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The leader of an exiled Iranian opposition movement claimed Sunday that moves to close a camp in Iraq housing thousands of her supporters were part of a plot by Tehran to have them killed.

Maryam Rajavi, France-based leader of the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, said the Iraqi government’s plan to move Iranian exiles from Ashraf, north of Baghdad, had been secretly ordered by Iran's Islamic government.

“Relocating residents of Ashraf inside Iraq is a crime against humanity and is a prelude to a grand massacre that has been devised by the Iranian theocratic fascist rulers and the government of Iraq,” she alleged.

“Forcible relocation of Ashraf residents is tantamount to sending them to their deaths and that is something they will never give in to,” she warned.

Rajavi heads both the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which claims to represent the Iranian opposition, and its guerrilla wing, the PMOI, which has been on the U.S. government's list of terrorist groups since 1997.