{"id":20931,"date":"2010-07-28T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20931"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:13:22","slug":"us-wants-the-mojahedin-khalq-to-set-up-a-military-base-on-iraq-iran-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/28\/us-wants-the-mojahedin-khalq-to-set-up-a-military-base-on-iraq-iran-border\/","title":{"rendered":"US wants the Mojahedin Khalq to set up a military base on Iraq-Iran border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 20, 2010<\/p>\n<div><strong>Washington has reportedly called on the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) militants to allow members of an anti-Iran terrorist group into mountainous area along Iran&#8217;s northwestern border.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>&#8220;On Saturday, White House officials sent a message to the PKK&#8217;s Leadership Council, asking it to permit members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) to set up a base in the Qandil mountain range on the Iranian border,&#8221;<\/strong> Fars News Agency quoted an informed source with the council as saying on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>The Qandil mountain range, where Israeli firms operate, is the stronghold of the PKK militants and their sister terrorist group PEJAK.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The International Strategic Research Organization, a Turkish think tank, warned last month that agents with the Israeli spy agency Mossad as well as the Israeli military&#8217;s retirees had been sighted providing training to PKK gunmen in the Iraqi Kurdistan.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Washington&#8217;s proposal comes as the deadline for complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq draws near and Baghdad is set to hunt down and expel MKO terrorists.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The US is reportedly seeking to relocate the MKO terrorist before leaving Iraq, the source told the new agency in the Iraqi city of Erbil.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">&#8220;They (US officials) promised that they would put an end to Turkish military strikes against us (the PKK), should we accept their condition,&#8221;<\/span> the senior PKK official told Fars News.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The offer is being studied at the moment,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The MKO is regarded as a terrorist organization by much of the international community including the United States.<\/div>\n<div>An informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Press TV last month that a group of 150 longtime MKO terrorists has been moved from their base in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad to a US base in central Iraq to be trained as spies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The US plans to dispatch the trained MKO members as secret agents across the border and into Iran, with plans to carry out terror acts, according to the source.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Washington has reportedly called on the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) militants to allow members of an anti-Iran terrorist group into mountainous area along Iran&#8217;s northwestern border. &#8220;On Saturday, White House officials sent a message to the PKK&#8217;s Leadership Council, asking it to permit members of the terrorist Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,43,148,89,34],"tags":[3311,3310],"class_list":["post-20931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","category-iraq","category-israel","category-turkey","category-usa","tag-mojahedin-khalq-organization","tag-pejak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}