Simultaneously, the regime raided another NLA basecamp near the town of Jalula (130 kms northeast of Baghdad) with four other fighter jets. In this air strike, the planes had crossed the no-fly zone in northern Iraq.
Due to the NLA's anti-aircraft fire, the jets were forced to escape before they could drop all their bombs. The bombs created craters two meters deep and four meters wide in and around the NLA basecamps.
The NLA did not suffer any casualties. Several buildings at the base near Kut sustained some damage. Several bombs fell on residential areas around the bases. Two Iraqi citizens were wounded in Jalula, reports say.
The Thunder-9 air force maneuver, launched last week in southern Iran involving 10 air bases and 150 fighters, was meant to prepare for these aggressive operations.
Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and Commander in Chief of the National Liberation Army, sent a telegram to the Secretary General and members of the U.N. Security Council, urging them to condemn this terrorist attack which violates, among others, the U.N. Security Council resolution 598.
Mr. Rajavi emphasized that the silence and inaction of the Security Council towards the mullahs' aggressive and criminal attacks, including its air raids on NLA on April 92 and May 93, and its Scud-B missile attack in November 94, have so emboldened the regime that it systematically uses the no-fly zone - controlled by the permanent members of the Security Council - for its aggressions.
Mr. Rajavi said today's air raids reflect the Khomeini regime's desperation in confronting the Iranian public's increasing support for the Resistance and its President-elect. Mr. Rajavi added that the regime, beset by crises and internal feuding, finds itself in dire need of repression at home and aggressive and terrorist operations outside its borders.
Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
September 29, 1997
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