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Source: http://jcpa.org/irans-revolutionary-guard-smuggled-suitcases-of-explosives-into-saudi-arabia/
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Smuggled Suitcases of Explosives into Saudi Arabia
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Iran Desk - In 1986, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard concealed explosives in the suitcases of unknowing Iranian pilgrims traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Haj, under the orders of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The explosives were transported to Saudi Arabia with the intention of detonating them during that year's pilgrimage to Mecca. This was recently revealed by Ahmad Montazeri, the son of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, deputy to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. After the Saudis discovered the suitcases, Mehdi Karroubi, who was then Ayatollah Khomeini's representative to Iran's pilgrim organization, was compelled to travel to Saudi King Fahd in person and apologize. When Ayatollah Montazeri found out about this, he wrote to Ayatollah Khomeini, but instead of investigating the matter, the regime placed the blame on Mehdi Hashemi, a Muslim clergyman and a senior officer of the Revolutionary Guard who was not involved at all but was executed in 1987.