Statements of Saied Shahsavandi – after being arrested in the Marsad
FNA
In the year ۱۹۶۹, while studying at the Engineering Faculty of Shiraz University, I was recruited as the member of the Organization and took part actively in its different high and down operations. In the years ۱۹۶۹ and ۱۹۷۰, I was in Shiraz and in the process of the SAVAK stroke to the Organization in the year ۱۹۷۱, I left for Tehran and during the years ۱۹۷۱ up to ۱۹۷۵ I was engaged in secret activities in different cities such as Tehran, Mashad, Qom and even in Esfehanfor a short time. In the years ۱۹۷۴ and ۱۹۷۵, after the Organization had accepted the Marxism ideology, I resisted against this procedure accompanied with Majid Sharif-Waghefi and Samadieh Labbaf, during which Majid Sharif-Waghefi was burned by the Organization and Morteza Samadieh Labbaf was arrested by the Regime and hanged. I was also arrested in April ۱۹۷۵ and sentenced to lifetime prison.
In the year ۱۹۶۹, while studying at the Engineering Faculty of Shiraz University, I was recruited as the member of the Organization and took part actively in its different high and down operations. In the years ۱۹۶۹ and ۱۹۷۰, I was in Shiraz and in the process of the SAVAK stroke to the Organization in the year ۱۹۷۱, I left for Tehran and during the years ۱۹۷۱ up to ۱۹۷۵ I was engaged in secret activities in different cities such as Tehran, Mashad, Qom and even in Esfehanfor a short time. In the years ۱۹۷۴ and ۱۹۷۵, after the Organization had accepted the Marxism ideology, I resisted against this procedure accompanied with Majid Sharif-Waghefi and Samadieh Labbaf, during which Majid Sharif-Waghefi was burned by the Organization and Morteza Samadieh Labbaf was arrested by the Regime and hanged. I was also arrested in April ۱۹۷۵ and sentenced to lifetime prison.
He added: I have passed my condemnation in Ghasr, Ewin and Ghesel-Hesar prisons, and I was set free at the beginning of the victory of the Islamic Republic Revolution in the year ۱۹۷۸ along with other prisoners and returned to my birthplace and founding one of the branches of the Organization in this city I begun to attract and recruit members. I was introduced as the candidate of the Organization in Shiraz during the first elections of the First Assembly, on the reason of too few votes of the people, I could not enter the Assembly. He said: After a while, I returned to Tehran and I was engaged in the editorial department of the Organization’s publication, which was put under management of Mousa Khiabani and afterwards Ali Zarkesh, and I continued my activities in this publication up to the last publication of the Organization published in ۲۰.۰۶.۱۹۸۱ (۳۰.۰۳.۱۳۶۰). He added: Over this point, how far we falsified the truth, published lies and demonstrated the existing truths as falsifications and counteracted the right to reach the goals of the Organization, these are matters which we shall discuss about them separately in a future occasion.
He said: After the military step, I was integrated into the first group despatched to Kurdistan in the month June ۱۹۸۱ and joined the leader of the Democrat Party (Ghasemlou) and was stationed there, and during the meetings and discussions with Ghasemlou, we set in operation the radio program of the Organization with the help and possibilities of the Democrat Party. He continued: During my residence in Kurdestan, I made some travels abroad, among them to Paris and Germany. During this travel I had a meeting with Rajavi in Paris and it was decided to enforce technically the Organization’ Radio. To reach this intention I made some travels, among which to America and supplies some American broadcasts and sent them to Baghdad and I myself began afterwards to work in the Organization’ radio establishment.
He explained about the propagation mode of the Mojahedin Radio: In this radio like the Publication, but in a more extensive dimension, falsification of realities, distortion and lies were continuing. Of course how far the people listened to this radio and that essentially because of different technical reasons, how far the statements of this radio were worth to hear, is some thing else. But as far as concerned the Organization’s propagations, there was not only and prevention of alteration of realities, saying lies, distortion and disgracing, but also its dimensions were increased day by day. He added: The strength of monopolistic system, disgracing and Organization’s lying propagations were so much that gradually the Organization’s few allies dispersed and turned away, because this mode of treatment affected them as well. The Organization reached finally to the point that it is today located in total isolation, in such a way that no collected forces or Para-forces are seen there. He added: The isolation and outlying of the Organization was so far that we could witness as a sample their latest Mersad operations, in which they had collected max. ۵ thousand people from the corners of the world by resorting to any kind of demagogic, delicate tricks and lies. People who had no military trainings, executed these treacherous operations under this conception that they would be able to resist against a ۱۰-year huge revolution enforced and protected by millions of forces.
