Iraqi police have arrested 36 Iranian exiles on rioting charges after clashes with Iraqi forces..Mehdawi said some of the 36 would be released but others would have to face trial.”We have two seriously injured Iraqi police. If they die, some of the detainees will go to court to face criminal charges,”he said..Iraqi forces on Tuesday took control of Camp Ashraf on the Iranian border, home to the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MKO/MEK) dissident group for two decades, sparking confrontations between police and residents who fear eviction.

Iraqi police have arrested 36 members of the Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) after clashes erupted between MKO operatives and security forces in Camp Ashraf..The arrests were confirmed by Abdul Nassir al-Mehdawi, governor of Diyala province.”Their cases are being investigated now. They are being charged with inciting trouble,”he said.”We will deal with them according to Iraqi law; we won’t send them back to Iran.”

Thirty-five Iranian dissidents arrested by Iraqi security forces during a takeover of their base were transferred to Baghdad for questioning on Sunday, a senior Iraqi official told AFP…The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was at war with the Islamic republic ..

“Seizure of Camp Ashraf by the Iraqi army and security forces was a legal move and in accordance with the international rules and conventions,”Forat al-Shar, A member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC)..”The MKO has conducted illegal acts inside the camp and this is not acceptable to the Iraqi nation,”Shar underlined..Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – on Tuesday and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.

The Iraqi government was right to take action against a People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI) camp north of Baghdad, as it did not want to tolerate a group on Iraqi territory operating outside Iraqi control..Mojahedin Khalq have benefited from loose American Protection..Deep fears of deportation and concern at losing control of their political fate led the PMOI/MKO/MEK members to resist the Iraqi forces when they entered the camp to impose Iraqi authority, which led to serious clashes

Police officials in the Iraqi province of Diyalah said Sunday that the mass graves contained Kuwaiti nationals who had fallen victim to the Ba’ath regime’s seven month-long invasion of Kuwait…If confirmed, the reports would expose MKO complicity in Saddam Hussein’s war on Kuwait, which killed more than 3,664 Iraqis and 1,000 Kuwaitis

The PMOI in Iraq is finished, especially after the fall of Saddam Hussein and his government. Its military wing, the NLA is completely dysfunctional and impaired because of disarmament.. the PMOI’s leaders do not want to deal with the destiny of 3500 personnel and members who have been stranded in that garrison for decades. The life of those stranded people in that garrison does not have any value for their leaders..as a victim of this organization, hold Mrs. Maryam Ghajar Azdanloo (Rajavi) responsible and accountable for the life and death of those stranded MKO members..

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