NCRI- In a protest outside the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Iranian exiles called for protection of several thousand residents of Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
A delegation presented list of demands to the Iraqi Embassy, the report said.
NCRI- In a protest outside the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Iranian exiles called for protection of several thousand residents of Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
A delegation presented list of demands to the Iraqi Embassy, the report said.
The participants demanded, inter alia, the "deployment of U.S. troops to protect the Camp Ashraf residents until a written and legally binding agreement is reached with the Iraqi government on the protection camp residents.”
“The government in Baghdad has pledged to the U.S. that none of the inhabitants of the camp would be deported to Iran but recent statements by the Iraqi government in Baghdad have raised fear that they give in to the Iranian pressure,” Associated Press added.
In a telephone interview with Associated Press, Shahriar Kiamanesh, a Camp Ashraf spokesman said that if Iraqi government gives in to the demands of the Iranian regime, it creates a precedent regarding the influence of Tehran in neighboring Iraq and other Arab countries. Besides, deportations, extradition or relocations of camp residents within Iraq is a breach of international humanitarian law, he said.
The organizers told Associated Press that about 120 family members of residents of Camp Ashraf participated in the demonstration in Berlin.
For more than two decades, the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran has maintained a presence in Iraq. Currently nearly 3,500 members of the PMOI including about 1000 women reside in Camp Ashraf, Iraq.
