AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE WASHINGTON — The US House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday to toughen sanctions on Tehran over its suspect nuclear program in the wake of an alleged Iranian assassination plot. The panel endorsed the measure by voice vote, with Democrats and Republicans closing ranks in the wake of US allegations that Iranian…
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One Thousand Women on the Verge of a Massacre in Camp Ashraf
THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE More than 5 months have passed since Iraqi forces last carried out a brutal attack against a refugee camp in Iraq housing 3,400 Iranian dissidents – 1,000 of which are women. That attack left 36 people dead, including 8 women, and 375 other men and women were left injured. The residents…
Iranian exiles in Iraq fear attack from Iraqi soldiers
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Unarmed Iranian exiles in an Iraqi refugee compound fear another “bloodbath” by Iraqi soldiers after military vehicles rolled into the area late Monday, an Iranian source inside the compound told The Washington Times on Tuesday. “Iraqi army battalions and Iraqi police are preparing to attack Camp Ashraf,” said Shahriar Kia, a spokesman…
Amnesty International urges the Iraqi government to extend deadline for Camp New Iraq residents
Amnesty International is concerned that some 3,250 Iranian long term residents of Iraq who reside at Camp New Iraq, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, are at serious risk of severe human rights violations if the Iraqi government goes ahead with its plans to force the closure of the camp by the end of December 2011….
Iraqi army battalions and police forces are preparing to attack Camp Ashraf
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF RESISTANCE – PRESS RELEASE Click here to watch the video NCRI – At 11 pm last night, a column of Iraqi military vehicles, including at least 30 military vehicles with one column of police vehicles including 10 cars, entered from the main gate of Camp Ashraf with a lot of noise and…