Iraqi Authorities’ stance on the MEK

Senior SIIC Member Urges Iraqi Gov’t to Expel MKO

A senior member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) called on the Baghdad government to adopt more serious measures in line with the expulsion of the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from Iraq’s soil…Since the beginning of this year, the Baghdad government has repeatedly assured Iranian officials and people that it is determined to expel the MKO/MEK/PMOI

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Iraq to hold responsible all the supporters of MKO

The mayor of Khalis, Uday Alkhaddran revealed the names of those politicians and tribal leaders involved in supporting the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq based in Camp Ashraf garrison. he said he would”send all the names of politicians and tribal leaders involved in supporting the PMOI aka MKO/MEK to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, along with the smallest details about the organization and internal support for it”..

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MKO receive $60 mln from Saddam each month

“This cult accompanied the executed Iraqi criminal (Saddam) in all his policies and did everything to put Saddam’s orders in action,”Chalabi said..He said Saddam and his regime extended all-out support to the MKO/MEK/PMOI.”For instance, they were bribed with $60mln payments that they received from Saddam each month.”He noted that he has already cautioned Iraq’s political and religious leaders…

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MKO leaders must be tried for crimes

Iraq’s Finance Minister Baqir al-Zubaidi says the ‘criminal leaders’ of the Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) terrorist group must be put on trial before being expelled from the country.Iraqi people would never forget “the bitter memory of the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, especially a large number of Kurds from north, during the 1991 uprising (Intifada),” al-Zubaidi said on Tuesday.

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Moqtada Sadr Reiterates Iraqis’ Demand for Expulsion of MKO Terrorists

Prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr strongly condemned the crimes committed by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) against the Iranian and Iraqi nations, and underlined his country’s strong resolve to expel the terrorist group from Iraq.”This terrorist group has committed more crimes and oppressions against us than the crimes it has committed against the Iranian nation ..

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Iraqi politicians reach consensus on evacuating Camp Ashraf

Iraqi president Jalal Talabani announced that the Iraqi government will expel the MKO members from Iraq by the end of this year.Observers say, MKO members have tried on many occasion to provoke int’l community into putting pressure on Iraqi government by claiming that the Iraqi forces have attacked or mistreating them. The claims have been denied by Iraqi officials.The MKO is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international community.and is responsible for numerous acts of terror and violence against Iranian civilians and government officials..

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Zebari: Iraqi committee will decide for Mojahedin

… Zabari also said a committee is to be formed in Baghdad soon to determine ways for MKO members’ exit. As to Iraq-US Security Pact, Zebari said,”the US troops need to leave Iraqi soil by the end of 2011.”The MKO is listed as a terrorist group by much of the international community. Founded in the 1960s, the group has masterminded many terrorist operations in Iran and Iraq. The group is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. The MKO has been in Iraq’s Diyala province since the 1980s …

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Government Spokesman: Iraq is not an American colony

… The delegation reportedly told Maliki that a US congressional committee is investigating violence between Iraqi forces and members of the Iranian dissident group Mojahedi-e-Khalq Organization that killed 34 people and injured 200 at Camp Ashraf north of Baghdad. Following the comments, the Iraqi government told the US Embassy that the delegation was no longer welcome in Iraq, government spokesman Ali al-Dabagh said. “This is the stance of a sovereign state towards the unacceptable attitude of those congressmen,” he said. “Iraq is not an American colony where such insulting statements …

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Iraqi MPs Praise Gov’t for Preventing US Lawmakers from Visiting MKO Camp

“The Iraqi prime minister’s actions to prevent the interference of the American congressional delegation is admirable and we welcome it,”..The Iraqi people have announced their opposition to the presence of the MKO/MKO/PMOI members in their country and have long staged protest rallies in front of the MKO’s main training camp in the Northern Diyala province to condemn the US-backed presence of the terrorist group in their country.

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