One of the arrested members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK) in the 1980s has confessed that members of the organization were ordered to burn down the homes of assassination victims and the bodies of martyrs following each killing—in order to spread terror and panic in society and force people to join their ranks.
The terrorist MEK organization, during the 1980s, recorded heinous crimes in the history of this land—crimes that were perpetrated after the organization grew
On May 12, 1985, a bomb exploded on Naser Khosrow Street in Tehran, unleashing a horrifying and tragic event. Nine people were martyred and 45 others wounded. The people of Tehran were grief-stricken, but hardly shocked—in those years, bombings in the capital had become a grimly familiar occurrence.
There was a time when a bombing in Tehran was nothing out of the ordinary; it happened from time to time. Who was planting these bombs? The Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) and counter-revolutionary
Date: November 21, 1981
Location: Tehran
Terrorist Group: Mujahedin-e Khalq Terrorist Group (MEK)
Number of Victims: 1
Victim’s Name and Occupation: Hossein Sahami, ambulance driver
Incident Description:
An ambulance driver in Tehran was assassinated. The public relations office of the Central Committee of the Islamic Revolution announced that two days ago, several armed assailants stopped an ambulance near Vanak Square in an attempt to steal it. Due to the driver’s resistance, the attackers
Date: 4 Azar 1360 (November 25, 1981)
Location: Tehran
Terrorist Group: Mujahedin-e Khalq Terrorist Group (MEK)
Number of Victims: 2 (an elderly ice seller named Seyyed Seifollah Seyyed Nasrollah was martyred and an 8-year-old child was wounded)
Incident Description:
Yesterday, three armed terrorists were identified while passing through Molavi Street in Golshan Alley. Two of them were immediately when the IRGC arrived. The third, armed with a Colt pistol, fled and, while shooting at the IRGC
Location: Shahin Dezh
Terrorist Group: Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI)
Number of Victims: 12
Incident Description:
A passenger minibus, two kilometers from the Shahin Dezh–Miandoab road, struck an anti-tank mine. As a result of the explosion, 5 passengers were martyred and 7 wounded. The names of the martyrs are: Mosayyeb Tolu’i, Hassan Ashki, Jafar Afsharian, and Ali Hadian. The anti-revolutionary forces had planted these mines. In the past week, Islamic forces discovered and
Date: December 23, 1980
Location: Tehran
Terrorist Group: Forqan
Incident Description:
At 7:45 a.m., a powerful bomb planted under the bridge at the intersection of 16 Azar and Professor Brown Streets exploded. The severe explosion damaged several shops and stores in the area. The bomb had been planted to assassinate Ayatollah Mousavi Ardebili, the Prosecutor-General, along his route. It only caused damage to the front of his car. After planting the bomb under the bridge, the perpetrators ran
Date: November 27, 1981
Location: Tehran
Terrorist Group: Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
Number of Victims: 30 (4 martyred, 26 wounded)
Incident Description:
Around 16:45, a powerful bomb exploded in the Qods Store, producing a loud noise and resulting in the martyrdom of 4 people and the wounding of 26 others. Two people were arrested in connection with the incident. The martyrs included two drivers of a Peykan and a BMW who had stopped at the gas station next to the Qods Store on
Date: November 27, 1981
Location: Talesh
Terrorist Group: Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
Number of Victims: 6 (3 teachers and 1 farmer martyred, 2 wounded)
Incident Description:
At 00:30, following an attack by MEK elements on the occupants of a car in Mehdi Khan Mahalleh village, 4 people—including 3 teachers and 1 farmer—were martyred. The names of the martyrs are: Hojjatoleslam Hossein Asghari Sanadi (teacher, cleric, and Imam’s representative in Construction Jihad), Nader Kheirkhah
Date: November 28, 1981
Location: Urmia
Terrorist Group: Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Number of Victims: 2 (1 martyred and 1 wounded)
Incident Description:
At 19:20, a Peykan car hit an anti-personnel mine in one of the alleys of Daneshgah Street near the former Youth Palace and as a result, one person named Nemat Karbasi was martyred due to the severity of his injuries, and his son Mazan Karbasi was wounded. The bomb had been planted as a booby trap in front of the residential door
Date: 18 December 9, 1979
Incident Description:
In an armed clash between armed anti-revolutionary elements and IRGC forces in the village of Banchaleh, 4 people were killed. The attackers had taken control of the Maleh Palganeh pass during the clash.
