Statements by head of the European Union’s delegation is a great expression of solidarity with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and international condemnation of suppressive policies vis-à-vis Camp Ashraf residents
Statement by Dr. Zafir al-Ani, Secretary General of the National Future Assembly of Iraq – April 28, 2011
NCRI – It is quite peculiar that the Iranian regime’s officials announce that the agreement for exchange of criminals between Iraq and Iran, which is signed in Tehran by the Iraqi justice minister, Hassan al-Shemri, sets the stage for extradition of PMOI members, opponents of the Iranian clerical regime.
Despite announcements by Iraqi government that the agreement does not apply to PMOI members, the statements by officials of the fascist regime in Tehran contradict those announcements. Such statements by the Iranian regime reflect the policy of direct interference in Iraq’s internal affairs and explain the true dimensions of the agreement. Had it not been for the international rejection of this agreement and scrutinizing of the details of the dangerous violations that the Iranian regime and its agents perpetrate vis-à-vis PMOI, the Iranian regime would have practically carried out its plots. As it happened at Camp Ashraf recently and units of Iraqi army took actions against our national interests, during which 35 members of PMOI, including 8 women were killed. An event that eroded Iraq’s international credibility and drew a great deal of criticism for our lack of respect for human rights and violation of international conventions. One of the latest examples of such actions was a visit by a European Parliamentary delegation; and yesterday’s statement by the head of that delegation was an expression of great solidarity with PMOI and an unequivocal condemnation of suppressive policies that Ashraf residents are enduring. These policies have resulted in calls for direct intervention of the United Nations for providing international protection of Camp Ashraf and PMOI members and for the necessity of formation of an international investigation committee to determine the facts and truths of what happened at Ashraf on April 8, 2011.
Rejection of Iranian regime’s intervention in our country’s affairs is the only means for standing against them… In the same vain, the agreement for exchange of criminals opens the way for more interventions and further dictations by the Iranian regime, not only in the Iraqi affairs, but also in the affairs of all countries in the region.
PMOI in Iraq is a political organization which is unarmed and is a national liberation movement and cannot be subjected to the terms of such agreements; moreover, it is our duty to support this organization and provide its members with humanitarian and medical assistance. The adjective “criminal” is suitable for the Iranian regime’s officials who have direct roles in murder or equip their Iraqi agents with car bombs and guns with silencer for killing Iraqis and support paramilitary, special groups, and death squads. Does this agreement include these criminals or, as usual, we will appease them?