As reported by International Business Times on September 9, the final 280 members of a group of the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), who lived in Iraq for nearly four decades, have been resettled in Europe.
Auvers-sur-Oise on Saturday, September 10, 2016, Large crowds of Iranians celebrated the successful conclusion of Camp Liberty residents’ relocation from Iraq to Europe at the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. in this ceremony in the presence of French, European and Arab dignitaries.
The goal of the Iranian regime was not to see the departure of MEK members from Iraq; rather, it sought to annihilate or force them into surrender
In his September 7 article for the Wall Street Journal, Joseph I. Lieberman, who is a former U.S. senator from Connecticut, and is currently chairman of United Against Nuclear Iran, discusses Tehran’s deadly actions vs. current sanctions relief.
Iranian state media has reported that the Iranian Intelligence Minister travelled to Berlin and met with of German security officials at Germany’s invitation.
A former French Foreign Minister has called for an international probe into a 1988 massacre in Iran.
In a September 6 article by Harriet Sinclair in the International Business Times, she writes about the release of the names of senior members of the country’s current regime, allegedly involved in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners by the Iranian resistance.
In a September 7 article by Fayçal Benhassain in CNS News, he writes that Iran’s supreme leader, and a former Iranian president, stand accused of involvement in the mass executions of imprisoned dissidents nearly thirty years ago.
In the summer of 1988, a fatwa was issued. For political prisoners, this meant facing Death Commissions, which were formed in at least 70 towns and cities.
France’s former foreign minister has spoken out about a policy of “silence” in Western governments surrounding the human rights situation in Iran.
