Israeli lobbyists seeking to station MKO in Azerbaijan: Report
Israel is reportedly seeking to relocate the members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) to the Republic of Azerbaijan as part of attempts to station the anti-Iran terrorists in five US-allied countries in the Middle East. - There are reportedly 16 abandoned airfields and military bases in Azerbaijan. The Azeri government has already reactivated four of them, which the Tel Aviv regime has rented. Azerbaijan plans to bring the other facilities into full operation as well. Israel is apparently looking for bases in Azerbaijan with conditions similar to those of the notorious Camp Ashraf in Iraq, located about 120 kilometers (74 miles) west of the border with Iran, in order to prevent the complete dissolution of the MKO. Following the Iraqi government’s decision to expel the MKO terrorist group from its soil, the White House is in talks with senior officials from Azerbaijan, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in a bid to coax them into sheltering the MKO members in their countries. The MKO fled to Iraq in 1986, where it enjoyed the support of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein, and set up its camp near the Iranian border. The group is also known to have cooperated with Saddam in suppressing the 1991 uprisings in southern Iraq and carrying out the massacre of Iraqi Kurds. The group has carried out numerous acts of violence against Iranian civilians and government officials.