WASHINGTON – Today, the legal counsel for Iran’s principal opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK), filed a Writ of Mandamus in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to enforce the Court’s July 2010 ruling which ordered the Secretary of State to reconsider the PMOI’s petition to be removed from…
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Iranian Opposition Asks for Appeals Court Action
ASSOCIATED PRESS An Iranian opposition group on Monday asked a federal appeals court to order its removal from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations and says the status is putting its members long exiled in Iraq at risk. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran accused the State Department in a court filing Monday of…
Co-Chairs of House Caucus Write to Secretary Clinton for Safety of Iranian Dissidents in Iraq’s Camp Liberty
WASHINGTON (USCCAR) – On February 23, the US House Representatives Bob Filner (D-CA), Ranking Member of Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Chairman of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to urge her to use her good offices to ensure…
Why The US Needs To Rescue 3,000 Iranians Trapped In Iraq
BUSINESS INSIDER More than 3,000 innocent civilians, to whom the United States solemnly pledged protection, are now at risk of being killed by Iranian agents, following the withdrawal of US military personnel from Iraq. It’s a potentially tragic situation whose ending is far from certain. Moreover, the cascading violence in Iraq has turned this situation…
MPs, Jurists, Military Experts Urge UN Protection for Camp Ashraf Residents
THE HUFFINGTON POST (UK) At a major event in London’s Queen Elizabeth II conference centre on Saturday, attended by 1,000 Anglo-Iranians, senior British jurists and MPs and US military experts called on the United Nations to intervene immediately to save the lives of 3,400 Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty in Iraq. They…