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Those sources claim that Maryam Rajavi, the Mojahedin (MKO) leader, paid a secret visit to Tel Aviv a few days before the Israel attack, bringing with her a group of high-ranking loyalists who served in command capacities in the 2000s when her organization was based at Camp Ashraf.
In what would prove to be a long journey to shed its FTO designation, (48) People's Mojahedin made its first visit to the D.C.
Source at the camp told NINA on Sunday that a force from the 36th military brigade supported by SWAT force attacked at dawn Sunday, the Ashraf Camp, in which member of the Iranian opposition mojahedin khalq organization (MKO), using all kinds of weapons killing tens of them and taking others to an unknown place.
Center, Samaria, Israel; Menachim Begin Institute for the Study of Underground and Resistance Movements, Bar-Ilan U.) examines the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, the main opposition movement lead by Maryam Rajavi.
Decisions on what to do with suspected Mojahedin were left to three-member "death committees," consisting of an Islamic judge, a Ministry of Intelligence official and a prosecutor.
Dozens of Iranian soldiers were killed or wounded in the clashes, which also claimed the lives of two Mojahedin fighters, it said.
"The final result of the clashes in al-Iraq camp, previously Ashraf Camp, between the 5th Iraqi Army Division's forces and Mojahedin e-Khalq elements last Friday, has reached 3 of its members killed, 103 injured, along with 12 Iraqi Army men, including 5 officers, injured," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
However, The Independent of Britain said the expulsion was for an alleged plot earlier this year on the Mojahedin, who were moved a few years ago from Iraq to Albania.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Chairman of the Iraqi Parliament's Human Rights Committee has said on Sunday that his committee would take an official attitude towards the attack that took place against the Iranian opposition Mojahedin e-Khalq's camp in northeast Iraq, calling for the be dealt with in a humanitarian manner.
The documents filed with the court state that a wiretap of Ghorbani recorded him as saying of one Mojahedin member, "M--F needs one, one shot."
Bush, who has attended the Mojahedin rallies in France for several years and has long been a staunch supporter of the group.
"Iran fully supports proposals on a five-year moratorium on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea and is ready to continue work for the protection of the Caspian Sea water resources," Ali Asgar Mojahedin, head of the Iran Fisheries Organization, was quoted by the Novosti-Azerbaijan news agency as saying after a session of the Commission on Aquatic Bioresources of the Caspian Sea in the Azeri capital.
Waving flags of pre-revolutionary Iran, supporters of the Mojahedin kept chanting in Farsi, "We are ready," and "People are dying, we will take back Iran," responding to the calls of the speakers to topple the regime.
The 30,000 figure is the number commonly used by the Mojahedin, although most analysts think the figure was somewhere in the 4,000-8,000 range.
McCain, seen here at center beside Mojahedin leader Maryam Rajavi, lauded the group for its "successful transfer" from Iraq to Albania and praised the members for their "sacrifice." He said, "There is no doubt that the people in this room have suffered not only themselves, but in the loss of their loved ones.