Interview with Arash Sametipour and Babak Amin in Austrian Die presse Newspaper
Mujahedin-e-Khalq at that time was considered a military force backed by Saddam Hussein trying to overthrow the Islamic regime of Iran. In 1999 Mujahedin sent him to Camp Ashraf in Iraq located in a hundred Kilometers from Iranian border. He was supposed to attempt upon a high ranking officer’s life. “My mission to assassinate that official failed”said Sametipour in his office named Nejat Society.”