… He expressed understanding for”the Saudi fears regarding the situation in Iraq,”and said:”deep dialogue should be conducted with it to give it the necessary reassurances. Likewise, Iraq should not be turned into a springboard for hurting any neighbouring country and that terrorist organizations such as the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq or the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party should not be given refuge.”…
“The MKO has been hated even under Saddam Hussein and we consider it as a terrorist group,” Muhammad Hajj Hamoud insisted.“The Iraqi government has decided to relocate the terrorist cult to a southern region and this is a step to expel it,” he added.Hajj Hamoud hoped that the cult will be expelled from Iraq as soon as possible..“The presence of terrorists, including the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), in Iraq is sadly hurting the peace and stability in the country and will make matters worse,” Hasheminejad said.
The Iraqi government is legally bound to expel Mojahedin Khalq Organization members from the country, the political advisor to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Chairman Seyyed Abdul Aziz al-Hakim said. 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..
…”I should tell the people of Iran and Iraq that the two countries have very amicable ties… and no one can undermine those ties,”he said. Hoshyar Zebari also said that the presence of Iranian armed opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) and Kurdish PKK could not continue in the country based on the Iraqi law. The news conference ended at 0816 gmt…
Muhammad Al-Hamidawi called the terrorist cult’s presence in Iraq “illegal”, adding that “the conditions for asylum seeking as well as the terms of Geneva Conventions do not apply to the members of the cult”. He said the Iraqi government “is firm and serious in expelling the MKO,” Habilian Association (families of Iranian terror victims) news website quoted Mehr News Agency as reporting…“The MKO entered Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule just due to its enmity towards Iran. Now we should destroy this cult, a way of which is their relocation from Camp Ashraf,” said the member of Al-Fadhilah Islamic Party in the Iraqi parliament.
… the Government would deal with members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization humanely, but at the same time we want the United States to respect our decision and comply with non-interference in the internal affairs and sovereignty over Iraq’s territory, as we do not want to alienate our relations with neighbouring countries …
regarding the issue of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO/MEK/PMOI) terrorist group,Former Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al Rubaie said Iraq still insists that members of the group should not stay in Iraqi territory and they need to be expelled based on determined standards. Iraq wants the members of the group to be either returned to a third country without use of force or to Iran, he added.
… An aside by an Iraqi official to Iran Interlink tells the story. “There is no mention of a Spanish judge in our constitution”, he quipped. ”But we are quite clear that the MKO is illegal in our country. If Spain would like to host the MKO on its own soil, they are welcome to them!” … nobody who has any knowledge of the MKO would imagine that this is anything more than a three day propaganda offensive designed to shore up the remnants of the Saddam regime to irk the Iraqis who refuse to hand over their country to Saddamists.
… “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..
… 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 ..