Mujahedin Khalq as a bargaining chip for Allawi bids
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.