tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56287830201980582762024-03-05T06:09:35.915-08:00SABASaba died a gradual death. But before she died, this 27 year old graduate of law,said : “We” .. “We shall not give in. We shall stand till the end “.Ashraf 18 June Updatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12390066800754381786noreply@blogger.comBlogger396125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-537695605793878252014-05-31T07:18:00.002-07:002014-05-31T07:18:45.139-07:00ايران: هشدار نسبت به اعدام قريب الوقوع غلامرضا خسروي پس از تحمل 12 سال زندان<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ساعاتي قبل به سلولهاي انفرادي زندان گوهردشت منتقل شد <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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به ملل متحد، آمريكا، اروپا و مدافعان حقوق بشر براي جلوگيري از</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="AR-IQ" style="font-family: Mitra; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">
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پيش زنداني سياسي غلامرضا خسروي، براي اجراي حكم اعدام به سلولهاي انفرادي زندان
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ت منتقل شد. غلامرضا خسروي كه تا كنون جمعا 12 سال از زندگي اش را در
سياهچالهاي رژيم آخوندي به سر برده صبح روز چهارشنبه 7 خرداد، از بند 350 زندان
اوين به دايره اجراي احكام اين زندان منتقل شد. مزدور مؤمني از سردژخيمان اوين او
را به خاطر نقش مؤثر در مقاومت زندانيان
بند 350 مورد تهديد قرار داد. او متعاقباً
با دستان و پاهايي در زنجير به قرنطينه
زندان گوهردشت فرستاده شد.<o:p></o:p><br />
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حمله وحشيانه 28 فروردين به بند 350 اوين غلامرضا را با كينه وسبعيت خاصي مورد ضرب
و شتم قرار داده و</span><span lang="AR-IQ" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt;">مجروح
كردند و با بدني خونين و كبود و در حاليكه </span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">از
ناحيه سر و صورت زخمي و </span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt;">گوش راستش پاره شده بود، به انفرادي بند 240 منتقل شد. او به
رغم وخامت حالش همراه با ديگر زندانيان دست به اعتصاب غذا زد كه به مدت 23روز و تا
بازگشت به بند 350 ادامه يافت. شكنجه گران اوين برغم وخامت حال او از كمترين
رسيدگي درماني به وي خودداري كردند.</span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"> </span><span lang="AR-IQ" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">رضا سراج يكي
از سردژخيمان اطلاعات با نام مستعار علوي در جريان حمله به بند 350 غلامرضا را تهديد كرد كه
حكم اعدامش را به زودي اجرا خواهد كرد. وي همچنين بستگان او را تهديد كرده بود كه در
صورت ملاقات با هر هيأت خارجي بازداشت شده و با حكمهاي سنگيني مواجه خواهند گرديد.</span><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ايران نسبت به اعدام قريب الوقوع اين زنداني سياسي هشدار ميدهد و از جامعه جهاني
به ويژه اتحاديه اروپا، دولت آمريكا و دبيركل، كميسر عالي حقوق بشر و گزارشگران
ذيربط ملل متحد و عموم سازمانها و جوامع مدافع حقوق بشر و مدافعان كارگران خواستار
يك اقدام فوري و مؤثر براي توقف اين اقدام جنايتكارانه است.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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شوراي ملي مقاومت ايران<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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1393 (31مه 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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اهل آبادان، پدر يك فرزند، كارگر جوشكار، در 2 ارديبهشت 91 به اتهام آخوند ساخته
«محاربه» به اعدام محكوم شد. او از زندانيان سياسي دهه 60 است كه در سن 16سالگي به
خاطر هواداري از مجاهدين متحمل 5سال زندان در كازرون شد. وي بار ديگر در سال 86 دستگير شد و محروم از كمترين روند عادلانه
حقوقي به شش سال حبس محكوم گرديد. دستگاه قضاييه آخوندي در سال 89، در حالي كه
تنها دو سال از حبس او باقي مانده بود، او
را به خاطر كمك مالي به مجاهدين دوباره محاكمه و به اتهام «محاربه» به اعدام محكوم
كردند. رژيم آخوندي او را بارها براي گرفتن اعترافات اجباري تلويزيوني تحت شكنجه
قرار داد. وي كه اكنون هشت سال از اسارتش مي گذرد، جمعاً بيش از 40ماه را </span></strong></span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: Nazanin; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-font-family: Tahoma;">در سلولهای انفرادی و در شرايطي بسيار دشوار به سر برده است.</span></div>
SABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-66092091345220427152012-09-03T09:28:00.000-07:002012-09-03T09:28:58.072-07:00MPs, jurists worldwide condemn Iraqi forces’ attack against Ashraf residents <br />
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The wave of international condemnations continues against the Iraqi forces’ vicious Monday attack on Ashraf residents during the inspections of the 6th convoy headed to Liberty. </div>
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Dr. Rita Süssmuth, former president of the German Federal Parliament Bundestag, the International Committee of Jurists in Defense of Ashraf representing 8,500 jurists from around the world, the International-Parliamentary Campaign in Defense of Ashraf and Klaus Bresser, former chief editor of German 2. TV ZDF, issued statements strongly condemning the Iraqi forces’ violence against Ashraf residents.</div>
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Criticizing and protesting UNAMI’s inaction vis-à-vis these illegal measures and flagrant aggressions, these dignitaries and societies stressed that the Iraqi government’s aggressive measures against Iranian regime dissidents have raised international abhorrence. They emphasized the UN and US government have the obligation to condemn these violent measures and use all means at their proposal to prevent any similar reoccurrence.</div>
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The top U.N. official in Iraq directed his staff to cover up the prisonlike conditions of a relocation camp for Iranian dissidents in reports to the world body, said a former U.N. official who has resigned in protest.</div>
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In his first interview since leaving his post, Tahar Boumedra told The Washington Times that Martin Kobler, U.N. special representative for Iraq, wanted the dissidents relocated quickly to Camp Liberty, a former U.S. Army base near Baghdad’s airport, and then moved out of Iraq.</div>
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Mr. Kobler “misled [the U.N.] headquarters in New York, Washington” and the dissidents about conditions at Camp Liberty in his rush to move them from Camp Ashraf, where they have lived since 1986, said Mr. Boumedra, the former human rights chief at the U.N. mission in Baghdad.</div>
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Mr. Boumedra said he “got the shock of my life” when he first visited Camp Liberty in December.</div>
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“I had visited a lot of prisons but that place was worse than a prison,” said Mr. Boumedra, an Algerian activist who has promoted human rights and penal reform in North Africa and the Middle East for many years.</div>
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<br />Containers that had been used as soldiers’ living quarters were piled high with trash. Doors dangled from their hinges, and windows were smashed.Iraqis vandalized the camp after U.S. troops left, he said, and facilities were in utter disrepair.</div>
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Mr. Kobler “asked us to go back and take pictures of the camp and the facilities, and make sure that the most appealing pictures are to be put in a <a href="http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/21/camp-for-refugees-in-iraq-worse-than-a-prison/#" id="_GPLITA_0" in_rurl="http://trkjmp.com/click?v=U0U6MjE3Nzc6ODpmaWxlOjc3YTE4Y2E5MWRiMjc2NmViNDIwMmY2ZTIzMTZlN2IzOnotMjEtNzA1MzU6bS53YXNoaW5ndG9udGltZXMuY29tOjEyMjk4OmltYWdlX29ubHk" style="color: #164a6e; padding: 2px 2px 2px 0px;" title="Powered by Text-Enhance">file</a> and presented to the residents and the diplomatic community that, ‘Here is a camp of high standards, meeting all the refugees’ requirements,’” said Mr. Boumedra, who left Iraq in May.</div>
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“He asked me, and I underline this, that we make sure that ‘sellable pictures,’ be used,” he said. “I found myself fabricating reports and doctoring pictures in order to mislead my organization, the international community and the Ashrafis.”</div>
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About 2,000 of Camp Ashraf’s more than 3,000 residents have been transferred to Camp Liberty under a deal brokered by the United Nations. The first group arrived in February.</div>
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The Iranian dissidents and their supporters, including a bipartisan group of lawmakers and former U.S. officials, have complained since January about substandard living conditions at Camp Liberty.</div>
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Asked about Mr. Boumedra’s allegations, Mr. Kobler’s office directed questions to the U.N. headquarters in New York.</div>
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“It is regrettable that such a distorted picture is being presented of the efforts of the United Nations in Iraq to resolve peacefully the situation of Camp Ashraf,” said Jared Kotler, a New York-based spokesman for the U.N. Department of Political Affairs, which oversees the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq.</div>
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Mr. Kotler said the U.N. mission under Mr. Kobler’s leadership has worked “diligently and impartially to facilitate a peaceful solution that respects the rights and concerns of both the residents and the government of Iraq.”</div>
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“These efforts are one of the main reasons why this very tense situation has not already spilled over into further violence,” he added.</div>
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Dispute over living conditions</div>
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Known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MeK, the dissidents sought the overthrow of Iran’s theocratic regime in the early 1980s, and Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein gave them refuge at Camp Ashraf, a base near Baghdad. After Saddam’s overthrow in 2003, U.S. military forces disarmed the dissidents, who renounced violence in 2001.</div>
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, an ally of Iran, has sought to shut down Camp Ashraf, which Iraqi forces have attacked several times with deadly results. The dissidents fear that Mr. al-Maliki will turn them over to Iran, where they expect they would be imprisoned, tortured or executed.</div>
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The U.N. brokered a deal with Iraqi leaders to move the dissidents to Camp Liberty.</div>
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Mr. Boumedra, the lead U.N. official in talks with the Iraqis to close Camp Ashraf, said he advised Mr. Kobler not to accept a memorandum of understanding that came out of those talks because the Iraqis were dismissive of international human rights standards.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-1643271949865206462012-08-18T09:28:00.000-07:002012-08-18T09:28:21.302-07:00Mrs. Clinton: Blacklisting MEK is Illegal; License for Massacre in Iran, Iraq <br />
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<i>"No American President wants to see our values tarnished such as we saw in April 2011 and no President wants to go into election with blood on his hands"</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The New York Times published an article by Scott Shane in which '</span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">anonymous'</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> State Department officials once again pop-up to hatch new conspiracies against the MEK (PMOI), the Iranian pro-democracy opposition to the mullahs in Iran. Apart from the hot-air and flawed arguments which sharply contradict official UN reports, realities on the ground have a more rational advice:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">One should not go above the law and act as tyrants would expect. It is beneath US values to be entrapped in Tehran's scenario.</span></span><br /></div>
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Facts contradict FLAWS</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"><br />The article highlights </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">"the groups' refusal to relocate"</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> but fails to shed light on reasons for the deadlock. This will no doubt leave the blame on the MEK, unless readers compare a list of more than 100 breaches of agreement, harassments and looting carried out by the Iraqi government, as well as engineered plots to dismantle the group, under US-UN inaction.</span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">
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Many reports have been released by wikileaks and recently by the Iranian resistance that revealed complicated plots by Iranian Intelligence and directives involving foreign embassy staff and lately the UNAMI chief Martin Kobler, to make life hard for the dissidents in both camps, in order to stop their opposition against Tehran.</div>
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The article blames the victims for being victimized while whitewashing two bloody massacres by the Maliki government condemned in the Spanish Court of justice as crimes against humanity. The article says, <i>"both American and United Nations officials have urged the group to complete the move to avoid further violence."</i></div>
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It is true to say that when one's enemy (Tehran) becomes one's Savior, our paradigm shifts. We lose our sense of direction and morality; the good becomes the bad and victims become villains. Under all this bravado the 'anonymous' State Department 'tippers' would blame the coming massacre on the defenseless refugees who are 'protected persons' and should be secured by the US under R2P laws.</div>
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The true intention of the article is not so obscure as the two 'anonymous' State Department officials diffuse annoying antics that lead readers to assume the situation at both camps is <i>"heaven on earth"</i> with more than enough <i>"video-games and sodas"</i> to last all 3400 residents a lifetime.</div>
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- The Maliki government has breached (1) the agreement it signed without the consent of the residents with the UN.<br />- On August 10, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's official report (2) classified "Liberty," where 200 MEK members relocated out of goodwill gesture to pressures by the US-UN, as a 'detention centre' and not a refugee camp. It is therefore, careless of the State Department officials to believe that vociferous pranks could shade over realities.<br />- On August 10, UN rights experts warned of 'massacre' in Iraq's Ashraf camp. (3)<br />- Family members of Ashraf residents are being persecuted (4) and on the verge of death (5) because of the US Blacklisting that provides the best alibi for the increasing violence towards MEK prisoners of conscience.<br />- Unlike claimed "comfort" in Ashraf and Liberty, the Iraqi government is at loggerheads with each request of the residents. Dubious tactics frame the residents for the blame. Therefore, while US-UN observers are present; the Iraqi counterpart valiantly accepts some of the requirements that abide the red lines defined by Tehran. After the agreement, Iraqi officers controlling the camp provided splitting-hair excuses that exhaust the residents and practically make it impossible (6) to retract the agreed needs.<br />- There are immoral and inhumane sides to the Iraqi degrading treatment of the residents; corpses of some of the deceased residents has not been allowed (7) to be buried, as part of a psychological campaign to demoralize the residents.</div>
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<b>It is time for Hillary Clinton to do what is right</b></div>
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It is therefore, a tragic irony and bitter immorality that the US State department wishes to enchain MEK, not because the camps are 'paramilitary' but because the residents are fighting for their privileged rights: generators, refrigerators and the right to stay safe.</div>
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It is time for Mrs. Clinton to do what is right and just and not what the 'job' would require. We can write history on both the dark side and the bright side.</div>
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<b>Delist the MEK before thousands of our families and relatives are victimized.</b></div>
