THE WASHINGTON TIMES Struan Stevenson, a leading member of the European Parliament, sounded desperate as he appealed to the Obama administration to prevent a “human catastrophe” among Iranian exiles in Iraq. “America is leaving behind the biggest mess I’ve ever seen,” he told Embassy Row this week, complaining about President Obama’s decision to pull out…
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Tehran’s Anti-MeK Propaganda Machine
THE NATIONAL INTEREST If disinformation is defined as deliberate and covert efforts to plant false information to bias media reporting and intelligence collection, the UN’s Durban conferences constitute a prime example. Although organized around an “anti-racist” agenda, they focus on ways to delegitimize Israel and are an icon of intolerance. A participant in the Durban…
MEPs call for a reprieve for refugees in Ashraf
REUTERS Strasbourg, Oct. 26 (Reuters) – The evacuation of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, home to some 3,400 Iranian dissidents, should be postponed to avoid a massacre, said Wednesday the president of the Delegation of European Parliament for Relations with Iraq. The Iraqi government, which requested the closure of the camp, located 65 km northeast of Baghdad,…
British MPs demand U.N. protection at Camp Ashraf
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LONDON, Oct. 26 (UPI) — Cross-party Members of Parliament and Peers as well as prominent jurists at a parliamentary meeting Tuesday in London called on the United Kingdom, European Union and the United States to urgently propose a draft text to the U.N. Security Council approve the stationing of blue-helmet U.N. security…
Sub-Humane Conditions Await Iranian Asylum Seekers in Camp Liberty
On Friday, February 17, 2012, as a goodwill gesture, 400 Iranian dissidents residing in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, many with families and relatives in the United States, began their relocation from Camp Ashraf, their home of 25 years, to Camp Liberty, a former U.S. military base near Baghdad international airport. They volunteered for this transfer…