He said about his mode of arrest: Following the divulging of crisis and deadlock within the Organization resulted from the politics and methods leading steadily to isolation of the Organization and caused internal dissatisfactions and protests, numerous dissatisfactions and protests could also been seen In the level of leaders and responsible persons as well as in the directory of the Organization. These dissatisfactions which were sometimes represented in the shape of inter-organizational protests were responded in a severe form and terminated predominantly through taking down of the persons and taking away their organizational positions and even kicking them out of the Organization. There were in reality no treatments for them, because they were essentially untreatable. He added: I was located in such a situation and confronted with problems which I laid forth in the meetings, to which unfortunately there were no acceptable and reasonable answers. This mental and ideological situation created some very serious questions for me.
Defeat of the Organization and participation in the latest operation and its disgraced defeat both from the view point of military, politic, social and other reasons showed the existence of not amendable deadlocks and crisis within the Organization. This situation was reflected in form of disinteresting of many and giving up of other persons. With respect to my participation in the Mersad operations and being injured, I finally introduced myself in a convenient occasion. He explained his aim and motivation of his participation in this interview as follows: ۱۹ years taking part in the different operations of the Organization and demonstrating our whole defaults and strokes, I feel that it is necessary to represent these explanations and declare in my statements, how one can give motto of independence, but practically undergoes the dominance of the most reactionary regimes of the Region such as Shah-Hassan, Saddam and America and invite them to participate in meetings and to give statements and attract their protection goes to their meetings, conferences and parliaments and even publish pictures and comments on such measurements. Actually, the Organization is proud of imperialists’ protection of its existence. The imperialists have a long historical experience of instruments such as this Organization. This means that whenever their profits imply and they see their own advantages in decapitate or kicking away the Organization, they will not postpone even a moment to do this. He stated his other aim from this interview as to excuse his guilt in presence of the great God, Leader of Revolution and the nation, and confess the integrities and realities which are denied blindly and expressed his hope that the process of such interviews could compensate his previous lies and ignorance of rights. He stated his other important aim from these interviews as to manifest the events, which he himself had perceived and in some cases also he had been operator and executor thereof, and to convince the people who believe the Organization out of different reasons whatsoever, and added: I would like to tell my destiny to the supporters, members and their families, so that they should not lose their right way more than this and not to emerge or be drowned in a way which has no effect, but only leads to treachery to people. He added: To do this interview I have been undergone no pressure and I have personally persisted on doing this interview from the month July, which because of several reasons had been postponed so far. He answered to the questions of one of the arrested members of the Organization and explained on this matter that the members or supporters who did TV interviews were called as treacherous and isolated from Organization and said over the reflection of the Organization about his interview: Usually, the reflections of the Organization possess unit contents which in relation to the different persons might be a little weaker or stronger and it normally publishes the hand-writings and notices of persons and myself with regard to the period of time, during which I had been in this Organization, by cutting some special intended parts and hand-writings to demonstrate that the said person had been isolated or pulled down since a long time ago, in other words this person had no noticeable position in the Organization or they try different ways or persons to supply witnesses and evidences that this person had been isolated, filtered or kicked out of the Organization because of specific political characters, and this method shall be applied on me for sure under the title of treacherous or isolated of the Organization. Among other phrases or labels which the Organization attributes the persons such as me may be indicated the following: rejected, liberal, opportunist, anarchist, unmotivated, lack of political knowledge and dismissed, which in the propagations of the Organization are often used. He added: But these give no answer to these questions, from whom this person has been isolated and whom he has joined or for what reason is he treacherous, and if you had known that this person was without any motivation, lack of political knowledge, anarchist, treacherous, and…. , why did you show no reflection? and as soon as he stated these facts against you, you attributed these titles to him? Why didn’t you reject him, when he was in your Organization and had these faults? I have personally used exactly the same against many people, at the time I was in the Publication and in Radio, or I witnessed the application of this weapon against others. Of course, this shall not be for the first and last time. My statements (beliefs) which are/shall be the statements (beliefs) of so many people of the Organization, is the statement of activities being existent in the Society.
