Group Of Congress Members Warns Iraq After Attack On Iranian Refugees

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Source: Agence France-Presse

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, February 17, 2013 17:20 EST

A team of US Congressmen met with the Iranian dissident group MEK in Paris on Sunday and threatened to declare Iraq’s prime minister a sponsor of terrorism after a deadly attack on an Iranian exile camp there.

The bi-partisan team, led by Dana Rohrabacher — the chair of the sub-committee on Europe — expressed strong support for the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK) which has accused Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of ordering a deadly attack on its camp in Iraq on February 9.

“The government of Iraq has clearly broken its word to us,” Rohrabacher said, recalling that seven people died and several were injured in the assault on Camp Liberty, a former US military base near Baghdad housing about 3,100 members of the MEK.

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Rohrabacher said Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki would feel the heat if further assaults pursued.

“If there is another attack on these helpless refugees obviously cleared by the government of Iraq, we will move in the US Congress … and put forward a resolution declaring Prime Minister Maliki and his government state sponsors of terrorism.

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