The Mojahedin Command Headquarters inside Iran reported today that more than 100 Revolutionary Guards, intelligence agents were killed or wounded in nine operations and clashes from Friday, October 31, until the early hours of Monday, November 3.

A statement by the Press Office of Mojahedin in Paris said: "The clashes and operations took place around the cities of Khorramshahr, Moussian, Dehloran and Qasr-e-Shirin over vast areas of the provinces of Khuzistan, Ilam and Kermanshah."

"The clashes were unprecedented in dimensions in recent months. The Resistance forces pounded the centers of the Revolutionary Guards with light and medium-caliber weapons.

"Special Intelligence Ministry agents dispatched from Tehran took part in clashes around the city of Dehloran. A number of them were killed or wounded as the Mojahedin attacked their vehicles.

"Eight Mojahedin combatants were slain in these clashes. One of them, Philip Yousefieh, was a Christian who had joined the Mojahedin eight years ago."

Fighting Corruption: Mullahs' Way, Agence France Presse, November 2 

TEHRAN - Four senior Tehran municipality officials sentenced to prison on corruption charges have been freed on bail and allowed to return to their posts, Kayhan newspaper said Sunday.

The four include two district mayors who were given lengthy jail terms last month for alleged embezzlement and taking bribes. They posted bail while awaiting a verdict from an appeal court.

One of the mayors, Davood Tajeran, was sentenced in early October to five years in jail and banned from holding any government position.

Poverty Takes Its Toll, Agence France Presse, November 1 

TEHRAN - An Iranian hospital kept a newborn baby girl for six months because her parents were unable to pay the bill, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

The father, a poor laborer, tried to pay the two million rial (450 dollar) bill two months after the birth of his daughter only to be told it had "nearly doubled" in the meantime, the daily Iran said.

Anti-US Campaign Picks up Ahead of Embassy Seizure Anniversary, Agence France Presse, November 3

TEHRAN - Iran has intensified a political campaign against its arch foe, the United States, ahead of the 18th anniversary of the seizure of the American embassy here.

Officials have arranged for 18 million schoolchildren to start classes on Tuesday with shouts of "Death to Great Satan," the description of the United States since the 1979 Islamic revolution which toppled the pro-American shah….

Political groups of all tendencies within the establishment plan major demonstrations outside the former embassy compound in central Tehran….

Various state-sanctioned political and religious organizations have called for a large turnout to demonstrate the continuation of anti-American sentiment in the Islamic republic….

However, despite pretensions of unity, the event this year is marked by deep division and a power struggle between political factions in the establishment.

Islamic radical leftwingers, boosted by the election of President Mohammad Khatami in May, have voiced displeasure over the role played by their conservative rivals in staging the official demonstration.

The radicals, represented by Islamic associations in universities, claim a special role in the occasion because the raid on the embassy was staged by radical university students 18 years ago….

The students, who maintain allegiance to the late founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, are being allowed for the first time in recent years to hold a separate rally which will be addressed by the staunchly anti-American former interior minister Ali-Akbar Mohtashemi….

On Friday, former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani accused the United States of trying to give an "international dimension" to its campaign against Iran….

Bonn Says Still No Solution to Iran Stalemate, Reuter, November 3

BONN - The German government said on Monday no diplomatic solution had yet been found which would enable the European Union's 15 ambassadors to return to Iran.

Germany and its allies in the EU recalled their envoys from Tehran after a Berlin court concluded in April that Iran's political leaders had ordered the 1992 murder of four Kurdish dissidents in Germany. Iran has denied involvement….

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