A U.N. envoy on Thursday offered to broker the peaceful closing of a camp for Iranian exiles in Iraq where residents and U.S. lawmakers say an Iraqi military crackdown may be imminent. An aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who calls the residents of Camp Ashraf "terrorists," said Iraq's Cabinet will consider extending its deadline for closing the compound beyond Dec. 31.
Unarmed Iranian exiles in an Iraqi refugee compound fear another "bloodbath" by Iraqi soldiers after military vehicles rolled into the area late Monday, an Iranian source inside the compound told The Washington Times on Tuesday. Iraqi army battalions and Iraqi police are preparing to attack Camp Ashraf," said Shahriar Kia, a spokesman for the Iranian resistance exiles in the compound.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, September, 17, 2011, a senior panel of former Secretaries, Generals, and Governors, as well as State and Justice Departments officials denounced the presence of the Iranian regime's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the United Nations, and urged the removal of Iran's main opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), from the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organization, according to Human Rights and Democracy International. The panel of former senior officials included Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, Commandant of the Marine Corps General James Conway, Deputy Commander of United States European Command General Charles Wald, Ambassador John B...
... personal experience with the MEK at Camp Ashraf, General Conway said, "My operations officer and b...
WASHINGTON - Cameran Ashraf was instant-messaging from Los Angeles with an activist in Iran during anti-government protests Feb. 11 when the chat went dead. Had Iran's government "shut down the Internet" to thwart dissidents from organizing online or had authorities come to arrest the man, Ashraf said he wondered as he described the incident during an online video interview. Ashraf, who said he sees himself as a digital aid worker, immediately alerted other Iranian contacts to block surveillance of their Web traffic.
A senior U.S. official Wednesday warned Iraq against using violence to evict unarmed Iranian dissidents from a camp north of Baghdad by the end of the month, as a top member of Congress accused the State Department of moving at a snail's pace to prevent what he called a possible massacre of the residents of Camp Ashraf. There is no doubt that the situation is serious. We are worried about the possibility of violence, and we are working flat out to ward it off," Daniel Fried, special adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Camp Ashraf, said at a House subcommittee hearing.
BAGHDAD - Under international pressure, the Iraqi government on Wednesday backed off its threat to close a refugee camp holding 3,400 Iranian exiles by the end of the month. Instead, Iraq said it will shut Camp Ashraf sometime in January and insisted that all its residents must leave the country by April. It promised not to deport anyone to Iran.
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi forces raided a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group north of Baghdad on Tuesday in a move that ran contrary to U.S. wishes and prompted clashes. Residents of Camp Ashraf said the Iraqi troops opened fire and beat people with batons, killing four people. The Iraqi government confirmed authorities had moved into the camp but denied violence was used against the exiles.
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several former U.S. Government officials spoke to the need for the Obama Administration to focus more on the Persian Spring as the administration is calibrating its new Middle East initiative to adapt to the realities in the region, during a symposium in Washington, DC, entitled "New U.S. Middle East Initiative and the Policy on Iran," organized by Human Rights and Democracy International. J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until March 2011, said, "Change is going to occur from the bottom up. It's not going to be imposed from the outside in but we have to be in a position where we can help shape change and support people and institutions that can bring democratic governance to the region as a whole, including...
... and to make certain that the residents of Ashraf are either permitted to remain where they are with...
A Santa Clarita Valley schoolteacher has been arrested on suspicion of selling drugs to an undercover police officer at a Motel 6 in Ventura County, authorities said on Monday. Ashraf Boulos Hindi, 29, of Canyon Country was arrested Saturday as part of an investigation into illegal drug transactions through the Internet.
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a Conference on Thursday, 14 April 2011, former senior U.S. government officials strongly condemned the Iraqi military's deadly assault on Camp Ashraf on April 8, 2011, which left 34 residents dead, including 8 women, and more than 300 wounded. Ambassador Mitchell Reiss who moderated the conference highlighted the "promise that the United States made to ensure that the residents of Camp Ashraf were protected, the failure so far of the Obama administration, the Iraqi government and the international community to fulfill that promise and the ongoing threat posed by the Iranian regime to men and women everywhere who believe in freedom and democracy." He said that "Despite serving in different branches of the U.S. government, differen...
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