According to
Iranian resistance statement dated May 12, on Tuesday, during a May 8 hearing, before the US
Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia, the attorney for the U.S.
Department of State responding to the judges who had questioned him on the
Department failure to complete their review of the FTO designation of the People’s
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) said that the US Army has “never been
able to inspect” Ashaf. “The MEK did not permit it”
and “the military has never done a complete search and inspection” of Ashraf. NCRI”s statement adds that his remarks
contradict the verification of the status of all residents of Camp Ashraf as
'Protected Persons' under the Fourth Geneva Convention by the US government in
2004, as well as all the documents signed by the US military officers verifying
Ashraf residents complete handover of their arms and ammunitions, repeated
statements by General Odierno on the issue, and May 10 and May 17, 2003
statements by CENTCOM and other senior officials who have repeatedly declared
that MEK “have been completely disarmed. We have
taken all small arms and all heavy equipment.'
The
Iranian Resistance urged the US Department of State and US Department of
Defense to task US military special forces to immediately inspect Ashraf with
necessary equipments and announce their findings. This is an essential
condition for continuation of the process of relocation of Ashraf residents to
Liberty in order to prevent any justification for further massacres the NCRI’s statement added.
An Iranian rapper is in hiding outside Iran after his song called
“Naghi” was published. There’s a $100,000 bounty on his head
According to the daily Beast, May 12, A German-based
Iranian is in hiding after his single was deemed an insult to a Shi’a imam. In
an interview, the artist says Tehran is instigating
outrage—and he fears a fatwa. Just days after the release of a song that led to heated
reactions in Iran and a bounty on his
head, German-based Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi told The Daily Beast that he is
not going to apologize for his provocative work, as he does not see it as an
insult. He accused Tehran’s “ruling system” of
stirring up religious outrage. Najafi, moved to Germany in 2005 and has
released four albums. Each has focused on everyday life in the Islamic
Republic, “Naqi,” the name of the 10th Shi’a imam, may have launched him into a
life-threatening whirlwind similar to that faced by author Salman Rushdie.
Najafi told The Daily Beast that perceiving his song as an insult is “a 100
percent misinterpretation.” Since the song came out May 7 and drew death threats
against Najafi, the German government has provided a safe house for the artist,
who worries the security is insufficient. “I’m living in a secret place now and
I don’t have any bodyguards. My daily life and work have been derailed,” he
said in an interview. “Naturally, I continue my own way, but this didn’t make
me happy. I have nothing against people’s beliefs. I do my own artistic work.” Shia-Online announced
Thursday that it had allocated ,$100.000 for the killing of Najafi. On
Wednesday, Iran’s semi-official Fars
News Agency, which is known for its ties to the Revolutionary Guards’ Intelligence
Unit, wrote that a ranking ayatollah, Safi Golpayegani, had issued a fatwa
about Najafi’s alleged apostasy, meaning that his killing would be “necessary”
according to Sharia law.