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Iranian demonstrators purportedly took to the streets in a rare act of public defiance last week, but not over corruption, unemployment, or social and political reform.</div>
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The protests were reportedly over chicken, which has become the latest symbol for Iran’s deepening economic malaise.</div>
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Videos circulating on social media websites purported to show demonstrators marching in Neishabour, a city located about 500 miles northeast of Iran’s capital, Tehran. In one YouTube video, a number of people could be seen lining a street in Neishabour chanting slogans critical of the nation’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Others chanted against the rise in prices. Photos posted to blogs in iran appeared to show similar scenes from the northeastern province, though, the videos and pictures could not be independently verified.</div>
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Recent discontent in Iran has focused on rising prices of food staples, such as poultry. Many Iranians blame the government and tightening international sanctions over the country’s controversial nuclear program for the economic decline and rising inflation.</div>
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The price of chicken in Iran has increased nearly threefold in the past two months. Chicken now sells for around 80,000 rials a kilogram, roughly $6.15.</div>
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Earlier this month, one senior government official caused a stir when he urged Iranian state television to avoid broadcasting images of people eating chicken. Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam, chief of Iran’s national police forces, announced at a press conference that pictures of poultry could spark social unrest, with potentially unforeseen consequences.</div>
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“They show chicken being eaten in movies while somebody might not be able to buy it,” said Ahmadi Moghaddam in mid July. “Films are now the windows of society and some people observing this class gap might say that we will take knives and take our rights from the rich.”</div>
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Meanwhile, one of Iran’s top-ranking conservative clerics has been doing his part to quell concerns over what some are calling Iran’s “chicken crisis.”</div>
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“We see that many people are shrieking over the price of chicken. But what’s the worst that can happen if one doesn’t eat it? The overwhelming majority of doctors say that meat products don’t make for good food,” said Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, according to state media.<br /><br /> <a href="http://cnniinsidethemiddleeast.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/149207017.jpg?w=553&h=368" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://cnniinsidethemiddleeast.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/149207017.jpg?w=553&h=368" width="320" /></a>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />The new courses coincide with the abolition of several social science degrees at prominent institutions, including Allameh Tabatabai University, which will cease to offer a journalism course in the next academic year.<br />Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered a halt to the expansion of a range of social sciences degrees, including women’s studies, human rights and law, after declaring them “founded on materialism” hostile to Islam.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />By contrast, the jail warden courses – offered under the title “Judiciary Aid Work” – have the highest official blessing after senior prison officials spent three years preparing them.<br />Nasser Rabiei, deputy director of the Iranian prison service’s education and research centre, told the Arman newspaper that they would bring jailing practices “up to date”. He said 80% of enrolled students would be recruited from among existing wardens.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />The newspaper Jam-e Jam, citing official statistics, reported that 80 new inmates are admitted to Iran’s prisons every day. It said that under the country’s penal code, Iranians could potentially be imprisoned for more than 1,640 separate offences, many of which are not considered crimes in most countries.<br />Drewery Dyke, Iran researcher at Amnesty International, said the courses could improve some inmates’ conditions but that prisoners of conscience may not benefit. “However much training there is, it’s not going to be allocated to the parts of prisons controlled by the intelligence services and revolutionary guards, where political prisoners are kept.</span>”</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Iran’s nuclear facilities have suffered a cyber attack that shut down computers and played music from the rock band AC/DC, the F-Secure Security Labs website said.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Iran’s nuclear program and oil facilities have been subject to a succession of cyber attacks that the Foreign Ministry said in May were launched by hostile governments as part of a broader “soft war.” Iran accuses the United States and Israel of trying to sabotage its technological progress. Both say Iran’s nuclear activities may have military intent, an allegation that Iran denies.<br />Mikko Hypponen, chief security officer at F-Secure Security Labs and the person involved in the correspondence, said he received three emails on July 22 from an individual with an aeoi.org.ir email address, receiving replies after he responded. After researching the person’s name on the Internet, Hypponen said he found “plenty of nuclear science papers and articles published by someone with this name.”<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">“I can’t confirm that the person was who he said he was. And I can’t confirm any of the things he said actually happened,” Hypponen wrote. “But I can confirm I was emailing with someone who had access to an aeoi.org.ir address.”</span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-55535897185196547302012-07-28T07:30:00.000-07:002012-07-28T07:32:49.725-07:00Document Reveals: UNAMI Chief-Iran-Iraq to Shut Down Refugee Camp: Deliver to Iran<br />
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Baghdad (I-Newswire) July 26, 2012 - The same sources report that, Mr. Kobler, UNAMI chief in Baghdad, had UNAMI rent Hotel Yamameh for a similar plot at the beginning of July. This hotel was mentioned by Iraq's security advisor as a second Temporary Transit Location (TTL) for MEK members in Camp Ashraf, in the memorandum of understanding, signed by Mr. Kobler.<br />
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One Document displayed in Iranian opposition Television, Simay-e-Azadi, disclosed a full time contract between the “Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baghdad – Trade Counsel," bearing the signature of the "Islamic Republic of Iran – Ministry of trade – Trade Counsel – Bagdad" and an Intelligence agent named “Mehdi Nejatnia” and the Iraqi government. The hotel was to house 400 MEK members who were in the fifth convoy going to camp Liberty; It alleged to be used as a concentration camp against the pro-democracy group; MEK.<br />
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According to sources in Iran, UNAMI proposed to buy the contract with a higher bid to persuade the GoI into a new contract with the UN agency.<br />
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Mr. kobler visited his counterparts in Iran in May 2012 to negotiate matters. The visit coincided with the fifth convoy of Camp Ashraf residents leaving for Camp Hurieh (Liberty). The operation that was to relocate the refugees peacefully to third countries was hustled by the Iraqi government stopping short of a third assault on the residents. Hundreds of breaches were reported in consecutive statements by the Iranian opposition office in Paris (NCRI), resulting in a stalemate.<br />
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The visit drew a negative response that back lashed in resolutions and written statements by the residents, their representatives, lawyers, parliamentary groups and dignitaries in Europe and the U.S.<br />
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On 24th of April, on return from Iran, Maliki's security advisor, Faleh Fayaz Al-Ameri disclosed UN participation in a Tehran engineered scenario to handle its fierce opposition in Camp Ashraf.<br />
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The objective was to wear down MEK members in an abrasive process of negotiations, without manifesting results, in order to relocate; scatter and gradually repatriate them back to Iran.<br />
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Al Ameri disclosed that: “Mr. Martin Kobler, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Iraq, has talked in details with Iraqi and Iranian parties through the Iranian Embassy or other channels communicating with Iran in order to provide the requirements for implementation of the ..to close camp Ashraf and put an end to the presence of this organization on Iraqi territory. Talks included the mechanisms and Iran’s role in what has to be done to solve this matter…”<br />
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The opposition disclosed in a recent statement that UN representative had participated in a dozen meeting with its Leadership, and residents have exchanged at least 40 letters and proposals with much leniency to resolve the crisis. Each time the UN Special representative has introduced plans and no deeds.<br />
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Mr. Kobler’s current “road map” is believed to be related with recent revelations and following his trip to Iran. In a letter to the opposition leadership, he was said to have expressed his intent: “We are in contact with the Iraqi government on a roadmap to relocate camp Ashraf “<br />
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In a statement released by the NCRI the “road map” is rejected as having “shocking deceptions, fallacies and inverted claims." The office dubbed the “attrition process” as repetitious hollow promises that started since December 18, which are only adjustments to “Iraqi governments’ patience” rather than the resident’s most primary needs such as drinking water from city sources or lift trucks that would prevent physical labor of residents under sky-high heat of 65 Celsius.<br />
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“In this Road map, similar to previous ones, all the humanitarian requirements of the residents like water, electricity, and utility and personal vehicles and forklifts have been postponed to an unspecific and unclear arrangement.”<br />
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-Residents were to auction their belongings in Camp Ashraf to accommodate for expenses such as food, electricity and livelihood in Prison Liberty with UN observance. Merchants have been threatened and intimidated by the GoI, leaving no possibility for transactions.<br />
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NCRI statement emphasized: “Mr. Kobler is repeating once again the identicle scenario in order to evict and relocate the remaining residents to Liberty's prison only based on hollow promises without provision of the humanitarian minimums. In practice, this is the same plan of the Iranian regime and its Iraqi proxies to compel the Iranian opposition to submit and surrender."<br />
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While Mr. Kobler tones “suppressive” moves by GoI as a “generous” move, the ‘Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’ of the Human Rights Council in a recent letter has rebuffed his empathy to the Iraqi government calling “deprivation of liberty...a violation of international law.”<br />
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The opposition leader Maryam Rajavi initiated a proposal last December, to curb attempts by Tehran. The proposal involved either her participation in talks with the GoI, or a conference chaired by Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG) and a decision making Iraqi officials and to resolve the crisis. (NCRI statement January 2, 2012 statement).<br />
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Mr. Koblers passionate applause of “generous” achievements of the Iraqi government in the “Liberty” deal has now taken new meaning.<br />
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1- Iranian Intelligence plot Iraqi Hotel to relocate MEK members in Iraq:“This document stipulates that: “We (the Iraqi Government) put our conditions to members of the organization and want them to submit eventually.... In many cases the UN justifies Iraqi conditions and demands the members of PMOI to accept them, because Liberty is Just a transit location and their stay in there will be a short one.”<br />
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Based on this document, the government of Iraq would complain that “not all of the UN mission are in total agreement with the government of Iraq, however, SRSG Mr. Kobler specifically agrees with all Iraqi government’s demands. We believe he does not want to oppose the Iraqi government and to obscure his relation with the Iraqi government for the sake of PMOI.” The PMOI has raised some demands “We show positive reaction to these demands to collaborate with the UN, but these demands will never be fulfilled. The Iraqi government and it’s negotiator have only agreed to discuss the minor and unimportant issues. The issues which do not have serious implications in the situation like field medical visits or delegations which are less important issues. The government of Iraq would react strongly to some of the demands posed by the residents.... the new camp should be based on the needs of the Iraqi government and not the needs of the members of the Organization, the Iraqi government will not relent from the main issues”.<br />
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The GoI has assigned Labeed Abbawi, Iraqi deputy Foreign Minister, to exhaust all his efforts to hinder all measures by the UN various bodies with regard to Ashraf and to not participate in the committees formed by these bodies.<br />
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In yet another move, Hajj Ali Navidi, the agent of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in the regime’s embassy, has staged banquets for three successive days for a number of Iraqi merchants, engineers and clergies aimed at activating them in favor of mullahs’ regime’s interfering policies in Iraq. Most of the invitees refused to participate in the banquets.</div>
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After the recent mediatic bravado by the US State department that conditioned its belated legal obligation to the evacuation of a refugee Camp in Diyala province of Iraq, the situation has evolved into a humanitarian time bomb.</div>
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A committee of 4000 European lawmakers issued a report to the Security Council on the escalating humanitarian crisis in two Camps that house members of the pro-democracy opposition to Tehran, MEK.</div>
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The report which has been prepared in 10 sections, after reviewing the events in the past three months in two camps of Ashraf and Liberty, presents urgent and necessary requirements for the conclusion of relocation of the residents to Liberty in 10 and 5 articles respectively to the Security Council and while appealing for the Councils’ support.</div>
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The core message of the report is sharply accentuated over the ongoing diplomatic tussling of the US during pre-election nuclear talks with Tehran:</div>
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<strong><em>“Any relocation (of residents) to Liberty without providing the minimum (needs of residents) might bear catastrophic consequences to the residents…. The first step should be by the SRSG (Martin Kobler) to report the obstructions of Iraq with no reservation to the Security Council calling for its active intervention.”</em></strong></div>
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The report specifies that the Government of Iraq (GOI) has repeatedly violated the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ since seven months ago when it was signed by the GOI and UN, and has infringed most of the pledges it has given through the UN and U.S. government to Ashraf residents for relocation to Liberty.</div>
