The International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ) has voiced their condemnation of the rocket attack that happened at Camp Liberty near Baghdad on Monday 4^th July (20.30 local time). The attack coincided with the breaking the fast in the month of Ramadan. Around 50 rockets hit the camp and the surrounding area, causing widescale damage to much of the residential area infrastructures.

Shahriar Kia, a press spokesman for residents of Camp Liberty, Iraq, and member of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran opposition group (PMOI, also known as MEK), wrote an article for The Hill in which he discusses the human rights situation in Iran.

Anna Zaborska, Slovak Member of the European Parliament, declared that, “The Iranian people had shown great courage,” in opposing the oppressive regime of Hassan Rouhani.

Calling the Rouhani regime the “world’s leading executioner per capita,” there was, Baroness Cox, a cross-bench member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, said, in spite of the nuclear deal, a “deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.”

In a strongly worded press release on Tuesday, Members of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA) of the European Parliament said that, yet again, their warnings to the US and the UN about the danger of attacks on Camp Liberty had gone unheeded.

Members of the European Parliament have called upon the European Union and its member states to act to expel the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from Iraq.The Quds Force of the IRGC “regularly plans and executes terrorist plots against the civilian population,” according to the statement from Strasburg. 

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has quoted Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament, Svetoslav Malinov, as saying that many MEPs are “’indignant” with regards to the Iranian regime’s support for Syrian dictator Assad. The Iranian regime, he said, has “played a very destructive role in the region”.

The National council of resistance of Iran (NCRI) has published an article which includes a video message from Jim Nicholson, a Member of the European Parliament from Northern Ireland, voicing his support for the Iranian Resistance.

Ken Blackwell, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, wrote an article for American Thinker in which he presents his thoughts regarding the run-up to the U.S. elections and the 9^th July event in Paris.

Dr. Ivan Sascha Sheehan is director of the graduate program in Global Affairs and Human Security in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University Baltimore.   Please see his July 5, article in “The Hill”.