Rockets and mortar rounds struck a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad’s international airport today, killing six people and wounding about 40, police and UN officials said.

A Fine Gael TD will speak at a conference in Paris on Saturday organised by an Iranian opposition group still classified as a terrorist organisation by the US.

Iraqi forces have stormed a settlement of Iranian exiles near the two nations’ border that prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has long sought to expel.