Security Agents Capture Well-Trained MKO Terrorists in Southwestern Iran
Iranian security forces disbanded a four-member team affiliated with the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terror group in the Southwestern part of the country.
Prosecutor General of Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Ali Malek Hosseini said on Sunday that members of the terrorist group intended to conduct spoiling attacks in the province, as well as in Khuzestan and Fars provinces, but they were captured by Iranian forces.
He added that those detained had joined terrorist cells after being identified by the MKO through cyberspace.
“After contacts with the MKO ringleaders, all the [members] had learned how to make hand grenades and small homemade bombs and received money to buy equipment and pay for team houses and vehicles,” Malek Hosseini continued.
Iran has in recent months dismantled several terrorist cells working for the MKO terror group. The militants were involved in making explosives and hand-made bombs and linked to foreigners and planned to carry out counter-security acts and set up operational groups to direct the riots in Iran.
Tehran has repeatedly lashed out at certain European countries for supporting and hosting members of terrorist groups, including the MKO. Iranian officials have warned of retaliation against countries that assist Tehran’s enemies to launch sabotage and terror attacks on their nation.
Tehran has denounced the silence of the so-called Western advocates of human rights over terror attacks in Iran which led to the martyrdom and injury of several civilians, and crtisized them for inciting and encouraging terrorism in the country.
After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the MKO terrorist group began its enmity against Iran by killing thousands of Iranians and terrorist activities. Several members of the terrorist group and its leaders are living in European countries now, freely conducting terrorist activities.
The MKO terrorist group has martyred 17,161 Iranian citizens and officials, including late president Mohammad Ali Rajayee, former Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar, late Head of Supreme Judicial Council Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, late Deputy Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff Ali Sayyad Shirazi, and 27 legislators, as well as four nuclear scientists, some on itself and some others through collusion with Israeli Mossad and other notorious spy agencies like CIA.
The MKO terrorist group has publicly specified targets as martyred Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, who commanded the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi.
The terrorist organization said it would “welcome” their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to “join” Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran’s former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces during Iraq’s 1980-88 war against Iran, who have both been assassinated by the terror outfit.
The terror group regularly hosts big events in which top US and European officials make speeches in support of the group. former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and former Vice President Mike Pence met with the terror group’s leader several times, voiced their support for the notorious cult.
In mid-July, Iran slapped sanction on several US individuals and officials for their support for the MKO terrorist group, stating Washington continues assisting the terrorist group which has its hands stained with the blood of thousands of Iranian civilians.
The sanctioned US diplomats include Pompeo, Bolton, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and several others.
