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Demonstration to reject the transfer of Camp Ashraf residents

Hundreds of demonstrators from the citizens and staff as well as school students, met in the concert hall (central Samawah) in the presence of the Governor and the President and members of the Al Muthanna … The protesters carried placards that carried dozens of expressions of condemnation and rejection of the idea of transferring the members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (the inhabitants of Ashraf camp) to Al Muthanna

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Media invited to witness MKO transfer from Camp Ashraf next Tuesday

… The Government has invited the media to attend Camp Ashraf on the fifteenth day of December to cover the transfer of residents to the place allocated to them… The Government of Iraq has decided to move the residents of Camp Ashraf, all of which residents are members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, to another location which has not yet been disclosed. ..The issue of the MKO has been subject to protracted negotiations between the Government of Iraq and the U.S. over the fate of this organization which is classified as a terrorist group by both sides.

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US tells Iraq to treat MKO terrorists ‘with dignity’

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Friday that Washington hopes the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) will be treated humanely and do not end up in a country where they could be harmed following their removal from their bases at Camp Ashraf…“Moving them to Nuqrat al-Salman (prison) is a step towards expelling them,” Maliki wrote in a question-and-answer session posted on a state website, Reuters reported.

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U.S. respects any Iraqi decision on MKO members

Washington respects any Iraqi decision regarding members of the dissident group People’s Mujahedin of Iran but urges caution, the U.S. State Department said.Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week that members of the PMOI/MKO/MEK would be relocated from their Camp Ashraf enclave in Diyala province first to Baghdad and then to a desert outpost in the Shiite south of the country.

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Iraq resolute to oust anti-Iran terrorists

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says Baghdad is serious about forcing members of a terrorist anti-Iranian group out of his country.Maliki said the Mujahedin-e Khlaq Organization (MKO), which have the blood of thousands of Iranian citizens on their hand, will be quarantined in a far-fetched region south of Iraq before leaving the country.

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Washington backed MKO death threat for Iraqi network head

The Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an anti-Iran terrorist group based in Iraq, has threatened to assassinate the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Iraqi Media Network (IMN), Hassan Salman. The Board of Trustees has decided to take legal action against the MKO/MEK/PMOI in an Iraqi court, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) reported on Thursday.

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Nuri al-Maliki: Iraq to move Mojahedin Khalq to remote south

Iraq plans to uproot an Iranian exile group that has become a headache for the Baghdad government and move the activists to a remote southern area until it can expel them, the prime minister said this week. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to oust members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an Iranian opposition movement that the United States considers a terrorist organisation, from a camp northeast of Baghdad where they have been living for two decades.

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Iraq to transfer Iranian dissident group to Baghdad

Iraq will move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the border between the two countries to Baghdad, a government spokesman said on Thursday.”We will move residents of Camp Ashraf to buildings in Baghdad on Tuesday,”he said, without giving details. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen have lived at Camp Ashraf, a refugee base in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, for more than 20 years.

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Al Rubaie: MKO members will be expelled

regarding the issue of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) terrorist group,Former Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al Rubaie said Iraq still insists that members of the group should not stay in Iraqi territory and they need to be expelled based on determined standards. Iraq wants the members of the group to be either returned to a third country without use of force or to Iran, he added.

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