Former US Energy Secretary and Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Bill Richardson who was Governor of New Mexico until the beginning of this year addressed the ‘International Conference on Camp Ashraf and Policy on Iran’ in Brussels on January 25 underlining “the need to find a solution to avert a humanitarian crisis of Camp Ashraf.” He emphasized that solution means more American security. Excerpts from his speech follow:

 Mr. Juan Garcès, distinguished international and human rights lawyer and the legal advisor to the late Chilean President Salvador Allende, addressed the threats and pressures facing Camp Ashraf residents in Iraq at the International Conference in Brussels on January 25. He described the use of 180 loudspeakers against the residents of Ashraf as “mental torture” and commended the residents for not reacting in retaliation and violence in face threats and inhumane treatments by agents of the regime and Iraqi forces.

"The current regime in Tehran, as a threat to international peace and security not just in its region, but worldwide, and the way that you deal with that kind of threat is to end that regime," said Ambassador John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under Bush Administration, on January 25 in Brussels’ international conference entitled, “Camp Ashraf and the policy on Iran.”

"All of our tools of persuasion of coerce Iran have failed. Iran has a fear of PMOI due its popularity and secular nature, they have the fear of PMOI its encouragement of free elections and rule of law, Iran has the fear of PMOI due to freedom of religion and no nuclear weapon or weapons of mass destruction, Iran has the fear of the PMOI due to freedom of speech and press. Right now Iran fears the PMOI." said Dell Dailey, Head of the U.S. State Department Counter Terrorism office in the Bush Administration, in an international conference on Iran in Brussels, January 25.