According to Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a reason why Iraqi soldiers act similar to the police in Tehran: They were trained in Iran. He believes that the Iraqi government gives in to pressure from its neighbor.
Mohaddessin told Aftenposten, “We warned the United States that if the responsibility to protect Camp Ashraf is transferred to Iraq a humanitarian catastrophe would occur because the Iraqi government does Iran’s bidding. The forces’ attack against the camp did not surprise us; What we didn’t expect was the degree of brutality.”
Just like Jews during WWII
Hossein earnestly calls on Norwegian officials to do whatever they can to help. He says, “These are human beings. They have rights. They cannot be treated this way.”
Parviz Khazai, the NCRI’s representative in Nordic countries and a former diplomat who defected in the 1980s, sees parallels between the situation of Camp Ashraf residents with that of Jews persecuted during the Second World War.
“For many of them, the consequences of deportation to Iran would be akin to the deportation of Jews to Nazi Germany. The context is easy to understand: Iran seeks to kill everyone in Ashraf and Iraq is ready to comply.”