A number of Iraqi political and media figures criticized the presence of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) on Iraqi soil.They insisted that the MKO members can not be regarded as political refugees, Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) news website quoted Al-Fayhaa TV. The Iraqi figures also complained that the MKO presence in Iraq had become a real dilemma left by the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.
… In this meeting, [head of the Rigi group] Abdolmalek Rigi has met with a number of the operatives and commanders of the Hypocrites grouplet and has held talks with them. He announced that he would be ready to have any sort of cooperation [with MKO] in line with making a terrorist group under the name of the Armed Forces Organization of Mojahedin …
A senior Iraqi foreign ministry official on Tuesday underlined his government’s determination to expel members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), from the country.”Transfer of MKO’s members to the South of Iraq is a preliminary to their final expulsion from Iraq,”Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Haj Hamoud said at a meeting ..
Mr. Yves Bonnet, former Member of French National Assembly and Director of the French Counterterrorism Agency (DST), has been fined and was ordered to pay compensation in a libel case on February 11, 2010. He was warned that further infringements would attract even more severe punishments. The defamation case was brought by Mr. Ehsan Naraghi, Mr. Jahangir Shadanlou and Mr. Manouchehr Shalali against Mr. Yves Bonnet who had falsely accused ..
… Thirty seven arrest warrants have been issued against individual members for their involvement in suppressing the 1991 Shabani uprising in Kurdistan. International arrest warrants have been issued for some individuals. Civil law suits for murder have also been brought against members of the MKO/MEK/PMOI in Tuz Khormato pertaining to the same period …
… the panel allowed the participation of 28 candidates, spokesman for Justice and Accountability Commission Ali Mahmoud told AFP. MPs Saleh Al Motlaq and Zafer Al Ani are not allowed in elections, Mahmoud added …
… He expressed understanding for”the Saudi fears regarding the situation in Iraq,”and said:”deep dialogue should be conducted with it to give it the necessary reassurances. Likewise, Iraq should not be turned into a springboard for hurting any neighbouring country and that terrorist organizations such as the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq or the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party should not be given refuge.”…
“An unknown user asked me to contact Iraqi as well as American officials to ask them let the MKO stay in Iraq,” an Iraqi member of an Arab discussion forum told Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) news website…“We will deliver your letters to the.. he quoted Mustafa ..
The Iraqi government is legally bound to expel Mojahedin Khalq Organization members from the country, the political advisor to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Chairman Seyyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim said. There are two reasons why MKO group cannot stay in Iraq: from the legal point of view these persons are terrorists and the Iraqi government does not have the right to let them stay in Iraq, and the political reason is that..
… Meanwhile, there were reports from Pakistan that some Iraq-expelled MKO elements by contacting the absconding, bandits and anti-system groups in Pakistani regions, particularly in Karachi and Islamabad, are in pursuit of attracting forces [manpower] to form a new armed organization that may likely lead to the creation of this organization …