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"Iraq will not give asylum (to MKO) as refugees in its territory and we cannot tolerate groups that cause problems in their countries of origin," Reuters quoted Waeli as saying. He declined to say when Camp Ashraf would be shut down and its 3,500 residents evicted. "Our information says there are only 56 wanted by Iranian judicial courts and the others won't have a problem if they go back to Iran," Waeli said.
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The recent terrorist attacks against Iranian nationals and pilgrims in Iraq have been funded by the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), Iraqi media reported."A hireling Iraqi group paid by the MKO is responsible for the recent attacks on Iranian pilgrims," Alla al-Khatib, a prominent Iraqi writer and journalist said, Habilian website reported.
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A rioter arrested during Iran's post-election unrests confessed that he had received trainings in the Camp Ashraf of the anti-Iran terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) in Iraq to conduct sabotage and terror operations in Iran.Nasser Abdul-Hosseini, alias Behrouz, who was detained for his major role in post-election unrests made the confessions to a court hearing in Tehran on Saturday. Abdul-Hosseni admitted all charges raised against him in the indictment.
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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 plans to close the camp and send its residents to Iran or a third country.
"Iraq will not give asylum (to them) as refugees in its territory and we cannot tolerate groups that cause problems in their countries of origin," Reuters quoted Waeli as saying. “We don't want problems with our neighbors.”
In Iran, MKO members are regarded as traitors,
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Pakistani officials, however, have dismissed the reports out of hand, asserting that they would never allow MKO terrorists station themselves in their country and threaten the interests of their neighboring states.
“As part of its efforts to reduce terrorism in the region, Pakistan will not allow MKO refugees set foot on its soil,” said Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit.In Iran, members of the Mujahiden-e Khalq organizations are regarded as traitors for siding with the Ba'ath regime during the Iraq-imposed war on Iran (1980-1988).
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A mass grave discovered in the headquarters of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization in Iraq casts light on the crimes the terrorists committed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Police officials in the Iraqi province of Diyalah said Sunday that the mass graves contained Kuwaiti nationals who had fallen victim to the Ba'ath regime's seven month-long invasion of Kuwait.
“We have been informed that a mass grave has been found in Camp Ashraf. Of course we knew there was a graveyard in the MKO headquarters, but we had thought that it was a place of
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"Members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) at Camp of New Iraq have to comply with the one-month time limit to leave Iraq. The organization members should either return to Iran or seek asylum in a third country," Diyala province's Police Chief Major General Abdulhussein al-Shimari told reporters on Saturday.
The MKO has been in Iraq's northern Diyala province since the 1980s when the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein dedicated Camp Ashraf - now called Camp of New Iraq -- to host the anti-Iran terrorist group.
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Iraqi authorities changed the name of a training base of the anti-Iran terrorist group, Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), after seizing full control of the camp. "Camp Ashraf's name has been changed to Camp of New Iraq, after the Iraqi security forces assumed full security of the camp," Political Adviser of the head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) Mohsen al-Hakim told FNA on Friday.
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A number of senior officials of the anti-Iran terrorist group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), including two leaders of the group, were injured severely during clashes with Iraqi forces who try to take control of the camp, north of Baghdad.
The Iraqi government, which moved to take control of the MKO's main camp on Tuesday, has vowed to close Camp Ashraf and return the MKO members to Iran or a third country.
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Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) representative in Tehran Mohsen Hakim said a large number of Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) have asked to return home. In an interview with Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Hakim pointed out to Iraqi Tuesday attack over Camp Ashraf and said Iraqi forces took over the camp's security since January 1st and then delivered the whole responsibility of the camp after the US forces withdraw Iraqi garrisons on June 30.
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