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Iran regime’s lobbies worried about MEK delisting in US

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Reza Fard
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 Reza Fard

Simultaneous with state-run media in Iran and officials of the clerical regime, the lobbies of the Iranian regime have stepped up their activities to discredit the organized opposition to the Iranian regime, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization of Iran (MEK or PMOI).

It appears that they are worried about imminent removal of the unjust terror label against the MEK following the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and flood of support for the MEK by former ranking officials in the United States.

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It’s a humanitarian catastrophe in the making, make no mistake

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Amar Mahdi
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Amar Mahdi

The three thousand four hundred Iranian exiles – the disarmed Mujahidin-e Khalq Organisation of Iran – living at Camp Ashraf in north east Iraq close to the Iranian border face further harassment and slaughter with a US proposal to relocate them deeper inside the. The Iraqi government has already made plain its intention to shut the camp down by the end of the year. 

Iraq has been a hostile landlord. On 8 April 2011, in their latest attack on Ashraf, Iraqi troops stormed the camp, an attack that left 36 people dead and was allegedly ordered by Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on behalf of the Iranian regime, which would dearly love to rid the world of these dissidents. 

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A Candle in the Dark

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Siavosh Rajizade
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IRANNTV - www.iranntv.com
IRANNTV - www.iranntv.com

IRANNTV - www.iranntv.comSiavosh Rajizade:

Saturday 23th and Sunday 24th of July were designated as “Hamyari Days” (supporting days) with Simay-e Azadi (The Vision of Freedom) or Iran National Television (INTV) which is a banded opposition satellite channel in Iran. It was the 12th “hamyari” but because of extensive calls from Iranians across the world, the program has been extended and the producers cannot set an end.

I have heard the most elegant words. I have seen the most beautiful tears, smiles and the most amazing sacrifices. And truly, I see the burning thirst of a nation who wants to live free and get released of an evil regime of the Mullahs in Tehran. The callers say that this voice must not get silenced, because it is the voice of the Iranian people and the people in Camp Ashraf. Since Saturday, it has been more than four days now that the Iranian people are helping INTV financially with all they have so that it can continue its programs and stay their voice.

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Who Set Iran’s Washington Lobbyist on Fire?

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Nima Sharif
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Ten of thousands of Iranians gather in Paris on June 18 in support of resistance
Ten of thousands of Iranians gather in Paris on June 18 in support of resistance

Ten of thousands of Iranians gather in Paris on June 18 in support of resistance

Nima Sharif:

Peculiar things happen in Washington.  But one that is most bizarre is an Iranian lobby group which has now turned green, that is merely going bananas over the possibility of Washington delisting the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (Mek/PMOI).

For years, the lobby group known as NIAC has promoted ways and means of just how to “get along” with the Ayatollahs regime in Iran.  First it was Rafsanjani, Iran’s former president, who was the most moderate man in the world, and then it turned out that Khatami was even more moderate.  And after Khatami, surprise, there came Ahmadinejad who was just the man that America could sit and talk to.

And now NIAC is banging its head against the walls in the Hill to press American policy makers that they should at any price continue the policy to appease the terrorist mullah’s ruling in Iran and instead of pressuring Iran, suppress its legitimate opposition movement in exile.  That way democracy will prevail and Iran’s “indigenous democratic movement”,   led by individuals who have held high offices during the past 30 years of brutal rule of clerical regime will succeed.  

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Iraq Authorities called to Spanish Court for Iranian Killing

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Amar Mahdi
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Amar Mahdi :

Three Iraqi military personnel were called in to appear before the Spanish National Court on 3 October in connection with the 8 April massacre at Camp Ashraf in the north east of Iraq in which 36 residents were killed.  According to the writ, al-Maliki will be also be summoned automatically as soon as he steps down as prime minister and his judicial immunity is removed.

The Central Investigation Court Number Four of the Spanish National Court on July 11 ruled it would investigate the complaint against those responsible for the massacre that also left 350 wounded. 

Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, said: “Al-Maliki must now put an end to the siege on Ashraf and all suppressive measures against Ashraf must stop.

“According to court ruling and based on the Fourth Geneva Convention, the US is obliged to stop torture and violence and must immediately take back the protection of Ashraf residents from the Iraqi government and the assailant forces in order to prevent another massacre,” said Rajavi.

