TEHRAN- The MKO terrorists’ third trial took place in Tehran under the chairmanship of Judge Dehqani on Tuesday with the presence of the relatives of the victims.

According to documents obtained by Iran’s security agencies, members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist group got oil from Iraqi former despot Saddam Hussein in exchange for killing Iranians.

The prosecutor’s representative presented the specifics of the documents against the MKO members and their connections to Saddam throughout the hearing.

“Intelligence and judicial investigations show that the MKO members, as mercenaries of Iraq, carried out terrorist acts against the people. Also, the intelligence officials have obtained information showing that they took oil from Iraq in exchange for the terrorist acts,” he said.

Judge Dehqani then asked the prosecutor’s representative whether the said documents had been included in the lawsuit raised against the MKO members, to which the representative responded in the affirmative.

He also stressed that “the documents related to this meeting that was held in 2001 in the Iraqi Intelligence Service between the head of the Iraqi intelligence and Masoud Rajavi in the presence of Mehdi Abrishamchi have been documented and included in the lawsuit.”

The indictments of several more defendants in this case were read out during this meeting. The charges levelled against the twenty-three defendants were read aloud during the court’s first and second sessions.

After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Marxist cult and terrorist group, which claimed it had played a major role in the victory of the Islamic Revolution, launched a campaign of terror against the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

Finally, in 1981 the MKO operatives took up arms and carried out large-scale terrorist operations, assassinating more than 17,000 Iranians. The most important of these actions were the bombings of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Office of the Islamic Republic of Iran Party. The president, prime minister, and head of the Supreme Court were brutally killed in the bombings.

When the MKO escaped from Iran, they went to Iraq and collaborated with Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran in the 1980s. They took up arms against their own country and participated in two operations against the Islamic Republic.

After Iran and Iraq accepted a ceasefire, the NLA (National Liberation Army), MKO’s military branch, with financial and logistical support from Saddam Hussein attacked Iran with the hallucination of conquering Tehran in a few days. As soon as they set foot on Iranian soil, they committed heinous actions such as setting people on fire and hanging them.

The terrorist organization considered itself an alternative to the Islamic Republic of Iran and was doing its best to attack the Iranian people and government in any way possible.

After about 25 years of presence in Iraq, the MKO was expelled at the end of Saddam Hussein's rule and settled in Albania with the financial support of some Arab countries and the direct support of the Americans.

The MKO was trying to rebuild and portray its new face from a terrorist face to a democratic one by taking measures such as holding political and annual gatherings. To achieve its vicious goals, the MKO kept inviting famous and controversial political figures to its summits.

Culled from Tehran Times