The following statement was issued by the Mojahedin's Command Headquarters inside Iran and is being forwarded for your attention.
Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran- Paris
October 14, 1996

Mullahs' extensive military aggression on Iraqi Kurdistan

The mullahs suffered a defeat last month as the bases of its agents in the Iraqi Kurdistan, where they plotted terrorist and espionage operations, were demolished in northern Iraq. To compensate for this blow, the mullahs readily began preparations to resume their aggressions on the Iraqi Kurdistan.

To this end, the regime's leader, Ali Khamenei, traveled to Oroumieh, western Iran. He was accompanied by the Chief of the Armed Forces' General Staff, General Commander of the Guards Corps, chiefs of the Joint Staff of the Army and Guards Corps, commanders of the ground and air forces of the military and Guards Corps, and commander of the regime's Security Forces.

On September 19, the Armed Forces held a special ceremony in the presence of Khamenei at Hamzeh garrison in Oroumieh. The Guards Corps Brigadier General Kazemi, commander of the garrison, reported on military and intelligence activities against the opponents of the regime. He was followed by Khamenei who spoke on the state of anarchy prevailing in the Iraqi Kurdistan.

Since the beginning of October, the Khomeini regime began its extensive military transportations towards the border. Concentration of the troops took place at Nasr garrison in Naqadeh, Sardasht region, near the border with Iraq.

Movement of troops and equipment also took place north of Qasr-e Shirin, by the Iraqi border, on October 3. The forces hired from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were simultaneously transferred to this region. Supply of arms and equipment was undertaken by the Command HQ of Ramadan garrison in Tehran.

Previously, Kermanshah's Zafar garrison had troops stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan. They had fled back to Iran some three weeks earlier from Darbandikhan in Iraq. The GC general Nouri, commander of the regime's forces in Darbandikhan, also took his forces to the border region to prepare for getting stationed in the Iraqi Kurdistan. GC commanders told the troops that "on the orders of H.E. the Leader [Khamenei]..., we must have a liberated region under a suitable cover in the Iraqi Kurdistan."

On the 9, 10 and 11th of October, the regime began its extensive aggression on five axes.
1. Sardasht, south of Qal'eh Dizeh, towards the lower Zab river. Mesgarian commanded the Guards Corps troops.
2. Baneh, Chouman, Chuarta towards Qala Chualan and Suleymania. Hanif, one of the GC commanders from Hamzeh garrison, commanded the troops.
3. Marivan, Bashmaq towards Panjvin. Troops from Nasr garrison were commanded by GC commander Ebadi.
4. Sheikh Selleh, Poshteh, Sartak, towards Maydan and Darbandikhan. Troops from Kermanshah's Zafar garrison were commanded by GC commander Farhadi.
5. Dasht-e Zahab, Qeitool towards Maydan, Kelar and Kefri. Fourth Brigade of the Fourth Bessat Division participated and was accompanied by the Iraqi forces who are under the command of the Guards Corps and are known as the Ninth Badr Corps.

The Guards Corps made extensive use of heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers. GC commander Karami, commander of the Ramadan garrison, and commanders Mesgarian, Hanif and a number of other Guards Corps commanders are also present in the Iraqi Kurdistan and engaged in the massacre of the prisoners captured from the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq.

The mullahs' General Staff of Armed Forces led the operations from Tehran under the direct supervision of Khamenei. Instructions were given by GC Brigadier General Rashid, commander of operations in the regime's General Staff of Armed Forces, to Brigadier General Aziz Jafari, commander of the ground forces of the Guards Corps in Tehran. The General Staff of the regime's Armed Forces has emphasized that this operation aimed at taking back Suleymania Province in Iraq.

Such acts of aggression which blatantly violate all the resolutions of the Security Council, especially the Resolution 598, call for a decisive and immediate condemnation by the U.N. Security Council.

The Mojahedin's Command Headquarters inside Iran


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