VEVAK in Iran
Iran’s intelligence agents arrest daughter of murdered priest PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 09 October 2006
Iran Focus - London, Sep. 30 – Agents of Iran’s dreaded Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested the daughter of a Christian priest whose high-profile murder 12 years ago was met with international condemnation, a Christian news agency reported on Friday.
MOIS STRUCTURE PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 15 January 2006
ImageThe Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is comprised of 16 Directorates, two organisations, five independent offices and 27 main departments for each province.

Three of the most important Directorates are involved in spreading Islamic fundamentalism beyond Iran's borders, especially to regional countries.

Directorate for Overseas Affairs
Mohammad-Reza Iravani (a.k.a Amir-Hossein Taghavi) heads the Directorate for Overseas Affairs. Irvani handles MOIS branches abroad and specifically directs terrorist activities, in particular against the main Iranian opposition movement, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). 

Background information on Mullah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroodi and the SCIRI's affiliation with Iran PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 31 December 2005
ImageMullah Shahroodi is currently the head of the Judicial Power in the Iranian government and according to a document which appeared in the website of the Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution in Iraq (an official government site), he is an Iraqi who was born in Karbala and was the head of the SCIRI in Iran for a while.

ُُُThe document reveals the identity of a non-Iranian man as the head of one of the three powers in Iran on one hand and shows the Iranian regime's men leading the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Gropse (IRGC) and the Badr Org. on the other.
Convert Stabbed To Death PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
ImageSecret police crackdown results in the torture of 10 other Christians.

Compass Direct – An Iranian convert to Christianity was kidnapped last week from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, his bleeding body thrown in front of his home a few hours later.

Ghorban Tori, 50, was pastoring an independent house church of convert Christians in Gonbad-e-Kavus, a town just east of the Caspian Sea along the Turkmenistan border.
The Serial Murders (PartIII) PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 28 November 2005
Who is to blame?

In the face of public and international pressure, on December 14, 1998, President Mohammad Khatami announced the establishment of a special committee to investigate the killings, but before the inquiry even began, apparently the régime’s leaders already knew the answers.  President Khatami said: “These murders are ominous schemes of the enemies of independence and freedom of the Islamic state.
The Serial Murders (Part II) PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 26 November 2005
ImageThe forgotten victims

These four victims were the only ones whose killings were later acknowledged as having been perpetrated by a gang headed by Saeed Emami or Eslami, the Deputy Minister of Intelligence.  There were many other mysterious killings, however, which may possibly have been the work of this death squad, or of other assassins in the Ministry.  Dozens of intellectuals, writers and journalists opposed to the régime had disappeared or died suddenly or by violent means in the years leading up to the chain murders. In January, 1999, the Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) in the British Parliament wrote to the UN calling their attention to the “chilling resemblance, in terms of their targets and methods, to an earlier string of disappearances and mysterious deaths that occurred in 1996 and 1997”.
The Serial Murders (Part I) PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 25 November 2005
ImageAt the end of 1998, the Iranian public was horrified and amazed by the brutal murders of four prominent intellectuals, later to be described in the Iranian media as the “chain murders”.

The first to die were Dariush Forouhar, the 70-year-old leader of the Iran People’s Party, and his 54-year-old wife Parvaneh. Outspoken but apparently tolerated critics of the Iranian régime, they were stabbed to death on Sunday November 22, 1998 in their Tehran flat, on the anniversary of the suspicious death of Dr Kazem Sami, another dissident, in 1989. Mr Forouhar was decapitated, and one of Parvaneh’s breasts had been cut off.

Iran appoints murderer of Christian bishops to key position PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 22 November 2005
ImageIran Focus– A former senior official in Iran’s dreaded secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), who personally oversaw the gruesome murders of two Christian bishops and a priest in Iran in the 1990s, has been appointed as the new Director General of the country’s Interior Ministry, Iran Focus has learnt.
Iran: VEVAK arrests author of controversial book PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 14 July 2005
Iran Terror Website
London, Jul. 14 – Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) has confirmed that Reza Golpour, the 28-year-old author of a controversial book on the secret past of some of the top officials of the clerical regime, has been under arrest since last week.
Secret memo says Iran’s new president “fired coups de grace” PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 27 June 2005
ImageIran Terror Website
A secret memorandum made available to Iran Terror by a source in the Iranian government sheds light on the mysterious past of Iran’s newly-elected ultra-conservative president. Information provided by this source has proven reliable in the past.