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NCRI – In the international conference held in Paris on Friday, January 20, 2012 in defense of Ashraf, General Hugh Shelton, The 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1997 to 2001made the following remarks: (Video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.\u00a0 It definitely is a great privilege and pleasure to be with you here in Paris today and to share the dais with such a distinguished group of colleagues.\u00a0 And for the residents of Camp Ashraf let me say that to those of you who may be watching, salaam alaikum.\u00a0 [applause] As has already been said, but I\u2019ll say it again, we share your pain and we will be with you throughout.\u00a0 As a General, one of my responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Thank you.\u00a0 As a General, one of my responsibilities includes knowing how to use overwhelming and appropriate force to win a war or to win battles.\u00a0 Today we\u2019re here to celebrate, in some respects, winning one battle that is the battle to make sure we extended the deadline of Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 But we also must be aware that there are other battles to be fought.\u00a0 I would tell you that we won the battle to extend the deadline because of the combined efforts of the European and U.S. campaigns that created an awareness of the plight of the Ashraf residents along with, and I would say first and foremost in my mind, the brilliant leadership of Mrs. Rajavi, who fought to protect the rights of residents while also simultaneously orchestrating a peaceful solution to the situation in Iraq.\u00a0 Let\u2019s give her a big round of applause. [applause] And if Ambassador Kobler and the UN enforce the agreement, or if Maliki honored the agreement, then we would not have a reason to be here today.\u00a0 But that is not the case.\u00a0 Today we still must deal with other unfinished business, and that unfinished business includes battles still to be fought.\u00a0 Battles to be fought with Iran, with Iraq, and of course the battle over Camp Liberty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, Iran.\u00a0 You\u2019ve heard me quote Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist and warrior before who said, \u201cIf you know yourself and you know your enemy you need not fear the outcome of a thousand battles.\u00a0 If you know yourself but not your enemy then for every victory you will also suffer a defeat.\u00a0 And if you know neither yourself nor your enemy then you are a fool and you\u2019ll suffer defeat in every encounter.\u201d\u00a0 We know who the enemy is.\u00a0 But when it comes to dealing with Iran it appears that the United States State Department doesn\u2019t have a clue as who the real enemy is. And this could spell disaster, not only in the near term but for the future as well.<\/p>\n

As we know, the Obama administration started off with its policy of engagement.\u00a0 Engagement was their goal.\u00a0 But today I think even they have to recognize that it has been a complete and total failure.\u00a0 The first three weeks, just looking at the first three weeks of this year in 2012, which a little bit less than three weeks, I think three weeks ends tomorrow, we see Iran boldly announcing that it intended to pursue its underground nuclear facility enriching uranium, indicating more clearly its ominous intent to obtain nuclear weapons.\u00a0 We see Iran in the first three weeks sentencing to death a former U.S. Marine.\u00a0 We see them threatening to choke off the Straits of Hormuz, the most strategic passage of oil supply in the world.\u00a0 We see the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, testing missiles and even being so bold as to threaten the United States if they sent carriers back into the international waters of the Persian Gulf.\u00a0 And even today the Iran remains the major supporter of Assad in Syria.\u00a0 That\u2019s just in the first three weeks.<\/p>\n

Both the United States and our European allies have been trying to change the behavior of this nation-state, so to speak, by threatening or by using the tools of the Central Bank, and its oil.\u00a0 These sanctions against both, these are long overdue, but they are not nearly enough.\u00a0 If you consider the gravity of the situation today, we have got to use some of the other tools in our kit bag of national power.\u00a0 Doing nothing or using the slow motion bureaucratic tools that we have used up to this point is almost a total waste of time when it comes to dealing with Iran.\u00a0 It is time to publicly and openly acknowledge our enemy, and the Tehran mullahs are clearly our enemy.\u00a0 [applause] They obviously have not been convinced that Iran should behave like a mature nation-state.\u00a0 And I think the Arab Spring made them somewhat jittery to start with, and probably even more paranoid because they are now so very uncertain about what the disenchanted restive young population, the millions of whom poured into the streets in 2009, their young people, will do today.<\/p>\n

And this brings me really to my key point in this regard, and that is that the United States must, we must address, should address and indeed must address the fact that we\u2019ve got to use every tool in our kit bag when we deal with Iran.\u00a0 The Obama administration can with the stroke of a pen, just one stroke, make Tehran even more jittery. We can send shock waves to the mullahs and we can certainly energize the Iranian people without having to spend a dime or without having to send one Marine or U.S. soldier into harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

Understanding our enemy includes understanding that to Iran it is the enemy within.\u00a0 The mullah\u2019s nightmare is to see the United States remove the MEK from its list of terrorist organizations, since the MEK is Tehran\u2019s archenemy. And when you look through Iran\u2019s eyes and you see Mrs. Rajavi with her ten point program designed to ensure that the people of Iran enjoy the same rights, freedoms and privileges that other democratic nations around the world enjoy, you can see why it causes them to be paranoid.\u00a0 But for Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s program to be effective it has to be implemented, which can only happen when the Iranian people change this theocratic, autocratic regime that they live in today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And that starts with the U.S. and this handful of other nations taking the MEK off the FTO list.\u00a0 It must be done and it must be done immediately.<\/p>\n

When you ask people in the United States why are they on the list, and I\u2019m talking about high level government officials, you get a shrug of shoulders.\u00a0 No one can produce any evidence.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 There is no evidence.\u00a0 Not a shred.\u00a0 Therefore it would seem to be a rather simple thing to do.\u00a0 But yet our state department\u2019s delay, silence and inaction in this case is incomprehensible.<\/p>\n

