NCRI – Iranian regime is plotting to block the return of Camp Liberty residents to Ashraf by using Iraqi judges to issue fake court orders saying the land belongs to Iraqi farmers.
The scheme by the mullahs’ and Nouri Al-Maliki’s government in Iraq will try to claim that the Ashraf land was ‘stolen’ by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the residents have no right to return there.
Iranian regime and Iraqi Government of Nouri Al-maliki want to stem mounting international pressure on Iraq and the UN to move 3,100 residents out of Liberty after a mortar attack on the camp on February 9 left seven dead and more than 100 injured.
A statement by the secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran published on March 12 said: “Following the rocket attacks on Liberty, the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and its surrogate government in Iraq plan to use Iraq’s judges to obtain fake court orders pretending Ashraf’s land belongs to Iraqi farmers and villagers and that PMOI have confiscated it.
“The Iraqi government and local operatives of the Quds Force have filed phony complaints against the PMOI through a number of people in the Sheikh Shonaif village.
“They are now trying to obtain a bogus ruling from a court in Khalis region indicating that PMOI has expropriated the farmers’ land and must return the land to them and pay them reparations.
“Their aim is to neutralize this growing international movement and calls by the world community for return of residents to their home of 26 years at Ashraf.
“The US Congress, the European Parliament and prominent international organizations and personalities are supporting this legitimate demand which is necessary to provide minimum security for residents.”
After using the bogus legal route to block access to Ashraf, the next stage in Iran’s plot would be to carry out a fourth massacre on dissidents, the statement said.
The PMOI officially received the Ashraf base from Iraq’s Ministry of Defense in 1986, and until now no one had ever made a claim against it, the statement said.
Earlier testimonies also show that Iraq had legally bought the Ashraf land from Sheikh Shonaif village residents in 1974 – twelve years before PMOI went to Iraq.
The official documents related to the 1974 purchase – which prove Iraqi villagers do not own the Ashraf land – had been stored in the Office of Agriculture in Ba’quba until Khalis governor and well-known Quds agent Uday Khedran destroyed them, the statement said.
