Source : ` ` This is the first step towards a better life outside Iraq , '' a U.N. official says . About 400 residents of Camp Ashraf leave for a temporary site at a former military base . A U.N. commission on refugees has described the residents as `` formal asylum seekers '' from persecution by the regime in Iran . The Iranian ##s claim they are being inhumanely treated by Iraqi authorities there . Under the plan , the U.N. intends eventually to relocate the refugees to third countries .
Source : ` ` This is the first step towards a better life outside Iraq , '' a U.N. official says . About 400 residents of Camp Ashraf leave for a temporary site at a former military base . The Iranian ##s claim they are being inhumanely treated by Iraqi authorities there . Under the plan , the U.N. intends eventually to relocate the refugees to third countries .