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Highlighting Iraqi government constant profane violations of rights the committee stressed;</div>
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<em>“There is no substance … at least 8 points have remained unresolved including connection of Liberty to the city water network or pumping water from a river adjacent to the camp, transfer of the main generators of 1.5 Mega Watt, allowing the sale of the movable and immovable properties and its start, constructions of special facilities for disabled and ill people, transfer of the six utility vehicles, three vehicles and 6 trailers for the disabled, transfer of 5 forklifts and 50 passenger cars. They (residents) have constantly restricted their demands with maximum goodwill seeking a peaceful relocation. But the GOI has not abided by its commitments.”</em></div>
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Unilateral pressure compelled on the leadership of the residents to accept the inhuman conditions imposed by Iraqi forces at the behest of Tehran, have been condemned by majority of votes in the<a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1614:senator-lucio-malan-protecting-lives-and-rights-of-people-in-ashraf-and-liberty&catid=10:conferences&Itemid=25" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Italian</a>, <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/12118-arabic-and-iraqi-support-for-ashraf-and-liberty-residents-" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Egyptian</a>, <a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1600:raymonde-folco&catid=10:conferences&Itemid=25" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Canada</a>, Malta, Lithuania and the European Parliament.</div>
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The majority members of the U.S. House of Representatives and dozens of the most prominent former U.S. national security officials have defended the rights of Ashraf residents and have been critical of the U.S. for reneging of its legal, political, and moral obligation to the residents.</div>
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With no running water, no electricity at night, vipers roaming free, no access to doctors or lawyers, and excrement from the broken sewage plant running around the dwellings like a stream, any comparison between Camp Liberty and a concentration camp is not out of sarcasm.</div>
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What the government of Iraq is planning to do with residents in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty is frighteningly reminiscent of what Hitler did to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.</div>
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In a <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/12122-shortage-of-water-worsens-in-liberty-on-the-eve-of-ramadan-while-the-weather-is-above-50-degrees" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recent</a> statement, the opposition appealed to the International community for intervention over the approaching “heated “ month of fasting (Ramadan) and the shortage of water, which is the result of a long term plot to dehydrate the residents.</div>
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“It is past time to supply water by tankers for 2000 inhabitants at Camp Liberty and if the camp would not be connected to the city network or water channel expeditiously, the situation would become more critical.”</div>
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Instead of speaking out about the truth and being critical of the Government of Iraq for its violations of the MoU, an anonymous U.S. official lambasted the group of U.S. dignitaries, including three Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces; an attorney General; two directors of CIA; a Secretary of Homeland Security; and a Director of FBI; who have called for adhering to the U.S. commitments and principles.</div>
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High stake diplomacy will take its toll. The Question is how much UN and US representatives are willing to compromise humanitarian foundations?</div>
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The report by 4000 lawmakers has this to say:</div>
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“It would be very regrettable if the SRSG or the U.S. Secretary of State’s Special Advisor put the residents under pressure for resuming relocation instead of pressuring the GOI to fulfill these demands. We strongly believe that continuation and completion of relocation must be done after these minimums are met.”</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-91427201618544067912012-07-22T04:52:00.000-07:002012-07-22T04:52:53.271-07:00MEK-Liberty: Brewing Humanitarian Catastrophe vs. US-UN Obligations<br />
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<em>In early July, vice-President of the European Parliament and President of the International Committee In Search of Justice declared a 10-point requirement plan, on behalf of the 4000 parliamentarians across Atlantic that introduced basic needs of 2000 Iranian dissidents relocated to Camp liberty;</em></div>
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Only after the head of Camp Liberty, Sadeg Kazem, was <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iraqi-official-held-france-torture-charge-155706251.html" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">detained</a> by French police for being perused by the Spanish Court for Crimes, Liberty residents have been facing intense harassment by Iraqi “plain clothed” anonymous agents who prevent food and <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-resistance/12060-33-drop-in-camp-libertys-water-supply-water-shortage-crisis" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">water</a> supplies delivery to the camp.</div>
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The residents’ representatives have repeatedly asked UNAMI representatives to compel Iraq to abide by its commitments and demanded that the police inspect the food trucks, but this has been rejected by the Suppression Committee, which is acting on behalf of the Maliki office and at the behest of Tehran.</div>
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Consecutive press statements by the opposition offices convey aggravated humanitarian situation for the residents already relocated at the new Camp Liberty. Extreme shortage of water, electricity and sewage sanitation at the camp; harassment of residents under pretext of controlling relocation; preventing food supplies from entry;looting property during relocation to second camp; stationing of armored vehicles and Iranian Intelligence agents at camp vicinity are akin to the previous trend which ensued a humanitarian disaster on April 8 2011.</div>
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One statement mentions that “the GoI is putting maximum pressure on Ashraf residents to continue relocation to Camp Liberty” without meeting residents’ needs under various pretexts.</div>
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The residents say their personal belongings and assets are being looted and prevented from relocation to the second camp even after detailed talks and agreements between US-US representatives with the opposition Leadership in Paris. “Ashraf residents and their representatives had presented the necessary requirements for resuming further convoys and relocation of all Ashraf residents to Liberty in six items since two months ago, which has not been fulfilled yet despite US and UN insurances. The US observer, Ambassador Daniel Fried was quoted to have this to say :</div>
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<em>“We too heard the unfortunate news of the return of the utility vehicles. We will follow up with the Iraqi authorities to determine why they took this strange and seemingly unhelpful step”.</em></div>
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The statements also imply that the critical humanitarian situation prevailing in two camps simultaneously are heightened by two wrong signals both initiated by the US and UN:</div>
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The US black listing of the opposition (MEK) has been acting as a green light for the Iraqi Prime Minister to clamp down on Tehran’s opposition on behest of Terhan.</div>
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Simultaneously, conceding Camp Liberty as a Temporary Transitional Location (TTL) has served to disengage constructive obligations and justified the Iraqi government continuous breach of the MoU.</div>
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In the most recent<a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-resistance/12109-after-two-and-half-months-iraqi-government-refused-to-implement-eight-points-of-the-ten-minimum-humanitarian-requirements-for-the-departure-of-other-groups-from-ashraf-to-liberty" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> statement</a> by the NCRI (A Political coalition that embodies main ethnic-political and religious groups of the Iranian opposition front) a new ploy is unraveled to fail the relocation efforts by the International community and point the finger on the MEK.</div>
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Following numerous meetings with the representatives of the residents, the dignitaries from both side of the Atlantic, representatives of the US and UN; the President of International Committee in Search of Justice and Vice-president of the European Parliament, on behalf of more than 4,000 parliamentarians across the world, set the minimum humanitarian requirements: the basics for a refugee camp that has to provide 3400 people habitat, in a barren land under temperatures mounting to 56 degrees.</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Transfer of 300 air conditioners from Ashraf to Liberty.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Transfer of all the power generators that are currently in Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty. If there is any dispute about the ownership of the generators, they can be resolved in the future, under supervision of UN.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Transfer of 25 trucks, containing the belongings left over from the fourth and fifth convoys,8 and six utility vehicles about which there had already been an agreement.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Transfer of five forklifts from Ashraf to Liberty for the purpose of moving the residents’ belongings.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Transfer of three specially-designed vehicles and six specially-designed trailers for the disabled.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Transfer of 50 passenger cars from Ashraf to Liberty. It means one car for every 40 residents, which is absolutely necessary in the hot weather and for wounded and disabled residents.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Permission for construction, including the building of pavements, porches, canopies, ramps, special facilities for the disabled and green areas.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Connecting Liberty to Baghdad’s water network. Alternatively, the residents should be permitted to hire Iraqi contractors to pump the water into Liberty from a nearby water canal and bringing their own water purification system from Ashraf.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Allowing merchants or bidders access to Ashraf to negotiate and buy the movable properties as soon as possible and to make advanced payment and start making partial payments to the residents before the resumption of the relocation of the next convoy.</em></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Start of negotiations between the residents and their financial representatives and the Iraqi Government to sell the immovable assets and properties, or negotiations with third parties (Iraqi Government should provide permission) to sign the necessary agreements. Partial payments should be made before the relocation. At least 200 residents would remain at Ashraf to maintain and upkeep the properties until they are sold in their entirety.</em></li>
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Impediments inflicted by the Maliki government are occurring while the prime minister is under impeachment by the Iraqi parliament for violation of Iraqi Constitution and his close interaction with Tehran.</div>
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The heightening trends of economic and political ties between Iraq and Iran in recent months reveal best Iraqi final intentions on the issue; abide with agreement made with Iranian Supreme leader to behead Tehran’s main opposition, MEK.</div>
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Recently Tehran had declared that exchanges between the two countries has risen by 50% during the last Iranian year 1390 (March 21, 2011- March 21, 2012 ) compared to previous year thus reaching 9.7 billion dollars, and it will further reach 12 billion dollars in the current year. The Iraqi government therefore has played a major role in relieving the Ayatollahs of the pressures inflicted by International sanctions.</div>
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Al-Maliki’s loyalty to the ayatollahs has proved to be effective in the past. Every visit to Tehran in the past two years has given fruit to a murderous attack on the Iranian dissidents and exiles in the camp. Tehran has passed seven consecutive deadlines to expatriate to Iran or kill the dissidents through Baghdad in the past. Each of the deadlines had humanitarian consequences and has so far resulted in 56 deaths and thousands maimed and injured.</div>
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The plot today is however more disguised. With the presence of the UN and the US, it would be to the best advantage of Tehran to conceal its apparatus under the guise of the UN-US observation.</div>
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The situation as such is a reminder of the Warsaw Ghettos’ humanitarian disaster, when the Nazis had planned the genocide from long before and lured their victims to their ‘death camp.’</div>
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The paradoxical tragedy can be prevented if the UN-US play their distinctive roles; impel Iraqi government to its obligations and de-list the group from the US list that has provoked the situation.</div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Egyptian parliament majority
and 4000 EU lawmakers condemn US-UN debacle in handling Camp Liberty brewing
crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<em><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Camouflaged siege by Iraqi forces of refugee Camp;
dehydration in sky-high temperatures; blocking basic needs of residents
condemned in report by committee of 4000 lawmakers to UN Security Council.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
<span lang="EN-US">After the recent mediatic
bravado by the US State department that conditioned its belated legal
obligation to the evacuation of a refugee Camp in Diyala province of Iraq, the
situation has evolved into a humanitarian time bomb.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">A committee of 4000
European lawmakers issued a report to the Security Council on the escalating
humanitarian crisis in two Camps that house members of the pro-democracy
opposition to Tehran, MEK.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The report which has been
prepared in 10 sections, after reviewing the events in the past three months in
two camps of Ashraf and Liberty, presents urgent and necessary requirements for
the conclusion of relocation of the residents to Liberty in 10 and 5 articles
respectively to the Security Council and while appealing for the Councils’
support.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p><a name='more'></a></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The core message of the
report is sharply accentuated over the ongoing diplomatic tussling of the US
during pre-election nuclear talks with Tehran:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<em><b><span lang="EN-US">“Any relocation (of
residents) to Liberty without providing the minimum (needs of residents) might
bear catastrophic consequences to the residents…. The first step should be by
the SRSG (Martin Kobler) to report the obstructions of Iraq with no reservation
to the Security Council calling for its active intervention.”</span></b></em><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The report specifies that
the Government of Iraq (GOI) has repeatedly violated the ‘Memorandum of
Understanding’ since seven months ago when it was signed by the GOI and UN, and
has infringed most of the pledges it has given through the UN and U.S.
