{"id":2875,"date":"2009-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2009\/12\/13\/u-s-respects-any-iraqi-decision-on-mko-members\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T19:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:32:23","slug":"u-s-respects-any-iraqi-decision-on-mko-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/2875","title":{"rendered":"U.S. respects any Iraqi decision on MKO members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img hspace=\"10\"alt=\"Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week that members of the PMOI would be relocated from their Camp Ashraf\"vspace=\"10\"align=\"right\"width=\"240\"height=\"182\"src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/MEK\/Nuqrat_Salman\/Nuqrat_Al_Salman_1_EN_S.jpg\"\/>U.S. urges caution with PMOI in Iraq<br \/> Washington respects any Iraqi decision regarding members of the dissident group People&#8217;s Mujahedin of Iran but urges caution, the U.S. State Department said.<\/p>\n<p> Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week that members of the PMOI would be relocated from their Camp Ashraf enclave in Diyala province first to Baghdad and then to a desert outpost in the Shiite south of the country.<\/p>\n<p> The PMOI opposes the clerical regime in Iran. Washington lists the group as a terrorist organization for its violent methods of opposition, though the group surrendered is weapons in 2003 and now claims its policy is based on peaceful dissent.<\/p>\n<p> Iraqi forces stormed the Camp Ashraf enclave when U.S. combat forces pulled out of major cities to their military bases earlier this year. Several Ashraf residents died during the raid.<\/p>\n<p> The group claims Iraqi authorities are acting out against its members under pressure from Tehran.<\/p>\n<p> Amnesty International said Baghdad gave the group until Tuesday to leave the camp or they could face deportation to Iran.<\/p>\n<p> Ian Kelly, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said Friday that while Washington recognizes Iraq&#8217;s sovereign right to exercise authority over group, human rights should be observed.<\/p>\n<p> &quot;Diplomatically, we respect Iraqi sovereignty,&quot; he said. &quot;But of course, we&#8217;re making it clear that we would expect the residents of Camp Ashraf to be treated well and with respect.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington respects any Iraqi decision regarding members of the dissident group People&#8217;s Mujahedin of Iran but urges caution, the U.S. State Department said.Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week that members of the PMOI\/MKO\/MEK would be relocated from their Camp Ashraf enclave in Diyala province first to Baghdad and then to a desert outpost in the Shiite south of the country.<\/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":[105],"tags":[215,112,471,292,83,20],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[163],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-camp-ashraf-affairs","tag-hot-topics","tag-iraq_move_mko_ashraf","tag-iraq-to-shutdown-camp-ashraf","tag-mko-news","tag-third-view-mek","module-news","ctype-story","blog-upi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/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=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}