Albania offers asylum to opposition Iranian group
The Albanian government has offered asylum to 210 members of an Iranian opposition group that currently live at a former U.S. military base near Baghdad.
Sunday, 17.03.2013.
14:01
TIRANA The Albanian government has offered asylum to 210 members of an Iranian opposition group that currently live at a former U.S. military base near Baghdad. Prime Minister Sali Berisha said Saturday after meeting with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, the U.N. envoy in Iraq, Martin Kobler, and other officials that asylum was offered to the group dubbed Mujahedeen-e-Khalq for "humanitarian reasons," AP has reported. Albania offers asylum to opposition Iranian group Iraq's government is eager to have the group, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq , out of the country. The group opposes Iran's clerical regime and carried out assassinations and bombings in Iran until renouncing violence in 2001, AP points out. Its members fought in the 1980s alongside Saddam Hussein's forces in the Iran-Iraq war. The UN says over 3,000 group members live at the former U.S. base. They refuse to leave Iraq. Sali Berisha (FoNet, file) Tanjug
Albania offers asylum to opposition Iranian group
Iraq's government is eager to have the group, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq , out of the country.The group opposes Iran's clerical regime and carried out assassinations and bombings in Iran until renouncing violence in 2001, AP points out.
Its members fought in the 1980s alongside Saddam Hussein's forces in the Iran-Iraq war.
The UN says over 3,000 group members live at the former U.S. base. They refuse to leave Iraq.
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