Iranians demonstrate for Ashraf City’s residents in Washington D.C.

NCRI – Iranians demonstrated on Friday in Washington D.C. in support of Ashraf City residents and their families who are stopped by the Iraqi authorities at the camp's gates. Fifteen men, women and children, relatives of Ashraf residents, are stopped outside the compound in cold weather by the Iraqi officials. They have not been allowed to enter the camp to visit with their family members inside.

NCRI – Iranians demonstrated on Friday in Washington D.C. in support of Ashraf City residents and their families who are stopped by the Iraqi authorities at the camp's gates. Fifteen men, women and children, relatives of Ashraf residents, are stopped outside the compound in cold weather by the Iraqi officials. They have not been allowed to enter the camp to visit with their family members inside.

In a statement read to the public by the organizers in Lafayette Park across from the White House, many of whom have relatives in Ashraf; the participants pledged the "unequivocal support" for their loved ones in Iraq.

"We will do whatever necessary to stop the injustice," said one demonstrator who has his son in Ashraf.

VOA interviewed some of the demonstrators before the White House. An organizer told VOA that the group of 15 which is prevented from entering the camp has gone to the country on valid visas from the Iraqi embassy in Tehran.

"In an official statement issued by Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, it called on the US government and the international community to intervene and return the situation at the camp to normal," VOA reported.