Camp has previously been targeted with several fatal attacks over the years.

By Harriet Sinclair

July 5, 2016 16:16 BST

More than 40 people were injured after Camp Liberty in Iraq was bombarded with missiles, following an eight-day blockade that prevented food and medicine from reaching the camp.

The former US military base near Baghdad is home to members of the People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), leftists who were exiled from Iran after the Islamic revolution in 1979. It has been targeted by forces loyal to Tehran several times in recent years

The National Council of Resistance of Iran blamed militias affiliated with the IRGC Quds Force, a special unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, for the missile bombardment and called on the UN Security Council and the European Union to condemn the attack.

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the NCRI hailed the heroic perseverance of the residents of Camp Liberty and wished a quick recovery for those wounded in the criminal attack.

She added that the attack demonstrated that the religious dictatorship ruling Iran is terrified of the PMOI/MEK and the Iranian Resistance, which it views as an existential threat.

Since the camp's current residents have been there – after they were forced to move there from Camp Ashraf in 2012 – there have been several fatal attacks, in addition to the massacre carried out at camp Ashraf in 2011 that left 36 dead and hundreds wounded.

In 2013, three separate attacks against Camp Liberty left 12 dead and more than 170 wounded, while in 2015 another 20 residents of the camp were killed in a rocket attack.

The NCRI has also long complained that the standards at the camp are poor, and that it has been designated a temporary transit location rather than a refugee camp in order to avoid having to meet the minimum standards for refugee camps.

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Iran: Women workers suffering under mullahs’ rule

Today’s world has witnessed significant developments and changes regarding women’s status and conditions in various aspects of our society. The increasing number of educated women, evolving knowledge and levels of learning have rendered a mounting demand for women’s presence in the job market. This development can be the source of widespread social and cultural changes. In Iran, however, it is an entirely different story.

Iran: Labor Children، a Devastating Social Reality

We invite you to a brief glance at the atrocious conditions of Iranian children forced to quit school and work. This is the true face of the mullahs’ rule in Iran. 

Iran state TV, 12 June 2015:

At least 15,000 labor children are roaming the streets of Tehran

Child: I am a street vendor

Reporter: Where?

Child: Tehran’s Tajrish region

Another child: I sell omens

Reporter: How old are you?

Child: 8

Reporter: How much do you earn?

Iran: amputation hand of a defendant as punishment

Cutting hands and limbs of defendants are still a common punishment in Iran

The medieval punishment of cutting hands and limbs of defendants are still a common means in Iran run by the clerical regime. This practice which has been condemned by all international rules and regulations is most of the times done in public and in front of eyes of innocent bystanders including children and women.   

Recently in the city of Mashhad, north-east Iran the fingers of a defendant in his 30s was amputated, the latest in a line of draconian punishments handed down and carried out in recent weeks. 

Iran: growing number of suicides amongst youth

The painful and unfortunate tragedy of numerous suicides in Iran have been gradually on the rise in the past few weeks, with the main reason behind this social phenomenon being widespread poverty and a new wave of hopelessness the people face in Iran under the mullahs’ rule. One may conclude that unfortunately suicide in Iran is considered the last method of protest for the people. When people sees no prospect for the evaluation and resolution of the never-ending dilemmas in a society ruled by fundamentalist mullahs, this is how the youth react and show their protest to the incompetence and repressive measures imposed by the ruling elite.

IRANIAN PRISONER KNOWN AS A LEADING LADY FOR JOURNALIST

In a ceremony in Paris on May 2, Reporters Without Borders declared four journalists to be heroes and heroines of 2016; amongst them was Ms. Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian political prisoner, lawyer, and human rights activist.

During this ceremony, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo expressed her support for all those who work for freedom of expression. She presented City of Paris medals to the chosen journalists and praised their endeavors, saying that the gates of the French capital will always be open to them.