He stipulated on the internal evolutions of Monafeghin Organization during the last years before the victory of the Revolution and said: The Organization’s theoretical foundations within ۴ years and two months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution until May ۱۹۸۸, which is terminologically called as the Organization’s political phase, had already been established years ago. He added: After passing so many years and unclosing many of its complications, recognition of the events of those years, is not so difficult at the present time. He then stipulated on the ideological change of the Mojahedin Organization to Marxism, burning of Sharif Waghefi and killing the Organization’s members and said: Considering this step could be interpreted as a signal and correct many of the deviations, in a manner that the Organization would not be complicated in the present situation. He said: If those events, say the Organization’s proclamation to have become Marxist, which resulted in for a great part of the members of the Organization to become Marxist and the blooding consequences following the same had not been interpreted as an evolution imposed from abroad on the Organization and had not acquired the title of an uprising, and if the routes of this matter had been analysed in the organizational relations, political points of view and ideological aspects of the Organization and the pertaining reasons had been verified, then the Organization would not have probably found such a situation and the events after the victory of the Islamic Revolution would not have got such a form and the events of ۲۰.۰۶.۱۹۸۱ (۳۰ Khordad ۶۰) would not have been created. He added: Among so many important points of those years it may be indicated that the Organization rejected any religious and Islamic forces other than itself as well as the persons who demanded the correction of the Organization.
The forces who believed that the reason of Marxism and assassination and killings within the Organization should be searched for in the troubles and critics existing in the Organization’s policies and ideologies and these are to be corrected. The member of the Mojahedin Organization’s Central Committee said: The Organization neither took care of the recommendations and advises of these forces, the number of whom was not little and among them some clerics were also found (who belong now to the responsible persons and authorities of the Country, who were at that time among the advisors) nor took care of the advises of non-clerics who were experienced persons in the Organization, instead it called all those well-wishers right-oriented reactionaries, who in reality wished merely the correction of the Organization’s views and supporting Islam in its real meaning. He added: The Organization went even beyond this and called these people as a menace. The Organization did not want to see the reality existing in the Society and let itself be dominated from the same labelling and so was not in a position to move towards the Revolution and to take steps in favour of the people. In order to deny this reality, it was forced to use different kinds of analysis and sometimes called the Revolution the product of foreign conditions and so called evolution in the international level or so called changes in the American Government, it even called the Revolution in its analysis the product of political compromise and treacheries. It was evident that with such points of view, the Organization never could comprehend the reality. Furthermore, the Organization, the members of which had newly been liberated from the prisons, had not so many organizational forces, max. ۱۵۰-۲۰۰ members.
The Organization possessed the cleverness, despite some groups such as Peycar, to represent itself as the leader of the Society, but the Organization did not deny the reality that its forces were not numerous and not able to stand against the millions of forces sympathizing for the Revolution. However, a combination of disregarding the right and negligence of realities in addition to a passionate greed to collect power in every possible way, were accompanied with subjective and non-experienced aspects resulted from the guerrilla period and took distance from the Society, and these three aspects were the cause for the Organization to accept the second way, say not to care the reality of the present time.
