Major General Mohammad Baqeri, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, said that the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) organization will have a fate that would be a lesson for the opposition.
He threatened the opposition and MEK with a fate similar to that of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
This came in parallel with Iran's Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri threatening to bring MEK for an international crimes trial, adding that up to 700 indictments are being prepared against the group.
ISNA News Agency quoted Montazeri as saying that an international criminal trial will be held for “these criminals soon”, during a recent speech for him at the headquarters of Iran's Islamic Republican Party which was bombed on June 28, 1981.
The Iranian authority accuses MEK of standing behind the explosion.
The Iranian government was targeted in the past weeks with activities that MEK claimed responsibility for including hacking Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s computer system.
Amid a struggle over power, there has been tension between MEK supporters and other Iranian opposition factions and parties.
This concurs with Iran's successful restoration of diplomat Asadollah Assadi, who was given a 20-year jail term by a court in Belgium after being convicted with a foiled bomb plot in France in 2018.
Brussels and Tehran struck a deal to swap prisoners. Three Europeans were released by Iran in return for Assadi as part of the swap in which Iran released Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele last week.
Upon the release of Assadi, Iranian officials stated that they are working on bringing back a former Iranian official who was convicted by a Swedish court for a lifetime imprisonment last year for his role in torturing and executing political prisoners from the left-wing parties including MEK in the 1980s.
Iran considers that the sentence against Hamid Noury stems from “political motives”.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and MEK group held the West responsible for the challenges they are facing. Last week, France banned a rally on July 1 called for by the NCRI.
On June 20, Albanian authorities raided a location where MEK members have been residing for a decade, as part of a deal signed following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Amid Tirana’s denial, NCRI announced one member dead.
The Albanian authorities further revealed the confiscation of 200 computers.
Iran commemorated the chemical attack against Sardasht, in the west of the country, on June 28, 1987. Iran accuses the Iraqi air force of launching mustard gas, injuring more than 8,000.
Baqeri slammed the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein saying that he "went to hell" in the worst possible way. He assumed a similar fate for the MEK, which must be a lesson to the opposition that turned its back on the country and the nation.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a statement that Iran wouldn’t forget or forgive the crime of Sardasht, accusing some Western countries such as Germany, the UK, France, Netherlands, and the US of providing practical support to equip the regime of Saddam Hussein with chemicals.
