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Tuesday, 15 November 2005 |
 Firouzmand left a Mojahedin headquarters in Iraq on 15 July
2001 and attempted to go to the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad with false
identification papers. He had stolen three weapons, walkie-talkies, a
car and a large amount of cash. He was arrested by the Iraqi police on
his way to the Iranian Embassy.
Consistent with Iraqi law, the police referred the case to the courts
to prosecute Firouzmand on espionage charges. He expressed remorse and
pleaded with the Mojahedin to allow him to return.
The PMOI appealed to Iraqi police to release him to the organization’s
custody to prevent his prosecution and punishment and gave him the
choice of going to Iran to live a normal life. Firouzmand insisted that
he wanted to stay at PMOI camps.
On April 28, 2004, in the course of interviews conducted by a team from
the U.S. Department of State at Camp Ashraf, Firouzmand left for the
exit facility controlled by U.S. forces. He was repatriated to Iran on
9 March 2005. His contact with the Iranian regime’s embassy in
Baghdad spanned several years and it emerged that his MOIS handler in
Tehran was named Mohammad Alavi.
After the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Firouzmand was tasked to
track down Mr. Massoud Rajavi and carry out Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei's order to assassinate him (PMOI statement, 14 April 2003).
The MOIS and the Revolutionary Guards Corps' Qods (Jerusalem) Force
which directed the assassination of Mr. Rajavi's elder brother Prof.
Kazem Rajavi in April 1990 in Geneva, blatantly boasted of such a plan
on 6 July 2005 on the websites affiliated with the Ministry.
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