Three days earlier, young people in the city of Rasht, capital of the northern Gilan province, hurled a grenade at a vehicle of the State Security Force. The vehicle sustained heavy damage and three members of the Force in the car were wounded.
In early April, a group of young people in Kermanshah, western Iran, set ablaze a center of the Revolutionary Guards Corps' para-military Bassij, as a result of which this center of repression and terror was totally demolished.
Prior to that incident, three members of the State Security Force were killed in the vicinity of Evin Prison.
According to a confidential report obtained by the Mojahedin inside Iran, in the past three months, at least 35 officers and NCOs of the State Security Forces have been killed in Tehran alone in clashes with people and especially the youth.
The continuation of popular attacks against the regime's suppressive forces reflects the public's rising rage and disdain toward the ruling religious dictatorship and its repressive policies, particularly the harassment and persecution of women and young people in the streets and public places.
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
May 5, 1999
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