NCRI – The Iraqi police force suddenly entered Camp Ashraf, home to some 3,400 members of the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in Iraq, this morning pursuant to renewed calls by the Iranian regime to “implement bilateral agreements.”
This suppressive measure takes place while the Iraqi Army is currently protecting Camp Ashraf and there was no need for the Iraqi police to enter the Camp.
In recent days, the clerical regime’s president Ahmadinejad and the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council have openly been exerting pressures on the Iraqi government to suppress the Iranian opposition in Iraq.
Simultaneous with the heightening social protests in Iran and in the run up to the regime’s presidential election, Ali Khamenei, mullahs’ Supreme Leader who intends to get Ahmadinejad reinstated, finds himself in desperate need of suppression of the opposition.
It is an extremely dangerous move which can prepare the grounds for a human catastrophe in Ashraf. This is something that the clerical regime has been planning for. The unexpected and sudden entry into Ashraf by the Iraqi police violates the agreement between the Iraqi and the US governments to respect the rights of Ashraf residents.
In letters to the US President Barack Obama and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this morning, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, reiterated that the Iraqi government has not acknowledged any of the fundamental rights of Ashraf residents to date. She, therefore, called on them to intervene immediately to prevent the Iraqi police force from entering into Camp Ashraf which is a prelude to a humanitarian catastrophe desired by the Iranian regime.
On April 24, 2009, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the "humanitarian situation of Ashraf residents" in which it "urges the Iraqi Prime Minister to ensure that no action is taken by the Iraqi authorities which violates the human rights of the Camp Ashraf residents and to clarify the government's intentions towards them; calls on the Iraqi authorities to protect the lives, and the physical and moral integrity of the Camp Ashraf residents and to treat them in accordance with the obligations under the Geneva Conventions…" The European Parliament resolution also called "on the Iraqi government to end its blockade of the camp and respect the legal status of the Camp Ashraf residents as 'protected persons' under the Geneva Conventions."
Mrs. Rajavi also referred to the April 30 letter by the International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ), comprised of 2,000 Parliamentarians, and the May 4 letter by the International Committee of Jurists in Defense of Ashraf (ICJDA), comprised of 8,500 jurists in Europe and North America, reiterating that if the government of Iraq were to refrain from complying with the EP resolution and continue to violate the rights of Ashraf residents, the only option would be to refer the matter to the United Nations for the implementation of international guarantees and for US forces to resume the protection of Ashraf.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 28, 2009