The Hill News

As a federal appeals court last week ordered the State Department to review its terrorist designation of Iran’s largest opposition group, analysts were quickly examining the political effects of a legal judgment.

The ruling by the three-judge panel left little doubt that the decision to label the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as terrorist by the previous US administration was unjustified. Pointing to the lack of due process provided to the group during the decision-making process the panel ordered the State Department to review the designation, while strongly suggesting that the lack of evidence should lead to the designation being revoked.

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