Iran:Successful Completion of the Resettlement of Camp Liberty residents from Iraq to Europe

Iran:Successful Completion of the Resettlement of Camp Liberty residents from Iraq to Europe

This afternoon, September 9, 2016, the final group of Camp Liberty residents (more than 280) departed Baghdad, Iraq, for Albania. This final round of departures marks the successful conclusion to the process of relocating members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) outside of Iraq despite the Iranian regime’s conspiracies, obstruction and threats, which continued until the very last day.

During the four-and-a-half-year-long resettlement process, the residents of Liberty were relocated to European countries, including Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Spain. Close to 2,000 residents left Iraq since the beginning of 2016.

In this process, the religious dictatorship ruling Iran provided red notices to Interpol and used fake arrest warrants issued by the Iraqi Judiciary in a bid to prevent the departure of 1,000 PMOI members, and arrest officials and other well-known figures.

Exploiting the post-invasion atmosphere in Iraq, the ruling clerical regime did its utmost to destroy the PMOI/MEK. Three massacres at Camp Ashraf, five missile attacks on Camp Liberty, two cases of abduction of residents, and the imposition of a full-fledged eight-year siege, which left 177 residents dead, constituted parts of this inhumane, albeit futile, plan.

Iran:Iranian Intelligence Agent Convicted in Germany

Iran:Iranian Intelligence Agent Convicted in Germany

Berlin, 20 Jul - An Iranian Intelligence Agent has been convicted in Germany of spying on Iranian Resistance members living abroad.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has welcomed this conviction of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) agent and has urged foreign governments to prosecute and expel other regime spies.

The agent, Meysam Panahi, was spying on members of the NCRI and the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/ MEK). Despite posing as a refugee, Panahi had worked as a spy for three years and helped to recruit extra people to the Intelligence Agency, receiving 28,600 Euros from the MOIS in at least 30 payments.
The spies would then travel to Iran to receive espionage training with help from the Iranian embassies in Europe.

Germany’s prosecution said that Iran’s Intelligence Ministry created “secret networks” in the country to spy on and spread lies and half-truths to discredit the Iranian Resistance.

IRAN:How hypocritical the trip to Tehran is from the perspective of a dissident

How hypocritical the trip to Tehran is from the perspective of a dissident

The parade of Western leaders, with their shared weaknesses.

The young Zanjani speaks: “The mullahs haven’t changed”

Il Foglio - April 14, 2016

By Cynthia Martens

Paris. Elham Zanjani has never been to Iran. Her parents left their home country in the 70s, and she was born in Montreal in 1978 and raised in Toronto. Though Zanjani speaks fondly of Canada, as a young girl she was troubled by the knowledge that far away, cousins whom she had never met were living a totally different sort of life.

“You always have in the back of your mind,” she says in an interview with Il Foglio. “How is it possible that I could grow up in a place where I could do sports, I could swim, I could think freely, go to the mall, listen to music, eat what I want and start building the future that I want – but my cousins, the same age as I was, didn’t have the same rights,” she says, noting that the girls had to wear full black chadors. Contact with loved ones in Iran was limited, due to the regime’s aggressive monitoring of phone calls.

The scar of Camp Ashraf

Zanjani’s concern for her relatives eventually blossomed into a desire to work with the Iranian resistance. As a college student in Canada, she was interested in physiotherapy, but instead of finishing her studies, left everything for Camp Ashraf, a city in Iraq near the border with Iran that was home to many political refugees and former prisoners of the Iranian regime. Though she initially expected her stay to be brief, Zanjani stayed for well over a decade, working at the local hospital and putting her language skills – in addition to English, she speaks French, Farsi and a bit of Arabic – to use as an interpreter.

“I got to improve my Farsi, and got to really understand my background much more,” she recalls.

A relatively peaceful life in Ashraf took a turn for the worse after U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq, and residents of the camp experienced several attacks from Iraqi forces guided by a prime minister, al-Maliki, who was sympathetic to the Iranian regime. Zanjani was directly hit by a grenade. Getting proper care for her extensive arm and leg injuries was complicated, and Zanjani eventually returned to Canada, where she recovered.

Iraqi merchants wishing to purchase residents’ property are barred from Camp Liberty

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

A blatant hampering of the resettlement

The Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty residents headed by Faleh Fayyad prevented two groups of Iraqi merchants who wanted to purchase residents’ property from entering Camp Liberty on Thursday, April 14, 2016. Similarly, on the previous day, two other merchants who had come to purchase the property were turned back at the entrance to the airport area

This inimical behavior is being implemented despite the fact that the sale of the property in Liberty is one of the requisites for the transfer of residents out of Iraq. The Government of Iraq had already declared its consent with the sale of residents’ property. Residents wish to sell their property to provide for part of their resettlement expenses. It seems that in addition to imposing pressures on and psychological torture against residents, another objective of the suppression committee in preventing the sale of the property is to repeat a scenario of systematic plundering and stealing of the PMOI property that it has already executed in Camp Ashraf.

