Former U.S. officials call for protection of Camp Ashraf residents in Iraq

Monday, 6 June 2011

Former U.S. officials call for protection of Camp Ashraf residents in Iraq

In a symposium titled, New U.S. Middle East Policy and the Policy on Iran", which was held in Washington D.C. on June 2, 2011, former U.S. high-ranking officials discussed recent transitions in the Middle East region and emphasized the delisting of the Mojahedin Khalgh from the US State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) list, and the protection of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Participants in the symposium included, Philip Crowley, former Assistant Secretary of State, Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, former Under Secretary of State, Amb. Nancy Soderberg, former NSC Senior Official, John Hillen, former Assistant Secretary of State, Porter Goss, former Director of CIA and Michael Mukasey, former Attorney General:

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Activites of the Event

The Great Paris for Ashraf protection gathering will take place on June 23,2012, with presence of hundreds of lawmakers from 5 continents of the world. They will declared their support for the Iranian resistance MEK, and demand guaranteed security for Ashraf/Liberty residents by the UN,U.S and the EU. The plot to dis-engage the MEK in the peaceful relocation to third countries is at the behest of Tehran and cannot be tolerated under any pretext. Camp Liberty has been turned into a Prison under the noses of the US and UN representatives. they must not keep a blind eye to the torture and harassment inflicted by Iraqi paid agents on the residents.

URGENT DEMANDS!

These are the legitimate demands of Camp Ashraf/Liberty residents that have been articulated in numerous letters to Mr. Kobler, Iraqi authorities and all relevant parties in the US and EU, were resent on May 27 to UN Secretary General with 1269 signatures of Ashraf residents: -SRSG will not permit any interference of Iranian regime against its opponents in Camp Ashraf and Liberty. -All the agreements and commitments related to the fifth convoy, mainly women, will be fulfilled by GOI (6 utility vehicles, 25 trucks to transfer their belongings, 6 special trailers and 3 vehicles of the paraplegic patients). -All the provisions of SRSG letters, particularly about the police, 10 passenger cars for every convoy, a precise date for connection of Liberty to the city water network and power grid, construction, green area and plant trees will be guaranteed and implemented before any other move. - Liberty legal status will be recognized as a refugee camp. -UN guarantees selling all Ashraf moveable and immoveable assets or transferring moveable assets to another country/ or Iraqi Kurdistan; - U.S. will inspect Camp Ashrafas soon as possible

Great Annual Gathering in Support of Camp Ashraf

• International gathering with presence of tens of thousands of Iranians and others in support of Camp Ashraf residents in Villepinte, near Paris, on Saturday, June 18 • Hundreds of prominent figures and dignitaries from five continents will participate • Call for immediate protection of Ashraf residents and offer of a permanent solution for Ashraf to the UN, US and EU The crisis in Camp Ashraf, where 3400 members of Iranian opposition are besieged, is deepening and attempts to find a solution have evolved into a pressing issue on both sides of Atlantic. Therefore, in a massive international event in Paris on Saturday, June 18, to be attended by tens of thousands of Iranians, members of the US Congress, parliamentary delegations from various EU member states and Arab countries, and scores of senior officials in the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations will call for urgent measures by the UN, US and EU to protect Ashraf residents. Dozens of international dignitaries and former senior US officials will urge the US President, UN Secretary General and the EU High Representative to offer a long-term and peaceful solution to the Ashraf crisis, it was announced in a press briefing on the verge of this international event. The participants, while calling for an end to any appeasement of Iran’s clerical regime, will ask for adoption of the policy of regime change vis-à-vis the clerical regime and recognition of the Iranian Resistance.

. Date & Time: Saturday, June 18, 2011, at 3:30 pm Venue: Parc des Expositions de Paris-Nord-Villepinte, 93420 Villepinte French Committee for Secular and Democratic Iran Background information: On April 8, on the orders of Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maliki and at the behest of the Iranian regime, Iraqi forces massacred Ashraf residents, who are protected persons under Fourth Geneva Convention, killing 35 residents, and wounding 350. Iraqi military forces are still inside Ashraf, with one-third of the camp currently under Iraqi military occupation. The gathering on June 18 takes place eight years after the raid on the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on June 17, 2003, in which 164 Iranian dissidents who are political refugees in France were arrested. Recently, the French judges officially annulled terror charges against officials and recognized that the PMOI (People’s Mujahedin of Iran) members are not terrorists but rather are members of a legitimate resistance. A majority of members of the French National Assembly recently signed a declaration recognizing the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).