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BAGHDAD - The Iranian opposition group Mujahideen Khalq said on Sunday a car bomb exploded near one of its bases in southern Iraq, wounding one of its members and two Iraqi civilians.
It said in a statement that "terrorists dispatched by the clerical regime" in Iran detonated a car laden with explosives on Saturday in the vicinity of Camp Habib, 20 miles north of Basra.
An Iraqi civilian car driving by was destroyed and two passengers seriously wounded, it said. A Mujahideen car was also damaged and one of its passengers slightly wounded.
"The assault was the mullahs' 78th terrorist attack against the Iranian Resistance in Iraqi territory since the beginning of 1993," the statement said.
Iraq and the Mujahideen have blamed Iran for several recent attacks on the Iranian opposition in Iraq, including a car bomb explosion which killed six group members and one Iraqi.
They also blamed the Islamic state for launching three long-range missiles across the border, hitting a camp used by Mujahideen.
The Mujahideen have several bases equipped with tanks, heavy guns and helicopter gunships close to the Iranian border.
Their office in Baghdad, ringed by
a concrete wall, has survived several mortar and bomb attacks.
Huge Demonstration Against Mullahs’ Regime, Iran Zamin News Agency, September 25
The Mojahedin Command Headquarters in Iran repoted today that at the end of a match between Esteqlal and Pirouzi football clubs in front of a capacity crowd of 100,000 in Azadi Stadium in west Tehran, young spectators in different parts of the stadium began chanting slogans used by students in the July antigovernment uprising in Tehran.
The match quickly turned into a huge demonstration as young people chanted "Your tanks and machine-guns are no longer effective", "down with mullahs’ power", and "down with Khamenei, down with Rafsanjani, down with Khatami."
[AFP reported from Tehran that "Iranian youths went on a rampage, seriously damaging about 300 Tehran city buses after a football match between the capital's two main first division clubs.’]
Special anti-riot units of the State Security Forces stationed in the stadium fired teargas into the crowd and fired into the air.
Angry crowds once outside the stadium began to demonstrate against the mullahs’ regime and clashed with State Security Forces troops. School and university students made up the bulk of the demonstrators.
The chants of angry demonstrators in
the stadium could be heard briefly on the state radio this evening as it
was giving live coverage to the match, but the program was quickly interrupted.
Eggs Hit Mullahs’ Officials Near UN, Reuters, September 24
NEW YORK - Two people were arrested for throwing dye-filled eggs at Iranian officials outside the United Nations on Friday, police said.
Dr. Mohammad Razani, an adviser to the Iranian Mission, was struck in the back of the head by one of the eggs, but he was not injured, police said.
Another egg was thrown at Fattah Nabavi, an aide to the prime minister of Iran, police said. He also was not injured.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement saying the incident was a protest against death sentences passed on students and demonstrators arrested after uprisings in Iran in July.
The protesters hurled the eggs at a delegation that included Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, the statement said.
[Associated Press reported: In the streets outside the U.N. building before Kamal Kharrazi spoke, several protesters angered by Iranian death sentences against student activists pelted his delegation with ink-filled eggs. Four people were sentenced to death in connection with last July demonstrations.
[The National Council of Resistance
of Iran, an umbrella opposition group, staged a protest outside U.N. headquarters
Friday against the death sentences.]
Daily Urges Asylum for Expelled Hamas Leader, Agence France Presse, September 25
TEHRAN - A Tehran daily called on the Iranian government Saturday to give political asylum to Musa Abu Marzuq, a top official of the Palestinian militant movement Hamas who was expelled from Jordan Wednesday.
"Following one of the basic principles of the Islamic revolution, Iran should give shelter to these revolutionaries, as they need sincere friends who can help them at this crucial juncture of their struggle," the English-language Tehran Times said.