Camp "Liberty": A Cruel Hoax?
If Camp Liberty turns out to be a hoax for the inhabitants of Camp Ashraf, there is no reason for anyone ever to believe that the United States will stand up to Iran.
If Camp Liberty turns out to be a hoax for the inhabitants of Camp Ashraf, there is no reason for anyone ever to believe that the United States will stand up to Iran.
AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 02.24.2012
BAGHDAD — The United Nations and the Iraqi government have signed an agreement to relocate several thousand Iranian exiles living in a camp in n...
Abbas Rezai | Posted 02.11.2012
The disputable meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki and President Obama will be held today in the White House. Mr. Maliki will be accompanied by Hadi Ameri, a government minister who has been the Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards 9th Badr corps.
Allan Gerson | Posted 01.04.2012
We are at the eleventh hour. All concerned, and especially the United States, must put press now to assure that the Dec. 31 deadline for the closure of Camp Ashraf is not implemented.
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- The ornate ballroom of the Willard Hotel buzzed with activity on a Saturday morning in July. Crowded together on the stage sat a cadre ...
Hajar Mojtahedzadeh | Posted 09.24.2011
Since when does being unpopular warrant a spot on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list? The MEK cannot be maintained on the list because it does not meet the State Department's statutory criteria of being engaged in terrorism.
Jamal Abdi | Posted 09.20.2011
The unprecedented campaign in Washington to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations represents a critical threat to Iran's indigenous democratic movement.
Hajar Mojtahedzadeh | Posted 09.07.2011
For those of us who remain oceans and continents away from our loved ones, we are forced to live with the fact that our family members at Camp Ashraf are being used as human bargaining chips, mere pawns in the global game of Realpolitik.
Soona Samsami | Posted 08.10.2011
The mullahs need to watch out; as the Arab Spring is advancing, the Persian Spring -- this one led by Iranian women -- will soon sweep the Ayatollahs from power.
Ali Safavi | Posted 08.07.2011
In addition to pressuring the regime through sanctions and offering moral support to the Iranian people's legitimate demands, the US should follow a two-pronged approach in dealing with the opposition.
AP | LARA JAKES and FRANK JORDANS | Posted 06.14.2011
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi army raid last week on Camp Ashraf left 34 Iranian exiles dead, according to a U.N. spokesman who on Thursday offered the fir...
AP | SAAD ABDUL-KADIR and LARA JAKES | Posted 06.08.2011
CAMP ASHRAF, Iraq — Iraq security forces raided the settlement of an Iranian exile group that the Shiite-led government has long tried to oust a...
Ali Safavi | Posted 06.05.2011
The Iranian regime's nuclear aggression, suppression at home and terrorist support abroad are outracing US policy.
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
An article published by The Guardian on the principal Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, is jam-packed with first-grade logical blunders and topped with dubious historical analogies.
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
Thank goodness someone has shown humanitarian concern about the plight of 3,400 Iranians in Camp Ashraf, Iraq. In the face of Iraq's unwillingness to shoulder its international responsibilities, Spain has stepped up to the challenge.
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
To avoid seeing the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism equipped with the world's deadliest weapon, Washington and her allies need to rectify past policy mistakes and stand with the Iranian people for democratic change.
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
Appeasing a medieval theocracy in Iran will only translate into a devastated Iraq controlled by a nuclear-armed Iranian regime. Silence is no longer an option.
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
The latest Wikileaks document dump reveals that countless American citizens and their representatives in Congress acquiesced to "engagement" with Iran on false premises.
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
In "Who are the Terrorists," Kenneth Timmerman rehashes absurd tabloid allegations against the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
The enemy of our enemy should be our friend, but the U.S. State Department persists in keeping the the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, the largest Iranian anti-mullah organization, on the List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
Had there been any evidence of the MEK's collusion with the former Iraqi government on any issue, let alone suppressing the Kurds or the Shiites, it would have surfaced in the seven years since the invasion of Iraq.
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
If we are forced by Iran's realization of its nuclear ambitions to take military action against Iran at a time not of our choosing, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
The hunger strike of more than two dozen Iranian-Americans came to a close Thursday with the news that 36 Iranian dissidents forcibly taken by Iraqi forces had been allowed to return to their enclave north of Baghdad.
AP | MARIA DANILOVA | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — An exiled Iranian opposition group urged the international community on Tuesday to assume control of a camp housing some of its members ...
AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces raided a camp housing members of an Iranian opposition group north of Baghdad on Tuesday in a move that ran contrary to U...
Allan Gerson | Posted 04.23.2012