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Iranian Exiles, Iraq Govt Trade Accusations over Camp

… “The Iraqi government received the families and facilitated their arrival and they were taken to the reception halls but the leaders at the camp refused to let the relatives see their families,” National security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said…The fate of Camp Ashraf’s 3,500 residents has been in the air since Iraq took it over from US forces this year.

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Security agreement, Mujahideen Khalq in Arab press

Current negotiations over the security agreement between Iraq and the United States have come back into the headlines of Arab newspapers, which also focused on the Iraqi government’s decision to prohibit Iraqi bodies from dealing with the Iranian Mujahideen Khalq (People’s Mujahideen) opposition group.

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