government to Ashraf residents for relocation to Liberty.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Highlighting Iraqi
government constant profane violations of rights the committee stressed;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<em><span lang="EN-US">“There is no substance
… at least 8 points have remained unresolved including connection of Liberty to
the city water network or pumping water from a river adjacent to the camp,
transfer of the main generators of 1.5 Mega Watt, allowing the sale of the
movable and immovable properties and its start, constructions of special
facilities for disabled and ill people, transfer of the six utility vehicles,
three vehicles and 6 trailers for the disabled, transfer of 5 forklifts and 50
passenger cars. They (residents) have constantly restricted their demands with
maximum goodwill seeking a peaceful relocation. But the GOI has not abided by
its commitments.”</span></em><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Unilateral pressure
compelled on the leadership of the residents to accept the inhuman conditions
imposed by Iraqi forces at the behest of Tehran, have been condemned by
majority of votes in the </span><a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1614:senator-lucio-malan-protecting-lives-and-rights-of-people-in-ashraf-and-liberty&catid=10:conferences&Itemid=25" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Italian</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/12118-arabic-and-iraqi-support-for-ashraf-and-liberty-residents-" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Egyptian</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, </span><a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1600:raymonde-folco&catid=10:conferences&Itemid=25" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Canada</span></a><span lang="EN-US">, Malta, Lithuania and the European
Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The majority members of the
U.S. House of Representatives and dozens of the most prominent former U.S.
national security officials have defended the rights of Ashraf residents and
have been critical of the U.S. for reneging of its legal, political, and moral
obligation to the residents.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">With no running water, no
electricity at night, vipers roaming free, no access to doctors or lawyers, and
excrement from the broken sewage plant running around the dwellings like a
stream, any comparison between Camp Liberty and a concentration camp is not out
of sarcasm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">What the government of Iraq
is planning to do with residents in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty is
frighteningly reminiscent of what Hitler did to the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">In a </span><a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/12122-shortage-of-water-worsens-in-liberty-on-the-eve-of-ramadan-while-the-weather-is-above-50-degrees" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">recent</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> statement, the opposition appealed
to the International community for intervention over the approaching “heated “
month of fasting (Ramadan) and the shortage of water, which is the result of a
long term plot to dehydrate the residents.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">“It is past time to supply
water by tankers for 2000 inhabitants at Camp Liberty and if the camp would not
be connected to the city network or water channel expeditiously, the situation
would become more critical.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Instead of speaking out
about the truth and being critical of the Government of Iraq for its violations
of the MoU, an anonymous U.S. official lambasted the group of U.S. dignitaries,
including three Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces; an attorney
General; two directors of CIA; a Secretary of Homeland Security; and a Director
of FBI; who have called for adhering to the U.S. commitments and principles.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">High stake diplomacy will
take its toll. The Question is how much UN and US representatives are willing
to compromise humanitarian foundations?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The report by 4000
lawmakers has this to say:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">“It would be very
regrettable if the SRSG or the U.S. Secretary of State’s Special Advisor put
the residents under pressure for resuming relocation instead of pressuring the
GOI to fulfill these demands. We strongly believe that continuation and
completion of relocation must be done after these minimums are met.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>SABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-71411632278826582892012-07-14T18:11:00.001-07:002012-07-14T18:11:07.270-07:00MEK-US : Sweet Lives Forsaken In Blood Policy<br />
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Last week, the State Department released a deadline for evacuation of Iranian opposition Camp Ashraf, leaving the residents only one choice: <b>go to a prison<u>camp Liberty</u></b>.</div>
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This statement is not only shocking for the Iranian community but also a charade that only fulfills election purposes at the expense of another Srebrenica; this time at the doorstep of Washington.</div>
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Slaughtering so blatantly the basic right to life of 3400 opposition refugees under the eyes of world media only has one alarming message for the American people:</div>
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It does not take a bloody Srebrenica or a blatant execution of an Afghan woman in public to test a Nation's morality. Officially garbling the truth about basic human rights violations in Camp Ashraf-Liberty by Iraqi forces loyal to Iran is what it takes to bury American integrity. Once past the threshold, no Nation will survive the creeping corruption that would follow.</blockquote>
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Men make history. They can also crumble it to ashes.</h3>
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State department officials made irresponsible and obstructive remarks in their recent statement to the press. It is obvious for the active Persian community inside, and outside Iran that the comments were a consequence of a deadlock in foreign policy well interpreted by the Iranian regime as a weak sign.</div>
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<i>It will not, however, wash away practical obligations of the US towards international humanitarian law; Negligence of the Dutch government during the massacre that occurred in the Bosnian town in 1995 was recalled by international courts.</i></div>
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Depriving People Of Basic Rights</h3>
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<b>Camp residents are practically asked to deprive themselves voluntarily of basic rights that we all take for granted such as: </b></div>
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<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Power generators that provide drinking water and electricity, air conditioners and fridges to allow minimum life conditions in soaring temperatures.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Camp Ashraf has its own Air-conditioner that will save the residents in the overheated Liberty camp. They must be allowed to transfer all of them to provide for the overcrowded and prison like conditions in Liberty.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Their own cars that allow mobility for the injured. (many intentionally injured by Iraqis)</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Their own portable property that could be sold to support the residents for food and water.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Lift trucks that prevent crippling labor enforced by Iraqi forces that killed one resident (Bardia Amir-Mostofian)</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Five trucks that were stolen from the fifth convoy during their relocation, along with five forklifts must be allowed to be taken to Liberty as personal integrity of the refugees.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Refugees cannot be prevented from making pathways or shades for the handicapped and personnel at their own expense. Plants cannot be refused entry into Liberty if the residents can afford them. Even in Prisons, prisoners can buy items if they are affordable.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Merchants or bidders must be allowed access to Ashraf to negotiate and buy the movable property as soon as possible and to make advanced payment and start making partial payments to the residents before the resumption of the relocation of the next convoy. The Iraqi government slick attempts to harass and threaten the merchants in every approach to hamper the process must be stopped.</li>
<li style="margin-left: 4px;">Iraqi Government should provide permission to sign the necessary agreements to sell property in Camp Ashraf with third independent parties present. Iraqi mishandling and looting of property has left no room for trust and therefore, residents preconditions must be legitimized.</li>
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As a former political prisoner and current exile, having spent five years in Iranian regime torture chambers, I can proudly express my profound support for the Iranian opposition members in both camps. The splendour of being able to repel a religious tyranny for the sake of mankind is always challenged by negative rhetoric in an ad hominem manner. There are more than 1000 women in the Camp; each testimonial of the excruciating struggle of women against misogyny and Islamic fundamentalism. At least, 1000 former political prisoners and living proof of unspoken atrocities of the Clerical fascists are surviving under the 50 degree Celsius heat without basic needs such as drinking water and food.</div>
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We do not have to reach far to appreciate heroes. We do not have to watch and react after a Srebrenica to bring to justice those responsible for War crimes.</div>
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To revitalize smeared morality, the State Department can undo the damage it has caused the nation:</div>
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<b>Stop lies; stop delays; act according to the Law and side with Justice</b></blockquote>
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There are practical steps to be taken. Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law and Justice. If the Obama Administration was to prove its grandeur before the elections, it must take the ultimate leap and draw a strong and permanent red line with the Tyrants:</div>
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<i>Respect calls by 630 world politicians and policy makers who defended the dissidents in both camps and demanded the US to stand decisively against Iraqi manipulation of the MoU.</i><br />
Support the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/appeal%20/smallbusin0f7-20" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00009c;" target="_new">appeal</a> by the European parliament to recognise Camp Liberty as a refugee camp and respect the 10 fundamental needs of the residents, which will be provided by their own sources and funds.<br />
Stand by the side of the true heroes in Camp Liberty and camp Ashraf: This is the key to regional peace.</blockquote>
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<i>Sima Kamyar is a former political prisoner, Chairwoman and spokesperson of the Iranian Cultural Society Sweden. Simas family has been victims of the clerics in Iran. Her niece was executed during the 1988 massacre of 120 000 political prisoners, in which inmates aged from 13 to 96 were executed collectively.</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-90850895222743707012012-07-08T13:17:00.000-07:002012-07-08T13:20:54.057-07:00Is Department of State Blackmailing Iranian MEK?<em style="color: #292929; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">Nima Sharif</em><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">In an “on-the-record conference call” with journalist, officials from the State Department, Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Daniel Benjamin and Special Advisor to the Secretary on Camp Ashraf Ambassador Daniel Fried, pressed members of the Iranian opposition movement living in Camp Ashraf to leave the camp and move to Camp Liberty in Baghdad in order for the Secretary of State Clinton to ‘possibly’ remove the name of the organization, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) from the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list of the Department. They complained that there has been no relocation since May 4, 2012, when the last group of 400 dissidents left Ashraf for Camp Liberty.<br /><br />"</span><span style="background-color: #e0e0e0; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">The Iraqi government, clearly at the behest of the Iranian regime, is preventing any basic items to be moved to Camp Liberty or facilities be established there, of course at the expense of the residents. Water, electricity, proper sanitation, and cooling systems in a 130F (55°C) heat, while you are willing to pay for it yourself, is not too much to ask for and is certainly not maximalist."<br /></span><br />
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The officials failed to state clearly the reason why the move is not taking place, specifically the humanitarian situation at Camp Liberty which by no means meets international standards. In fact, after 2000 residents of Camp Ashraf have already moved to Liberty, the camp can no longer accept more residents due to lack of basic living needs such as water, electricity and sewage system and etc...</div>
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Residents of Camps Ashraf and Liberty are members of the main Iranian opposition movement, MEK, that have lived for years in Iraq fleeing persecution by the Iranian dictatorial regime. But the current government of Iraq, having close ties to the Iranian regime, has been persecuting the exiles in their home of 25 years which is called Camp Ashraf situated at about 80 miles north of Baghdad. In two separate attacks on the camp in 2009 and 2011, total of 47 residents including 8 women were killed by Iraqi forces as the American forces nearby looked away. Video shots of the April 2011 massacre on YouTube, shows Iraqi officers directly shooting at unarmed residents who empty handedly tried to prevent the Iraqi forces from taking over their homes.</div>
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In 1997, the Clinton administration, in a move to win favor with Iran’s then new, so-called moderate president, Mohammed Khatami, blacklisted Iran’s main opposition in exile, MEK. But the passage of years since the war in Iraq and fall of Saddam Hussein, have proven that the group is not a terrorist organization and is no threat to the United States. On the contrary, MEK is a legitimate opposition movement, trying to bring a democratic change to Iran and advocates peace, democracy and freedom, and separation of church and state for that country.</div>
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A court ruling in Washington on June 1 this year called on the Secretary of State to decide whether to continue listing of the group or delist them by October 1 or, otherwise, by the order of the court, the group will automatically be removed from the Department’s FTO list.</div>
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But the Secretary of State has subjected the delisting to a move from Camp Ashraf to Liberty by the residents, who are members of the MEK, and a successful closure of the camp. While such contingency is not defined by law and it should be unlawful for the Secretary to declare such conditions for delisting, the MEK has already committed to the closure of Camp Ashraf in order to prevent further bloodshed of the residents at the hands of the Iraqi government.</div>
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The MEK has convincingly demonstrated its desire for a peaceful solution. 2000 residents have already moved to Camp Liberty and the remaining, about 1200, have publicly stated that they are ready to depart as soon as humanitarian conditions at Camp Liberty are brought up to standards and minimum living requirements for 3200 people at the 0.5 km<sup>2</sup>camp allocated to them are met.</div>
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But the Iraqi government, clearly at the behest of the Iranian regime, is preventing any basic items to be moved to Camp Liberty or facilities be established there, of course at the expense of the residents. Water, electricity, proper sanitation, and cooling systems in a 130F (55°C) heat, while you are willing to pay for it yourself, is not too much to ask for and is certainly not maximalist.</div>
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The Department of State should stop threatening and pressuring the already under pressure and defenseless residents of Camp Ashraf, to give up basic human rights and surrender to a forcible move to Liberty. Instead, it is expected from the United States to press the government of Iraq to respect the human rights of the residents and allow them access to basic needs that they will acquire at their own expense, thus, facilitating further move of the remaining residents to Liberty. It is perfectly legitimate for the residents to ask to have access to running water, and not for the water to be delivered by tanker on daily basis. It is totally unacceptable that in 21<sup>st</sup> centaury people be forced to live in such condition. What is absolutely appalling is that both UN and U.S. are supporting this inhumane condition simply because they do not want to jeopardize their relation with Nouri al-Maliki.</div>
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Ambassador Fried that, in his view, the residents should not ask to take their own personal cars to Camp Liberty is shocking. The question is why should there be any restriction on the residents to take their own properties. They are being unlawfully evicted by the Iraqi government, ironically supported by the US and UN Secretary General Special Representative, and yet are even denied the right to take their own property. The Iraqi government has so far even prevented the disabled to take their indispensible facilities, without which they cannot survive. Yet, the UN and State Department are blaming the residents for not moving ahead while keeping silent on the Iraqis suppressive measures.</div>
