MKO Will Be Expelled Soon
Mohammed Majid al-Sheikh, Iraq’s ambassador to Iran, announced that following the new restrictions on the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq, this group will be expelled from Iraq in a near future.
Mohammed Majid al-Sheikh, Iraq’s ambassador to Iran, announced that following the new restrictions on the terrorist group of Mojahedin-e Khalq, this group will be expelled from Iraq in a near future.
This comment follows the statements of Iraqi PM, accusing the Iraqi-based Iranian opposition group of interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq.
In a press conference, Nuri al-Maliki announced that the MKO, which acts against Islamic Republic of Iran, is clearly and widely interfering in Iraq’s social and political affairs.
At the meeting, the Iraqi official said Mujahedin Khalq rganization (MKO) who have hatched numerous plots against the Iraqi nation must be expelled from the country.
The new Iraqi government will never allow outlawed organizations carry out attacks against Iran, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said here Wednesday.
“MKO is under the protection of the US army and we will expel them permanently after the foreign forces leave our country”.
During a press conference in Tehran, government’s spokesman Gholamhussein Elham, referring to the issue of extradition of MKO members, which has been requested by Iran from Iraq, said:”Iraq also has been a victim of terrorism and both countries seek to eradicate terrorism in the region”.
While Iraqi people widely resist Mojahedin Khalq’s illegal settlement in Iraq because of the group’s close collaboration with Saddam’s Ba’ath regime and its atrocities against innocent Iraqi people, MKO propaganda machine reveal details of the gathering of some 10,000 Iraqis in Ashraf City in support of it.
A French appeals court on Friday eased restrictions on an Iranian exiled opposition group with links to an armed guerrilla movement which is listed as a terrorist group by the United States.
Eleven Iraqis were killed and a dozen more wounded in a blast in a volatile area north of Baghdad on Monday.
The bomb was apparently planted in a bus, 20 km outside the town of Baquba.Police says the Iraqis were traveling to work in the camp of Ashraf, which is currently guarded by a 120-strong Bulgarian contingent.
Germany has reaffirmed the terrorist status of the MKO grouplet in its 2005 terror report released by the German domestic intelligence service Verfassungsschutz on Monday.
The visiting chairman of German Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, Ruprecht Polenz met Alaeddin Broujerdi, head of Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission on Tuesday in Tehran; important regional and international issues were discussed in this meeting.