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LONDON, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Majority members of both Houses of the British Parliament have given their support to the Iranian Resistance and the long-suffering residents of Camps Liberty and Ashraf in Iraq. The statement issued by parliamentarians comes ahead of a major gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 22, to call for democratic change in Iran. The event in Paris, 'Onward to Freedom', will be attended by several hundred dignitaries and lawmakers...

PARIS, May 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Targeting the victim instead of the henchman "U.S. plans to move Iranian exile group out of Iraq hit snag" (The Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2013), we wish to make the following observations in response: 1) The article refers to the "State Department's decade-long effort to find a new home" for the main Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Nothing could be...

PARIS, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Danielle Mitterrand-France Libertes Foundation welcomed on Wednesday, May 22, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi and a delegation of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) who offered the Foundation a bust of Danielle Mitterrand in gratitude to a long friendship of 30 years with the Iranian people and its resistance for democracy and fundamental freedoms. Paying tribute to "a protective sister" always present alongside members and...

PARIS, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Tuesday April 2, a celebration on the occasion of Iranian New Year, Nowrouz, was held in the French National Assembly's Questure Hall. Members of Parliament representing various parliamentary groups participated in this celebration initiated by the French Parliamentary Committee for a Democratic Iran (CPID). Mrs Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was the special guest of this event...

BRUSSELS, September 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Statement of the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ): With the announced decision for the removal of the Iranian democratic opposition - the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) - from the U.S. black list and informing the Congress of this decision, we expect official announcement of this decision by the U.S. State Department in the upcoming days. This is a major political achievement...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, over twenty major Iranian-American organizations across the United States released a joint statement representing tens of thousands of Iranian Americans throughout the United States. They welcomed the decision by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for notifying the US Congress that she has removed the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) under...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR), representing thousands of Iranian-Americans whose loved ones are facing a humanitarian crisis as refugees in Camp Liberty in Iraq, welcomes the reported decision by Secretary Hillary Clinton to remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The delisting of the MEK, which all patriotic Iranians in Iran and across...

PARIS, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Maryam Rajavi: The only way to stop Iran building a nuclear bomb or unprecedented conflict and crisis triggered by the mullahs is regime change by the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance At an international conference by the French Committee for a Democratic Iran (CFID) held in Paris on Saturday, March 24, speakers from the United States and Europe stressed the need for a firm policy...

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The head of an exiled Iranian opposition group accused Western nations on Wednesday of appeasing Tehran with incentives to halt uranium enrichment that she compared to moves to placate Hitler before World War Two. Maryam Rajavi, leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said she had clear indications that Tehran would not give up its enrichment activities and that diplomatic efforts by the European Union and the United States to avert a...

By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States can designate foreign organizations as terrorist groups and bar Americans from financially backing them, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. "Leaving the determination of whether a group is a 'foreign terrorist organization' to the executive branch ... is both a reasonable and a constitutional way to make such determinations," Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote for a three-judge panel. "The Constitution does not forbid...