The mastermind of the terrorist group admits that they received help from Sweden
TEHRAN- At his trial on Sunday, the main leader of the terrorist and separatist organization Al-Ahwaziya admitted that Stockholm and the Swedish intelligence service have supported him.
Farajollah Chaab, also known as Habib Asyoud, said during court proceedings in Tehran that Swedish officials gave him a device and instructed him to press a button in the event he was in danger. He also noted that they assured him that they would rush to his rescue after he did so.
The defendant was questioned by Judge Iman Afshari as to whether he admits that he is a Swedish citizen and receives help from the government and intelligence services of that country to which he replied that the Swedish government supports him and that he is a resident and citizen of Sweden.
“They gave me a device so I could press the button when I felt danger, and it would alert the security agents of the Swedish authorities and they would rescue me wherever I was,” he admitted.
In September 2018, a terrorist incident was carried out in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran, by the Al-Ahwaziya group led by Chaab.
The terror cell’s main leader was responsible for killing innocent people and seriously damaging public property in Khuzestan using explosives, grenades and Klashnikov weapons, according to the lawyer for relatives of people killed in the terrorist incident.
The defendant should get the death penalty, the lawyer said.
During the session, the prosecutor’s representative Amin Vaziri said that Sweden had become a haven for terrorist organizations including PJAK, the Nadhal movement and MKO.
“Chaab is a Swedish citizen and has received support from the Swedish government while he has received a red alert and has been prosecuted by international organizations,” he added.
Prosecutors’ representatives mentioned that Chaab was detained in Poland in 2019 after traveling there to attend a conference with terrorist organizations, but the Swedish government intervened and the US administration began lobbying to have him return to Sweden on a special flight so that he would be able to imagine terrorists. business there.
The so-called Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (SMLA) claimed credit for the September 2018 attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, which left 25 people dead – including members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and civilian bystanders – and 70 others were injured.
Following a series of specific and integrated operations by Iranian intelligence services, Chaab was arrested in November 2020. He first appeared in a Tehran court in mid-January after his arrest.
Late in February, at the trial’s fifth session, prosecutors produced evidence revealing Saudi Arabia’s plans to destabilize Iran.
Chaab admitted that Saudi intelligence pushed to combine all terrorist and separatist movements under a single umbrella organization to counter Iran after the formation of the Islamic Awakening movement, according to the prosecutor’s representative.
He went on to say that Saudi intelligence had also launched a number of satellite channels to sow discord in Iran to divide the country.
According to Vaziri, the terrorist mastermind also admitted that Saudi Arabia has supported terrorist organizations with the ultimate aim of promoting the Takfiri doctrine in Iran.