Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to notify Congress on Friday that she plans to take Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, aka MKO/PMOI off a State Department terror list, three senior Obama administration officials told CNN. MEK is considered by many in the administration to be a bizarre cult-like organization, prompting concerns about its behavior.
the primary source of income for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) comes from the assassinations the group conducts within the Iranian soil at the behest of the Mossad. He argues that “If you’re a terrorist on behalf of Israel, as MKO is, then you’re kosher as far as (US-based Israeli publicist) Dershowitz is concerned…
The U.S. and Israel have tacitly admitted they were behind the assassinations. They openly admit they are training, funding, arming, and regularly deploying the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MKO). U.S. politicians openly lobby for MKO in full-page columns bought in large U.S. papers. It would interest many Americans to know that many of these lobbyists include stalwart supporters of the so-called “War on Terror”…
The last major group of Iranian exiles has relocated from their long-time base to a new site near Baghdad as part of a process that aims to see them resettled outside Iraq, the United Nations said on Sunday.”The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Mr Martin Kobler, today welcomed the news…
Today, the seventh convoy of approximately 680 Camp Ashraf residents arrived safely at Camp Hurriya. This convoy represents the last major relocation of residents from former Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya and marks a significant milestone in efforts to achieve a sustainable humanitarian solution to this issue. ..
The issue of Camp Ashraf – located in eastern Iraq and made up of several thousand Iranian exiles, many of them members of a group known as the People’s Mojahedeen of Iran aka MKO/MEK/PMOI – has been one of the main issues dealt with by UNAMI for more than 18 months.
Among the foreign countries and overseas organizations that hire people to advocate for them in Washington, D.C., one doesn’t expect to find a group that’s listed on the U.S. government’s roster of foreign terrorists. But the Mujahedin e-Khalq — a cult-like Iranian group whose killing of U.S. officials landed it on the terrorist list in 1997 — has been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a high-profile…
“I wouldn’t choose to live here, but when we talk about refugees and what their living conditions are all over the world, this should be considered exceptional,” said Molina, the Spanish Embassy’s deputy chief of mission… Pakistani diplomat Saif Khwaja: “The people who are living here are not from Iraq, and the Iraqi government is bearing the burden of these people.”
There are 800 members remaining who will be moved in two batches; the first will comprise of 600 members and the second 200. The Camp shall be fully closed by the end of this month, the sources confirmed. It was intended for the camp to be the headquarters of Dijla Operations Command, which includes Diala and Kirkuk military operations,
A local official in Diyala province announced that the Iraqi government is laying the grounds to remove 680 MKO members from camp New Iraq (formerly Ashraf). Uday Alkhadran Governor of Khalis has said that the Iraqi government is about to send 680 MKO members from Camp Ashraf to Camp Liberty on the outskirts of Baghdad as the seventh round of MKO transfers…