The member of the Mojahedin central committee said in continuing his statement: This matter brought about a serious contradiction for the Organization and it tried, as far as it was possible, to arrange its activities on three axles. The first goal was concentrated on attracting and absorbing forces being influenced under the waves of the Revolution, specially the young forces who were our number-one goal, forces who had been standing under the powerful waves of the Islamic Revolution and were influenced by the revolutionary thoughts, though there were other non-religious forces in the Society and we were witnessing that these forces had almost no integrated power in such manner. He added: In order to attract young forces, we had no alternative, only that we had the flux of people, because the people needed only one sign of contradiction to upset the Organization. He said: At the beginning of the Revolution, some of the famous and completely well-known images of the Organization held some meetings and organized speeches against the positions of the Islamic Republic, after they had made known their positions in the month Esfand (February) in their statement, and following this many of those intelligent academics who then supported the Organization, separated from it. Said Shahsavandi stipulated then on his speech in the Abadan Oil Faculty and said: I have already had some speeches in this Faculty and so many people had attended in this Faculty, because these people believed us to be accompanying the Revolution and be loyal to the population like other forces, but in my other speech in the same Faculty after the proclamation of the Organization’ positions, there attended less than one hundred people and this lack of interest of the people caused us to end the ceremonies, and such situation existed exactly in other cities and in Tehran too. For this reason, we tried primarily to integrate ourselves in the rows of the loyal forces of the Islamic Revolution. He said: Printing and publishing of a famous poster containing the Imam’s image and emblem of the Organization has been one of these measurements and we tried to stick ourselves to the Revolution. The other work which was done in this direction was the publication of explanatory leaflet and explaining the Organization’s emblem, and this leaflet showed that we were Moslem forces, royal to the Revolution and sympathizing with the poor. This policy was continuously being followed for a long time until ۳۰ Khordad, of course with strengths and weaknesses subject to the daily situation and the balance of forces according to the idea of the Organization. He added: Sticking to the Revolution gradually lost its colour until ۳۰ Khordad, resulting in arms conflict with the Islamic Republic. He said: Printing of the Imam’s messages and the image of the Leader in the Organization’s publication and option of parts of Imam’s statements and even taking photos with Imam for propagation aims were the next steps and we tried to approach the deceased Asatollah Taleghani and to hide us behind him and calling him as ‘Father’ belonged to the methods, which the Organization had put on its hypocrite plan and the collection of a part of the released forces standing under the Revolution’s influence was a part of its goals.
He added: Of course, the things which the Organization represented under the motto of fighting against the Shah and Imperialism, were also playing important roll for the Organization to attract forces. In this way the matter of attracting forces continued and as the time passed by, the Organization could partly collect its intended forces. Shahsavandi said: The Organization represented instruments such as mace-bearing and lack of freedom in order to create unrest in the Society and misuse of the situation. The Organization made use of this instrument with the help of some supporters in some corners of the Society and printed also photos in its speeches and publications in relation to the lack of freedom and mace-bearing which were then permanent propagation subjects of the Organization. He said: This was the phase in which the Organization seemingly set to divulge secrets and applied unlimited lies and unfounded propagations.
In this manner, an Organization that analysed the Revolution and its Leader as right-oriented reactionary, immediately did not use such phrases in public and entered through an other door and introduced itself as loyal to the Revolution and Islamic Republic and pretended to be preparef to do its activities within the framework of the System. He said: The Organization possessed this cleverness and keenness rather than other groups such as Peycar and Fadai who had caused the conflicts of Kurdistan, Khusestan and Gonbad. Of course the Organization kept its rest and in the months in which it had not yet arranged its forces, did not want to engage itself in final conflicts and naturally introduced itself as a force being preparef to accept the democratic instructions, it means within the framework of the Islamic Republic System by keeping its points of view, but it never proclaimed explicitly these points of view to accept them or not. This acceptance had an contradiction, which the Organization never got rid of it, because democracy is subject to instructions, and we can not implicitly say: ‘please give me democracy and freedom to upset you’.
The member of the central committee of the Organization added: It is natural that our contradicted forces shall show us their reaction, if we have the intention to upset the System. It means that we believe from one part that we shall have finally conflict with the Islamic Republic and we even determined in our discussions the time of these conflicts. He added: After this stage, we see that the Organization enters an extensive stage of political activities and tries to get united with forces and establish an anti-Regime front, as an anti-reactionary front. But there existed this essential question that how could this contradiction be solved. A contradiction which could be so interpreted that we communicated with authorized persons, whom we called ‘reactionaries’ because of the lack of freedom and existence of strangulation and mice-bearing, and from the other part we discussed in our analysis the future military confrontation with them. We did not stop on this point and said, if we begin a ۶-months military conflict, we shall upset the Islamic Government and take the power in our own hands. This kind of ideal thinking demonstrates the inexperience and credulity resulted from the guerrilla period and being in the distant from the people and this contradiction and two-sidedness continued up to the end of the famous phase called ‘political phase’. It is evident, however, that these conflicts, because of the presence of contradictions in the Organization, were inevitable. Anyway, the people showed suitable reaction.
