A former military base in Iraq housing exiled Iranian opposition members has come under intense rocket fire. The People’s Mujahedin of Iran says 23 of its members were killed in the attack in addition to three policemen.
About 80 missiles struck the former US base known as Camp Liberty, close to Baghdad airport, according to the PMOI. The Iraqi military said about 15 rockets were used.
No group has yet said it carried out the attack. The rockets were fired from the Bakriya district northeast of the airport, Iraqi military spokesman Brig Gen Yahya Rasool told Reuters.
The People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) has been in exile since the Islamic revolution of 1979. The Camp Liberty base came under rocket fire in February 2013 and in December 2013. PMOI rebels also came under attack from Iraqi troops in 2011.
