The main Iranian resistance movement in exile condemned on Wednesday a raid by Iraqi forces on their supporters' last main base camp, accusing Baghdad of taking orders from Tehran. Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which includes the armed People's Mujahedeen of Iran, issued a statement after riot police clashed with Iranian exiles in the Iraqi town of Ashraf. At the same time, a 50-strong crowd of Iranian exiles gathered outside the Iraqi embassy in Paris to denounce Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government. Iraqi officials have said that more than 400 people were injured during a security operation Tuesday in the Ashraf Mujahedeen camp, and 50 arrests were made. Mujahedeen spokesmen claim that seven protesters were shot dead. The protesters in Paris carried photos of what they said were five of the victims, and spokesman Omid Kadir told selfnews at the protest that two more men -- whom he named -- had been shot dead in the camp on Wednesday morning. 'There is a link between the uprising in Iran and Ashraf,' he declared, referring to repression of political unrest in Iran. 'The regime wants to eliminate opposition from the interior and the exterior.' Iraqi officials have denied killing anyone, and say that two of their own riot officers have died after succumbing to wounds suffered in the clashes. About 3,500 Mujahedeen and their families have lived in Ashraf since former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the Iranian opposition to set up bases on his territory during his 1980-1988 war with Iran. Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, American forces disarmed the Mujahedeen in Ashraf but placed the residents under protection. Now, Iraq's increasingly independent government has moved to take charge of the site. 'This aggression is a flagrant violation of international conventions and the assurances given by the Iraqi government to the United States about the protection of the residents of Ashraf,' Rajavi said in her statement. She called on the international community to intervene to prevent what she said would become a 'humanitarian catastrophe' and urged Washington to hold its Iraqi allies responsible for the safety of camp residents. 'This violent attack took place after all the meetings and investigations conducted in recent months and after the fact that the Iraqi authorities had accepted that nothing illegal was happening in Ashraf,' she said. 'After all that this attack aims to put into action the orders of Khamenei, who has not been able to face down the revolt of the Iranian people and who is trying to compensate for his huge defeat in attacking Ashraf,' she alleged. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a hate figure for the Mujahedeen exiles, is faced at home with angry street protests over his endorsement of last month's re-election of President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad. The United States said Tuesday it would 'monitor the situation closely to ensure the residents of Camp Ashraf are treated in accordance with Iraq's written assurances that it will treat the residents there humanely.' Baghdad insists that it was merely asserting its sovereignty and the rule of law in retaking control of Ashraf, rather than working for Iran, but Iranian leaders nevertheless welcomed news of the operation. 