WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MEK IN IRAQ AFTER THE US WITHDREW BY MAHMOOD HAKAMIAN  Last week, we  told  you about the tragic fate of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq. At the end of the last instalment, the MEK had been granted protected person status under the Fourth Geneva Convention and were under the protection of the US army until America withdrew from Iraq in 2009.  WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? The responsibility for the unarmed MEK members in Iraq was transferred from the US to the Iraqi government, but the MEK (and various legal experts and NGOs) opposed this and believed that they would be in danger if the US left them under Iraqi control. Their reasoning was that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was working on behalf of the Iranian Regime, who were keeping him in power. The US dismissed this because they had written assurances from the Iraqi government that the MEK would be treated in accordance with Iraq’s Constit...