24 Iraqi Sukhoi fighters-bombers as well as 12 more Sukhois purchased from Russia have been engaged in operational training in Tehran, Tabriz, Shiraz and Hamedan air bases to prepare for such an attack.
The Iraqi Sukhoi jets based in Shiraz fighter base have been painted in Iranian Air Force colors. Last week, a Sukhoi aircraft crashed while on a training mission, but the pilot ejected to safety.
Night and day individual training and group sorties as well as target practice at Saveh firing range (south of Tehran) are continuing following a two-week alert that went into effect on the occasion of June 20th.
Khamenei's representatives and emissaries from the regime's Supreme National Security Council repeatedly visit the bases to be kept informed of the extent of operational readiness of the air bases. The operational personnel have been ordered to prepare for low altitude flights, all weather conditions and maximum ammunition load.
Following the successful worldwide ceremonies honoring June 20th, the largest-ever gatherings of Iranians in Germany, Sweden and the United States and the meeting by combatants at one of the NLA's bases as well as the simultaneous broadcast of the events to Iran and the rest of the world through 11 satellite channels, the clerical regime has found no recourse other than to resort to air strikes or ground attacks against the Iranian Resistance.
Since the beginning of the new Iranian year in March, several terrorist schemes by the mullahs' regime against the Mojahedin and the National Liberation Army of Iran inside Iraqi territory have been foiled. They include a mission in Iraqi Kurdistan by a 14-member terrorist group led by Ali Hefazi. Another terrorist scheme was led by Hassan Abu-Heidar in the city of Darbandikhan. This team had been dispatched to Iraq from the Ramadhan garrison in Kermanshah.
Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Baghdad
July 3, 1997
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