{"id":1955,"date":"2008-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2008\/08\/11\/an-urgent-appeal\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T20:35:25","slug":"an-urgent-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/1955","title":{"rendered":"An Urgent Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Urgent Appeal, for Actions and Initiatives on behalf of Iranians in limbo in Iraq; in Defense of Human Rights and the Right to Asylum <\/p>\n

Tragedy is too often the stuff of literature. The majority of people worldwide,\"Urgent try to avoid persons and situations that are shaped by too great a tragedy, concentrating instead on that which is simple and promises some easy resolution <\/p>\n

Yet activists are literary figures. They concentrate on human tragedies, not shying away from multi-dimensional problems and readily working towards difficult solutions. <\/p>\n

In a region increasingly marked with tragedy , perhaps no story is more tragic than that of the former members of the Iranian Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), who wish to leave their state of limbo in war ravaged Iraq, can not return to Iran and hope for safety, and have not yet managed to gain asylum to any other corner of this earth. <\/p>\n

The Iranian poet Shamlou – in his poem “Public Love” – talks of the dead of the year 1953 being the most loving of the living. And we have often repeated this when talking of those who have given their lives in any given year in the still ongoing struggle for freedom and human rights in Iran. <\/p>\n

And yet one group of men and women, driven away by the unmet promise of the Iranian people’s revolution and told that if they loved their country and people well enough, they would give up everything and take up arms for just six short months, sought to prove this love by doing just this. <\/p>\n

Security, jobs and children even were left behind, as these often young men and women – and some teenagers – left for Iraq , from where this struggle was to take shape. <\/p>\n

Yet, each six month term was to be followed up with another, and they who had sought an alternative to two dictatorships within their own country, became victims of their leader’s power fantasies (which with time went as far as forcing all to divorce their partners and ban all other love – except the love for the one power – out of their very hearts) , Saddam Hossein’s war games , and the mind control, punishment routine , beatings and torture by their comrades! <\/p>\n

And as the report released in 2005 by Human Rights Watch noted, there was “NO EXIT”![1] They were denied even the freedom to defect or leave. And so they were kept at Camp Ashraf in Iraq until this was turned into Camp “TIPF” , under the charge of US American forces. As hard at conditions were at Camp “TIPF”, with its recent closing the situation of these individuals became even more desperate. <\/p>\n

Today, understanding the great and multi-faceted tragedy of these lives held in limbo and under extremely harsh and inhumane conditions , we deem it our responsibility to come to the defense of these fellow Iranians as well as to the defense of the legitimate rights of all political asylum seekers in Iraq. And we call upon all activists and defenders of human rights as well as political organs and organizations to familiarize themselves with this tragedy and – with us – to attempt to bring about a humane solution.. <\/p>\n

Iran National front – Europe (Germany); Summer 2008 <\/p>\n

The Following is a list of some of these former MKO members who are now in a state of limbo in Iraq, following the very recent closing of camp “TIPF”. Of these, 35 have been able to leave Iraq and are yet still in search of a destination. <\/p>\n