IRAN: Political prisoner pays tribute to Iran’s heroes in Camp Ashraf

          Political prisoner Ali Moezzi, father of two PMOI members, wrote in his tribute

NCRI - Prominent Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezzi has sent out a message from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the April 8, 2011 attack by the Iraqi army against members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.

The unprovoked attack on the unarmed and defenseless PMOI (MEK) members in Camp Ashraf, which was carried out at the behest of the mullahs’ regime in Iran, left 36 camp residents killed and hundreds of others injured. The attack was condemned by the international community

Political prisoner Ali Moezzi, father of two PMOI members, wrote in his tribute:

On the fifth anniversary of April 8, 2011, we commemorate the epic valor and sacrifice of PMOI members. We bow our heads in recognition of the sacrifice of PMOI members that destroyed the fundamentalists’ conspiracies. Their blood, mixed with the blood spilt on the asphalt streets of our country and that of the executed political prisoners, will ensure a glorious future for Persia. From Saba Haftbaradaran who bled to death in front of her father’s eyes and lived true to her statement that we will stand resolute to our last breath; to Marzieh who valiantly rushed to her slaughter place and instantly died; to the Madadzadehs and other courageous heroes who were overrun by the [Iraqi] HUMVEEs. What a valiant stand they took at the scene.

UN must urge Iraq to grant visa to families of Iranians in Camp Liberty.

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As a group of Camp Liberty residents' families residing in Europe and the , we are gravely concerned about the lives of our children, especially after the rocket attack on October 29 that killed 24 of the residents.

During 2003-2009, when the US forces held the responsibility of security of Camp Ashraf on the ground, many of us had the opportunity to travel to Ashraf and stay there for an unlimited period of time and see our children. But since the time the US Camp Ashraf unlawfully turned the security of our children over to the Pro-Iranian regime government of Maliki, despite our repeated application for entry visa to Iraq through various embassies in countries of our residence, Iraq has refused granting permission to enter that country.

This is while our children and relatives are recognized as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention and have been interviewed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and they are recognized as people of concern protected under international law.

Our loved ones were transferred from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty, supposedly a Temporary Transit Location, to be relocated to third countries within few months. Yet, after 3.5 years they are under unbearable pressures in the camp and they have not been resettled. The Iraqi Government has virtually turned the camp into a prison.

In these circumstances, dispatched teams of the mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry to Iraq and to Camp Liberty under the cover of so-called families of the residents have no problem entering Iraq and get through to the Camp.

Gen. Hugh Shelton: U.S. must uphold promises to Iranian dissidentsThe Charlotte Observer

Gen. Hugh Shelton

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

 BY GEN. HUGH SHELTON

Special to the Observer

I have long advocated that the United States must uphold its promises to protect the thousands of unarmed Iranian refugees in Iraq as they await final resettlement to third countries through the United Nations. To my regret, warnings of an impending bloodbath perpetrated by Tehran came true last month when 24 Iranian dissidents were killed in a horrific rocket attack against their defenseless encampment. Dozens more were wounded.

Over 80 missiles rained into Camp Liberty, where 2,200 members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) have lived since February 2012, when they agreed to relocate from Camp Ashraf, their home of 25 years, as a good faith gesture to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In 2003, the group disarmed – just two years after renouncing violence in exchange for U.S. protection. But the U.S. has consistently reneged on its written commitment to these defenseless refugees, even in the wake of repeated attacks.

This is the seventh time during their stay in hellish purgatory that Tehran or Iraqi proxies have attacked. Iranian-made rockets were found among the missiles that hit the camp in the recent assault.

The timing of the attack is revealing. Emboldened by the nuclear deal, Tehran has stepped up targeted killings in Iraq and Syria, while taking a more heavy-handed approach towards opposition at home and beyond. A host of former American military and bipartisan government leaders have been unequivocal about the threat of growing Iranian influence to western interests in the region. The Obama administration has responded by keeping our sworn enemy closer, even inviting them to participate in prospective discussions on ending the Syrian conflict.

It is no surprise – but a colossal moral and strategic failure – that the administration has turned a blind eye to the dissidents languishing in Iraq. The regime in Tehran fears the MEK. In turn, the Obama administration was not about to jeopardize its chances to negotiate even a flawed nuclear deal by addressing the plight of these refugees. Even if it meant breaking a decade-long promise that could have saved dozens of lives in Camp Liberty.

With no arms and no protection, the dissidents are sitting ducks. They have been awaiting relocation to friendly, democratic nations. But in the absence of offers of asylum from the U.S., few have managed to leave the country.

Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the latest strike as a “brutal, senseless terrorist attack” and vowed to work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to speed up the relocation process. Despite the Secretary’s good intentions, however, the emptiness of his rhetoric rings in my ears. At least 140 residents have been killed since 2009 while the administration has simply watched on the sidelines. And at the current pace of relocation, it will take another six years – until 2021 – when the last of these residents is out of harm’s way.

Preventing further attacks by providing US air cover for Camp Liberty – as proposed by Senate Armed Services Committee Chair John McCain – would be a step in the right direction.

Turning a blind eye to targeted attacks on Camp Liberty only impedes the fight for democracy in Iran. Opposition leader Maryam Rajavi has laid out her ten-point plan for the future of Iran, which includes free and fair elections, the rule of law, safeguards for the rights of women and minorities, and a non-nuclear state that values peace with its neighbors.

With each death of a dissident sworn to uphold this plan, the dream of a democratic Iran slips further away, as does the credibility of the U.S.

General Hugh Shelton was the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The daughter of an Iranian political prisoner warns of a looming Threat to her father

Hejrat Moezi and her father, political prisoner, Ali Moezi

'My father is a political prisoner facing an imminent threat to his life in prison in Iran'

 Describing a person’s life is never easy, especially when that person is someone you cherish. Ali Moezi is my father, he is a political prisoner in Iran, and I fear losing him with each passing second, Hijrat Moezi wrote as it published in World Post

Before I was even born, my father experienced the mullah’s prisons. In 1980, when the theocratic dictatorship took control of Iran, my father was arrested and tortured. He had been among those who stood in opposition to their tyrannical rule, and paid the price with several years of torture in the regime’s prisons.

My father was educated at the University of Karaj in agricultural engineering, and could have worked towards building up his homeland; Instead, he has spent years, off and on, behind bars. The theocracy has made it such that everyone finds himself leading a life unsuitable to their vocation: our scholars rest imprisoned while thieves and criminals are in government.

I recall asking him, when I was a child,What happened to your knee?’ to which he responded, 'it was hit by a bullet.' Only when I was older did I learn that he participated in peaceful demonstrations in Tehran in June1981and during his escape, he was shot and then subjected to hours of painstaking torture.At the time, my father would have been the same age I am now, 26The whip marks left by his torturers can still be seen on the soles of his feet and his back.

Throughout my childhood, the thought of my parents’ arrest was my greatest nightmare. But one day, I myself decided to stand up against this government. I moved to Camp Ashraf and left my country for Iraq, where thousands of refugees and Iranian dissidents lived in a place that was our only hope for freedom. I remember, on my last day in Iran, looking into my father’s eyes and asking if I’d ever see him again...

Appeasing Iran’s mullahs emboldens regime - Ken Blackwell

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A recent series of arrests of dissidents and a wave of executions in Iran show that the regime's President Hassan Rouhani is anything but a 'moderate,' said Amb. Ken Blackwell, a former Cincinnati mayor and U.S. ambassador to the UN human rights commission.

Amb. Blackwell writing on Monday in Townhall described the case of a young activist of the main opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) whose parents were arrested last week by the fundamentalist regime in Iran.

Shaqayeq Azimi is an aspiring, joyful girl of 22 with a full life ahead of her. She is also an Iranian dissident, committed to challenging the repressive theocracy that rules her home country.

Recently she learnt that both her father Mahmoud and her mother Fatemeh Ziae were arrested on October 11 by the Iranian secret police in a raid on their home in Tehran. The regime has been characteristically secretive about the arrests, so Shaqayeq has been unable to obtain any information about where her parents have been taken, or what their current condition is.

This is not the first time that her parents have been arrested, but given the nature of the regime, each such incident poses grave dangers.

Fatemeh endured five years’ imprisonment and torture in the 1980s for supporting the principal Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). She was arrested again in February 2009 for visiting her relatives in Camp Ashraf, then the place of residence for thousands of Iranian dissidents in Iraq. This so-called crime landed her in jail for two years, where poor conditions and mistreatment contributed to acute health afflictions. She was arrested for yet a third time in June 2013, again on political charges.

Shaqayeq’s father was a political prisoner during the Shah’s regime and has been arrested several times since the 1980s including in 2011 and 2013 for supporting the MEK.

Maryam Rajavi’s message to Berlin conference for democracy in Iran

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German political dignitaries and members of the Bundestag last week held a conference in Berlin in solidarity with the cause of the Iranian Resistance to bring freedom, democracy and human rights to Iran.

The conference, held on October 13, 2015, was chaired by Mr. Otto Bernhardt, President of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran. Mrs. Rita Süssmuth, former speaker of the Bundestag, was among the panelists.

In a message to the conference, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi said:

My warmest greetings to your invaluable conference on the tenth anniversary of the formation of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran. I would like to extend my gratitude to the founders and leaders of this committee who have advocated the right policy on the greatest threat to the Middle East and the world today, namely the religious fascism ruling Iran.

