Whereas resettlement of 3,000 Iranian refugees in Iraq, members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), was completed in September 2016, and nearly 2,700 of these residents were relocated in Albania; Whereas in 2004, the United States Government recognized these dissidents as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention; Whereas they were under the protection of the United States in Camp Ashraf until 2009, when their protection was handed over to the Government of Iraq, as reflected in the United States Embassy Statement on Transfer of Security Responsibility for Camp Ashraf of December 28, 2008; Whereas these residents were relocated outside Iraq under the supervision of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with active and vital engagement of the United States Government and full cooperation of the MEK; Whereas the United States Government and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) relocation plan for the transfer of these dissidents out of Iraq called on the Government of Iraq to ensure the safekeeping of the property left at Camps Ashraf and Liberty belonging to such dissidents; Whereas the Memorandum of Understanding of 25 December 2011 between UNAMI and the Government of Iraq outlining the voluntary relocation of the residents of Camp Ashraf called on the Government of Iraq to ensure the safekeeping of the moveable and immovable properties belonging to the residents of Camp Ashraf with the understanding that such properties could be sold by its owners; Whereas the United States Government and UNAMI expressed to the residents that they would be allowed to sell their properties at Camps Ashraf and Liberty