Mr. Zakeri provided new information about a giant mortar launcher which was to be used in an attack against the residence in a Paris suburb of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect. Belgian police seized the deadly weapon and its ammunition at the Belgian port of Antwerp aboard an Iranian ship, Kolahdouz.
He also unveiled information about a similar mortar which the mullahs' terrorists were planning to use in Baghdad against the central office of the Mojahedin and Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's leader.
The 320mm mortars can fire a shell containing 125 kilograms of explosives and have a range of 650 meters. The regime's Defense Industry Organization manufactured 20 such mortars and delivered them to the Intelligence Ministry which originally put in the order. Such large amount of explosives was intended to inflict the highest number of casualties. For several months, a team selected by the Intelligence Ministry received special instructions about the weapon and the plot to assassinate Mrs. Rajavi .
Several weeks after the discovery of these shipments, the regime's Supreme Security Council (SSC) held a meeting, instructing the Ministry of Intelligence to give top priority to the transfer of the remaining mortars to Europe. To prevent the exposure of the plan, a special team has been assigned to the task and directly reports to Fallahian.
In addition, in June, the SSC held a meeting attended by Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Velayati, Fallahian and a number of other officials who discussed the assault on Mrs. Rajavi's residence and stressed pursuing the plot to assassinate her at "any cost."
Such a scheme by the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran was devised as popular protests against the deteriorating economic and social conditions have spread and escalated across the country in recent months. Simultaneously, the Resistance's nationwide network has staged three major publicity campaigns in Tehran and many other cities which the public enthusiastically welcomed.
During the conference, the parliamentarians stressed that the regime's resort to the use of heavy weapons on European soil reflects a new and dangerous phase in the export of terrorism. They reiterated that the EU's four-year policy of critical dialogue has failed to affect the behavior of Tehran's rulers in and out of the country and only emboldened them to continue the suppression of the Iranian people and export of terrorism and fundamentalism. The MPs called on the European Union to abandon this policy and adopt a decisive approach to confront the increasing threats posed by the clerical regime.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
July 25, 1996
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