New plot by mullahs’ regime against People's Mojahedin in Iraq

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 19, 2006

NCRI - The clerical regime’s state television announced this afternoon, “The Iraqi Prime Minister reported the expulsion of elements of the hypocrites grouplet (People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran) from his country. The regime’s official news agency carried a report, entitled “Security – Iraq – hypocrisy”, which said, “Without referring to specifics, the Iraqi Prime Minister announced a plan to expel elements of the terrorist hypocrites group from his country.” The agency said, “[Nuri] al-Maliki reiterated that elements of this grouplet are currently being held in a camp and they are not permitted to leave. The state-run news agency ISNA added, “It was decided to limit actions of this group and to encamp them in Ashraf Camp, north of Iraq, and prevent their contacts with the ministers and government agencies.

Any action against the PMOI represents nothing but the demands and wishes of the theocracy ruling Iran that have been conveyed to the Iraqi Prime Minister by discredited “security agencies.” These are the very same organs that are widely known to have been infiltrated by the Iranian regime and have played the greatest role in advancing the regime’s objectives in Iraq in the past year.

Suggesting such measures against the PMOI comes at a time when the very same security agencies have remained silent regarding the Iranian regime’s role in countless crimes and killings in Iraq, including atrocities such as the August 4 abduction of two PMOI members and the May 29 bombing of a bus carrying innocent Iraqi workers who worked at Ashraf City.

Today, the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq is so extensive that it has not only exasperated the Iraqi people and threatened democracy in that country but has also endangered peace and tranquility in the entire region. The Iranian Resistance had previously provided to pertinent authorities the list of names of more than 30,000 operatives of the Iranian regime in Iraq who have been on the mullahs’ payroll.

Clearly, the main problem for the clerical regime and its operatives in Iraq emanates from their anger over the declaration by 5.2 million Iraqis which condemned the mullahs’ meddling in Iraq and demanded, “The acknowledgement of PMOI members’ rights to political asylum in Iraq.” In a statement in this regard, the presidency of the Iraqi People’s Congress Solidarity had called on the United Nations, international organizations and the International Committee of Jurists to examine the documents pertaining to the declaration.

The clerical regime’s leaders, including the Supreme National Security Council Secretary General, Brig. Gen. Ali Larijani, and Majlis Speaker, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, emphatically pleaded with an Iraqi parliamentary delegation that had recently visited Iran, telling it that they would give them money and weapons in order to expel the PMOI from Iraq and say that they were involved in bombings in Iraq and joined the U.S. forces in suppressing the people of Iraq.

This is while members of the PMOI in Iraq are under the protection of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Multi-National Force-Iraq has the responsibility to protect them. Violating these rights would be considered a war crime.

The said measures against the PMOI in Iraq are being contemplated at a time when in the past three years PMOI members have not traveled freely in Iraq. Since some time ago, at the request of the mullahs’ regime, their state rations for fuel and food stuffs have been cut off. Dr. Hossein Albahrani, the Director General of the Oil Products Distribution Company, who had agreed in writing in the presence of representatives from the MNF-I last month to provide the fuel needed for Ashraf City’s hospital, was fired under pressure by the mullahs’ regime. Yesterday, the water supply for Ashraf residents was cut off.

The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of relevant international agencies and officials to the need for immediate intervention to confront the pressures by the mullahs’ evil regime against the PMOI and the Iraqi government.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 19, 2006