Iranian Resistance demands UN to stop Iraq’s alleged “attacks”

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The anti-Tehran Iranian Resistance, based in Ashraf Camp in northeast Iraq‘s Diala Province, has demanded the United Nations to interfere to stop the alleged “aggressions” against it, charging the Iraqi government with implementing new plans to “tighten ropes around its necks.” “We would like to draw the attention of the UN Mission for Iraq‘s Assistance (UNAMI) and the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative, as well as the U.S. Administration and the U.S. Forces in Iraq, to the “aggressive” measures, taken by the Iraqi forces against the inhabitants of Ashraf Camp,” a statement by the National Council for the Iranian Resistance, a copy of which has landed in IraqiNews.com news Agency said. The statement called for “taking urgent steps to put an end for the psychological torture of the residents of the Camp and to prevent aggressions against their installations and properties, as well as the restoration of their stolen properties.” “The said acts are taking place at a time when the anti-Ashraf Camp Committee bans, since 22 months, the importation of building, construction and electricity materials for Ashraf Camp,” the statement said. IraqiNews.com has failed to contact the Iraqi government to comment on the charges as outlined in the statement. The anti-Tehran Mujahedin E-Khalq Organization is based in Ashraf Camp in northeast Iraq‘s Diala Province as its main headquarters, since the transfer of its command to Iraq in 1985, where it enjoyed support by the former Baath regime, launching attacks against Iran. After Iraq‘s U.S.-led occupation, the U.S. Army had disarmed the Organization’s members, but allowed them to stay in their base that was placed under American protection, despite charging them to be a “terrorist” organization. After the signing of the Security Agreement between Iraq and the U.S. at the end of last year, the Iraqi government took over the responsibility of Ashraf Camp, provided that the U.S. forces would stay in it till its final withdrawal from Iraq, according to the Agreement. Ashraf Camp is situated in al-Udheim area of Khalis township, 15 km to the north of Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, which is 57 km to the northeast of Baghdad. SKH/SR 1