A rocket barrage killed at least 26 Iranian exiles at a camp near Baghdad, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday after the deadliest attack against the Opposition group in years.
The United States and United Nations condemned the attack on the People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), which demanded that its members be protected.
The attack may help to accelerate the long-running process of relocating PMOI members outside Iraq, which has been going on for years. Ban “condemns the attack... On Camp Hurriya (liberty), near the Baghdad International Airport, which left at least 26 residents dead and many more wounded,” a UN statement said. He called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and for the relocation process to be accelerated, terming it “the only safe and durable solution for the residents”.