Germany bans Iranian opposition protest in Berlin
Laptop Battery Thursday, 10th February 2005
DPA
BERLIN - Police in the German capital on Thursday banned a demonstration called by an Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Officials said the group - which seeks the ouster of the Teheran government - planned to use the rally to build support for the Iranian People's Mujahedin-e Khalq which has been declared a terrorist organisation by the European Union.
Germany's domestic security agency, the Verfassungsschutz, says the People's Mujahedin-e is merely a wing of the National Council of Resistance (NCR).
Organisers from the NCR accused the German government of a "dirty deal" with France which banned a similar rally in Paris earlier this month.
The NCR said in a statement that 40,000 people had planned to attend the Berlin rally which was to have taken place at the historic Brandenburg Gate.
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