the Iraqi Minister of Justice said, “We have a special view of the Mojahedin. Saddam used them to suppress the uprising of the Iraqi people, and after the fall of Saddam, the organization continued its provocative practices. Even so, we do not address them out of revenge, and our actions are completely legal.”…
A member of Iraq’s Islamic Virtue Party (al-Fadhila Party) described the steps taken by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) to expel the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI) from Iraq as”very slow and insufficient.”
…”Iraqi people do have a dark memory of Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO, a.k.a. MEK and PMOI), and the decision for their expulsion is a key and national decision,” said an Iraqi Kurdish member of parliament. the hands of the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization (MEK, a.k.a. MKO and PMOI) are “smeared with the blood of people of southern and northern Iraq,” and the wounds of these people have not been healed yet..
Expressing disapprobation of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq group’s presence in Iraq, head of the Iraqi parliamentary committee on martyrs and political prisoners said that, if compelled, they would extradite MKO members to Iran.
Referring to the Iraqi people and government’s efforts in the eviction of MKO aka MEK/PMOI from Iraq, the Iraqi political analyst said, “the group’s expulsion from Iraq has entered a new phase in 2003, and the people staged many protests for the MKO members’ removal [from Iraq].”
The terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCR) has been debilitated in Iraq since the US withdrawal from the country, a member of the National Reform Trend, a political faction headed by the former Iraqi prime minister, said.
In an interview with ‘France 24 News’ Fouad Hussein, head of the office of President Barazani’s Government of the Kurdistan Region, said”regional president Massoud Barazani does not support the survival of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization of Iran (MEK) in Iraq”, denying reports by some media that Barazani gave his support for the MEK to stay in Camp Liberty. ..
A senior member of Iraqi parliament from Kurdistan Alliance has emphasized that his bloc “goes along with the (Iraq) central government’s decision on the MKO expulsion from Iraq.” ..“Despite the disagreements between Erbil and Baghdad, the two sides are in the same boat on the issue of MKO expulsion,” added the vice president of the Kurdistan Alliance.
A member of Iraqi Parliament describes Mujahedin-e Khalq’s aka MKO/MEK/PMOI crimes in Iraq as inexcusable, and said the group’s presence in Iraq is a new challenge for the government. ..The member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Haitham al-Jubouri went on to say that, “the crimes of the group are inexcusable and will not be removed from the memory of Iraq.”
“Dangerous concepts such as terrorism have become a tool at the service of the US policies and a leverage to pressure different parties,”Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim said on Saturday. He criticized the United States'”double standard attitude”towards the MKO (also known as the MEK, PMOI and NCR), and underlined the terrorist nature of the group.