Mohammadi has been arrested many times for her human rights activities. She was last arrested on 5 May 2015 at her home by judicial security agents without prior notice and was transferred to the notorious Evin Prison in northern Tehran. The arrest initiated a six-year prison sentence that had already been handed down in March 2011.

IRAN: ROUHANI BACKS ONGOING EXECUTIONS AND HARSH PUNISHMENTS

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran has indicated that in 2015 alone, the regime carried out executions of at least 966 people. Groups like the NCRI have been keeping track of hangings so far this year and have seen similar trends. The NCRI indicates that at least 55 people were executed in the month of April alone, and that another 10 were hanged in just the first three days of May.

Most of the victims of this capital punishment are reportedly non-violent drug offenders. Meanwhile, some individuals are condemned to death in Iran for offenses that would not be recognized as crimes in other modern nations. Many of these are vaguely defined under terms like “enmity against God,” which clearly reflect the government’s ongoing commitment to its theocratic identity.

500 truck drivers on strike in northern Iran

500 truck drivers went on strike and staged a rally outside the Sarbandar terminal in northern Iran, according to reports received from inside the country. These truck drivers staged their strikes and protests on Thursday and Friday, May 5^th and 6^th, demanding higher pay for long range loads. The current pay is very low and they have extreme difficulties making ends meet due to skyrocketing prices.

Various drivers attacked the director of this terminal for neglecting their requests. Due to the strike staged by the truck drivers a large amount of goods scheduled to be transferred to different areas have been left in this terminal. This is the third strike staged by these truck drivers in the past few months.

Inhumane ruling in Iran: man to be blinded with acid injection

The second eye of a prison by the name of Mojtaba Saheli is scheduled to be blinded next week in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, according to a ruling issued by the Iranian regime’s so-called judiciary.

Saheli, jailed in Gohardasht Prison since 2009 and sentenced to 10 years behind bars, lost his first eye through acid injection on March 3^rd, 2015. Mohammad Shahriari, deputy public prosecutor in the mullahs’ regime, was present when the ruling was carried out. He currently cannot pay for the diya, or blood money. He has been informed he will lose his second eye next week through acid injection.

Paris: Khamenei image posted as press freedom enemy #1

 Paris streets witness images of Khamenei as enemy of press freedom

Images of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been posted in the streets of Paris as press freedom enemy #1.

Marking ‘Press Freedom Day’, Reporters Sans Frontiers launched a campaign on Tuesday, May 3^rd condemning regimes oppressing press and media freedoms.

A French graphic company has for the fifth consecutive year voluntarily installed related posters in this regard throughout the streets of Paris. These posters include images of 12 regime leaders identified as enemies of press freedom. Khamenei is amongst the 12 such figures whose images were seen in these posters.

“Iran is ranked 169^th in this year’s annual RSF report. 38 journalists are currently behind bars in Iran,” was the text describing Khamenei’s image.

This poster also explains how journalists in Iran are interrogated, tortured and accused of charges such as espionage.

Iran: Not having $100 needed to be hospitalized, a man attempts suicide

Numerous Iranian state-media outlets have reported a heartbreaking story on April 30 of a 45-year-old man committing suicide in a Tehran hospital. He had suffered extreme stomach pains yet was not accepted into the hospital as his insurance booklet had expired and he didn’t have the less than $100 cash needed to be hospitalized. As he continued to suffer from his excruciating pains he threw himself off the third floor and is currently in a coma. This man is married and has two children under the age of 10.

The state-run Hamshahri daily wrote on April 30 that this incident took place last Friday in Tehran’s Milad Hospital. Ali Shafie entered the hospital asking for medical care while suffering from extreme pain, eyewitnesses reported.

The Mullahs of Iran and Daesh (ISIS): Who is worse?

Children undergoing training by the mullahs ruling Iran 

to export their terrorism to Syria and across the Middle East

The terrorist regime ruling Iran has recently launched a wave of measures in its terrorist workshops, and provided a significant amount of propaganda for this very purpose. The mullahs’ have now been seen training and preparing juveniles, lower than the legal age, for a fate that has become crystal clear for all throughout the globe.

