Well-known among Iranian refugees in Germany, Scandinavia and Britain, Mrs. Rajabi had traveled to Turkey three weeks ago, heading an Iranian Resistance's delegation, to appraise the appalling conditions of Iranian refugees in that country. She was one of the officials in the offices of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, a former member of the Mojahedin's Leadership Council and a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Mr. Rajavi described Mrs. Rajabi, a distinguished official of the Iranian Resistance with two decades of persistent struggle against the monarchic and religious dictatorships ruling Iran, as a great martyr to the cause of Iranian refugees. He offered his condolences over her martyrdom and that of Mr. Moradi, a long-time sympathizer of the Mojahedin, to the people of Iran and their families.
Mrs. Rajabi, 39, began her political activities in 1977 as an architectural student at Tehran's Melli University. Since 1991, she was in charge of the central office of the Mojahedin's political organization abroad. In 1992, she was the target of an aborted assassination attempt in Germany by the clerical regime. From 1984 to 1993, Mrs. Rajabi was a member of the Mojahedin's central committee and later the executive committee. Subsequently, she was elected as a candidate-member of the Mojahedin's Leadership Council and then became a member of that council.
The NCR President stressed: In view of the Khomeini regime's record of terrorist activities in Turkey, including the abduction and mutilation of Mojahed Ali Akbar Ghorbani in 1992, the kidnapping of another Mojahedin member, Abol-Hassan Mojtahedzadeh, his interrogation and torture and attempts to transfer him to Iran in the trunk of an official embassy vehicle in 1988, the plot to assassinate Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, NCR's Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, and Mr. Hossein Abedini in 1989, and other cases of assassinations of the Resistance's activists and Iranian dissidents in Turkey, the murders on Tuesday were definitely planned and carried out by the regime's embassy in that country.
Mr. Rajavi added: The time has now come for the Turkish government to immediately pursue, prosecute and punish the terrorists and close down their nests of espionage and terror, namely the embassy and consulates of the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran, and bring a halt to the free rein enjoyed by the clerical regime's diplomat-terrorists against Iranian refugees and asylum-seekers.
The NCR President also called for urgent intervention and initiative of the United Nations Secretary General, Security Council, Human Rights Commission, High Commissioner for Refugees, Human Rights Commission's Special Representative on Iran and all organizations that advocate human rights and the right to asylum.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris February 22, 1996
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