DPA Brussels – The European Union on Saturday asked the Iraqi government to let international observers into a compound belonging to an Iranian opposition group, a day after clashes with Iraqi forces left several people dead. The EU has continuously and repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to refrain from the use of violence and…
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Iran Rebel Deaths Blamed on Iraq
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The U.S. State Department and Iraq’s government came under pressure from Congress Saturday over an Iraqi military attack on the camp of a controversial Iranian resistance movement that appears to have killed dozens. The movement, the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, known as the MEK, said Saturday the death toll from…
Massacre at Camp Ashraf, USCCAR Statement No. 2: At least 20 Residents Killed as Iraqi Forces Launch Deadly Assault on Camp Ashraf
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The assault by 2,500 Iraqi forces against 3,400 unarmed residents of Camp Ashraf that began at 4:45 am local time Friday, April 8, has left at least 20 residents, including four women, killed and dozens wounded. The names of 11 of those killed are as follows: Nasser Sepahpour,…
Gates Urges ‘Restraint’ as Iraqi Forces Allegedly Attack Iranian Dissident Camp
FoxNews.com BAGHDAD – Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged the Iraqi government on Friday to “show restraint” after security forces stormed an Iranian opposition refugee camp that had long existed under the protection of the U.S. and its coalition partners. “We have been monitoring the situation at Camp Ashraf in Diyala,” said Gates after a visit…
US ‘may have broken international law’ over Iraqi attack on Iranian camp
THE GUARDIAN Iraqi forces storm Camp Ashraf, home to 3,500 Iranian exiles, as supporters call on US and UN to intervene Iraqi forces have stormed a camp of Iranian dissidents in north-eastern Iraq amid warnings that the US government may have broken international law by failing to protect the camp. An Iraqi general, Ali Ghaidan,…