MKO Members Willing to Return Home

IRNA, September 11, 2004

Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Iran Peter Stuker said here on Thursday that the Committee has got to know that many members of the terrorist Mujahedin khalq Organization (MKO) want to return Iran.

Stuker told IRNA on the sidelines of a sit-in protest staged outside the ICRC`s Tehran office on Thursday that unfortunately, due to lack of security in Iraq and loss of some staff members, the ICRC did not deem it advisable to visit the Ashraf refugee camp, where the MKO members have been accommodated.

He added that the ICRC representatives would take actions in that connection immediately after restoration of security to Iraq.

Families of the deceived MKO members residing in Iraq and in Ashraf camp staged a sit-in in front of the ICRC`s Tehran office and outside the Swiss Embassy, that looks after the U.S. interests in Tehran, calling for measures to secure release of their children from captivity of the outlawed MKO.