MKO claims responsibility for assassination of Basij’s head in Ramsar

The Mujahedeen e-Khalq terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the assassination of head of Basij Force in Ramsar, in 1983.
According to Habilian Association database (Specialized Center of Research on the MKO's Crimes), the MKO terrorist group has made the confession in No. 181 of the Mujahid Journal, the group’s main press organ during early years of the 80s.
According to this news that the MKO’s publication has referred to it as a document for its bravely operations, on December 1, 1983, an operational unit of MKO after a reconnaissance mission, trapped Nosratolhah Tafavot, the then head of Basij Force in Ketalem, a city in the Central District of Ramsar County of Mazandaran Province and in one of his traffic routes opened fire on and killed him.
Among the allegations that the MKO’s journal has mentioned as reasons for the assassination of this person, are active role in defeating and identifying the group’s agents in the city and the forest, as well as deploy to the front lines of the war with Iraq as commander.