Revolutionary Guards Commander in Chief acknowledges Mojahedin carried out 116 military operations in Iran since March 1999

Revolutionary Guards' Commander in Chief Major General Rahim Safavi admitted in an interview with Iran's Channel 2 state-run TV on Friday night that the Mojahedin have carried out more than 116 military operations and mortar attacks on the mullahs' military targets in different provinces across the country since March 1999. Safavi also voiced concern at the extensive military exercises conducted by the National Liberation Army close to Iran's western borders, saying that in the same period, nine such maneuvers have been staged "in the border periphery."

Safavi said that the mortar attacks on the clerical regime's nerve centers in Tehran "are more a political operation than a military one and these operations have complexities that we must take note of." He added that the Mojahedin, through such operations, "create an air of mistrust, suspicion and accusations among internal factions and create internal tensions between political groups and factions within the regime."

The Guards commander referred to the extensive regional and international impact of the mortar attacks on key government centers in the heart of Tehran by the Mojahedin and said: "Foreign politicians react to these by wondering what is happening that they come and attack the heart of Iran's central leadership. In this way, [the Mojahedin] want to say to Iran's neighbors that Iran is also an insecure country."

People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
March 18, 2000

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