Iranian Dissidents Abroad At Risk Of Having Nowhere To Go

Iranian Dissidents Abroad At Risk Of Having Nowhere To Go

"IT WAS one of the strangest places I'd ever seen," says one of the few Farsi-speaking Westerners to have spent weeks in Camp Ashraf, 65km (40 miles) north-east of Baghdad, where some 3,400 Iranian dissidents are hunkered down and are now threatened with expulsion from Iraq, perhaps even back to Iran. It was "like a spiffy midsized town in Iran", with parks, offices and buildings--but no children. It was "sterile, soulless and sad".

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