Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki calls on Baghdad to extradite the criminal members of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh Organization (MKO)..”The continuing presence of Camp Ashraf in Iraq did not suit the growing and friendly ties between the two countries,”Mottaki explained.”Tehran would like those MKO/MEK/PMOI members who are responsible for series crimes and who are wanted by the Interpol to be sent back to Iran,”he added.
The Iraqi ambassador to Iran says his country is ready to receive Iran’s complaints against the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).”Should there be evidence implicating the members of the terrorist group in operations against the Iraqi nation, the members in question would be prosecuted according to international regulations,”Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh said in an interview ..
A big demonstration has taken place in the al-Khalis suburb demanding to deport the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Iraq, the suburb’s Mayor, Uday al-Khadran, said on Monday. PMOI media spokesperson, Mahdi Aqbaee, accused the Diala province’s police commander of arranging the demonstration, but the commander denied these accusations.
Leaders of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), force the group members into hunger strike in a bid to exert pressure on the world public opinion and international bodies.Reports from inside the camp said that the move by the MKO leaders is aimed at securing their stay inside Camp Ashraf (now known as the Camp of New Iraq) – the MKO’s main training center ..
10 major Iraqi parties announced by issuing a statement their full support for the expulsion of MKO/MEK/PMOI terrorist group from this country. This terrorist organization has been present in Iraq during the era of Saddam in power and has played a key role in assisting the Iraqi dictator in suppressing 1991 Shiites Intifada and massacre of Iraqi Kurds and continued this role until after the fall of the criminal regime in Iraq in 2003.
Thirty-six members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) are due to stand trial in al-Khalis, according to an informed source. Last month, clashes erupted between Iraqi security forces and PMOI members at Camp Ashraf, the headquarters of the organization, leaving 10 members killed and 400 others wounded, according to the organization’s media spokesperson.
“The MKO members should leave Iraq’s soil. That is the least aspiration of the Iraqi nation,”member of the Iraqi parliament Neda al-Sudani told Fars News Agency.”Their presence is against our will. The nation of Iraq does not want them (MKO) and asks for their expulsion,”she noted.Stating that the MKO’s presence in Iraq is a sensitive issue for Iran, she added,”We do not want their presence to be extended any further.”
The truth of the matter is that the decision to sever ties with the MEK was taken by Washington following a study undertaken by the Rand Corporation, which established, on the one hand, the criminal character of the organization (cracking down on Kurdish and Shia dissidents on behalf of Saddam Hussein) and, on the other hand, its sectarian set-up (the religious cult of the Rajavi couple and the sequestration of their members).
The Jundullah terrorist group warned Baghdad government that it would retaliate against the closure of a main camp of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) by the Iraqi forces.”…the Iraqi government should know that its hostile measures against the residents of Camp Ashraf who are Iranian immigrants in this city are not and will not be in the interest of the Iraqi government,”Jundullah said in statement.
hundreds of people of Diyala province staged rally in protest against MKO on Monday in”Al -Khalis”90 km Northeast of Baghdad where the MKO headquarters, Camp Ashraf is located..the demonstrators included tribal leaders, intellectuals and students from different regions. The protestors chanted slogans against terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization and asked for their immediate expulsion from the Iraq territory.