Tehran called on Tuesday for talks with Paris to clear”misunderstanding”over an alleged bomb plot targeting an exiled opposition group near the French capital. “If there is a misunderstanding… about a…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani phoned his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to demand action against a”terrorist”Iranian opposition group he accused of fomenting recent protests. “We criticise the fact that…
“A number of rockets fell on Camp Liberty,”Baghdad Operations Command spokesman Saad Maan said in a statement, referring to the camp where the PMOI/MKO/MEK members are housed.Maan said that some 20 rockets were launched towards the camp from a truck in an area west of Baghdad, some of which fell short, wounding Iraqi civilians.
“After conducting investigations, 423 members (of the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran – PMOI) who do not have any legal problems can return to Iran,”Hassan Danaeifar was quoted as saying.The number represents about 14 percent of the estimated 3,000 members…
The officer, who did not want to be identified discussing the inquiry, said investigators found a “huge amount of TNT and explosive materiel inside cars, houses and heavy machinery”. He said 42 members of the PMOI/MKO/MEK were still alive, but accused them of not cooperating with investigators by refusing to hand over corpses and moving bodies from their original locations.
… “A total of 71 men and women now have safely arrived in Albania and have benefited from the government of Albania’s offer to accept 210 of the camp’s residents,” UN special envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler said in a statement. Kobler said that Germany had also offered to accept around 100 residents, and added that the deadly attack on Camp Liberty a week ago had “once …
“The government is ready to accommodate in Albania, for humanitarian reasons, 210 members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran”, or the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), Prime Minister Sali Berisha said in a statement…The UN envoy in Iraq Martin Kobler and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf on Saturday held talks with the Albanian authorities over security measures and housing conditions..
Almost all PMOI members in Iraq have moved to Camp Liberty from Camp Ashraf, the last of their bases, as part of a UN-backed process that aims to see them resettled outside the country. But after this month’s attack, the PMOI complained about the slow pace of the process, which has dragged on as few countries have come forward with concrete offers of resettlement.
“The answer for the individuals at (Camp Liberty) is not to relocate back to Ashraf, in our view,”State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.”The only peaceful and durable solution for these individuals is resettlement outside Iraq, and that …
The last major group of Iranian exiles has relocated from their long-time base to a new site near Baghdad as part of a process that aims to see them resettled outside Iraq, the United Nations said on Sunday.”The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Mr Martin Kobler, today welcomed the news…