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{mosimage}Global Politician, By Malcolm Fowler: On Wednesday, January 23, 2008 the Council of Europe voted on a resolution in relation to the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) terror blacklists. The report and the resolution in turn were a damning indictment of the way in which individuals and groups are blacklisted within the EU and UN.

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{mosimage}Reuters - Terrorist blacklists drawn up by the United Nations and the European Union violate basic human rights, a Swiss investigator working for Europe's leading human rights forum has said. In a report released on Sunday, Dick Marty highlighted the case of the People's Mujahideen of Iran, which forms part of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and is on an EU blacklist despite a European Court ruling in 2006 saying it should be removed from the list.

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{mosimage}Daily Telegraph - By Daniel Hannan MEP: One of the many tragic consequences of the Iraq war is that it has made it harder to act against Iran. The geographical and alphabetical proximity of the two countries tempts us into false comparisons.

  1. Iranian opposition could hold the key
  2. Politicking the terror list
  3. Let’s undo the concessions to Iran
  4. Iran’s third option: A front seat at the next revolution