Communiqué no 3 (6 September 2008) In the past two statements, it was emphasized that the families of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) captured in the Ashraf military camp are demanding an urgent meeting with their beloved ones in a place other than the Ashraf camp and without the presence of any person but the members of the family and for adequate duration. They also urged the Iraqi government to fulfill its resolution on the MKO. The text of the 6 article resolution which is the last resolution ratified by the Iraqi administration is as below: In the Name of God Resolution ratified by the Iraqi Administration Number: 216, Year: 2008 The Iraqi Administration, in its 27th ordinary session held on 17th June 2008, ratified the followings: To approve the binding measures described below regarding terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO): 1. Emphasizing on past resolutions regarding the MKO as a terrorist organization and its expulsion from Iraq. 2. Putting the MKO, currently on Iraqi territory, under full control of the Iraqi government until they are expelled from the country. In this respect any interaction with them must be done according to the Iraqi laws. 3. Any interaction with the terrorist MKO by any organization or party or establishment or entity (whether Iraqi or foreigner) inside Iraq is forbidden and anyone having any interaction with them (breaching the law) is liable of being prosecuted according to the terrorist acts of the country. 4. It is essential that the multinational forces to give up the organization and hand over all check points and points of observation to the responsible Iraqi authorities. 5. Activating the judicial sentences issued against the terrorist MKO elements who have committed crimes against the Iraqi people. 6. Cooperating with the ICRC in order to find basic real solutions for the problem of the presence of the MKO in the Iraqi territory and to activate the past resolutions about their expulsion from Iraq. Ali Mohsin Ismail The General Secretary of the Iraqi Administration
Iran mulls repatriation for members of dissident group in Iraq – envoy Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad comments on a recent ultimatum issued by the Iraqi government giving the Iranian dissident group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) six months to leave the country. In an interview with Iranian state television (IRTV1) Hasan Kazemi-Qomi said, "Apart from their criminal leadership, many members of this little group are repentant and regretful. In the past couple of years we have witnessed a number of them repatriated and returned to their families. What they explained is a picture of dejection and suffering. Many have endured hardship and they would have taken any opportunity to remove themselves from this grouplet earlier had it been available. Currently, many of them those who were duped and are repentant, would like to return to Iran and we would have to review this matter. "
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The families whose children are taken as hostages in Camp Ashraf, asked the Iraqi government to execute the regulation ruled by the council of ministers, based on taking the responsibility of protection of Camp Ashraf from American forces and paving the way for MKO expulsion.
Nejat Society‘s Mazandaran office held a gathering on Friday August 22nd, 2008. About 300 families who have a family member in MEK’s camp in Iraq participated in the gathering where they condemned the British government’s decision on the removal of MEK from the list of terrorist organizations and sought the assistance of Iraqi government in order to aid them to visit their beloved ones after over twenty years. The meeting started with the speeches made by Mr. Hussein Nasuri and Mr. Nowrouz tavakoli who have just been saved from MEK cult; describing their memories of the cult, they mentioned how MEK officials prevent the members from visiting or contacting their families and believe deeply that the family is the poison to the organization. The defectors stated that the cult leader has officially declared that “family is the centre of corruption”! The other lecturer at the gathering was Mr. Ebrahim Khodabande who has a 
twenty–three–year experience of witnessing MKO, addressed the families:” the security contract between Iraq and the US, in which the future of Camp Ashraf in defined, has terrified Rajavi’s Cult which is worried for the defection of the forces due to the transfers made between US and Iraq.” He also added:” the MKO Cult sees the families as its main threat and is sure that if the members could contact their origins and routs, they would leave their organizational identity and would associate with the society and family as a true human being.” As an ex-member who served in the highest ranks of MKO in Europe and Iraq – under Saddam Hussein’s rule- addressed the families:” we should be concerned about the recent decision made by the UK because they paved the way for the instrumental use of your children in a new phase and such an action is considered as the reproduction of terrorism and it will take victims out of your children.” Mr. Sametipur, the responsible for foreign relations of Nejat Society, who has a long experience of living in the MKO in the US or Iraq, was another speaker at the gathering. He gave a report on his recent visits with the Red Cross representatives, British diplomats and parliamentarians and also Swiss and Iraqi parliament members. He distributed some forms among families to fill out to state their petition against 
MKO asking for visiting their children. Mrs. Shalchi and Mrs. Malek who have precious experiences of living in MKO and are completely aware of the manipulation techniques used by MKO answered the audience’s questions on various subjects. The sort of questions asked by the families notifies the fact that they are really eager to achieve a mechanism for the rescue of their beloved ones. The gathering was covered by AlAlam TV channel, Press TV and the local mass media of the Province of Mozandaran.
