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ASHRAF CAMP, Iraq - Iran fired three long-range missiles across its on Friday, hitting a camp for guerrilla exiles run by women.
There were no casualties in the attack on the sprawling camp 110 km (65 miles) northeast of Baghdad, which is the main base for the opposition Mujahideen Khalq. But the Muhajiddeen said there were several among Iraqis in a nearby village.
One exploded in the air because of technical fault, but one hit a nearby Iraqi village, spokesman Fareed Suleimani said.
He told Reuters the missiles were fired from the Iranian city of Kermanshah 170 km (105 miles) from the border with Iraq. The camp is 80 km (50 miles) away from the border.
"The National Liberation Army will retaliate against such strikes by the mullahs' regime in an appropriate way," Pari Bakhshai, logistics commander of the force, told reporters.
"We believe the overthrow of the mullahs is not far away," she said. Bakhashi is among the women who make up 70 percent of Mujahideen commanders.
They serve as helicopter pilots, tank mechanics, logistics officers and infantrymen, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Friday's missile attack took place
at 1646 GMT, hours after the Muhahideen buried six fighters killed in a
bomb blast on a highway northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday.
Mullahs Have Found No Solution But Resort To Terrorism, Iran Zamin News Agency, June 11
Following the Scud-B missile attacks by the mullahs' regime against the NLA's Ashraf basecamp, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance and Commander in Chief of the National Liberation Army of Iran made the following comments in this regard: "The moribund mullahs have found no solutions but resort to terrorism and export of crises to break out of the crises which have engulfed their faltering regime. They have therefore unleashed their savagery without paying attention to the political and strategic consequences of their deeds. They have resorted to blind terrorism by various forms of bombing in public places and deploying weapons of mass destruction."
Mr. Rajavi pointed out: "Now every
one can see that the mullahs' claims of moderation and their rhetorics
about 'civil society' and 'lessening the tensions' are but a myth."
Clerical Regime Claims Responsibility For Its Recent Terrorist Crimes, Iran Zamin News Agency, June 13
In one of its late news bulletins last night, the state radio broadcast a news analysis, officially claiming responsibility for the terrorist crimes on June 8 and 9 by the clerical regime.
The radio announced: "Based on the
responsibility the nation has placed on its shoulder, the government of
the Islamic Republic of Iran sees it as a duty and reserves the right to
confront the cowardly actions of mercenary agents of alien regimes based
in Iraqi territory."
Khatami Shows His True Face In Recent Speeches, Norwegian Forum For Freedom Of Expression News Release, June 8
The following is excerpts from a joint action signed by International Freedom of Expression Committee (IFEX) and the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression (NFFE), Oslo.
The United States has lifted its economic sanctions on Iran. The ongoing social and economic developments in Iran, enhanced and applauded by a number of increasingly eager Western countries, make us forget the fact that the existence of censorship, the lack of freedom of expression and the nonexistence of a free, independent press is still a serious hindrance to democratic development in Iran.
In his 23 May 1999 speech to 107,000 members of Iranian city councils, President Mohammad Khatami said that "the press must not exceed the limits and the frameworks set up through religious rules." Later, in a 25 May speech, Khatami stated that "a civilized society can only be built based on religion and through the advises of the religious leaders."
These speeches are contradictory to Khatami's prior statements, stamens which led to his election and which he has made repeatedly in order to reconciliate Iran with the Western world.
The religious laws… and the Iranian constitution which Khatami refers to are in sharp contrast to basic humanitarian standards, as for instance the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights….
The Iranian people are demanding answers to the massacres and disappearances of writers and intellectuals. Through his recent statements, Khatami is now showing his true face and the situation for the Iranian people is turning even more hopeless.