28 Mar 2024
Friday 28 June 2019 - 22:10
Story Code : 352922

MKO threatens to assassinate Iran's top general, new judiciary chief

MKO threatens to assassinate Iran
Press TV - A US and Saudi Arabia-backed anti-Iran terrorist group, which is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent Iranian civilians and officials, has announced a plan to assassinate a senior Iranian military commander and the countrys new Judiciary chief.

Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) informed its members about the plan through a recent internal communiqu.

It specified the targets as Major General Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC),and Ebrahim Raeisi, who was appointed as the countrys top judicial official by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei earlier this year.

The terrorist organization said it would welcome their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to join Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehrans former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Armys Ground Forces during Iraqs 1980-88 war against Iran.

Lajevardi and Sayyad-Shirazi, both prominent figures in the countrys struggle against campaigns led by the United States and its allies following the victory of Irans Islamic Revolution in 1979, were assassinated by the MKO terrorists respectively in 1998 and 1999.

The MKO has a dark history of assassinations and bombings against the Iranian government and nation. It notoriously sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the eight-year war.

Out of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Revolutions victory, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKOs acts of terror.

The group throws lavish conferences every year in Paris, with certain American, Western, and Saudi officials as its guests of honor. These include US National Security Advisor John Bolton, US President Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal.

This comes as Western countries, topped by the US, have taken the group out of their terror blacklists, while frequently accusing Iran of conducting terrorist attacks against regional countries.

In the latest instance of their accusations, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, echoing Trump, accused Iran of being behind a recent attack on two tankers in the Sea of Oman.

Earlier this month, the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norwegian-owned Front Altair oil tankers were struck by explosions near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Japans government said both vessels were carrying Japanese-related cargo.

Tehran has roundly rejected any role in the attacks, which it called suspicious, asking how could have the country possibly benefited from such an attack while Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in the Islamic Republic on a historic visit.
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