Back to Brief on Iran
Yesterday, the Mullahs' Foreign Ministry spokesman claimed that the Mojahedin resort to "blind acts of terrorism against defenseless civilians." Simultaneously, the clerical regime has embarked on an intense campaign, stage-managing, making false claims and going to hospitals, claiming that a number of innocent civilians have been wounded.
To prevent the exposure of its stage-managing, the clerical regime has not even allowed reporters from government-controlled dailies to approach the scene of the operation or meet those wounded. Akhbar Eqtesad and Asr-e Azadegan dailies wrote on February 6 that "it was impossible to see the site of explosions because the area of Vali-e Asr, Imam Khomeini and Pasteur streets are under protection... Officers present on the scene prevented photographers from taking pictures and seized the films in the cameras of our reporters and photographers. Aftab-e Emrouz wrote the same day that "[authorities] have not cooperated with reporters about meeting those wounded in this incident."
A Mojahedin spokesman again denied the clerical regime's absolutely bogus and contradictory claims and reiterated that those wounded during the operation "Tehran Uprising" were Revolutionary Guardsmen protecting Khamenei. Others whom the regime claims to have been wounded by the Mojahedin were actually wounded after the operation due to indiscriminate shooting by the Revolutionary Guards and the State Security Forces.
In order to shed light on the truth
of the matter, the Mojahedin propose the dispatch to Tehran of an international
mission accompanied with a Mojahedin representative in order to visit the
site where the mortars landed and meet those the regime claims to have
been wounded.
Iranian Resistance Resolved to Escalate Operations, Reuters, February 7
DUBAI - Iran's exiled Mujahideen Khalq rebels seem resolved to keep up guerrilla attacks.
It was the latest in a series of attacks and raids by the Mujahideen, Iran's main exiled opposition group which rejects Mohammad Khatami.
An opposition spokesman said the Mujahideen had been left no alternative but to use force to try to topple the government.
"The military option has been imposed on the Iranian people, on the Iranian resistance, by the clerical regime by denying the Iranian people their fundamental rights," said Farzin Hashemi, a senior official from the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in which the Mujahideen forms the largest bloc.
"We have exhausted many years ago all peaceful avenues... until the Iranian people reached the point where either they had to submit to this clerical regime, to this dictatorship, or to stand up," he told Reuters.
"Being able to undertake such a massive operation in the heart of Tehran is indicative of the support we have (inside Iran)," he said of Saturday's attack.
He also said widespread riots, which followed an attack by police and hard-liners on pro-democracy students in July showed that peaceful opposition was impossible.
The group gets most of its backing
from Iranian exiles, who have turned out in numbers in colorful protests
against visits by Tehran officials to European countries.
Missile Attack on Resistance's Base Foiled, Agence France Presse, February 7
BAGHDAD - Iran's main armed opposition said Monday it foiled a missile attack on one of its camps inside Iraq, as Tehran threatened retaliation for a series of explosions in the Iranian capital.
The People's Mujahedeen said its fighters on Sunday found six 107-mm missiles equipped with electronic timers just minutes before they were primed to fire at its Anzali camp, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Iranian border.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief, General Rahim Safavi, meanwhile threatened reprisals in the wake of the blasts on Saturday in Tehran, Iranian state radio reported.
He noted that the Revolutionary Guards had "the task and duty of defending Iran's frontiers and ensuring security in the border zones."
The Mujahedeen mortar attack damaged the offices of the Expediency Council, a powerful official arbitration body headed by former president Rafsanjani.
["We are always prepared for any attack by the mullahs' regime, because it is an outlaw regime that thrives on terrorism," Farid Soleimani, spokesman for the group in Baghdad, told Reuters.
[Soleimani said Saturday's attack on Tehran was carried out by the group's rebels living in Iran. "The Mujahideen's operations in Iran have nothing to do with their presence in Iraq, because these operations are conducted exclusively by the Mujahideen command inside Iran," he said.]