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Camp Ashraf residents announce readiness to leave Iraq

..a close source at the United Nations office in Iraq as saying, “The senior members of the MKO sent a letter to the UN Special Representative (for Iraq Ad Melkert) yesterday (Friday), in which they expressed (the group’s) readiness to leave Iraq.”“In their letter, the senior members of the MKO called on the UN representative to prepare the ground for the group’s exit out of Iraq and their travel to a European country or the United States,” the source stated.

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Iraqi MPs Renew Support for Expulsion of MKO

Members of Iraq’s legislative body voiced their support for Baghdad’s recent decision on the expulsion of the member of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq’s soil, and urged the Nouri Al-Maliki’s government to immediately put the decision into effect…Safiyeh Soheili, an independent lawmaker, reminded the terrorist group’s assistance with the former Ba’ath regime’s confrontation against the Iraqi people…

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Could the MEK be evicted from Camp Ashraf?

… Although the camp was disarmed in 2003 by the U.S. military, both Baghdad and Washington consider the MEK aka MKO/PMOIa terrorist organization. Washington has blacklisted the group for its attacks against U.S. interests in the 1970s and ’80s. Iraqi officials have frequently said the Iranian exiles are”illegal aliens”with no legal right to remain in the country and that they must travel to either Iran or another country. They have repeatedly warned that they will close the camp, which was under U.S. military protection until 2009,..

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Iraq: Ashraf camp victims killed by own guards

… Deaths resulting from an Iraqi army raid on an Iranian opposition[MKO/MEK/PMOI] camp on its soil were caused by the camp’s[Ashraf] own guards firing on residents attempting to escape, an Iraqi spokesman said Thursday. The comments from Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh came shortly after a United Nations spokesman in New York said 34 people were killed in the April 8 raid on Camp Ashraf, the residence of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), in Diyala province north of Baghdad. ..

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Lawmakers back decision to expel MKO from Iraq

Some Iraqi lawmakers supported the decision by the government to end the file of Mojahedin-e-Khalq-e-Iran Organization(MKO)..Speaking to AKnews, Zeinab al-Tayee from Ahrar Party accused the organization of”being funded by terrorist groups.”..Tayee said her party backs expelling MKO from Iraq and hoped the decision comes into effect as soon as possible..Tayee reiterated the presence of the group is contrary to the Iraqi constitution, a point frequently raised to criticize Maliki’s government…

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Victimizing people; the utmost generosity of Rajavi

why the doors of Ashraf Camp have never been opened for the families of the victims? Why the MKO members like some captives, have been denied the life out of the camp? In other word, what are the implications of such great efforts for keeping the members inside the camp? In fact the question is that for which reason Rajavi keeps her members in a base which she calls it a bloodbath?Without any effort to take the members out of this so-called bloodbath, Rajavi constantly corresponds with American officials

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The West has its own good and bad terrorists

The group periodically conducts terrorist acts against the Islamic Republic. As a matter of fact, it is the USA and the EU that use the group for their political purposes to destabilize Iran. The West hopes that the group will become a tool to tame Iran. As for Mujaheddins[MKO/MEK/PMOI], they have been cooperating with the West actively for over 20 years already. They used to have their one and only strongman – Saddam Hussein, Iran’s sworn enemy. He could use them in his own interests whenever he wanted to.

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Iran raises probability of MKO members’ return

Referring to the situation of Iraq’s Ashraf Camp, Danaei-Far said that staying of these people[MKO/MEK/PMOI members] in Iraq is considered illegal on behalf of Iraqi government…”If the residents will and if there is no legal case opened against them either in Iran or Iraq, they may go to Iran or any other country they wish and they are granted passport,”he continued.The Iranian ambassador to Baghdad said,”less than 100 of the residents have legal cases, either in Iran or the both countries. Over recent years, more than 750 of them have left Ashraf Camp and come to Iran…

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US urges Iraq to facilitate MKO move

The United States has called for a”negotiated plan”to facilitate the move of the Iraq-based terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) to another country.US State Department spokesman Mark Toner urged Iraqi authorities on Tuesday to allow UN officials to visit the terrorist group’s base Camp Ashraf…

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Iraqi People Hate MKO for Criminal Record

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..

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