Iran: Mullahs’ regime through its operative Abdul Aziz Hakim calls for PMOI expulsion from Iraq

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Friday, 28 July 2006

As the scope of outrage by the people of Iraq and the world community at remarks attributed to the Iraqi Prime Minister grows, today, the clerical regime sent its official spokesman and notorious operative, Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, on the stage. During Friday’s prayer congregation in the holy of city of Najaf, Hakim demanded the expulsion of the People’s Mojahedin from Iraq.

Apparently, the support by 5.2 million Iraqis for the PMOI and the courageous reaction of Iraqis in the face of the new conspiracy by the clerical regime against the organization has exasperated and angered the mullahs.

Many Iraqi parties, organizations, associations, political personalities, tribal sheikhs and religious leaders (Shiite, Sunni and Christian), as well as hundreds of parliamentarians across the world condemned the new conspiracy by the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran against the PMOI in Ashraf City, Iraq. They called on the government of Iraq and the Multi-National Force-Iraq to recognize the PMOI members’ rights both in the framework of the Fourth Geneva Convention and in the framework of political asylum, to which they have been entitled for the past 20 years.

This is not the first time that Al-Hakim repeats instructions dictated by the mullahs. Previously, after the now defunct Iraqi Governing Council, issued a directive, dictated by the mullahs, on December 9, 2003 to expel the Mojahedin from Iraq, he called for the extradition of the Mojahedin to the Iranian regime. Two weeks later, on December 22, he demanded a trial for the Mojahedin “who had committed crimes on Iraqi territory.” At the time, the Multi-National Force-Iraq and the international community rejected Al-Hakim’s pronouncements. Less than seven moths later, on July 2004, the Multi-National Force-Iraq recognized all members of the PMOI in Ashraf City as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Hakim heads the kidnappers of PMOI members Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi as well as terrorists who blew up Ashraf City water pipelines. The Iranian Resistance calls for the prosecution of the mullahs’ criminal agents in an international tribunal.

Mr. Mehdi Abrishamchi, Chair of NCRI’s Peace Committee, had announced on July 21 in Paris, “Recent remarks by the Iraqi government against the Mojahedin were dictated by the clerical regime’s leaders during a visit by Al-Hakim to Tehran.”

The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, the Iraqi government, relevant international agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, to today’s remarks by Al-Hakim, which are a blatant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the sacred right to asylum. It also underscores the need to guarantee the security and safety of the Mojahedin and a reaffirmation of their political asylum rights, to which they have been entitled in the past 20 years.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 28, 2006