I remember that the Organization and we ourselves who were freed from the prison, were not ready to say the word of ‘Imam’ easily, and tried in different ways to use other phrases, such as ‘Dignified Leader’ or ‘Ayatollah-Alozma’, but a Society that had succeeded in a revolution and had upset the greatest dictator, were not anymore the people of ۵۰ years ago. The Society had been revolutionized and open-minded and the normal people, who were apparently not educated in politic, noticed the difference and demanded us why we did not say ‘Imam’. According to our policy we printed the images of Imam and tried to attach us to the Revolution, but these actions were only hypocritical, because we operated exactly contradictorily in our other political position-takings and this contraction was deflexed in the Society, and the evident sample was the attacks on the headquarters of the Organization and resulted in their closing and in this case we witnessed the sellers of the publications on the corners of streets.
Some provocative actions were made and the people who had achieved the victory of the Revolution and had granted martyrs and injured, were not easily ready to sustain these provocative actions, and our policy welcomed this event, as these conflicts might become instruments for pretension of innocence and writing of propagations and publication of photos. However, from one part, we aimed to attract more forces and simultaneously prepare the collected forces, who were often teenagers and had naturally come with a sense of honesty to realize that these are the reactionaries who destroy and damage the people, and in this way demonstrate them the mace-bearing. That is why I think personally that the conflicts were welcomed for the Organization. In continuation of this plan through reaching illegal ways up to ۳۰. Khordad, we see that after some testing measurements, quoting from the Organization, it enters the military phase and these conflicts resulting in injury and killing of important persons were welcomed. He stipulated on the contradiction in the Organization existing up to ۳۰. Khordad ۱۹۸۱ and explained: From one part, the Organization had accepted the instruction of democracy and would like to act within the framework of its organizational system; for this reason it took part in the elections of the Republic’s President, the First Assembly, Assembly of Experts and other political extensive activities, and from other part it had planed to upset the Regime and prepared for this a part of its forces. He added: Within the Organization it was spoken of military conflict with the Islamic Republic Regime in ۳ months and when this analysis did not succeed, the period of ۳ months changed to ۶ months. However, this analysis had been carved into the thought of the Organization that we shall someday be involved in a military conflict with the Islamic Republic of Iran and therefore some parts of the Organization were engaged with preparation of forces for the same. The member of the central committee of the Organization continued and said: These two policies of the Organization were completely different and any one who has the least knowledge of politic knows that an extensive policy-making and crying of the lack of freedom and writing and complaining to the authorities is contradictory to the establishment of militia and no authority in the world would permit any group or party to have military forces, but the Islamic Republic, for the reason of its problems or the characteristic of its system, permitted them to hold militia, and this matter is graded some levels higher than the democracies existing in the world.
He added: The evident sample for this contradiction and distance from the Society accompanied with great inexperience is the latest operation of the Organization named ‘ Foroughe Jawidan = Everlasting Brightness ‘ which based on an unrealistic analysis along with lies, extensive propagations and different kinds of organizational complicated methods had collected the Organization’s members from any corner of the world, among whom there were also persons who had not even one day military training and lacked completely military information and they were given the promise to conquer Tehran within ۴۸ hours and we shall see later on, how this analysis childish, stupidly and even treacherous was. He added: The result of this was some died and injured and this happened, when they had not even reached the semi-way to conquer Bakhtaran and their army was destroyed completely. He continued: The Organization did not give up its propagations, although it had received such a blow and claimed its proud and glorious victories and destroying ۵۵.۰۰۰ persons of the Islamic Republic’s forces. Those who were present in the conflict field know the hollowness of such claims better than any body else. The member of the central committee of the Organization added: This kind of contradiction as well as being isolated from the Society increasing day by day and being today in its absolute isolation and inexperience, construed altogether the policies of the Organization, resulting in such unstable political situation, and the Organization’s main policy has been based thereon within the last two years and four months. From one part policy-making and from the other part the military warnings and inter-organizational analysis regarding military confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran. He added: Along with this unstable and contradictory policy, the main goal of which was achieving the power by any means, victory was promised to the members of the Organization and was told the militia and the members of the Organization, if they would strengthen their activities, they would certainly achieve the victory, and at the same time it was also told the military forces, if they would enter military confrontations, they would surely be victorious. This fact that the two extremities of a pendulous are completely contradictory and it is impossible to take part in elections and at the same time make preparedness for military confrontations, and this had been a policy that the propagations of the Organization easily ignored.
