As the result of the explosion, the vehicle caught fire and two Mojahedin members were wounded and taken to hospital.
So far, three Iraqis, a four-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy and a 65-year-old man, have been killed, and eleven more Iraqis seriously wounded in this terrorist crime.
The explosion of the bomb, planted in a package under a tree near the street, caused heavy damage to local people, buildings and shops.
This was the 65th terrorist operation by the mullahs' regime since 1993 against the Mojahedin in Iraqi territory. At least 14 of these terrorist assaults have occurred since Mohammad Khatami became the mullahs' President.
Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran offered his condolences to the families of innocent victims of this heinous crime. He strongly condemned this indiscriminate and inhuman attack and called on the government of Iraq to pursue, prosecute and punish the clerical regime's terrorists who are doubtless linked with the mullahs' embassy in Baghdad.
Mr. Rajavi sent telegrams to the United Nations Secretary General and members of the Security Council, demanding serious international action against the clerics' unbridled terrorism.
He added: The theocratic regime is in its last phase. Beset by irremediable economic and social crises and a deepening power struggle, it has found the only way out in terrorist assaults against its sole democratic alternative and in intensifying domestic repression and export of terrorism.
Addressing all governments and international human rights organizations, Mr. Rajavi urged them to condemn the mullahs' latest abhorrent terrorist crime and said that those who have usurped the rights of the Iranian people to sovereignty will definitely pay for their unsparing atrocities and bloodletting.
Office of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran - Baghdad
August 8, 1998
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