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...dozens of middle-aged Iranians standing in six neat, gender-segregated rows stare straight ahead from behind the chain-link fence close to the entrance of Camp Ashraf, some 40 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala near the Iranian border. "Ashraf is our home, Ashraf is our home," they robotically chant in Iranian-accented Arabic, as they jab their right fists into the air in unison. Some of the women, who are all dressed in pantsuits with long jackets and colorful headscarves tied under the chin, carry placards in Persian. A bright yellow banner shimmers in the mid-morning...
...camp, which is more like a sprawling village with flower-filled parks and tree-lined avenues dotted with old-fashioned white lampposts, is home to 3,418 people, about a 1,000 of whom are dual citizens with non-Iranian travel documents issued by Western governments including the U.S, Canada, Australia, and the European Union. It has become an irritant to Baghdad's increasingly close ties to Tehran. Iraq wants to close it, on the grounds that its residents are "terrorists" and "illegal foreigners." Still, deadlines for doing so have come and gone (the most recent was in late March...
...needs to get back to what it does best, find and turn that Pakistani intelligence officer who knows where Osama bin Laden is today. Or turn that Iranian nuclear scientist who can tell us how close Iran is to having a bomb. Neither was ever going to be found in the prisons in Afghanistan or Iraq...
...gentleman in a chalk-striped suit popped into the room and started chatting to him in another language. "I'm sorry - I don't speak Persian," Zandi said. He later explained that his father emigrated from Iran but never taught him Farsi growing up. "So many members of the Iranian community come up to me and speak Farsi," he said. "There is so much negative attention paid to Iran, they are very interested in someone who is ... out there." The conference call started, and he snapped up the phone...
...They chant the slogan of change, but no change is seen in practice. We haven't seen any change.' Iranian Supreme Leader AYATULLAH ALI KHAMENEI, dismissing Obama's overture in a speech before tens of thousands in the holy city of Mashad...