FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI

Iranians detained in Paris raids (Jon Henley and Ian Traynor, June 18, 2003, The Guardian)

Iranian opposition figures and western diplomats were taken aback yesterday by a huge crackdown in France on a principal pillar of the opposition to the Tehran regime.

More than 1,300 police officers raided 13 addresses in the Paris region early yesterday in what the interior ministry called an "exceptional operation" against the People's Mojahedin of Iran.

In Vienna, where the UN nuclear watchdog is discussing Iran's alleged nuclear bomb project, opposition figures attacked the French move as a "despicable act" aimed at shoring up the Tehran regime as it confronts popular protest. [...]

Although the movement is on EU and US terrorist network lists, elements are known to be in close communication with the Bush
administration.

Despicable is a height to which the French aspire...fruitlessly. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 18, 2003 7:41 AM