In the 35th session of the trial of 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), held on Tuesday, June 9, in Branch 11 of the Tehran Province Criminal Court, new revelations were made about the organized crimes of this group in the 1980s. The plaintiffs' lawyer, Masoud Maddah, citing confessions of former members, detailed the "engineering operations" of this group, through which they systematically killed ordinary people and created terror and fear in society.
Based on the confessions of "Parvin Partovi," aka Maryam, a former member, the group had ordered its members to shoot at people on the streets to attract them to the organization, but in practice, not only did no one join, they faced public backlash and chants of "Death to the Hypocrite," which ultimately led to more killings of people. The plaintiffs' lawyer, reading the confessions of "Sohrab Sepehri," aka Maziar, referred to another example where the operations team commander ordered the throwing of a grenade into a key-making shop on Hafez Street, arguing that "even if four ordinary people are killed, it doesn't matter."
One of the horrific crimes examined was the terrorist incident in Qadikola on April 6, 1982, where a 7-member MEK team, by blocking the road from Qaemshahr to Qadikola, forced passengers out of vehicles, separated those with a religious appearance, and opened fire on them. In this incident, three individuals, including Hossein Mozaffari (a teacher), Jamshid Khodaparast, and Mohammad Ali Haghpanah (a war veteran), were martyred. "Einollah Delpishesh," an eyewitness to the event, attended the court and detailed the ambush, separation of victims, and direct shooting at them.
The plaintiffs' lawyer, referring to Masoud Rajavi's explicit order to assassinate shop owners who had displayed pictures of Imam Khomeini and system officials, mentioned the case of the assassination of a fruit seller named Martyr Khoshroo. The martyr's daughter attended the court and recounted the day her father was targeted and killed in his fruit shop.
This session also saw complaints from families of other martyrs, such as Martyr Abbasali Kamali (a 17-year-old Basiji youth assassinated in front of a phone booth), Martyr Younes Taheri (an IRGC intelligence officer who was kidnapped and remains missing), and Martyr Darvish Moradi (a farmer from Ramhormoz who was targeted for wearing a keffiyeh), all emphasizing the anti-people and criminal nature of this group.
In another part of the session, legal representatives of Iran Air, the Civil Aviation Organization, and the Army Air Force detailed several hijackings by MEK infiltrators. These included the hijacking of a passenger plane carrying pilgrims to Riyadh in 1984, during which a flight attendant was injured, and the hijacking of an advanced F-14 fighter jet to Iraq by a pilot named "Ahmad Moradi Talemi," which was coordinated with the MEK and the Iraqi Ba'athist regime and dealt a serious blow to national security and the country's defense capabilities.
Judge Dehghani, the head of the court, referring to the complexity of the case and the MEK's extensive infiltration network, emphasized the court's determination to comprehensively address all dimensions of this group's crimes and uncover the truth after four decades, asking all families of martyrs and victims to send their complaints to Branch 11 of the Tehran Province Criminal Court. He announced the next session of this massive case for June 23.