Iranian asylum seeker shot dead in

Pakistan by Iranian agents

On Monday 7 February 2005 night a terrorist agent connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran shot three Iranian asylum seekers in the Killi Kabir area of Quetta, Pakistan. Ahmed Mausoof was killed in the attack whilst the two others managed to escape.

Confirming the incident, Police Officer Rafi Pervez Bhatti told ‘The News’ that unknown armed men barged into a house in Killi Kabir and shot dead Ahmed Mausoof, who was Iranian awaiting refugee status determination by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Pakistan.

The two survivors of the terrorist attack stated that they had been receiving death threats from the Islamic regime’s agents for the past several months. It has been learnt that Ahmed Mausoof was living in the house along with two his Iranian friends, Rahim Raisi and Najeebullah for the past one year. The body of the deceased was removed to the morgue of Bolan Medical Complex Hospital.

Twenty six years after the Islamic Republic of Iran was established, opponents of the regime are still at risk of persecution even in abroad. During its rule, numerous Iranian opponents have been assassinated by agents of the Iranian regime abroad. In Pakistan alone, Iranian asylum seekers have been the targets of 14 terrorist attacks, which caused 16 deaths and 44 serious injuries since 1982.

The «laisser-faire» policy of the Pakistani government, as well as it’s political and trade dealings with Iran, cannot but increases the atmosphere of insecurity inside Pakistan and for Iranian asylum seekers...

Judicial inquiries in various countries have aimed at establishing the role and responsibility of the regime’s representatives and services in the planning of such assassinations. The main investigation was held in Germany. The verdict brought in by the Berlin court on 10 April 1997 (in the trial of the assassins of the secretary-general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Sadegh Sharafkandi, and three of his comrades, all shot on 17 September 1992 in the «Mykonos» restaurant in Berlin) confirmed for the very first time the responsibility of the Iranian State's highest authorities in the assassination of their opponents.

The recent assassination of the Iranian asylum seeker in Quetta, Pakistan clearly shows that nothing has changed in the Iranian regime's policy with regards to its opponents.

The International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) strongly condemns the terrorist attack against Iranian asylum seeker in Pakistan and urges the UNHCR to immediately transfer the remaining two survivors to a safe country; review all refused case of Iranian asylum seekers in Pakistan; and grant them refugee status.

We call on the Pakistani government to provide more security for Iranian asylum seekers in Pakistan.

The Pakistani government is responsible for this terrorist attack on Iranian asylum seekers. They have a duty to prosecute the terrorists.

Below you will find a partial list of asylum seekers who were victims of assaults by Iran's state terrorism in Pakistan.

International Federation of Iranian refugees (IFIR)

9 February 2005

The list of Iranian asylum seekers who were victims of assaults by Iran's state terrorism in Pakistan (1982-1996)