a professor of international law at the University of Stockholm, says it will end the MKO’s difficulties in raising funds in Europe.”Even though they had the possibility to contact different political organizations, there were some groups and bodies — particularly some individuals — who, because of the terrorist branding of the group, avoided it and didn’t give it public backing,”Mahmudi says.”Now that the MKO has been removed from the EU terror list, all the groups that are sympathetic to the MKO will be able to support them publicly and help them without any problem,”he adds. Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the group, says that $9 million had been frozen in France alone, with”tens of millions of dollars”worth of assets also locked away in other EU countries.

Referring to the Iraqi government’s decision to expel MKO/PMOI/MEK members from the country, he stressed,”As the Iraqi government officially stated, misled and repentant members of the group could return to Iran or go to another country.”Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwafaq Al-Rubaie said here in Tehran on Wednesday that the MKO will be expelled from Iraq in the near future. Rubaie had also earlier said that his country is determined to implement its decision for closing the MKO headquarters in Diyala province.

… They have to explain for the public opinion that how is that some of their allies sent forces to Iraq to confront terrorism but discuss to exonerate a terrorist group settled there of the charges for which the Iraqi government is determined to expel them. Whose rights are really being violated; the victims or the victimizers? Who knows, maybe they have developed a different version of defining human rights! …

… While Iraq plans to extradite heads of Rajavi cult (MKO/PMOI/MEK)who have”Iranian blood on their hands”, European council is to announce today if they are terrorist no more!! read related news and analysis … Iraq plans to extradite members of an anti-Iran terrorist group who have”Iranian blood on their hands,”Iraq’s national security adviser said Friday during a visit to Tehran. “Among the members of this group, some have the blood of Iraqi innocents on their hands (and) we will hand them over to Iraqi justice, and some who have Iranian blood on their hands we can hand over to Iran,”said Muwafaq al-Rubaie.

Hundreds of Iranian students, pupils and families of veterans of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) staged a protest gathering in Tehran Sunday against the decision by European Union foreign ministers to remove the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) from their list of terrorist organizations. The crowd first gathered in front of the French embassy in Tehran and shouted slogans against France and the EU for their intention to approve the decision in favour of the PMOI at a meeting Monday in Brussels.

The European Union has agreed to remove the notorious Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI) from its list of banned terrorist groups. EU foreign ministers approved a decision to remove the outlawed terrorist group from a list that includes Palestinian Hamas and Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, an unnamed European official was quoted by Reuters as saying.

Iran is mulling over a plan to take terrorist MKO/ PMOI members to court following the European Union’s decision to lift a ban on the group. Iranian lawmakers are devising a plan to try the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK) members who have taken an active part in terrorist activities against the country.