US forces have relocated leading members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) after Iraqi authorities took control of their camp. Following a decision by the Iraqi government to take over the security of the MKO headquarters, the US forces relocated selected members of the organization. According to an informed source in the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, the move was 
aimed at preventing the MKO leaders from falling into the hands of Iraq’s government. Earlier in August, Iraqi army took control of MKO’s Camp Ashraf in Diyala province, 60 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Iraqi government officials believe the MKO is playing a significant role in fueling violence and insecurity in the country and have announced plans to activate judiciary petitions against the members of the terrorist cell. The foreign ministry official added that the MKO members, currently residing in the camp, are those who have been deceived to join the terrorist cell and are considering leaving the organization. "Therefore these members are not helpful for the American forces to achieve their goals," the source said. The group has so far claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks inside Iran and it cooperated with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacre of Iraqi civilians. The cell has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many countries including Iraq, Iraq, Canada, the United States, and the European Union.
Representatives of the families of thousands of Iranian victims brutally assassinated by the MKO terrorist group have visited Britain to protest about the government’s decision to remove it from its proscribed list.
The relatives, led by Seyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad, presented reams
of documentary evidence of the MKO’s hideous crimes to officials at the Home Office and Foreign Office as well as the Islamic Human Rights Commission during their visit.
Hasheminejad, whose father was assassinated by the MKO, said that it was "surprising" that while US and European courts were reviewing the group’s terrorist label, it was still claiming responsibility for killing more innocent people.
The British government proceeded to remove the MKO from its proscribed list under the Terrorism Act 2000 in June, despite ministers publicly proclaiming that they disagreed with the decision.
"The MeK (MKO) was responsible for a series of vile acts of terrorism over a long period. They have never publicly renounced violence and only gave up their arms in the face of the overwhelming might of US forces in Iraq," Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.
The visit to London was organized by the Habilian Association for terror victims’ families, which has recently compiled a comprehensive list of all the victims of more than 1,000 bombings, hand grenade and mortar attacks and assignations carried out in Iran by the MKO.
The association told IRNA that it was planning to legally challenge a London court ruling that led to the MKO being deproscribe under terms legislated by the government but which has the right to amend.
"Iranian people would consider the UK Court of Appeal’s decree to remove the MKO from the list of banned organizations as an unfriendly act," it said."
"No doubt, the escalated tension between Iran and the West plays a role to keep the MKO on the scene as an instrumental use against Iran," Habilian said, questioning whether the removal was really in the UK’s national interests.
Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf said on Sunday Iraq’s government has given the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization a six-month deadline to leave the country.
He told the Arabic radio Nawa that the Iraqi forces have taken control of Ashraf military base where the MKO were deployed.
Iraqi lawmakers had earlier urged the Iraqi government to expel the Mujahedin Khalq Organization from Iraqi territory.
In an interview with the Mehr News Agency, Iraqi lawmaker Ali al-Adib said the Iraqi Constitution requires the government to prevent terrorist activities in the country.
“Iraq should not be used as a base for aggression against neighboring countries or as a venue for helping forces who take hostile actions against Iraq’s neighbors.”
“Iraq can provide political asylum to foreigners but will not provide asylum to groups which have a military and political nature, such as the MKO, which has carried out some activities against the Iraqi nation and was a part of the oppressive regime of Saddam.”
Al-Adib said the Iraqi government is negotiating with international organizations to expel the MKO from the country.
“The Red Cross has not yet received a clear message from the countries which are prepared to accept this group. I believe most of the countries have refused to accept these people,” he stated.
“Iran has recently said those MKO members who have not committed any crimes will be forgiven, but my information says some of the MKO members are preventing those who want to turn themselves in (from doing so).”
The Mujahedin Khalq was set up in the mid-1960s to oppose the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It participated in the 1979 Islamic Revolution but soon launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings in Iran.
