Camp Ashraf Inhabitants

U.S. saw leftist Iran opposition group Mujahadeen Khalq as a ‘cult’

… The State Department has concluded that the Mujahadeen Khalq, or MEK, was holding Iranian exiles against their will in Iraq’s Camp Ashraf. The department, in cables sent to Washington over the last 20 years, asserted that Mujahadeen set a policy of killing suspected defectors from the movement supported by the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. Wikipedia said the group which played a major role with the leftist Tudeh Party in the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, was more”religious, radical, anti-American”than the earlier generation of Iranian leftists …

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Why Doesn’t MKO Let Members go?

The bloody clashes at camp Ashraf in June, 2009 and April, 2011 do not promote MKO/MEK/PMOI leaders to think of a solution for members transferring instead they exploit the killing of their forces as fuel for their propaganda machine. Despite the threatened situation of Ashraf residents, the camp leaders do not let them choose for their future in the current critical condition of Camp Ashraf.Although the killing of 32 Ashraf residents is controversial..one thing is clear and that’s the danger that Ashraf residents are exposed to either by …

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Retired US Officer: No Country Willing to Shelter MKO Members

No country in the world is ready to shelter the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) members and their only left option is a return to Iran, a retired US intelligence officer said.”We have talked with several countries via the US State Department but no one is willing to accept them in his country,”Steve Hasty said, addressing the audience at the ‘International Policy Institute’.”And the only way left for them might be a return to Iran,”he added.Hasty also warned about the MKO members’ severe sexual misconducts,

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Maryam Rajavi threatens to massacre the hostages at Camp Ashraf

… What Rajavi is really threatening is that the MEK leaders will massacre their own people if any external agency should attempt to interfere with the MEK’s totalitarian control over the camp’s residents. Her real message is that the residents of Camp Ashraf are being held as hostages and the MEK leaders will kill them if anyone tries to rescue them. It must be understood that the threat is real. The MEK leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi have a history of shedding the blood of ordinary MEK members for political gain. In 2003 two MEK members died in Paris and London after setting themselves on fire …

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Escape of three more leaders of MEK from Ashraf

Three leaders of the MKO/MEK/PMOI in Camp Ashraf northeast of Baghdad have escaped and surrendered themselves to Iraqi security forces. A source, who asked not to be named, said in a press statement on Wednesday that,”the three leaders were able to escape from Camp Ashraf”, noting that one of the three defectors from the organization is a high ranking member. The source pointed out that”there is information from the Camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf) which have been confirmed stating the existence of many numbers of those resident in the camp who are trying to get out”.The source said that”dozens of them managed to escape..

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Iran hails return of repentant MKO members

..”As you know people living in the camp are in a specific situation (military situation). People living there do not have access to any other media except that of their selves. However we welcome return of those members willing to go back home and are feeling remorseful.”said Iranian Intelligence Minister …. Members of the terrorist Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO) are now living in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.In April, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Baghdad is determined to shut down Camp Ashraf and disband the terrorist group.

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Rights Group Cautions about Deteriorating Conditions of MKO Dissidents

… The report also said that the 200 members were those who attacked the Iraqi security forces in the April 8 conflict in the Camp Ashraf, while others refrained from entering the conflict to defend the terrorist haven. Earlier, a defected member of the MKO had unveiled that the ringleaders of the group are using every means within their reach to control their dissident members, including life threats, to keep members in the group’s main stronghold in Northern Iraq.”Massoud Rajavi has announced many times that if anybody wants to escape from (the camp) Ashraf (in Iraq), he/she will be killed or executed,”Abdollatif Chahardari said …

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Open Letter to Ms. Pillay on Camp Ashraf

We are ex-members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO, PMOI). We joined the MKO around the period of the Iranian Revolution (1979) when it started as a resistance-movement against the dictatorial regime in Iran. Later the group went on to armed resistance and finally it degenerated into a terrorist cult. We have gone through all these phases inside the organisation ourselves and have lived in the MKO camp ‘Ahsraf’ in Iraq for many years. We decided to leave the group in the terrorist stage, when they get extremely violent… In recent years we repeatedly pointed to the explosive situation in and around the camp Ahsraf ..

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Iranian FM confirmed the remarks on pardoning Camp Ashraf residents

On Sunday, Danaeifar said all of the residents of Camp Ashraf could return to Iran except for less than 100 individuals who have criminal records. Salehi also confirmed the remarks of Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar about Tehran pardoning most of the residents of Camp Ashraf,..The members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) fled to Iraq in 1986, where they enjoyed the support of Saddam Hussein, and set up Camp Ashraf in Diyala Province near the Iranian border.. .

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Most MKO members can return to Iran

Tehran has pardoned all the residents of the Camp Ashraf except for less than 100 individuals who have criminal records, and ”the rest can return to the country or travel to wherever they want,..Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan DanaifarIran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar says Tehran has pardoned most of the residents of Camp Ashraf except those with criminal records.“Currently 3,400 people reside in Camp Ashraf, 1,000 of them have already returned to Iran and 750 have requested to leave the camp through the [International] Red Cross,” Danaeifar said on Sunday.

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