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On Thursday, MPs and Peers, at a meeting of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, pressed the US State Department to revoke the designation of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin (PMOI) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) following the D.C. court of appeal ruling in the organisation’s favour last week.

Rt. Hon. Lord Waddington, a former home secretary, said: "The U.S. secretary of state should look at the case with sympathy, and in light of the decision already made in the British courts, come to a swift and just conclusion and free the PMOI from the stigma of terrorism."

Conservative MP David Amess said: "The inclusion of the PMOI on the FTO list is a major impediment to democratic change in Iran. Restricting the force for change in Iran is a strategic mistake in confronting a regime which sponsors terror abroad and is bent on acquiring nuclear weapons."

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