NCRI – The Iraqi media's publication of the number of votes garnered by candidates in the elections affirmed more than ever the Iraqi people's disdain and hatred toward the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and the committee responsible for suppressing Camp Ashraf in the al-Maliki's government.
Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, the former National Security Advisor in al-Maliki cabinet and the original Chair of the government committee responsible for suppressing Ashraf, received only 1,315 votes and was eliminated.
In an interview with the al-Furrat Arabic language television, the official network of the pro-Iranian "Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council" on April 1, 2009, Rubaie had said: "Fifteen or twenty individuals have brainwashed the residents of Ashraf. … When parents come to visit their children and take them away, they prevent them from doing so…. We have gradual and escalating actions… We gradually will make their presence in Iraq unbearable … The Iraqi security forces will enter the camp, set up a control center, and start patrolling, search and carry out attacks."
Wijdan Mikhail Salim, the Human Rights Minister received only 203 votes and was eliminated as well. On March 17, 2010, in an interview with the Iraqi daily, Al-Sabah, she made a completely false claim that: "Residents of Ashraf are not political refugees; they are not protected persons…. They are a military organization and are not disarmed. They will only receive cooperation if they would leave the camp and repent." She added: "They are not protected persons since the rules and conventions pertinent to protection have no relevance to their situation since they have not come from a country that is engaged in war or is suffering from problems."
Ali Al-Lami, an agent of the clerical regime who was in charge of disqualifying Iraqi patriotic candidates received only 703 votes. Abu Mehdi al-Mohandes, a terrorist agent of the regime that was previously exposed by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, received 2,018 votes. These two were also eliminated. A number of Maliki's ministers, including the minister of transportation (641 votes), the Defense Minister (578 votes), Minister of immigration (1,070 votes) and Ali Allaq, the Secretary of Council of Ministers (1,069 votes) were also eliminated.
This is while Dr. Abdullah Jubori has become (the first) the leading representative of Iraqi people from Diyala province. Dr. Jubori Chaired the First Solidarity Congress session held in Ashraf in June 2006, in which a declaration of support for Ashraf by 5,200,000 Iraqis for Ashraf was made public.
In another development, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Hussein As-Shemmari, who ordered his soldiers to open fire on defenseless residents of Ashraf during the July 28-29 raid on the Camp, was dismissed. According to the report by Al-Furrat TV, following the recent bombings in town of Khalis that left some 200 dead and injured, the Provincial Council of Diyala fired As-Shemmari.
Following the brutal attack on Camp Ashraf, As-Shemmari said on August 2, 2009: "Ashraf Residents have 30 days to leave Iraq otherwise military action will be taken against them to forcibly expel them." On August 3, 2009, the International Committee of Jurists in Defense of Ashraf warned him that his actions against Ashraf residents were a manifest of crime against humanity and a war crime and will be prosecuted internationally.
Subsequently, a ruling by Spain's National Court on December 11, 2009, opened a judicial investigation against the Iraqi authorities on the charges of crime against humanity.
In a frantic response to its defeat in the recent Iraq's Parliamentary elections, the clerical regime blamed the recent bombings in Khalis by its agents to the PMOI (al-Furrat TV, March 30, 2010). The Iranian Resistance demands that the Iranian regime and its agents provide their evidence and documents to the Spanish Court or to an international court so that they are prosecuted and punished for these bombings and other crimes they have perpetrated.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 30, 2010
