THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Coalition urging State Department to take dissidents off terror list For nearly 20 months, the legal status of a dissident Iranian group has remained in limbo, mired in a U.S. State Department review of the association’s official designation as a foreign terrorist organization. A federal appeals court in Washington directed the…
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Camp Liberty: UN is ‘part of the problem’
PUBLIC SERVICE EUROPE The UN’s reputation will be tarnished unless there is an inquiry into the conditions at Camp Liberty and the human rights of Iranian dissidents protected, writes a member of the British House of Lords “To preserve the food from spoiling you use salt; what would you do when the salt itself is…
U.S. turns its back on camp
THECOLUMBIADAILY TRIBUNE Iranian dissidents not terrorists but face abuse in Iraq. No presidential administration wants a crisis in an election year, yet 2012 finds the Obama administration careening headlong into a major showdown with Iran. Tehran just announced it has started enriching uranium at an underground site in Ferdow, near Qom, an ominous sign of…
Iranian opposition group eyes Jordan relocation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — An exiled Iranian opposition group being forced to relocate from its paramilitary base in eastern Iraq proposed on Saturday to temporarily move to the Jordanian border instead of Camp Liberty near Baghdad. Last month, the Obama administration offered to move the group temporarily to Camp Liberty, which once was…
U.S. should protest conditions at Camp Liberty
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL If the United Nations won’t act regarding conditions faced by Iranian dissidents in Iraq, the United States must. LONDON, March 2 (UPI) — The mullahs ruling Iran have had little reason to be happy with the United Nations in recent weeks, being forced to cope with crippling sanctions because of their pursuit…