EU Takes Iranian Group Off Terror List, But Status Still Disputed
a professor of international law at the University of Stockholm, says it will end the MKO’s difficulties in raising funds in Europe.”Even though they had the possibility to contact different political organizations, there were some groups and bodies — particularly some individuals — who, because of the terrorist branding of the group, avoided it and didn’t give it public backing,”Mahmudi says.”Now that the MKO has been removed from the EU terror list, all the groups that are sympathetic to the MKO will be able to support them publicly and help them without any problem,”he adds. Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the group, says that $9 million had been frozen in France alone, with”tens of millions of dollars”worth of assets also locked away in other EU countries.