On November 25, Mojahedin's military units launched a series of operations in the provinces of Khuzistan, Kermanshah and Lorestan, heavily pounding eight of the clerical regime's key centers of suppression and export of terrorism.

The operations followed the clerical regime's missile attack on November 2 against the NLA's Camp Habib which led to the deaths of five Mojahedin members and wounding of scores of others, as well as the regime's failed attack Camp Ashraf on November 24.

In Ahwaz, capital of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzistan, the Mojahedin operational units pounded with 82mm mortars the central headquarters of the General Directorate for Intelligence in the province, along with its affiliated Fajr HQ (a training center for foreign terrorist agents of the Intelligence Ministry), a Revolutionary Guards' Jihad center and a headquarters of the para-military Bassij.

Khuzistan's General Directorate for Intelligence has played a key role in carrying out terrorist attacks on the Mojahedin in Iraqi territory, including car-bomb attacks.

In Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan province, Imam Hossein Garrison, housing the Revolutionary Guards Corps' command HQ, was pounded with mortars. A large number of Guards were killed or wounded and parts of the garrison were heavily damaged.

In Kermanshah province, the regime's largest missile center, Hemmat Base, used for storing Scud-B and Scud-C missiles, was attacked with 82mm mortars. A large number of the Revolutionary Guards, who had time and again targeted the bases of the Iranian Resistance with proscribed Scud missiles, were killed or wounded.

In another major operation, Mojahedin used 82mm mortars to pound the HQ of the Special Detachment of Kermanshah's State Security Forces, inflicting heavy casualties on the force. The detachment is responsible for the crackdown on the five-day uprising in this province in December 1996, the uprising of the people of Sanandaj in February 1999 and the student uprising in this city in July 1999, which led to deaths of dozens and the wounding of a larger number of demonstrators.

The Revolutionary Guards Corps' Command HQ in Abadan (Khuzistan province) was also pounded with mortars and scores of Revolutionary Guards were killed or wounded.
 

Mujahedeen Forces Hit Targets With Mortar, Associated Press, November 26

DUBAI -- …The Mujahedeen said its agents had hit an Intelligence Ministry facility with mortars and "a large number of Intelligence Ministry agents were killed or wounded." An Intelligence Ministry center for training foreign agents also was hit, they claimed.

"In the course of last night's operation by the Mujahedeen in Ahvaz, no civilian center was targeted and no ordinary person was killed" or wounded, the exile group said in statements released Friday.

The Mujahedeen also said it had launched a mortar attack Thursday night on a Revolutionary Guards' facility in the Western city of Khorramabad in which "scores of Revolutionary Guards were killed or wounded." The Mujahedeen said it used 82-mm mortars, which have a maximum range of about 2 miles.

In Kermanshah, the Mujahedeen said it used mortars similar to those used in the Ahvaz strike to hit the headquarters of the state security forces and inflicted unspecified "heavy casualties."
 

Failed Missile Attack By Tehran Reported, Agence France Presse, November 25

BAGHDAD - Four surface-to-surface missiles exploded in north-eastern Iraq in a botched attack on a camp belonging to Iranian opposition group the People's Mujahedeen, the group claimed Thursday.

The missiles, which were being carried on the back of a large lorry, exploded prematurely Wednesday night, some 16 Kilometres (10 miles) from the Ashraf camp, to the north-east of Baghdad, the group's statement said.

[The surface-to-surface missiles' warheads carried the date of manufacture and the serial number in Farsi language. The marking "Built in Iran, North Khavaran Factory" could be seen on the cables for the missiles' control system.]

The Mujahedeen said the missiles were supposed to have been launched at their camp by members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

The Mujahedeen said this was the 82nd such attack since 1993.

Earlier this month, the group said several Iraqis were injured by a massive car bomb planted next to a highway in southern Iraq.

Led by Massud Rajavi, the Mujahedeen in 1986 set up an Iranian National Liberation Army (INLA) which it claims has some 50,000 fighters.
 

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