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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk visits Camp Hurriya

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk visited Camp Hurriya in Baghdad, September 16, accompanied by Gyorgy Busztin, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). DAS McGurk met with senior representatives from the Mujahedine-e-Khalq (MEK), as well as officials from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). He expressed his condolences to the survivors of the recent Camp Ashraf attack and emphasized the priority of the U.S. Government to ensure the safety and security of the residents of Camp Hurriya. He praised the efforts of UNAMI, and Mr. Busztin personally, to ensure the safe and secure relocation of the survivors from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya last week.

He also discussed issues related to the safe, permanent, and secure relocation of the camp’s residents outside of Iraq, and affirmed the U.S. policy to take active measures in support of such relocation to third countries as soon as possible. DAS McGurk encouraged the residents to cooperate fully with the UNHCR process to facilitate their safe and permanent relocation outside of Iraq. Finally, he thanked UNAMI and UNHCR for their tireless efforts in Iraq and ensured the ongoing cooperation and support for their efforts by the United States.

American Embassy, Baghdad

September 21, 2013 0 comments

Iran

MKO terrorists incurred Iraqi nation’s wrath

An Iranian military commander says Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) incurred the wrath of the Iraqi nation and resulted in the attack on camp Ashraf.

Deputy Commander of Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi said on Wednesday that attacks on Camp Ashraf, now called Camp New Iraq, had precedent.

“When the MKO committed all those injustices against Iraqis and they saw that they (MKO) usurped their lands, helped Saddam’s regime in their suppression and committed innumerable crimes against Iraq, it was natural for the public fury to erupt and consume them.”

He further noted that the latest attack on the terrorist group’s notorious camp in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala was something that had happened before, adding that Iraqis had earlier gathered outside Camp Ashraf and demanded the expulsion of MKO terrorists.

“The Iraq people’s rages finally afflicted MKO members… This was the inevitable destiny that awaited the MKO,” he pointed out.

On September 1, over 70 MKO members, including top commanders, were reportedly killed in an attack on Camp Ashraf. There were around 100 MKO members in the camp at the time.

The attack came at the hands of a group of Iraqi people and the relatives of those martyred by the terrorists when they had joined forces with executed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, in 1991 to crush an uprising by Iraqi Shias.

The Iraqis who stormed the terror camp further demanded the immediate expulsion of all MKO terrorists from their country.

The last group of MKO terrorists at Camp Ashraf was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join the other members of the terrorist group in the former US-held Camp Liberty, now called Camp Hurriya, near Baghdad International Airport where they are awaiting relocation to other countries.

The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border.

The group is known to have cooperated with Saddam Hussein in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

The MKO has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.

September 19, 2013 0 comments

Albania

70 MKO terrorists defect after arriving in Albania

According to an official at the Iraqi prime minister’s office on Friday, out of over 159 MKO terrorists granted asylum by the Albanian government, 70 members announced their separation from the group.

The unnamed Iraqi official revealed that these MKO members had been transferred from Camp Liberty, a former US military base in Baghdad.

The Albanian government has accommodated the 70 defectors in some apartments.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.

The group fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it received the support of Iraq’s executed dictator, Saddam Hussein, and set up a terror camp known as Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province near the Iranian border.

In December 2011, the United Nations and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp New Iraq (former Camp Ashraf) to Camp Liberty.

On March 16, Albania’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha announced in a statement that the Albanian government is ready to accommodate 210 members of the MKO group in Tirana “for humanitarian reasons.”

Political experts, however, warn that Albania’s decision to grant asylum to the MKO members has nothing to do with humanitarian concerns, and will give the terrorists a safe haven where they can work with former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

The KLA is notorious as a murderous group of drug traffickers and terrorists who receive training from NATO and the United States for operations around the world.

September 19, 2013 0 comments

Iran

Iran’s DM: US Support for MKO”Futile”

Iranian minister of defense described the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization as a “tool” in the hands of the Americans, adding that US support for the terrorist group would be of no benefit to MKO members and Washington. “MKO members will gain no advantage from US support,” Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan said, and added that the terrorist organization is a tool at the disposal of the White House.

The MKO did not offer any service to the nation and the Islamic state, and from the very beginning they served the enemies of the revolution and the nation, the minister said.

"The climax of their betrayal was when they decided to support Saddam Hussain, and wasted all their capital on him. Saddam gave them refuge only to take advantage of their capabilities against the Islamic Revolution."

The MKO — listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community — fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, fought on the side of Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988), and was given a camp by Saddam.

The group has been behind numerous acts of terror against Iranian civilians and officials, and was involved in the 1991 bloody repression of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq, and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds in the country’s north.

On September 1, more than 50 MKO members, including some of its top commanders, were killed in clashes inside Camp Ashraf, that housed them for long years. Ten days later the remaining members were evacuated from the camp and taken to Camp Liberty, now called Camp Hurriya, near Baghdad International Airport.

But the Iraqi people who had suffered much at the hands of the terrorist cult during the rule of deposed dictator Saddam Hussain want the remaining MKO members to be expelled from their country.

