Mullahs acknowledge demonstrations and clashes with people and Mojahedin sympathizers in Khomeinishahr

Four days after the beginning of extensive unrest and anti-government demonstrations in Khomeinishahr (formerly Sedeh) in the central Iranian province of Isfahan, the mullahs' official news agency today acknowledged this demonstration. It falsely claimed, however, that "several members of the Mojahedin" who had been "identified in Khomeinishahr" and "intended to create disorder" were arrested.

The truth is that those arrested are ordinary people and sympathizers of the Mojahedin who possessed satellite receivers and Mojahedin's literature.

As the People's Mojahedin of Iran announced yesterday, extensive protests against the mullahs' regime have been going on in Sedeh since Tuesday, May 13, where large groups of people took to the streets, chanting slogans against Khamenei and Rafsanjani and in support of the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance and confronted the security forces and the Revolutionary Guards.

The unrest and clashes continued three days during which the regime's suppressive forces suffered heavy damages and casualties. The mullahs' regime dispatched reinforcement, including the commander of the State Security Forces in Isfahan and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence, and launched an extensive wave of arrests. The fate of the detainees remains unknown.

The People's Mojahedin of Iran express concern over the plight of the people and Mojahedin sympathizers arrested in the demonstrations in Sedeh, and call on international human rights organizations to take immediate action to save those arrested from torture and execution.

Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Paris
May 17, 1997

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