What future do the ‘Godfathers of Daesh-ISIS’ (as the mullahs’ are dubbed by the people in Iran) have in mind for these children? Instead of sending them to schools to receive the education they need, they are provided various military trainings, how to use an assault rifle and even fire a rocket-propelled grenade. This includes children under the age of 10. For what unconventional battlefronts are these children being trained for? In what country lies the root of Daesh’s expansion and growth throughout the Middle East and across the globe?

Iran: “sensible” security threats make “insensible” patrols a necessity

The atrocity of thousands of spies and repressive agents dispatched by the mullahs’ regime in Iran under the pretext of ‘insensible’ patrols, used to impose a climate of fear and crackdown, has reached such an embarrassing height that senior Iranian regime officials are pointing fingers and blaming each other for its dire consequences. As this plan was announced by Tehran police chief Sajedinia, Iran’s judiciary chief came to the scene saying,”Mal-veiling and having no hijab at all is considered a crime”.

Anti-labor mullahs’ regime in Iran couldn’t tolerate even a controlled Labor Day rally

 State authorities in Iran attacked members of the Bus Drivers Union who chanted their own slogans and raised placards in a demonstration staged in Tehran’s Taleghani Avenue. The placards were all rounded up and two syndicate members were arrested.

“Fair pay is our right”, “Release jailed laborers” and “Syndicates are our right,” were the slogans seen on the placards.

Report – Labor Day gatherings in various cities across Iran

Terrified of workers’ anger flaring, the anti-labor mullahs’ regime was forced into holding a completely controlled Labor Day ceremony in Tehran and direct the workers in a very short path for a march. This demonstration was held from Abu Reyhan Avenue to the Taleghani Intersection in Tehran.

Iran: Truly, what is the share of Iran’s society for these children?

 Children of Iran

Let’s take a quick trip together, visiting the neighborhoods and gray streets of Iran. Let us see the cities’ busy highways. Let us hear the voice of Iran’s innocent children. They spend days and nights in these crowded streets amongst these vehicles, behind red lights, in busses, metros and other public areas of the city. With their desperate looks to the face of the people passing by to maybe sell a flower, some nuts, a newspaper or maybe a box of napkins. Yes, this is the share of Iran’s vast ocean of oil for these children!

Iran: another Tehran woman becomes victim of acid attack

Young woman is victim of acid attack

State media reported another acid attack in Iran on Tuesday, April 26^th targeting a young woman in Tehran’s Vanak Square.

This young woman suffered 3^rd degree burns in her hands, face and back, and is in need of numerous surgeries which have yet to begin, according to the president of Tehran’s Mottahari Hospital chief.

The motive behind this crime remains unknown, yet considering similar cases of acid attacks taking place in various cities against women and girls, the state paramilitary Bassij and plainclothes agents loyal to Khamenei have most definitely committed this crime. These operatives have never faced any judicial action or punishment by the mullahs’ regime in Iran.

Iran: 1/4th of population suffering from mental disorders

Shocking mental disorder numbers, 1,200 disabled people in one town

 

Private hospital in Tehran

23% of Iran’s population is suffering from mental disorders

More than 23% of Iran’s population is suffering from mental disorders, said director general of the Psychological Health Bureau in Iran’s Health Ministry.

“Social disorders today is one of the most important health problems faced in our society, and currently based on pathologic reports around 23.6% of the country’s population is suffering from some type of mental disorder,” said Ahmad Hajebi, taking part in inaugurating ceremony of a mental center in the city of Ghouchan.

“… Pathology reviews conducted amongst the population from 15 to 64 years of age in this country shows around 12.5 million are suffering from such problems. In the first year of plans to tackle this problem only 4.2 million people were able to take advantage of the services provided,” he added, referring to the spread of mental disorders.