Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union rejected France’s appeal against the General Court’s judgment in favor of PMOI, recommended to 13 Judges of the Court to reject it
Miss Eleanor Sharpston considered French government’s appeal against the General Court’s judgment removing the PMOI from the EU terrorist list as unacceptable. She endorsed the General Court’s judgment and asked 13 judges of the Court not to accept the appeal.Miss Eleanor Sharpston considered French government’s appeal against the General Court’s judgment removing the PMOI from the EU terrorist list as unacceptable. She endorsed the General Court’s judgment and asked 13 judges of the Court not to accept the appeal.
Maryam Rajavi, said: The judgment of the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union on July 14 once again turned the direct and indirect efforts of the religious fascism ruling Iran for unjust designations and illegitimate allegations against the Iranian Resistance into a major fiasco. The judgment was also a testimony to the righteousness and legitimacy of the Iranian people’s Resistance. She added: Today, those in Europe and the U.S., who in a bid to appease the mullahs ruling Iran, have enchained the Iranian Resistance, worsened the suffering and pains of the Iranian people, and lengthened the life of terrorist fundamentalists should be held accountable. After the judgment of the European General Court on December 4, 2008 which decisively ruled to remove PMOI from the EU’s list, the European Union Council implemented the Court’s decision by removing the PMOI from the list. However, the French government, individually and without the consent of the EU Council and its 26 other member states, appealed the decision to the European Union Court of Justice. Thereby, France sought to salvage the shameful June 17 dossier that it had initiated at the behest of the mullahs’ regime with the pretext of the terrorist list. To achieve this, it tried –in a vicious cycle– to present this very same dossier as evidence for keeping the PMOI on the terror list; an absurd reasoning scorned by all jurists. This is the same dossier that last May, the French judges dismissed it forever through their decisive judgment and by underscoring that the Iranian Resistance’s activities, neither inside Iran nor in Ashraf, had anything to do with terrorism. The session of the Court of Justice convened at the Court’s headquarters in Luxemburg on September 2010, in presence of 13 judges and the Advocate General to review France’s appeal.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 14, 2011
