The Mujahedeen e-Khalq terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Supreme Leader’s Representative in Khorasan, 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. 141 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 February 18, 1983, Ayatollah Abbas Vaez-e Tabasi, the Supreme Leader’s Representative in Khorasan Province, was assassinated by an agent of MKO named ‘Babaei’, but escaped death.