“The hypocrites (MKO members) that are stranded in Europe, have been supported as a political puppet by the US, the Zionist regime and some European countries, claiming to be defenders of human rights,” Nasser Kanaani said in a post on his X account on Friday, marking the 36th anniversary of a counterattack -codenamed Operation Mersad (Ambush)- against the MKO terrorists in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah.
“They have served as a tool in their hands, and have blood on their hands with a dark record full of crimes,” the spokesman said of the MKO terrorists.
“The hypocrites have killed over 17 thousand people after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and finally took refuge in Iraq under Saddam's Ba'athist regime,” he added, the Foreign Ministry’s website reported.
“The fate of those who, after betraying dear Iran with the support of the enemies of the Iranian nation, opened fire on their motherland and their countrymen and women with hatred, will not be anything but displacement or what they experienced during Operation Mersad,” the spokesman added.
On July 26, 1988, the MKO terror cult, a key ally of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime at the time, launched a blitz to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The terror cult, now based in Albania, had joined forces with Saddam’s West-backed regime in its war against Iran in the early 1980s. In the waning days of the 8-year war, MKO carried out the offensive.
In response, Iran's military carried out the Mersad Operation, during which over 4,800 members of the terrorist group were killed or injured. The operation ended with the Iranian military forces' decisive victory.