Camp Ashraf Affairs

Nuri al-Maliki: Iraq to move Mojahedin Khalq to remote south

Iraq plans to uproot an Iranian exile group that has become a headache for the Baghdad government and move the activists to a remote southern area until it can expel them, the prime minister said this week. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to oust members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an Iranian opposition movement that the United States considers a terrorist organisation, from a camp northeast of Baghdad where they have been living for two decades.

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Iraq to transfer Iranian dissident group to Baghdad

Iraq will move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the border between the two countries to Baghdad, a government spokesman said on Thursday.”We will move residents of Camp Ashraf to buildings in Baghdad on Tuesday,”he said, without giving details. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen have lived at Camp Ashraf, a refugee base in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, for more than 20 years.

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Britain says MKO in Camp Ashraf subject to Iraqi law

Camp Ashraf is in a sovereign and democratic Iraq and the camp residents subject to its laws.. The UK is of the view that the residents of Camp Ashraf, as with all people in Iraq, enjoy rights and protections under the Iraqi constitution and applicable international obligations to which Iraq is a signatory. We do not consider that they have ‘protected persons’ status …

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Saddamist lobby’s lies exposed in U.K. parliament

… Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne: Why is no European nation, or North America, willing to accept any of the residents of Camp Ashraf? May it have something to do with their previous activities? Is the Minister absolutely determined either to prove that the Camp Ashraf residents cannot return to the Islamic Republic of Iran or to press European nations to bring them out? What responsibility do the Iraqi Government have to keep these former enemies of the Iraqi people? …

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Ashraf, Rajavi’s favored horse to ride

Rajavi’s message of November 4, seemingly addressed to Iranian mobs who instigated the recent sporadic domestic crises, is nothing more than desperate struggle to cease the already started measures to put an end to the issue of Mojahedin in Iraq and the Camp Ashraf residents in particular… Rajavi himself knows better than anybody that the best thing to do at the present is to do and say nothing since at least the past thirty years has proved that his promised democratic revolution is nothing more that childish fancies ..

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Camp Ashraf – A Tale of Fairies and Devils

Mrs. Maryam Ghajar Azdanlo should and must answer this rational and logical question; how come has she not expounded on or taken any position against the savagery and brutality of the former Iraq dictator, Saddam Hussein up to now? And instead, she and her colleagues have tried their best to distort and defame the current popular government of Iraq and its prominent and dignified prim-minister. They have not spoken a word regarding their previous host and landlord, Saddam Hussein and his atrocities and suppressive attitude. WHY?

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Muthanna provincial council refused the transfer of Camp Ashraf to Samawah

…”The rejection of the Commission’s request matched the view that the”hypocrites organisation”will be a heavy burden on the people of this province which is peaceful and quiet.”He added that”the existence of Camp Ashraf, especially in the countryside of Samawah would present major threats to its security …”The rejection of the Commission’s request matched the view that the”hypocrites organisation”will be a heavy burden on the people of this province ..”the existence of Camp Ashraf, especially in the countryside of Samawah would present major threats to its security ..

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The UN monitors the situation in Ashraf

Despite of attempts to demonize the Iraqi government to show a strong objection to the decisive decision of its expulsion from Iraq, Mojahedin-Khalq Organization (MKO, MEK, PMOI) seems not to be intelligent enough to realize that it fails to dupe all the world as it has done with its own insiders. There are those who may be misled by its propaganda blitz that the Iraqi government has packed a number of innocent people inside an isolated camp just in the middle of a scorched desert ..

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