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Iraqi Kurds want Masud
Rajavi, leader of an Iranian opposition organization
based in Iraq, to be arrested and tried, Radio Farda
reported on 20 October.
Rajavi's group, the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MEK),
settled in Iraq in the 1980s, where it received
assistance from and cooperated with former Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein. The Kurds say they want
Rajavi to be tried because of the role his
organization played in their repression by the
Hussein regime.
Mohammad Tofiq Rahim, an official with the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan, said in an interview with Radio
Farda that his organization has documentary evidence
of Rajavi's role. He said that when the Kurds seized
control of northern parts of Iraq with U.S.
assistance at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, the
MEK cooperated with the Iraqi Army in retaking
control of the city of Kirkuk. In the process, he
charged, hundreds of the city's residents were
killed by the MEK.
"Everyone in Iraqi Kurdistan knows that Masud Rajavi
cooperated with the Mukhaberat [intelligence] and
security forces of Saddam Hussein not only in the
suppression of the Kurds, but all the opponents of
the regime of Saddam," Rahim added.
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