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Al Jazeera bericht:

'Exiles train to overthrow Tehran.

Washington has warned that it will not tolerate Iran supporting armed
groups fighting in Iraq, but in the far northeast of the country Al
Jazeera discovered armed Iranian exiles training to overthrow the
government in Tehran.
John Cookson visited members of the outlawed left-wing Kurdish-
Iranian Komala group, in their base.
The group accuses the Islamic government of persecuting the country's
ethnic minorities.
From their base the fighters cross the porous border into Iran to
carry out attacks. Al Jazeera witnessed a group of highly motivated
men carry out a mock attack on Iranian forces.
Komala, otherwise known as the Revolutionary Toilers of Iran, was
founded in 1969, and is affiliated to the Communist party of Iran but
has softened its left-wing stance in recent years.
The United States has become interested in working with the group and
last year Abdullah Muhtadi, a senior representative of the party,
travelled to Washington for a conference of Iranian minority groups.
"The change is possible and this is not the destiny of the Kurds to
live under oppression. Yes, everybody feels that something is going
to happen and something must happen," Muhtadi told Al Jazeera.
After 40 years in exile many of the group believe their time has come.
One Komala commander told Al Jazeera: "I can see the end ... I think
it is going to be very soon."'