{"id":3395,"date":"2010-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/2010\/12\/12\/iraqis-call-for-mujahedin-khalq-expulsion\/"},"modified":"2021-01-22T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:40:11","slug":"iraqis-call-for-mujahedin-khalq-expulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/3395","title":{"rendered":"Iraqis call for Mujahedin Khalq expulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: larger;\">People in Iraq&#8217;s Diyala province organized a protest in front of Camp Ashraf where the Mujahidin Khalq terrorist organization or MKO members are residing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/Image\/Politician\/Iraq\/Al_Zaidi\/Al_Zaidi_Tareq.jpg\"alt=\"The tribal leaders stated that they attended the protest to call on the government to respond to public demands to evacuate the camp from the country.\"align=\"right\"hspace=\"10\"vspace=\"10\"\/>People have been calling on Iraqi officials to expel the organization from their country, and described their presence in Iraq as a chronic disease. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Key individuals turned out for the protest including tribal leaders, clerics and local government officials.<br \/>\nProtesters have been shouting,&#8221;leave our country&#8221;, and carried anti-MKO slogans to express their intolerance towards the presence of the organization that they say has caused so much pain in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The tribal leaders stated that they attended the protest to call on the government to respond to public demands to evacuate the camp from the country.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the protest, the MKO members gathered behind the safety of barbwires, throwing insults to the protesters.<br \/>\nLocal Iraqi officials say the MKO members who claim they are only guests in Iraq should start acting like guests, and stop showing disrespect to the citizens of this country.<\/p>\n<p>MKO has been in Iraq&#8217;s Diyala province since the 1980s and was part of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s war against Iran during that period.<\/p>\n<p>The group is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, US troops disarmed the MKO members at Iraq&#8217;s Camp Ashraf, where they were based, and surrounded it until Iraqi forces took over responsibility for the camp in 2009.<a class=\"postmvdl\"href=\"https:\/\/st.nejatngo.org\/media\/Report\/Press_TV\/PressTV_Ani_MKO_Protest.wmv\"target=\"_blank\"rel=\"noopener\">Download Iraqis call for Mujahedin Khalq expulsion <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters have been shouting, &#8220;leave our country&#8221;, and carried anti-MKO slogans to express their intolerance towards the presence of the organization that they say has caused so much pain in 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