Iranian regime's Qods Force prepares for missile attack on Ashraf City

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

NCRI – Iranian regime has ordered a group of agents affiliated to the terrorist Qods Force in the town of Khalis, in Diyala Province of Iraq – to carry out a missile attack on Ashraf City - the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) said in a statement on Tuesday.

The statement by PMOI follows the explosion of Asharf City's water pumping station on Friday and extensive activities by agents of Iranian regime in Iraq to set the grounds for terrorist operations against Ashraf City, home to members of PMOI in Iraq.

The following is the text of the PMOI's statement:

Criminal Plot by Qods Force for Missile Attack against Ashraf City

The theocratic regime of Iran has ordered a group of agents affiliated to the terrorist Qods Force in Khalis town – Diyala Province, Iraq – to carry out a missile attack against Ashraf City. These agents have started their practices and preparations since two weeks ago in Khalis area.

Commander of the terrorist group is Awad Azzawi, a.k.a. Abu-Zahra Khalisi, 43, a veteran member of the Badr Brigade who has been recruited by the Qods Force since 1990 and has an Iranian wife. This agent has been registered with the code number 27896 in the pay roll list of the 32,000 agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Iraq, and his account number in the Iranian regime’s Sepah Bank is 2308.

Awad Azzawi, who regularly goes back and forth to Iran, is responsible for the terrorist explosion of the bus carrying Iraqi workers to Ashraf on May 29, 2006 in Khalis Road which left 11 workers dead and 15 others wounded.

Last week a number of the Qods Force agents who work at the Iranian Embassy in Iraq went to Khalis City and planned to run a terrorist center disguised under a human rights defender NGO. Prior to that, four personnel of the Intelligence Ministry of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad went to Khalis and met with Abdul-Rassoul Mullah-Hamid al-Saadi known as Abu-Heidar who is in charge of the Badr’s office at Khalis and two commanders of the death squads called as Abu-Tabarak al-Saedi and Khozair Mohammad Ahmad, a.k.a. Abu-Issama Khalisi, for planning the terrorist plot.

Tehran regime exploded the water supply pumping station of the Ashraf city that supplied water to 20,000 inhabitants of the vicinity too. Two days prior to that on Feb. 6, the agents of the Qods force in a terrorist attack murdered Sheikh Hamid Ziab, a tribal council member, who was in charge of the security of the area and the pumping station.

A number of agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence(MOIS) and the Qods force, including Khodabandeh, Mostafa Mohammadi, Reza Akbari-Nassab and Alirezi Bashiri, had been accommodated in Hotel al-Mansour in Baghdad to set the grounds for terrorist operation against the city of Ashraf. Three individuals identified as Nowbakht(deputy to Kazemi Qomi), Assadi ( in charge of the so-called human rights committee in the Iranian embassy) and Tabatabaii are in contact with these agents. Kazemi Qomi, regime’s ambassador to Baghdad and the godfather of Intelligence and Qods force agents in Baghdad, met with these agents in Hotel al-Mansour on Thursday afternoon Feb. 7.

Following designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and after verdict by a British court and resolutions 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), the religious fascism ruling Iran finds itself more in need of terrorist attacks and conspiracies against the PMOI, especially on the eve of Majlis(Parliamentary) elections, when it has staged an unprecedented purging of the rival factions. In a similar situation on the eve or presidential elections, the clerical regime launched 77 missiles against the camps of National Liberation Army (NLA) on 18 April 2001.

The intelligence on the terrorist Qods Force’s felonious plot to stage missile attack against Ashraf City and its residents, all of whom are protected persons under international conventions, along with information on preparations and gathering of MOIS agents in Hotel al-Mansour in Baghdad who had come from Iran and abroad, has been shared with relevant international organizations and the MNF-I forces in charge of the security of Ashraf.

People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
February 12, 2008