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Tehran’s Favorite “Lobbyist”

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Ali Asghar Tasslimi
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Ali Asghar Tasslimi:

The infamous Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’s has a well-known saying: “If you tell a lie big enough and repeat it often enough, and the whole world will believe it.”

Trita Parsi’s preposterous and naive attempt to besmirch the reputation of the main Iranian opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK) as a “terrorist” group smacks of pure desperation to lay lie upon lie in order to build a metaphorical dam against a growing tide of support for the MEK in Washington and around the world.

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Iran, Mujahedin-e Khalq, and the US State Department

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Hamid Yazdanpanah
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In a Press Briefing Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in of Iran on Tuesday 22 October 2019, published a report that stresses concern about the continuing of executions of juveniles and other human rights violations. (PMOI / MEK Iran) and (NCRI):

Hamid Yazdanpanah:

At the end of June, the world watched as Iran test-fired 14 medium range missiles capable of reaching US and Israeli bases in the Middle East.  According to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Iran has also been carrying out covert missile tests, “including testing of missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload.” In Syria, the Islamic Republic exercises its influence by assisting the worn-down Assad regime in brutally suppressing the Syrian people.  And in Iraq, we continue to see the hand of the Iranian regime in the ongoing violent insurgency, as well as in Maliki’s government.

Tehran’s growing influence indicates a failure of Western policy towards the Islamic Republic. The policy of the United States and the European Union towards Iran has consistently been timid, often reminiscent of Europe’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler with the Munich Pact. The history of Western relations with Iran since the Revolution of 1979 shows continuous attempts by the West to reach out to the mullah’s regime with the hope of finding some favorability, only to see the mullahs rebuff those overtures. And what has consistently been a go-to practice in appeasing Tehran? The harassment and terrorist listing of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).

 

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Amnesty International: Iraq Should Cease Harassment of Iranian Exiles in Ashraf

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Amnesty International

Amnesty InternationalStop Fundamentalism- World’s human rights body, Amnesty International, in a public statement released on 23 July, urged the government of Iraq to cease harassments of the residents in Camp Ashraf who are Iranian exiles and members of the Iran’s main opposition movement Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI).

The rights body also called on Iraq to ensure resident’s “unhindered access to medical care and humanitarian needs.”

“This new challenge to the existence of Camp Ashraf follows months in which the residents have come under increasing pressure from the Iraqi authorities,” says Amnesty in its statement.

Amnesty International, as the main international organization observing human rights abuses around world, has repeatedly called on Iraq’s government to respect the rights of Ashraf residents during the two years since the protection of the camp has been transferred from Americans to Iraqi forces in 2009.

“Earlier this year, on 8 April, Iraqi troops took up positions within the camp using excessive, including lethal, force against residents who tried to resist them. Troops used live ammunition and by the end of the operation some 36 residents, including eight women, were dead and more than 300 others had been wounded,” says Amnesty.

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Spanish Court Summons Perpetrators of Massacre at Camp Ashraf

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US forces in Camp Ashraf examining the bodies of killed residents
US forces in Camp Ashraf examining the bodies of killed residents

US forces in Camp Ashraf examining the bodies of killed residents
US forces in Camp Ashraf examining the bodies of killed residents
Stop Fundamentalism, 14 July, 2011 – The Spanish National Central Investigation Court issued a writ against Nuri al-Maliki and summoned three Iraqi individuals involved in the massacre of residents of Camp Ashraf on April 8, says the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in a press release on July 14.

The Spanish National Court in its July 11, 2011 ruling accepted to investigate a complaint from residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq who were subject of a raid by Iraq’s military forces on April 8, 2011. The court summoned General Ali Geidan, who commands Iraq’s ground forces, for leading the attack, Colonel Abdul-Latif al-Annabi who commanded the attacking battalion and Major Jassem al-Tamimi who was shut on video while directly targeting and shooting at the residents.

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Is Camp Ashraf a Srebrenica for U.S.?

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Stop Fundamentalism – In light of Dutch Appeals Court ruling about the responsibility of its government in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in a statement on July 8, warned the U.S. authorities about shouldering-off their responsibilities regarding residents of Camp Ashraf.

Mrs. Rajavi, NCRI’s President-elect, was quoted in this statement, “Nothing can justify United States’ non-interference to stop crimes of Iraqi forces.”

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