-We see it as part of our civics studies, principal Göran Hedman told TT.

An Iranian organisation in Örebro [The Iranian Society in Örebro] offered to arrange a bus trip to Brussels for four days and stand for the major part of the costs, said the principal.

We also took money from the competence development fund and school funds for field trips, and the students were given food money that otherwise would have been used for the same purpose at school.

Only students from the ninth grade were allowed to accept the offer which 65 of the hundred asked did. They had at the time heard about Iran’s nuclear plans and the dictatorship in Iran from a newly hired teacher [Mojtaba Ghotbi] with an Iranian background, said Göran Hedman.

-And they really didn’t like what they heard about nuclear arms. They wanted to demonstrate against that.

The principal is aware of the Mujahedin being called a terrorist organisation but has heard from the newly hired teacher that the accusation is false.

In reality the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) are branded as terrorists by the American State Department and the EU because of its history of murder, bomb attacks and embassy occupations.

For a long time the MKO had their headquarters in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq but ended up in difficulties after the American invasion last year. Today the organisation’s center, 3800 members, is based in the north of Baghdad under American surveillance.

The MKO is a curious blend of Marxism and Islam. After last year’s problems with the American invasion the organisation is gathering new strength. Observers think that the MKO can be used by the USA against the regime in Tehran. This has given the members that are situated in Europe an impulse to intensify their agitation against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A big effort has been made to get members, activists and others to go along to Brussels on Monday. Outside the EU’s foreign ministers’ meeting the MKO is to demonstrate against Iran’s supposed plans to get nuclear weapons – that the country itself denies – and demands that the Mujahedin should be cleansed from terrorist accusations.