He added: Each of these two policies has its specific obligations and I believe personally that because of this same pendulous shape of policies, none of these two policies are probably used so correctly and for this reason, the forces the Organization had trained and prepared during this period of time, were left on the fall point of military confrontations. When the Organization’s leadership found itself in a tapped situation, left the scene in a convenient occasion under the motto of establishing of alternative or National Resistance Council, and preferred to leave for abroad rather than to stay.
He added: On the effect of these cases of inexperience, the Organization looked like an athletic, who had a wooden sword in one hand for military warnings, in which it used its own previous support, and in its other hand it began to plan and write down complaints to the governmental authorities, whom it called reactionary and cried the lack of freedom and existence of mace-bearing. He proclaimed the military preparedness of the Organization for confrontation and said: The Organization, before ۳۰. Khordad, established military teams in addition to militia teams and had begun to penetrate into the different establishments of the Islamic Republic, and this was not that what the Organization considered under the title of military preparedness and classic confrontations with a government, that is not supported by the people. He added: What the Organization neglected and had not been in a position to plan this in its calculations, was the presence of millions of people and their support of the System and this had always been forgotten and neglected by the Organization, and so it had to suffer some blows. He said: After ۳۰. Khordad within ۷ days, we were witnessing the explosion of the Headquarter of the Islamic Republic Party, in which Dr. Beheshti and many other personalities of the Islamic Republic were martyred and following this we saw no other operations for a long time. In an explosion the President and Premier Minister of the Islamic Republic were also martyred, and I can say that only one of these operations was sufficient to upset a government, the sample of which we may witness in any corner of the world. These operations and actions neither upset the System, nor resulted in the decrease of people’s support from the System. He added: Although the lack of personalities of the Islamic Republic, who were assassinated in the Organization’s terrorist actions, was not to compensate, but the System stayed stable and was more supported and the Organization was further isolated and this is a matter which had never been discussed and is not yet discussed.
He stipulated that the interpretation of the Organization from the Revolution was a childish, a copying of the European ۱۹-century revolution and a subjective interpretation from the Iranian revolutionized Community, a Community in which the people had upset the Shah Regime and had accepted the Islamic Republic during a gigantic revolution. He added: In this situation, the Organization brought the organizational corps in the scene instead of the mass of people. We witnessed in the Revolution the presence of millions of people who led the Revolution to success, but the Organization tried, through a childish copying, to accomplish its plan with it’s a few thousand forces instead of mass of millions of people. He stressed that: we see the peak point of such inexperience and we are far from the Society’s realities in the event of ۵. Mehr (September). On this day it was decided to go on the streets for armed demonstrations and we believed that the people would join us and the intended revolution would be achieved. But within less than a few hours, the supporting forces of the Islamic Republic swept away the demonstrating forces, and after ۵. Mehr which was interpreted in the classic analysis as the victory day, it was so pretended that we were testing the preparedness of the Society and there was nobody to question ‘to which price’? About the situation out of the establishments, the Organization tried to divide anyhow the existing authority in the Country, it means that the Organization tried to hide itself behind a person like Banisadr in the position of the President and General Commander of the Organization’ forces and to follow his policies with his help and divide the authority. The analysis was that in case of dividing the Authority, we could be better in a position to destroy the divided parties. He added: In this point also there was an immature idea and we had excessively counted on Banisadr’s forces and the social support of him, following which through the Imam’s decree and then by the vote of the Parliament, the position of General Commander and President, without any social conflict, was taken away from him and he was easily excluded from his position and in this way all the political wishes and aims as well as investments on Banisadr defeated. Nevertheless, Banisadr had still his position as an instrument of foreign propagations and therefore, in July ۱۹۸۱ Rajawi and Banisadr preferred to fly with a military airplane and the rest of the Organization, after suffering substantial blows and losing the hope of any future for the Organization, was obliged to leave for exile. He added: Flying with Banisadr and hiding behind him was not necessary any longer, because before ۳۰. Khordad, in order to use his forces and try to create a gap in the Authority, his position and reputation holding the title of President was used in abroad, because in abroad the Organization was still recognized as a terrorist and guerrilla organization and had no attraction any more, but Banisadr possessed a relative good position and dragged also the title of President and for a while the Organization had hided itself behind him in his abroad propagations, until Benisadr began with his desired conspiracies.
