Lord Russel-Johnston, the honorary president to the Liberal group in the Council of Europe says that the exiled Iranian opposition, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, has been included in Europe’s terror organization’s list as a measure meant to appease the regime in Iran, Danish daily Politiken reported.

Angry Iranian youths torched petrol stations in Tehran and long queues formed at fuel pumps after the Iranian regime announced the start of fuel rationing, triggering nationwide protests on Wednesday.

The head of the Turkish armed forces insisted Wednesday on the need for a military incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Turkish Kurd rebels based there, but said he needed the government’s green light to do so.