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2013-05-16 Europe

UN: 14 Iranian exiles moved from Iraq to Albania

The first group of exiles from an Iranian opposition group has moved to Albania from a former U.S. military base near Baghdad as part of a relocation process, the United Nations mission to Iraq said Thursday.

In a statement, U.N. envoy Martin Kobler said 14 members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq arrived in Albania late Wednesday, the first of 210 set to travel to new homes in Albania.

Last year about 3,000 MEK exiles were moved from their decades-long home in northeastern Iraq to a refugee camp outside Baghdad at the former U.S. base, part of an effort to ensure their peaceful departure from Iraq.

The MEK, or the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, opposes Tehran's clerical regime. It carried out assassinations and bombings in Iran until renouncing violence in 2001. Several thousand of its members were given sanctuary in Iraq by dictator Saddam Hussein, who was deposed in 2003.

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