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U.S. State Department spokesman said during daily press briefing on Tuesday: “This is in accordance with the constitutional laws and the international obligations of Iraq and they have the right to take over the camp.”He also said: We’ve seen these media reports, and we’re looking into them. As you know, the Government of Iraq has assumed responsibility, security responsibility, for Camp Ashraf and its residents.
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Iraqi security forces have stormed the base of the anti-Iranian terrorist group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization. An Iraqi military official has said that Iraqi forces have taken complete control of the camp. Meanwhile U.S. State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said during daily press briefing on Tuesday: “This is in accordance with the constitutional laws and the international obligations of Iraq and they have the right to take over the camp.”
(Press TV)
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The claims of MKO on keeping Camp Ashraf by means of grabbing at the issue of refugee rights has been turned to the main point of their conflict with the Iraqi government. It can be reviewed from different dimensions. A brief look at the past events regarding Mojahedin may give us a better understanding of the legal and political grounds of this claim. First the conditions in which Mojahedin moved to Iraq
(Bahar Irani)
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Sixty members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) had entered Afghanistan with the help of intelligence forces from the United Arab Emirates with the aim of carrying out raids in Iran, Pouya News reported on Sunday. The group, which was faced with strong resistance from the Iranian troops stationed on the border attempted to withdraw when it came under heavy Taliban fire from the Afghan side.
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"They had asked that the US and the West remove their name from their blacklists." The MKO was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country some twenty years later after carrying out numerous acts of terrorism inside the country. The group is especially notorious for the help it extended to former dictator Saddam Hussein during the war Iraq imposed on Iran (1980-1988) and even aided him in the massacre of thousands of innocent Iraqis.
(Press TV)
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Two hard-line U.S. lawmakers have called for greater efforts to topple the Tehran government, going as far as to suggest support for anti-Iran terrorist groups. Democratic Representative and Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Bob Filner called, on June 26, for greater support for what he called ""resistance groups"" in Iran, putting a special emphasis on the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), UPI reported.
(Press TV)
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In an interview with leading American PBS TV service, Richard Lee Armitage, deputy secretary of state during George W. Bush's first term, announced that America was supposed to treat MKO (MEK, PMOI, NCRI…) as a part of Saddam's army and this was among the considered issues in the discussions which led to the occupation; the fact which wasn't exactly what happened after the war.
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Former German Social Democratic lawmaker Joerg Tauss who is a supporter of the MKO terror grouplet, is facing an indictment on charges of possessing child pornography, press reports quoted a state prosecutor as saying Tuesday."We intent to file charges against him," said state prosecutor Ruediger Rehrig in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe."We are still working on the assumption
(Irna)
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Soon after the attack, Abdulmalik Rigi admitted during an interview with a US-based satellite TV station that his group collaborated with another anti-Iranian terrorist group, the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). "They (MKO) inform us about the regime's activities in our areas of operations and let us know of the regime's forces in these districts and send us most of the intelligence of our interest by email and messages," Rigi told the station.
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An Iraqi news site announced that MKO has allocated 18 thousand dollars to a television network belonging to one of the members of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party Slih al-Mutlaq in order to carry out propaganda against the Islamic Republic of
Iran .According to Habilian Association database quoting from the Iraqi news site of Aljewar MKO asked the authorities in Al babeliyah Television network, via providing
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