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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