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Article: Fire and flood, plans and blood: Iran. (riots in city of Mashhad)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1992
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Did you meet with any members of the Mujahideen when in Mashhad?" the army officer kept asking. On the way home from a visit to Mashhad, where riots had exploded on May 30th, your correspondent was arrested, strip-searched and interrogated for ten hours. The questions concentrated on the People's Mujahideen, the armed Iranian opposition quartered in Iraq. Her notebooks were searched and two mentions of the Mujahideen were found and taken away. But both were denials of Mujahideen involvement in the riots.
Before this incident it had made sense to be sceptical of the Mujahideen's claims that they were behind the disturbances in several Iranian cities in the past ...