A spokesman for the Mojahedin Command Headquarters in Iran said: "The Revolutionary Guards and the Intelligence Ministry in Khuzistan province were badly shaken by the Mojahedin military units' attack last month on the command headquarters of the province's Guards Corps in Ahwaz, which was pounded with 82 mm mortars. Since the attack, the Guards and the Intelligence Ministry have been trying to deal a counter-blow to the Mojahedin. One of their measures has been to conduct house-to-house searches, make mass arrests, and carry out night raids on districts and villages where the residents are known to be Mojahedin supporters. This has led to sporadic clashes in different parts of the province. The clash in an Abadan border area is one such confrontation, in which a Mojahedin supporters from the Arab tribes of Khuzistan was slain. The confrontations demonstrate the defiant resistance of the local tribes and Mojahedin supporters in the face of the brutal assaults by the Revolutionary Guards and the Intelligence Ministry agents of the mullahs' regime."
"When the clerical regime claims that the uprising by students and the people in Tehran was the work of the U.S. and foreign 'hands,' it is not surprising that it would attribute a clash in Abadan border region to Iraq," the spokesman added.
Brigadier General Abdolali Pourshasb, the commander of the mullahs' army, introduced Brigadier General Kiumars Haydari on July 14 as the commander of the southern region and the senior army commander in the area. He emphasized the vital importance of maintaining "the security of the important and strategic region of Khuzistan" and added that this necessitated "dealing lethal blows to the Mojahedin." The army commander said "the security of the country as a whole depends to a large degree on the security of Khuzistan."
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
August 4, 1999
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