MKO trial launched in Tehran
The trial of members of the terrorist cult Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) kicked off on Tuesday.
A court in the Iranian capital Tehran kicked off the hearing of charges of the crimes committed by 104 members of the terrorist group, Mehr News Agency reported.
In this case, the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization is mentioned as the first defendant. The court has identified Masoud Rajavi as the leader of the group and declared him the second-ranked accused. The Judiciary of Iran has accused Maryam Rajavi as the third-ranked defendant.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani announced on Monday that the legal grounds had been prepared for the trial by the Judiciary.
He said the trial is in line with measures to hold the criminals to account for killing nearly 17,000 Iranians in their terrorist attacks during the past four decades.
Kanaani also said that Iranian officials are following up on the legal complaint filed against assassins of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in 2020.
General Soleimani, the late commander of the Quds Force of IRGC, was assassinated in a US drone attack in January 2020 authorized by the then-president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport.