REUTERS GENEVA – An Iranian exile leader called on Thursday for swift U.N. and U.S. action to prevent further attacks on Iranian dissidents in a transit camp in Iraq following a rocket strike in which at least five people were killed and many wounded. The dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) calls for the overthrow of Iran’s…
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Iran Opposition Group Urges More Security In Iraq
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN (AP) — An Iranian opposition group urged the U.N. refugee agency Wednesday to provide better protection for its members in Iraq following a mortar attack on their camp near Baghdad airport in which seven people were killed. The call came during a meeting in Geneva of the National Council of Resistance…
Shiite militant threatens Iranian exiles in Iraq
ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of a new Shiite militant group in Iraq on Tuesday threatened to carry out more attacks on a camp for Iranian exiles that was struck by dozens of rockets and mortar shells earlier this month. Seven people were killed in the Feb. 9 attack on the camp near…
Guiliani: Martin Kobler is a ‘professional liar’ doing Iran and Iraq’s ‘dirty work’
NCRI – The United Nations representative in Iraq Martin Kobler has been branded a ‘professional liar’ who is doing Iran and Iraq’s ‘dirty work’ in a scathing speech by former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani. Mr Kobler had broken every promise he made before he forced Iranian refugees to move to the Camp Liberty ‘concentration…
The UN’s role in Baghdad’s killing fields
THE TELEGRAPH What on earth does Ban Ki-moon, the UN’s Secretary-General, think that Martin Kobler, his personal representative in Iraq, is up to? I have reported before on the extraordinary story of the betrayal of 3,200 Iranian dissidents who, for 30 years after the 1979 Iranian revolution, lived in Camp Ashraf, a little desert town…