BRIEF  ON  IRAN, No. 206
        Tuesday, July 11, 1995
        Representative Office of
        The National Council of Resistance of Iran

        3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007


Three Iranian Dissidents Killed in Baghdad Ambush, Associated Press, July 10

        BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen killed three members of the main Iranian
opposition movement in an ambush in downtown Baghdad on Monday.
        The Iraq-based Mujahedeen Khalq, to which the three belonged, said
the gunmen were Iranian agents....
        The attack came a day after Iranian Revolutionary Guards fired
rockets into the Mujahedeen's main military base in eastern Iraq....
        The attackers raked one car with AK-47 assault rifles and
rocket-propelled grenades, killing three occupants, all long-time
Mujahedeen activists, [the Mujahedeen spokesman, Feridoun Soleimani] said.
        Soleimani said the Mujahedeen activists in the other car chased the
gunmen down the freeway for 12 miles in a running gunbattle, with the
attackers hurling hand grenades at their pursuers.
        One of the assailants was wounded and captured. The other two, also
wounded, escaped, Soleimani said....


Three Iranian Exiles Killed in Baghdad, United Press International, July 10

        ATHENS - ... The Mojahedin Khalq Organization said the attackers,
believed to be   "the Khomeini regime's mercenaries,"  were later wounded
as opposition group members in another vehicles fought a running battle
with them during a chase along a Baghdad expressway....
        The early morning attack in Baghdad occurred when the Iranian
government agents used an RPG-18 anti-tank weapon to open fire on a vehicle
carrying three members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization....
        The vehicle used by the attackers was found to have several number
plates, installed one on top of the other....
        The attack was the second in as many days on the Iranian exiles in
Iraq....
        The Mojahedin Khalq exiles, bitter opponents of the ruling clerics
in Iran, ... have vowed to topple the clerics in Iran, either by force or
via other means.


Iraq Summons Iranian Envoy over Attack on Exiles, Reuters, July 10

        BAGHDAD - Three members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen
Khalq were shot dead in Baghdad on Monday and Iraq summoned Iran's Charge
D'Affaires to protest over the second incident in two days....
        Al-Thawra, the official newspaper of the Baath party, said Iraq
protested over another attack on Sunday when Iran's revolutionary guards
fired rockets at the group's main camp, Al-Ashraf....
        "Iraq strongly denounces and condemns this aggressive act and holds
the Iranian government fully responsible for it," Thawra said, quoting a
spokesman for the Iraqi foreign ministry.
        "It (Iraq) reserves full right of legitimate defense in the face of
the Iranian aggression with appropriate means and at a suitable time,"
Thawra said....


Gunmen Kill Mojahedin, Voice of America, July 10

        A spokesman for the Mujahadeen Khalq told reporters in Baghdad that
gunmen killed three members of the group in an ambush and high-speed car
chase through the Iraqi capital.... He blames it on Iranian agents.
        Amnesty international, the London-based human rights group, often
has criticized Iran for trying to eliminate opponents both at home and
abroad. Iraq's foreign ministry called in Iran's diplomat in Baghdad to
complain about Sunday's cross-border attack on the Iranian camp at
Ashraf....


Three Mojahedin Members Killed in Baghdad, From a statement issued by the
office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad, July 10

        ... Upon learning of the terrorist crime of the mullahs' terrorist
dictatorship in the Iraqi capital, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, leader of the
Iranian Resistance, emphasized the Resistance's legitimate right to self
defense and to respond to the terrorist attacks of Khomeini's heirs....
        Mr. Rajavi announced: In the face of the Iranian people's growing
Resistance and the remarkable domestic and international support for the
Resistance's President- elect, the  criminal mullahs have reached a point,
where they cannot preserve their rule, even one day without suppression of
the people inside and export of terrorism outside....
        The People's Mojahedin of Iran believe the Khomeini regime's
terrorist diplomats in Baghdad masterminded and organized the terrorist
operation today in Baghdad. The Mojahedin strongly call on the Iraqi
government and officials to immediately follow up on this crime, prosecute
and punish the terrorists, and close down the Khomeini regime's embassy in
Baghdad.