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<\/p>\nThe day after the police operation against the People\u2019s Mojahedin in the Paris suburbs, European and world public opinion were shocked to discover individuals voluntarily turning themes into human torches.
\nWhat level of fanaticism could push seemingly sane and healthy people to such extremes? Moreover, some of the \u201cspectators\u201d tried lock the access of rescue services which could have saved the victims’ lives. The French judicial system could only note the facts prevent any repetition.<\/p>\n
\u2018Two Iranians suspected of preventing the intervention of rescuers while a woman was immolating herself in front of DST headquarters in Paris on Wednesday will be brought before an instructional magistrate for their a criminal investigation, judicial sources made known on Friday.<\/p>\n
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The prosecutor\u2019s office stated that very day a criminal enquiry possible \u2018obstruction of rescue services\u2019 and \u2018provocation to suicide\u2019. It will soon demand an arrest warrant. The crime of obstructing rescue efforts can be punished with up to 7 years in prison.<\/p>\n
The two prisoners bought 8 litres of petrol in a service station in rue Nelaton, near the DST HQ. They then provided it to an Iranian woman who died yesterday in the specialized military hospital for burns, Percy, in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), the same source added. One of them was an obstacle to rescue workers when they tried save the 44 year old victim, while the other was in possession of the victim\u2019s blouse and papers, judicial sources emphasized.<\/p>\n
The two Iranians were questioned by police Tuesday morning during the operation against the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. They were released during the evening, the judicial sources said.
\nOne Iranian woman, arrested and questioned on Wednesday was in possession of gasoline-filled bottles and a letter explaining her intention to commit suicide. She was freed, she stated\u201d.<\/p>\n
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photo: The raid of the MEK’s Paris compound in 2003, which prompted acts of self-immolation by some of its members.<\/p><\/div>\n
This is the point to begin asking some difficult questions. For many years, specialists on international terrorism, like the experts on post-revolutionary Iran, have been aware of the sectarian and violent nature of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. Numerous journalists have had a bone to pick with their propaganda. Those who gave space to the Movement\u2019s \u201cdeserters\u201d or who expressed the slightest criticism were violently denounced as agents of Teheran, bought by the regime. But, in that Summer of 2003, reality hit.
\nTom Heneghan of the British press agency, Reuters, asked himself if he was watching a sect in full collapse:
\n\u201cThe images of men and women spraying themselves with petrol before setting themselves on fire in the streets of several European capitals, has shed dramatic light on the last days of the main armed opposition to the Teheran regime.<\/p>\n
Since Tuesday, several supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) have tried to immolate themselves in Paris, London, Rome and Berne.
\nA woman in her forties has succumbed to her wounds Thursday night in the Paris region after immolating herself the previous day to denounce the intervention of French police against Maryam Rajavi \u2014 the person whom the Iranian opposition want one day to become President of Iran.<\/p>\n
Successive student demonstrations in the streets of Teheran and the growing pressure of the American authorities on the Iranian regime, summoned to explain its nuclear programme, could have led the Mojahedin to believe that the time had come to overthrow the authorities they have been fighting for thirty years.
\nHowever in just a few weeks, the organization has seen its military installations dismantled in Iraq, its arsenal seized by the Americans and its HIQ in Auvers-sur- Oise, North of Paris, searched and closed down by the French police.<\/p>\n
For many specialists on Iran, these images of men and women in flames, writhing in pain have shown the true nature of the PMOI: a sect based on the cult of personality of Maryam Rajavi and her husband, Massoud, one of the movement\u2019s founders.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s a sect,\u2019 says Ali Ansari, expert on Iranian affairs at Britain\u2019s Durham University.
\n\u2018Their militants are strangely, passionately loyal to this couple. The now realise who they are,\u2019 he adds.
\n\u2018My only hope, is that, in the event of a revolution, we won\u2019t have the People\u2019s Mojahedin in their place,\u2019 confides a young Iranian interviewed in Teheran: \u2018They\u2019re worse than the mullahs\u2019.<\/p>\n
From the book: Autopsy of an ideological drift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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