10/18/2013

Iraq And Iranian Dissidents

Iraq: War won, peace lost - The Hill's Congress Blog
These 3000-plus men and women, members of the Iranian democratic opposition from the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MeK), had been living peacefully for almost thirty years in a city they developed by their own hard work called Camp Ashraf, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad.
They had fled Iran in fear of oppression by the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini and his successors shortly after the 1979 Iranian revolution. After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, they gave up their weapons and agreed to live under the protection of American forces and the dictates of the Geneva Conventions.

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