U.S. plans to move Iranian exile group out of Iraq hit snag
a State Department official told Congress on Wednesday that the group’s[MKO/MEK/PMOI] leadership was not cooperating in the departures, despite the risks to the members’ lives in Iraq.Beth Jones, acting assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs, told a House foreign Affairs subcommittee that although U.S. officials have worked hard to persuade the group’s leadership to cooperate in the departures,”very few have been allowed to move.”