EUROPEAN VOICE An agreement between the UN and the Iraqi government on the treatment of Iranian dissidents is not being respected. Martin Kobler, the special representative of the United Nations‘ secretary-general in Iraq, will visit Brussels on Wednesday to address the European Parliament’s foreign-affairs committee. At that meeting, he will hear of the grave…
Author: Alejo Vidal-Quadras
Faceless State Department Official Courts Favour With Iranian Tyrants
THE HUFFINGTON POST (UK) Casting a slur on Fellow Americans who speak up for Tehran’s victims Blaming the victim has been the strategy of oppressors as far back as anyone can remember. Now, in the ongoing struggle to protect the 3,400 Iranian dissidents trapped in Iraq, the strategy has taken an even more perverse turn…
Slandering the Opposition; The Dirty Trick That Works No More
THE HUFFINGTON POST (UK) Camp Ashraf is home to 3,400 members of the main Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK) since 1986, as the clerical regime’s wave of executions in Iran forced the Iranian opposition to exile in Iraq through Paris. The PMOI is the pivotal force of the broad coalition of…
Parliamentarians condemn smear campaign by State Department official
IRAN FOCUS LONDON – PRNewswire – In a letter to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today, the IPCDA expressed its ‘outrage and dismay’ at recent statement by an anonymous US official regarding the situation in Camp Liberty, and his attempts to tarnish the image of senior former US officials who are demanding respect…
Iranian exiles decry conditions at new Iraq camp
IRIN (the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) BAGHDAD, 12 March 2012 (IRIN) – Some 3,500 Iranian dissidents in Iraq – members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) opposed to Iran’s current government – are protesting their transfer to a new camp on the outskirts of…