SUNDAY TELEGRAPH The week before Christmas, I reported on what appeared to be a fast-looming tragedy. In Iraq, 3,300 unarmed Iranian exiles, who had lived since the 1980s at Camp Ashraf, a neat town they built in the desert near the Iranian border, were being threatened with massacre on December 31. The threat was issued…
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UN hands Iran ‘propaganda fodder’ over Camp Ashraf
Remarks attributed to the UN’s top diplomat in Iraq have handed Tehran a propaganda coup by suggesting Camp Ashraf dissidents want to return to Iran, writes a member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom In 1942, in the middle of World War Two, a well-intentioned senior European diplomat went to meet a top…
The message we need to send Iran
FOX News Several years ago, a political leader from the war torn country of Lebanon observed that in his part of the world it is better to be respected than liked. When it comes to Iran, the U.S. is neither. On the contrary, Iran’s leadership is hateful and disdainful of Western values and the United…
Day 300 of State Department Sit-in: Iranian-Americans Call on Secretary Clinton to Delist the MEK, Protect Camp Ashraf Residents
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Friday, January 27, 2012, marks the 300th day of a sit-in across from the US Department of State by the families and supporters of Camp Ashraf residents. The participants will be asking Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to revoke the unwarranted designation of the MEK based on…
‘Don’t turn Camp Liberty into a prison for Ashraf residents’
Council of Europe Strasbourg, 25.01.2012 – In a statement adopted today at its meeting in Strasbourg, the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on the Iraqi authorities not to turn Camp Liberty into a prison, and called on the UNHCR to begin its work…