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Feeding crocodiles 

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/219024-feeding-crocodiles 

It was reported last Wednesday that nine activist members of the Iranian resistance, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) were cleared of charges that, for eleven years, had been pending in French courts. The verdict is the end to a decade-long ordeal that the Iranian opposition and its political umbrella group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have been forced to endure. Perhaps it will finally signal the end of international speculation about the group’s legitimacy.

The Court determined that there was no evidence to support charges of terrorism or financial misconduct against either the nine individuals or any other members of Iranian opposition. Equally important, in handing down the order of dismissal, the French investigative judge took the unprecedented step of affirming the group’s right to resist tyrannical rule and political repression in its native Iran...