TEHRAN - The Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the ringleaders of the terrorist group Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO).

On Sunday, arrest warrants were issued for Massoud Rajavi, Maryam Rajavi, Amir Kazemi, and 37 other MKO members in line with Article 12 of the charter of the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court, which also called on the Iraqi Interior Ministry and Interpol to arrest them and hand them over to the court for trial.
On Friday, a number of senior Iraqi and U.S. military officials attended a ceremony during which complete control of the security of Camp Ashraf was handed over to Iraqi security forces.
Camp Ashraf, where Mojahedin Khalq Organization members are held, is located 60 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province and about 120 kilometers west of the Iranian border. It currently houses 3,418 people, who are members of the MKO and their families.
It was set up in the 1980s, when Iraq was at war with Iran, as a base for MKO operations against Iran.
The MKO was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country in the early 1980s after carrying out a series of assassinations and bombings in Iran.
Iraq gave the MKO a safe haven, and the terrorist group used the country as a base for attacks on Iran until the United States invaded the country in March 2003.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used the heavily armed group to fight Iran during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, and the MKO also played a role in Saddam’s bloody suppression of Shia and Kurdish uprisings after the Persian Gulf War in 1991.