The People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran denounces an attack on one of its offices in Sweden

September 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), considered a terrorist group by Tehran, on Monday denounced a Molotov cocktail attack by the “Iranian regime” against one of its offices on the outskirts of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

“Several windows of the building were broken and the outer wall caught fire. The fire was extinguished by residents and police rushed to the scene. Fortunately, no one was injured during this terrorist attack,” the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the political wing of the PMOI, said in a statement.

The group recalled that both on May 31, 2023 and June 11 of that same year, buildings used by the CNRI in the north of Paris were attacked. Another attack was also recorded at one of its offices in Berlin in December 2023.

Former Vice-President of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras, who is a member of the group and one of the founders of Vox, was the victim of an attempted assassination on November 9, 2023. According to sources from the police investigation, the attack could be linked to the Iranian regime.

The PMOI, which took an active part in the revolution that overthrew Shah Reza Pahlavi with an Islamist discourse mixed with an adaptation of Marxist ideology, fought on the side of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the war with Iran between 1980 and 1988 after denouncing the actions of the religious leadership established by the ayatollahs.

The group was persecuted by the religious authorities established in Iran, which led the then leader of the group, Masud Rajavi, to reach a pact with Hussein in 1986 at the height of the war between the two, after which the then supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, ordered the execution of alleged members and sympathizers of the organization.