STOP FUNDAMENTALISM Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on both sides of the isle unanimously approved an amendment to a bill that called to protect the 3400 residents of the Iranian dissident Camp Ashraf which is located northeast of Baghdad today, reported AP. The Bill is designed to impose yet harder sanctions on Iran….
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Lawmakers fear Iranian dissidents face assault in Iraq
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Want U.N. to protect Camp Ashraf Nearly three dozen U.S. lawmakers are urging U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to prevent a fresh outbreak of violence at a camp for former Iranian resistance fighters in Iraq. In a letter made public Wednesday, they wrote that residents of Camp Ashraf have been subjected to “deadly…
House committee OKs new penalties against Iran
ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against Iran, arguing that an economically weak Tehran will struggle in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. By voice vote, Republicans and Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee pushed forward two bills that would strengthen current sanctions while expanding the list…
US lawmakers advance new Iran sanctions
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE WASHINGTON — The US House Foreign Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday to toughen sanctions on Tehran over its suspect nuclear program in the wake of an alleged Iranian assassination plot. The panel endorsed the measure by voice vote, with Democrats and Republicans closing ranks in the wake of US allegations that Iranian…
One Thousand Women on the Verge of a Massacre in Camp Ashraf
THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE More than 5 months have passed since Iraqi forces last carried out a brutal attack against a refugee camp in Iraq housing 3,400 Iranian dissidents – 1,000 of which are women. That attack left 36 people dead, including 8 women, and 375 other men and women were left injured. The residents…