The regime's embassy claimed, "According to reports by other opposition media, the issue refers to an individual... who was mistakenly abducted by the representatives of the People's Mojahedin Organization. The real target was Fereidoon Gilani, one of their opponents."
The "opposition media" referred to by the embassy is none other than the London weekly Nimrooz. In its latest edition, on February 16, the same day the mullahs' embassy issued its statement, quotes Gilani as saying that the Mojahedin "are capable of planning my physical elimination." In the same issue, Gilani's wife quotes her husband as charging that the Mojahedin had mastermind this kidnapping.
Do the similarity and simultaneity of these totally fabricated assertions by the regime's embassy and Gilani not testify to anything but Gilani's links with the Khomeini regime's Intelligence Ministry.
As specified in yesterday's press conference, the abduction and torture of this Iranian national is part of a well-organized scheme by the mullahs' Intelligence Ministry against the Iranian Resistance abroad. To this end, the clerics have utilized all their operatives and organs outside Iran, including Gilani and the aforesaid Farsi language publication, under the guise of opposition members and media.
The Iranian Resistance emphatically calls on the German government and Judiciary to identify and arrest the perpetrators of this terrorist crime who have definitely been directed by the mullahs' embassy in Bonn. It also demands that all relevant information, particularly with respect to Gilani's role, whom the Iranian national had met before being kidnapped, be made public.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris February 17, 1996
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