Iraqi Authorities’ stance on the MEK

US Stumbling Block to Expelling MKO terrorists

… 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 …

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Iraq urged to fire MKO members

The MKO aka MEK/PMOI/NCRI is funding armed groups to cause chaos and disorder in central Diyala province, said Ahmed al-Zarkushi, the mayor of Saadiyah district in Diyala, Mehr news agency reported. The mayor further pointed out that the terrorist group has been using Iraq’s wealth more than the Iraqi people..The group is especially notorious in Iran for having sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

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KRG rejects reports of MKO relocation

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has dismissed a report that the US plans to relocate an anti-Iran terrorist group to an area along Iran’s northwestern border…Jabbar Yawar, the spokesman for the Peshmerga forces in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, also rejected the report.

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Iraqi Kurdistan Deplores US Plans for Moving MKO terrorists to Kurdistan

…”The government of the (Iraqi) Kurdistan region and the central government in Baghdad will in no way agree with such a measure,”Spokesman of Pishmarga Ministry of the Iraqi Kurdistan region … An official of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who asked to remain anonymous, told FNA on Tuesday that the White House had in a message called on his group to harbor the members of the MKO in the Qandil Mountains at the Iranian borders …

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MKO hostile role in killing the opponents of former Iraqi regime

Pointing to the MKO long record of criminal acts in Iraq, Member of Iraqi National Coalition stated that MKO played a prominent role in massacre of Iraqi Kurds and repression of Shiites Intifada as well as killing many other opponents of the former Iraqi regime…Al-Tamimi called MKO the tame soldiers of Baath Party and said: MKO and the leftovers of the Baath Party do their best to make obstacles on the way of establishing an integrated government in Iraq

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Camp Ashraf residents prevented by PMOI from meeting their families coming from Iran

… Al-Khaddran attributed Ashraf leaders refusal to let the Iranian families in to”fears”of the leaders of revealing their practices with the deluded people who wish to return home, on the one hand, and to prevent the world from knowing the secrets and mysteries of collaboration with, and the support of the organization, for militant terrorist groups, on the other hand. government of Iraq tried to take measures that would remove the organization from the country, but the organization was protected by the United States …

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Iraq: our soil no launch-pad for MKO against Iran

Iraqi envoy to Tehran said on Wednesday that his county would not allow its soil to be used as a launch-pad for any aggressions against Iran…We are opposed to Mujahedin Khalq’s presence in Iraqi soil and, as you already know, Iraqi officials have several times called for their exit from the country,”Mohammad Majid al-Sheikh told Al-Alam..The Iraqi official also praised his country’s”friendly”relations with Tehran since fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

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