David Amess is Conservative MP for Southend West and a member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom
Europe needs a new policy on Iran - one which actively engages the Iranian people who are longing for genuine change, 30 years after Ayatollah Khomeini brought a reign of terror under the banner of fundamentalist Islam.
Today, Iranians are perhaps the most pro-Western population in the Middle East. But for the past eight years, the European Union has done a great injustice towards the people of Iran and the possibility of engaging Iranian society.
The EU blacklisted the main Iranian Resistance group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), in 2002. The group, which was the first to reveal the regime's nuclear weapons sites in 2002, has by far proven to be the force most feared by the mullahs. Still, EU officials have conceded that they banned the group at the behest of Tehran and in order to win economic contracts from the ruling mullahcracy.
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