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Iran Focus
 London, Dec.
13 – Several hundred British lawmakers called Tuesday on the government of
Prime Minister Tony Blair to abandon engagement with Iran’s religious
leaders and remove the main Iranian opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK), from the United Kingdom’s proscribed organisations list.
The announcement came in a parliamentary press conference, where several
British lawmakers from the three major political parties spoke in favour of the MeK.
A statement signed by 405 lawmakers, including 279 Members of Parliament
and 126 Peers, called for the “removal of the terror label against the [MeK]”. It described the label as the “the most
important impediment” to democratic change in Iran.
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, who chairs the British Parliamentary Committee
for Iran Freedom which organised the conference,
told participants, “The only reason the [MeK] was
proscribed was in a shabby deal to please the mullahs. The policy of
appeasement is in ruins as Iran
moves nearer to developing nuclear weapons and continues its gross
interference in Iraq”.
Maryam Rajavi,
President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition
which includes the MeK, described the statement
as the “voice of the people of Great Britain
calling for change in the policy towards Iran”.
“Through this statement, Parliament is showing its support for taking the Mojahedin off the terror list. Parliament wants an end
to the policy of appeasement of the mullahs. It declares support for
democratic change by the people of Iran and the Iranian
Resistance”, Rajavi told the conference via a
live satellite link.
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