Iranian police reported the detention of some of the main instigators of the recent unrest in northwestern Iran. According to Colonel Hassan Sheikhnejad, police chief of the city of Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province), they have been handed over to the judiciary for trial in their cases.
"After the recent riots in some districts and neighborhoods of the city of Urmia, the police officers of the city have made it their main task to identify the causes of these incidents," he was quoted as saying by the IRNA news agency. - "Through their efforts, rioters, including their organizers and main instigators, have been identified and detained. They have been handed over to the judiciary to investigate their crimes. The safety of the people is a red line for the police, and anyone who tries to question the safety of the people should be assured that they will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law."
Tasnim News Agency reported Thursday that Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the US-backed counterrevolutionary Iranian opposition group, made herself known in the past riots. According to the agency, Rajavi, who previously called herself the "president of Iran's National Council of Resistance," said on social media that she "claims to be president of the country during the transition period." Maryam Rajavi and her husband Masoud Rajavi, according to the agency, are responsible for the deaths of 17 thousand innocent Iranians.
Masoud Rajavi is the founder of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. This organization in 1980s waged an armed fight against the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran and carried out terrorist acts. Later the group settled in France and the US, during the reign of Saddam Hussein, it operated from the territory of Iraq and was used in the war against Iran. It was deemed a terrorist group not only in Iran but also in the West, but then the United States and Britain removed it from their black lists. The group openly declares its goal to overthrow the current Iranian government.
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Based on materials from TASS