The state-run daily, Ressalat, acknowledged in its Saturday, June 26 issue that the terrorist car bomb attack on a Mojahedin passenger bus in Baghdad on June 9 was the work of the mullahs' terrorists: "The new strike at the Monafeqin (regime's term for Mojahedin) in Baghdad showed that the (Islamic Republic) regime has not been neglectful of its major responsibilities."

The ruling mullahs thus admit to their heinous terrorist crime; a crime that left behind seven dead and dozens wounded, including many innocent women and children traveling on an inter-city bus that was also destroyed in the indiscriminate car bomb attack.
 

Regime Says Arrested Jews Passed On Military Secrets, Reuters, June 28

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said the 13 Jews arrested in Iran on charges of spying for Israel had passed on secret military information to foreigners, Iran's state media reported on Monday.

Kharrazi revealed the charges in separate letters to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, foreign ministers of unnamed countries and other U.N. and European Union officials.

"The Zionist propaganda is aimed at overshadowing the judicial proceedings against the suspects and to try to influence the natural course of the investigations...It is a blatant interference in Iran's internal affairs," Kharrazi said.

Iran's foreign ministry said earlier this month it would not accept meddling in the case after French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine said the arrest of the Jews was intolerable. Khatami has so far kept silent on the case.
 
 

Top Mullah Admits to People's Indifference Towards Regime, Agence France Presse, June 27

TEHRAN - Conservative parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri Sunday hit out in parliament at liberal trends "which have reappeared and seek to abuse freedom in order to derail the revolution."

"Unfortunately, there are groups and hands at work in the country which collaborate with these circles in order to make society indifferent" towards the values of the Islamic system.

"They want freedom, but only so as to be able to plot," said Nateq-Nuri.
 
 

Mojahedin's Largest Publicity And Social Campaign in 622 Cities Across Iran, Iran Zamin News Agency, June 28

The Mojahedin Command Headquarters inside Iran issued a statement announcing the results of a month-long nationwide campaign to mark the eighteenth anniversary of the beginning of the Iranian Resistance on June 20, 1981. The statement described as "unprecedented" the dimensions of the publicity and social campaign in June, which Mojahedin forces and Resistance supporters conducted in 622 cities.

During this campaign, Resistance forces changed the faces of cities through their extensive slogan-writings in public places, mounting pictures and posters of the Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, hoisting the Iranian flag with the sun and lion crest (the Resistance's official flag), and distributing leaflets and pamphlets in public places and in different neighborhoods.

The campaign was so extensive that the regime's newspapers were forced to acknowledge parts of it. Sobh-e Emrouz and Iran News dailies reported on the distribution of Iranian flags marked with Lion-and-Sun emblem (the official flag of the Iranian Resistance) as well as the broadcast of the Resistance's official anthem, "O' Iran" in a gathering at Tehran's famous Hoseinieh Ershad conference center.

Resistance forces and units have played an especially active role in this campaign to instigate public protests and especially workers' strikes and student demonstrations.

The statement added: In the past three weeks, there have been many confrontations between Mojahedin fighters and the combined forces of the Revolutionary Guards and the Intelligence Ministry.
 
 

Death Toll in Traffic Accidents Up by 10 Percent Due to Bad Roads, Lack of Police Supervision, Reuter, June 28

TEHRAN - A speeding bus ran off a bridge in northeastern Iran, killing 20 people and injuring 27, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

Iran has one of the world's highest rates of road accidents, blamed on poor road conditions, old cars, lack of police supervision and reckless driving.

A traffic official said on Sunday that 14,700 people had died in traffic accidents in the year to March, 10 percent more that in the previous year.

"In our country 29 people die in traffic accidents per 10,000 cars on the road. The figure is several times higher than other countries," IRNA earlier quoted the official as saying.

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