NCRI – At 5:25 this morning, Friday, July 4, 2008, the clerical regime, once again, attacked Ashraf City (home to members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq, by Grad missiles.
No one was harmed in this attack which was carried out in reaction to the support expressed by three million Iraqi Shiites for Ashraf, the removal of the PMOI (MEK) from the terror list, and the largest gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 28.
The clerical regime carried out a similar attack on May 26, 2008, following the British Court of Appeal's decision to remove the PMOI (MEK) from the list of proscribed organizations.
NCRI – At 5:25 this morning, Friday, July 4, 2008, the clerical regime, once again, attacked Ashraf City (home to members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq, by Grad missiles.
No one was harmed in this attack which was carried out in reaction to the support expressed by three million Iraqi Shiites for Ashraf, the removal of the PMOI (MEK) from the terror list, and the largest gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 28.
The clerical regime carried out a similar attack on May 26, 2008, following the British Court of Appeal's decision to remove the PMOI (MEK) from the list of proscribed organizations.
The following is the statement issued today by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK):
The Recurring Missile Attack on Ashraf City, a War Crime Against Protected Persons on Iraqi Soil
The UN Security Council, Multi National Force-Iraq, and the Iraqi Government urged for punitive measures against the Iranian regime, its eviction from Iraq, expulsion of the regime's ambassador, and closure of its embassy in Iraq
At 5:25 this morning, Friday, July 4, 2008, the clerical regime, once again, attacked Ashraf City by Grad missiles. No one was harmed in this attack which was carried out in reaction to the support expressed by three million Iraqi Shiites for Ashraf, the removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI [MEK]) from the terror list, and the largest gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 28.
The clerical regime carried out a similar attack on May 26, 2008, following the British Court of Appeal's decision to remove the PMOI from the list of proscribed organizations.
The clerical regime has been preparing the grounds for such criminal attacks for sometime. The state-run Mehr News Agency reported on June 29 that the efforts by Britain and the EU to remove the PMOI from the list of terrorist organizations "would provoke the Iraqi people to act and end the presence of the terrorist grouplet (referring to the PMOI) in Iraq once and for all."
The regime also repeated its false allegation that in 1991 the PMOI [MEK] "in cooperation with the Iraqi Republican Guards massacred 150,000 Iraqi Shiites." It tasked the Iraqi government to arrest leaders of the PMOI and "hand them over to the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal for trial."
On Monday, June 30, 2008, the Alforat TV network in Iraq affiliated with the Iranian regime raised the following question: "Is it not necessary to carry out an attack similar to the one carried out by the Iraqi forces in Mussel (code named Roar of the Lion) to purge out of Iraq the groups such as this terrorist organization [PMOI]?"
On Thursday, July 3, Ali Dabagh, Iraqi government spokesman said: "The arrest warrants for some of the leaders of the PMOI has been issued because of their violation of recognized principles and norms."
In the meantime, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a well known agent of the mullahs' regime in Iraq, once again called for expulsion of the PMOI [MEK] from that country by raising repeated lies made up by the regime against the PMOI (state-run Fars News Agency, July 4, 2008).
The call for the expulsion of the PMOI [MEK] from Iraq by the agents of the clerical regime, requesting the arrest, putting on trial and punishment of the PMOI [MEK] leaders military aggression against the protected persons in Ashraf, are trampling upon the principle of non-refoulment, and are all clear violations of international laws, the International Humanitarian Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. This constitutes an obvious war crime.
The PMOI once again calls upon the UN Security Council, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Multi-National Force-Iraq, and the Government of Iraq to condemn Tehran's war-mongering and war crimes in Iraq. It also calls for the punishment of the perpetrators of this crime, the eviction of the Iranian regime from Iraq, and in particular the expulsion of Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the regime's ambassador to Iraq who is one of the top commanders in Iraq of the terrorist entity, the Qods Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp and the closure of the mullahs' embassy in Baghdad.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
July 4, 2008