AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE WASHINGTON — Christopher Hill, the US ambassador to Iraq, sought Thursday to reassure lawmakers who fear for the safety of more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents in a camp in Iraq. Hill, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the US government would work to ensure that 36 People’s Mujahedeen members arrested…
US urged to restore protection of Iranians in Iraq
ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Supporters of an Iranian dissident group based in Iraq called on the Obama administration Thursday to restore U.S. military protection for the exiles, who were attacked by Iraqi security forces on July 28. They also urged the Iraqi government to release 36 exiles who were taken from the camp during the…
Bloodshed at Iranian camp tests US-Iraq transition
ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — The women formed a human chain while the men chanted, confronting Iraqi troops moving into their compound. Gunfire rang out, and the soldiers waded in with batons, wooden bats and automatic weapons. By the end, officials said, 11 Iranian exiles were dead — shot, beaten or run over by military vehicles….
Human bargaining chips in deals with Iran
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY Seven summers ago, in a crowded conference room of a Washington hotel, an Iranian exile leader gave the first detailed public account of Iran’s until-then secret nuclear projects at the cities of Natanz and Arak. It greatly turned up the volume of a seemingly endless international controversy over Iran’s nuclear intentions. The…
Camp Ashraf: U.S. downplayed threat to Iranian exiles living in Iraq days before attack
The Chicago Tribune Baghdad regime’s raid on anti-Tehran group’s camp ignites protests WASHINGTON – — The Obama administration downplayed international fears over the safety of Iranian dissidents living at an exile camp in Iraq as recently as mid-July, days before a raid by Iraqi security forces killed 11 of the exiles and left scores wounded….