NCRI - At 5:00 pm, Saturday, July 21, terrorists dispatched by the clerical regime blew up for the second time in the past three days the water pipelines from the Tigris River to Ashraf City, at a location 18 kms to the west of Ashraf.

The three masked terrorists drew weapons on locals who saw them and fled the scene with a dark blue Opel (Vauxhall), the license plate of which had been covered.

The clerical regime and its agents have taken recent remarks attributed to a number of Iraqi officials against the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) as a green light for their terrorist attacks. Last August, only two days after an Iraqi official lashed out at the Mojahedin, two of the PMOI's members, Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi, were abducted in Baghdad.

The bombing of the pipelines, in the 50-degree heat of summer, is an abhorrent, cowardly, inhumane and anti-Islamic act as well as a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

The Iranian Resistance recalls the legal status of the members of Mojahedin in Ashraf City as protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention. It urges the Multi-National Force - Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations and in particular the government of Iraq to condemn this act and legally pursue the perpetrators of this terrorist crime. It also calls on them to take the necessary steps to prevent further attacks on Ashraf City's water pipelines.

In recent days, hundreds of parliamentarians, jurists, and political personalities in Iraq, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia, have written to the Iraqi Prime Minister, U.S. officials and relevant international agencies or have issued statements, in which they underscored the need to uphold international conventions and laws regarding the situation of the People's Mojahedin. They also emphatically reminded such officials of their responsibility to ensure the safety and security of PMOI members in Ashraf City.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 23, 2006