.. The unnamed source was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying that protestors had attacked mourners participating in Ashura ceremonies and damaged public property and parked vehicles in central Tehran …According to the Intelligence Ministry source, a number of MKO terrorists were arrested in this connection
… The MKO aka MEK/PMOI, which has been residing in a camp to the northeast of Baghdad for two decades, was exiled from Iran and resettled in Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and US-led forces after the invasion of the country in March 2003 … Salim said that the Iraqi government has taken the very first step to relocate the members of the group from their headquarters, Camp Ashraf, to a camp inside Baghdad under the supervision of the United Nations..
After Iraq moved to transfer the anti-Iran Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) from their camp in the country, members of the group defied the Iraqi government’s orders to leave.. According to a plan ordered by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the group should first be moved to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and later to a 1950s detention camp in southern Iraq.”Any attempt to expel us forcibly will lead to the same clashes and confrontations as those of July 28 and 29,”MKO representative said, referring to a July incident during which Iraqi forces raided the camp in a melee leaving 11 people dead.
… In Iraq, MKO is seen as “a brainwashed cult from a high-trained terrorist organization” which assisted the Saddam regime in oppressing the Iraqi nation and suppressing the Kurds and Shias in the 1990’s. A resolution presented by Democratic lawmakers has also called on President Barack Obama to stop the relocation of members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq …
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Friday that Washington hopes the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) will be treated humanely and do not end up in a country where they could be harmed following their removal from their bases at Camp Ashraf…“Moving them to Nuqrat al-Salman (prison) is a step towards expelling them,” Maliki wrote in a question-and-answer session posted on a state website, Reuters reported.
The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist group based in Iraq, has threatened to assassinate the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Iraqi Media Network (IMN), Hassan Salman. The Board of Trustees has decided to take legal action against the MKO/MEK/PMOI in an Iraqi court, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) reported on Thursday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has urged Mujahedin-e Khalq organization to immediately leave the country, saying Baghdad had no place for the MKO.The Iraqi government and parliament have a resolve to expel members of the notorious group after they committed crimes against the Iraqi people, exercised terrorism, cooperated with the Bathists and interfered in domestic affairs, said a statement by al-Maliki’s office.
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… Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Aref Tayfour, said MKO/MEK/PMOI members must be transferred to a third country far from Iraq and Iran to be unable to infiltrate the borders of the two countries … Late in July, Iraqi security forces stormed Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province near the Iranian border and shut it down. Camp Ashraf had been housing some 3,500 members of the terrorist group for years.. The organization is also notorious for using cult-like tactics against its own members and for torturing and murdering its defectors.
A recent report by the RAND Corporation, a prominent think tank that does research for the US Government, illustrate that Washington committed a judgmental error when dealing with the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) in Iraq… To make matters worse, the group, who had a long history of trickery, had asserted that it had not engaged coalition forces in combat. Officers responsible for detaining the MKO accepted this claim, even though at least one special-forces-casualty had resulted from combat with the group.