Previously, Ma'ssoumi had confessed that upon being informed of Mrs. Rajabi's presence in Turkey, the Intelligence Ministry dispatched an agent to that country to make the necessary arrangements for the assassination. Subsequently, two killers arrived in Turkey and were briefed by Mohsen Kargar Azad and Mohammad-Reza Behrooz Manesh, two consular deputies in Istanbul. Ali Ashraf, the regime's press attache in Ankara, provided them with silencer-equipped weapons and Majid Shadkar, an embassy attache, drove him, two other terrorists and Kargar Azad, the commander of the hit squad, to Mrs. Rajabi's residence.
A member of the National Council of Resistance, Mrs. Rajabi, had traveled to Turkey in January, heading of an Iranian Resistance's delegation, to investigate the appalling plight of Iranian refugees in that country. She and her colleague, Ali Moradi, a sy mpathizer of the Mojahedin in Turkey, were slain in their apartment by a hit squad dispatched from Tehran.
The Iranian Resistance warns against any collusion with the Khomeini regime. It urges the Turkish government and judiciary to disregard any political and diplomatic consideration and punish the terrorist in custody, and arrest and prosecute other diplomat -terrorists involved in this assassination. It also calls for the closure of the regime's embassy and representative offices which only act as nests of espionage and terror on Turkish soil.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
July 18, 1996
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