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September 4, 2013 Video

Video Shows Iran’s Ex-President Criticizing Damascus Over Chemical Attack

The video, posted on the website Bolaghnews.com, shows Rafsanjani speaking last weekend in Savad Kooh in Mazandaran Province.

He says, “People are being subjected to chemical attacks by their own government and also have to wait for American bombs to fall.”

Rafsanjani’s remarks were first quoted verbatim by the semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency on September 1. The news agency later amended its report to remove Rafsanjani blaming Damascus. Iran’s Foreign Ministry claimed on September 2 that the original quote had been “distorted.”

September 4, 2013 Video

Video shows troops attacking Iranian exile camp in Iraq

A video posted on the internet on Monday showed suspected Iraqi military forces brutally assaulting a camp in Iraq occupied by Iranian dissidents, killing dozens of them.
Footage of the attack on Camp Ashraf, situated in Iraq’s Diyala province bordering Iran, shows soldiers shooting at what appear to be the camp’s occupants, while armored Humvees drive around the camp, running over unarmed civilians.
In one clip, the camp’s occupants are seen carrying away the wounded, while in another, a man is shot while running away from gunfire.
Many of the camp’s approximately 100 occupants are members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) group, which was originally founded to oppose the Iranian Shah, later taking up arms against Iran’s clerical rulers after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Supporters of the camp’s exiles allege that 52 people were killed in violence by Iraqi security forces, and that another seven were taken hostage.
Iraqi officials have announced lower death tolls and differing accounts of the incident, some saying the violence began with infighting amongst the camp’s members.