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Ebrahim Bolochi <\/p>\n

Ebrahim Rahimi <\/p>\n

Abolfazl Dehnamaki <\/p>\n

Ahad Omidvar <\/p>\n

Ahmad Soleimani <\/p>\n

Ahmad Shahbazi <\/p>\n

Ahmad Sehat <\/p>\n

Ahmad Gharamohammadi <\/p>\n

Ahmad Minai <\/p>\n

Ahmad (pseudo name: Mehdi Ranjbar) <\/p>\n

Ardeshir Baghbani <\/p>\n

Arash Ahmadian <\/p>\n

Esfandiyar Bakhshi <\/p>\n

Esmail Momeni <\/p>\n

Esmail Hooshyar <\/p>\n

Afshin Gharatapeh <\/p>\n

Iraj Golalipour <\/p>\n

Iraj Mousavi <\/p>\n

Parviz Derakshan <\/p>\n

Parviz Ranjbar <\/p>\n

Parviz Farahmand <\/p>\n

Parviz Mousavi <\/p>\n

Tohid <\/p>\n

Jaber Tai Samirami <\/p>\n

Jamal Azimi <\/p>\n

Javad Assadi <\/p>\n

Hamed Sarafpour <\/p>\n

Hojatollah Rostampour <\/p>\n

Hojatollah Kafai <\/p>\n

Hassan Piransar <\/p>\n

Hassan Nemati (Safar) <\/p>\n

Hossein Bakhshalizadeh <\/p>\n

Hossein Bazrpour <\/p>\n

Hossein Borojani <\/p>\n

Hossein Rezai <\/p>\n

Hossein Zendegi <\/p>\n

Hossein Mehravar <\/p>\n

Hamzeh Tomari <\/p>\n

Hamidreza Sistani <\/p>\n

Hamidreza Karimi <\/p>\n

Hamid Abdolghafari <\/p>\n

Hamid Fellahat <\/p>\n

Hamid Mohebi <\/p>\n

Hamid Naji <\/p>\n

Khosrow Dehani <\/p>\n

Davoud Razavi <\/p>\n

Dormohammad Dehani <\/p>\n

Rayan Petrosian <\/p>\n

Rahim Khodagholi <\/p>\n

Reza Azmodeh <\/p>\n

Reza Zand <\/p>\n

Reza Mohammadi (Mehrtash) <\/p>\n

Ramezan Ghorbanzadeh <\/p>\n

Ramezan Mohammadinasab <\/p>\n

Rouzbeh Kurdi <\/p>\n

Soleiman Kheyri <\/p>\n

Siavash Biyabani <\/p>\n

Siavash Saidnia <\/p>\n

Seyed Abbas Moussavi <\/p>\n

Cyrus Taefi <\/p>\n

Cyrus Vafa <\/p>\n

Shokrollah Mohammadi <\/p>\n

Shahab Ekhtiyari <\/p>\n

Shirin Masratbakhsh <\/p>\n

Sadegh Khorshidi <\/p>\n

Sadegh Zohouri <\/p>\n

Abedin Janbaz <\/p>\n

Adel Kheyri <\/p>\n

Adel Matlabi <\/p>\n

Abdolamir Sayahi <\/p>\n

Abdolsatar Jahangiri <\/p>\n

Abdolkarim Mohammadtaghinejad <\/p>\n

Abdollah Nikbakht Tabrizi <\/p>\n

Ali Ahmadi <\/p>\n

Aliakbare Bojari <\/p>\n

Ali Bakhsh-afarinande (Reza Gooran) <\/p>\n

Ali Barzegar <\/p>\n

Ali Jahanifard <\/p>\n

Ali Khademan <\/p>\n

Alireza Shahmoradiyan <\/p>\n

Ali Abdollahi <\/p>\n

Ali Mohammad Baloch <\/p>\n

Ali Moghadas <\/p>\n

Ali Mirahmadi <\/p>\n

Ali Miri <\/p>\n

Alireaz Goyande <\/p>\n

Alireza Mozenzade Tabrizi <\/p>\n

Omad Bagheri <\/p>\n

Gholamreza Asghari <\/p>\n

Gholamreza Rezai <\/p>\n

Gholamreza Kermani <\/p>\n

Farzin Fasihi <\/p>\n

Farshid Farsat <\/p>\n

Farhad Bazrafshan <\/p>\n

Firooz Karegar <\/p>\n

Kambiz Taghipour <\/p>\n

Kaveh Pourhamadani <\/p>\n

Karam Eslami <\/p>\n

Kamal Mousavi <\/p>\n

Kiakavoos Amirahmadi <\/p>\n

Keyvan Rastbin <\/p>\n

Michael Petrosian <\/p>\n

Majid Rouhi <\/p>\n

Majid Shabani <\/p>\n

Mohsen Abdolkhani <\/p>\n

Mohsen Abdollahi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Ebrahim Rahimi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Amir Raisi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Taghi Ansari <\/p>\n

Mohamad Tehrani <\/p>\n

Mohammad Hossein Yousefi <\/p>\n

Mohmmad Dadjou <\/p>\n

Mohammad Dostdar <\/p>\n

Mohammad Razaghi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Reza Hosseini <\/p>\n

Mohammad Saadooni <\/p>\n

Mohammad Sahebi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Ali Ahmadi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Ghale-joghi <\/p>\n

Mohammad Karami <\/p>\n

Mohammad Yousef Charezahi <\/p>\n

Mahmoud Bayat <\/p>\n

Mahmoud Khaleghi <\/p>\n

Mahmoud Eynaki <\/p>\n

Morteza Mohajer <\/p>\n

Masoud Zarghami <\/p>\n

Moustafa Heydari <\/p>\n

Moustafa Shafiie <\/p>\n

Mansour Asari <\/p>\n

Mansour Keshmiri <\/p>\n

Manouchehr Khodadadi <\/p>\n

Mehdi Barjeste Garmaroudi <\/p>\n

Mehdi Abbaszadeh <\/p>\n

Mehdi Fazollahi <\/p>\n

Mehdi Nikbakht <\/p>\n

Mehrdad Abdolvand <\/p>\n

Mehrdad Fathi <\/p>\n

Mehrdad Vosoghi <\/p>\n

Mousa Marzban <\/p>\n

Mirbagher Sedaghati <\/p>\n

Nader Keshtkar <\/p>\n

Nader Naderi <\/p>\n

Nadali Rahimi <\/p>\n

Nasrollah Azari <\/p>\n

Norouz Tavakol <\/p>\n

Hadi Afshar (pseudo name: Said Jamali) <\/p>\n

Hashem Ostovar <\/p>\n

Homayou Kaviani <\/p>\n

Vahid Karami <\/p>\n

Younes Hassanpour <\/p>\n

List compiled on 15.08.2008 <\/p>\n

[1]For more information please read: http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/backgrounder\/mena\/iran0505\/1.htm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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