Iranian authorities announced Monday the arrest of a »cell» of the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) that was planning operations against »sensitive» locations in the north of the country.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Mazandaran, Abedin Daqmechi, has indicated that the PMOI cell, considered a terrorist organization by Tehran, had targets set in the city of Amol, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim.
Thus, he stressed that this cell maintained contacts with media linked to the group to disseminate »inflammatory content» and to make »calls to action» as part of the mobilizations in Iran since September following the death in custody of a woman arrested for allegedly wearing the veil incorrectly.
Daqmechi further specified that during the raid explosive devices were seized which they allegedly planned to use for acts of sabotage and for the destruction of public and private property.
The PMOI, which actively participated in the revolution that overthrew Shah Reza Pahlevi with an Islamist discourse mixed with an adaptation of Marxist ideology, fought on the side of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the war with Iran between 1980 and 1988 after denouncing the actions of the religious leadership installed by the ayatollahs.
The group was persecuted by the religious authorities in Iran, which led the then leader of the group, Masud Rajavi, to reach a pact with Hussein in 1986 in the middle of the war between the two, after which the then supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ordered the execution of alleged members and sympathizers of the organization.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
