CBS News Iranian-American protestors have set up camp directly in front of the White House. They’re urging President Obama to intervene on behalf of an Iranian enclave inside Iraq. They’re condemning what they describe as a brutal attack on 3,400 Iranians living in a camp north of Baghdad. They are members of the People’s Mojahedin…
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Iranian Dissidents’ Fate in Iraq Shows Limits of U.S. Sway
THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON — Last September, Gen. David H. Petraeus told reporters in Baghdad that the United States had been assured by the Iraqi government that the 3,400 Iranian dissidents in a camp in eastern Iraq would continue to be protected after the Americans turned over responsibility for the camp to Iraqi forces….
Medical team visits Iranian exile camp in Iraq
ASSCOIATED PRESS BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says a team of medical professionals is evaluating the wounded at an Iranian exile camp north of Baghdad where two days of clashes with Iraqi police left at least seven dead. The military said Friday in a statement that the medical team evacuated the most seriously wounded…
US to investigate Iraqi raid on Iranian camp
The Christian Science Monitor The violent raid on Camp Ashraf Tuesday is seen as an assertion of Iraqi sovereignty – and of Iran’s growing influence on its neighbor. Washington – The US is investigating a raid by Iraqi security forces on a camp of thousands of Iranian dissidents in northern Iraq earlier this week that…
Iraq Mounts Attack on Iranian Dissidents
CBS NEWS No Longer Protected by U.S. Forces, Iranian Camp within Iraqi Borders Brutally Sieged – With Iran’s Approval (CBS) – When the U.S. began turning over security to the Iraqis, it stopped protecting some valuable allies – thousands of Iranian exiles living in Iraq. Left alone, their camp outside Baghdad is now under attack….