AP, Paris, 20 Dec 2011 – An Iranian exile group says more than 3,000 of its members based in a camp in Iraq are ready to leave if they get U.S. and U.N. security guarantees. Camp Ashraf in eastern Iraq houses Iranians dedicated to the overthrow of the Iranian government. They moved in the camp decades ago during the regime of Saddam Hussein, who saw them as a convenient ally against Tehran. The Obama administration has urged residents of Camp Ashraf to accept a U.N.-brokered deal to move. U.S. and U.N. officials are hoping to avoid a possible violent standoff with Iraqi authorities, who have vowed to close the facility by year’s end. The group’s Paris-based leader Maryam Rajavi said in a statement Tuesday that camp’ residents are ‘in principle prepared to relocate.’