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 country\u2019s new Judiciary chief.<\/p>\n
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) informed its members about the plan through a recent internal communiqu\u00e9.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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 country\u2019s top judicial official by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei earlier this year.
\nThe terrorist organization said it would \u201cwelcome\u201d their assassination, adding that it desired for the ranking officials to \u201cjoin\u201d Asadollah Lajevardi, Tehran\u2019s former chief prosecutor, and Ali Sayyad-Shirazi, a former commander of the Iranian Army\u2019s Ground Forces during Iraq\u2019s 1980-88 war against Iran.
\nLajevardi and Sayyad-Shirazi, both prominent figures in the country\u2019s struggle against campaigns led by the United States and its allies following the victory of Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution in 1979, were assassinated by the MKO terrorists respectively in 1998 and 1999.
\nThe 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.<\/p>\nOut of the nearly 17,000 Iranians killed in terrorist assaults since the Revolution\u2019s victory, about 12,000 have fallen victim to the MKO\u2019s acts of terror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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 Trump\u2019s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, and former Saudi Arabian spy chief, Prince Turki al-Faisal.
\nThis 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.
\nIn 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.
\nThe Trump administration has blamed Iran for attacks on two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman without providing any evidence to back up the accusation.
\nEarlier this month, the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norwegian-owned Front Altair oil tankers were struck by explosions near the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Japan\u2019s government said both vessels were carrying \u201cJapanese-related\u201d cargo.
\nTehran 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 Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in the Islamic Republic on a historic visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[64],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[25],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-massoud-rajavi","tag-mkos-terrorist-activities","module-news","ctype-story","blog-press-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}