More importantly, what kind of a message does this send to the Tehran mullahs and even to Iraq\u2019s Maliki when they see that we have them on the FTO list and twice Maliki has used that message as a reason for his unprovoked attacks against the unarmed residents of Ashraf.\u00a0 Disarming the MEK is why we guaranteed them protected person status initially, and it\u2019s why the U.S. should feel, must feel like they have an obligation to ensure that they are not attacked again.\u00a0 And the first thing they could do to ensure that is to take the MEK off the list.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got a group of my distinguished\u2014[applause] There are a large number of former officials in the U.S. government that have spoken out publically and very strongly in favor of doing this.\u00a0 You have a group of distinguished colleagues here from the U.S. that you\u2019ve heard from and that you will hear from, that will say the same thing today.\u00a0 Hundreds of members of our Congress that have sent the same word to the State Department.\u00a0 So indeed I think the State Department\u2019s unfair listing has been what has muzzled a very strong voice for the Iranian people when their voices need to be heard the loudest.\u00a0 When the Iranian people cry for freedom, the MEK is the voice through which they should be heard. <\/p>\n

And then finally there\u2019s the very pressing issue of Camp Liberty.\u00a0 As we have seen form the Maliki government in recent days, they have not honored the agreement that they signed up to.\u00a0 And now we see Maliki\u2019s true colors flying when it comes to honoring the commitment he made to the UN regarding the movement of Ashraf residents to Camp Liberty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently Maliki referred to the residents as terrorists and criminals and stating publicly that none of Ashraf residents will remain in Iraq by April. He established a deadline.\u00a0 And the sad fact is that the U.S. by default is in collusion with this heavily influenced Maliki president by our own terrorist designation.<\/p>\n

Recently we saw Maliki issue the arrest warrants that were referred to earlier for 121 Ashraf residents on the charge of involvement in terrorist actions.\u00a0 Last week he and his forces denied entry of special beds for paralyzed patients residing at Ashraf.\u00a0 In my book that one action alone constitutes inhumane treatment, and if not in the category of cruel and unusual punishment against humanity.\u00a0 It just shows what the UN is now dealing with in terms of the Maliki government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And today in spite of the UN agreement that Maliki signed, the conditions at the camp are deplorable and not even close to being fit for human beings to reside in.\u00a0 You know, Camp Liberty was never, at its height, a very pretty place.\u00a0 It in fact was a former U.S. base, and that U.S. base was looted when the U.S. departed.\u00a0 It now has dilapidated trailers, no water, no electricity, it lacks basic infrastructure, no recreational areas, not a tree in sight.\u00a0 It resembles a prison camp.\u00a0 And as Mayor Guliani said earlier, it\u2019s a half a kilometer large.\u00a0 And now the Iraqis are constructing a 3.6 meter concrete wall around that .5 kilometer area.\u00a0 It truly resembles a prison.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if the area inside is so bad that the wall is being constructed to keep people out rather than let people in.<\/p>\n

So what must happen?\u00a0 Ambassador Kobler, the UNSG special rep, must bring the violations of the MOU to the attention of the secretary general and to the Security Council.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Ambassador Kobler gets paid to do if Maliki doesn\u2019t comply with the MOU.\u00a0 The Iranians are behind the breaches in the MOU.\u00a0 So, dealing with Maliki as if he\u2019s an honorable man is not going to lead to an honoring of the MOU rather than it\u2019s going to lead to a downward slide in terms of preparing the camp for the residents.<\/p>\n

The Iranians do not want a peaceful solution.\u00a0 In fact, we all know what the Iranians want.\u00a0 The Iranians want to destroy the MEK.\u00a0 So by not letting Maliki agree, and by Maliki not agreeing, then they in essence are setting the stage for another crisis in April.\u00a0 If the UNHCR, if UNAMI, if the United States remain silent on this issue then we are complicit.\u00a0 We are as guilty as Maliki is.\u00a0 We need to insist on a timeline or a schedule for completion of Camp Liberty as quickly as possible.\u00a0 You know the Iraqis are very quick to establish timelines.\u00a0 They established 31 December initially for closing Ashraf.\u00a0 Now they\u2019ve extended that to the end of April.\u00a0 They know how to establish timelines, but not when it comes to something that works against them, which is bringing Camp Liberty up to standards so that in fact\u2014up to the MOU standards so that the people in Ashraf can be moved in order to meet the deadline that the Iraqis established themselves and as is called for in the MOU.<\/p>\n

The U.S. must play a more active role using coercive diplomacy where required rather than a laid off or hands off type of diplomacy which we have been using with the Maliki government up \u2018til this point.\u00a0 Dealing with Maliki it is obvious that the Iranian approach is considerably more effective than the United States\u2019 is, and yet United States continues to pour millions of dollars into Iraq, not to mention the lives and the blood of our U.S. service men and women that went there to give the Iraqi people a chance at democracy and freedom.\u00a0 And certainly never did we envision that it would turn out that we replaced Saddam Hussein with one who acts like Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

In the United States, only when the Obama administration and the State Department strategists start dealing with the facts about the Iranian regime and its opponents only when we delist the MEK and only when we use more forceful diplomacy to ensure that Maliki honors the UN agreement will we encounter success and be in a position to win the war.\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

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