The Organization's central warehouse and central ammunition depot were blown up in this unprecedented attack and massive, successive explosions could be heard in northern Tehran for hours.
The Defense Industries Organization, which produces ammunition for the regime's agencies involved in suppression and terrorism, consists of 110 different factories and facilities.
The operation was in retaliation for last January's attack on the Mojahedin's central office in Baghdad by the mullahs' terrorists using three giant 320mm mortars. In addition, the mortars used in several terrorist attacks against the bases of the Mojahedin and the National Liberation Army were produced by this factory.
At the time of those terrorist attacks, the Iranian Resistance's Leader Massoud Rajavi declared: "We constantly reserve the right to self-defense and retaliation. The criminal mullahs and their henchmen will doubtless be made to pay for their countless atrocities and limitless bloodshed."
The Guards Corps and the State Security Forces took control of the area and began to search passers-by and vehicles, but the Mojahedin left the scene of the attack safely.
The statement by the Mojahedin Command Headquarters inside Iran said that the expansion of the Mojahedin operations in Iran, simultaneous with the rise in popular uprisings, bring into perspective the overthrow this illegitimate and unpopular regime by the National Liberation Army and establishment of freedom and sovereignty of the people.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
June 3, 1998
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