THE WASHINGTON TIMES Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week pressed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her failure to remove the Iranian resistance from the U.S. list of terrorist groups. They warned that the lives of more than 3,000 dissidents living in a camp in Iraq are in danger because of…
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Abandon failed Middle East foreign policy strategies
THE HILL (Congress Blog) For nearly a decade, the United States has invested money, sweat, blood and tears all in the name of a free and democratic Iraq. Before the war, Iraqis suffered under the oppressive dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Recent events have led me to believe that perhaps the new government does not value…
Co-Chairs of House Caucus Write to Secretary Clinton for Safety of Iranian Dissidents in Iraq’s Camp Liberty
WASHINGTON (USCCAR) – On February 23, the US House Representatives Bob Filner (D-CA), Ranking Member of Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Chairman of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to urge her to use her good offices to ensure…
SAVING CAMP ASHRAF
THE WASHINGTON TIMES More than 60 members of Congress and a human rights commission named for the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the House are urging President Obama to use his Monday meeting with the prime minister of Iraq to demand he protect Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf. The letters sent to the White…
Lawmakers, retired colonel voice support for Iranian exile group
STARS and STRIPES BAGHDAD — Lawmakers and former military officials called on the U.S. government to protect an Iranian exile group in Iraq facing resettlement by the end of the year, citing conflict with Iraqi security forces earlier this year that killed dozens of people. The hearing came in the wake of an intensive lobbying…