The Mojahedin's car was damaged in the attack and one of the passengers suffered light injuries. The cowardly attack is the forty-second terrorist raid by the mullahs' terrorists against the Iranian Resistance on Iraqi territory since January 1993. The attack was organized by the mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence (secret police) and the regime's terrorist-diplomats in Baghdad. The Iranian Resistance has received information that in the majority of these terrorist attacks the Intelligence Ministry uses northern Iraq as the staging ground for these operations and its agents infiltrate deep inside Iraqi territory through this area.
Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, sent a telegram to UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and UN Security Council members, emphasizing that the apathy and inaction of the international community vis-a-vis the brutal and systematic violation of human rights and export of terrorism by the clerical regime have only encouraged the mullahs to pursue their crimes more vigorously.
Mr. Rajavi mentioned that Professor Maurice Copithorne, the UN Human Rights Commission's Special Rapporteur on Iran, has said in his newly-published report that there is "a clear deterioration" in the human rights situation in Iran and an escalation in the regime's terrorist activities against Iranian oppositionists abroad. Time has come for the UN Security Council to adopt binding resolutions in order to bring about an international censure of this religious, terrorist dictatorship, Mr. Rajavi said.
The Iranian Resistance leader pointed to the extensive activities of Resistance forces in most cities across the country during September and October and said: The mullahs' faltering regime, surrounded by insurmountable political and economic crises, unable to confront growing popular discontent, and alarmed by the fact that the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people support the Resistance's President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, finds no solution other than resorting to greater repression inside Iran and more terrorism beyond Iran's borders.
The NCR President also called on the Iraqi government to prosecute, put on trial and punish the mullahs' terrorist diplomats and to shut down the clerical regime's embassy in Baghdad whose only task is to spy on the Mojahedin and conspire against them.
It is worth noting that several senior officials and official agents of the regime are currently being sought or are in jail or are being tried in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Turkey.
Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
November 13, 1996
cc:
The President of Iraq
Deputy Prime Minister and Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Justice of Iraq
UN Secretary General
President and members of the UN Security Council
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
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