The United Nations’ special representative for Iraq says 3,000 residents of the camp that’s served as a base for an Iranian exile group have moved to a transit site.
Martin Kobler told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Iraq that there are 100 people staying in Camp Ashraf in northern Iraq “until the technical handover is arranged.”
Kobler said all the residents will have interviews at Camp Liberty, near Baghdad, before getting the status of internationally protected persons from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Camp Ashraf has been the base of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), an Iranian opposition group that has been designated as a terrorist organization by Tehran.
The United States removed the MKO from its list of foreign terrorist organizations in September.
