A senior Iraqi foreign ministry official on Tuesday underlined his government’s determination to expel members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), from the country.”Transfer of MKO’s members to the South of Iraq is a preliminary to their final expulsion from Iraq,”Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Haj Hamoud said at a meeting ..
In the documents found at Iraq’s intelligence ministry and other security offices after the toppling of Saddam, the leaders of the terrorist organization have announced that they slaughtered 25,000 Iraqi people on different occasions and over various issues,”different Iraqi groups in the eastern province of Diyala said in a statement released to the country’s Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki.
Iraqi citizens in the city of Khalis in Diyala province filed lawsuits to regain ownership of their lands usurped by the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), during the rule of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.”A number of Iraqi citizens have filed lawsuits against the MKO at the local courts in the city of Khalis demanding reparation for the usurpation and occupation of 1500 hectares of their farming lands by the grouplet during the recent years,”Deputy Governor-General of Diyala Odai al-Khadran said.
Iran announced on Wednesday that the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), was responsible for the Sunday attack on the slain nephew of the defeated presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi.The MKO has been blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries including the United States.
Iran’s ambassador to Iraq on Saturday announced that the Baghdad government is seriously pursuing its policy on the expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) from the country.”Based on our information, the government of Iraq is preparing preliminary measures for transferring the group’s members from Camp Ashraf to Samawah Province (Southeast of Baghdad),”Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Kazzemi Qomi told FNA.
Iranian Deputy Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Eshaq Ale-Habib strongly criticized the West for its double-standard policy on terrorism.Al-e Habib made the remarks in the meeting Friday evening in the UN on combat against terrorism. The Iranian envoy said the recent EU decision on removing the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), from its list of terrorist groups is an indication of the West’s double-standard policy on the issue.
Underlining the Iraqi government’s official position regarding MKO terrorist group Aref Tayfour said: So far, no country has expressed willingness to accept them in its soil.In a meeting with Iranian parliament speaker on Wednesday and referring to Larijani’s remarks about MKO/MEK/PMOI parasitical presence in Iraq Aref Tayfour also said: The Iraqi government is determined and is doing its best to displace and expel MKO from Iraq but until now no country has been ready to accept this terrorist group.
Argentina’s Charge D’affaires in Tehran Mario Enrique Quinteros blasted the western media for using the testimonies given by the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the case of a 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural centerin Buenos Aires … The terrorist group joined Saddam’s army during the Iraqi imposed war on Iran (1980-1988) and helped Saddam and killed thousands of Iranian civilians and soldiers during the US-backed Iraqi imposed war on Iran …The MKO was put on the US terror list in 1997 by the then President, Bill Clinton, but since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the group has been strongly backed by the Washington Neocons..
… Many of the MKO/MEK/PMOI members abandoned the terrorist organization while most of those still remaining in the camp are said to be willing to quit but are under pressure and torture not to do so. A May 2005 Human Rights Watch report accused the MKO of running prison camps in Iraq and committing human rights violations ….
Senior deputy of Iraqi Interior Ministry: Many individuals imprisoned at Camp Ashraf are willing to return to Iran including 70 of them who have announced their willingness to return but the leaders of this group prevent them. Hadi Adnan Alasadi in an interview with governmental newspaper Al-Sabah expressed that: MEK’s/MKO/PMOI presence in Iraq is illegal because of its terrorist nature organization and its violent history