Camp Liberty – home to more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents – was hit by a massive rocket attack today. The attack on the camp near Baghdad airport in Iraq comes four months after the camp was struck by missiles on February 9. Some 3,100 members of Iran’s principal opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK) have…
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Mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills three
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp killed three people in Baghdad on Saturday, police sources said, and the Mujahidin-e-Khalq (MEK) group said Iran was probably to blame, with Iraqi complicity. MEK said two of the camp’s residents were killed and 40 wounded in the attack. An Iraqi died when a…
Rocket attack kills 2 Iranian dissidents, wounds dozens in Iraq
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two Iranian dissidents were killed and more than three dozen others wounded when their camp in Iraq was attacked by a barrage of rockets on Saturday. A spokesman for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, also known as Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, blamed the attack on the Iranian regime. “Dozens of 107 mm rockets hit…
Two killed in mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two people were killed in a mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police sources said. The Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) group said a further 40 people were wounded in the attack, which follows one in February that killed at least five of its members. MEK, which was…
How the U.S. hung a potential Iranian ally out to dry
THE BALTIMORE SUN By Mitchell Reiss America’s bungled relationship with the MEK/PMOI has led to missed opportunities and humanitarian catastrophe The plight of the organized resistance to the regime in Iran, particularly the violent persecution of the group known as the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK/PMOI), has been one of the great, untold stories in international politics….