On the evening of Wednesday, December 5, 2007, during an exceptional gathering, more than 200 tribal chieftains and sheiks, and leaders of tribal national associations from 15 provinces of Iraq demanded to put an end to the terrorist presence of the Iranian regime and its agents.
In the gathering, the tribal leaders expressed their support for the presence of the people’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main Iranian opposition, on the Iraqi soil as a steadfast obstacle against Iranian regime’s export of terrorism and fundamentalism to Iraq. While they supported the recent ruling of the British court to annual any limitations imposed on the PMOI and to remove its name from terrorist list, they announced that by removing the PMOI’s name from the terror list, the era of appeasement policy towards Iranian regime, the main enemy of Iraq, is ended.
The tribal leaders supported a recent statement signed by more than 300,000 Shiites in the south which condemned the interferences of the Iranian regime and held the regime responsible for fomenting sectarian violence which has led to death of tens of thousands innocent Iraqis and displacement of more than 4 million Iraqis. The Sheiks participating in the meeting expressed in their final statement that: considering the acknowledgment of the MNF-I command, that the Iranian ambassador to Iraq is a member of the Quds Force, the Iranian embassy and all the Iranian consulates must be closed down, and expel all the Quds force elements from governmental departments