According to news outlets around the world, on Thursday
Dec. 26 or Boxing Day, the Iranian residents of Camp Liberty were attacked
by tens of rockets killing 3 and wounding more than 70 people. Camp Liberty residents are
the members of the Iranian resistance who have vowed to topple the Iranian regime. Just a few
months ago on Sept. 1, the remaining residents in Camp Ashraf were attacked
by the Iraqi hit men who killed 52 people kidnapped 7 including 6 women and a
man. The Iranian resistance has said in its statement on Dec. 26 that Iranian regime's official news agency (IRNA)
reported from Baghdad on Wednesday, December 25, quoting an Iraqi
“knowledgeable official” that the body of Mohammad Ratebi, one of the seven
hostages abducted in Ashraf on September 1, is in Baghdad and in the hands of
Government of Iraq and among other victims. This is while a senior State
Department official, declared in a hearing at the House Middle East
Subcommittee of Foreign Affairs Committee on November 13 that “We can’t
pinpoint where the people are... the 7 people, they are not in Iraq.”
Hundreds of Iranians in Camp Liberty, Switzerland, England, USA, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Australia and Canada participated
in a global act of solidarity with Hunger Strike which lasted 108 days in order
to save the 7 hostages. The Dec. 26 missile attack on Liberty was the 4th
such attacks on the unarmed residents. The US State Department, UN special
representative in Iraq, UNHCR, Canada's foreign
affairs, France, European Union, Italy's foreign
affair minister who visited Iran last week and
was bowing to criminal Hassan Rohani, among others have strongly condemned the
attack. The President-elect of Iranian Resistance Maryam Rajavi condemned the
rocket attack against PMOI members as the ‘Christmas massacre in Liberty’. She added: the terrorist rocket attack against
Liberty was Maliki’s souvenir from his trip to Tehran to deliberately create a
crisis to shadow the hostage taking and massive crime against humanity in
Ashraf, which has become a huge embarrassment for Maliki following the wave of
international condemnations, the 108-day global hunger strike and Maliki’s
security advisor falling into the trap of the Spanish National Court. Also a
group of political prisoners in Gohardasht Karaj prison in Iran in a
statement have condemned the 4th missile attack on Liberty residents. On
a related news, Judge Ted Poe, Chairman of US House of Representatives
Sub-committee on Terrorism and Non-Proliferation, issued a statement calling
for suspending US aid to the Iraqi government.
This statement reads in part, this is not a coincidence that the Liberty attack takes place a short while after Maliki’s visit to Iran. To this day Maliki has painfully made this clear he has no intention of protecting Liberty because this is the fourth rocket attack against this camp in 2013, he added. However, none of the criminals have been held accountable and the time has come for the US to suspend its aid to Maliki's government until the criminals behind these attacks are punished.
This statement reads in part, this is not a coincidence that the Liberty attack takes place a short while after Maliki’s visit to Iran. To this day Maliki has painfully made this clear he has no intention of protecting Liberty because this is the fourth rocket attack against this camp in 2013, he added. However, none of the criminals have been held accountable and the time has come for the US to suspend its aid to Maliki's government until the criminals behind these attacks are punished.
Iranian-Canadians gather in front of the US embassy in Ottawa on Friday and Saturday demanding US to take action to protect the residents of Liberty.
Dire conditions of 6 political prisoners in Iran’s dungeons
after 48th day of hunger strike
Six Kurdish political prisoners held in Ghezel Hesar
Prison in the city of Karaj have been on
hunger strike for almost 60 days now. Their physical conditions are reported as
deteriorating daily and the regime have
prevented even minimum medical care for them. Jamshid and Jahangir Dehghani,
Hamed Ahmadi, Sedigh Mohammadi, Kamal Molaei and Seyed Hadi Hosseini are on
hunger strike demanding the revocation of their death sentences and their
return to Gohardasht prison in Karaj. On Monday Dec. 30, 2013 after 56 days of hunger strike by the 6 Sonni Kurdish political prisoners, the Iranian regime has gave in and lift the death penalty for the 2 out of the 6 political prisoners on hunger strike.
Iranian regime arrests Sunni religious leader
The Iranian regime has arrested 4 followers of a senior
Sunni religious leader, Molavi Fat’hi Mohammad Naghshbandi, imam of a Sunni
mosque in the town of Rask in southern Iran, sentencing
them to 15 years behind bars and exile in the city of Khalkhal. 4 other followers of this Sunni religious leader have been sentenced to death.
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The Iranian regime judiciary lashed 3 men in public on Christmas
morning in the city of Dehdasht in southern Iran. The 3 men
each received 74 lashes for stealing. This is happening in a country that the
heads of the government are stealing billions of dollars of the Iranian
people's money on a daily basis.
Repression
of Christians continues
The security forces in the province of Alborz, central Iran, raided and
inspected residents of at least 4 Christian citizens.
This raid was done simultaneously on Sunday, December 15
at 4 residents. The agents confiscated some of their personal belongings such
as books, computer and Christian materials.
Among the residents searched, was also the house of
Pastor Behnam Irani, a member of presidential board of Iran’s churches,
who is currently in a prison in Karaj.
The security forces then announced that the Christians
will soon be summoned to court. The Intelligence Ministry has also pressured a number of
Armenian pastors who had connections with other Christians to either end their
religious activities or leave the country in three months.
