Egypt Cancels MKO Meeting in Cairo

The meeting was scheduled to be held this afternoon in Pyramisa Hotel in Cairo, but the terrorist group canceled the meeting after the government of Egypt expressed its strong opposition and did not issue the necessary permission for the meeting.

The meeting organized by a number of MKO members in Iraq was aimed at demanding the UN and the international community to urge Baghdad to postpone the deadline for the expulsion of MKO members from Iraqi soil.

MKO's members have two weeks to leave Iraq.

The MKO has been in Iraq's Diyala province since the 1980s.

Iraqi security forces took control of the training base of the MKO at Camp Ashraf - about 60km (37 miles) North of Baghdad - in 2009 and detained dozens of the members of the terrorist group.