“Iraq for All” website
March 24, 2009
The Association of Iraqi Patriots sent a letter to General Raymond Odierno, Commander of US forces in Iraq, in which it condemned pressures dictated by the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader against Ashraf residents, and requested his immediate intervention to guarantee the protection of Ashraf.
The letter reads in part: Ali Khamenei, in his meeting with the Iraqi President, had said, “The occupiers (Americans) must leave Iraq as soon as possible. … The bilateral agreement with respect to the PMOI’s expulsion from Iraq … must be implemented, and we are awaiting its implementation.” Following these remarks and after the week-long visit by Rafsanjani, the chair of the regime’s Assembly of Experts, who demanded the expulsion of the PMOI and closure of Ashraf, Iraqi forces, on the personal orders of the National Security Advisor, Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, have placed inhumane restrictions and initiated new compulsory measures against 3,500 Iranian opposition activists residing in Ashraf.
The Association of Iraqi Patriots requests that before this situation reaches a dangerous and uncontrollable point, you personally intervene and put a stop to this illegal trend against Iranian refugees who are considered protected persons under the Geneva Conventions.