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Using FTO listing to force the resident to move into an inhumane environment is nothing but blackmail. It intends to force the MEK to trade delisting of the organization with the well-being and safety of its members in Iraq. That is something that is not becoming of a well respected, internationally known and recognized movement for freedom and democracy. It is not the MEK Iranians know. It will not happen. The safety and security of the residents should have priority to every other consideration including delisting of the MEK.</div>
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On the other hand, it would bring much shame to the Department of State to deceive the Iranian exiles, who are there fleeing persecution at the hands of the mullahs’ regime, into walking into what may well turn into their killing field.<br />
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The annual congress of the Iranian resistance in Paris on June 23 was a spectacular event and described as a turning point by policy makers and Iranian affairs pundits. It confirmed several points.</div>
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The unprecedented, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdiGQUvlNb0&feature=plcp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">massive turnout</a> of 100,000-plus participants made it abundantly clear that the opposition the People's Mujahedin of Iran, or, <a href="http://mojahedin.org/pagesen/index.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PMOI – also known as MEK</a>, and the political coalition of <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI</a>) led by <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Maryam Rajavi</a></strong>, enjoys widespread support among the Iranian Diaspora. </div>
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The contribution of the PMOI to help organize <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEIwRt0-mc&feature=plcp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">such a huge and diverse event</a>, by far larger than most Western party congresses or presidential conventions, undercuts the U.S. State Department’s assertion that the group is "marginalized" and "irrelevant." It also served to rebut similar allegations fabricated by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence, which the State Department continues to rehash that this is a "sect" suffering from a "cult of personality" and "lacking popular support".</div>
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To my knowledge, never before in history has an opposition movement been able to organize such a convention outside of its homeland. The very diverse composition of the participants, representing different religious denominations, secularists, liberals, conservatives, young, the elderly and women, was striking.</div>
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Since no government provides material support to the PMOI, this huge event was only made possible after months of fundraising by Iranian volunteers and support committees throughout the world. I know of people who took bank loans or even mortgaged their houses to sponsor this convention.</div>
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Former U.S. Home Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge recently described the movement as "the strongest and most resilient advocates in the history of the world."</div>
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Despite its decades of efforts to establish freedom and democracy in Iran, western states have only cracked down on it in the framework of appeasement policies towards Tehran coupled with an ongoing fear of the mullahs' terrorism.</div>
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In fact, the support that this medieval regime has received from the West goes far beyond any other dictatorships in recent Iranian history. One might be astonished to know that the U.S. policy during the past decade has actually strengthened the ayatollahs and hampered their opposition. A few examples:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The invasion of Iraq, which brought to power the pro-Tehran government of Nouri al-Maliki;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enchaining the only remaining organised opposition to the mullahs through its inclusion on different blacklists and confining their members in a de facto house arrest in Camp Ashraf, Iraq;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignoring the NCRI’s repeated warnings about the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and talking for the sake of talking with Tehran;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaching the U.S. forces signed agreement, which guaranteed the protection of Ashraf residents in return for their voluntarily disarmament, which led to two massacres in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV1UelP_sTE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2009</a>and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfa2yTsY-eQ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2011</a> by the Iraqi forces while U.S. troops simply watched.</li>
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The blacklisting of PMOI hamstrung nearly all the energy and resources of the democratic opposition in lengthy and exhausting legal battles in Europe and the US instead of allowing them to focus on bringing about a democratic change in Iran.</div>
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During the past decade, the Iranian resistance has filed no less than 36 lawsuits in Europe and America confronting various blacklists. And guess what? It has won in all 36. The latest ruling came last month in Washington when a three-judge panel unanimously <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/9626/3-options-for-hillary-clinton-to-avoid-and-aide-the-iranian-opposition" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">ordered Secretary Clinton</a> to make up her mind about the PMOI status or the court will remove it from the State Department's list of terrorist organizations by October 1.</div>
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As the historical leader of the resistance, Massoud Rajavi, once said: “Wherever there is still a drop of freedom and justice left, we can prove the righteousness of our movement."</div>
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The mullahs tried hard to prevent the June rally by sending numerous letters to French authorities as well as organising anti-PMOI pickets to frighten the participants.</div>
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No less than 55 distinguished political figures and personalities including former New York mayor<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz1pZ8CrSD4&feature=plcp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rudy Giuliani</a></strong>, former Democratic Party Chairman Gov. <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed Rendell</strong>, former US Ambassador to UN Gov. <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill Richardson</strong>, former Congressman <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Kennedy</strong>, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Philip J. Crowley</strong> were among the US dignitaries <a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_magazine&func=show_edition&id=15:Paris,%20June%2023%202012&Itemid=52" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">who addressed the event</a>.</div>
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This week, a decade after the resistance exposed the mullahs’ twenty-year clandestine nuclear weapons program for the first time in August 2002, Europe has finally imposed oil sanctions on Iran. These latest sanctions had been demanded by the NCRI for the past three decades. Thus the Iranian resistance has shown its ability to change a world policy while swimming against the tide.</div>
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Now if the U.S. genuinely does not want to hand over a nuclear bomb to the mullahs, it should stand with the democratic opposition to overthrow this regime and recognize their demands. As Mrs Rajavi <a href="http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1251:speech-in-the-grand-gathering-in-villepinte-paris&catid=90:speeches&Itemid=89" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said in the Paris gathering</a>, "Our demand is simple: an Iran free of suppression, a non-nuclear Iran, and a non-theocratic Iran."</div>
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Time has finally come for that<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fffi.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Maryam-Rajavi-Paris-23-june.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.fffi.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Maryam-Rajavi-Paris-23-june.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />Maryam Rajavi, President of the
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The annual congress of the Iranian resistance in Paris on June 23 was a spectacular event and described as a turning point by policy makers and Iranian affairs pundits. It confirmed several points.</div>
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The unprecedented, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdiGQUvlNb0&feature=plcp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">massive turnout</a> of 100,000-plus participants made it abundantly clear that the opposition the People's Mujahedin of Iran, or, <a href="http://mojahedin.org/pagesen/index.aspx" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PMOI – also known as MEK</a>, and the political coalition of <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI</a>) led by <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Maryam Rajavi</a></strong>, enjoys widespread support among the Iranian Diaspora. </div>
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The contribution of the PMOI to help organize <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEIwRt0-mc&feature=plcp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">such a huge and diverse event</a>, by far larger than most Western party congresses or presidential conventions, undercuts the U.S. State Department’s assertion that the group is "marginalized" and "irrelevant." It also served to rebut similar allegations fabricated by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence, which the State Department continues to rehash that this is a "sect" suffering from a "cult of personality" and "lacking popular support".</div>
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To my knowledge, never before in history has an opposition movement been able to organize such a convention outside of its homeland. The very diverse composition of the participants, representing different religious denominations, secularists, liberals, conservatives, young, the elderly and women, was striking.</div>
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Since no government provides material support to the PMOI, this huge event was only made possible after months of fundraising by Iranian volunteers and support committees throughout the world. I know of people who took bank loans or even mortgaged their houses to sponsor this convention.</div>
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Former U.S. Home Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge recently described the movement as "the strongest and most resilient advocates in the history of the world."</div>
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Despite its decades of efforts to establish freedom and democracy in Iran, western states have only cracked down on it in the framework of appeasement policies towards Tehran coupled with an ongoing fear of the mullahs' terrorism.</div>
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In fact, the support that this medieval regime has received from the West goes far beyond any other dictatorships in recent Iranian history. One might be astonished to know that the U.S. policy during the past decade has actually strengthened the ayatollahs and hampered their opposition. A few examples:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The invasion of Iraq, which brought to power the pro-Tehran government of Nouri al-Maliki;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Enchaining the only remaining organised opposition to the mullahs through its inclusion on different blacklists and confining their members in a de facto house arrest in Camp Ashraf, Iraq;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ignoring the NCRI’s repeated warnings about the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and talking for the sake of talking with Tehran;</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 1em 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Breaching the U.S. forces signed agreement, which guaranteed the protection of Ashraf residents in return for their voluntarily disarmament, which led to two massacres in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV1UelP_sTE" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2009</a>and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfa2yTsY-eQ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2011</a> by the Iraqi forces while U.S. troops simply watched.</li>
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The blacklisting of PMOI hamstrung nearly all the energy and resources of the democratic opposition in lengthy and exhausting legal battles in Europe and the US instead of allowing them to focus on bringing about a democratic change in Iran.</div>
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During the past decade, the Iranian resistance has filed no less than 36 lawsuits in Europe and America confronting various blacklists. And guess what? It has won in all 36. The latest ruling came last month in Washington when a three-judge panel unanimously <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/9626/3-options-for-hillary-clinton-to-avoid-and-aide-the-iranian-opposition" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">ordered Secretary Clinton</a> to make up her mind about the PMOI status or the court will remove it from the State Department's list of terrorist organizations by October 1.</div>
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As the historical leader of the resistance, Massoud Rajavi, once said: “Wherever there is still a drop of freedom and justice left, we can prove the righteousness of our movement."</div>
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The mullahs tried hard to prevent the June rally by sending numerous letters to French authorities as well as organising anti-PMOI pickets to frighten the participants.</div>
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No less than 55 distinguished political figures and personalities including former New York mayor<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz1pZ8CrSD4&feature=plcp" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rudy Giuliani</a></strong>, former Democratic Party Chairman Gov. <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ed Rendell</strong>, former US Ambassador to UN Gov. <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bill Richardson</strong>, former Congressman <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patrick Kennedy</strong>, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Philip J. Crowley</strong> were among the US dignitaries <a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_magazine&func=show_edition&id=15:Paris,%20June%2023%202012&Itemid=52" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">who addressed the event</a>.</div>
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This week, a decade after the resistance exposed the mullahs’ twenty-year clandestine nuclear weapons program for the first time in August 2002, Europe has finally imposed oil sanctions on Iran. These latest sanctions had been demanded by the NCRI for the past three decades. Thus the Iranian resistance has shown its ability to change a world policy while swimming against the tide.</div>
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Now if the U.S. genuinely does not want to hand over a nuclear bomb to the mullahs, it should stand with the democratic opposition to overthrow this regime and recognize their demands. As Mrs Rajavi <a href="http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1251:speech-in-the-grand-gathering-in-villepinte-paris&catid=90:speeches&Itemid=89" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(87, 165, 212); color: #085686; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said in the Paris gathering</a>, "Our demand is simple: an Iran free of suppression, a non-nuclear Iran, and a non-theocratic Iran."</div>
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Time has finally come for that. </div>
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The annual congress of the Iranian resistance in Paris on June 23 was a spectacular event and described as a turning point by policy makers and Iranian affairs pundits. It confirmed several points.</div>
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The unprecedented, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdiGQUvlNb0&feature=plcp" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">massive turnout</a> of 100,000-plus participants made it abundantly clear that the opposition the People's Mujahedin of Iran, or, <a href="http://mojahedin.org/pagesen/index.aspx" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PMOI – also known as MEK</a>, and the political coalition of <a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI</a>) led by <strong><a href="http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Maryam Rajavi</a></strong>, enjoys widespread support among the Iranian Diaspora.</div>
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The contribution of the PMOI to help organize <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diEIwRt0-mc&feature=plcp" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">such a huge and diverse event</a>, by far larger than most Western party congresses or presidential conventions, undercuts the U.S. State Department’s assertion that the group is "marginalized" and "irrelevant." It also served to rebut similar allegations fabricated by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence, which the State Department continues to rehash that this is a "sect" suffering from a "cult of personality" and "lacking popular support".</div>
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To my knowledge, never before in history has an opposition movement been able to organize such a convention outside of its homeland. The very diverse composition of the participants, representing different religious denominations, secularists, liberals, conservatives, young, the elderly and women, was striking.</div>
