatan," anyway?

by Pissed Off (not verified) on

It amuses me when I hear molah lovers talk about "vatan."

As if "vatan" is not the land and the people who occupy it, look at what the molahs and their goons are doing to Iran and Iranians.

Molahs' days are numbered and PMOI is the only force taht can overthrow the molahs.


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offf the

by Anonymousssss PMOI supporter (not verified) on

offf the listttttttt!!!!!!

good days are ahead!!!


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Good News

by Anonymous10 (not verified) on

With all the problems that I have with what MKO has done in the past, I am so happy that finaly there is a difet for the Mullas in Iran. We have not have any good news for Iranian Oposition for a long time! It is about Time!


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Traitors!

by Anonymous11 (not verified) on

No matter what, the name of MKO will remain as a hated cult in the hearts and minds of millions of Iranians. Those who commit crimes against their own people hand in hand with butchers such as Saddam Hossain are condemned to bear the title of terrorists for ever. The matter of fact is that they betrayed their country, killed innocent people both in Iran and Iraq, and deceived thousand of young people to achieve their selfish goals. They are traitors and terrorists no matter if their names are expediently (and temporarily) removed from the list of big players. The sign of disgrace engraved on their foreheads cannot be removed.


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MKO members are vatanfoorsh

by An Iranian (not verified) on

They are terrorists who sided with Saddam in killing Iranians. These bastards eat from both of sides of their mouth and have NO dignity.

They have received money from all sorts of people such as Iraq, Soviets, Americans, and Israeli government. No different than prostitutes.

My mother mentioned these bastards women wore roosari (scarf) and sided with Mullah’s. Now they do NOT like Mullah’s?

Ordinary Iranians and non-Iranians will NOT forget MKO atrocities towards all sorts of people and nationalities including killing Americans during Shah’s time.

Never again, Iranians should get fooled by bunch of vatanfoorshs. Hell with MKO and any other names they have used to cover their coward acts.


alidc

British Courts & Iranian Mojahedin

by alidc on

 It was on Thursday of last week that UK Courts heard the British government’s appeal against MKO case and ordered Her Majesty’s Foreign Office to declassify Mojahedin as a terror group.  And do so swiftly and without further ado!  To me this was a huge international news break. Calling Mojahedin a terrorist group was the hallmark of Europe’s appeasement policy toward Iran.  Now that MKO is no longer a terror organization, a new alternative has been added to West’s tool box in dealing with Iran. This is also a huge victory for Iranians. Never before an opposition had third world had political group dared challenge the supremacy of the great old colonial lion.  It was only Dr. Mosadegh who had once before won an epic international victory over the colonial greed of UK. Iran was awarded her sacred right of ownership of her natural resources. And now Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance won another epic international victory over the same old colonial powers, and over the same old issue, national independence.  What goes on in Iran must be done for and be shaped by the Iranians.     In 2001, Jack Straw the Foreign Secretary, exploiting the pro 9/11geopolitical fallouts, enlisted MKO as a terrorist organization. Soon US and EU followed and this became a hallmarks of the European Solution to the burgeoning Iranian problem. Europeans, using their support among the reformists and other insider elements, were trying to calm and pacify the mullahs toward democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights. Chief among EU members, UK, with her many extended long arms in Iranian affairs, lead the way.  The Constructive Dialogue was the mother of all strategies used by Europeans diplomats to deal with a religioufascist regime that reigned Tehran. Of course and as usual, Brits had to blame it on two things; not having an accountable alternative and fighting the growing influence of Russia & China. All this while the mullahs were running the most barbaric rule on the earth.  Women were stoned to death, hundreds of minors executed, Islamic rules and ethics forced life out of the population, tens of thousands were tortured, over 5,000 political prisoners were massacred in less than a month in summer of 1987 and hence began the one history’s most vicious rules. In the war for freedom, more blood was spilled in Iran from 1979-1989 than after the first 10 years of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Mao’s victory in China in 1948, and the French revolution combined. But yet, the Europeans, treating all this as internal matters, decided to chat with the Iranians, sell them all kind of arms, help them suffocate their opposition (1,000 French paratroopers attacking Mojahedin HQ in France), while selling oil from Iran for the international market and retarding hundreds of billions. Post war Iran was a god given Christmas in desert for them.

 


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British Courts & Iranian Mojahedin

by alidc 2 (not verified) on

It was on Thursday of last week that UK Courts heard the British government’s appeal against MKO case and ordered Her Majesty’s Foreign Office to declassify Mojahedin as a terror group. And do so swiftly and without further ado!

To me this was a huge international news break. Calling Mojahedin a terrorist group was the hallmark of Europe’s appeasement policy toward Iran. Now that MKO is no longer a terror organization, a new alternative has been added to West’s tool box in dealing with Iran. This is also a huge victory for Iranians. Never before an opposition had third world had political group dared challenge the supremacy of the great old colonial lion.

It was only Dr. Mosadegh who had once before won an epic international victory over the colonial greed of UK. Iran was awarded her sacred right of ownership of her natural resources. And now Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance won another epic international victory over the same old colonial powers, and over the same old issue, national independence. What goes on in Iran must be done for and be shaped by the Iranians.

In 2001, Jack Straw the Foreign Secretary, exploiting the pro 9/11geopolitical fallouts, enlisted MKO as a terrorist organization. Soon US and EU followed and this became a hallmarks of the European Solution to the burgeoning Iranian problem. Europeans, using their support among the reformists and other insider elements, were trying to calm and pacify the mullahs toward democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights. Chief among EU members, UK, with her many extended long arms in Iranian affairs, lead the way.

The Constructive Dialogue was the mother of all strategies used by Europeans diplomats to deal with a religioufascist regime that reigned Tehran. Of course and as usual, Brits had to blame it on two things; not having an accountable alternative and fighting the growing influence of Russia & China. All this while the mullahs were running the most barbaric rule on the earth.

Women were stoned to death, hundreds of minors executed, Islamic rules and ethics forced life out of the population, tens of thousands were tortured, over 5,000 political prisoners were massacred in less than a month in summer of 1987 and hence began the one history’s most vicious rules. In the war for freedom, more blood was spilled in Iran from 1979-1989 than after the first 10 years of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Mao’s victory in China in 1948, and the French revolution combined. But yet, the Europeans, treating all this as internal matters, decided to chat with the Iranians, sell them all kind of arms, help them suffocate their opposition (1,000 French paratroopers attacking Mojahedin HQ in France), while selling oil from Iran for the international market and retarding hundreds of billions. Post war Iran was a god given Christmas in desert for them.


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Great News For Iranians!

by Pissed Off (not verified) on

This is great news for Iranians and humanity at large.

Europeans have, at last, understood the danger posed by IRI criminals to the world peace and are acting accordingly.

For years blinded by their short-term profits Europeans had adopted a policy of appeasement towards the Mafia in charge of Iran allowing them to carry out the worst crimes against Iranians.

Congratulations to the millions of members, supporters and sympathizers of POMI!


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PMOI off the list!

by Mehr London (not verified) on

I CONGRATULATE EVERYONE FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE PMOI OUT OF THE TERRORIST LIST. THIS INJUSTICE JUST BECAUSE OF OIL HAD LED TO 7 YEARS OF EXECUTIONS OF PMOI MEMBERS IN IRAN AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO STOOD UP AGAINST THE REGIME!