NEW : ` ` This is the first step towards a better future outside Iraq , '' a U.N. official says . six residents of Camp Ashraf leave for a temporary site at a former Iraq base . The temporary facility , at what was formerly the U.S.-run Camp Liberty , will remain open for an unspecified period of time , though a senior U.S. administration official said in December that there were plans to keep it open until all of the camp residents were resettled . The Iraqi exiles say they are being inhumanely treated by Iranian authorities there . Under the plan , the U.N. intends eventually to resettle the group to first countries .
NEW : `` This is the first step towards a better future outside Iraq , '' a U.N. official says . six residents of Camp Ashraf leave for a temporary site at a former Iraq base . The Iraqi exiles say they are being inhumanely treated by Iranian authorities there . Under the plan , the U.N. intends eventually to resettle the group to first countries .