According to a report by the Mojahedin's Command inside Iran, at 11:30 p.m. on Friday, June 9, the Mojahedin's operational units pounded the East Azerbaijan Province's Intelligence Department, the State Security Forces' HQ and a Guards Corps Center in the provincial capital in Tabriz.

A number of Guards Corps and torturers were killed or wounded as a result.

The operation was carried out in solidarity with last July's heroic uprising of students and people of Tabriz, crushed brutally by the regime's suppressive forces.

East Azerbaijan's Intelligence department, located at the building that once housed the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, is the main center of suppression and espionage in this province. Its many crimes include the arrest, torture and execution of thousands of young Mojahedin or other freedom-loving Iranians, suppression of protests and demonstrations, particularly the uprising of the people and students of Tabriz in July 1999, and the setting up of safe houses where abducted dissidents are tortured.

The Intelligence Department in East Azerbaijan has set up a new headquarters called the "Message Center", which is a telephone tapping center and a jamming station to disrupt Mojahedin's radio broadcasts.
 

[Agence France Presse, June 11 - The center of the northwestern town of Tabriz was rocked by a series of explosions Friday evening, the paper Resalaat reported Sunday.

The explosions were caused by mortars, the paper said. It said no official announcement had been made, but quoted unofficial sources as saying 60 mm mortars were involved.

A number of mortar attacks have targeted Tehran in recent months, which have been claimed by the armed opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin.]
 

Mojahedin Clash With Revolutionary Guards, Intelligence Agents, Iran Zamin News Agency, June 9

The Mojahedin Command inside Iran reported that at 9 am yesterday a Mojahedin operational unit clashed with the clerical regime's Revolutionary Guards and intelligence agents in Ban Roshan area, west of the city of Ilam (western Iran).

The Intelligence Ministry agents, who could not counter the Mojahedin's assault, called in units of Revolutionary Guards and the paramilitary Bassij. Units of the 1st "Amir-ol-Momenin" Brigade of the Revolutionary Guards' 4th "Bessat" Division surrounded the entire area.

A large number of regime's forces were killed or wounded in the fighting. One Mojahedin fighter, Habib Hashemi-Khah, was killed.

Following the clashes, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the mullahs' regime issued a directive to security, military, intelligence and paramilitary forces in Ilam, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Ahwaz, Tehran, Tabriz, Rasht, Sari, and Mashad, putting them on alert with regard to "possible attacks by the Mojahedin."
 

Iran's Show Trials, The Washington Times, June 8

[Excerpts from an article by Dr. Arnold Beichman, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.]

Who would have thought that the ghost of Josef Stalin and his infamous Moscow trials would be floating about in Iran, that ancient land of a great and ancient civilization, which today has fallen to a level of caveman barbarity?

Iran's traditions and its history should place this land of 68 million in the forefront of nations. Instead, Iran's theocracy has moved the country into the early stages of a totalitarian society… For ayatollahism, a modern economy spells danger…

And now we have Stalin redux in Iran. Thirteen Jews have been indicted for espionage on behalf of Israel. But something new has been added to these show trials — televised confessions which have been broadcast during the star chamber proceedings. The defendants have not been given the right to broadcast their defense…

Diplomats, reporters, non-Iranian cameramen and human rights observers have been excluded from the courtroom so there is no way of independently confirming what government "leakers" have been alleging against the 13 defendants.

This terrible farce has its origin in ayatollahism, which grants "fatwas"… giving the right to kill anyone who is deemed to have violated religious principles. From such despotism, it is but a short step to frame-up trials...

In the Old Testament is the story of another Persian named Haman who persuaded King Ahasueras that all the Jews in his kingdom should be exterminated. But a miracle occurred, according to the Book of Esther, and it was Haman who was executed. It's time for another miracle.

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