An interpretation to the speech of Mr. Said shahsavandi, after his arrest in the operations of ‘Everlasting lie’ in the year ۱۹۸۸, was broadcast from the Television of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By printing the second part of this speech, today dated ۱۰.۰۷.۸۴ (۰۲.۰۸.۲۰۰۵), Mr. …. contacted me by telephone and demanded on behalf of Mr. Shahsavandi to remove these statements. He explained the reason of this demand so that the said statements had been represented under torture applied from the Islamic Republic and has no legal value. In this respect Mr. Shahsavandi has warned, if these statements be publicized, it shall be pronounced in the next interview with Mr. Hossein Mehri that the ‘Negahe-To Internet Site (Your Look – Site)’ belongs to the Security and Information Ministry!!!. This matter was said by Mr. … on behalf of Mr. Shahsavandi and I sent him a message that I would in no case remove them, but he might send an amendment to these statements to my Site in a civilized manner, not like the Rajavi Mafia Band with warnings and terror, so that I can put it in my Site or he could send it to any other Site he wishes.
At the end I should state: ‘Mr. Said Shahsavandi, I am really sorry for you’. Jafar Baghalnedjad He explained over the events of the Organization after ۳۰. Khordad and said: After this stage, the Organization began with the terrorist operations of the high-rank and prominent personalities of the Islamic Republic, such as the explosion of the headquarter of the Islamic Republic Party and the Premier Minister Building, during which the most important personalities of the System were martyred. ۶ months later, when the Organization entered the military phase and began with such operations, the Organization analysed that it would take over the Authority in the Country. But it did not achieve this, and the Organization’s operations were followed by the increase of the people’s supports from the Regime. Of course, it should be indicated that the System had not yet the ability of counteraction with military forces, but the loyal forces of the System stood against the Organization and commenced their anti-attack operations against it and inflicted blows to the Organization on ۱۹. Bahman ۱۳۶۰ = ۰۹. Feb. ۱۹۸۲, ۱۲.۰۲.۱۳۶۱ = ۰۲.۰۵.۱۹۸۲ and ۰۵. ۱۹۸۲ = July ۱۹۸۲. And these blows caused that the Organization had not any forces within the Country, except some few forces, who were transferred abroad with the help of the Organization.
