The Mujahedeen e-Khalq terrorist group has claimed responsibility for assassination of a man in Lahijan 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. 148 of the Journal of Mujahid, 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 April 14, 1983, an operational unit of MKO in Lahijan, after a reconnaissance mission, assassinates a man named Bijan Maddafi. According to the MKO’s publication, Maddafi’s crime, upon which he was deserved to revolutionary execution, had been “identifying and reporting on revolutionaries and repression and intimidation of deprived villagers”. 