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Iran News Update conducted an exclusive interview with former advisor to the United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary- General, Tahar Boumedra. Boumedra’s interview comes in response to United Nation’s special representative for Iraq, Martin Kobler’s July 16, 2013 address to the United Nations Security Council. Boumedra discussed a variety of topics with Iran News…
THE HILL By Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield As the Middle East teems with masses yearning for relief from authoritarian rule, economic hardship and censored communications, Iran should be a prime candidate for popular unrest. The economy is hurting from sanctions, the people live under harsh restrictions and most Iranians are too young to remember the…
Statement issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees on July 19, 2013: Camp New Iraq (formerly Camp Ashraf) residents and the processing of their cases for solutions UNHCR has expressed continued deep concern for the safety and security of the residents in the Hurriya Temporary Transit Location (TTL), following the second deadly attack…
THE WASHINGTON TIMES A former U.N. official who has accused his ex-boss of covering up human rights abuses against Iranian dissidents in Iraq is seeking help in Washington for the exiles, as Baghdad pressures them to return to Iran where they would face execution as traitors. The U.N. mission in Iraq is cooperating with Baghdad…
PRNEWSWIRE PARIS, July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Following remarks by Martin Kobler, the outgoing Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SG) in Iraq, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran described Kobler’s two year conduct as a betrayal of human rights and the RtoP principle (Responsibility to Protect)…