Iraqi Islamic Party condemns explosion of water pumping station of Ashraf City in Iraq

Friday, 29 February 2008

NCRI - Mr. Fareed Sabri representative of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Britain in an interview with Iraqi News Agency strongly condemned the explosion of water pumping station of Ashraf City, home to the members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq.

Mr. Sabri said that the rights of the members of PMOI as political refugees in Iraq should be respected and any threat against them in violation of the international law.

Mr. Sabri dismissed the terror label against the PMOI and emphasized that the Iraqi government should adhere to international human rights treaties regarding the PMOI members in Iraq. “The Iraqi constitution prevents the Iraqi government from conducting any provocative actions against the PMOI,” he said.

On February 8, Iran’s Qods Force terrorists by using more than 300 kg of TNT blew up the station supplying water to the members of PMOI in Ashraf City and 20,000 villagers living in the vicinity. As a result water pumps, installations of the station and offices were destroyed and supply of water were cut off.

The bombing of Ashraf City's power station followed the assassination on February 6 of a local tribe council member, Sheikh Hamid Ziab, in charge of protection of the power station.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed that 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. The agents were 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.

The bombing of Ashraf City's water pumping station has sparked a wave of strong condemnations by International and local political and human rights organizations.