Washington, June 3 (ANI): A US court has ordered Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to decide within four months whether a dissident Iranian group should be removed from the US terror blacklist.
The US Court of Appeals in Washington said the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) had been left in 'administrative limbo' by Clinton.
Clinton had not ruled on its petition to be removed from the terror list in 600 days, despite being given only 180 days to do so by the US Congress.
The court gave Clinton four months to rule or it would issue a so-called writ of mandamus order and remove the group from the list itself, The BBC reports.
The court, however, refused to take that step immediately, citing 'national security and foreign policy concerns'.
The MEK, also known as the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), had asked the court to give Clinton just 30 days to decide.
It says its presence on the list puts members living in Iraq under threat.
The MEK led a guerrilla campaign against the US-backed Shah of Iran during the 1970s and also opposed Iran's clerical leaders who replaced the Shah. (ANI)
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