Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty and U.S. moral obligation

Secretary of State of U.S.and residents of Camp Liberty protesting

The U.S. and other 5+1 world powers made a nuclear agreement with the regime ruling Iran in mid-July, which allowed the regime’s nuclear infrastructure to resist but conceded to lifting crippling sanctions.


Now, it has been revealed that U.S. and other negotiating powers accepted to be quiet as the Iraqi responsible of Camp Liberty has increased pressure on Iranian dissidents taking refuge there. For months now, nearly 2,500 Iranian political refugees residing in that Camp have been subjected to frequent blockades by the Iraqi government on behalf of the Iran government and deprived of the most vital life-support needs. That is to say on numerous occasions, including since the conclusion of nuclear weapons negotiations, the Iraqi government, acting at the behest Tehran, prevented the entry of food, fuel and other vital resources, put a humanitarian crisis at this camp. It is clear that the MEK (PMOI) residents at Camp Liberty who are striving for liberty and democracy in Iran for more than two decades and were the sole and first organization that exposed the existence of the Iranian regime’s secret nuclear infrastructure in Natanz and Arak in August 2002, which explains Tehran’s hostility, now they have come under increasing pressure after Tehran signed a nuclear agreement with world powers.



On the other hand the U.S. as Cols. Wesley Martin (ret.), Leo McCloskey(ret.) and Thomas Cantwell declare has a special moral and legal obligation to the residents to whom had promised to protect them. So the Secretary of State of U.S. and also the UN should intervene to press the Iraqi government to ensure that they are properly protected and that they are not subjected to similar blockades in the future.