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Since no government provides material support to the PMOI, this huge event was only made possible after months of fundraising by Iranian volunteers and support committees throughout the world. I know of people who took bank loans or even mortgaged their houses to sponsor this convention.</div>
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Former U.S. Home Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge recently described the movement as "the strongest and most resilient advocates in the history of the world."</div>
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Despite its decades of efforts to establish freedom and democracy in Iran, western states have only cracked down on it in the framework of appeasement policies towards Tehran coupled with an ongoing fear of the mullahs' terrorism.</div>
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In fact, the support that this medieval regime has received from the West goes far beyond any other dictatorships in recent Iranian history. One might be astonished to know that the U.S. policy during the past decade has actually strengthened the ayatollahs and hampered their opposition. A few examples:</div>
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• The invasion of Iraq, which brought to power the pro-Tehran government of Nouri al-Maliki;<br />• Enchaining the only remaining organised opposition to the mullahs through its inclusion on different blacklists and confining their members in a de facto house arrest in Camp Ashraf, Iraq;<br />• Ignoring the NCRI’s repeated warnings about the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and talking for the sake of talking with Tehran;<br />• Breaching the U.S. forces signed agreement, which guaranteed the protection of Ashraf residents in return for their voluntarily disarmament, which led to two massacres in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV1UelP_sTE" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2009</a>and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfa2yTsY-eQ" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2011</a> by the Iraqi forces while U.S. troops simply watched.</div>
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The blacklisting of PMOI hamstrung nearly all the energy and resources of the democratic opposition in lengthy and exhausting legal battles in Europe and the US instead of allowing them to focus on bringing about a democratic change in Iran.</div>
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During the past decade, the Iranian resistance has filed no less than 36 lawsuits in Europe and America confronting various blacklists. And guess what? It has won in all 36. The latest ruling came last month in Washington when a three-judge panel unanimously <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/9626/3-options-for-hillary-clinton-to-avoid-and-aide-the-iranian-opposition" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ordered Secretary Clinton</a> to make up her mind about the PMOI status or the court will remove it from the State Department's list of terrorist organizations by October 1.</div>
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As the historical leader of the resistance, Massoud Rajavi, once said: “Wherever there is still a drop of freedom and justice left, we can prove the righteousness of our movement."</div>
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The mullahs tried hard to prevent the June rally by sending numerous letters to French authorities as well as organising anti-PMOI pickets to frighten the participants.</div>
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No less than 55 distinguished political figures and personalities including former New York mayor<strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz1pZ8CrSD4&feature=plcp" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rudy Giuliani</a></strong>, former Democratic Party Chairman Gov. <strong>Ed Rendell</strong>, former US Ambassador to UN Gov. <strong>Bill Richardson</strong>, former Congressman <strong>Patrick Kennedy</strong>, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs <strong>Philip J. Crowley</strong> were among the US dignitaries <a href="http://www.isdciran.org/index.php?option=com_magazine&func=show_edition&id=15:Paris,%20June%2023%202012&Itemid=52" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">who addressed the event</a>.</div>
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This week, a decade after the resistance exposed the mullahs’ twenty-year clandestine nuclear weapons program for the first time in August 2002, Europe has finally imposed oil sanctions on Iran. These latest sanctions had been demanded by the NCRI for the past three decades. Thus the Iranian resistance has shown its ability to change a world policy while swimming against the tide.</div>
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Now if the U.S. genuinely does not want to hand over a nuclear bomb to the mullahs, it should stand with the democratic opposition to overthrow this regime and recognize their demands. As Mrs Rajavi<a href="http://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1251:speech-in-the-grand-gathering-in-villepinte-paris&catid=90:speeches&Itemid=89" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said in the Paris gathering</a>, "Our demand is simple: an Iran free of suppression, a non-nuclear Iran, and a non-theocratic Iran."</div>
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Time has finally come for that.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-75406788415344909522012-07-02T13:33:00.002-07:002012-07-02T13:33:07.216-07:00U.S. and UN Should Carry Out Their Promises to Iranian Dissidents<br />
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As the Iraqi government was tightening the screws on the 3,400 Iranian dissidents at Camp Ashraf, the UN (with U.S. help) brokered a deal to move them to an abandoned U.S. Army base near Baghdad, where they would be processed as refugees for transfer to third countries.</div>
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It's hard to believe, but that was SIX MONTHS ago. And what has happened in that time? More than half of the these members of the People Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) - in an effort to show good faith and accept the promises of the international community - have been relocated in Camp Liberty, an ironic name to say the least.</div>
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There, they have been subjected to prison-like conditions, harsh treatment, lack of basic sanitary facilities, and totally unacceptable restrictions at the hands of the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki, who is nothing more than a proxy for the regime in Tehran.</div>
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And what of the U.S. and UN promises to these innocent individuals who heeded the appeal of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, to accept the move as part of a supposed quid pro quo that would mean their freedom elsewhere in a short time?</div>
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Well, that short time becomes ever longer. And the promised UN processing of these "refugees" has not resulted in a single individual being relocated from Camp Liberty. Instead, that facility grows more overcrowded by the day, with the accompanying worsening of conditions.</div>
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To make matters worse, the U.S. has done nothing to remove the MEK from its list of foreign terrorist organisations.</div>
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For reasons that have never been explained, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton linked that action to the move from Ashraf to Liberty. Yet, despite the MEK bending over backwards to accede to U.S. demands, they are still waiting for the promised delisting.</div>
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Almost a month has gone by since a U.S. Federal District Court gave the State Department until October to act on the listing or the court would do it itself, yet not a word has been heard from Foggy Bottom on the issue.</div>
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Both of these matters were the subject of a massive rally of more than 100,000 Iranians last weekend in a Paris suburb - together with the larger issue of freedom for all of Iran from the tyrannical rule of the mullahs.</div>
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This gathering of Iranians from around the world, together with hundreds of their international supporters from nations near and far, fully noted the latest failure of Western negotiators to get any concessions from Tehran regarding its nuclear ambitions.</div>
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Since the negotiations began, three months have passed, with no obvious progress. Indeed, the only result is that the Iranian regime is three months closer to its ambition of developing not only nuclear energy for its own domestic use but also nuclear weapons to enhance its threat of terror in the Middle East.</div>
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It was heartening to see the broad support for the cause of Iranian Resistance from military leaders, diplomats, lawyers, UN ambassadors, writers, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, and of course politicians from across the spectrum, all united in the cause of a Free Iran.</div>
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It also was inspiring to hear the words of Mrs. Rajavi, at the mass gathering:<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"... I see in you and with you tens of millions of Iranians who are yearning for freedom.<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"I hear the voice of my brave sisters across our homeland.<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"I hear the voice of proud prisoners of conscience in the dungeons of Ali Khamenei.<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"And I hear the voice of students, workers, teachers and all those who long for freedom and liberation.<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"Indeed, all of us hear your outcry from the four corners of Iran and your voice resonates in our ears.<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"Indeed, the cry of every Iranian is Freedom, Freedom.<br style="border: none; display: block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px;" />"In you, I see the enraged peoples of the Middle East who have risen up against despotic and murderous regimes. I mean the people of Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other regional countries whose representatives are here today."</div>
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Surely that is not too much to ask - is it?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-47313003815855039802012-06-30T17:23:00.001-07:002012-06-30T17:23:01.134-07:00World Heroes Support MEK; We Will not Relent<br />/<a href="http://bit.ly/OQVyAI">http://bit.ly/OQVyAI</a><br />The US State Department is best at toppling Heroes; According to Washington’s’ definition of a ‘terrorist’; George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela were terrorists./<br />With the US State Departments’ contentious defiance of the Rule of the law to delist MEK , the main question repeated is: Who are the terrorists? Those who are at the very center of an international network of terrorism, or those who are protesting at their activities and presenting the best revelations for the sake of International peace and security?<br />The astounding heroism of the movement is met with denial by the US State Department, partially out of fear and partly malfeasance.<br />The MEK’s activities have been painted with an unjustified brush of terrorism, thereby conflating instances of otherwise legitimate resistance against a tyrannical system with horrid acts of blind terrorism.<br />John F. Kennedy, underlined the benchmark in his inauguration speech; Taking responsibility alongside heroes.<br />“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shank from this responsibility. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country and all who serve it – and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”<br />The fallen hero of America saw a hero in all those who bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, rejoicing hope for millions, in a struggle “against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.” He embraced the values that America stood for with a cost, because heroes are set in the moment against a mutual enemy, and not in the past or hesitation of the future.<br />In a mutual article Gen. David Phillips, Col. Wesley Martin and Lt. Col. Leo McCloskey defined margins that distinguished the “hero” from the villain and the “friend” from the “foe”:<br />“The first and the most common interpretation is the need for leaders to understand the plans, intentions, and motives of an avowed adversary. The second meaning is more fundamental, and in many ways more crucial: know who is, in fact, your enemy – and who isn’t. The failure to detect a real enemy means not only diverting precious resources and attention from dealing with a threat; it can also mean mistaking a friend for a foe.”<br />Unfortunately, the staggering brazen orchestra of denial by the State department overwhelms any moral substance, while promoting judicial Machiavellianism.SABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-49559199127107990922012-06-30T17:21:00.001-07:002012-06-30T17:21:42.004-07:00Must Read iran press journalism World Heroes Support MEK; We Will not Relent <a href="http://bit.ly/OQVyAI">http://bit.ly/OQVyAI</a><br />The US State Department is best at toppling Heroes; According to Washington’s’ definition of a ‘terrorist’; George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela were terrorists./SABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-80504657439059879512012-06-30T16:46:00.001-07:002012-06-30T16:46:53.355-07:00600 lawmakers: Breaking the cycle of Ruse against MEK<br />
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issue regarding Iran is neither confronting the regime’s nuclear program issue
nor its terrorism. The main issue is to change this regime…your movement and
your leadership, President-elect Maryam Rajavi, have the capacity to bring
about change in Iran and to establish democracy in that country.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-Mr.Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S House of
Representatives, addressing Iranians in Paris, 24 June 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The recent 100 000 gathering of the Iranian opposition
(MEK and NCRI) had this to say to the world:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The alliance of genocide and massacre from Tehran to
Baghdad to Damascus cannot withstand the gale for democratic change and
Freedom. Years of futile diplomatic tussling has boiled down to consecutive
setback for the West and a defiant raving religious fascism which is a threat
to world peace. Regime change is inevitable. The secret to a peaceful and
stable Middle East is to invest in the pivotal force which has displayed a
practical ability for tolerance, organization and public support.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The leader of the opposition to the clerical regime in
Iran was the key speaker at the huge gathering in Paris. Maryam Rajavi
introduced as the Iranian Pasionaria by the French television is the
president-elect of the national coalition of democratic and secular forces of
Iran. The metal engineer graduate and former political prisoner who has lost
two of her sisters during the 50s and 60s in Iran said:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Let me reiterate that the aim of this movement has
never been and still is not to grab power at all costs. Our aim is to guarantee
freedom and democracy at any expense The Iranian resistance has come a long way
and has always been based on transparency, truth and justice and respect for
mankind’s achievements and virtues. It is based on the return of international
institutions to defending human rights, based on restoring the rights of the
peoples and reviving the value of resistance and sacrifice.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Iranian Leader reflected on US values and said her
respect and recognition of real American values has derived from the honor and
courage displayed by a line of US officials and lawmakers that have preserved
the spirit of Justice and not the flawed policy of appeasement of tyrants in
Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“<b>It is my hope that Secretary Clinton would turn
this oppressive and unfair page in the history of U.S. policy and personally
bring an end to this unlawful designation,</b>” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Unlike the previous year when, speakers lashed out
against the <b>recalcitrant</b>, fractious regime in Tehran that would not
submit to the harness, this year the highlight of speeches was set on two main
issues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The historic achievements of the opposition in its legal battle to gain the
basic right to resist Tyranny and the role of its leadership in preserving
perseverance and tolerance in face of plots to disintegrate the movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The historic crossroads to make the inevitable choice of siding with the
people and their resistance rather than bow to Tehran’s lies and deception.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Judge <b>Michal Mukasey</b>, former Attorney
General of the United States, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, said:
“It is rare that people have an opportunity to hold their fate and the fate of
others in their hands as we do now. And we must be careful not to open our
fingers and let this chance slip away, because if we do we cannot expect to
look down and find it there again. I thank you for your courage and your
dedication, and the courage and dedication of Mrs. Rajavi and the entire
leadership of MEK and for being an example to all of us and the world; never to
give up the struggle for freedom.”<br />
Mayor <b>Rudy Giuliani</b> underscored the historic stage laid out to
determine the political landscape of the region and said: ”It’s about time that
the United States of America, the European Union, all the countries of the
world stand together with one very, very powerful voice and powerful argument;
Regime change in Iran. The people of Egypt overthrew Mubarak. The people of
Libya overthrew Kaddafi. The people of Syria are attempting to overthrow Assad.
