AFP BAGHDAD – European states should agree to accept members of an exiled Iranian group whose base in Iraq is being threatened with closure at year-end, the United Nations’ special envoy to Baghdad said on Monday. Martin Kobler also called for the Iraqi government to extend the date of the closure of Camp Ashraf, which…
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The noose tightens around Iranian refugees at Camp Ashraf
The Iraqi government has announced that it plans to close Camp Ashraf, home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents by the end of the year. But the decision has put the international community in a difficult position. During his visit to the US this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has a number of…
An Iranian political agenda exists to force Mujahedin E-Khalq out of Iraq
Aswat al-Iraq BAGHDAD /Aswat al-Iraq – The official spokesman of al-Iraqiya List, led by former PrimeMinister Iyad Allawi, has said on Monday that “there is a politicalagenda, moved by Iran to give an impression for the expulsion of theanti-Tehran Mujahedin El-Khalq organization’s residents from east Iraq’s AshrafCamp.” “Thepolitical agenda is known to be moved by…
SAVING CAMP ASHRAF
THE WASHINGTON TIMES More than 60 members of Congress and a human rights commission named for the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the House are urging President Obama to use his Monday meeting with the prime minister of Iraq to demand he protect Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf. The letters sent to the White…
Iraq’s Looming Massacre of Iranian MEK Refugees
THE DAILY BEAST When the last U.S. troops leave Dec. 31, Iraqi forces will destroy Camp Ashraf, home to thousands of Iranian refugees belonging to the MEK. Geoffrey Robertson on the appalling human-rights tragedy unfolding. The time bomb that is ticking toward a new human-rights disaster is near Baghdad, in a 25-acre compound, where 3,400…