London, 29 January 2013 - Thank you Mr Chairman. Members of this house, the mother of Parliaments, ladies and gentlemen, I received a letter from the Office of the Legal Affairs of the United Nations threatening me, trying to silence me. Because what I’m saying does not fall in their ears, it’s rather disturbing. But I replied to the Office of the Legal Affairs of the United Nations that I will stand firm with the United Nations Charter. Maybe they could accuse me of breaching some rules or procedures but I’m not breeching the rules I’m not breeching the fundamentals of the United Nations, I’m standing for the fundamentals of the United Nations.

United States House of Representatives

Committee on Foreign Affairs

Sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations

September 13, 2012

Conditions at Camp Liberty: U.S. and Iraqi failure

Chairman Rohrabacher:

...We are talking about conditions at Camp Liberty in Iraq and what the United Nations has been telling us about those conditions, whether the reports are accurate, and why the United Nations and the United States has been spinning the reports and downplaying Iraqi harassment of Camp Ashraf residents who are being moved to Camp Liberty.

Camp Ashraf has been the home for decades to the MEK, a group of Iranian exiles who are the enemy of the mullah’s dictatorship in Tehran. Under pressure from and in sympathy with Iran the government of Prime Minister Maliki and Tehran ordered camp Ashraf closed by the end of last year. The objective, and I agree with Mr. Bomedra...

So, here the objective, and I agree with Mr. Bomedra on this, was to move the Iranian exiles not only out of camp Ashraf but out of Iraq itself and perhaps back to Iran where they would be imprisoned, tortured or killed.

Paris, February 11, 2013 - Madam le President, Mounsieur le Premier Ministre, mes dames et monsieurs. I'm here to send a message to the United Nations in New York. What I'm going to say is just to remind them that what happened at Camp Liberty was predictable. We did warn against it. But unfortunately the United Nations was mobilised to hide the truth.

Madam le President let me tell you that the press really is made by UNAMI, Kobler. As early as back in October 2011 there was a message, a coded cable we sent to New York, to say that the MEK has such a powerful propaganda machinery and the United Nations has to prepare itself to counter this propaganda. And straight away, the Special Representative of the Secretary General instructed to put down a number of scenarios and draft a press release for each scenario possible. You have read the statement made after the assassination of the Ashrafis in Camp Liberty. References made to explosions in the camp, what does that mean? Explosions in the camp; that means that there is a probability that the Ashrafis themselves caused these explosions. This is absolutely unacceptable, this is rather criminal.

New York, 21 March 2013 - Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for this brotherly and sisterly reception.

I am here just to send a message to this building, to my former colleagues in this building. They know very well that what is happening in Ashraf is wrong. It is fundamentally wrong and it is against the values of UN.

People in this building know this. They know exactly what was happening in Ashraf. They know exactly what has been planned for the Ashrafis. The recent attack against camp Liberty was something very predictable. UNAMI knows very well that Ashrafis were evicted from their 26 years home to this place which is highly vulnerable in terms of security.

The UN knows this very well and yet they forced the Ashrafis to abandon their home and to go to this prison like camp.

Now, we know very well that further attack is planned and there will be further death in camp Liberty and these people behind me in the building know this very well. They could prevent further attack. They could prevent further death. But unfortunately they only address the situation through falsified reports.

Brussels, March 27, 2013 - Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen for that warm welcome for Mrs. Rajavi. It is very kind of you.

Now, we have 2 hours for this afternoon’s meeting and I have a list of 19 speakers already, and I am sure there will be one or two more from the floor who will wish to join in.

So I have to start with a few words of housekeeping. I will be instructing all the speakers to stick very rigidly to a maximum 5 minutes. Anyone who strays over 5 minutes is, I am afraid, going to have to deal with some of our American military friends who are here.

Could I start by saying that yesterday I chaired a meeting of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq where we were discussing the crisis in camp Liberty. We have a situation where Alejo Vidal Quadras, myself and other senior members of  parliament were persuaded by the UN Special Representative Martin Kobler that we should put pressure on the residents of camp Ashraf to move to camp Liberty, where their safety and  security would be guaranteed, and where their living conditions were ideal for a Temporary Transit Location, which is what they call camp Liberty, that they would be there for only a few short weeks, they would have a revolving door situation where UNHCR would interview them, register each individually as a refugee and they would then be quickly resettled to countries of safety.

