THE INDEPENDENT Who remembers the siege of Sarajevo? Today’s world leaders might have forgotten the early 1990s and the four-year encirclement of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Serbian forces. Known as one of the longest sieges in modern warfare, it was also a bloodbath – thousands of lives were lost, many of them…
Author: David Amess MP
It’s time to act on Iran’s nuclear threat
McClatchy Newspapers Since the Nov. 8, 2011, release of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report about Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran has waged an all-out campaign to dismiss the IAEA’s findings, while implicitly threatening the world with a terrorist response. “Iran will respond with full force to any aggression or even threats in a way…
A matter of honor
THE WASHINGTON TIMES America has a duty to protect Camp Ashraf residents from Iran’s vendetta On Oct. 7, 1997, during the Clinton administration, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (POMI/MEK) was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The MEK represents the main opposition group to the Iranian theocracy and…
Kurdistan’s president strikes a positive note in Brussels
www.struanstevenson.com Struan Stevenson, MEP, the President of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq in the European Parliament described the visit by H.E. Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region as constructive for EU strategic relations with Iraq, and particularly Iraqi Kurdistan and looked forward to these relations being expanded in future. Struan Stevenson commended the…
Iraq Wants Ashraf Residents Relocated by End of Year
THE EPOCH TIMES UN envoy appointed to mediate dispute over Camp Ashraf Iraq has declared that it will close Camp Ashraf by Dec. 31 and relocate—using force if necessary—the approximately 3,400 Iranian refugees who live there. Camp residents say they are willing to relocate to other countries but don’t want to be relocated within Iraq,…