Iranians and supporters of the Iranian Resistance along with the families of Ashraf residents staged a sit-in outside the UN headquarters and office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva to protest the clerical regime’s conspiracies against Ashraf residents.

In the sit-in that started on Monday, August 25, and will be continued in coming days, the Iranians urged the international organizations to take action to ensure that Coalition forces continue to protect the members of Iran’s main opposition force, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), in Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala Province and to condemn the Iranian regime’s plots for transferring Ashraf protection. They emphasized any transfer of the protection from coalition forces would lead to a human catastrophe.

Ms. Mahnaz Salimian, senior secretary of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in her speech, referred ICRC’s reaffirming legal status of the PMOI members of Ashraf and said: “After declaration of 3 million Iraqi Shiites in support of the PMOI, the Iranian regime hysterically staged plots to set the ground for expulsion of the PMOI and to impose more limitations on them; but based on international conventions, MNF-I and the U.S. are accountable for the protection of Ashraf which must be guaranteed by the ICRC.”

Mr. Mohammad Ali Jaberzadeh, chairman of the Committee of Political Studies of the NCRI, said in his speech: “The rights of Ashraf residents are recognized based on the international conventions and international humanitarian laws; these organs have repeatedly written to international authorities, including ICRC, emphasizing these rights in 7 letters; as a result there is no legal basis for transferring protection of Ashraf from the coalition forces. Moreover, 5.2 million Iraqis have stressed on Ashraf residents’ rights and their presence in Iraq and have supported them. If such a transfer takes place it means giving permission for a human tragedy.