43 Exiled Iranian group move to deserted military base

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(18 Feb 2012) • Camp Ashraf, Diyalah Province - 18 February, 2012 • 1. Various of Iranian exiles leaving Camp Ashraf waving flowers and chanting • 2. Iranian exiles walking to buses • 3. Various of Iranian exiles collecting luggage • 4. Iraqi police forces searching exiles' luggage • 5. Iranian exiles passing through metal detector • 6. Various of luggage being searched • 7. Various of exiles and luggage by buses • 8. Various of exiles boarding buses • 9. Various of bus convoy leaving • Baghdad - 18 February, 2012 • 10. Wide of Iraqi National Security Counsellor Faleh al Fayadh at news conference • 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faleh al Fayadh, Iraqi National Security Counsellor : • Through the good efforts which have been made by the UN Secretary-General's representative, Martin Kobler, in fulfilling a memo with the Iraqi government. The two parties have agreed upon a way to end the presence of those people on Iraqi land through moving them to Camp Liberty and, in the end, to allow them to leave Iraq either by deporting them to other countries or returning them to the Islamic Republic of Iran for those who want to. • 12. Wide of news conference • 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Kobler, UN Secretary-General's Representative in Iraq: • The engagement of the United Nations is purely humanitarian one, because we rejected the violence in the relation to this problem. • 14. Cameraman, pan to news conference • STORYLINE: • Taking clothes, furniture and whatever else they could carry, some four hundred members of an Iranian exile group moved on Saturday from their camp in northwestern Iraq to a deserted military base outside the capital Baghdad. • The exiles say it is a show of good faith, one which they hope will eventually allow them to leave the country peacefully. • It was the first group of more than 3,300 members of the People's Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, who have lived at Camp Ashraf for three decades. • They left under pressure from the Iraqi government, whose army stormed Camp Ashraf last April in a raid that left 34 of the exiles dead. • The United Nations also wants the exiles to move to the Camp Liberty military base outside Baghdad, where they can be screened for asylum eligibility and better protected. • Iraqi soldiers searched the exiles before they left Camp Ashraf, and they were searched again before being allowed into Camp Liberty. • Members were reluctant to leave their home, which they turned into a miniature city with parks and a university, in favour of an abandoned military base. • Iraqi National Security Counsellor Faleh al Fayadh said at a news conference in Baghdad on Saturday that the exiles move to Camp Liberty is the first step in sending them out of the country. • The two parties have agreed upon a way to end the presence of those people on Iraqi land through moving them to Camp Liberty and, in the end, to allow them to leave Iraq either by deporting them to other countries or returning them to the Islamic Republic of Iran for those who want to. • UN Secretary-General's Representative in Iraq, Martin Kobler said the United Nations were present in a humanitarian role. • The engagement of the United Nations is purely humanitarian one, because we rejected the violence in the relation to this problem. • The People's Mujahedeen, which seeks the overthrow of Tehran's clerical rulers, has been called everything from a cult to a terrorist organisation, although one that has provided the U.S. with intelligence on Iran. • The group says it renounced violence in 2001, after carrying out bloody bombings and assassinations in Iran in the 1980s. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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