PRESS RELEASE September 12, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released this statement condemning the attacks on Camp Ashraf residents, and called on the Iraqi government to protect the community and secure the release of seven hostages taken after the massacre at Camp Ashraf. “I…
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Levin releases letter regarding Camp Ashraf attack
PRESS RELEASE Thursday, September 12, 2013 WASHINGTON – Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released a letter he sent on Sept. 6 to Secretary of State John Kerry calling on the United States to investigate the fatal Sept. 1 attack on residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, and to make…
Last Iranian dissidents moved out of Iraq camp after violence
REUTERS BAGHDAD – The last remaining Iranian dissidents in a camp in eastern Iraq have been transferred to a base in Baghdad pending resettlement abroad, the United Nations said on Thursday, less than two weeks after a bout of violence that killed 52 people there. The dissidents belong to the Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK), which wants Iran’s…
Survivors of Iran exile camp slaughter move to Baghdad
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE The survivors of a mass killing in an Iraqi camp housing Iranian exiles were moved during the night to another camp on the edge of Baghdad, the United Nations said on Thursday. The Iraqi authorities ordered the transfer of the 42 in the wake of violence in Camp Ashraf in the central…
Upon the request of Mrs. Rajavi and based on assurances provided by the U.S. State Department Ashraf residents went to Camp Liberty
Call by Iranian Resistance to the U.S. and U.N. to release 7 Ashraf hostages, presences of the UN Blue Helmets at Liberty and minimum security requirements Similar calls by European Parliament, American dignitaries and hunger strikers in five locations throughout the world Buses carrying the residents was targeted by an explosion at the city of…