The MKO was supported by Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war but was disarmed after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Camp Ashraf – International law to determine MKO fate
The Iraqi government says the county will deal with the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) based on International regulations.
Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraq’s government spokesman, said that his country is seeking to gain full control of the terrorist group’s Camp Ashraf from US forces.
The comment comes as the Iraqi military forces have surrounded the camp since Wednesday night.
The Ashraf Camp in Diyala province was the headquarters of the MKO members during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, but has been converted to a training center for MKO terrorists under the US control since the 2003 invasion of the country.
The Iraqi official warned the terrorist group against engaging in any political activities inside the country.
"Iraq will support voluntarily return of MKO members to Iran or any other countries," Dabbagh said, adding "Iraq will not consider expelling MKO members forcefully from the country and will deal with them according to international regulations."
Along with at least six other sites in Iraq, Camp Ashraf was given to the MKO as their headquarters and training site by the former US-backed Iraqi dictator.
It was from this base the MKO launched operations against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war and later assisted Saddam in violently suppressing the Iraqi Kurds during the 1991 uprising.
The MKO is blacklisted by many countries including EU member states as a terrorist organization. The group has claimed responsibility for hundreds of terror attacks inside Iran.
Shiite leader takes up Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO), mass graves with human rights minister
BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (VOI) – The deputy head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), Ammar al-Hakeem, on Saturday discussed with Iraqi Human Rights Minister Wejdan Mikhaeel measures taken to deal with the issues of Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) and mass graves.
"Sayyid Ammar al-Hakeem on Saturday morning received Wejdan Mekhaeel, the human rights minister, at his office in Baghdad," according to a release issued by the SIIC as received by Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
"The two sides conferred on human rights issues, especially those related to the government measures taken to deal with the MKO file, in addition to the mass graves left by the former regime," it added.
The MKO, a group opposing the Iranian regime, has taken the Ashraf camp, (57 km) northeast of Baghdad, as a base since the 1980s, as the former Iraq regime cooperated with that organization during the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988).
The SIIC, itself formed in Iran in the 1980s under its older name the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), had a military wing (Badr Brigade) that fought side by side with the Iranian army against the Iraqi troops during that war.
Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization has cooperated with terrorist groups including al-Qaeda over the past five years, says an SIIC official.
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), Ammar Hakim, confirmed a six-month deadline set by the Iraqi government for the MKO to leave Iraq and added that the MKO had helped former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein commit his crimes.
The Iraqi government and nation call for expulsion of the MKO terrorists from the country, Hakim told IRNA Wednesday.
He added that the MKO gave false information to the US about a number of Iraqi figures who fought against Saddam and whom he said are still kept in US prisons.
Iraq’s Government Spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said on Tuesday that the country will support the voluntarily return of MKO members to Iran or any other country, adding that Baghdad will not consider expelling MKO members forcefully from the country and will deal with them according to international regulations.
The comment comes as Iraqi military forces have surrounded the terrorist group’s Camp Ashraf.
The camp in Diyala province was the headquarters for the MKO during the rule of Saddam Hussein. It had been converted to a training center for MKO terrorists and has been under US control since the 2003 invasion of the country.
The MKO is blacklisted by many countries including EU member states as a terrorist organization. The group has claimed responsibility for hundreds of terror attacks inside Iran.
Hakim: MKO had direct cooperation with al-Qaeda in past five years Baghdad
A member of Iraqi Supreme Islamic Assembly said on Wednesday that the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization had direct cooperation with al-Qaeda group in the past five years.
Seyed Ammar Hakim told IRNA that the MKO members, in addition to direct cooperation with the al-Qaeda, had been accomplice in the Baathist regime crimes and had also cooperation with terrorists in the past five years.
He rejected any claims on relation between expulsion of the MKO members from Iraq and Iran-US agreement, stressing that expulsion of the MKO members from Iraq is the resolve of the Iraqi government and nation.
By providing the US officials with incorrect information, the MKO members caused arrest of several outstanding opposition personalities who were active in anti-Saddam movement, a number of whom are still in the US prisons, Hakim added. 
He said that the MKO members were also active to launch protest gatherings against the newly established Iraqi government trying to weaken the democratically elected government in the past few years.