On the Cross of Persecution and Crime

Today Wednesday Dec. 26, the IRGC news agency, Fars, quoting “an informed source in the government committee responsible for closing the case of Mojahedin in Iraq” announced: “a member of this terrorist grouplet committed suicide on Tuesday.” The Revolutionary Guards reasoned that “after he did not receive an answer for his asylum application which was submitted two months ago to go to one of European countries, he committed suicide.”

Behrooz Rahimian, member of PMOI, died at 12 noon on Sunday Dec. 23 after the Iraqi Intelligence prevented him from being hospitalized.

The reason mullahs’ regime resorts to such fabrication and lies is exposure of Iraqi government’s intentional crime against Mojahedin freedom fighters, which once again turns attentions to camp Ashraf and Liberty where the mullahs conspiracies take place due to silence and inaction of the UN and the US and complaisance of Martin Kobler for Iraqi government and the mullahs regime.

On Monday, Mohammad al-Soudani, Iraqi human rights minister, told Associated Press that he would start an investigation on this issue and “if there is problem, he will find it.”

Anne Czichos, spokeswoman in Baghdad said that the UN is aware of Rahimian’s death and tries to find the facts on this case, according to Washington Post, Dec. 24, 2012.

As the National Council of Resistance of Iran announced, Nouri Maliki, the current Iraqi prime Minister, and his officials are responsible for the death of Behrooz Rahimian due to preventing his treatment.

In addition, UNAMI and Martin Kobler must be held accountable for their silence on inhumane siege of Liberty and avoiding the complaints made by Behrooz and legal advisor of Liberty residents regarding this preventable death.

On November 25, 2012, Behrooz felt severe pain in his chest and was transferred to a hospital in Baghdad as an emergency patient. The hospital doctors wanted to hospitalize him in the CCU but Maliki’ intelligence agents prevented it and pressurized the physicians to refuse hospitalize Behrooz.

The patient's translator called leader of the UNAMI monitoring team at Liberty from hospital informing him of the critical situation of Behrooz and prevention of his hospitalization. However, no action was taken.

The next day, on November 26, the residents' legal adviser wrote in a report which was sent to Mr. Kobler, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Busztin, his deputy, Francesco Motta, head of the UNAMI human rights group, US and the UNHCR officials, " Last night one of the patients dispatched by clinic’s physician to Yarmouk Hospital as an emergency case due to heart problem, faced harassment of the intelligence agent who had gone along with the patient."

Behrooz Rahimian also wrote a clarifying letter to the human rights office of UNAMI. His letter and other documents related to his medical records are evidences of the Iraqi government intention to kill patients in Ashraf and Liberty by gradual torture.

The world community must not remain silenced in face of the crimes of the religious fascism ruling Iran against the resistance movement.

(2012-12-27/ncr-iran)