According to the communiqué, the six "criminals" confessed have been incited by Iranian "terrorist circles" connected to the Iranian Islamic regime to perpetrate "criminal acts to the benefit of the American Administration and the Zionist entity", AFP said, quoting the Iraqi official news agency INA

In their "confessions", broadcast by the Iraqi state-controlled television, the six "agents" said they had carried armed operations in Iraq on "request from two Iranian officers" aimed at "undermining the security, to cause damages to public buildings and to create unrests".

The six Iraqis, including one Kurdish, confessed to have led four operations using explosive against the Oil Ministry building, the Saddam's Tower (Hussein, the Iraqi president), the seat of the Intelligence services and an important market on the centre of the Capital Baghdad.

According to one the detainees, a Kurdish unidentified only as Ahmed, a fifth operation has been considered against the building that harbours the Iranian Mojahedeen Khalq Organisation, but has not been executed because of the arrest of the group’s members.

The five other people identified as Mahmoud Osfa Ahmeds, 34 years, Souhail Yahia Alwans, 47 years, Khoudhair Abba Hassans, 31 years, Mansour Nasrallahs and Farès Jabbar Ahmeds, 32 years, confessed their involvement to the operations and said having received "large sums", in dollars" through Ahmed, the intermediary.

This later has added that after each operation, he would travel to Souleimaniya (north of Iraq) and proceeding from there to the Iranian city of Sanandaj, the capital city of the Iranian Province of Kurdistan, to meet his "treating" Iranian officers, identified as Majidi and Karimi in order to inform them" of the results of the operations, to receive money and to have new instructions", the official statement said.

The five others declared to have bought two cars and rented a local to meet and to stock the weapons and the explosives that they would obtain in the north of Iraq, a region that is out of the reach of the authority of Baghdad.

Khoudhair Abbas Hussein, a deserter from the army, affirmed to have received training courses in Halabja (north of Iraq), under supervision from Iranian officers, on the use of explosives.