REUTERS NEWS AGENCY WASHINGTON — Call it the coalition of the baffled — a diverse group of prominent public figures who challenge the U.S. government’s logic of keeping on its terrorist blacklist an Iranian exile organization that publicly renounced violence a decade ago and has fed details on Iran’s nuclear programme to American intelligence. On…
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Dean calls al-Maliki a ‘mass murderer’
The Washington Times Blames prime minister for an attack that killed 35 refugees in settlement A former head of the Democratic Party called the prime minister of Iraq a “mass murderer” on Tuesday and accused him of ordering a bloody attack on disarmed Iranian dissidents under international protection. “The truth is the prime minister of…
Iran, Iraq sign agreements on Iranian opposition
ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran – Iran and Iraq on Sunday signed agreements to return each others’ detainees, which could lead to the forced repatriation of an Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, Iranian state TV reported. The countries’ respective justice ministers signed agreements that including provisions for the repatriation of each others criminals and convicts…
As al-Maliki Government Embarks on Disinformation Campaign, 12 Critically Wounded in Camp Ashraf Face Death; U.S. & UN Must Intervene
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, April 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — At least 12 residents of Camp Ashraf, wounded, mostly suffering from severe gunshot and shrapnel injuries, during the Iraqi Army’s deadly and unprovoked April 8, 2011 attack on the unarmed residents, will die absent urgent specialized medical care. Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, is home to nearly 3,400…
Rights groups call on UN to protect Iranian exile camp
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Human rights groups called Wednesday on the United Nations to protect an Iranian exiles’ camp in Iraq, after a deadly Iraqi army raid. “The UN has acknowledged the death of 34 people but no efficient measure of protection has been taken,” said Nils de Dardel, from the Swiss lobby group Committee of…