France Drops Money Laundering Case Against Iran Dissident Group
French prosecutors have dropped a decade-old investigation into alleged money laundering by Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, an Iranian dissident group. The probe and all charges have been dropped, MEK’s lawyer William Bourdon said by telephone. French police raided MEK’s headquarters near Paris in June 2003 and arrested 160 people. All were released within two weeks and 24 people were charged. The MEK, which opposed both the Shah of Iran and the Islamic regime that overthrew him in 1979, was removed from the U.S.’s list of terrorist organizations in ...
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