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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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Sharing the goal of removing the Shah of Iran with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the PMOI took part in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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No one is sure who really controls the PMOI in Camp Ashraf.
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The PMOI set up Camp Ashraf in the late 1980s, when it was welcomed by Iraq's then-president, Saddam Hussein, who was fighting a war against Iran.
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No sources of news are allowed without the PMOI's say-so.
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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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The PMOI has a sophisticated network of ardent supporters.
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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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No less controversially, the PMOI is widely reviled by human-rights groups for nurturing a messianic cult of personality around Mr Rajavi and his wife, Maryam, and for enforcing a totalitarian discipline on its adherents.
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When the above-mentioned Farsi-speaking Westerner, who visited Ashraf in 2004, enabled wavering group members to talk to their families in Iran by satellite telephone, some of their parents refused to believe it was their children, for they had been told by the PMOI that they were dead.
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