TEHRAN, June 5: Captured Iranian dissidents said the' United States had helped Mujahideen rebels' anti-government campaign by providing them with Intelligence for acts of sabotage in Iran, an English-language newspaper reported Thursday, says Xinhua.

Members of the Mujahideen Khalq. Iran's largest dissident group, had been captured while trying to plant a bomb in southern Iran, the English-language Tehran Times' said in an editorial titled US runs out of resources'.

The captives confessed that "In the past two months the American forces In the Persian Gulf had meetings with the (Mujahideen) leaders, and have put at their disposal the necessary guidance and inforyna-tlon on centres In Iran where

bombs^could be planted," said

The Americans even provided the terrorists with food supplies to last them for 15 days," the paper said.

The editorial said the sabotage was part of a new US strategy to contain Iran's Islamic revolution.

Thus, it would seem to be quite fair to ask the question: Who supports the terrorists?"

The United States and Egypt have been accusing Iran of sponsoring subversive terrorist acts In other countries in order to replace other governments with Iranian-like theocracy, but Iran denied the charges.

"America's blatant animosity with the Islamic republic since its inception In February 1979 is an Indisputable fact. America never forgave Iran for having

^u/fwg: ^^P^^ence, and Washington used all of its resources to strike Iran," said the paper.

The United States and Iran cut off their diplomatic ties in 1979 after hundreds of radical students seized the American embassy staff in Tehran and held them for 444 days.

Iran admitted last month that the Mujahideen was responsible for a series of attacks on military barracks and civilian facilities In late April and , early May, which includes the bombing of pipelines at the huge Abadan oil refinery In southwestern Iran.

The government retaliated by bombarding two Mujahideen bases Inside Iraq, but no casualties were reported.