ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMP ASHRAF, Iraq (AP) – Iraq security forces raided the settlement of an Iranian exile group that the Shiite-led government has long tried to oust and at least 10 people were killed in the pre-dawn clashes Friday, officials said. The People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran exiles jeer Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a…
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At least 10 Iranian exiles killed in clashes in Iraq
REUTERS At least 10 Iranian exiles were killed at Camp Ashraf in Iraq on Friday, a hospital source said, after security forces clashed with residents of the Iranian dissident camp north of Baghdad overnight. An Iraqi government spokesman said five members of the Iraqi security forces were wounded in the incident at the camp where…
US Must Act immediately to Avert Looming Humanitarian Catastrophe in Camp Ashraf as Iraqi Forces Deploy for an Attack
PRNewswire WASHINGTON, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Iraqi forces under orders of Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are preparing for an extensive assault on Camp Ashraf that is scheduled for Friday, 4:00 AM local time (Thursday, 9:00 PM EDT), according to Iraqi sources. The plan is to occupy all of Ashraf, similar to the…
Obama, Iran and a push for policy change
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY Could the administration of President Barack Obama hasten the downfall of Iran’s government by taking an opposition group off the U.S. list of terrorist organizations? To hear a growing roster of influential former government officials tell it, the answer is yes. The opposition group in question is the Mujadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) and the…
Reality Check: Understanding the Mujahedin-e Khalq
The Huffington Post April 22, 2010 By Ali Safavi, Member of Iran’s Parliament in Exile; President of Near East Policy Research Aside from the clearly false allegations against the MEK, which have been addressed in previous posts, some of the MEK’s activities inside Iran prior to 2001 have been cited by the US Department of…