Abdolhamid Rigi confesses in an exclusive interview that he was involved in terrorism at the behest of his brother, Jundullah ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi.

“Since 2003, Jundullah members have masterminded fifty to sixty terrorist operations, including mass murder, hostage takings, bombings, raids, car thefts, and other acts of sabotage against civilians and the government,” said Abdolhami in an exclusive interview with Press TV.

“I was under strict orders to take part in most of these missions,” he explained, while adding that he killed at least four innocent civilians with his own hands in one particular raid.

He asserted that if he refused to conform to his brother's orders he would have been faced with a severe reprimand. “I would be labeled as a traitor and therefore condemned to death.”

When asked whether he knew that his brother killed a large number of innocent people to avenge his arrest, he expressed profound surprise.

“How can that possibly be? My brother paved the way for my arrest in the first place. It was my brother who sold me out and landed me in prison,” he said.

Abdolhamid Rigi and three other members of the Jundullah group were arrested by Pakistani forces and handed over to Iranian officials earlier last year.

Jundullah is a Pakistan-based terror group comprised of some members of the Baluch ethnic minority. The groupm is closely affiliated with the notorious al-Qaeda organization.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed in 2007 that Jundullah is in fact a CIA brainchild designed to achieve the Bush-era goal of “regime change in Iran”.

According to the report, the CIA had attempted to destabilize Iran by “supplying arms-length support, supplying money and weapons” to Jundullah terrorists.

An investigative ABC report has also exposed that political heavyweights in the US had ordered Jundullah terrorists to “stage deadly guerrilla raids inside the Islamic Republic, kidnap Iranian officials and execute them on camera” all as part of a “programmatic objective to overthrow the Iranian government”.

The group has masterminded a slew of bombings and terrorist attacks in the country, one of which left at least 16 Iranian police officers dead last year.

Nine Iranian security guards, who were on a mission to hunt down the insurgents, were slain in 2005, while another 11 were killed in a 2007 bombing incident.

Jundullah militants also claimed responsibility for a mosque bombing, that killed at least 25 Iranians in the southeastern city of Zahedan.

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