Blowing up of pumping station supplying water to Ashraf City and 20,000 Iraqi local residents
NCRI – Following verdicts by a British court and resolutions recently adopted by Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament which dealt devastating blows to terrorist listing of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and a subsequent listing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force as well as the mullahs Ministry of Defense, the Iranian regime in past few weeks dispatched a number of agents of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) as well as Qods Force elements from Iran and abroad to Iraq.
These rogue elements were to prepare for subsequent plots for terrorist attacks against the PMOI members residing in Ashraf City, home to members of the PMOI in Iraq. The mullahs’ embassy in Baghdad accommodated them in Al-Mansur Hotel in Baghdad and kept a constant contact with the agents.
On February 8, the Qods Force terrorists in a cowardly act blew up the power station supplying water to Ashraf City residents and 20,000 Iraqis living in the vicinity. Also on February 6, a local tribe council member, Sheikh Hamid Ziab, in charge of power station was assassinated.
A number of MOIS and Qods Force agents are presently staying in Al-Mansur Hotel in Baghdad are identified as: Massoud Khodabandeh, Mostafa Mohammadi, Reza Akbari Nasab and Alireza Bashiri. The team leader for the group belonging to the Qods Force is tabatabaie.
According to Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, reminded that the MOIS, before dispatching the aforementioned agents to Iraq, some of them including Massoud Khodabandeh and his wife were involved in a separate terrorist incident stabbing the Iranian refugees in France. They were arrested by the French authorities where they falsely testified against the NCRI, PMOI and residents of Ashraf City.
On January 30, a number of the Qods Force agents disguised as members of the mullahs’ embassy staff in Baghdad set up a front organization as a human rights NGO in Khalis city some 27 km south of Ashraf City. However, the so called NGO is a cover for planning terrorist attacks.
On November 8, 2007, four members of the MOIS went to Khalis directly from the Iranian regime’s embassy in Baghdad and met with Abdul-Rassoul Mullah Hamid Al-Saadi (aka Abu-Heidar) head of the local office for Badr Brigade in Khalis. At the meeting there were two commanders of the hit squads identified as Abu Tabarak Al-Saedi and Khezr Mohammad Ahmad (aka Abu-Osama Khalesi). The latter was involved in a terrorist attack on a bus carrying workers to Ashraf City in May 2006.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 9, 2008
