Press Conference Today BRUSSELS: United States not helping wounded

Iranian exiles in Iraq say U.S. failing to help wounded

Reuters

Iran opposition says United States not helping wounded

* Future of dissident camp in Iraq uncertain
* Solutions sought after deadly clashes in April

By Justyna Pawlak
BRUSSELS, July 27 (Reuters) - An exiled Iranian opposition group criticised the United States on Wednesday for not doing enough to help victims of clashes at a dissident camp in Iraq.
Camp Ashraf, some 65 km (40 miles) from Baghdad, is the base for the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, the PMOI, which mounted attacks on Iran before the U.S.-led removal of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The future of the camp's more than 3,000 residents is uncertain since the United States, which says the group is a terrorist organisation, turned the camp over to the Iraqi government. Baghdad plans to close it before the end of this year.
More than 30 people were killed in violence between residents and Iraqi security forces in April. Rights group Amnesty International says the residents are subject to harassment by the Iraqi government and are refused access to basic medicine.

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Ambassador Butler: Must Apologize to Iranian Political Prisoners and Families

By Mahin Saremi

Former political prisoner, activist of the 2009 election uprisings

"These people slaughtered Americans. They have blood on their hands."

If you guessed that this proclamation was to persecute and reveal the Godfather of State Terrorism, responsible for numerous assassination operations in Iraq killing US marines and soldiers to be The Iranian regime, you are completely mistaken.

This was a sharp spear aiming at defenseless Ashraf dissidents -victims of 'Iranian State Terrorism' victims of 'Iranian State Terrorism' and Maliki's inhuman massacre. The same people who are the survivors of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners by the mullahs and whose family members are now in Iranian dungeons under torture or execution.

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