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US Congressional Research Service on PMOI

Nejat SocietyJanuary 17, 2010091 views

The State Department report on international terrorism for 2007 asserts that the organization—and not just a radical element of the organization as the group asserts—was responsible for the alleged killing of seven American defense advisers to the former Shah in 1975-1976. The report again notes the group’s promotion of women in its ranks and again emphasizes the group’s “cultlike” character, including indoctrination of its members and separation of family members, including children, from its activists. The group’s alliance with Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s and 1990s has contributed to the U.S. shunning of the organization

Mojahedin Khalq lobby clutching at straws

Nejat SocietyJanuary 16, 2010064 views

… Camp Ashraf is part of a sovereign and democratic Iraq and the situation there is a matter for the Government of Iraq. We regularly discuss Camp Ashraf with the Iraqi Government, including with the Iraqi Prime Minister and Ministers for Human Rights, Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs. There is no link between the two issues …

Mojahedin Khalq have no place in Iraq

Nejat SocietyJanuary 11, 2010082 views

… Zebari said Baghdad will never allow any armed group to use Iraqi territory as a base to attack its neighbors. He added that Baghdad has taken a series of measures to establish its sovereignty over Camp Ashraf, where the terrorists are currently being held. The MKO has been listed as a terrorist organization by many international organizations and countries, including the United States …

New wave of dissatisfaction and disarray in Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyDecember 20, 2009061 views

..theforces of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO/MEK/PMOI) inside sections 13 and 15 of camp Ashraf have been distributing written leaflets entitled “death to Rajavi” and “Rajavi lies”…. Sahar Family Foundation asks all relevant Iraqi and international bodies, to intervene to stop yet another disaster committed against the people who are trapped by the MKO leaders in this camp, by opening the doors ..

MKO;Iran ex-rebels defy police orders to quit Iraq camp

Nejat SocietyDecember 16, 2009072 views

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 orders MKO to vacate Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyDecember 16, 20090133 views

Iranian dissidents protest the Iraqi government’s orders that they vacate Camp Ashraf, even as Iraqi policemen stood ready at Camp Ashraf in case violence erupted. The government says it intends to take the exiles, members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, to camps in the south. (Hadi Mizban/associated Press) Iraqi policemen, at right, stood ready in case violence erupted. The government says it intends to take the exiles, members of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, to camps in the south.

France respects Iraqi sovereignty, supports dismantlement of Camp Ashraf

Nejat SocietyDecember 15, 2009093 views

… This requirement of respect for human rights must also apply to officers of the PMOI which, by all accounts, continues to use practices to intimidate the camp residents. Thus, they would not be free to decide their fate. As you know, France had objected that the PMOI/MKO/MEK, on the list of European terrorist organizations since 2002, was withdrawn in 2008 …

Camp Ashraf to get “terrorist-free” on Tuesday

Nejat SocietyDecember 14, 2009073 views

Camp Ashraf, the home to more than 3000 anti-Iran terrorists, will be removed from the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) this Tuesday, Iraq said.The Iraqi government called all the media to be in Camp Ashraf on Tuesday, December 15, for a live coverage of the MKO/MEK/PMOI removal from the camp in North Baghdad, Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) quoted Al-Wasat news website as reporting.

Media invited to witness MKO transfer from Camp Ashraf next Tuesday

Nejat SocietyDecember 13, 2009087 views

… The Government has invited the media to attend Camp Ashraf on the fifteenth day of December to cover the transfer of residents to the place allocated to them… The Government of Iraq has decided to move the residents of Camp Ashraf, all of which residents are members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, to another location which has not yet been disclosed. ..The issue of the MKO has been subject to protracted negotiations between the Government of Iraq and the U.S. over the fate of this organization which is classified as a terrorist group by both sides.

U.S. respects any Iraqi decision on MKO members

Nejat SocietyDecember 13, 2009081 views

Washington respects any Iraqi decision regarding members of the dissident group People’s Mujahedin of Iran but urges caution, the U.S. State Department said.Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week that members of the PMOI/MKO/MEK would be relocated from their Camp Ashraf enclave in Diyala province first to Baghdad and then to a desert outpost in the Shiite south of the country.