Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance, sent a telegram that day to the UN Secretary General and members of the Security Council and urged them to condemn this terrorist crime. He reiterated that the silence and inaction of the international community had emboldened Iran's ruling mullahs to continue and escalate the flagrant violations of human rights and export of terrorism and fundamentalism. Mr. Rajavi also urged the government of Iraq to pursue, prosecute and punish the terrorists.
Last night, the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship accepted the responsibility for these murders. Consistent with its past routine, the regime's news agency cited a bogus group called "Iraqi strugglers" in reporting the terrorist operation. It falsely claimed that the slain Mojahedin had planned to carry out "terrorist operations along the Iranian border."
Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - BaghdadM
October 5, 1997