EU lawmakers: Drop Iranian group from EU terror list

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A European parliament official said on Tuesday that hundreds of lawmakers have joined efforts to remove a prominent Iranian opposition group from the bloc's terror blacklist. Alejo Vidal Quadras, a vice president of the European Parliament, said that national lawmakers from across Europe were joining with EU assembly members to lobby France, which currently holds the EU presidency, to delist the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, or Mujahedeen Khalq. EU nations have refused to do so even though a British court ruled in May that the group should no longer be considered terrorist. MEK and its affiliates were deemed foreign terrorist organizations by the US State Department in 1997. The State Department says they were responsible for the deaths of Americans in the 1970s, among other crimes.