Mullah Ruhollah Hosseinian, head of the "Islamic Revolution’s Documentation Center" who has occupied key positions in the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence for many years, has acknowledged in a public speech in Qom (south of Tehran) that the Tehran regime has carried out "hundreds of operations outside Iran" against the Mojahedin.

Hosseinian, whose remarks have been published by several newspapers in Tehran, said: "(ex-Deputy Intelligence Minister) Saeed Eslami truly believed that the enemies of the Islamic Republic must be beheaded and he had plenty of experience in this. When he was the Deputy Minister of Intelligence for security, and was in charge of the country’s security, he carried out perhaps hundreds of operations outside Iran in connection with the Mojahedin, including the bombing of the Mojahedin base in Baghdad in 1996."

The explicit acknowledgment by an official of the Intelligence Ministry is yet another irrefutable proof of the atrocities committed by this religious, terrorist dictatorship. Since 1993, the mullahs’ regime has carried out 77 terrorist attacks on the Mojahedin on Iraqi territory alone. Mullahs’ terrorist agents have carried out terrorist attacks or conspiracies against officials, activists and members of the Iranian Resistance and the Mojahedin in many other countries, including Switzerland, France, Germany, Turkey, Pakistan, Italy, Norway, Britain, Sweden and Holland.

State-controlled daily Hamshahri, today wrote: "What makes Husseinian's remarks different from only a viewpoint is that in his remarks, he stressed that killing people is a common act in the Intelligence Ministry. His opinion is like those who nowadays issue permits for murder, and Husseinian is the outspoken spokesman of these circles.
 
 

Clerics’ Leader Says Iran Needs "Nobody’s Permission to Punish" Jewish "Spies", Agence France Presse, September 21

TEHRAN - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday told visiting Austrian President Thomas Klestil his country "asks nobody’s permission to punish the spies" facing death for allegedly working for Israel.

"If their crime is proved by the court, they will probably be punished," the Iranian leader told Klestil, who had voiced European Union concerns at Iran’s human rights record over the spy case and the condemnation to death of four alleged leaders of July’s student arrest.

"Zionist agents are everywhere, in Austria too," Khamenei told his guest.

"I know in Austria they have already carried out subversive activities," he warned, without giving details.

Klestil voiced the "EU’s dismay and preoccupation over the human rights situation in Iran, notably the death sentences handed down against four people condemned to death for their involvement in (July’s) pro-democracy demonstrations," a member of his delegation told AFP.

Under Iranian law the sentence for spying for Israel or the United States is death.

Iran’s deputy judiciary chief Hadi Marvi said in remarks published Monday that several of the 13 Jews have confessed to the crime.
 
 

Khamenei Reaffirms Refusal of Relations With US, Agence France Presse, September 21

TEHRAN - Iran is not interested in establishing relations with the United States, the country’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Austrian President Thomas Klestil Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"Although the United States is bigger and richer than the European Union," Tehran does not want to resume ties with it, he said.
 
 

Mullahs' Threat to Emirati Security: Envoy to UN, Agence France Presse, September 21

DUBAI - Iran is stepping up its military presence on a disputed island, posing a threat to the security of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Gulf state’s ambassador to the United Nations warned Tuesday.

"Iran is seeking to transform the island of Abu Musa into a stationary aircraft carrier, something which endangers the security of the Emirates and the oilfields," said Mohammad bin Hussein al-Shaali.

"We want Iran to stop the militarization of Abu Musa island, which controls maritime traffic in the Gulf," the ambassador said, quoted by the official news agency WAM.

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