September 17, 2013 0 comments

Iran

Iran seeks prosecution of MKO criminals through intl. channels

Iran intends to pursue the rights of the Iranian victims of MKO terrorist attacks through international bodies and global human rights organizations, said spokesman for the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Naqavi Hosseini.

He said that Irn possesses evidence of the organization’s terrorist attacks against Iranians since the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

“Iran plans to call upon international bodies to prosecute members of the [terrorist] cell as criminals and take judicial measures to extradite them or put them on trial … and punish them,” he said.

Naqavi Hosseini said that since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution the US has been using the group as a tool to achieve their objectives in the region.

The Iranian lawmaker said that the West was in talks with other countries to find a safe haven for the members of the terrorist organization now that their camp was evicted by Iraq.

The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community and has committed numerous terrorist acts against Iranians and Iraqis.

The group fled Iran in 1986 for Iraq, where it received the support of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein and set up a terror camp near the Iranian border.

Out of nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist attacks since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, 12,000 of them have fallen victim to the terrorist acts carried out by the MKO.

In December 2011, the United Nations and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp New Iraq to Camp Liberty. The last group of MKO terrorists was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join the other members of the terrorist group at Camp Liberty near Baghdad International Airport and await relocation to other countries.

September 17, 2013 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

MKO Expulsion from Camp Ashraf Sign of Iraqi People’s Victory

A prominent Iraqi lawmaker called expulsion of the members of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, NCR and PMOI) as a great victory for the people of his country.

“The day the MKO was expelledfrom Camp Ashraf was a day of victory for the oppressed people over the oppressors,” member of the Iraqi parliament’s Security and Defense Fraction Qassem al-Orji told FNA on Monday.

Al-Orji pointed to the expulsion of 3,000 MKO members (from Camp Ashraf) over past year and their transfer them to a transient facility in Camp Liberty near Baghdad, and said, “The MKO members have been transferred to Camp Liberty near Baghdad to pave the way for their complete expulsion from Iraq …,” he added.

The Iraqi lawmaker also pointed to the 100 MKO members who remained in Camp Ashraf on the pretext of selling its assets after the expulsion of other group members, and said, “These people remained in Camp Ashraf with the support of US and Europe in order to kill the time and make a full evacuation of the camp impossible.”

On September 1, over 50 MKO members, including top commanders, were killed in an attack inside the terrorist group’s notorious camp in Iraq’s Diyala province. There were around 100 MKO members in the camp at the time.

The Iraqis who stormed the terror camp further demanded the immediate expulsion of all MKO terrorists from their country.

Earlier this week, Iran’s Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi-Tabar described the fall of the MKO headquarters in Camp Ashraf as a natural outcome for an organization that has based its activities on criminal acts.

“The ruinous fate of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) was quite foreseeable, as any group that turns against its own nation is doomed to fall,” Alavi-Tabar said.

The Iranian intelligence minister stressed that the MKO actions enraged the Iraqi nation, and the criminal members of the group were ultimately consumed by their wrath.

The last group of MKO terrorists at Camp Ashraf, now called Camp New Iraq, was evicted by the Iraqi government on September 11 to join other members of the terrorist group in the former US-held Camp Liberty, now called Camp Hurriya, near Baghdad International Airport where they are awaiting relocation to other countries.

The MKO, founded in the 1960s, blended elements of Islamism and Stalinism and participated in the overthrow of the US-backed Shah of Iran in 1979. Ahead of the revolution, the MKO conducted attacks and assassinations against both Iranian and western targets.

The group started assassination of the citizens and officials after the revolution in a bid to take control of the newly-established Islamic Republic. It killed several of Iran’s new leaders in the early years after the revolution, including the then President, Mohammad Ali Rajayee, Prime Minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar and the Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who were killed in bomb attacks by the MKO members in 1981.

The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it was protected by Saddam Hussein and where it helped the Iraqi dictator suppress Shiite and Kurd uprisings in the country.

The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran.

Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group, which now adheres to a pro-free-market philosophy, has been strongly backed by neo-conservatives in the United States, who argued for the MKO to be taken off the US terror list.

The US formally removed the MKO from its list of terror organizations in early September, one week after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent the US Congress a classified communication about the move. The decision made by Clinton enabled the group to have its assets under the US jurisdiction unfrozen and do business with the American entities, the State Department said in a statement at the time.

In September 2012, the last groups of the MKO terrorists left Camp Ashraf, their main training center in Iraq’s Diyala province. They have been transferred to Camp Liberty.

September 17, 2013 0 comments

Albania

Another group of Liberty residents relocated to Albania

On Friday September 13th, another group of MKO members residing at Camp Liberty as a temporary transit location transferred to Albania, reported by Mohammad Karami – MKO former member.

This is said to be the ninth group on the series of relocations to Albania.

A total number of 159 members have been relocated to Albania before this latest resettlement, based on the report.

Tirana has offered to house some 210 members of the MKO in Albania.

