Michael Broukhim

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The site, Camp Ashraf, lies on a hot, flat plain 60 miles north of Baghdad and 60 miles west of the Iranian border. It is home to about 3,000 members of the Iranian opposition group People’s Mujahedeen, exiles committed to the overthrow of the Islamic revolutionary government in Tehran who had been welcomed by Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran in the 1980s. The current Iraqi government has closer relations with the Iranian government and announced in December that it would shut the camp and evict its residents as Iraqi forces took control of the area from the United States.