At a time when the American government insists on the existence of a military option against Iran, one cannot be opposed to martyrdom-seeking operations, Hossein Allahkaram told Baztab, a Persian-language website run by former top Revolutionary Guards commanders.
Of the 400 well-trained members of martyrdom-seeking groups, dozens will be taking in the exercise on the heights near Karaj reservoir (west of Tehran), Allahkaram said.
Allahkaram is the leader and one of the founders of Ansar-e Hezbollah, a paramilitary force that acts as the clerical regimes storm troopers to put down anti-government demonstrations and instil terror in members of the public. Iranian officials have conceded in the past that the group has been organised and led by close confidants of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, such as Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati.
In a revealing account of his years as a member of the leadership council of Ansar-e Hezbollah, defector Amir Farshad Ebrahimi wrote that Allahkaram had been given the go-ahead by the Supreme Leader himself in a meeting in autumn 1992 to form an Iranian version of Hezbollah.
In the interview with Baztab, Allahkaram said the would-be suicide bombers belonged to a non-governmental organisation in Iran. He said further information on the suicide bombers would soon be given out in a press release.
