Disclosure of the Khomeini regime's incursion into Iraqi territory-aimed at suppressing the forces of the Iranian people's just Resistance and exporting the mullahs' medieval fundamentalism-contradicted its opportunistic political objectives, both domestically and internationally. Therefore, the mullahs went to great lengths to ensure their denial of meddling in Iraqi affairs.
Guards captured by the NLA in the Operation Pearl said the Khomeini regime had assigned several battalions the task of returning the Guards' corpses to Iran, so that no trace of them would be left on Iraqi soil. The captives also said Rafsanjani had personally ordered that the regime's dead not be returned to their families. Their death certificates were to cite "disarming minefield" or the like as the circumstances of their deaths. Meanwhile, the Khomeini regime persistently denied its involvement in Iraq.
On
April 1, however, three weeks after the regime had started its attacks on
NLA bases inside Iraqi territory, Tehran radio announced that the regime
had confronted the Iranian Resistance's forces: `An informed military official
called the Islamic Republic News Agency to announce that this morning, Monday,
April 1, 1991, a group of the Mojahedin seeking to enter the Islamic Republic
of Iran's territory had clashed with military forces stationed north of
Qasr-Shirin."
These false claims coincided with the last attempt by thousands of the Khomeini regime's Guards to attack the NLAs defense lines from Qasr-Shirin. The Khomeini regime had suffered a major defeat, leaving 1,500 dead and a large amount of arms and ammunition with GC markings on Iraqi soil. Citing this irrefutable evidence, the People's Mojahedin of Iran repeated its appeal to international organizations to condemn the Khomeini regime's extensive military interference in Iraq to suppress the Iranian Resistance.
The Mojahedin also repeated its call on the United Nations to send a delegation to the Khanaqin - Qasr-Shirin region.
On April 12, a month after the interference had begun, the mullahs' President, Rafsanjani, vented his anger in a Tehran Friday prayers sermon at the international media's extensive coverage of the Mojahedin's revelations. He also admitted his regime's involvement in Iraq: "It's not our responsibility to safeguard our 1,300-km border with Iraq... It is possible that some people did go... to the other side, do some things and come back."
