Remarks by these agents aimed to prepare grounds for massacre of PMOI members in Iraq
NCRI – The clerical regime's media reported on June 17 that Ali Dabaq, the Iraqi government spokesman, had repeated his earlier demand for expulsion of Ashraf City residents, the members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)[MEK], from Iraq. He had asked for the PMOI "To be placed under the Iraqi control in order to be expelled from Iraq."
The unlawful remarks which are laying the grounds for more terrorist and missile attacks and the massacre of Ashraf City residents, are just frantic reactions of the Iranian regime and its agents vis-à-vis the declaration of three million Iraqi Shiites against the regime's meddling in their country. The declaration called for eviction of the regime from Iraq and closure of its embassy and representative offices in that country.
The unlawful remarks by Dabaq are flagrant violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the common article three of the Geneva Conventions, the International Humanitarian Law, the principle of nonrefoulment and many other international conventions which offer protection to Ashraf residents.
As the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNAMI and many other international bodies have emphasized; the above-mentioned treaties and principles prohibit extradition, forced expulsion from Iraq or involuntary displacement within Iraq. Also, their transfer to any other country or authority which might jeopardize the implementation of the principle of nonrefoulment is unlawful.
The presence of the PMOI in Iraq is within the framework of the international law and welcomed by the people of that country. The declarations by three million Iraqi Shiites (June 2008), 5.2 million Iraqis (June 2006), 12,000 Iraqi jurists (April 2006), 3,000 Iraqi Sheikhs and tribal leaders (June 2007) and dozens of other statements by different sections of the Iraqi society have expressed support for the PMOI's presence in Iraq. This has also been expressed by political leaders as well as democratic and nationalist Iraqi parties.
Remarks by Dabaq come at a time when he is absolutely silent on the criminal actions taken by the clerical regime against the PMOI and the residents of Ashraf City in Iraq including bombing of Ashraf water pumping station, missile attack on Ashraf, bombing of a bus carrying Iraqi workers to Ashraf City, assassination of Iraqis who support the PMOI and many others. However, when three million Iraqi Shiites call for an end to the Iranian regime's meddling in Iraq and expulsion of agents of the regime's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Qods Force from that country, Dabaq reacts by calling for expulsion of the PMOI, declaring ban on any contacts with it and calls on the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) to hand over the PMOI and its members to Iraqi government.
The Iranian Resistance considers remarks by Ali Dabaq as an attempt to prepare the grounds for more terrorist and missile attacks against the residents of Ashraf and calls on the UN Security Council, the MNF-I as well as Mr. Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq to condemn these remarks and underscore the need to respect the rights of the Ashraf residents within the international conventions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 18, 2008