The 35th court session examining the charges against 104 members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as well as the organization’s nature as a legal entity, was held on June 10th, in branch 11 of the Criminal Court of Tehran Province, presided over by Judge Amir Reza Dehghani.
At the beginning of the hearing, Judge Dehghani explained about the testimonies made by arrested agents of the MEK who committed terrorist attacks in the early years of the 1980s. According to the testimonies of certain MEK agents, named Sohrab Sepehri, Hossein Sheikholhokama, Abbas Sahraiee and abdolkarim Moazez, the leaders of the group had ordered them to kill any individual who seemed to be a sympathizer of the Islamic Republic.
They testified that the murders were usually accomplished based on the beard of the victim or the portrait of ayatollah Khomeini on the wall of his shop. This way, the MEK, as the first defendant of the court, has killed a large number of civilians in Iran.
Maddah, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, asked some of family members of the victims of a terrorist attack, called Qadikalah incident, and a survivor of the attack to take the stand and deliver their testimonies.
Ali Haghpanah, the brother of Mohammad Ali Haghpanah asked the court to bring the MEK to justice for the assassination of his brother. Qiaseddin Mozaffari, the son of Hossein Mozaffari also lost his father in Qadikalah terrorist attack. The MEK agents killed the two men in the road from Qaemshahr to Qadikalah.
Einollah Delpisheh is also a survivor of Qadikalah incident who took the stand to testify about the terrorist attack. He and Mozaffari were teachers; they had no political position in the government.
Abbas Ali Kamalpour Bandari was also a victim of the MEK terror teams. He was only 17 when he was killed by the MEK terrorist. His brother, HosseinAli attended the court to ask for punishment of the group and its leaders.
The wife and children of Yunes Taheri also demanded blood money and severe punishment from the court for the first accused of the court, the legal entity of the MEK. Taheri’s wife told the court that the body of her husband was never found. Yunes Taheri was a member of Iranian revolutionary guard.
Another action of the MEK was the hijacking of a Phantom F-14 fighter jet, which was carried out by agents of the group. This case was reviewed in the 35th session too.
The legal representative of the Islamic Republic Army وIn the previous session, he explained three cases of military plane hijackings carried out by the Mujahedin. In this session, he also explained one of these plane hijackings and the pilots who hijacked the plane with the collusion of the MEK and transferred military information. He submitted the documents to the court.
The next court session will be held on June 28th, 2025.
