Iraq is in talks with Australia, seeking an alternative place for the MKO/PMOI/MEK members as Baghdad has decided to shut down the group’s headquarters. National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie has initiated efforts to persuade the Australian government to accommodate members of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), al-Bayyina al-jadida daily reported.
Rubay’i says about 1,000 of them have US and European passports and resident permits or political asylum status in the United States and in Europe and they can go there, noting that”900 women are in the camp,”and adding that they can return them to Iran, but stressing that”we will not send anyone to Iran against his will.”..
Iraq has warned that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has outstayed its welcome in the country and is obliged to pack its bags. Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said at a Friday news conference that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) had to leave Iraq soon but did not give any time-frame … The MKO, blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries
Iraq’s national security adviser said Friday that the government intends to move an Iranian opposition group[MEK/PMOI/MKO] from its sanctuary near the Iranian border to a location where leaders and”brainwashed cult members”will be separated and the latter”detoxified.”.Members of the group”should understand that their days in Iraq are numbered,”Rubaie told Western journalists
Maliki also warned the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI), that they must leave Iraq, reiterating a pledge by National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie to close down Camp Ashraf on the Iranian border, where the PMOI are currently based.”We have informed this terrorist organization that Iraq can be no place for you..
We do not wish to take responsibility for the sin of the presence of a terrorist organisation in Iraq, which causes us domestic problems and problems with countries of the region, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters.We ask the international community … to find another place for them other than Iraq, he added.
Iraqi forces have surrounded MKO’s Camp Ashraf, after Baghdad vowed to shut down the camp and end the group’s presence in the country.”Iraqi soldiers [have taken] positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the MKO [terrorists] refused to evacuate a building inside their camp,”an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity on Monday.
The Iraqi government is trying to send members of terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) to Saudi Arabian border, an informed source said on Monday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity told IRNA that Iraq is going to send MKO members, also known as Munafiqin (hypocrites), from Ashraf camp to Nugrat Al-Salman region on Saudi Arabian border.
Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abawi pointed out that the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK), will be expelled from Iraq and that his country is searching for a third country to host the group members. ..Iran has been the first and main supporter of the Iraqi government after the downfall of Saddam Hussein’s regime
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Monday that Iraq wanted to expel the Iranian rebel Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) that opposes the Islamic regime. Talabani made the remarks in a joint news conference with Iran’s former president and current Expediency Council head Ali Akbar Hashemi who arrived here earlier in the day for a visit.