..Mujahedin are now losing their supporters who are demolished by people protests one after anther.MKO aka MEK/PMOI leaders and his gang are in a terrible situation. They have resorted to US and the West but the recent events have caused a dilemma to western authorities. Their vague position toward the issue notifies their tangled situation…
… Ridge was referring to the 3,400 or so MEK members who currently live at Camp Ashraf..the State Department says the Geneva Convention claim is wrong.”MEK members are not ‘protected persons’ under the Fourth Geneva Convention,”a State Department official in the Counterterrorism Office told TPM..”After the end of the occupation of Iraq, the Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) continued to treat the MEK as ‘protected persons’ as a matter of policy, not as a matter of legal obligation, until MNF-I’s UN mandate expired at the end of 2008.”…
These people have come together to discuss the legality of the presence of the terrorist group of Mujahedin Khalgh Organization on their soil.In this gathering organized by the Iraqi Tribal Council, many Iraqi officials, tribal leaders and ordinary people voiced their support for the tribes that are calling for expulsion of the organization from their country.They also reminded the Iraqi policy makers of what they called the crimes committed by MKO against the Iraqi citizens ..
…”Twenty-four judicial cases have been raised by Diala citizens against members of Mujahedin E-Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI, who are using Ashraf Camp in Diala’s Udheim township as their headquarters, among their control on broad areas of agricultural lands, belonging to Diala citizens, along with involvement of the Organization’s members in the assassination of a number of the Province’s citizens ..
Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan regional government Barham Salih rejected reports on presence of members of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group in Kurdistan.”Basically, reports on presence of MKO members in Kurdistan are unfounded and sheer lie. We intend to establish joint security with our neighbors and we do not want that Kurdistan be turned into a region for enemies to reach their ends..
…An official in Iraqi government said that the Iraqi government has done necessary measures to expel Mojahedin khalq group by the end of 2011. He said that the Mojahedin khalq will be expelled from Iraq because of their enmity towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and their crimes against Iraqi people including innocent people of the Kurdistan region. The Iraqi people had gathered around Ashraf Camp and called on the Iraqi government to deport the MKO.
… A member of the Iraqi parliament on Monday described the US as the stumbling block to the expulsion of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from his country, stressing that Washington strives to block any move made by the Baghdad government to this end.”The presence of Monafeqin (the hypocrites, as they are called in Iran) on Iraq’s soil violates the country’s constitution and the US is the main impediment to the expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq’s soil,”Ali Alaq told FNA. He also underlined that the US is the key supporter and sponsor of the MKO. The Iraqi government has several times adopted measures to expel the Monafeqin grouplet from Iraq’s soil …
..The protesters who had come from Basra, Tekrit, Baghdad and Diyala called for the expulsion of the terrorist group from Iraq whose presence they said was a source of instability ..The Iranian relatives of some MKO members also joined the protesters, to ask for the release of their family members who are said to be held inside the camp against their will. According to a Human Rights Watch report, the group puts defectors under torture or in jail.
Iraqi officials are resolved to immediately expel the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their country’s soil,..the Iraqi officials underlined that their country would not be a stronghold for terrorist groups like the MKO, he added.
Sources close to Iraqi political bloc al-Iraqiya said leader Iyad Allawi in October had attempted to persuade Iran to support his bid for prime minister but that Iran rejected the request .. In the request, Allawi said if Iran helped him, he would expel members of anti-Iranian militant group Mujahideen-e-Khalq/MEK/MKO/PMOI and would support further expansion of bilateral ties.Tehran’s answer was that the post of prime minister is an internal Iraqi issue.