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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
From the Enemies of the Ayatollahs by Mohammad Mohaddessin
“Thanks to its dedicated, pious and experienced personnel, our
country’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is one of the
most powerful intelligence organizations in the world.”
Ali Younessi
Every government has its own intelligence and spy agencies. Organised
crime gangs operate in almost every corner of the world. Terrorists are
also active in many countries. But in only one country, all three
operate under one government agency: Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence
and Security.
According to insiders and defectors, the MOIS is a notorious mafia of
terror, murder, espionage and organized crime. Much has been said about
this agency whose huge budget and unrestrained power have turned it
into one of the key pillars of the mullahs’ regime. But the most
shocking accounts have come from those who worked inside the MOIS and
collaborated with it for years.
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Sunday, 13 November 2005 |
 Introduction
On 18 May 2005, the US based Human Rights Watch issued a 28-page report
entitled ‘No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps’. The
Report makes a series of serious allegations against Iran’s main
opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran.
This includes allegedly subjecting “…dissident members to torture and
prolonged solitary confinement” as well as alleging “…two cases of
death under interrogation”.
The report is based on 12 hours of telephone interviews with 12
individuals who claim to have been mistreated while they were in the
People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran’s camps in Iraq. One
witness claims to have been in solitary confinement for eight and a
half years. Four of the witnesses left the People’s Mojahedin
Organisation 13 years ago and since then, have had no connection with
the organisation. Eight of the witnesses went to Iran after
leaving the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, and then arrived
in Europe.
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