Iraqi forces attack Camp Ashraf residents wounding twenty residents Six residents transferred to hospital for treatment

of severe injuries others were hospitalized at camp's clinic On Monday, around 4 pm (Baghdad local time), Lieutenant Heydar Azab, one of those responsible for two previous deadly attacks on camp's residents in 2009 and 2011, insulted and harassed the residents of Ashraf who were being inspected as a part of group of 400 to be transferred to Camp Liberty. In addition, the Iraqi forces stole the residents belongings such as their watch during the inspections. As the resident peacefully protested the stealing of their belongings and the provoking and insulting behavior, Iraqi armed forces violently attacked the defenseless residents using sticks, metal bars, vases, stones, inspection table parts etc., at the presence of the UN monitors. As a result twenty residents suffered wounds in their arms, heads and faces. Two of the resident suffered arm fractures. Six severely wounded residents were transferred to an Iraqi hospital while others were hospitalized at the clinic in Ashraf. The inspection of the individuals that started on Monday morning and was coupled with extensive delays and pervasive harassment of the residents, stopped. Subsequent to the attack, the Iraqi forces increased their forces and the presence of armed SWAT forces in Ashraf. Since Thursday, August 23, that the inspection of the belongings of the sixth convoy started, the Government of Iraq has repeatedly delayed the move of the convoy by resorting to various kinds of obstructions and impediments. In strongest terms, the Iranian Resistance condemns the barbaric conduct of Iraqi forces, that took place before the eyes of UN monitors, and calls on the UN and the US authorities to immediately investigate the savage attack and injuring of defenseless residents as well as deliberate obstructions created on the move of the sixth convoy. Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran August 27, 2012