{"id":2358,"date":"2009-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2009\/03\/17\/mkos-camp-ashraf-under-iraqi-siege\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:29:42","slug":"mkos-camp-ashraf-under-iraqi-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2358","title":{"rendered":"MKO’s Camp Ashraf under Iraqi siege"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"IraqiIraqi forces have surrounded MKO’s Camp Ashraf, after Baghdad vowed to shut down the camp and end the group’s presence in the country. <\/p>\n

"Iraqi soldiers [have taken] positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the MKO [terrorists] refused to evacuate a building inside their camp," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity on Monday. <\/p>\n

The Iraqi soldiers, who have orders from Iraq’s National security Advisor, Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, are not authorized to allow people or supplies to enter or leave the camp, the source added. <\/p>\n

After the finalization of a security agreement between Baghdad and Washington, the Iraqi government took over the country’s national security issues. Under the interim agreement Iraq has now control over the Camp Ashraf — the Mujahedin Khalq Organization’s headquarters and training base in Diyala Province for the past two decades. <\/p>\n

The Iraqi government has vowed to expel the members of the terrorist group from the country, maintaining that their presence ‘in Iraq is not an option’. <\/p>\n

The anti-Iran MKO, which identifies itself as a Marxist-Islamist guerilla army, has carried out acts of terror against Iranian nationals and officials. <\/p>\n

Outlawed in Iran, the group was relocated in France before being expelled at the order of the then-prime minister Jacques Chirac. Te organization, eventually, moved to Iraq, where it allegedly assisted former dictator Saddam Hussein in the massacre of thousands of Iraqi civilians in the 1990s. <\/p>\n

Many countries including the US have blacklisted the MKO as a "terrorist" organization. The US State Department says that the MKO assassinated at least six US citizens in Iran, prior to the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. <\/p>\n

This is while earlier in January, the 27-nation European Union ruled against the MKO’s seven-year inclusion in the blacklist. The ruling is widely believed to be politically motivated and the result of legal developments combined with intense lobbying by the terrorist group. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Iran’s Rajanews website said on Monday that the Iraqi government is making efforts to transfer the MKO terrorists from Camp Ashraf to Naqrat al-Salman, near the Iraq’s border with Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n

It added that a delegation of Iraqi government officials has been dispatched to the border region to inspect the base, which is expected to house MKO members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iraqi forces have surrounded MKO’s Camp Ashraf, after Baghdad vowed to shut down the camp and end the group’s presence in the country.”Iraqi soldiers [have taken] positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the MKO [terrorists] refused to evacuate a building inside their camp,”an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[112,79,83],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camp-ashraf","tag-hot-topics","tag-mujahedin-khalq-declining","tag-mko-news","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}