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Nejat Newsletter
Issue No 27 11 April 2009
"We told them that remaining in Iraq Al-Rubay'i admits that the telephone
PERIODICAL Invited by Saddam:
PUBLICATION OF THE
NEJAT SOCIETY Iranian opposition members refuse
to leave Iraq outpost
Address (cont. form page 9):
P O Box 14395/679 After 2003, the US military seized the MEK's tanks and other
Tehran, Iran weapons and confined its residents to the isolated base. All of the
camp residents renounced violence and underwent background
Fax: 88 96 10 31 screening by US authorities.
MEK members argue that their cooperation entitles them to stay.
"We used our own money to build this, to plant every single tree
and plant in this place," Madani says bitterly, driving past parks
and streets punctuated with giant sculptures of tulips and birds.
"This is their home. There are cemeteries, people who have died
Nejat Society here, they are buried here, they have lived here.'
Outside the museum dedicated to Iranian atrocities, Kiamanesh
sits with her friend, Gohar Mohajeri, on a walkway planted with
flowers. Ms. Mohajeri was born in New York but grew up in Ger-
info@nejatngo.org many. She has never been to Iran.
"For outsiders, when they don't know what our goal and aim is,
obviously our life is abnormal for them," says Mohajeri. Kiamanesh
translates for her from Farsi.
We’re on the web Neither seem to realize how isolated they are at the camp. "I do
believe this is the greenest place in all of Iraq," says Kiamanesh, a
www.nejatngo.org former law student who without a headscarf would look like the girl
next door. "Why would anyone ever want to leave this place