Following months of discussions and threats by government of Iraq and pressures by UN Special Representative Martin Kobler, 400 residents of Camp Ashraf have agreed to leave their home for 25 years, today to go to Camp Liberty were they are expected to be interviewed by the United Nations Refugee agency, UNHCR, for resettlement in third countries (countries except Iran and Iraq).

The Following are excerpts from an article author Sharif Abdolghani wrote in Qatari Al-Arab Newspaper.  It has been translated from Arabic. (Nima)

It was almost midnight when the phone rang.  The calling number was mysterious. I answered despite my normal practice with late night calls.  It was a woman on the phone. She sounded familiar.

Officials of the Iranian regime consider the new media and social networks on the Internet serious threats to the existence of regime.  The mullahs are correct to conclude that any form of technology that will facilitate for information to reach the masses is dangerous to their dictatorial rule.

Relocation of 3400 Camp Ashraf residents to a half square kilometer compound, surrounded by high walls and guarded by Iraqi forces, is in fact a forcible eviction and displacement, and is contradictory to all United Nations and international humanitarian norms and laws. The camp does not have drinking water and Iraqi government has stated that residents would not be allowed to leave the camp, they would not have free access to medical services and even family visit would not be permitted unless on one by one case the Iraqi government allows. Yet, Ironically a UN Assistant Mission in Iraq headed by Ambassador Kobler has concluded that the camp falls within international humanitarian standards!!

Apparently the IAEA inspection team that was in Tehran for the past three days, was not there to inspect any nuclear sites but it was there to give Tehran more of what it wants: “Talks.”

Checking out Iranian state-run news media, you can’t help noticing repeated reports of people being arrested and punished for watching satellite television programs. 

One judiciary official from the western province of Malayer told ISNA news agency last week that in his province alone, 245 persons were arrested last year “for using satellite equipment.”  This number is more than double the same for the previous year.

Is Ambassador Kobler Helping Iraq to build a Concentration Camp? The high dreams of Iranian people and families of residents of Ashraf, to see a peaceful resolution for the dreadful crisis at Camp Ashraf is coming to a disappointing  closure as the so-called Camp Liberty, that was expected to be an intermediary location for the residents to stop by before their refugee status is confirmed and they are transferred to host countries, is turning out to be more of a concentration camp built by Iraqis to gather around the members of the main Iranian opposition movement before they are slaughtered or returned to the mullahs regime in chains.

The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Navi Pillay, condemned the horrific January 19 mass execution of 34 Iraqi prisoners including 2 women in a statement release by the UN agency yesterday.

The Iranian mullahs wanted to rule the world.  Hold the sun in one hand and earth in other. And to do that, they chose a religion to justify their doings; Islam.  Whatever they want and benefits them the most, there is a justification for it in Islam.  And if they can’t find one, they just make one up.  Torture, execution, rape, inhumane treatment of their own people, war, even complete destruction of the world, it is all justified in their religion.

Just recently, the head of an Iranian top bank turned out to be a Canadian citizen after stealing billions of dollars and then disappearing, only to show up at his million dollar house in Canada.