MEK played a prominent role in repressing the intifada in the southern Iraqi cities in 1991 as it sent forces from the organization to the cities of al-Amara and Diala, as the former regime did not rely on its soldiers more than relying on the MEK/MKO/PMOI fighters in this particular respect,” Batoul Soltani said in a press conference she held in Baghdad on Saturday
Iraqi Embassy in London asked for expulsion of terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization from Iraqi soil issuing a statement on the necessity of the removal of the group and Iraqi government’s engagement in the rights of its neighboring countries. The statement considers MKO/PMOI/MEK as a terrorist organization which cooperated with Saddam Hussein in the bloody suppression of Iraqi citizens and has always intervened in Iraqi internal affairs.
Remaining in Iraq is not an option for Mojahedin Khalq Terrorists..The Iraqi government has called for the expulsion of Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO/MEK/PMOI) from the country, saying Ashraf Camp terrorists can voluntarily return to Iran or choose to go to a third country… The Iraqi Embassy also pointed out that Ashraf Camp residents are not “political or humanitarian refugees” but terrorists whose activities are in contradiction to the commitment of the Iraqi government vis-a-vis its neighbours… Referring to the conditions of MKO members who are presently residing in Ashraf Camp, the Iraqi Embassy said there is no blockade of the terrorist camp as claimed by MKO leaders.
The German secret service which continues to monitor the MKO, stressed the Paris-based terror group was”responsible for scores of attacks”inside Iran over the past three decades.The report pointed out the MKO was no longer capable of conducting terror assaults in Iran ever since the collapse of Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hossein. The Israeli-backed MKO terror group had collaborated with the former Saddam regime, brutally massacring tens of thousands of Iraq Kurds and Shias. The MKO has been involved in the mass killings of thousands of innocent Iranians over the past 30 years.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that the Iraqi government would not accept the presence of terrorists in its soil…Meanwhile the Iraqi official referred to the presence of members of MKO/MEK/PMOI terrorist group in Iraq and the position of the government towards them and said:”the Iraqi government will not accept the presence of terrorists on its territory and has taken on the evacuation of Camp Ashraf.
One of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s most senior advisors, Lubrani spearheaded a torrent of conspiracies in Iran. He has vocally and actively pursued a regime change in Iran, calling for investment in Iranian terrorist groups such as the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). MKO is a Marxist-Islamist guerilla army which was founded in Iran in the 1960s. They were exiled some twenty years later for performing numerous acts of terrorism in the country.
“We have collected many documents about the crimes Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization has so far committed in Iraq; but Americans refrain from letting us find access to a part of documents over MKO crimes inside the country”announced chief investigative judge of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court.. al-Bedeyri also said: We have managed to meet many remnant families of MKO suppression of Kurds in northern Iraq and have collected remarkable documents in this regard.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Monday lambasted the recent move by European and British lawmakers to remove the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from the US black list. “Utilizing the MKO/PMOI/MEK, which is a used card, would be useless for the westerners,”Hassan Qashqavi told reporters in a weekly press conference here in Tehran on Monday.
The Iraqi parliament is seriously pursuing expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), from the country, an Iraqi lawmaker said on Sunday. “Despite pressures exerted by certain bodies to prevent expulsion of MKO/MEK/PMOI, the Iraqi parliament is following the case seriously,”Iman al-Asadi, a member of the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) – the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 83 out of a total 275 seats
Though largely targeting Iranian government officials, PMOI’s(MKO, MEK, Mojahedin Khalq, Rajavi cult) killing of American contractors in Tehran in the 1970s, participation alongside Saddam Hussein’s forces in suppressing Kurdish and Shiite rebellions in Iraq in 1991 and later attacks on Iranian embassies in 1992 earned it a spot on the terrorist lists of several nations … President Bill Clinton included the PMOI on the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organizations list in 1997 following the election of Khatami.