The government reaffirms a previous commitment to deport MKO members, who are based on the New Iraq Camp, by end of this year, he said in a statement.The government”underscores importance of getting MKO out of the Iraqi territories by all means, including political and diplomatic, and in cooperation with the UN and international organizations..
Minister of State and Official Speaker of Government, Ali Dabbagh, said,”The Council of Ministers asserted its earlier decision to liquidate the presence of the Iranian Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), by the end of the current year.
… the role of the Mojahedin-e Khalq”was and remains negative in the security landscape through its support for acts of violence and abuse of Iraqis over three consecutive decades”, adding that a clause in the Iraqi constitution, which was voted for by the millions,”indicates that to clearly ensure the state does not allow the presence of any terrorist organization inside Iraqi territory, it is necessary for federal government to expel the Iranian MKO known as terrorists ..
… “The six MEK members were arrested by Iraqi forces in accordance with Article 413 of the law after they were suspected of involvement in recent incidents in the camp that left dozens of its inhabitant and Iraqi security forces killed or wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He did not elaborate on the nature of charges that will be pressed against them. ..“The Iranian group clashed with the Iraqi forces, prompting the Iraqi security to open fire on them, killing three MEK refugees,” an Iraqi security source said …
… Al-Dabbagh says that the government is working to forbid terrorist organizations from operating in Iraq. Ali al-Musawi, media adviser to the prime minister, says that the Iraqi forces were executing a judicial decree to return 50 square kilometers around the camp [Ashraf] to their owners. Al-Musawi described the [Iranian] Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI as a terrorist organization that cannot force an independent country such as Iraq to approve its existence on its territories …
… Earlier on Friday, an Iraqi military source said three MEK refugees were killed and 13 more wounded by Iraqi forces inside Camp Ashraf in Diala. “Three Iranians were killed when Iraqi forces from the 5th Division tried to set up a checkpoint inside Camp Ashraf,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The Iranian group clashed with the Iraqi forces, prompting the Iraqi security to open fire on them,” he explained. “Two Iranians set themselves alight in front of the Iraqi forces prior to the clashes, while others pelted the Iraqi soldiers with stones, injuring six of them,” he added …
Politicians in Diala province on Wednesday renewed their rejection to the presence of the Mujahideen Khalq organization aka MKO/MEK/PMOI in the Iraqi territories because of its interference in the internal affairs.Speaking to Aswat al-Iraq news agency, Awad al-Rabie, a member of the municipality council of Abi Saida district, said “the council has proof and evidence that assert the involvement of the Iranian opposition group in supporting the armed groups in addition to their continued attempts to flare up sectarian unrests in the country.”..
…”It’s a replacement of forces, not a new deployment,”Brigadier Tarek Azzawi, chief of military operations in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, told AFP.”The Fifth Division in Diyala has replaced the Ninth Division that protects Ashraf, and we have not advanced even one metre (yard),”he said.”There were no clashes,”he added. The People’s Mujahedeen, a left-wing and Islamic movement, was founded in 1965 in opposition to the shah of Iran. The group set up Camp Ashraf in the 1980s — when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime was at war with the Islamic republic. It was disarmed following the US-led invasion of 2003 …
… The Iraqi government decided last year to transfer residents of Camp Ashraf to another province but the government adviser Saad Muttalibi stressed that all local governments refused to receive Iranian refugees in the provinces. Muttalibi said the government will continue its contacts with international organizations concerned with the subject of processing Iranian refugees[Mojahedin Khalq, MKO, MEK, NCRI, Rajavi cult), but he stressed that such organizations do not cooperate with the Iraqi ..
Allegations concerning the uprising of 1991 are currently being aired before Iraq’s High Tribunal, which has already heard the testimony of numerous victims who say they were targeted by the Mojahedin e-Khalq (MEK/MKO/PMOI)..Professor Raymond Tanter,wrote a paper in which he states: “Following their expulsion from Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini in the early 1980s, the MEK allied with Saddam Hussein and, in exchange for providing domestic security operations against Iraqi Shiites and Kurds..