After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, PMOI members agreed to disarm.

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After the Americans took over in 2003, the PMOI people at Camp Ashraf, as the place is known, were disarmed.

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In September 2012, the US government removed the PMOI from the state department's list of designated terrorist organisations, in part because of its co-operation in the move to Camp Hurriya.

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This has irritated several national governments, especially the British and French ones, which think the PMOI is a nasty nuisance and its presence on their soil bad for relations with both Iraq and Iran.

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