Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador on Monday in protest against a British court's verdict concerning the removal of a dissident Iranian political organization from the list of terrorist groups, Iran's ISNA news agency reported.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari summoned British ambassador Geoffrey Adams to express the Iranian government's strong protest, the report said.
The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) won a seven-year legal battle on Wednesday 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.
Safari said such a court ruling showed double standard concerning the issue of terrorism and was not "suitable of a European government claiming to confront terrorism."
He also stressed that the British government should take the responsibility of what the court has done.
The British ambassador voiced agreement with Safari's remarks concerning the terroristic nature of the PMOI, saying he would let the British government know of Iran's protest and the British government would never develop relations with this organization, according to the ISNA.
On Thursday, Iran condemned the British court's ruling, saying such a move would promote "terrorism."
Iran "strongly condemns the removal of the Hypocrites (PMOI) from a terrorist list," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said, adding the move "lacked any legal basis and was due to Britain's double standards on the issue of terrorism."
"The massive activities taken by the Hypocrites against the Iranian people and officials are known to everyone" and revoking the ban "will only help to spread terrorism and violence," Hosseini said.
The PMOI was blacklisted by the Western countries, including the U.S. and Britain, due to its terrorist attacks during the past two decades after the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Source:Xinhua
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