In an interview with a Turkish television station, a SAVAMA agent, Reza Barzgar Ma'ssoumi, arrested by the police, revealed that four of the regime's diplomat-terrorists were involved in the cowardly murders. The daily Hurriyet wrote that last month, besides Ma'ssoumi, five terrorists were arrested for taking part in the assassinations. At least two of them were Iranian and Intelligence Ministry agents.
Ma'ssoumi added that the three years ago, the SAVAMA had assigned him to pose as a dissident to infiltrate the network of the Mojahedin sympathizers in Turkey and gather intelligence on their activities to facilitate terrorist operations.
Ma'ssoumi said that upon being informed of Mrs. Rajabi's presence in Turkey, the SAVAMA dispatched an agent to that country to make the necessary arrangements for the assassination. Subsequently, two killers arrived in Turkey and were briefed by Mohsen Kargar Azad and Mohammad-Reza Behrooz Manesh, two consular deputies in Istanbul. Ali Ashraf, the regime's press attache in Ankara provided them with silencer-equipped weapons and Majid Shadkar, an embassy attache, drove him and two other terrorists to Mrs. Rajabi's residence.
The leader of a terrorist group in Turkey had confessed to the active involvement of these four diplomat-terrorists in the murder of anti-fundamentalist Turkish intellectuals. The revelations led to their expulsion by the Turkish Government several days ago.
Earlier this month, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance, in a telegram to the Turkish President had called on him to ensure that the murderers of Mrs. Rajabi and Mr. Moradi face justice in a public court in the presence of journalists, the victims' families, their attorneys and the representatives of the Iranian Resistance.
The Iranian Resistance urges Turkish authorities to arrest, prosecute and punish other diplomat-terrorists involved in this cowardly assassination. It also calls for the closure of the regime's embassy and representative offices which only act as nests of espionage and terror on Turkish soil.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris April 23, 1996
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