Operation Sohrab - Statement No.3
Mullahs' regime confirms Mojahedin's major operations in Ilam

In their midday news bulletins today, the Iranian state radio and television confirmed the Mojahedin's major operations in the city of Ilam, 18 hours after the mortar attack on the General Directorate of Intelligence, the command headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards and the paramilitary Bassij in Ilam province and the ensuing clashes between the Mojahedin units and the mullahs' suppressive forces in the city of Ilam.

The state radio and television broadcast today the news and interviews produced by the Ministry of Intelligence. While admitting that the Mojahedin military units attacked their targets last night with mortars, they announced that "three of our fellow countrymen were martyred and five were wounded."

To cover up the dimensions of the blows suffered by the regime, the Intelligence Ministry deliberately kept silent about the identities and the military ranks of those killed or wounded. The Mojahedin Command inside Iran had announced in a statement issued this morning that those killed or wounded in the attack were all members of the Revolutionary Guards and intelligence agents of the regime. Three commanders of the Revolutionary Guards' paramilitary Bassij - identified as Ghobad Mansour-Beigi, Reza Molai and Alireza Ali-Hosseini - were among those killed in the clashes.

In the interviews broadcast by the state radio and television, two of the wounded Revolutionary Guards identified themselves as "the children of Khomeini" and said they were prepared "to defend the goals of the Imam and the Islamic Revolution to the last drop of blood." They did not reveal their identities as Revolutionary Guards.

The Mojahedin Command inside Iran announced this morning that the Intelligence Ministry had fabricated a report to be used by the state-run media to claim that those killed in the clashes with the Mojahedin were unarmed villagers visiting each other on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. In a directive to all state-controlled media outlets, the Intelligence Ministry emphasized that they must not mention in their reports anything about clashes between Revolutionary Guards and Bassij forces and the Mojahedin, nor mention the ranks of the regime's casualties.

In a series of military operations by Mojahedin military units last night and the ensuing clashes in Ilam which went on for several hours, dozens of Revolutionary Guards and intelligence agents of the mullahs' regime were killed or wounded.

People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
January 9, 2000

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