Tens of thousands rallied in Villepinte, near Parison Saturday (June 30) in support of an Iranian exile group,calling on Western powers to urge democratic changes inTehran.

Thousands rallied Saturday outside Paris to decry a recent European Union decision to keep an Iranian opposition group on a terror blacklist, while a group leader insisted Iran is “on the verge of exploding.”

When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad campaigned for president two years ago, he promised Iranians that he would put the country’s oil wealth “on people’s tables.”