Iran Focus
London, 5 Jul – Members of the European Parliament today called on the European Union and its member states: to condemn Monday’s missile bombardment of Camp Liberty; to press for an independent inquiry into the attack; and to act to dislodge the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from Iraq.
Iran Focus
Washington, 5 Jul – Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Ken Blackwell, said that the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) had already united “officials from several presidential administrations” of both parties in “common cause” against fundamentalist terrorism. In pursuit of “the universal imperative to confront the threat of Islamic extremism,” the new administration, whether Republican and Democratic, needed to join the coalition developing around the NCRI, he argued.
Iran Focus
London, 5 Jul – In a report Monday night, Reuters said that a missile bombardment had injured more than 40 residents of Camp Liberty, home to the opposition People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MEK).
Iran Focus
Paris, 5 Jul – After more than 50 rockets injured 40 and set large areas ablaze at Camp Liberty, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), called for urgent action to protect the camp’s residents.
Iran Focus
London, 5 Jul – Reporting on the plan, agreed in June, between the democratic opposition movements of Iran and Syria, a leading English language voice in the Middle East, The National, called the alliance “an opportunity for the Gulf countries to increase pressure on the Iranian regime, which has been promoting instability in the region.”
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London, 5 Jul – Political prisoners in Iran’s south-eastern city of Zahedan have issued a statement in support of the Free Iran mass rally on July 9 in Paris.
Smuggled out at great risk, the statement declared: “We, political prisoners of the Central Prison of Zahedan, call on all our countrymen and women, both inside the country and abroad, to take part in the mass gathering of Iranians in Paris. The rally will be a demonstration of the defense of the rights of the Iranian people. We need to end the many catastrophes overtaking the country.”
Iran Focus
London, 5 Jul – Following a sustained rocket attack on members of the main Iranian opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MEK) in Camp Liberty in the Iraqi capital in the late hours of 4 July, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF) issued an urgent call for international protection for the camp, home to Iran’s democratic opposition.
Iran Focus
London, 4 Jul – On Monday, at 20.35 local time, Camp Liberty, which houses members of the main Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), came under a sustained rocket attack.
This past weekend, the world lost a great human rights activist and now, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian Resistance had paid tribute to a fallen hero.
Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Jewish-American writer and Holocaust survivor, died on July 2, aged 87.
London, 4 Jul – A leading British politician has expressed support for The Free Iran rally and encouraged governments and global institutions to do the same.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC and Joint Chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, said that Iran must be persuaded to change its current outlook on human rights. He said that, if necessary, sanctions that were lifted as a result of last year’s nuclear deal should be re-imposed.
