By Xinhua,
Tehran : Iran on Wednesday lashed out at Britain’s decision to remove a dissident Iranian political organization from the list of terrorist groups.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said the British move was “politically motivated” and asked European institutions not to be “influenced” by Britain’s decision.
The British measure “is totally condemnable” and London is “pursuing specific and provisional interests by adopting a policy of supporting terrorist groups,” Hosseini said in a statement.
British lawmakers on Monday formally removed the People’s Mojahed in Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the country’s list of banned terror groups.
The PMOI is blacklisted by the United States and European Union as a terrorist organization due to its terrorist attacks during the past two decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
The group, which was banned in Britain in 2001, won a seven-year legal battle in May when judges at Britain’s Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that the British government was wrong to brand the Iranian opposition group a terrorist organization.