Iraqi forces have surrounded MKO’s Camp Ashraf, after Baghdad vowed to shut down the camp and end the group’s presence in the country.”Iraqi soldiers [have taken] positions around Camp Ashraf since Thursday after the MKO [terrorists] refused to evacuate a building inside their camp,”an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity on Monday.
The Iraqi government is trying to send members of terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) to Saudi Arabian border, an informed source said on Monday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity told IRNA that Iraq is going to send MKO members, also known as Munafiqin (hypocrites), from Ashraf camp to Nugrat Al-Salman region on Saudi Arabian border.
But of the most noticeable part of the statement is its threatening tone stating “the Iranian Resistance warns that such actions prepare the grounds for a human tragedy..It is natural for a terrorist cult to react against legal moves by a country’s authorized body when it has its own advocates that thoroughly close their eyes on its atrocities and even strive to remove it from terrorist lists.
The Deputy of Iran’s Foreign Ministry Director General for human rights and women criticized the EU double standards on terrorism. The Iranian official also called on the Czech official who is the current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency, to follow an unchanging and logical approach regarding terrorism..The EU has already removed the name of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK) from its terrorist black list
The Iraq’s national security advisor, on Friday, said that the leadership of camp Ashraf prevented the entry of survey team of the Ministry of Human Rights who were supposed to perform their duty to identify options for the inhabitants either to return to Iran, or to select a third country.. leadership of the camp is still authoritarian and confiscated the freedom of the residents of the camp , preventing the entry of the Ministry of Human Rights’ survey team to identify options for the inhabitants
Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labid Abawi pointed out that the anti-Iran terrorist group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/PMOI/MEK), will be expelled from Iraq and that his country is searching for a third country to host the group members. ..Iran has been the first and main supporter of the Iraqi government after the downfall of Saddam Hussein’s regime
Although the EU has removed the name of MKO from its terror list, the notorious MKO terror group is still being monitored by Germany’s domestic Verfassungsschutz intelligence agency, a high-level German government official, requesting anonymity told IRNA recently in Berlin…The MKO has been involved in the mass murders of thousands of innocent Iranians over the past 30 years.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Monday that Iraq wanted to expel the Iranian rebel Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) that opposes the Islamic regime. Talabani made the remarks in a joint news conference with Iran’s former president and current Expediency Council head Ali Akbar Hashemi who arrived here earlier in the day for a visit.
It should be clarified whether the EU has ignored the crimes of the group in the past or they have viewed the case through political considerations, he pointed out. The so-called advocates of human rights have closed their eyes on assassination of thousands of innocent people by the group and therefore they should be accountable to their families of victims and millions of Iranian citizens, Dorri Najafabadi said.
An anti-Iranian organization is seeking to base its new headquarters in Egypt, a move that could further sour relations between Tehran and Cairo. The People’s Mujahidin of Iran, also known as the Mujahidin Khalq Organization (MKO), is an Iranian opposition movement outlawed in Iran. The movement has had camps in Iraq since the early 1980s and sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. Its leaders fled to France during the 1980s.