MKO Claims Iran Plants Mine on Baghdad-Basra Highway

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Document ID: IAP20000313000009

Version Number: 01

Region: Near East/South Asia

Sub-Region: South Asia, Near East

Country: Iran, Iraq

Topic: DOMESTIC POLITICAL, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL, MILITARY, PEACEKEEPING, TERRORISM

Source-Date: 03/10/2000

MKO Claims Iran Plants Mine on Baghdad-Basra Highway

 IAP20000313000009 (Internet) Iran-e Azad WWW-Text in English 10 Mar 00 

["Mullahs' terrorists mine Basra-Baghdad highway to hit Mojahedin" -- Iran-e-Azad headline]

[FBIS Transcribed Text]

The clerical regime's terrorists planted a pellet-filled mine made in Iran at a spot along the Basra-Baghdad highway to target Mojahedin cars passing by. 

     The mine exploded at 9 am on Thursday, February 24, in the strip separating the two sides of the highway 90 km north of Basra.   It left behind a hole one meter wide and 80 cm deep.   The explosion and its shrapnel damaged passing cars on the highway.   The door of a Mojahedin vehicle was also damaged and two occupants of the car were injured. 

     This is the 85th terrorist attack by the clerical regime against the Iranian Resistance in Iraqi territory since 1993.   Thirty-four of these operations have been carried out during Khatami's tenure. 

     Mr.   Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the planting of mines filled with pellets along a route heavily used by ordinary people as one of the foulest terrorist crimes of Iran's ruling mullahs.   He laid emphasis on the Resistance's legitimate right to response and self-defense and called for international condemnation of using land mines especially as a threat to the lives of civilians and ordinary citizens. 

     [signed] People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran    

     [dated] February 25, 2000

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