Iran regime's new disinformation campaign against the PMOI

Saturday, 09 February 2008
The clerical regime's terrorist Qods Force claims four PMOI members arrested in Iraqi city of Karbala

NCRI - The false claims disseminated by an agent of the clerical regime acting as the spokesman of the Karbala police force that four members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) had been arrested in that city is a sheer lie.

The PMOI has no presence in any part of Iraq except in the city of Ashraf. The source of these lies is the terrorist Qods Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that is setting the stage for further terrorist operations against the PMOI and the residents of Ashraf city.

In an explosion on February 8, the terrorist agents of the Iranian regime's Qods Force destroyed the water supply pumping station of Ashraf City (100 km to northeast of Baghdad), home to members of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The pumping station was located 25 km to the west of Ashraf. As a result, supply of water to Ashraf and 20,000 Iraqis living in the area were cut off.

Two days before this explosion, a member of the local tribal council, Sheikh Hamid Ziab, in charge of the local security and protection of the pumping station, was assassinated in a terrorist attack. The tribal council blamed the Qods Force for this crime.

Claims of arrest of four members of the PMOI in Karbala are part of a new terrorist conspiracy by the Qods Force against the PMOI and the residents of Ashraf City who are recognized as "protected persons" under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The new plot was launched a few weeks ago by the Qods Force. The clerical regime had dispatched a number of agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and Qods Force to Iraq to plan and prepare the grounds for terrorist operations against the residents of Ashraf City. The agents were sent from inside and outside Iran and they have been staying in Baghdad's Al-Mansour Hotel. They are in regular contacts with the regime's embassy in Baghdad.

All members of the PMOI are based in Ashraf City which is under constant protection of the Multi-National Force-Iraq round the clock and their movements in and out of Ashraf is supervised by the MNF-I. Something that has been confirmed on numerous occasions by the commanders of the MNF-I (Statement by Lieutenant General William Caldwell, chief spokesman and Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects for the Multi-National Force in Iraq, on June 20, 2006).

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 9, 2008