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Iranian exile group demands removal from EU terror blacklist |
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
Agence France Presse - The main Iranian opposition group in exile on Thursday called on the European Union to take its name off the official terror blacklist, accusing it of "an abuse of power".
The EU had given the group 30 days, till Thursday, to put forward its case for being removed from the list.
The People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) duly handed over the letter in Brussels in which its lawyers accused the EU of "flagrant disregard" of an earlier European court ruling. |
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Major powers make progress on Iran UN resolution: US |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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Agence France Presse - The United States reported progress Thursday in talks with five other world powers on a new UN resolution aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program and said work on a text could start next week. |
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Rajavi: Should religious fascism in Iran be allowed to degrade even Europe's judgment and justice? |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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NCRI – “The position adopted by the Council of the European Union on January 30th is absolutely illegitimate and unwarranted, because in its ruling the Court clearly dismissed the terror label against the PMOI. It stressed that no restrictions could be applied against this movement in the framework of combating terrorism. |
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Iran weapons could be part of Iraq talks |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
United Press International -- Iran's supplying of sophisticated explosives to Iraqi insurgents could be brought up at stabilization talks in Baghdad on March 10.
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No bilateral talks with Iran, Syria: White House |
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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Agence France Presse - The White House Wednesday again rejected bilateral talks with Iran and Syria despite agreeing to participate with the two countries in an international security conference on Iraq on March 10. |
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UK: 2000 jurists and MPs call for the removal of PMOI from the terror list |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
NCRI - More than 2000 jurists along with the majority of th House of Commons and 200 Peers from Great-Britain call for the removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the terrorist list.
Their declaration was made public yesterday in a meeting at the British Parliament, organized by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom and the Brithish Lawyers Committee in Defence of the Iranian Resistance. Here is the text of their statement: |
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Pasdaran commander arrested in Iraq, reports |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
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Adnkronos International - US forces have arrested in Iraq a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran)'s Quds Brigade, Mohsen Shirazi, reports said on Tuesday quoting US sources. |
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Call to oppose Iran's nuclear plans |
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
Press Association - Supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have claimed that the mullahs' nuclear advancement was a direct result of appeasement towards Iran by the West.
They rallied opposite the Foreign Office in London and called on the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany to stand firm against the Iran regime and adopt a more forceful resolution imposing comprehensive sanctions including arms, technological, diplomatic and an oil embargo against them. |
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NCRI says firms under UN sanctions were renamed |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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Associated Press -- With the stage being set for a fresh showdown between Iran and Western powers, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies would use the U.N. Security Council and other "available channels" to bring Tehran back to negotiations over its nuclear program. |
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Iran Using Front Companies to Evade Sanctions, Group Says |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
Bloomberg -- Iran has changed the names of companies involved in its nuclear program and has created a new set of front companies to avoid sanctions imposed by the UnitedNations, an exile group said.
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Analysis: Iran, 'a very serious threat' |
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
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United Press International - Iran today poses a five-pronged threat, warned the man who first blew the whistle on the Islamic republic's nuclear program. Iran is "a very, very serious threat to the free world," said Alireza Jafarzadeh, who outlines the dangers posed by the Islamic republic, as he sees them, in his new book, "The Iran Threat: President Ahmadinejad and the coming nuclear crisis." |
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Mahdi army commanders withdraw to Iran to lie low during security crackdown |
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
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The Guardian - Senior commanders of the Mahdi army, the militia loyal to the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, have been spirited away to Iran to avoid being targeted in the new security push in Baghdad, a high-level Iraqi official told the Guardian yesterday. |
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Four ways to act against Ahmadinejad |
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
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The Daily Telegraph – (Excerpts) Diplomatic pressure should be targeted at isolating the president of Iran before further, fateful steps are contemplated, we argued in our leader columns this week. Quite right. But what prospect is there of using the courts to undermine Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? … |
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Iran opposition group holds protest in EU capital |
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Some 250 supporters of Iran opposition group PMOI waved flags with a red fist and rifle logo in front of the EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday (14 February) calling for PMOI to be taken off the EU terrorist list, as the EU and US explore new ways to pressure nuclear-hopeful Tehran. |
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