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Fabricating lies about a nonexistent MeK suicide operation

Shahriar Kia - 1/28/2009

Simultaneous with the arrest of dozens of the families of Ashraf residents at Tehran Airport, Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran- based in Paris, and the jurists in defense of Ashraf, based on reliable intelligence from inside of the Iranian regime, disclosed the mullahs’ regime extensive plot for imposing pressure, conspiring and fabricating cases against the residents of Ashraf.

In this regard, the propaganda office of Iraq’s National Security Adviser claimed in a blatant fabrication on Monday 19 January 2009 that the PMOI had ordered a person to “commit suicide attack at the headquarters of Iraqi security forces”, and “ planning for such a heinous act had been done by the leaders of this organization in Camp Ashraf…”

Also last week, a meeting was held in Baghdad by the Iranian regime’s agents at Hotel Mansour which called for the murder of Ashraf residents, and also some forms were distributed by the regime’s agents for filing judicial complaints and files against the PMOI. In this meeting, a person that the Iranian regime’s TV introduced him as the deputy to Iraq’s National Security Adviser was present, and in contradiction with Iraqi government’s obligations for observing humanitarian rights of the PMOI and in flagrant violation of international law, he confirmed the goals of this unlawful meeting against the PMOI.

By expressing its abhorrence about the totally false statement of the propaganda office of Iraq’s National Security Adviser which was simultaneous with the Security Adviser’s trip to Tehran and his talks with the Iranian regime’s secretary of High Council for Security Affairs against the Ashraf residents, and has no intention other than launching a humanitarian disaster, Ashraf Legal Committee draws the attention of Iraqi government, U.S. government and international organizations to the following issues:

1. The claim of suicide operation is a sheer lie. On Tuesday January 15, a quitter called Maky Rafii, who had taken refuge to Ashraf from inside of Iran simultaneous with the emergence of the war in March 2003, introduced himself to the Iraqi forces at Ashraf’s entrance after he had made a written request to leave Ashraf and had received financial aid from the PMOI. Subsequently the U.S. forces on the scene took him with them and after two days delivered him to Iraq’s Human Rights ministry to decide about him. The letters written by this person and the receipt of financial aid to him are available and can be published. The U.S. forces are also fully aware of the PMOI’s aids to such people.

2. We demand that the Iraqi government, United States embassy and the Multi National Forces-Iraq refute immediately the false claim of suicide operation.

3. We ask the relevant international organizations, especially Secretary General of the United Nations, UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, International Committee of the Red Cross and the Prime Minister of Iraq to send their representatives to investigate this issue and to defend the rights of Ashraf residents.

4. Raising unfounded and provocative lies is in violation of international conventions, especially the Common Article 3 of Geneva Conventions, and explicitly violates the written guarantees that the Iraqi government has given to the United States and the international community to treat residents of Ashraf humanely and observe their rights.

5. The responsibility of fabricating false and fake cases is upon its perpetrators and is liable to prosecution.