The mullahs' official news agency and state radio and television announced today that those arrested had been put in contact with the Mojahedin "by the Iraqi intelligence."
The self-contradictory news manufactured by the Intelligence Ministry does not explain when these alleged persons were arrested. Where and under what circumstances were they tried and convicted? Why did the regime refrain from announcing their arrest and how is it that, by pure coincidence, it has remembered them on the anniversary of the punishment of Sayyad Shirazi? It is also unclear why the clerical regime has not invited international observers to attend their trial and conducted in complete secrecy the trial of those now claimed by the Intelligence Ministry to have been put in contact with the Mojahedin by "the Iraqi intelligence." The Mojahedin and Iranian Resistance's representatives have repeatedly declared their readiness to attend the investigation and trial sessions in such cases in the presence of international lawyers and jurists.
The operation was planned in its entirety by the Mojahedin operational units inside Iran and was carried out with the help of our fellow Iranians. None of the members of the Mojahedin military units nor any of those who assisted these units to carry out last year's attack on Sayyad Shirazi, has been arrested. The claims by the mullahs' regime and its Intelligence Ministry in this regard are sheer lies and reflect their desperate and helpless state.
The mullahs' bid to involve Iraq in this issue with a bunch of ridiculous lies comes at a time when the ruling clerics are facing an impasse over the results of the sham elections and the power struggle within the clerical regime has turned violent with the attempted assassination of Saeed Hajjarian. Tonight's lies by the clerical regime are merely a reflection of the mullahs' dire need to export crisis and terrorism beyond Iran's borders.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
April 5, 2000
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