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Saudi Arabia to harbor MKO terrorists

According to the reports coming from Baghdad, the US has asked its allies in the region, including Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Qatar and Pakistan, to give refuge to MKO aka MEK/PMOI members for conducting espionage activities on their soil. The move came after the Iraqi government expressed determination to close Camp Ashraf, the base of the terrorist group located in the eastern province of Diyala and to expel all MKO members ..

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No family visits for MKO hostages in Camp Ashraf

According to the reports prepared by NGOs and the defected MKO members, the MKO members inside the camp are living in dire conditions and are deprived of their basic rights. “I don’t know why the MKO is keeping the people against their will. They are isolating them from the world,” said an Iranian woman who came to see her relative in Camp Ashraf…

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Mortars hit MKO’s Ashraf Camp in Iraq

Two mortars have struck the Ashraf Camp, the base of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI in Iraq’s Diyala province near the Iranian border, according to the Iraqi military…The mortar strike comes just days after the Iraqi government agreed to a UN plea to extend by six months a year-end deadline to shut down the headquarters of the anti-Iran terrorist group on its soil.

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Price of hosting MKO too high for EU

no European country is willing to accept the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) because the cost of hosting them will be too high.Parviz Sorouri, who is a member of the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Saturday that based on creditable documents, the MKO has committed about 14,000 acts of terror in Iran. ..

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EU court upholds delisting Washington backed MKO terror group

MKO is designated as a terrorist organization under United States law, and has been described by State Department officials as a repressive cult. The group fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up camp in Diyala Province, near the Iranian border. MKO is known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and the massacre of Iraqi Kurds.

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ICRC: No talks on MKO stay in Iraq

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the body has never entered any negotiations to persuade Baghdad to extend the presence of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI in Iraq.The Friday remarks by Pierre Ryter, the head of the ICRC mission in Iran, comes against the backdrop of Iraq’s rejection of a UN appeal for the extension of the year-end deadline…

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Iraq rejects UN plea for MKO criminals

Maliki went on to describe the MKO aka ME/PMOI as a “criminal gang,” adding, “We cannot permit a criminal gang to remain here.”The comments by the Iraqi prime minister come on the heels of an appeal last week by the UN for the extension of the deadline to close down Camp Ashraf.

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Azerbaijan to take in MKO members

Azerbaijan and a number of other countries have agreed to receive nearly 900 members of the terrorist group of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization.“Necessary measures are being taken through the cooperation of the Red Cross and Iraqi officials to transfer these individuals,” Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh …“The decision to expel MKO aka MEK/PMOI from Iraq is irreversible, and non-extendable,”..

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