TEHRAN – Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of Jundullah terrorist group has confessed to links with the CIA and the Israeli intelligence.

Jundallah, under his command, has carried out numerous terrorist attacks, bombings and assassinations in Iran. In one of its most vicious attacks, the terror group killed around 40 people in Pishin, a city in the southwest of Iran.
Rigi’s terrorist organization emerged and gained strength in the Eastern border of Iran in 2003. Sistan-Baluchistan is where Jundallah first surfaced.
On February 23, 2010, Abdolmalek Rigi was captured by Iranian security forces.
Only 24 hours later Rigi admitted that his activities were being supported by western countries, mainly by the United States. The ringleader confessed that Western intelligence agencies supported his terror activities against Iran.
Press TV’s Iran Today focused on Rigi to get more details on his agenda:
Abdolmalek Rigi: I was put in charge of the group. We have carried out several operations since then. Among them were the Darzin, Tasooki, Pishin and the Abi-Ibne-Abitalib attacks. Many people have been killed or injured.
Jundallah’s initial attacks targeted border guards. But things soon became much more serious. Civilians were held up on highways and shot at point blank range. Car bombs were detonated killing passersby and hostages were beheaded by Rigi himself.
Rigi has described his meeting with the U.S. representatives with confidence and great pride, considering it an achievement to be recognized by Washington.
Abdolmalek Rigi: A high-ranking CIA official said it would be difficult for them to launch a military strike on Iran, but they had a plan to help any anti-government group or organization with the potential to pick up arms, and fight the Islamic Republic and not just any country. He told me that my group had the ability to pose a serious challenge to the Iranian government.
Two months later, Rigi also elaborated on his ties with NATO and Israel. He said in order to keep Jundallah alive, he had to establish connection with not only Washington but Tel Aviv as well.
Abdolmalek Rigi: Mr. Nasser Boleidehi sent me an email. Nasser himself is the spokesman for the Baluchistan’s People’s Party which is a secular ethnic party. After a few days, Yasin Ahvazi sent me an email saying the same thing. Now he is a member of the Al Ahvaz Arab People’s Party.
My answer to Yasin’s e-mail was affirmative. He asked where to set up the meeting. They wanted it to be in Morocco. One of my friends, Salam Azizi, and I went to Karachi. After that Yasin sent us our visas and we bought tickets for Karachi.
One of their main demands was that we take the battles from Baluchistan and border areas to the center, because the areas where we carried out operations didn’t impact the government much, neither politically nor economically.
Only two months after their first talks, Rigi was invited to Morocco for further negotiations.
Rigi now believes he was guided by hatred and what he has done have been wrong.
Abdolmalek Rigi: There is no doubt what I did was a result of ignorance and superficiality. Anyway you slice it, even with the relations I had with certain countries, the things I did, were all a result of ignorance, which was coupled with hatred; and hatred will mess up the mind.
Despite Jundallah’s various terrorist operations, the group has not been put down on the U.S. terrorist list. Washington has only gone so far as to condemn Rigi’s group to save face, which certainly has not served to weaken the group.