THE WASHINGTON POST Regarding the July 6 front-page article “Iranian exiles attracting attention with supporters”: Members of the Iranian opposition group Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) have built Camp Ashraf in Iraq into a modern town over the past quarter-century, but they nonetheless heeded the call by the Iranian resistance leader Maryam Rajavi to move to Camp…
USCCAR to US Officials: “Thank You for Not Forgetting Our Loved Ones in Iraq”
US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents commends efforts of US officials, past and present, who are working with the Obama Administration and human rights advocates to facilitate a peaceful, prompt resolution to the humanitarian crisis facing thousands in Camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq WASHINGTON, July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On behalf of thousands of…
Washington’s power play is endangering the lives of Iranian dissidents in Iraq
THE HILL In the furious debate about Iran, let us not forget that there are lives at stake right now. Those who wish to appease the mullahs in Tehran must not be allowed to forget that thousands of innocent refugees are caught in the crossfire. These refugees – there are 3,400 split between Camp…
U.S. State Department must show some spine on Iranian dissidents
THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LONDON, July 13 (UPI) — The fate of 3,400 Iranian dissidents in Iraq must not be a bargaining chip to appease the Iranian regime and their Iraqi agents. Recently some media and U.S. State Department alike have adopted an incomprehensible path to simultaneously blame Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf in Iraq,…
Crisis brewing in Liberty
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Iranian dissidents need support, not coercion. The clock is ticking, louder with every day that goes by, on the lives of more than 1,000 Iranian dissidents exiled in Iraq. These are the men and women who fled the Iranian regime to make their home near Baghdad more than a quarter of a…