A Summary of Iran’s Recent Terrorist Attacks against Ashraf City
Iran regime's secondmissile attack on Ashraf City, July 4, 2008
At 5:25 a.m., Friday, July 4, 2008, the Qods Force of Iran’s clerical regime, once again, attacked Ashraf City (home to members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in Iraq, by Grad rockets. No one was harmed in this attack which was carried out in reaction to the support expressed by three million Iraqi Shiites for Ashraf, the removal of the PMOI (MEK) from the terror list, and the largest gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 28. [more...]
Iran regime’s Missile Attack on Ashraf City,May 26, 2008
The clerical regime carried out a rocket attack on May 26, 2008, against Ashraf City with Grad rockets. On February 12, the PMOI warned that the Iranian regime had ordered a group of agents affiliated to the terrorist Qods Force in the town of Khalis, in Diyala Province of Iraq –to carry out a missile attack on Ashraf City.
Bombing of Ashraf CityWater Supply Station by Qods Force, February 08, 2008
On Friday, February 8, 2008, the terrorist agents of the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guard Corps - Qods Force, using more than 300 kg of TNT bombed the water supply pumping station which provided water to Ashraf City, home to members of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in northeastern Baghdad. The pumping station also supplied water to areas 25 km to the west of Ashraf according to information received. [more...]
Bombing of Water Piplines to Ashraf City by Qods Force, July 17, 2006
The water pipelines from the Tigris River to Camp Ashraf in Iraq were blown up by agents of the mullahs’ regime. The pipeline explosions disrupted the water supply in the Ashraf which violates the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding “protected persons”, which defines the status of members of the PMOI in Camp Ashraf. On July 21, the Qods Force agents blew up the water pipelines for the second time.
The Iranian regime's schemes against Ashraf
Ashraf came under repeated missile and terrorist attacks as well as air strikes by the Iranian regime before the 2003 war. In April 2001, for example, the regime launched 77 missiles at PMOI camps, including along the Iran-Iraq frontier.
After the war, the dismantling of Ashraf has been a priority for the Iranian regime. Both directly and through its proxies and operatives in Iraq, Tehran has repeatedly called for the handover of those in Ashraf to the regime. As support for the PMOI has grown in Iraq among different political entities as well as the general population, the regime has stepped up its efforts against Ashraf. It has put enormous pressure on Iraqi authorities to expel the residents of Ashraf. In recent months, a host of Iraqi officials and political figures with ties with the Iranian regime have publicly called for the prosecution or expulsion of the residents of Ashraf. On July 13, 2008, Muwaffaq al-Rubaiee, Iraq's National Security Advisor, told the Iraqi Al-Furat television, "We will close this file and the only option is that the Iraqi Armed forces take the responsibility of Camp Ashraf… Iraqis should exclusively be put in charge of administration in the Camp. Those who have committed crimes against the Iraqi people should be put on trial in this country. Almost every one except 56 of them would be given amnesty. The rest could return to their country."
On August 2, 2008, Raad Rasheed Mulla Jawad, the Governor of the Diyala Province, said on Al-Furat Television: "The Province is suffering from the presence of this organization and we therefore request that the decision be taken to implement the Order to expel the group."
On August 8, 2008, Al-Furat Television reported that Iraqi security forces were in the process of officially taking control of Ashraf Camp, and that the U.S. Government had agreed with such a transfer. The next day, this was confirmed on Al-Iraqiya TV by Abdul Qadir Muhammed Iraq's Minister of Defense. And on August 10, Maj. General Abdul Karim Khalaf, director of the National Operation Centre of the Interior ministry, repeated on Al-Iraqiya TV: "It has been agreed with the MNF-I that hopefully within the next 60 days, the Camp (Ashraf) be delivered completely to Iraqi security forces for administration. Measures are being taken in this regard. We have assessed the force needed to assume this issue, and all technical and executive procedures needed for this area have already been accomplished."
Moreover, on June 17, 2008, the Iraqi Council of Ministers issued a six-point directive, which demanded to take control of Ashraf so that all its residents are expelled or prosecuted. A subsequent directive prohibited the provision of any form of support to the residents of Ashraf by Iraqis and non-Iraqis alike.
Iraqi physicians refused entry to Camp Ashraf to treat patients
Operation on a cancer patient and four others were prevented by order of Iraqi National Security Advisor Criminal and inhuman measure by al-Rubaie is to please religious tyranny ruling Iran
NCRI - On April 3, the Iraqi forces prevented three Iraqi physician entering Camp Ashraf, home to members of People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), in Iraq, to carry out an operation on Ms. Fatemeh Alizadeh suffering from an internal tumor and four other patients. Arrangements for the Iraqi physicians including a female anesthetist and two specialized surgeons to pay a visit to Ashraf had been made since a long time ago. The Iraqi government representative as well as the commander of Iraqi forces had previously agreed with the physicians’ visit to Ashraf in the presence of the U.S. military commander and the details of the three medical doctors were provided to the Iraqi forces. In addition, another Ashraf resident, Ms. Qodsieh Ganje’i, suffering from sudden ailment suspected of being acute appendicitis urgently need medical attention.
While Ashraf residents cannot leave the camp and have no access to Iraqi hospitals, they meet their medical needs either self-sufficiently or by inviting Iraqi doctors to Ashraf. Under these circumstances, preventing doctors to enter the camp is an anti-human criminal act.
This act that was carried out upon the orders of Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie, the Iraqi National Security Advisor, to please the religious dictatorship ruling Iran, violates the most rudimentary rights that are even observed in war zones. It is a blatant violation of human rights, an affront to human values and infringement of the International Humanitarian Law. In an interview with Al-Forat TV on April 1, al-Rubaie explicitly said, "We will gradually make their presence in Iraq intolerable for them."
Today's act, once again demonstrate the ominous objectives of the religious fascism ruling Iran to create a human catastrophe in Ashraf.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the U.S. President, the U.S. government, UN Secretary General and the Security Council, relevant international organizations and in particular the International Committee of the Red Cross for their immediate intervention to prevent a human catastrophe in Ashraf.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 3, 2009
US bombed Ashraf as part of quid-pro-quo with Tehran
Prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the PMOI made it clear that it would be neutral in the conflict. Nevertheless, as part of a quid pro quo with Tehran, The US and British warplanes heavily bombed Ashraf. Some 50 PMOI members, including several women died as the result of the bombing and many more sustained serious injuries.
In a report on April 17, 2003, the Wall Street Journal wrote, "In a move to persuade Iran not to meddle in Iraq, U.S. forces have bombed the camps of Iranian opposition fighters on the Iraqi side of the border and have reached a surrender agreement with the group's remaining fighters, U.S. officials said… The dismantling of the Iranian opposition force in Iraq, known as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, fulfills a private U.S. assurance conveyed to Iranian officials before the start of hostilities that the group would be targeted by British and American forces if Iran stayed out of the fight, according to U.S. officials." The PMOI, under strict orders from its leadership, did not fire a single shot in retaliation, however.