For years, the UN has been searching for countries willing to host the MKO members.

"Resettlement outside Iraq is now the priority, and it is urgent that countries ready to host the residents come forward to accept them, providing them a safe future outside Iraq," UN deputy special envoy Gyorgy Busztin said in a statement after the September 1st clashes at Camp Ashraf.

September 16, 2013 0 comments

Mujahedin Khalq Organization as a terrorist group

The MeK threatens Iranian and Iraqi officials

Reported by Fars News Agency, according to Habillian Foundation, following the September 1st attack on Camp Ashraf and its forceful evacuation on Thursday last week, the terrorist group’s spokesman has threatened Iranian and Iraqi authorities to assassinate anywhere in the world.

According to the report, in a The MeK threatens Iranian and Iraqi officials massage which was released on the MeK’s website, all those who have taken a position against this terrorist group anywhere in the world, are threatened to the fate of martyred Iranian officials such as Sayyed Assadollah Lajevardi, General Ali Sayyad Shirazi, and Ayatollah Sayyed AbdolKarim Hasheminejad.

It seems that the unprecedented audacity of Rajavi’s gang in threatening the officials from both Iran and Iraq is the result of the secure borders which the U.N and the U.S has created for them during the relocation from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty in Baghdad Suburb.

On September 1st, a group of Iraqi youth, who were outraged by the presence of the notorious terrorists inside their country, attacked Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala. As a result of the attack, 52 members of the terrorist organization, including some top MKO commanders and members of its leadership council, were killed.

September 15, 2013 0 comments

Iraqi Authorities' stance on the MEK

Zebari – presence of MKO terrorists in Iraq is no longer tolerable

Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari noted that the presence in Iraq of dissident groups and terror militants was no longer tolerable – directly referring to MKO members .

He called on the UN and Western countries to honor their promises and relocate all militants out of Iraq as soon as possible.

In a statement on Saturday, the United Nations office in Baghdad said Iraqi authorities are planning to relocate dozens of the MKO members from the camp (now Camp of New Iraq) where 52 residents were killed last week.

The UN office added that the authorities will transfer the remaining residents of Camp Ashraf in northeastern Iraq to another facility in the Baghdad area.

Also, Ali Mussawi, spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, had stressed on Saturday that Baghdad has "the right to order them to leave."

Camp Ashraf houses members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (also known as MEK), which Baghdad says is in the country illegally.

Last week, over 52 terrorists, including top MKO commanders, were killed in an attack on Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s eastern Diyala Province.

The group has accused Iraqi troops of carrying out the assault.

The office of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has set up a probe into the incident. Iraqi officials say no Iraqi troops entered the camp.

The Iraqi officials said the violence began with infighting among camp residents. Others suggest explosions at the camp were triggered by mortar fire.

Some 3,000 MKO members were relocated to Camp Liberty on the outskirts of Baghdad last year but some 100 people stayed on at the camp.

In December 2011, the United Nations and Baghdad agreed to relocate some 3,000 MKO members from Camp New Iraq.

The MKO is considered as a terrorist group since it has been behind many cases of bombings and assassinations against the Iranian officials and people

September 14, 2013 0 comments

USA

US welcomes relocation of remaining Ashraf residents

Relocation of Remaining Individuals from Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya in Iraq

Press Statement

Jen Psaki US welcomes relocation of remaining Ashraf residents

Department Spokesperson, Office of the Spokesperson

Washington, DC

September 11, 2013

The United States welcomes today’s safe arrival at Camp Hurriya of the remaining 42 individuals from the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) who had been residing at Camp Ashraf. These individuals were survivors of the horrific attack that took place on September 1 at Camp Ashraf, and we appreciate their cooperation with the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) in this relocation effort. We also appreciate the assistance of the Government of Iraq in facilitating this relocation.

The United States reiterates its condemnation of the September 1 attack and insists that the perpetrators of that barbarous act be brought to justice. We also continue to be deeply concerned about the seven individuals who remain missing from the attack and urge that all steps be taken to locate these individuals.

UNAMI made extraordinary efforts to implement a plan to safely and peacefully move the remaining residents at Camp Ashraf, and we appreciate and support those efforts. We urge all parties to continue to implement all remaining obligations of that plan. In particular, we call on the Government of Iraq to move expeditiously to enhance security structures within Camp Hurriya. It is the responsibility of the Government of Iraq to take all possible measures to ensure the safety and security of the residents at Camp Hurriya in accordance with the December 25, 2011 Memorandum of Understanding between UNAMI and the Government of Iraq.

We further call on the Government of Iraq to ensure the safekeeping of the property that remains at Camp Ashraf, as agreed pursuant to the UNAMI relocation plan. We also call upon the members and leaders of the MEK to actively participate in the UNHCR-led resettlement process. The United States stands firmly behind UNAMI efforts to resolve this matter and to act with urgency to find locations for the safe, secure, and permanent relocation of Camp Hurriya residents outside Iraq.

September 14, 2013 0 comments

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