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“Dissident” exposed as MOIS agent |
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
 Karim Haghi introduces himself as “the former head of personal
protection of Maryam Rajavi and now a political refugee in the
Netherlands” and claims that he was a “member of the People’s Mojahedin
for 15 years.”
Haghi has never been “the head of personal protection of Mrs. Rajavi”
or a “member of the Mojahedin for 15 years”. Haghi was in the NLA like
thousands of other combatants and, like all the others, performed
sentry and guard duties on a rotational basis.
During the bombings of
Iraq in 1991, he said that for physical reasons he could no longer
remain in the NLA and asked to be transferred to Baghdad to lead an
ordinary life, a request that was granted.
In January 1993, Haghi and his wife and child were sent to France with
their expenses for the trip and stay in France paid in full by the
PMOI. Within a few months more than 67,000 French Francs were paid to
him by the Mojahedin. But after a few months he decided to go to the
Netherlands and apply for asylum in that country. After May 1993, he
had no contacts with the Mojahedin.
In 1994, Haghi was recruited by the MOIS and from 1995 he was in
regular contact with Maqsoudi, an MOIS handler working under diplomatic
cover in the Iranian consulate in the Netherlands. It was then that
three years after leaving Iraq, Haghi suddenly ‘remembered’ that he was
imprisoned and tortured by the Mojahedin during the years he had been
in Iraq.
The MOIS made Haghi the ringleader of its espionage network in the
Netherlands. The network was set up around a journal called “Payvand”
which had been launched by the Intelligence Ministry against the PMOI.
Haghi receives money and other facilities directly from the
Intelligence Ministry and is in contact with other known agents of the
Intelligence Ministry in Europe.
On the instructions of his MOIS handlers, Haghi has raised a series of
false allegations against the PMOI in the Netherlands, once accusing
PMOI supporters of breaking into his home and committing theft. The
Dutch Ministers of Justice and Interior, asked during a debate in a
parliamentary committee about allegations of PMOI wrongdoing in the
Netherlands, gave this joint response:
The Mojahedin are known in The Netherlands as an organization that
organizes peaceful demonstrations. It is also apparent that they
collect contributions in the streets under an affiliated charity called
SIM. In that respect, there has been some conflict on the way the
collectors deal with the people to raise contributions. But there is no
record or document indicating that Mojahedin have been involved in
smuggling people or committing any other serious illegal acts of a
criminal nature.
In his revelations, Jamshid Tafrishi, a former MOIS agent who defected
after 10 years, said: “In April 1996, Karim Haghi met with Saeed Emami
in Singapore and Peyvand publications was used as a cover to receive
money for members of the network. After releasing the first issue of
Peyvand in July 1997, Amir Hossein Taqavi (Director general of MOIS for
Europe and in charge of the office for special operations who directly
guided the terrorist operations abroad) contacted me and asked for my
views on the publication.”
Karim Haghi was one of the organizers of the Intelligence Ministry's
seminar on April 18, 2003 against the Mojahedin in Paris. During Mrs.
Rajavi's detention in Paris, he was involved in a coordinated campaign
trying to fill the empty judicial file with false propaganda against
the Mojahedin. He told the French daily La Croix: "Having Mrs. Rajavi
in jail gives us hope to live in Europe!"
Taken from "Enemies of the Ayatollahs" by Mohammad Mohaddessin
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