The Terror War on Camp Ashraf

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, the Khomeinist regime in Iran sought to export radical Islam to the world. To Iran, iraq is a battle that the Iranian regime can’t afford to lose. After all, it is Iran’s next door neighbor and has a Shia majority and Shia holy sites. Since the American-led liberators overthrew the terrorist dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and started to institute democracy, Iran covertly escalated its meddling in Iraq, with the goal of disrupting the democracy that America started to set up.

Camp Ashraf has been in Iraq for decades. It’s a community for MEK [Mujahideen-e-Khalq] members. After the US-led invasion, Camp Ashraf fell under the protection of American soldiers. As Iranian meddling was getting out of control, American soldiers started to look at the MEK as useful allies in order to fight back Iran’s influence. The MEK was a democratic opposition group founded under the Shah. It opposed the Shah’s authoritarian regime and now opposes the Islamo-Fascist terrorist regime in Iran. The MEK exposed crucial information on Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Iran’s terrorist network in Iraq. During the first two years, the MEK fought against Saddam’s terror invasion of Iran. But unlike the Iranian regime, the MEK agreed to a cease-fire with Saddam. Iran rejected it in order to export the Valayet-e-Faqih [Islamic rule of the Jurist] Fascism into Iraq. The MEK decided to remain neutral in Iraq’s affairs. Contrary to Iranian disinformation, the MEK didn’t receive support from Saddam nor took part in any of Saddam’s terror campaigns to suppress dissident. The MEK played no role in suppressing the 1991 Kurdish and Shia revolts against Saddam’s dictatorship.

In a bid to appease Iran, the new Iraqi government called for the explosion of Camp Ashraf residents. That call also came a large part due to the fact that Iranian elements have infiltrated the Iraqi government. However, millions of Iraqis, fed up with Tehran’s meddling, have told Iran to get the heck out and pledged their support for the MEK.

Iranian elements in the new Iraqi government have been very vocal in its call to expel Camp Ashraf residents. After the US left Iraq, the Iraqi government is guilty of human rights violations against the Camp Ashraf members. The Iraqi government is denying humanitarian supplies to Camp Ashraf members. Iran sees Camp Ashraf as a threat to its goal of turing Iraq into their radical Islamic proxy state and is pressuring the Iraqi government to expel Camp Ashraf members. After the ceasefire between American soldiers and MEK members [the MEK did not fight back while American forces bombed them during the begginning of the Iraq war to appease Iran in order to not have Iranian meddling; but Iran was meddling in Iraq anyway], Camp Ashraf fell under the protection of US soldiers.

On January 1, 2009, American soldiers left the green zone, Saddam’s palace and gave Iraq control of the new Iraqi government. The fate of Camp Ashraf doesn’t look good.

Iraqi MPs still expressed support for Camp Ashraf residents. Camp Ashraf should be seen as an asset in resisting Iranian meddling.

Iraqi forces have attacked Camp Ashraf and beaten its residents. The EU MPs and human rights activists called for the US to protect Camp Ashraf. But President Obama did nothing even while he continues his policy of appeasing Iran with the euphemism of “talks without preconditions”.

The new Iraqi government is composed of Iranian elements and is an accomplice in Tehran’s terror war on Camp Ashraf.