REUTERS PARIS (Reuters) – Four U.S. congressmen met an Iranian dissident leader on Sunday and urged President Barack Obama to treat her group as an alternative to Tehran’s government, four months after its removal from a list of terrorist organizations. The bipartisan group pressed Obama to talk to the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of…
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After deadly rocket attack in Iraq, Iranian exile group hosts US House delegation in Paris
FOX NEWS PARIS – With its militant wing no longer a terror organization as far as the U.S. government is concerned, an Iranian opposition group hosted a U.S. House delegation for the first time Sunday and briefed the lawmakers on the fallout of a deadly rocket attack at a refugee camp in Iraq. The National…
U.S. lawmakers chide Obama for not protecting Iranian dissidents
REUTERS U.S. lawmakers complained on Sunday that President Barack Obama had failed to protect Iranian dissidents from persecution by Tehran following a deadly attack on their camp near Baghdad, and urged they be allowed back to their long-time base in Iraq. A congressional delegation led by Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the Republican-controlled House subcommittee on…
US Congressional Delegation meet with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi in Paris, Call for the Administration to Reach Out to Iran’s Democratic Opposition
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF RESISTANCE OF IRAN U.S. Government needs to revisit its policy regarding Iran and should be talking to members of the Iranian opposition instead of fruitless talks with the Iranian rulers The Congressional Delegation Calls for Immediate Return of the 3,100 Residents of Camp Liberty to Camp Ashraf to Ensure Their Protection Click…
Ros-Lehtinen calls on UNHCR to return Camp Liberty residents to Ashraf
NCRI – The United Nations must return terrorized Liberty residents to the safety of Ashraf after the ‘horrific’ attack on the camp last week, the United States Congress Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East has demanded. In a letter to the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the subcommittee chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen accused…