Allawi: MKO Banned in Iraq

IRNA
September 25, 2005

“Mojahedin-e Khalq organization (MKO) has not the right to have activities in Iraq, and this decision has been conveyed to them,” former Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Alawi, said in an interview with Iraqi television.

According to the Iraqi TV on Thursday, he added: “in the modern age of Iraq, we don’t let any interferences in other countries affairs, including the affairs of Iran; and according to this principle, MKO has not the right to be active in Iraq.”

Rejecting reports on Iranian involvement in recent events in Basra, he declared that he’d gotten no information indicating the involvement of Iran in Basra events.

On the two countries’ relations he said: “relations between the two sides are very important and this decision benefits both sides.”