the first group of MKO members were about to be transferred to a new place specified by the Iraqi government. Iraqi Government Spokesman Ali Al-Dabbaq stressed on Wednesday that Baghdad has not extended the presence of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq, dismissing western media reports in this regard.
It ends a tense standoff with the Iraqi government, which has repeatedly vowed to close the 25-year-old camp.Earlier this week, Iraq and the UN agreed to resettle the camp’s more than 3,000 residents.Those living in the camp, about 40 miles (65 km) north of Baghdad, were part of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK/PMOI), which fought alongside Iraqi soldiers during the Iran-Iraq war.
The first 400 of the more than 3,000 members of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran – which Iraq earlier this year had threatened with mass expulsion – are ready”as a goodwill gesture”to transfer with their movable property and vehicles”at the first opportunity”to the former Camp Liberty at Baghdad International Airport, the group’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, announced.
… Top advisor to Speaker of Iraq’s Majlis al-Aala Seyyed Mohssen Hakim says that the presence of the members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in the country can be defined as an international crime, because the organization is not officially permitted to stay in the country… Parviz Sorouri says no European country is willing to accept the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) because the cost of hosting them will be too high. Sorouri said on Saturday that based on creditable documents, the MKO has committed about 14,000 acts of terror in Iran …
Al-Maliki goes on to say:”We ask some European states why they support them, and, if this falls under the context of a regional conflict, Iraq rejects being a part of any regional conflict.”He adds:”That is why we have decided to order the departure of this organization, and we have given them the end of the year as a deadline.”With regard to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s request for a six-month extension of the deadline …
the French-language Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes wrote,”Despite US pressures, Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland rejected the resettlement of 11 members of the MKO organization.””These individuals pose a great threat to our national security,”Federal Office for Migration in Switzerland explained that why they did not accept MKO aka MEK/PMOI members..
The official added that while MEK leaders have backed off from”maximalist positions”in the last 48 hours,”We’re still hearing talk about martyrdom and dying.”If the residents are given the chance to choose their place of life, there are definitely a large number who are willing to leave the group a… “Particular attention should be given to the approximately 70 percent of the Camp Ashraf population that joined the MeK after the group relocated to Iraq”
The Egyptian government voiced its strong opposition to a planned meeting of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI in Cairo and cancelled the convention.The meeting was scheduled to be held this afternoon in Pyramisa Hotel in Cairo, but the terrorist group canceled the meeting after the government of Egypt expressed its strong opposition and did not issue the necessary permission for the meeting..
It is obvious to all that this group has been operating as the proxies and mercenary forces for the enemies of Iran, for more than two decades. Most of the escapees of the Camp Ashraf who have returned to Iran, expressed that what MKO do are acts of treason, and even if we are opposed to our government, we will never cooperate with them, since committing espionage on one’s own country is considered wrong and unacceptable anywhere…
Thousands of Iraqi people held a demonstration in Tahrir square in central Baghdad on Friday calling for the expulsion of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI from their country…According to AP, the demonstrators were urging the government to abide by an end-of-year deadline to expel the group from Iraq and close their camp here… the protesters warned the Iraqi government about the terrorist group’s plans to ..