…”MKO supposed they will be welcomed by France thanks to their role in Iran’s post-election events, but Paris left them hopeless in Camp Ashraf,”said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity… Scores of Ashraf residents believe that they have no role to play following the fall of Saddam Hussein and they are willing to return to Iran following the camp’s siege by Iraqi forces, but they are prevented by MKO hardliners, the Iraqi newspaper reported.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for an end to a hunger strike outside the US Embassy in London by supporters of the terrorist Mujahedeen-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI)… Residents of the camp claim that an Iraqi raid there in July left several people dead. The demonstrators in London, meanwhile, are asking Washington to reclaim responsibility for Camp Ashraf.. The US military officially turned control of the camp — which houses MKO members regarded by NATO forces as protected under the Geneva Conventions — to the new Iraqi government on January, 2009.
… The People’s Mujahedeen, an Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran. It has subsequently fought to oust the clerical regime which took power in the 1979 Islamic revolution. The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was at war with Iran — as a base to operate against the Tehran government … Williams, who met a group of Ashraf supporters last week, urged protesters in Britain to end their hunger strike in support of the camp residents..
… Our view remains that the residents of Camp Ashraf are not entitled to ‘protected persons’ status as the Fourth Geneva Convention ceased to apply in Iraq after 28 June 2004, following the end of active hostilities and occupation … Our ambassador in Iraq has written to the Iraqi authorities to ask for a review into the recent events at the camp. Officials from our embassy in Baghdad are continuing to follow developments, and will shortly undertake a further visit to the camp.
The Iraqi national security advisor said Iraq has offered two options to the MKO: “Either a voluntary return to Iran or (they must) choose a third country.” ..Asked whether the Iraqi police’s decision to arrest some MKO members was related to the group’s involvement in the suppression of the Iraqi people during Saddam Hussein’s rule, he only said, “The judicial branch set its regulations and made the decision without the interference of the executive branch. ..
Iraq’s supreme criminal court assigned to review crimes done by the former Iraqi Baath regime during the 1991 uprising (Shabaniyah Intifada) announced that it has received 5,000 complaints filed against the regime and anti Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). .The families of the victims as well as those disabled during the suppression of the uprising have asked for chasing and punishing those responsible for the crimes done during the suppression of intifada in northern and southern Iraq..
The Iraqi Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman, asserted on the Expulsion of Mujahedeen Khalq, an Iranian opposition to leave Camp Ashraf in Iraqi territory. Othman said in an interview with Al-Iraqiya news agency that”the presence of the PMOI’s Camp Ashraf in Diyala province is causing many problems, adding that it is best for Mujahedin to leave the Iraqi territory to end the tensions and complexities between the Iraqi government and the Mujahedin Khalq Organization,..”Othman stressed that the events that took place in the camp was predictable
Iranian security forces have arrested an MKO ringleader and disbanded his cell in the northern city of Qazvin, a provincial judiciary official announced on Monday..Identifying the inmate as”A.J”, Maleki announced that the detainee who is a physician had arranged meetings to propagate against the Islamic Republic for the benefit of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).
Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Tuesday that the US administration has taken double-standard stance on terrorism, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.Referring to the United States’ approach to the anti-Iran”terror group,”the Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), Larijani said that”it was obvious to us that the US (on one hand) has been using the group as a tool… and (on the other hand) Americans said that they have nothing to do with MKO ..
An Iraqi group with records of cooperation with Iraq’s former Baath regime announced that it supports presence of the anti-Iran terror group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) inside Iraq.The Habilian website reported that the group, Islamic al-Sadr Society, which formed in Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre in 2002 announced in a statement that it supports MKO’s stay inside Iraq..