NCRI – The International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) on Monday expressed “deep concern” over the transfer of mercenaries of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and IRGC Quds Force to Camp Liberty, Iraq, to conspire against thousands of members of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or MEK).
The committee urged Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi not to allow the Iranian regime’s agents, “who have been nested in various political and security organizations during 8 years of former prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki’s rule,” to pave the way for another humanitarian disaster against the Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty (members of the PMOI – MEK).
“In the morning of September 7, 2015, two dozen Iranian Quds Force agents under the pretext of families of residents were transferred to Liberty by the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and Colonel Sadiq Mohammad Kazem and some of his colleagues in the Committee of Suppression of Liberty residents chaired by Faleh Fayyaz, Iraq’s National Security Adviser, by passing them through several checkpoints. The agents then began chanting slogans against the residents. These actions continued until the last hours of the day,” the ISJ said in a statement.
These actions are a reminder of two years of “psychological torture” of Camp Liberty residents in 2010 and 2011 in Camp Ashraf by the Iranian regime’s agents under the name of residents’ families in preparation for the “subsequent killings” in Camp Liberty, it said.
“Dispatching a bunch of mercenaries to Liberty under the name of family members is taking place while hundreds of families of Liberty residents in Europe, North America and Iran’s neighboring countries have complained to ISJ about the Iraqi government’s refusal to let them go to Iraq and visit their loved ones.”
“Prior to this, in the years 2011 and 2012, the US and UN officials had repeatedly promised us that when the residents were transferred from Ashraf to Liberty, the Iraqi Government would prevent any visit to Liberty by the Iranian regime agents under any circumstances. Unfortunately, the Iranian regime’s agents in the Iraqi Government repeatedly violate this promise by the demand of this regime.”
“In addition to the Iraqi Government, ISJ asks the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNAMI and the US Government to proceed immediately, according to their clear commitments, to take away the responsibilities and Iraqi management of Camp Liberty from the Iraqi people affiliated with the Iranian regime like Faleh Fayyaz, Col. Sadiq, and Maj. Ahmad, and transfer it to individuals and organizations who are not linked and under the influence of the Iranian regime, and prevent the Iranian regime agents from approaching Liberty and launching another bloodbath. A disaster that neither Prime Minister Abadi nor the US Government nor the United Nations will be innocent in it.”
About ISJ:
International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) was initially formed in 2008 as an informal group of EU parliamentarians to seek justice for the Iranian democratic opposition. In 2014 it was registered as a non-profit NGO in Brussels expanding its membership beyond elected parliamentarians to former officials and other dignitaries with an interest to promote human rights, freedom, democracy, peace and stability. ISJ’s campaigns have enjoyed the support of over 4000 parliamentarians on both sides of the Atlantic.
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, former Vice-President of European Parliament (1999-2014), is President of the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ).
Its Board of Advisors include: Patrick Kennedy, Congressman (1995-2011); Günter Verheugen, Vice President of EU Commission (2004-2010); Nicole Fontaine, President of European Parliament (1999-2002); Gen. Hugh Shelton, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1997-2001); David Kilgour, Canadian Secretary of State (1997-2003); Ingrid Betancourt; Prof. Raymond Tanter, President of Iran Policy Committee, Washington DC; Prof. Horst Teltschik, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (1999-2008); Colonel Wesley Martin, Antiterrorism/Force Protection Officer of all Coalition forces in Iraq (2005-2007); Senator Lucio Malan, Quaestor of Italian Senate; Alessandro Pagano MP, President of Committee of Italian Parliamentarians for a Free Iran; Antonio Razzi, Secretary of Italian Senate Foreign Affairs Committee; Gérard Deprez MEP, Chair Friends of a Free Iran intergroup European Parliament; Ryszard Czarnecki, Vice President of European Parliament; Tunne Kelam, Member of European Parliament; Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, Co – chairman of British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, former independent reviewer of UK terrorism legislations; Lord Clarke of Hampstead CBE, Former Chairman of UK Labour Party; Lord Maginnis of Drumglass; and Lord Dholakia OBE, Deputy Leader of Liberal Democrats in House of Lords.