Xebat (Kurdistan Democratic Party), 1 Jan 2013 – A number of Iraqi MPs called on UN Secretary-General for the recognition of Camp Liberty of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran as a refugee camp and for the residents to have the right to sell their property in Ashraf.
133 Iraq MPs, with the names of the chairs of the Parliament Human Rights Commission, the Immigrant Commission, the Economic Commission and Higher Education Commission being among the list, signed a joint statement to the UN Secretary-General expressing their concerns regarding 3,000 Iranian refugees.
The PMOI stationed in Camp Ashraf, in the 1980s under the government of Saddam Hussein, located in east Diyala Province.
However, under pressure from Iran they were forcefully transferred by the Iraqi government in 2011 to Camp Liberty.
The PMOI, established in the 1965 to overthrow the government of Mohammad Reza Shah in Iran, began its struggle against the Islamic republic government in the beginning of the 1980s and to this day considers itself an opponent of Iran.
They are considered one of the powerful opponents of the Islamic republic of Iran.