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Ambassador: MKO must leave Iraq

The members of the MKO are not allowed to carry out any activity outside of their camp, known as Camp Ashraf, and that they are not allowed to conduct any operation against Iran either, Al Sheikh told IRNA in an interview published on Tuesday.When the new government took power in Baghdad, it was decided that the MKO/MEK/PMOI members cannot stay in Iraq any longer,Iraqi Ambassador to Iran Mohammad Majid Al Sheikh said..Pointing to the time when the group set up the camp during Saddam’s rule, he said the terrorists took the lands of local farmers by force..

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Iranian FM confirmed the remarks on pardoning Camp Ashraf residents

On Sunday, Danaeifar said all of the residents of Camp Ashraf could return to Iran except for less than 100 individuals who have criminal records. Salehi also confirmed the remarks of Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar about Tehran pardoning most of the residents of Camp Ashraf,..The members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) fled to Iraq in 1986, where they enjoyed the support of Saddam Hussein, and set up Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province near the Iranian border.. .

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Judiciary Chief Urges Trial of MKO Ringleaders

We expect that the MKO ringleaders stand trial for shedding the blood of our innocent youths and martyring our highly esteemed people,”he stressed.Amoli Larijani also underlined that the necessary measures should be taken in a bid to prepare the ground for the safe return of those MKO members who have been deceived by their terrorist ringleaders and have not committed any crime against the Iranian nation.

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PMOI separatists: The group interferes in Iraq’s issues

During the first years of war, Rajavi was drawing in Iraqis to train them and give them positions inside the government. His aim was to stay in Iraq by using these people as a support for PMOI group”, Kikha’i said. “Rajavi formed a committee inside the camp and established work departments for social communication with Iraqis. He drew in a number of Iraqi citizens and gave them personal salaries and handouts to turn against the government”, MKO defected member …

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Iran grants amnesty to members of Mojahedin Khalq

… In an interview with ISNA, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq Hasan Dana’ifar said that”except for nearly one hundred individuals, against whole cases have been filed at the judiciary, other residents of the camp can return to our dear Iran or travel anywhere else they prefer.”Dana’ifar also said:”Most of those who are at Asharf camp are veteran [members] and [MKO] has not recruited any new member in the past six years; the most recently joined members have been from Europe and Iran.”Elsewhere in his remarks, Dana’ifar dismissed the idea that the Mojahidin are refugees in Iraq and said …

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US keeps MKO terrorists armed in Iraq

US troops have allowed the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) to secretly keep weapons inside their camp in Iraq, a defected member of the group says. ..According to the organization’s defected members, since 2003 the leaders of the camp have been training the members on how to launch attacks against Iraqi forces if they tried to enter the camp..When the Iraqi government decided to set up a police station inside the camp, the situation got complex and the organization decided to fight back by preventing its members from communicating with the outside world..

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Most MKO members can return to Iran

Tehran has pardoned all the residents of the Camp Ashraf except for less than 100 individuals who have criminal records, and ”the rest can return to the country or travel to wherever they want,..Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan DanaifarIran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar says Tehran has pardoned most of the residents of Camp Ashraf except those with criminal records.“Currently 3,400 people reside in Camp Ashraf, 1,000 of them have already returned to Iran and 750 have requested to leave the camp through the [International] Red Cross,” Danaeifar said on Sunday.

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MKO Begs Iraqi Gov’t Not to Expel Members

The ringleaders of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization have pleaded the Iraqi government to avoid closing down the terrorist group’s main training base in Northern Iraq and extend the MKO’s presence in the country, a human rights group revealed on Sunday…In a bold and surprising action, Massoud Rajavi, the main ringleader of the terrorist group, had announced earlier that he would evacuate the MKO members from Camp Ashraf only if he received $200mln from the Baghdad government..Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf in 2009

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MEK brainwashes members

The members have described life at their Camp Ashraf base in Iraq as miserable saying the organization has been brainwashing its members for the last two decades.They say that the MKO/MEK/PMOI members who reside in the camp are deprived of basic human rights. For example, they are not allowed to use the phone or internet or even communicate with the outside world by any means. They further added that the residents of the camp have to show blind obedience to their leaders or face the death penalty.

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Iraq: ICRC responds to situation in Camp Ashraf

.. the ICRC provided dressing materials for Baquba Hospital, where casualties have been taken, and we remain in close contact with the hospital management. Should there be further needs, we are ready to assist. After hearing that six people had been arrested and taken to Khalis Police Station, ICRC delegates visited the facility on 13 April to assess conditions of detention and the treatment of people being held there, and to give detainees the opportunity to contact their families. The ICRC has visited Camp Ashraf in the past in order to meet the residents and, in particular, to offer to help them contact their families in Iran and elsewhere …

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