A senior advisor to the Iraqi prime minister blasted the US and Europe’s staunch support for the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), and said the terrorist group should be expelled from Iraq.”Legally speaking, the presence of the MKO in Iraq under any title is against the law and they should be expelled from the country,”Abdulhalim al-Zahiri said..
Senior Iraqi lawmaker Sheikh Humam Hammoudi says Baghdad is determined to expel Iranian terrorist group Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) aka MEK/PMOI from the country despite pressures by the West to impede the move. Senior Iraqi lawmaker Sheikh Humam Hammoudi.“According to Iraqi law, the MKO is a terrorist group that has killed a large number of Iraqi people. ..
Civil groups and human rights activists will launch the largest petition campaign in Iraq’s history to get two million signatures from Iraqi citizens for an immediate expulsion of MKO/MEK/PMOI members from the country’s soil,”Nafeh Eisa told FNA on Tuesday.He added that the petition will then be submitted to the Iraqi government and the United Nations.
..The al-Azzah tribe and I as the leader of the tribe welcome expulsion of the MKO,”Mazan Habib Kheizaran told FNA on Wednesday, adding that all the people of the Diyala province support the Iraqi government and parliament’s plan for expelling the MKO from the country. ..Noting the fate of the terrorist group, Habib Kheizaran said according to the information he has obtained in his rare meetings with certain members of the MKO/MEK/PMOI, the members of the terrorist group are due to be sent to the European countries in small groups… He pointed to the problems that the MKO has created for the Iraqi people, and said given the fact that Iraq needs the assistance and cooperation of the neighboring
… Members of Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) should completely leave Iraq by the end of 2011, said Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) representative in Tehran, Majed Ghamas.”MKO members should leave Iraq and Ashraf Camp based on Iraqi government’s official stance and there should be no trace of them inside Iraq by the end of 2011. There are minority of people who are against withdrawal of the group from Iraq, but Kurds, Shiites and overwhelming majority of Sunnis are against presence of MKO members inside Iraq,”he told ISNA. Ghamas then added,”the US forces took control of Ashraf Camp after Saddam’s collapse and …
… The ambassador said that the Iraqi government has also raised the issue with the European Union. Al-Sheikh said that the terrorist MKO refugees were given a camp under the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when they were serving under the then Iraqi army command to crack down Iraqi opposition in southern Iraq. ‘So, the new Iraqi government set a deadline for them to leave Iraq. “The Iraqi leaders have consulted with EU over the MKO refugees and maintained that Iraq can not tolerate presence ..
raq’s Defense Ministry Spokesman General Mohammed al-Askari reiterated that the Iraqi government is determined to evacuate the members of the anti-Iran terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) from their stronghold in the Northern Diyala province in the near future… He also said in a press conference on Thursday that four more members of the MKO have fled Camp Ashraf and defected to the Iraqi forces..The defected MKO members said that since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the leaders of the terrorist organization have turned the camp into a prison.
… Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani says a committee has been formed to shut down a camp belonging to the anti-Iran terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). “The government of Iraq will do all it can to prevent terrorism. We should attempt to close down MKO terrorists’ Ashraf Camp and we shall remove all those people. Those who are willing will go back to Iran. Others will go wherever they want to,” Talabani said in a speech during an anti-terrorism conference in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Saturday. Talabani pointed out that the committee was formed by Iran, Iraq and the International Red Cross, reiterating that the camp would be closed by the end of 2011 …
The Camp Ashraf , home to more than 3,000 members of the Mujahedeen Khalgh Organization (MKO) has been under spotlight once more.In a conference in Tikrit in northwest of Baghdad, attended by a number of local officials, tribal leaders, the Iraqis called on the government to put pressure on the organization to leave the country as early as possible.
In a conference in Tikrit in northwest of Baghdad, attended by a number of local officials, tribal leaders, the Iraqis called on the government to put pressure on the organization to leave the country as early as possible. The participants called the presence of the MKO aka MEK/PMOI camp on Iraq soil unconstitutional stressing that the crimes against the Iraqi people by the MKO members are unforgettable.Many here in this conference are of the opinion that Iraq will never see stability as long as MKO members are in the country.