They’ve all been praised as freedom fighters. Well, what about the people of
Iran? You seek to overthrow the most oppressive regime in the region; more
oppressive than Mubarak, Kaddafi and Assad. Why are those countries that
supported overthrow of those regimes not supporting the overthrow of the
Iranian mullahs?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The fact that appeasement failed completely to change
the mindset of the Iranian theocracy did not discourage those who keep
defending negotiations with the regime (or its “reformists” or “moderates”) at
all costs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mayor Giuliani rejected the fallacy of negotiating
with Tyrants and said: “We cling to the misguided notion that we can talk to
the mullahs that we can negotiate with the mullahs. They use discussions as a
pretext so that they can develop nuclear armaments. And it’s about time we
stand up to them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The former New York mayor pointed the finger at the
100 000 gathering and said: “Wouldn’t this world be safer with an Iran that is
dedicated to democracy, to freedom, freedom for women, freedom for all people,
to the rule of law? Of course it would be. And unlike other places such as
Egypt, Libya, Syria, there’s an alternative right now that exists here and in
Iran to replace this regime: with all of you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Former French Foreign Minister <b>Philippe
Douste-Blazy</b> said he joined the protests to tell the Iranian people
that they have support. “We are supporting the Iranian people until they get
their freedom and liberate all Iranians from a corrupt regime that is not fit
for ruling in the 21st century”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ambassador of European Union to Combat Poverty and
Social Exclusion, <b>Tasha de Vasconcelos</b>, said she sides with the
Iranian people in their demands for freedom. “I am with the change that Iranian
youth want to effect.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ingrid Betancourt</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">, Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist spoke
passionately of the members of the Iranian resistance: “<i>We are going to
fight to the end for Ashraf residents. We will not accept their relocation
without any guarantee. They are not alone and the entire world is standing with
them to defend their rights.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The former hostage victim commended the brave role
played by the chain of command and leadership of the MEK by women and said: “To
my sisters in Ashraf: I am proud to be on the same side fighting the same
combat with Maryam Rajavi. Don’t you think that a group of misogynists are
going to be defeated by a group of women? We don’t accept that the mullahs are
using the name of God to kill their people and to bring the atomic bomb.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Canadian group put forward <b>David Kilgour</b>,
former Canadian Cabinet Minister and Deputy Speaker, as their spokesperson as
they joined him on the platform. Mr. Kilgour said: <i>The tens of
thousands of us from forty countries on every continent here today, know the
importance of a democratic Iran, to achieve a peaceful Middle East and world</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The gathering was a display of unparalleled bipartisan
and International support for an opposition movement which is under intense
reclusive smear campaign heeded by Tehran. <b>The reverent and continuous
display of support by delegates from five continents, 40 Senates and
parliaments was accomplished when representatives from Syrian, Libyan and Egyptian
Springs announced their support for the MEK; an incredible achievement that
would melt the ice set on the dissidents by a glamorous defamation campaign.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dr. Mosharaf from along with 300 of his friends had
joined the gathering from Afghanistan in order to declare unity with the
Iranian opposition in its struggle to bring freedom and democracy to Iran;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“We believe that our two nations have the same
problem. It is the Tyrannical regime in Tehran that spins poison in the region.
We pay tribute to Ashraf and Liberty for their perseverance and tolerance in
face of all ploys by Tehran and would send this message: Regime change in Iran
is not only the desire of the Iranian people but the key to regional peace,
only if he MEK/MKO (Mujahedeen-e-khalq of Iran) are delisted by the State
department.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The US State Department seems to be lagging behind the
gale for democratic change and unlike Obama Administration election mottos, the
US foreign policy is not gaining momentum but dropping out of the inevitable
political change in the Middle East. Something that would interests its Russian
counterpart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Key to a face uplift would be to pace up and
delist the pro-democracy opposition to the Iranian menace and join the growing
trend of public opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The US State Department is best at toppling Heroes; According to Washington’s’ definition of a ‘terrorist’; George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela were terrorists.</h4>
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<em>With the US State Departments’ contentious defiance of the Rule of the law to delist MEK , the main question repeated is: Who are the terrorists? Those who are at the very center of an international network of terrorism, or those who are protesting at their activities and presenting the best revelations for the sake of International peace and security?</em></div>
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Danielle Mitterrand, the First Lady of human rights, Raymond Aubrac and his comrade in arms Lucie Aubrac, Lord Corbett and Lord Archer, have one thing in common; the struggled for global justice. Each had remarkable achievements ranking them one of a kind in the war against misery, injustice and oppression. Daniel Mitterrand was labeled a terrorist by France and later named a hero. Raymond Aubrac was accused of spying by the French government while his fame for “courage and resistance” against the Gestapo became a beacon of hope for thousands who fought fascism. Lord Corbett of Castle Vale was accused of vehemently supporting a terrorist Iranian group (MEK) while his gallant journalism revealing the Iranian spying network was a serious setback for the ayatollahs’’ ominous plans. Lord Archer a former Solicitor-General, Crown Court Recorder, and Chairman of the Council on Tribunals and a member of the Select Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK parliament, was a stout supporter of the MEK who announced the de-listing of the group by the EU high court as “important stepping stone to a new beginning for the Iranian people.”</div>
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<strong>They all challenged rehash of accusations and lies spurred by their government, at the behest of Tehran against the pro-democracy MEK.</strong></div>
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<strong>Terrorism can be extremely inhuman, particularly when it undermines essential values and benchmarks. When State terrorism includes ‘coercing’ heroes instead of villains, and leashing the bacon of hope of millions of people in a crusade of insidious calumnies buried under a double entendre, there is a need for stupendous gallantry to break the spell.</strong></div>
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The US “FTO” listing of the Iranian pro-democracy movement of (MEK), anti-thesis to Islamic fundamentalism, has been an outstanding stain in the history of American failures for the good and the advent of evil.</div>
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Heroes are not only legendary characters in comic strips or ‘<strong>Smallville</strong>’ scenarios, but are real people who take on tasks to change the nature of the world through their acts of courage and selflessness. They endure much resistance, hardship, and danger organizing change in the advent of greatness; make difficult choices and bring out the best in people. Stories for heroism have served as moral examples for centuries. In counter factual history, we tend to question what would happen if heroes did not exist.</div>
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In the case of Iran, the axis of world crisis, the question of ‘to be or not to be’ is very much contingent with how the world is setting boundaries to distinguish heroes from vigilantes and terrorists.</div>
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We would have to comprehend that ‘resistance’ in Iran exists because there is a vile tyranny unleashed that manipulates religion to stone women; gouge eyes and mutilate bodies; carry out collective hangings; train zealots ready to massacre in Syria and anywhere else in the world and fool the world to acquire the nuclear arsenal.</div>
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Resistance against mullahs’ dictatorship is the legitimate right of the Iranian people challenged by the Obama administration.</div>
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The pro-democracy organization, MEK, has been targeted in a criminal scenario and ploy orchestrated in Tehran; downplayed by the US state department is only the consequence of misplacing advocacy values for short-term objectives. The best-case scenario in this ploy is “US state Department toppling of heroes instead of the villains.” Let us not forget that the sweep of human history is for freedom.</div>
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What has MEK achieved in the past 30 years that would absolve it from any terrorist accusations?</div>
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• It has provided the International Community with extensive Human right revelations, first hand testimonies and documents for the UN human rights council and rappateurs leading to fifty Five UN resolutions; limiting Iranian regime’s ability to expand massacre.</div>
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• It has provided the International community with the best intelligence on warmongering ambitions of the clerics in Iran to obtain nuclear arsenal as part of a broader objective to establish an Islamic Empire, demanded in Khomeini’s will.</div>
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• It has been a thorn in the throat and a solid barrier to expansion of Islamic fundamentalism, because of its tolerant nature and belief in true democracy; separation of church and State and freedom of choice and belief based on the Universal declaration of Human rights, despite its Muslim tendency.</div>
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• It has been the “most feared” opposition of the Ayatollahs with an extensive role in organized protests as exclaimed by clerics in State-run media. </div>
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• It has the only serving heroes, resolved to support “freedom and democracy” in Iran, Camp Ashraf, Camp Liberty and throughout the world, despite a multimillion dollar mud-sliding campaign by Tehran.</div>
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• It is the only opposition movement to have united bi-partisan tendencies from five continents on one axis: to prevent a third world war speared by the ruling mediaeval fascists in Iran; while helping the flow of untapped potentials within the movement to bring about a lasting peace in Iran and the region through a democratic change.</div>
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• It is the only freedom movement with the ability to sustain financial independence because of a spectacular host of popularity around the globe.</div>
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• It has led an unprecedented legal battle to retain its just status as a “pro-democracy” movement and has won 22 judicial requisitions, which rejected the terrorist label as “perverse” <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00105/us-state-department-best-at-toppling-heroes.htm#a" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;">(2)</a>.</div>
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Coherently; in the world of armchair bloggers who created a generation of critics instead of leaders and heroes, the MEK/PMOI is actually working to establish freedom and democracy in Iran.</div>
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The astounding heroism of the movement is met with denial by the US State Department, partially out of fear and partly malfeasance.</div>
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The MEK’s activities have been painted with an unjustified brush of terrorism, thereby conflating instances of otherwise legitimate resistance against a tyrannical system with horrid acts of blind terrorism.</div>
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John F. Kennedy, underlined the benchmark in his inauguration speech; Taking responsibility alongside heroes.</div>
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“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shank from this responsibility. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavour will light our country and all who serve it – and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”</div>
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The fallen hero of America saw a hero in <strong>all those who bear the burden of a long twilight struggle</strong>, rejoicing hope for millions, in a struggle “<strong>against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself</strong>.” He embraced the values that America stood for with a cost, because heroes are set in the moment against a mutual enemy, and not in the past or hesitation of the future.</div>
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In a mutual article Gen. David Phillips, Col. Wesley Martin and Lt. Col. Leo McCloskey defined margins that distinguished the “hero” from the villain and the “friend” from the “foe”:</div>
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“The first and the most common interpretation is the need for leaders to understand the plans, intentions, and motives of an avowed adversary. The second meaning is more fundamental, and in many ways more crucial: know who is, in fact, your enemy – and who isn’t. The failure to detect a real enemy means not only diverting precious resources and attention from dealing with a threat; it can also mean mistaking a friend for a foe.”</div>
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Unfortunately, <strong>the staggering brazen orchestra of denial by the State department overwhelms any moral substance, while promoting judicial Machiavellianism</strong>.</div>
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Recently, US Federal Court of Appeal in Washington asked the US Secretary of State to review the FTO designation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) within four months after this issuance of this writ adding, “Should the Secretary fail to take action within the four-month period, the petition for writ of mandamus setting aside the FTO designation will be granted.”</div>
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The US State department, however, announced that a “key factor” in making a decision on PMOI’s 2008 petition to revoke its FTO status, is “cooperation in the successful and peaceful closure of Camp Ashraf.” <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00105/us-state-department-best-at-toppling-heroes.htm#a" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;">(3)</a></div>
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By taking a humanitarian crisis “hostage,” manipulating the safety and security of 3400 pro-democracy dissidents of Camp Ashraf, the State Department has landed the Obama Administration on a slippery slope of ethical values.</div>
