I just learned that Mrs. Zahra Rajabi (Mariam Javdan Jowkar), a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, refugee in France with travel document no. 91CT532, was murdered last night or in the early hours of this morning in Istanbul by the terrorists of the mullahs' regime. A sympathizer of the Iranian Resistance, Abdol-Ali Moradi, was also murdered along with her. Mrs. Rajabi had entered Turkey on January 27 for humanitarian activities to help the Iranian refugees in that country.
This is not the first time, the mullahs' regime has made your country a hunting ground for its terrorist operations against dissident Iranians.
In 1992, Mr. Ali Akbar Ghorbani, a member of the People's Mojahedin of Iran, was abducted by the terrorists of the mullahs' regime in Turkey, mutilated and murdered under vicious torture. Recently, the terrorists who had kidnapped Mr. Ghorbani confessed to this murder.
In the name of the Iranian people and their just Resistance, I emphatically urge you to pursue, arrest and punish the mullahs' terrorists, assassins of Mrs. Rajabi and Mr. Moradi, who receive their instructions directly from the regime's embassy in your country.
Mr. Rajavi also sent separate telegrams to the U.N. Secretary General and the Security Council, and to the UNHRC Speical Representative on the situation of human rights in Iran, and called for the condemnation of this crime by the international community and the adoption of binding measures against the mullahs' regime. In Mr. Rajavi's telegram to the Turkish President, it is also said:
As you are certainly aware, following the arrest of some of the terrorists and the discovery of the body of Mr. Ghorbani in 1993, then-Turkish Minister of Interior, Mr. Ismat Sezgin, officially declared that the terrorists had received their training in Iran.
Also in 1988, another activist of the Iranian Resistance, Mr. Abol-Hassan Mojtahedzadeh, was kidnapped in Istanbul by the regime's terrorist-diplomats. He managed to escape from the booth of a car with diplomatic license plate while being transferred to Iran by four of the regime's diplomats, subsequently arrested by the Turkish authorities.
There is no doubt that all these terrorist crimes are organized by the Khomeini regime's Ministry of Intelligence and the representation offices of this religious, terrorist dictatorship. I would like to therefore urge you to personally intervene and order the closure of the embassy of the mullahs' regime in Turkey and the arrest of its terrorist-diplomats. Do not allow your country to become a hunting ground for the Iranian regime's terrorist activities against its opponents.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris February 21, 1996
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