In response to a question about pressures imposed by some Arab states on Iraqi government to revise the de-Baathification law and their wish to return the infamous Baath party members to power, Hakim said”these elements refuse to understand the changes and realities in Iraq”. Hakim stressed the law has been unanimously endorsed by the Iraqi nation and will be enforced.
In early 2007, the Iraqi government announced that MKO interferes in Iraq’s internal affairs and ordered them to leave the Arab country. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government spokesman said that MKO can choose between returning to Iran or go to another country. Ali al-Dabbagh stressed that Iraqi Constitution does not allow granting asylum to any terrorist organization
Hosseini recalled the crimes perpetrated by the MKO including the murder of many Iranian high-ranking officials and civilians. He lambasted the EU for failing to enter the so-called ‘National Resistance Council of Iran in its list of terrorist organizations and called on the EU to avoid a selective approach.
An Iranian anti-terrorism association has called on the Iraqi government to expel the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country. A representative of the Habilian Association, Javad Hashemi, made the request during a meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minster Barham Saleh on Wednesday. The US administration has blocked efforts for expulsion of the terrorist group from the Iraqi soil.
A senior Iraqi prosecutor has said there is evidence to suggest the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization is involved in the ongoing violence in Iraq. “The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court has been provided with documents on the Mujahedin Khalq Organization’s (MKO) crimes against the people in southern Iraq and the people of Tuz Khormato in the south of Kirkuk,”
The MKO were also supported by several western countries while launching their terrorist attacks inside and outside of Iran. “These double standards are at odds with the UN resolutions. The best way to ensure we are on the right path is to take all the measures to combat terrorism in the UN paradigm,”Soltanieh said.
MKO’s military facilities, backed by US army, are currently used as safe training camps for hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists preparing themselves for attacks which have claimed thousands of civilian lives after the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, IRNA reported.
The U.S. daily Washington Prism has reported that the United States is officially funding terrorist organizations opposed to the government in Iran. Reese Elrich of the Washington Prism and author of the book “Target Iraq”, who recently visited Iran and the Kurdish regions in northern Iraq, reports on the U.S. government’s financial support for armed groups.
The MKO anti-Iranian terrorist outfit (Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization) has opened an office in the Jordanian capital of Amman, the Iraqi daily al-Bayyinah reported on Sunday. The Jordanian government has agreed to develop security cooperation with MKO members upon the request of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the daily quoted informed Iraqi security sources as saying.
France says the anti-Iranian terrorist outfit”Mojahedin e Khalq”Organization (MKO) is on the European Union’s list of”terror organizations”. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy made the remark on Wednesday, adding that,”In France, this organization (MKO) is still under prosecution.”