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The MEK welcomed the change immediately; publicly announced its willingness to leave Ashraf <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00105/us-state-department-best-at-toppling-heroes.htm#a" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;">(4)</a>cooperated in the transfer of 1,200 residents to Camp Liberty/Hurriya under challenging circumstances <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00105/us-state-department-best-at-toppling-heroes.htm#a" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;">(5)</a> praised by State Department officials for its cooperation. <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1206/S00105/us-state-department-best-at-toppling-heroes.htm#a" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;">(6)</a></div>
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Despite hoax promises that have turned ‘Liberty’ into a concentration camp, the residents have co-operated at a new level of leniency, while asserting there are limits to refuted unilateral goodwill gesture.</div>
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The US will not win the war against terrorism and its policy of sanctions against the tyrants in Tehran, unless it abides by its founded values and integral laws.</div>
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To break way from political archetypes, the secretary of State, Clinton, has to act like a hero; stand firm on legal principles and not political assumptions which will be misleading.</div>
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Do not topple the heroes that make our world a better place; face our mutual enemy: de-list the MEK.</div>
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<a href="" name="a" style="color: #0094d2;"></a><span lang="EN-US">(1): For more information on MEK please refer to the link below :</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-safavi/reality-check-the-guardia_b_814605.html" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-safavi/reality-check-the-guardia_b_814605.html</span></a></div>
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(2): On May 7, 2008, Britain’s Court of Appeal Court ruled that “The reality is that neither in the open material nor in the closed material is there any reliable evidence that supported a conclusion that PMOI retained an intention to resort to terrorist activities in the future. There is no evidence that the [MEK] has at any time since 2003 sought to re-create any form of structure that was capable of carrying out or supporting terrorist acts. There is no evidence of any attempt to “prepare” for terrorism. There is no evidence of any encouragement to others to commit acts of terrorism…”</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(3): <em>Quoted in MEK Status on Blacklist Hinges on Iraq Camp Closure</em>, Reuters, Feb. 29, 2012.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(4): Maryam Rajavi, <em>400 Ashraf Residents Are Prepared to Go to Camp Liberty at First Opportunity</em>, NCR-Iran.org (Dec. 28, 2011), </span><a href="http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/11575" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/ashraf/11575</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(5) UNHCR, <em>Camp New Iraq (Formerly Camp Ashraf) Residents and the Determination of Their Refugee Status Claims </em>(Mar. 28, 2012), </span><a href="http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4f7417e72.pdf" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4f7417e72.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(6): Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of State, Update on Camp Ashraf (Feb. 18, 2012),</span><a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/02/184204.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/02/184204.htm</a></div>
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<em>Mahin Saremi is a former political prisoner who escaped from Iran last year, one of the active organizers of the 2009 protests in Iran and activist has recently entered the realm of freelance writers. Her articles have been published since she escaped from Iran.</em></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-23206847004532319902012-06-30T16:04:00.001-07:002012-06-30T16:04:00.972-07:00Starving and dehydrating MEK /Liberty residents: US-UN observers still silent/<a href="http://bit.ly/ONktE8">http://bit.ly/ONktE8</a> <br />No food; No water policy of Iraqi government on Liberty; coupled by Iraqi officials’ claimed ‘no status’ of MEK residents in Camp: a prelude to massacre and in violation of the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law./<br />Iraqi officials recently used the US black listing of the Iranian pro-democracy group, MEK, as a green light to lay the plot for their massacre. The residents’ representatives have repeatedly asked UNAMI representatives to compel Iraq to abide by its commitments and demanded that the police inspect the food trucks, but this has been rejected by the Suppression Committee, which is acting on behalf of the Maliki office and at the behest of Tehran.<br />The disgrace of prevented entry to the European Parliament and United Nations’ at Geneva was paid off by the Iraqi delegation head, George Yacoub Bakoos, Deputy to the oppression committee for Ashraf, and Nouri al-Maliki’s Political Advisor.<br />The status of the residents have been asserted by Iraqi courts in a number of court rulings in 2005 and 2006 while the UN special representative Martin Kobler confirmed the rights of the residents of Camp Ashraf according to international humanitarian laws during the UN Security Council meeting of December 6, 2011.<br />Two thousand residents of Camp Ashraf have been transferred to the new location considered by many International lawmakers as a “prison” set to deprive opposition members of basic needs and dissuade them from activities against Tehran.<br />According to the NCRI Statement the outcome of such claims and ploys only prove “the ‘Temporary Transit Location (TTL) project has failed” and continuing to impose restriction on members of the opposition in both camps serve the religious fascism ruling Iran “ in direct violation of the Iraqi laws, the Geneva Conventions, the MOU, the letters of Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG), the UNHCR statements, and rulings by the courts in Iraq, Europe.”<br />The recent maneuvered claim is the de facto abandoning of the MOU by the GOI and is setting the stage for massacre and growing suppression of the members of the Iranian opposition, based on the U.S. terror list.SABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-40160877647688227562012-06-30T16:03:00.001-07:002012-06-30T16:03:23.279-07:00Must Read iran press journalism Starving & Dehydrating Mullahs Opposition <a href="http://bit.ly/ONktE8">http://bit.ly/ONktE8</a> <br />Starving and dehydrating MEK /Liberty residents: US-UN observers still silent/<br />No food; No water policy of Iraqi government on Liberty; coupled by Iraqi officials’ claimed ‘no status’ of MEK residents in Camp: a prelude to massacre and in violation of the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law./SABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-60694346025416503222012-06-24T21:52:00.001-07:002012-06-24T21:52:46.196-07:00iran press @StateDept @whitehouse MEK-NCRI: Largest Iranian pro-democracy Gathering- Yes To Key Opposition <a href="http://bit.ly/PRZnm4">http://bit.ly/PRZnm4</a> 500 politicians,100000 crowdSABA2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16522627769924419407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5628783020198058276.post-7844281832808877712012-06-24T21:48:00.000-07:002012-06-24T21:48:36.039-07:00MEK-NCRI: Largest Iranian pro-democracy Gathering- Yes To Key Opposition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">500 prominent political
personalities, parliamentarians and jurists from 40 countries and five
continents demand basic rights for Liberty residents (MEK members); and formal
recognition of NCRI</span></b></i></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">No more excuses. No more lies. </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We want action on
Camp Ashraf/Liberty”-</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Vice President of the European
Parliament Aleco-Vidal Quadras ,Villepinte</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><a name='more'></a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></li>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We pledge support to
Millions in Iran and men and women, at the front line of freedom fighters
in Libert</span></strong><em><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">y. </span></b></em><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">It </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">is for the truth for Freedom
and not riches and glory that we fight for.” -</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">President of the European
Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq, Struan Stevenson</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></li>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We encourage
Clinton to delist MEK if not the Court shall undo the injustice inflicted
on the pro-democracy group.”-T</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">he EP delegation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></li>
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<li><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Contrary to its
official pledge on February 16, the U.S. has unfortunately violatedits
commitment. Instead, it is insisting that Ashraf residents move to
a prison just for a mere promise, and if they reject going to prison,
the illegal designation will continue and they will be accused of cessation
of negotiations and not cooperating</span></b>. </span><strong>Hereby, the oppressed is
replaced by </strong></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the oppressor once again.”-</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mrs. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Maryam Rajavi, President-elect
of the Iranian resistance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Villepinte, June 23, 2012</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Through its strongest
protest against turning Camp Liberty into a prison, the gathering urged the
United Nations, the U.S. and the European Union to prevent a humanitarian
catastrophe in Ashraf and Liberty. The simple demands included:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-The guarantee of the
rights of residents to ‘asylum-seekers of concern’ under the Fourth Geneva
Convention</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-The UN-US observers to
force Iraq to stop its cruel restrictions against the residents</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-Secretary Clinton to
immediately implement the US court’s ruling to rid the unjust designation
against the Iranian Resistance; a devastating policy has been used to justify
two massacres in Ashraf, execution and torture of lots of members and
sympathizers of the MEK inside Iran while imposing brutal limitations against
Iranians in the United States.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-Iraq-UN to respect and
realize the basic 6 demands: providing water and electricity vital for survival
of residents; keep Iraqi assault units out of camp; prevent Iranian
Intelligence agents from intrusions into the camp; recognize Liberty as a
Refugee Camp; Allow belongings of residents be transferred with them and their
immobile assets be sold to provide support for the refugees.</span></blockquote>
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<br /></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The key speaker of the
massive gathering reported by CBSNews to be 100 000, was Mrs.Maryam Rajavi,
President-elect of the Iranian resistance. She described thewrit of the Federal
Court of Appeal in Washington against the illegal tag on the PMOI as a great
historical achievement and said: “Through thisdesignation, they sought to
disavow the right of the Iranian nation to the regime change; but the
resistance proved that right. This policy, which is used to preserve the
mullahs’ regime, and has been a big obstacle in the path of Iranian people’s
freedom, and has had no use other than preparing the ground for massacre of
Ashraf residents, has to be eradicated.” She added, “I hope Mrs. Clinton would
personally put an end to this illegal designation.”</span><br />
<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Some of the speakers were,:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">From U.S.: <b>Rudy Giuliani</b>, former mayor of New York and presidency
candidate (2008); Gov. <b>Ed Rendell</b>, Chair of the Democratic National
Committee (1999-2001) and Governor of Pennsylvania (2002-2011); <b>Bill
Richardson</b>, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of
New Mexico (2003-2011); <b>John Bolton</b>, former US Ambassador to the United
Nations); <b>Judge Michael Mukasey</b>, US Attorney General in the Bush
Administration (2007-2009); <b>Ambassador Mitchell Reiss</b>, former Director
of Policy Planning at the US Department of State (2003-2005); <b>Robert
Torricelli</b>, former Senator; <b>Robert Joseph</b>, U.S. Under Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security; <b>Ambassador Phillip
Crowley</b>, Assistant Secretary of State (2009-2011); <b>Linda Chavez</b>,
former White House Director for Public Liaison; a number of former military
commanders including <b>Gen. George W. Casey</b>, Army Chief of Staff and
commander of Coalition forces in Iraq (2004-2007); <b>Gen. James Conway</b>,
34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps;<b> Gen. David Phillips</b>,
Commander of U.S. Military Police (2008-2011); <b>Col. WesleyMartin</b>, former
Senior Anti-terrorism Force Protection Officer for all Coalition Forces in Iraq
and Commander of Forward Operation Base in Ashraf; <b>Lt. Col Leo McCloskey</b>,
Commander of Forward Operation Base in Ashraf until 2009; <b>Glenn Carle</b>,
former Deputy National Intelligence for Transnational Threats; and <b>Clarence
Page</b>, The 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> From European Parliament: <b>Alejo Vidal-Quadras</b>, Vice President
of the European parliament; <b>Struan Stevenson</b>, President of Delegation
for Relations with Iraq of the European Parliament; <b>Tasha de Vasconcelos,</b>
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socialist group in the French Assembly; Senateur <b>Jean-Pierre Michel</b>,
co-president of the French Committee for a Democratic Iran; <b>Jean-Pierre
Brard</b> former member of the French National Assembly; <b>Dominique Lefebvre</b>,
Mayor of Cergy and member of National Assembly; <b>Aude de Thuin</b>, Founder
and president of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society; <b>Cynthia
Fleury</b>, professor of political philosophy from American University in
Paris; and <b>Yves Bonnet</b> former director of the French DST.</span></div>
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Boumediene</b>, lawyer and former first Lady;</span></div>
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German Bundestag; <b>Professor Günter, </b>Commissioner of Europe
(1999-2009);<b> </b> <b>Otto Bernhardt,</b> Chairman of the
German Committee of solidarity with free Iran; </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> From Canada: <b>David Kilgour</b>, former minister; </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> <u>From Albania</u><b>: Pandeli Majko, </b>Former Prime
Minster; and </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"> <u>From Afghanistan</u>: <b>Shokrieh Peykan</b>, member of
parliament.</span></div>
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