Ten years past the formation of this committee, Germany's history and collective conscience of its people judge whether it was right to appease and embolden Iran's religious dictatorship to impede the path of freedom and progress in Iranian society and engulf the Middle East in blood. Or the right approach was the pioneering policy of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran that finds the future of Iran including the true blossoming of Iran-Germany relations in supporting the Iranian people's Resistance?

Was it right to give concessions to the mullahs and turn a blind eye on the regime's savagery and barbarism that destroyed Iran's economy so much that it is not capable of attracting foreign investment even now after the sanctions are lifted, or the right thing to do was the committee's staunch defense of freedom and democracy in Iran as the only path to peace and stability in the entire region?

The Committee's endeavors in defending PMOI (MEK) members in Camp Ashraf and CampLiberty in the face of continued attacks by the Iranian regime's operatives, including six massacres in recent years, and its incessant struggle for human rights and freedom in Iran constitute an exemplary courageous struggle in circumstances that long-term interests of the two nations of Iran and Germany were being sacrificed for petty political interests.

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New Book: PMOI’s Property in Camp Ashraf

“PMOI’s Propertyin Ashraf”

A book by the Camp Liberty Legal Committee

consisting of 310 documents and 73 graphic documentaries

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Iran - Political prisoner in Camp Ashraf Iran commemorates the massacre

made Ashraf immortal

Ali Moezi

Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezi HAS feels is the message from Iran's notorious Central Karaj Prison in commemoration of the second anniversary of the killing of members of Iran's main opposition group People'sMojahedin Organisation of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) in Camp Ashraf by agents of the Iraqi government at the behest of the diet in Iran.

Mr. Moezi hailed the “heroic perseverance” of the final group of Camp Ashraf residents who were martyred in the attack. He said they “propagated the value of perseverance and made Ashraf immortal.”

Iran - A crime contre humanoid - Massacre at Camp Ashraf

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Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the Camp Ashraf massacre. Iraqi Forces at the behest of the mullahs' diet in Iran Murdered in cold blood unarmed and defenseless 52 Iranian dissidents, all members of Iran's main opposition group People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran.

Ashraf - uesday marks the second anniversary of the Camp Ashraf massacre. Fifty two unarmed and defenseless.

2ndanniversary of massacre of PMOI members in Camp Ashraf

Iraqi SWAT forces who carried out the

 murder of PMOI (MEK) members in

Camp Ashraf, September 1, 2013

Then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Maliki's military forces had executed many residents with their hands tied behind their backs, execution-style, during the September 1, 2013 massacre. Wounded residents, all of who were 'protected persons' under the Fourth Geneva Convention and were "guaranteed" protection by the US and UN, were shot dead in the camp's clinic.

Ashraf, the immortal legend

اشرف  افسانه جاویدان

Two years ago in the early morning hours of September 1st, the religious fascism ruling Iran commitment committed a horrific crime through ict puppet government in Iraq Camp Ashraf residents contre. In this horrific genocide, strengths linked to form the Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki's government attacked This is the PMOI members in Ashraf remaining, Murdered 52 and 7 others kidnapped. These PMOI members Were Amongst the 101 Individuals remaining in Ashraf under a quadrilateral agreement entre les Nations United, United States, the Iraqi government and Ashraf residents. They HAD Remained in Ashraf after-all of Their colleagues HAD Transferred to Camp Liberty near Baghdad airport, a military training base used by the US Forces in Iraq, in order to supervise the sale of PMOI in Ashraf property. Many of the victims Were Killed With Their hands tied behind Were Their backs and with bullet shots to Their Heads at point blank range. Maliki's murderers About did not show mercy Any Even to the Injured in a local clinic in Ashraf, spraying em with a barrage of bullets while they were lying on hospital stretchers.

 ASHRAF MASSACRE, 52 FALLEN HEROES

مجاهد شهید زهره  قائمی

Zohre Ghaemi

Birthplace: Tehran, Year of Birth: 1964

Location and Date of Martyrdom: Ashraf - 1 September 2013 Intro: With 35 years of involvement in resistance, She Was a political prisoner for 5 years under Khomeini diet. She headed one of the offices of the Iranian Resistance President-elect from 1993 to 1996. She Was Injured in the July 28-29 attack by Maliki's strengths is Ashraf.

مجاهد شهید گیتی گیوه چیان

Giti Givechian

Birthplace: Tehran, Year of Birth: 1958

Years of Experience with the Resistance: 34

Location and Date of Martyrdom: Ashraf - 1 September 2013 Intro: Deputy Secretary-General PMOI, member of the Leadership Council, graduated in psychology, Chairwoman of the NCRI Security and Anti-Terrorism Commission. PMOI Hero Giti Givechian Began her political activities with the Resistant're a college student before getting Acquainted with the PMOI in 1978