US Government Backed Terrorists Mojahedin-e-Khalq MKO


No country ready to accept MKO: Iraqi ambassador
Tehran Times Political Desk
November 10, 2008
TehranTimes.com

TEHRAN – Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran, Mohammad Majid Al-Shaikh, has said that no country is ready to accept the terrorist Mojahadin Khalq Organization (MKO).

“We believe that the presence of Mojahadin group in Iraq is illegal, but no country is ready to accept the members of this group,” Al-Shaikh told the Mehr News Agency published on Monday.

He said the MKO has committed many crimes against the Iraqi people during the Saddam regime and therefore they should leave Iraq.

Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf said late August that the Iraqi government has given the MKO a six-month deadline to leave the country.

Al-Shaikh said if a country agrees to accept the group Iraq will immediately expel them.

He added that Iraq will not allow the MKO to do terrorist acts against Iran from Iraqi soil.

The MKO launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings in Iran soon after the 1979 Islamic revolution. It then fled to Iraq and joined Saddam's army in its invasion of the Iranian territory. Saddam also used the group in his brutal suppression of Kurdish and Shiite dissidents in northern and southern Iraq.

Iranian diplomats held in U.S. detention should be released soon

The United States military raided the Iranian diplomatic office in Arbil, northern Iraq, on January 11, 2007 and arrested five Iranian diplomats. Kurdish Autonomous Region officials condemned the act. Three Iranian nationals are still being held at U.S. captivity in Iraq.

The ambassador said the Iranian diplomats should be released “as soon as possible.”

“We have done extensive efforts for their release… Iraq has condemned the act of U.S. troops in detaining Iranian diplomats and is continuing its contacts with Americans for their release and we believe that they should be freed as soon as possible,” Al-Shaikh noted.

He also added that the Iraqi embassy in Tehran and the Iraqi government are pursuing the issue seriously.

 

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