Iraq, Iran agreement to halt Mujahidee Khalq activities

The London- based al-Sharq al-Awsat daily on Wednesday said quoting well-informed Iranian sources that the Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri al-Hadithi, who visited Tehran this week showed a sudden flexibility towards the urgent Iranian request to Baghdad's halting support for the opposition Iranian "Mujahidi Khalq organization which takes Iraq as a headquarters for launching military attacks against the Iranian territories.

The sources explained in a statement to the paper that the meeting between al-Hadithi with the Iranian security minister Ali Younis resulted in a preliminary agreement that will be discussed in details later and President Saddam Hussein to approve it.

The agreements states that Baghdad is to ban the attacks by Mujahidee Khalq from Iraq while Iran will prevent " Feilaq Bader" members -- an opposition organization which belongs to the higher council of the Islamic revolution in Iraq to keep apart from the border line with Iraq from 5 to 10 km.

In contrary to what was announced by al-Hadithi on Monday, Iranian sources stressed that the plan to resume air flights between the two countries to transports people who desire to visit the holy Shiite sites was frozen to be discussed at the meantime because Iran has received strong signals from the UN secretary general Kofi Annan during his recent visit to Tehran that this matter will not be welcomed at the UN.