The Third View on Mujahedin Khalq

Nuri al-Maliki: Iraq to move Mojahedin Khalq to remote south

Iraq plans to uproot an Iranian exile group that has become a headache for the Baghdad government and move the activists to a remote southern area until it can expel them, the prime minister said this week. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to oust members of the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), an Iranian opposition movement that the United States considers a terrorist organisation, from a camp northeast of Baghdad where they have been living for two decades.

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Iraq to transfer Iranian dissident group to Baghdad

Iraq will move exiled Iranian dissidents based at a camp close to the border between the two countries to Baghdad, a government spokesman said on Thursday.”We will move residents of Camp Ashraf to buildings in Baghdad on Tuesday,”he said, without giving details. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen have lived at Camp Ashraf, a refugee base in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, for more than 20 years.

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Become acquainted with a sect called MKO

Maryam was the first woman to become another MKO/MEK/PMOI leader. She was the ex- wife of the second person[Mehdi Abrishamchi] of the organization. Mehdi Abrishamchi was then obliged ‘to express his great joy’ to be able to contribute to ‘the ideological association’ between his wife and Massoud Rajavi. Ebrahim believes it is the sign of a cult , the leader marries the wife of another leader in this way.

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MKO terrorist leader in Norwegian Parliament

In front of a small fan was the Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi welcomed when she arrived in Parliament on Thursday…Rajavi is a controversial figure: The group she leads, the People’s Mujahedin, should have been behind a series of terrorist acts against the Iranian and Western targets over the years. According to the United States, she leads a terrorist organization..Religious Researcher Kari Vogt says there is no doubt that the People’s Mujahedin has conducted terrorist acts.

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Spanish court judgment about MKO should be local

… “Executing the judgment requires an approval from the Iraqi side,” Ahmed Anwar, a member of the Iraqi parliament legal committee, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Monday… “The court is not international, and I question whether the Spanish government would adopt this issue from the legal and political standpoints,” Anwar said..“There are Iraqi-U.S. discussions with respect to the MKO/MEK/PMOI issue,The MKO operatives in Iraq, hosted in Ashraf Camp..

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Britain says MKO in Camp Ashraf subject to Iraqi law

Camp Ashraf is in a sovereign and democratic Iraq and the camp residents subject to its laws.. The UK is of the view that the residents of Camp Ashraf, as with all people in Iraq, enjoy rights and protections under the Iraqi constitution and applicable international obligations to which Iraq is a signatory. We do not consider that they have ‘protected persons’ status …

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Iran, Iraq and People’s Mojahedin of Iran

PMOI or MEK, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, military and sectarian organization protected by Saddam Hussein, had been unarmed after the fall of the dictator but kept warm by the troops of the Anglo-Saxon occupation until July 28 2009, when the camp was taken over by Iraqi forces under the security agreement signed between Washington and Baghdad in November 2008…

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Saddamist lobby’s lies exposed in U.K. parliament

… Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne: Why is no European nation, or North America, willing to accept any of the residents of Camp Ashraf? May it have something to do with their previous activities? Is the Minister absolutely determined either to prove that the Camp Ashraf residents cannot return to the Islamic Republic of Iran or to press European nations to bring them out? What responsibility do the Iraqi Government have to keep these former enemies of the Iraqi people? …

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Maliki: No place for the Mojahedin Khalq in Iraq

… Our demand is fair, we do not force them to return to Iran and do not allow them to stay permanently in Camp Ashraf. There is no place for them in Iraq after the crimes they have committed against the Iraqi people by exercising their terrorism and because of their cooperation with the Baathists and their interference in Iraq’s domestic affairs …

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Maysan Council refuses to take PMOI base in the province

… He pointed out that”There are documents and documentary tapes which stress that the organization carried out terrorist acts against people of the province and in coordination with the previous security which was aimed at the elimination of rebellion.”… Moreover, a member of the security committee of the Board of Maysan, Maytham, told Aswat al-Iraq that”the presence of the MKO on the territory of Iraq is a violation of the constitution ..

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