Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan regional government Barham Salih rejected reports on presence of members of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in Kurdistan.”Basically, reports on presence of MKO members in Kurdistan are unfounded and sheer lie. We intend to establish joint security with our neighbors and we do not want that Kurdistan be turned into a region for enemies to reach their ends..
…An official in Iraqi government said that the Iraqi government has done necessary measures to expel Mojahedin khalq group by the end of 2011. He said that the Mojahedin khalq will be expelled from Iraq because of their enmity towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and their crimes against Iraqi people including innocent people of the Kurdistan region. The Iraqi people had gathered around Ashraf Camp and called on the Iraqi government to deport the MKO.
Immediately after his successful flee, Mr. Jaafari joined families and other defectors settled near Ashraf gates. Having found himself in free world he enjoyed talking with families and his ex-comrade for hours..
The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) had attempted to lure Iranian nuclear scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi into cooperation, but it went for the option of assassination after Ali Mohammadi turned down the offer, his wife said..The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list. The EU officials also added that the group has no public support within Iran because of their role in helping Saddam Hussein ..
… A member of the Iraqi parliament on Monday described the US as the stumbling block to the expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from his country, stressing that Washington strives to block any move made by the Baghdad government to this end.”The presence of Monafeqin (the hypocrites, as they are called in Iran) on Iraq’s soil violates the country’s constitution and the US is the main impediment to the expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq’s soil,”Ali Alaq told FNA. He also underlined that the US is the key supporter and sponsor of the MKO. The Iraqi government has several times adopted measures to expel the Monafeqin grouplet from Iraq’s soil …
However, there are limits to the logic of”the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. The decision by the US and UK to permit arms sales to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq propped up a regime even worse than the one it was fighting against (Iran), and enabled Saddam to subsequently invade Kuwait…. there is a strong credibility gap between the group’s rhetoric and its past actions, especially its associations with Saddam between 1986 and 2003.According to the Council on Foreign Relations, MEK directly participated in the savage reprisals against ..
Iraqi officials are resolved to immediately expel the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country’s soil,..the Iraqi officials underlined that their country would not be a stronghold for terrorist groups like the MKO, he added.
Members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) attacked a group of Iraqi protestors outside MKO’s main training camp in Northern Iraq and injured several people, including a reporter..thousands of Iraqi tribal leaders and figures along with a number of reporters had gathered outside the Camp of New Iraq (formerly known as Camp Ashraf) in Iraq’s Northern province of Diyala to call for the expulsion of the terrorist group from the country’s soil..
… thousands of Iraqi people including prominent Iraqi dignitaries, heads of tribes.. gathered in front of the gates of camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) .. This popular gathering showed the anger of the people of Iraq against the presence of the terrorist cult backed by the US forces still present in the country. The gathering came under attack by the brainwashed members of the Mojahedin Khalq who threw stones using specially made equipment for launching them. The act resulted in the injury of some of the participants ..
Sources close to Iraqi political bloc al-Iraqiya said leader Iyad Allawi in October had attempted to persuade Iran to support his bid for prime minister but that Iran rejected the request .. In the request, Allawi said if Iran helped him, he would expel members of anti-Iranian militant group Mujahideen-e-Khalq/MEK/MKO/PMOI and would support further expansion of bilateral ties.Tehran’s answer was that the post of prime minister is an internal Iraqi issue.