Aswat al-Iraq BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqiya bloc spokeswoman declared today necessity of solving anti-Iranian Ashraf camp residents in a humane behavior as political refugees because they do not carry weapons. MP Maysoun al-Damalouji told Aswat al-Iraq that the bloc sides finding a humanitarian solution to the residents of the camp, coinciding with their…
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Exiled Iran opposition warns of ‘massacre’ if Iraq camp shut
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE PARIS — The leader of an exiled Iranian opposition movement claimed Sunday that moves to close a camp in Iraq housing thousands of her supporters were part of a plot by Tehran to have them killed. Maryam Rajavi, France-based leader of the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, said the Iraqi government’s plan…
Maryam Rajavi: Relocation of Ashraf residents inside Iraq is tantamount to sending them to their deaths
National Council of Resistance of Iran – Press Release The Iranian Resistance is in no way willing to discuss relocation of Ashraf residents inside Iraq unless their protection in the new location is officially guaranteed by the American forces or Blue Helmets of United Nations Following the letter from Iraqi embassy dated 15 November to…
Iraq signs ‘death warrant’ on Iran exiles
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE BRUSSELS – Iraq has served a virtual “death warrant” on some 3,400 Iranian dissidents exiled in a camp north of Baghdad, the head of the European parliament’s delegation for relations with Iraq said Friday. MEP Struan Stevenson said the Iraqi embassy in Brussels had sent a letter to the European parliament tantamount “to…
Talks underway on closing Iran exile camp in Iraq
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BAGHDAD — Negotiations are underway on relocating several thousand exiled Iranian opposition members from a camp north of Baghdad to another location in Iraq, officials said on Friday. The European Union, meanwhile, urged further cooperation between UN negotiators and Iraqi officials in “difficult” efforts to close Camp Ashraf, which has hosted members…