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Calls for MKO expulsion from Iraq increased

Nejat SocietyApril 21, 2009078 views

a conference held in the holy city of Karbala to discuss the negative effects of the existence of the Terrorist organization of Mujahedin in Iraq. The participants demanded the organization out of their homeland and closure of their Camp [Camp Ashraf]..The conference held while Iraqi government is seriously determined to close MKO’s[PMOI/MEK] case and to expel them out of the Iraqi soil since the group’s presence is a flagrant violation of the constitution and the sovereignty of Iraq.

MKO begins Camp Ashraf departure

Nejat SocietyApril 18, 2009086 views

A number of Mujahedin Khalq Organization members reportedly leave Camp Ashraf after Baghdad started a countdown to remove the group from Iraq. Some dissident MKO members aim to return to Iran as the terrorist organization has denied its members the right to choose an alternative place to stay. The dissidents have held a press conference in Baghdad where they complained of their”tough situation”in Camp Ashraf

Iraq Plans to Start Expulsion of MKO in Weeks

Nejat SocietyApril 15, 2009072 views

Iraqi Minister of Displacement and Migration Abd al-Samad Sultan said Baghdad would most likely start practical measures for the expulsion of thousands of anti-Iranian terrorists from the country within the next few weeks. The required coordination has been done for the expulsion of 3,000 members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), from the Ashraf camp near Baghdad.

Iranian group in Iraq part of high-stakes politics

Nejat SocietyApril 15, 20090107 views

The Iraqi government is stepping up efforts to pressure Iranian exiles into leaving the country, pushing an obscure group to the forefront of Baghdad’s relations with Washington and the Obama administration’s overtures to Iran..The Iraqi government says 261 residents were returned to Iran over the last two years and reported no persecution..To outsiders, the MEK/PMOI/MKO may seem a strange cult-like group that bans sex and family life. But both the U.S. and Iran consider it a terrorist organization.

An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay

Nejat SocietyApril 13, 20090157 views

Most of the time there’s nobody outside Camp Ashraf to hear the members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), ..the Iraqi government has made it clear it’s withdrawing the welcome mat extended to the MEK/PMOI/MKO by Saddam Hussein,.. in recent years the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has helped more than 250 members enter Iran from across the Iranian border..former members claim that the MEK is a cult, one that isolates adherents from their families, seeks to control them by limiting access to outside information.

Iranian opposition members refuse to leave Iraq outpost

Nejat SocietyApril 11, 20090142 views

Jane Arraf reported her visit including interviews with some Ashraf Residents. In her report she describes the isolated brainwashed members of Rajavi’s cult who allegedly “have left family life behind”. . Marriage here is forbidden. There have been no children for years..”They have to understand that the party is over for them,”Mr. Rubaie told journalists recently, ..”They need to understand that they have to leave. This is not [the era of] Saddam Hussein using them against Iran. We will never use them against Iran.”…

Iranian dissidents in Iraq. Where will they all go?

Nejat SocietyApril 11, 2009087 views

Iranians in Iraq who fought against the Islamic Republic face a shaky future..“IT WAS one of the strangest places I’d ever seen,” says one of the few Farsi-speaking Westerners to have spent weeks in Camp Ashraf, 65km (40 miles) north-east of Baghdad, where some 3,400 Iranian dissidents are hunkered down and are now threatened with expulsion from Iraq, perhaps even back to Iran. It was “like a spiffy midsized town in Iran”, with parks, offices and buildings—but no children. It was “sterile, soulless and sad”.

Countdown for MKO departure

Nejat SocietyMarch 30, 2009078 views

Iraq has warned that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) has outstayed its welcome in the country and is obliged to pack its bags. Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said at a Friday news conference that the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) had to leave Iraq soon but did not give any time-frame … The MKO, blacklisted as a terrorist organization by many international entities and countries

Iraq to Relocate Iran Opposition Group

Nejat SocietyMarch 30, 2009093 views

Iraq’s national security adviser said Friday that the government intends to move an Iranian opposition group[MEK/PMOI/MKO] from its sanctuary near the Iranian border to a location where leaders and”brainwashed cult members”will be separated and the latter”detoxified.”.Members of the group”should understand that their days in Iraq are numbered,”Rubaie told Western journalists

Iraq urges foreign states to accept Iranian rebels

Nejat SocietyMarch 26, 2009075 views

We do not wish to take responsibility for the sin of the presence of a terrorist organisation in Iraq, which causes us domestic problems and problems with countries of the region, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters.We ask the international community … to find another place for them other than Iraq, he added.