TEHRAN – Iran’s Islamic Republic ran two operational members of the terrorist Mu Jahedin-E Khalq Organization (MKO) on Sunday to “start indiscriminate attacks on mortar production and civil, residential areas and service facilities.”
According to the Iranian Judicial Media Centre, Mehdi Hassani (aka “Fardin”) and Behrouz Ehsani Eslamlou (aka “Behzad”) were hanged after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence after legal proceedings.
The judiciary details that Hassani joined MKO several years ago and maintained contact with the group’s operational intermediaries.
Ehsani Eslamlou has been a member since the 1980s and resumed his terrorist activities after the early release of the prison.
The two rented a safe house in Tehran and “manufactured launchers and handmade mortars,” targeting “citizens, homes, management centres, educational institutions and charities.”
Their businesses included Intelligence newsletter, filming terrorist acts and the spread of propaganda through MKO-related networks.
The terrorist was arrested in 2022 after months of security operations. Ehsani Eslamlou was identified and arrested by the Intelligence Television squad while he was about to cross to Türkiye. During capture, authorities seized firearms, ammunition, mortars, mortar manufacturing equipment, and tools to change the appearance.
Their activities included coordinating mortar attacks on the Ministry of Communications in fall 2022, when MKO claimed responsibility.
Ehsani Eslamlou previously benefited from Iran’s generous system of pardon-orientedness after being sentenced to 15 years in the 1980s to support MKO terrorist cells. His ruling fell to 18 months, after which he resumed terrorist activities under orders from the MKO.
The enforcement comes against the backdrop of MKO’s fourth-grade violence campaign against Iran.
The group worked with Iraqi Saddam Hussein during the attacks on Iran in the 1980s, taking part in chemical attacks on Iranian civilians, and curbing Iraqi Kurdish and Shiite uprisings.
Iran has designated MKO as the terrorist entity responsible for the deaths of more than 17,000 Iranians since the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Currently based in Albania, MKO faces international scrutiny. Albanian authorities recently stormed an Ashraf-3 camp, seized computers and charged six leaders to incite war and cybercrime.
Iranian judiciary repeatedly stated that Hassani and Esani Eslamroux were brought to trial in front of lawyers, and the Supreme Court refused to appeal all.