Iran strongly condemned the United States for double standards in its treatment of terrorist groups such as the MKO.”The Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many countries. The US State Department has also identified the group as a foreign terrorist organization,”Iran’s mission to the UN said in a letter to The Chicago Tribune published on Tuesday.
Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran, Mohammad Majid Al-Shaikh, has said that no country is ready to accept the terrorist Mojahadin Khalq Organization (MKO). “We believe that the presence of Mojahadin group in Iraq is illegal, but no country is ready to accept the members of this group,” Al-Shaikh told the Mehr News Agency
Mottaki noted that Iran’s envoy to Jordan was invited to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to be informed that the Amman government considered the MKO as a terrorist group and did not support it. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry also announced that Jordanian MPs’ move was personal and is not confirmed by the government of Jordan, added Mottaki.”The Jordanian parliament speaker announced that Jordan does not confirm such a move,”said Mottaki. Mottaki said that as a result of Iran’s reaction, independent Jordanian dailies called the move”wrong”.
MKO terrorist organization plays an active role in provoking sectarian conflicts between Iraqi people. The group with some terrorist entities has set up headquarters in Camp Ashraf northeast of Baghdad and provides material support to terrorists in Diyala province…as Iraqis we address the UN Security Council and the Organization for Human Rights and the neighboring countries and multinational forces in Iraq to issue a statement to the Iraqi government by taking out the terrorist organization from Iraq after the prosecution by the Criminal Court of Iraq
Iraq on Wednesday took over from US forces control of the central Shiite province of Wasit. Wasit became the 13th of Iraq’s 18 provinces to be handed over by US-led forces to Baghdad….The Diyala province has been home to the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) since the 1980s. The MKO is blacklisted by much of the international community, including the United States.
Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran Abu Heidar al-Sheikh On presence of MKO members in Iraq, said”We believe that they are against the Iraqi and Iranian nations and should leave the country. Their presence in Iraq is totally illegal.”
In a new statement, Leaders of Iraqi tribes demanded senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi President and Prime Minister to expel Terrorist groups especially MKO from Iraq’s soil. ..The statement stresses that the criminal terrorist group of MKO is one of the pawns of Saddam’s regime to suppress the Iraqi people move further adding to its crimes through intervention in Iraqi affairs and supporting terrorists, particularly in Diyali province and harboring criminals in the Ashraf camp
Sources close to the MKO activists declared in Paris that the leadership of the Organization received promises from the United States to secure their protection in Iraq, especially in Camp Ashraf, despite its decision to hand over the security file of the Status of the Ashraf camp to government forces recently.
The US has granted citizenship to 16 leading members of the blacklisted Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), Iraqi security officials say…The deputy said, however, that the US had denied support for a certain number of MKO/ PMOI members in the Camp after accessing their records. He added that documents, including tapes of MKO espionage acts against the Iranian government, have been delivered from the camp to US military forces in Iraq.
About 10 people close to a banned Iranian opposition group(MKO) were arrested last week in France and Switzerland in connection with a money-laundering investigation..Several of the people close to the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) — listed as a terrorist group in the European Union and United States — were in police custody on both sides of the border on Monday