THE DAILY BEAST When the last U.S. troops leave Dec. 31, Iraqi forces will destroy Camp Ashraf, home to thousands of Iranian refugees belonging to the MEK. Geoffrey Robertson on the appalling human-rights tragedy unfolding. The time bomb that is ticking toward a new human-rights disaster is near Baghdad, in a 25-acre compound, where 3,400…
Author: Geoffrey Robertson
To most of the world, Iranian dissidents are not terrorists
THE WASHINGTON POST Letter to the Editor Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [“Building a stable Iraq,” op-ed, Dec. 6] made clear the pretext that has been used to justify his country’s policy of brutality against the approximately 3,400 members of the Iranian dissident group the Mujahedin el-Khalq (MEK), located at Camp Ashraf, 60 kilometers north…
Iraqi MP: Iran Should Give Incentives to Iraq for Expelling MEK
Stop Fundamentalism An Iraqi Member of Parliament in Maliki’s bloc told reporters today that it would be a grave mistake for Iraq expelling the MEK without receiving adequate incentives from Iran, said Shafagh News website. She also stressed that there are a great many armed groups operating in Iraq supported by the Iranian regime while…
Arab lawyers and jurists describe Ashraf Camp case as “genocide”
Aswat al-Iraq BAGHDAD – Three thousand Arab and Iraqi lawyers and jurists have described the “time-table” set for Ashraf Camp as “genocide.” In a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq, issued at the end of a press conference held in Cairo by lawyers and jurists from Iraq, Egypt and Jordan, they said that “Iranis attempting to…
Lawmakers, retired colonel voice support for Iranian exile group
STARS and STRIPES BAGHDAD — Lawmakers and former military officials called on the U.S. government to protect an Iranian exile group in Iraq facing resettlement by the end of the year, citing conflict with Iraqi security forces earlier this year that killed dozens of people. The hearing came in the wake of an intensive lobbying…