Brussels, March 27, 2013 - Thank you very much dear friends, Mrs. President. It is always a pleasure with you.

First, I would like to offer my special welcome to the distinguished guests present here, many with long history of support and sympathy for the liberation movement in Iran.

I would also like to offer special welcome to two outstanding Spanish politicians that are with us today for the first time. Of course I am referring to Senator Margarita Duran, and Senator Virginia Romero From the Spanish Senate.

They are here to broaden the Spanish support under the banner of Mrs. President. We welcome you and we expect a lot from your presence and your support. There is no doubt that the February 9^th rocket attack on Camp Liberty that resulted in the death of 7 people and the wounding of about 100, was carried out by the Iranian regime with the assistance of the Iraqi government.

Brussels, March 27 2013 – I welcome Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of the Iranian Resistance who I think does not represent only the late eight victims of the violence perpetrated against her people and compatriots but, I even think she can worthily represent the over 120.000 victims of the Iranian regime, who were your organization’s people and victims.

Brussels, March 27 2013 – Thank you very much… Madam Rajavi and colleagues, the phone you have just seen a few moments ago some of colleague showed to me in Strasbourg a few weeks ago and they showed me photographs and they described what happened and just behind me here, if you have a look some of you might have seen it on your way we small train with the photograph of 8 people who lost their life in camp Liberty. On the morning of 8^th of February all of those people were alive, latter that morning they were slaughtered and they were innocent to slaughter.

Brussels, March 27 2013 – Thank you. Thank you. First of all, Alejo, I would like to thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak briefly in this forum. I hope my words; our words in fact, can help to stop the inhuman situation of the 3100 refugees from Camp Liberty.

On March the 9th, I had the opportunity to participate in Paris in an event, organized by Council National De La Resistance Iranian, on occasion of Women’s Day, together with several Spanish members of parliament.

I must say that, before coming to this event, I really didn’t know much about the situation of Iranian exiles in Iraq, the members of People’s Mojahedin Organization, the principal Iranian opposition movement. And Camp Liberty and Camp Ashraf, in fact, meant barely anything to me.

Brussels, March 27 2013 – It is really a great honor to be here among you and I would like to congratulate you for this wonderful success.

For all the members you managed to come to bring here from several countries of the European Union. And to tell you that in this minuet that Srebrenica was spoken about in his meeting, but I would like to say that in Srebrenica there was a coward nest, here there is complicity and this is really much worse.

Mr. Martin Kobler there’s to repeat the mantra of disinformation of department of the Iranian secret services that says, and I, for ten years I have been hearing this, and in original and every form that pile list of Iranian secret services: “The problem in Ashraf and now Liberty is that, there is a leadership that does not allow that the members go away, this is a complete lie.”

Brussels, March 27 2013 - Thank you Mr. President and I promise that I will be very short. I am speaking on the capacity of the former chief of the UNAMI office and special representative advisor on Ashraf related issues.

I took the lead for planning a dignified exit of the Ashraf residents from Iraq. I started a process that we are going to hear today. I would like to remind everyone that my statements are part of public records now. I could tell you that the real objectives that are not announced are very cynical.

I am not going to go into many details but my former colleagues in the United Nations do very well know the true objectives of the relocation idea. For that reason, I warned everyone at the United Nations that further attacks will take place and further bloodshed will happen. At the United Nations, we criticized the special representative of the Secretary General for doing what he is doing.

Brussels, March 27 2013 - Thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much, thank you very much. I promised to be remindful of the 5 minutes; I haven’t been able to order lunch in five minutes. Our British colleagues who are fund of noting how my country has destroyed the English language, one of the ways that we destroyed it is the ability to talk very fast and I will do my best for that today.

Our conversation is about Liberty and Ashraf but I think everybody in the room knows it is really about Iran. What is happening in Liberty is pretty much a part of the final showdown for free Iran. It is what is happening in Syria or wherever else the Iranian regime employs its terrorism.  This is a proxy fight on that regime and it is one more reason why we, the international community, dare not loose.

I was thinking something, listening to the discourse here this morning that is happening, you know, history is so hard to see when you see it up close. But a wonderful thing is happening here today in the western world. This European parliament is becoming the conscious of the western world. And what a wonderful thing it is to see. What a wonderful thing, and what a time for you to come into your own, whenever needed more than now to be heard on behalf of the people of camp Liberty and of a free Iran.