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BAGHDAD (IRAQ) – “According to reliable information obtained from inside Iran, last month a delegation of the ICRC travelled from Tehran to Baghdad”( NCRI statement *1, May3, 2012) in a plot to persuade residents to break away from the Iranian resistance (MEK) and expatriate to Iran.”
Using sentiments attached to family safety to subject victims to in voluntary confessions and submissions, has been an old habit of tyrants for centuries. Involving a UN body in such scandal to pave the way for a humanitarian catastrophe which is in sharp contrast to the mandate of the body, is, however, unique.
Iranian Intelligence mobilization in Iraq to wipe out or dismantle MEK, the anti-thesis to the fundamentalist regime, is nothing new. The mutation of an apparatus used by Tehran for this purpose is, however, original.
Tehran has had a clear hand in corrupting Iraqi officials during the past. Since 2003, clerical main focus was to gain control over Iraq as a platform to expand Islamic fundamentalism throughout the region. The well-established Qods force with its 13 branches, oversee the Middle East and the Horn of Africa but need a reliable platform to operate command. Iraq provides appropriate parameters for this objective. The MEK presence in Iraq, nevertheless has posed a serious threat to Tehran’s grip and hegemony over the region making MEK annihilation crucial for the ayatollahs.
The U.S. Department of Defense in its March 2009 report to the Congress said, “Tehran has attempted to pressure government officials privately, through media campaigns and through largesse, to adopt pro-Iranian positions on such matters as the U.S.-Iraq SA, provincial elections, and the disposition of the Mujahidin-e Khalq (MeK). The large number of visits exchanged by Iraqi and Iranian officials testifies to the degree of Iranian influence in Iraq.”
Mr. al-Rubaie, the Iraqi National Security Advisor, has clearly admitted in a number of occasions that the main issue in the calls for expulsion or displacement of Ashraf residents has to satisfy Tehran’s satisfaction and its security. On April 2, 2009, he told Al-Forat TV, “We must gradually make their presence in Iraq intolerable. We will transfer them to western parts of the country because we want to take them away from the Iranian border… that these people pose a threat to Iran’s national security.”
The only loophole left for Tehran to resolve a 35-year-old thorn in the throat (MEK) would be a legal justification for a humanitarian catastrophe. Any UN body with the potential for corruption may act as catalysts and best alibi for the tyrants in Iran.
The ICRC and its regional bodies have previous records of corruption as reported by the press, thus the recent press statement by the Iranian opposition expressing grave concern for the well-being of Camp Ashraf residents is not surprising.
In July 2008, a report by Deputy Chief of Mission Patricia A. Butenis, shed light on the organizations’ vulnerability to fair and independent position with regards to humanitarian dilemmas when overshadowed by political conflicts of interest.
According to An internal report from Iran, the ICRC could be “effective” in expatriating MEK members back to Iran. The scheme is to engage newly relocated residents of Camp Liberty, in active isolated interviews, during which the residents are provided with letters and pleas from relatives asking for their repatriation. If proved to be correct, this psychological “persuasion” would be an accomplice to Tehran’s two year psychological campaign inflicted on the camp residents by Iraqi forces. The same tactic was used by the Nazi Gestapo in military concentration camps to inflict maximum disunity among Allied prisoners of war.
The report released by the NCRI quotes the Iranian counterpart in the plot:
“The situation in Camp Liberty is very harsh and like prison which would make people think about their families and return to Islamic Republic. The ICRC’s plan was to take its doctors and help the disabled. But, it was too early and the transfer from Ashraf has not been completed yet. The person responsible for Ashraf in Iraq’s Foreign Ministry promised to do all he can to help and the United Nations agreed too but those responsible in Camp Liberty did not accept. Therefore, we must see what will happen in coming weeks.
In this regard, the help of the ICRC will be effective if it can speak every day with 20 people. If the Government of Iraq (GoI) puts pressure and makes the living conditions harder every day, then they will be forced to return. We have talked to the GoI and UNAMI that if the number of such people is significant, they should create a separate facility for them in Camp Liberty.”
According to the press statement, the UNHCR procession of registering the residents was intently modified to allow ICRC representative contact the refugees without their consent. On April 30, 2012, seventeen residents who were to undergo “identity interviews” by the UNHCR as agreed in the MoI between Iraq and the UN, surprisingly faced ICRC representatives slipping them mysterious letters from their relatives.
Some of the victims of this abuse were related to Mr.Rajabi, who was killed while in Iranian prison, and Faezeh Rajabi slaughtered in the 2011 bloody assault on the camp by Iraqi forces.
Relatives to Ashraf Camp residents say a flood of documents has been given to the ICRC offices; shedding light on Tehran’s manipulating efforts to use ICRC and legitimize crimes against the residents.
Since 2008 the residents have been informing the ICRC of plots to isolate individual residents and force them to reject the organization and expatriate to Iran. The plot had been deliberated by the Intelligence Section of the Qods terrorist organization under direct command of the Supreme Leader, Khamenie.
Obviously according to the plot, the role of a UN body would chime with mediated propaganda suggesting that the residents are “brain washed” and need to be isolated and rehabilitated.
Mr. Sistani, a former political prisoner who escaped from notorious Gohardasht prison last year commented on the recent dilemma of ICRC debacle..
“Representatives of the Iranian Resistance in meetings with the representatives of the ICRC in Geneva and Baghdad warned of the dangers in transferring the protection of the residents of Ashraf from the US to Iraq before the 2009 deadline were implemented. They urged the ICRC to oppose such a transfer. Unfortunately, the ICRC refused to take this crucial position. The result was as depicted from sourced information that the transfer was the first step to give pro-Iranian factions in Iraqi government full control over the Camp. The consequences of this were three atrocious attacks leaving by Iraqi at behest of Tehran, leaving 56 crushed to death and thousands wounded. It paved the way for a destructive two year sieges that turned the beautiful and inspiring city into a concentration camp.
“It was the first time that Iranian agents camped next door to the residents under guise of “relatives”. I would think the clerics managed to accomplish what they could not in Iranian dungeons, through various pretexts: Direct access and torture of escaped opposition members under the nose of the US and the UN.”
Mr. Sistani elaborated on the humanitarian consequences of rogue actions involving any UN body:
“The other side to the silence by ICRC and UNHCR , despite their knowledge of regime involvement in oppressing the residents was despicable and only worsened the situation. More MEK families went under strict pressure in Iran and many received death sentences. Recently there was a death sentenced passed against an MEK supporter Gholamreza Khosravi, 47, for providing financial aid to MEK.
The clerics’ tactic is to RULE using “sharia” laws as pretext to unimaginable bloodshed and coercing UN bodies through chit-chats to legitimize ominous bloodshed. Its’ deceptive nature would fool any one who lacks integrity and rule of law over personal judgment. Unfortunately those under torture in dungeons, their families and relatives in Camp Ashraf are the ones who get the end result. According to contacts, 9 more political prisoners have been transferred to face death, while they are branded as drug traffickers. Ironically, Iran, which sponsors 80% of opium trafficking from Afghanistan, is supposedly an active counterpart to the UN in “drug control.” In this case we can only remember the idiom ‘any good man in an evil society is the most evil of all’.”
Constant approval of Tyrants in Iran would only corrupt even the holiest of men. It is therefore imperative for the UN bodies to restrain from biased decision making and remain committed to genuine International law.
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