1,665 tribal leaders from thirteen provinces in Iraq condemn plots against PMOI members

Saturday, 18 November 2006

NCRI - 1,665 Iraqi tribal leaders, including 164 senior leaders from Baghdad, Basra, Qadesieh, Zeqar, Diyala, Salahiddin, Kirkuk, al-Anbar, Neinawa, Mosana, Karbala, Najaf, and Babel signed a statement condemning the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq. They denounced inhuman restrictions imposed upon the residents of Camp Ashraf, home to the members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), as an indication of succumbing to the regime in Iran. They described the PMOI members as political refugees and honorary citizens and part of their tribal society in Iraq.

Text of the statement is as follows:

“For two decades, the PMOI members have lived in peace and tranquility in our society. We consider them as part of our tribes and as such any remonstrance or infringement against them is deemed against us. It is our responsibility to defend their lives and belongings at all times. The solidarity statement singed by 5.2 million Iraqi citizens is a testament to that fact.

This is a covenant with the PMOI that until their country is freed from the mullahs’ regime which is an underlying factor to the freedom of Iraqi people; they are considered as political refugees and honorary citizens in Iraq.

Putting inhuman pressures on the PMOI members by cutting their food, fuel, medicine, and electricity under any pretext is strongly condemned. We consider such acts as bowing to the orders of the Iranian regime. In the past 20 years, the PMOI has provided the residents of Diyala Province with the necessary services they needed. Depriving the Ashraf residents from their basic necessities is a crime and not acceptable by the Iraqi people.

The Iraqi society, before anything else, is suffering from criminal actions undertaken by various security apparatus of the Iranian regime and its lackeys. The regime’s agents are involved in murder, terror, and dispatching arms and munitions as well as instigating sectarian violence in Iraq. The degree of patriotism by anyone in Iraq, is measured by his opposition to the meddling in Iraq and therefore by his respect and friendship with the members of the PMOI.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 18, 2006