Supporters attended a rally in support of Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran near Paris on Saturday. (Reuters)

International Herald Tribune, June 29 - PARIS: Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a large weekend rally outside Paris.

Tens of thousands of supporters of the Iranian opposition have attended a rally in France organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

BBC News, June 28 - It is calling for the lifting of international bans on their movement's armed wing, the People's Mujahideen [PMOI / MEK].

By JENNY BARCHFIELD

The Associated Press, 28 June — Thousands of supporters of an Iranian opposition group called on the European Union and the United States to remove the organization from terror blacklists at a massive rally Saturday outside Paris.

More than 70,000 Iranians from the United States and Europe Gathering in Northern Paris Demanded the Removal of the PMOI from the Terror Lists
 
On Saturday, June 28, more than 70 thousand Iranians gathered to pledge their support for the Iranian Resistance and its President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, in the Paris-Nord Exhibition Hall.

In a parliamentary debate in the British parliament that led to deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) in UK on Monday 23 June, Baroness Harris of Richmond, supported the order saying that the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) should have never been proscribed in the first place.

In a parliamentary debate that led to deproscription of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) in UK on Monday 23 june, Lord Clarke of Hamstead called on the British government to urge the European Union to remove the PMOI from the EU's black list.

Monday, 23 June, British lawmakers formally removed the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK), after a seven-year campaign by Iranian opposition group.

By Dan Rabkin
 
Global Politician, 19 June 2008 - Soona Samsami, a leading Iranian women’s rights and pro-democracy activist, joins me for an interview. She is the Executive Director of Women’s Freedom Forum and was the U.S. Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) until its U.S. offices were closed by the State Department in 2003.