The following statement was issued by the Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran in Baghdad and is forwarded for your information.
Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Paris
January 12, 1997

Extensive clashes between Pasdaran and Mojahedin in western Iran
Hundreds of mullahs' suppressive forces killed or wounded in past three weeks in different provinces

Clashes spread between the Mojahedin and the suppressive forces of the mullahsÕ illegitimate regime in the past days in the provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam and Khuzistan, the Mojahedin's Command Headquarters inside Iran reported. Residents of various cities and villages have arisen in support of the Mojahedin and a large number of the regime's Guards and agents have been killed or wounded.

Hundreds of casualties were inflicted on the regimeÕs Guards and agents in the clashes which took place over the past three weeks in different provinces.

Six Mojahedin members have been slain altogether. Another 15 sympathizers and forces of popular resistance who had risen in support of the Mojahedin, were also slain at the hands of the regime's Guards and Intelligence Ministry agents. Some individuals we re arrested and executed secretly and their exact numbers is not known.

The mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence announced news of the Mojahedin's clash yesterday with the regime's "Security Forces" in Dehloran and falsely claimed that six Mojahedin with military equipment intended to cross the border from Iraq. The mullahs' reg ime also claimed that four Mojahedin had been killed in this incident.

The Intelligence Ministry also disseminated a report on the deaths of another five Mojahedin in a clash in Shour Shirin region of the city of Mehran and of the deaths of four Mojahedin members who took cyanide after being surrounded by the Security Forces in the cities of Mehran and Dehloran. The regime's media also wrote about two separate clashes in the provinces of Kermanshah and Khuzistan and claimed that five members of the Mojahedin who had come from Iraq were killed in these clashes.

The political and military mobilization of the mullahs' regime and its false propaganda campaign against the Iranian Resistance and Mojahedin have taken on unprecedented dimensions in the past three weeks. The mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship ha s launched Air Corps patrols in the interval between Khorramshahr and Hovaizeh (in southwestern Iran) to capture the Mojahedin.

Publication of the consecutive statements of the Ministry of Intelligence in the press and their repeated calls pleading to "people" for cooperation against the Mojahedin and identifying their dead, and the unprecedented rise in the number of patrols and inspection checkpoints, indicate the extent of fear and terror the mullahs feel from the beginning of the new phase of the nationwide Resistance.

Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
January 12, 1997

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