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U.S. drafts new plan for Iranian camp Ashraf in Iraq

Nejat SocietyMay 9, 2011057 views

The official said the Iraqi government was studying the new U.S. plan, which would now be presented to the leaders of Camp Ashraf, the base of the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran which the United States, Iraq and Iran consider a terrorist organization. ..The group, seeking the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic government, mounted attacks on Iran from Iraq before Saddam Hussein’s 2003 downfall. In the 1970s, it led a guerrilla campaign against the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, including attacks on U.S. targets.

Americans last attempt to rescue their terror group

Nejat SocietyMay 8, 2011057 views

The relocation would be temporary, the official said, with final settlement of the inhabitants in other countries. That would not include the United States, the official said, since U.S. law bars anyone associated with a terrorist organization from settling there.The new location would be”chosen and maintained and operated”by Iraq and appropriate humanitarian conditions would have to be maintained in this camp, the official said. The new location would be”chosen and maintained and operated”by Iraq and appropriate humanitarian conditions would have to be maintained in this camp, the official said.”..

EU to move Mojahedin Khalq to Canada

Nejat SocietyMay 5, 2011074 views

… Though Shi’i, these people are very popular with the Iraqi ‘Sunnis’, particularly with the Ba’thists, who abhor everything Iranian, except for the ‘Mojahedin-e Khalq’ organization, to whom the Ashraf City dwellers belong, owing to the close alliance this organization used to maintain with the former Iraqi regime. On the other hand, these Ashraf City dwellers are deeply hated by pro-Iranian Iraqi ‘Shi’is’, basically on account of their alleged role in quelling the 1991 Iraqi Shi’i uprising… a sin for which they have never been forgiven by the Shi’i political parties running the show in Iraq today …

MKO would leave Iraq by March

Nejat SocietyApril 27, 2011050 views

The Iraqi National Coalition and other political groups in Iraq as well as Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maleki and President Jalal Talebani are seeking the expulsion of the MKO members, Danaiifar stated.“We think that would happen this year since the expulsion of MKO/MEK/PMOI members is the demand of the Iraqi government and nation,” he added.

Iraq determined to expel MKO

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2011091 views

raq has expressed determination to expel the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from the country by the end of the current year after issuing ultimatums over the past eight years.In an interview with Fars News Agency in Baghdad, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the only option open to MKO/MEK/PMOI members was leaving Iraq.The senior Iraqi official added that helping Saddam Hussein massacre thousands of innocents in Iraq is merely an example of the crimes committed by the MKO.

Camp Ashraf residents announce readiness to leave Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 17, 2011070 views

..a close source at the United Nations office in Iraq as saying, “The senior members of the MKO sent a letter to the UN Special Representative (for Iraq Ad Melkert) yesterday (Friday), in which they expressed (the group’s) readiness to leave Iraq.”“In their letter, the senior members of the MKO called on the UN representative to prepare the ground for the group’s exit out of Iraq and their travel to a European country or the United States,” the source stated.

UNHCR: Camp Ashraf residents have to renounce violence before applying for refugee status

Nejat SocietyApril 14, 2011067 views

A spokesman for the UN High Commission on Refugees, Andrej Mahecic, said residents of Camp Ashraf could apply individually for refugee status, which would help them find a permanent home.But before that could happen, they would have to renounce violence as a means of achieving their goals, which some have refused to do, he added.Shahin Gobadi, a PMOI/MKO/MEK spokesman based in Paris, said the camp residents would be willing to move to the US or EU member states willing to grant them asylum.”We have no intention of staying in Iraq, but there has been no response,”he told the Reuters news agency.

US moots ‘negotiated’ plan for Iranian camp (Ashraf) in Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011062 views

..Iraq has ordered the exiled Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen of Iran [MKO/MEK/PMOI] to leave the country by the end of this year”We’re prepared to help the government of Iraq develop and execute a negotiated plan ..,”State Department spokesman Mark Toner said….When asked whether the plan could include having the camp’s members transferred to a third country where they would not be tortured or abused, Toner replied:”Conceivably, yeah.”

Deadline Set For Iranian Dissidents To Leave Iraq

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011060 views

The Iraqi government has set the deadline for members of Iranian dissident group being housed at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province to leave the country, stressing that they will be removed from the country by the deadline using”all means”available…ndicating that the Iraqi government was”taking into consideration the wish of the PMOI members to choose the country in which they wish to reside,”Dabbagh added:”We have to find a nation where they can go, and we will look to the U.N. to help.”

Iraq to deport Mujahideen Khalq by year end

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 2011070 views

The government reaffirms a previous commitment to deport MKO members, who are based on the New Iraq Camp, by end of this year, he said in a statement.The government”underscores importance of getting MKO out of the Iraqi territories by all means, including political and diplomatic, and in cooperation with the UN and international organizations..