The armed groups in the region were:
- Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
- Komala
- Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
- Javanrud Liberation Party
- Gelavijeh Branch of the Osman Naqshbandi Razgari Army
- Forces of Sheikh Hadi
- Forces of
Location: Kurdistan
Terrorist Group: Komala
Number of Victims: 7
Incident Description:
In the past week, armed anti-revolutionaries took several active revolutionary forces from the Kurdistan region hostage on the Bijar–Divandarreh road. The attackers were armed with Kalashnikovs, G3 rifles, and RPG-7s and had blocked the road. Among them were 7 members of the land distribution committee. After several days of imprisonment and torture, they were martyred. The mutilated bodies of two of them
Location: Bandar Abbas
Terrorist Group: The Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas
Number of Victims: 3
Incident Description:
Members of the Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, disguised as suspended students and teachers, attacked city buildings and set them on fire. They then clashed with the people and killed a 60-year-old man named Haj Mohammad Iranmanesh while he was returning from fishing. Several others were injured, two of whom were lightly wounded by Colt gunfire. IRGC members also seized
According to Habilian, as part of the MEK's continued bombings and anti-revolutionary groups' efforts to weaken the Islamic system and portray society as insecure, the MEK terrorist group carried out yet another crime on Khayyam Street in Tehran.
The Kayhan newspaper reporter's account of this terrorist action by the MEK reads as follows:
Around 1:07 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, 1986 (20 Farvardin 1365), a bomb with an explosive power of 25 pounds, equipped with an electric timer and
Date: 3 Dey 1359 (December 24, 1980) Location: Tehran Terrorist Group: Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization
Incident Description: Stealing a red Chevrolet car and being pursued by members of the Yusefabad Committee, one element of the MEK terrorist group, attempted to throw a grenade into a police patrol car. The grenade exploded in his own hand and he was killed.
Sources: Kayhan newspaper December 27, 1980, p.14; Calendar of Sacred Defense History, Vol. 17, p.61
Date: 6 Dey 1358 (December 27, 1979)
Location: Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan
Incident Description:
A large quantity of weapons and ammunition sent from outside the country to Tabriz intended to be used for creating unrest was discovered and confiscated near Oshnavieh. The seizure included:
698 Mauser rifles, 520 Brablund pistols, 240 Kalashnikovs, 90,000 rounds of ammunition, 22 RPG-7 launchers, 22 boxes of ammunition, 1,000,000 Iraqi dinars, and more than 22 million tomans in cash.
Sources:
Date:December 28, 1981Location: Tehran Terrorist Group: Hypocrites (MKO)
Incident Description: Two riders on a motorcycle attacked a person they believed to be an IRGC member on Tolid-e Darou Street and cut off his fingers. The MKO elements had intended to torture him further but when they realized he was not an IRGC member, they fled the scene.
Sources: Ettela’at newspaper December 30, 1981, p.13; Kayhan December 29, 1981, p.2; Jomhouri-e Eslami December 29, 1981, p.2
On November 7, 1994, two bombs planted by elements of the MEK terrorist group on Fadayian-e Islam Street in Tehran exploded. In this terrorist attack, two passersby—Habibollah Abdi Langan, a worker at a tool factory, and Babak Farrokhnejad Honarkar, a cabinet-making worker—were martyred.
Source: Kayhan newspaper, November 8, 1994 (17 Aban 1373)
September 6 (15 Shahrivar) recalls one of the hundreds of crimes committed by the MEK terrorist group in Tehran. On the evening of that day, as shopkeepers and ordinary people were returning home from their daily work, a bombing on Khayyam Street left them in blood and ruins—from a three-year-old child to a sixty-year-old man.
"In a horrific explosion at 7:35 p.m. on Khayyam Street, opposite the Ministry of Industries parking lot and near the southern bus station, a number of humble
Rajavi's failed coup attempt on June 20 (30 Khordad)—based on the delusion of seizing power by creating a rift at the highest levels of leadership—along with the counterproductive results of major operations aimed at eliminating all officials of the Islamic Republic on June 28 (7 Tir) and August 30 (8 Shahrivar), prompted him to try his luck once again on September 27 (5 Mehr) by launching an armed demonstration.
The choice of September 27 was the result of intelligence gathered by the MEK
Date: November 17, 1981
Location: Bandar Anzali
Terrorist Group: Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
Number of Victims: 1
Victim's Occupation: Photographer
Incident Description:
The devout revolutionary photographer of Bandar Anzali was shot and wounded by American-backed terrorists. Last Tuesday at 7 p.m., two terrorists—one wearing a brown jacket—entered the photography shop, looked around, and shot the city's pro-Islamic Republic photographer, a man named Silabi, twice. Silabi was wounded
One of the arrested members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK) in the 1980s has confessed that members of the organization were ordered to burn down the homes of assassination victims and the bodies of martyrs following each killing—in order to spread terror and panic in society and force people to join their ranks.
The terrorist MEK organization, during the 1980s, recorded heinous crimes in the history of this land—crimes that were perpetrated after the organization grew
