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Saturday, 22 July 2006 |
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London, 22 July 2006 (Iran Terror) – A senior official of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main opposition to the religious theocracy ruling Iran, has shed light on a terrorist bombing in June of a passenger bus full of Iraqi workers heading to the group’s base Camp Ashraf, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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Tuesday, 28 May 1996 |
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On the evening of 28 May 1996, Reza Mazlouman, a former Professor of Criminology at Tehran University and Deputy Minister under the Shah, was shot dead in his own apartment in Paris. A friend opened the door to the assassin, who was known to Professor Mazlouman, having introduced himself to the victim previously as an opponent of the regime. The killer waited until the friend had gone, and then fired two shots into Mazlouman's head, killing him instantly. |
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Thursday, 07 March 1996 |
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At 20:00 local Baghdad time, on Thursday 7 March 1996, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran was assassinated on Sa'dun Street, a mile from the Mojahedin's central office in Baghdad. The victim, Hamed Reza Rahmani, 33, who was an officer in the National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA), was near the Sheraton Hotel when gun-fire shattered the rear window of his four-wheel drive vehicle. He died instantly from gunshot wounds to his head. |
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Tuesday, 05 March 1996 |
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On Tuesday 5 March 1996, two Iranian Sunni Muslim clerics were shot dead in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. The unidentified attackers had fired about 30 bullets at the car carrying the two clerics, setting its petrol tank ablaze and wounding a woman passer-by. |
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