A big demonstration has taken place in the al-Khalis suburb demanding to deport the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Iraq, the suburb’s Mayor, Uday al-Khadran, said on Monday. PMOI media spokesperson, Mahdi Aqbaee, accused the Diala province’s police commander of arranging the demonstration, but the commander denied these accusations.
10 major Iraqi parties announced by issuing a statement their full support for the expulsion of MKO/MEK/PMOI terrorist group from this country. This terrorist organization has been present in Iraq during the era of Saddam in power and has played a key role in assisting the Iraqi dictator in suppressing 1991 Shiites Intifada and massacre of Iraqi Kurds and continued this role until after the fall of the criminal regime in Iraq in 2003.
“The MKO members should leave Iraq’s soil. That is the least aspiration of the Iraqi nation,”member of the Iraqi parliament Neda al-Sudani told Fars News Agency.”Their presence is against our will. The nation of Iraq does not want them (MKO) and asks for their expulsion,”she noted.Stating that the MKO’s presence in Iraq is a sensitive issue for Iran, she added,”We do not want their presence to be extended any further.”
There are two reasons why MKO group cannot stay in Iraq: from the legal point of view these persons are terrorists and the Iraqi government does not have the right to let them stay in Iraq, and the political reason is that the MKO/MEK/PMOI members have perpetrated criminal acts against the Iraqi nation, Mohsen Hakim told the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday.
hundreds of people of Diyala province staged rally in protest against MKO on Monday in”Al -Khalis”90 km Northeast of Baghdad where the MKO headquarters, Camp Ashraf is located..the demonstrators included tribal leaders, intellectuals and students from different regions. The protestors chanted slogans against terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization and asked for their immediate expulsion from the Iraq territory.
The Iraqi government has rejected a request by the heads of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), for negotiations, an Iraqi official says..He did not name the Arab country but said that such a request shows how interwoven the terrorist group is with the intelligence agency of the unnamed Arab country..Press TV has learned that Masoud Rajavi, known as the leader of the MKO, is now based in Jordan, and that Iraqi officials have actually refused a request transferred by the Jordanian intelligence agency to negotiate with MKO/MEK/PMOI leaders.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday stressed his government’s resolve to expel members of the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI), from his country..Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf – about 60km (37 miles) north of Baghdad – last Tuesday and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group. The Iraqi authority also changed the name of the military center from Camp Ashraf to the Camp of New Iraq.
Iraq’s state security minister said on Tuesday that no Iranian exiles[MKO/MEK/PMOI] living in Camp Ashraf on the border with Iran would be granted asylum in Iraq, including 56 he said were wanted in Iranian courts…Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government has said it wants to close the camp and send residents to Iran or a third country, a proposal they are bitterly resisting. The dissidents fear they will be imprisoned or executed if they are sent home.Iraqi Minister of State for National Security Shirwan al-Waeli said his country had no qualms about sending them back.
Iraqi Minister of State for National Security Shirwan al-Waeli says Baghdad will not grant asylum to any Iranian living at Camp Ashraf..The Iraqi government has declared that it wants to close the camp and send its residents to Iran or a third country.. .Last week, Iraqi security forces stormed the camp that housed members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) and seized control of it.
The Iraqi government was right to take action against a People’s Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI) camp north of Baghdad, as it did not want to tolerate a group on Iraqi territory operating outside Iraqi control..Mojahedin Khalq have benefited from loose American Protection..Deep fears of deportation and concern at losing control of their political fate led the PMOI/MKO/MEK members to resist the Iraqi forces when they entered the camp to impose Iraqi authority, which led to serious clashes