Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi confirmed an Interpol request concerning Gholam Shakuri, hinting the suspect was a member of the Mujahedeen group.”There are 150 Gholam Shakuris (in Iran). Interpol sent us a question about this name, and our investigation showed a certain Gholam Shakuri who lives in the United States and is a member of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI..
… Deaths resulting from an Iraqi army raid on an Iranian opposition[MKO/MEK/PMOI] camp on its soil were caused by the camp’s[Ashraf] own guards firing on residents attempting to escape, an Iraqi spokesman said Thursday. The comments from Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh came shortly after a United Nations spokesman in New York said 34 people were killed in the April 8 raid on Camp Ashraf, the residence of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI), in Diyala province north of Baghdad. ..
..Iraq has ordered the exiled Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen of Iran [MKO/MEK/PMOI] to leave the country by the end of this year”We’re prepared to help the government of Iraq develop and execute a negotiated plan ..,”State Department spokesman Mark Toner said….When asked whether the plan could include having the camp’s members transferred to a third country where they would not be tortured or abused, Toner replied:”Conceivably, yeah.”
…”It’s a replacement of forces, not a new deployment,”Brigadier Tarek Azzawi, chief of military operations in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, told AFP.”The Fifth Division in Diyala has replaced the Ninth Division that protects Ashraf, and we have not advanced even one metre (yard),”he said.”There were no clashes,”he added. The People’s Mujahedeen, a left-wing and Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran. The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime was at war with the Islamic republic. It was disarmed following the US-led invasion of 2003 …
“Shame on (President Nicolas) Sarkozy! Death to France! Shame on you, France, let go of the hypocrites!”chanted the crowd as police set up barricades outside the embassy in central Tehran, an AFP photographer said.,,Iranians call exiled opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI)”hypocrites,”and Monday’s demonstration was organised to protest against a PMOI rally outside Paris on Saturday
Mahmood Aemi (with two false identities of Mahmoud Alami and Mohsen Abbasi) and Hossein Amini Gholipour were brought to trial for cheating their friends to set themselves on fire. Two notorious MKO/MEK/PMOI elements appeared before the Court of Appeal of Paris on Friday for”incitement to suicide”..
People’s Mujahedeen aka MKO/MEK/PMOI representative Mehdi Farahi told Iraqi officials residents would not leave Camp Ashraf, where they were installed by Saddam’s regime 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Baghdad in 1985. “Any attempt to expel us forcibly will lead to the same clashes and confrontations as those of July 28 and 29,” he said, referring to violence at the camp this year in which the group says 11 people were killed.
Iraq will move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the border between the two countries to Baghdad, a government spokesman said on Thursday.”We will move residents of Camp Ashraf to buildings in Baghdad on Tuesday,”he said, without giving details. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen have lived at Camp Ashraf, a refugee base in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, for more than 20 years.
Thirty-five Iranian dissidents arrested by Iraqi security forces during a takeover of their base were transferred to Baghdad for questioning on Sunday, a senior Iraqi official told AFP…The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was at war with the Islamic republic ..
Clashes flared for a second day on Wednesday between Iraqi security forces and residents of a camp housing Iran’s main exiled opposition, a day after violence left two policemen dead.Around 420 people were also wounded after Iraqi soldiers stormed the camp on Tuesday, sparking unrest that prompted the deployment of riot police to quell resistance from Camp Ashraf’s residents.