Fearing spread of popular uprisings in new phase of Resistance in Iran, mullahs' regime adopts special security measures nationwide

The Khomeini regime's Security Council hastily convened a session to study ways of countering the growing activities of the Mojahedin and the popular uprisings. Headed by Ali Mohammad Besharati, the regime's Minister of Interior, the meeting was attended by the commanders of military, security and intelligence forces

To boost the morale of the regime's demoralized forces, Besharati announced that the "military and security forces and the border keepers" will vigilantly counter any movement. They will not allow the saboteurs of the country's security to make the slightest move.

This session and the subsequent remarks by the Minister of Interior come after one month of extensive clashes between the Mojahedin and popular resistance forces on the one hand and the revolutionary guards and the regime's agents of suppression on the other, particularly in the provinces of Kermanshah, Ilam and Khuzistan, where hundreds of guards were killed or wounded. Late last month, for five days in Dasht-e Khuzistan, the regime sent helicopters and armored units to chase the Mojahedin. Since then, air patrols have continuously controlled the area.

Besharati who finds the regime incapable of preventing the wave of youngsters who join the Resistance's network in Iran or its National Liberation Army, made a ridiculous plea to Iranian parents to look more after their children to "prevent any unpleasant consequences" and "safeguard the security of the society."

Concerned about the public's enthusiastic response to the Mojahedin's satellite programs, the mullahs' Minister of Interior threatened to deal ever more harshly with owners of satellite dishes.

The regime's Security Council's hasty session and the remarks by Besharati, but indicate the fear and alarm of the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship from the support of the absolute majority of the Iranian people for the Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, and the beginning of a new phase in the Resistance, an era which bears the looming prospect of the regime's overthrow by the National Liberation Army with the backing of popular uprisings.

In the weeks past, following Mrs. Rajavi's journey to the border region and meeting with the National Liberation Army combatants, and the escalation of clashes between the people and the Mojahedin on the one hand and the regime's Guards and agents of suppression on the other, the mullahs have placed their military and security forces on full alert.

Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Paris
January 23, 1997

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