Iranian opposition group accuses Tehran of preparing missile attacks

Agence France Presse

January 24, 2000

BAGHDAD, Jan 24 - Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, accused Tehran on Monday of preparing missile attacks against Iraq in a statement published in Baghdad.

The Iranian regime is "paving the way for air and missile attacks" on Mujahedeen bases, said the statement, a copy of which was sent to AFP.

It based its assertion on a recent interview in the Iranian press by the Iranian intelligence minister, in which he claimed the "people of Iraq" are opposed to the group.

The statement said the Tehran regime always attributed to the "Iraqi people" its own attacks on Mujahedeen targets.

The last such incident was a rocket attack on a Mujahedeen camp on January 16, it said.

The Mujahedeen, which mounts cross-border attacks from Iraqi territory, has been based in Iraq since 1986.

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Iranian opposition accuses Tehran of rocket attack in Iraq

Agence France Presse

January 17, 2000

BAGHDAD, Jan 17 - Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, accused Tehran on Monday of launching a rocket attack on one of its camps in Iraq.

"Terrorists sent by the mullahs' regime fired 107-mm rockets" on Sunday at a camp near the southern Iraqi city of Al-Kut, but without leaving casualties, it said.

"The camp's security guards reacted quickly, forcing the terrorists to flee and leave behind their equipment."

The Mujahedeen, which mounts cross-border attacks from Iraqi territory and reports frequent Iranian strikes on its positions, has been based in Iraq since 1986.

In the last attack, the group said four Iraqis were injured by a November 14 car bomb planted near one of its trucks on a highway in southern Iraq.

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