[13:52] 12/May/09
Erbil, May 9 / May (PNA) - According to the administration of President Barack Obama said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will take action in lifting the PMOI Mujahedin of Iran from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations, about two months from the closure of a refugee camp in Iraq.
The U.S. Court of Appeals heard in Columbia on Tuesday to the petition filed by the People's Mojahedin Organization, which seeks to obtain a court ruling forcing the U.S. State Department removed from the list or asked to move in this regard during a specific time period.
The U.S. administration made it clear that the Iranians who belong to the organization started to leave Camp Ashraf in Iraq to a rehabilitation center in a former U.S. military base in Baghdad and the rest were estimated at about 1200 will move in about nine weeks.
Said Robert Loeb, a lawyer and the U.S. Justice Department who represents the administration of the Court of Appeal hearing the appeal that Clinton will take action on the request for adjournment of the PMOI from the terrorism list "within 60 days and no more .. get out of the last group" of the camp.
Loeb said that the U.S. administration is considering carefully whether the MEK has renounced violence, which is fully practiced in the past and given up all weapons. He denied that this evaluation process without end, adding: "We are not talking about world peace," as an objective to determine the fate of the organization.
The Clinton said in February that the transfer of the camp is a "key element" to take the decision to lift the organization from the list of terrorism.
MEK and led a guerrilla war against the late Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, backed by the United States during the seventies included attacks on U.S. targets.
Added to the Organization and the U.S. list of terrorism in 1997, but the organization says it has renounced violence.
PNA
