The explosion left a crater 12 meters wide and six meters deep next to the base camp. The Shrapnel and the wave of the explosion killed five Mojahedin members and wounded several more working in the vicinity inside the base. The slain Mojahedin were Hamid Ahrar, Mohammad-Reza Dalir, Abbas Forough-Zadeh, Hamid Dana'i and Rouhollah Safa-Bakhsh.
A number of Iraqi nationals were also killed or wounded near the Habib base camp. Their exact number is not yet available.
This was the eightieth terrorist crime by the religious dictatorship ruling Iran against the Iranian Resistance in Iraqi territory since 1993.
On September 25, the clerical regime and its terrorists had tried to blow up a explosive-laden white Totoya Landcruiser near the same base on a public road where Mojahedin vehicles commute. In that explosion, a car belonging to Iraqi citizens was destroyed and two of its innocent passengers were severely wounded.
This heinous crime with the use of weapons of mass destruction, just four days after Khatami's return from Paris, is a transparent attempt by the clerical regime to make up for its defeat in France along the Iran-Iraq frontier. This savage act of vengeance with weapons of mass destruction can in no way save the religious, terrorist dictatorship from inevitable overthrow.
Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance and Commander in Chief of the National Liberation Army of Iran, hailed the martyrs for Iran's freedom and underscored the unalienable right of the Iranian Resistance to respond.
He called on the United Nations Secretary General, the Security Council and the current session of the General Assembly, to condemn this most recent crime by the clerics and take urgent and effective measures to confront their unbridled terrorism.
Mr. Rajavi also called for the dispatch by the United Nations of a mission to inspect the site of this barbaric attack. He reiterated the long-standing demand of the Iranian people and Resistance for the trial of the clerical regime's leaders before an international tribunal and the decisive expulsion and boycott of this illegitimate regime.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
November 3, 1999
cc:
The United Nations Secretary General
Members of the UN Security Council
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
The Human Rights Commission Special Representative on Iran
International Human Rights Organizations
Back Home