It is interesting that the Organization propagated this phase as the phase of
‘No future for the System’ and ‘Destroying of the strategic stability of the Islamic Republic’, but a ۱۸۰-grade inverse situation was practically seen in spite of our analysis, and this phase was changed to the ‘stability of the Islamic Republic’ and ‘no future and homelessness of the Organization’. From this stage on, the Organization entered the international political conspiracies and tried, by using of propagations, to assist more the non-stability of the System in abroad. He added: I believe that this stage is the commencement of the disintegration of that, what the Organization called it ‘National Resistance Council’. After transfer of the rest of the Organization’s forces to abroad, the other work of the Organization was ‘giving titles’ in order to fill up the empty positions of the persons. Titles such as ‘deputy of the first responsible’, ‘military and political commander of the Organization in the Country’, ‘director to the military headquarter’, ‘military and political commanders of the provinces’, ‘member of the political bureau’, ‘Counsellor to the political bureau’ and such titles. The supporters of the Organization imagined that these titles were really the Organization’s forces within the Country, but the reality was that these forces were ۵۰۰۰ kilometre far from their organizational site and were not present at all in the Country, but they were stationed in Paris, and the publications within the Country were all published in the Paris’s suburbs. The Organization then resorted to ‘theory-making’ and ‘theorization’ and it is in this stage that we witness composing of a theory called ‘Theory of new nation’. Before this stage, the strategy of the Organization was based on the theory of ‘accelerating fall’, it meant that the Organization would be able to make the System fall through terrors and assassinations of the high-ranked personalities of the System. But this theory did not succeed and resulted in homelessness of the Organization. There were persons in the meetings of the Organization who said that this theory had to be criticized and the reasons of non realization of ‘acceleration fall’ had to be verified, but this demand was not taken into consideration and the theory of ‘new nation’ was represented. This theory was founded on this basis that one may lead a revolution from distance and achieves the desired revolution of the Organization, it means that also from Paris it would be possible to lead a revolution in Iran and issue a decree for uprising, in a manner that the people execute the decree. In execution of this decree some of the forces being so far from the establishments of the Organization, who still were supporters in Iran under the name ‘resistance kernels’, were used and the Organization tried to activate them by telephone. It is necessary to state that these were not ‘kernel’ but only ‘crust’ and it was found later on that many of these supporters were working under control and supervision of the System’ forces. He continued and said: The years ۱۹۸۳, ۸۴ and a part of ۸۵ passed in this way. The story of ‘resistance kernels’ and titles such as this were like the story of Hadj-Mirza Aghasi, the period of time that the Organization claimed would result in the fall of the Islamic Republic System, could not make fall the Islamic Republic, but achieved some ‘advantages’. The Organization became engaged in international political conspiracies in abroad in order to maintain its forces in its own organizational and propagation support. But as this stage which longed two years faced with dead end, the Organization’s leadership was obliged to state in one of its organized speeches: ‘we have stuffing two years’. However, in order that the Organization passes through this stage too, the whole guilt of defeating of this stage was attributed to ‘Ali Zarkesh’ who then was holder of the title ‘military and political commander in the Country’ and even the Organization put steps further and called him ‘treacherous’ and deserving of punishment. Simultaneous with the effort of the Organization to go out of this dead-end and activate the forces, another theory was represented. This theory said this: ‘At the first stage we have assassinated the heads of the System and now we should destroy its structure, and at this moment the assassination of the people was laid forth by a small number of the forces in the Country. Said Shahsavandi, the member of the central committee and responsible of the Radio broadcast of the Organization said: In these assassinations, innocent people such as butcher, grocer, servant of the church and teenager of Basidj and any other person available for the Organization, were assassinated. In these blind assassinations the people, under excuse of supporting the System, were assassinated and the Organization claimed that these persons were the instruments of strangulation of the System, but they belonged to the most deprived classes of the Society, like greengrocer, backer, tailor … who was assassinated by the supporters and forces of the Organization. For example, Zarkesh claimed in a statistic presented to the Organization’s central committee in the year ۱۹۸۲ that ۲.۰۰۰ assassinations were accomplished. Another statistic was also presented in the year ۱۹۸۳, according which the Organization had assassinated ۷.۰۰۰ of the System’s security forces.
This Organization did not even call the police functionaries as ‘Security forces’ in its activities and assassinations before the victory of the Revolution and did not put the confrontation with them on its operations plan and gave this title only to the special elements of SAVAK (Security Organization), who were directly engaged in torture and execution of the revolutionaries, and if in confrontations a police member was killed, because he had personally begun the confrontation. The people who were assassinated after the Revolution by the Organization, belonged to the most deprived groups of the Society, and in case the claim of the Organization concerning the normal people such as greengrocer and backer …. be correct and these people were the instruments of the Regime, that did not conform with the reality, then we must suspect the reason and ground of arms confrontation with such a Regime, a Regime witch enjoys the support of the people. If the most deprived groups of the Society be intensively supporters of this Regime, then any arms confrontation with such a Regime shall only be a treachery.