International Business Times – October 30 2015
 
As many as 23 people have died after rockets hit a former U.S. military base serving as a refugee camp near Baghdad International Airport late Thursday, a spokesman for an exiled Iranian opposition group said, according to reports.

 
The deceased were members of exiled Iranian group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), Reuters reported.
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, the parent group of PMOI, held Iran responsible for the fatal attack. “The Iranian regime’s agents within the Iraqi government are responsible for the latest assault,” Rajavi said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “The United States and the United Nations are fully aware of this reality,” she added.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement Thursday calling the attack “brutal” and “senseless.” Kerry also said that the American government was in touch with senior Iraqi officials to make sure that the Iraqi government gives “all possible medical and emergency assistance to the victims.”
“We are consulting with the Government of Iraq to ascertain the full extent of this unprovoked attack,” Kerry said, in the statement. “No matter the circumstances, on this point we remain absolute: the United States remains committed to assisting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the relocation of all Camp Hurriya [Liberty] residents to a permanent and safe location outside of Iraq,” he added.