Members of the notorious Mujahedin Khalq Organization have been arrested in France and Switzerland on charges of money laundering. Ten people close to the MKO / PMOI were in police custody on Monday on both sides of the border, Reuters reported without citing any sources.
Iraq’s ambassador to Iran says so far no country in the world has agreed to shelter the dissident members of the US-backed Mujahedin Khalq (MKO) terrorist group.According to International Law, the outlawed Mujahedin Khalq Organization or the so called PMOI should be handed over to any country which is prepared to harbor its members…no government has so far expressed willingness to admit the group into their country, al-Sheikh added
Jordan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nassar Habashneh has affirmed that there was no change in Amman’s position towards the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization or the so called PMOI….participation of some of the Jordanians in MKO’s conferences”comes on an individual basis”and”does not reflect Jordan’s official position.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Jordan’s Ambassador to Tehran Ahmad Jalal al-Mefleh on Saturday to voice Iran’s protest against Amman’s support for the terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization, and participation of the Arab country’s officials at an MKO banquet in Paris. …The MKO is behind a slew of assassinations and bombings inside Iran, a number of EU parliamentarians said in a recent letter in which they slammed a British court decision to remove the MKO from the British terror list
The Shiite-dominated Iraqi Interior Ministry announced September 1 that members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK) or the so called PMOI had six months to leave Camp Ashraf, the U.S. camp in Iraq where approximately 3,360 members of the group are currently being held. The Saudi daily al Riyadh reported September 3 that the United States and Iran had agreed to hand over members of the MeK (also known as the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran) to Iraqi authorities.
Hasan Kazemi-Qomi said,”Apart from their criminal leadership, many members of this little group [PMOI / MKO/MEK] 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.”
Seyed Ammar Hakim said 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 Mujahedin Khalq members from Iraq is the resolve of the Iraqi government and nation.
Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Abdulkarim Khalaf said on Wednesday that members of the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) must leave Iraqi soil within the specified six-month deadline. “Regarding the principle of good neighborliness and non-intervention in neighbors’ affairs, the Iraqi government will not allow regional terrorist groups, including MKO and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), to use Iraqi territory for operations against others,”Khalaf
Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman 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.
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 , 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.