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WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Menendez, Chairman of Foreign Relations Committee Statement on Camp Liberty Attack in Iraq Chairman Robert Menendez released the following statement regarding the attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq. “I condemn the attack on Camp Liberty in the strongest and most forceful of terms. The attack is a tragic reminder that every person living in Camp Liberty, as well as Camp Ashraf remains in a permanent state of uncertainty, their lives constantly endangered and their homes targets of acts of terrorism …” Read More
At the rally in New York City outside the United Nations by the Iranian-American communities and American dignitaries urging the return of the Iranian refugees in Iraq to their home at Camp Ashraf and replacing the UN Special Representative of Secretary General (SRSG) to prevent another massacre of refugees. Read More
WASHINGTON, The following is being released by Association of Iranian-Americans in New York & New Jersey: Some 30 Iranian-American associations, communities and professional organizations representing tens of thousands of Iranians in the United States lent their strong support to the bipartisan December 20, 2012 letter to President Obama by 74 U.S. Senators, initiated by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), regarding the Iranian nuclear program and support for the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom. Read More
By: NY1 News As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday, crowds of Iranian-American activists and their supporters gathered outside the complex for a “pro-democracy” rally to voice their opposition. The demonstrators waved signs and a large banner covered in photographs reading “Fallen For Freedom In Iran.” They stomped on pictures of Ahmadinejad, saying he should not appear at the UN as the legitimate leader of the Iranian people. Read More
NEW YORK — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, addressing thousands of protesters near the United Nations on Wednesday, challenged President Barack Obama to take stronger action against Iran and the threat of it becoming a nuclear power. “If you’re going to support freedom in Libya, why not freedom in Iran?” Gingrich asked the crowd as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to the U.N. General Assembly. “If you’re going to support freedom in Egypt, why not freedom in Iran?” Read More
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told thousands of protesters near the United Nations that the Obama administration has “betrayed” the people of Iran. Speaking to the crowd at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Wednesday, Giuliani sounded like he was on the campaign trail and told the anti-Iranian protesters that the U.S. needs another president like Republican Ronald Reagan, 1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reported. Read More
PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The recent revelations by Mr. Tahar Boumedra, a senior former UN Human Rights Official, about the actions of the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative for Iraq, Ambassador Martin Kobler, raise questions as to whether the SGSR possesses the integrity, the competence and veracity to be an impartial arbiter in dealing with the issue of the 3,400 Iranian dissidents in Iraq, residents of Camp Ashraf and the “prison-like” Camp Liberty. Read More
by Allen Tasslimi We have no idea what’s behind the venomous and utterly perverse article by Danielle Pletka, “Lobbying for terrorists, more on the MEK,” which makes outrageous allegations against an organization for whose call for democratic change in Iran some 100,000 Iranians turned out last month in Paris. Perhaps it was this vote of confidence in Iran’s main opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which prompted the hysteric reaction by Pletka. Read More
By MICHAEL OREN Nearly two decades ago, Israel started alerting the world about Iran’s nuclear program. But the world ignored our warnings, wasting 10 years until the secret nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz was exposed in 2002. Then eight more invaluable years were lost before much of the international community imposed serious sanctions on Iran. Throughout that time, the ayatollahs systematically lied about their nuclear operations, Read More
Iranian-Americans in NY & NJ express outrage over the remarks by UNAMI Chief Ambassador Martin Kobler and Ambassador Daniel Fried regarding Iranian dissidents in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, Iraq Read More